While some scoff at the concept of faith, most people demonstrate some form of faith in everyday life. While we make many daily decisions on faith, trusting that the desired outcome will occur, we are often reluctant to trust in God. A sermon from Mark 1:14–15.
Many of our successes in life can be attributed to the help of others along the way. Where we have arrived, we hardly have done so on our own, but by the sacrifices of others. We are grateful to those parents, teachers, and benefactors, but we must be infinitely more grateful to the Lord Jesus Christ, who made a sacrifice that transcends all others. A sermon from Hebrews 10:1–14.
The Odyssey is a tale of a journey of human conquest, persistence, and struggle against great obstacles. But the greatest story of a journey is Israel's 40 years wandering in the wilderness. It is a journey not in which one man or nation receives praise, but in which God is the hero, for it is God who sustains Israel for 40 years in the wilderness and brings them into the promised land. A sermon from Numbers 20:1–13.
Most of us have been conditioned to think in material terms. We believe in the tangible, things we can see and touch. And yet there is another dimension to life. An invisible dimension beyond human understanding, that is nevertheless as real as the material world in which we live. "And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen!" 2 Timothy 1:18 A sermon from 2 Timothy 4:9–22....
Most of us will never have to lose our lives for our faith, but all of us are called upon to be faithful in our witness to Jesus Christ whatever the cost. It is this theme of faithfulness to Christ that drives the final chapter Paul's second epistle to Timothy. "But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry." 2 Timothy 4:5 A sermon from 2 Timothy 4:1–7
Continuing with the theme of being clothed with Christ, we look at Galatians 4. The New Testament in its united witness teaches that Jesus is the pattern of life. If we wish to know how to live, the answer is found in Jesus Christ because he is the pattern of our lives. A sermon from Galatians 4:4–20.
"But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all." A sermon from Colossians 3:1–15....
There are a wide range of experts who give us advice on what to wear and what the latest fads are. Fashion comes and goes, but there is one fashion that remains the same: we are to clothe ourselves in the Lord Jesus Christ. "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts." Romans 13:14
Jesus is a superior High Priest, because he serves in a superior place. He is seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens. Jesus carries out his ministry at the right hand of God, which is the true tabernacle. The tabernacle on earth, in which the Levitical priests served, was a shadow, or a type of the real tabernacle. A sermon from Hebrews 8:6–12.
“For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch. But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves. You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet On the day that I do this, ” Says...
Many of you probably received a number of invitations over the Christmas holidays. This sermon relates to the greatest invitation of all time: the invitation to intimacy with God. A sermon from Luke 14:12–24.
"I am going to Him whom my soul has loved, or rather to Him who has loved me with an everlasting love." These are the last words of John Owen, who died in August 1683. We often pay attention to people's last words as they are sometimes words of consequence. In 1 Chronicles 29, David addressed the people concerning the preparations he made for the building of the temple that Solomon completed. This sermon looks at the words of consequence in David's prayer in verses 10-15. A sermon from 1 Chronic...
Regardless of where we stand in our commitment to Jesus, it is fair to say that of all the great men and women who have walked the earth, none has risen to the stature of Jesus Christ. The accomplishments of all the great people throughout history cannot be compared to that of our Lord Jesus Christ whose career lasted a mere three years. The offering of Christ is beyond comparison in human history. A sermon from Titus 2:11–15.
This sermon deals with worship as it appears to us in the Book of Revelation. John wrote Revelation in response to a vision that he received on the Isle of Patmos. He wrote to the seven churches of Asia Minor, now Western Turkey, around AD 95. The genre of the book is Apocolyptic. It means "revelation", or "disclosure", or "the unveiling of", and in this case is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Although we change over time, Jesus never changes. He has an eternal, divine nature. He is and was and is to come. "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." A sermon from Hebrews 13:8.
The writer of Hebrews tells us that Jesus is the superior high priest. "For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever." Hebrews 7:28 A sermon from Hebrews 7:20–28.
The vocabulary of sin has been gradually disappearing from conversation, so that the Biblical concept of sin has is almost unknown. But all human beings are guilty of sin. The prophet, Isaiah, deals with this matter of sin, and it is a central issue in Isaiah chapter 1. "Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the Lord, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward." Isaiah 1:4...
The writer of Hebrews tells his readers to remember the kind of Lord that they were thinking of abandoning. He is the Son of God, the Captain of our salvation, and our great high priest. A sermon from Hebrews 7:11–19.
A sermon from Micah 3:1–12. It is clear from the Scriptures that we are to be concerned about this world because God is concerned about society as a whole. The prophet, Micah, shows us that God is engaged and concerned about justice. “Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice? You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones; Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them,...
A sermon from Hebrews 7:1–10. "For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,” without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually." Hebrews 7:1-3...
Baptists believe that every Christian is a priest unto God. We are able by ourselves to read and interpret Scriptures without a special class of mediators to interpret Scriptures and pray for us. We are a royal priesthood of believers with Jesus, himself, as our great high Priest. A sermon from 1 Peter 2:1–10. "Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer u...
We don't always think often on the subject of heaven, but it is a subject that must preoccupy us because the Scriptures speak much of it. "Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints." Revelation 19:7-8 A sermon from Revelation 19:1–9.
Hudson Taylor believed in the promises of God and spent many years in China depending on God's promises alone. "This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek." Hebrews 6:19-20 A sermon from Hebrews 6:13-20
A sermon from Hebrews 6:4–12. The writer of Hebrews warns against apostasy. Making a spiritual "u-turn" is a serious thing. "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame." Hebrews 6:4-6...
A sermon from Micah 2. "Woe to those who devise iniquity, and work out evil on their beds! At morning light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. They covet fields and take them by violence, also houses, and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance." Micah 2:1-2
Is there any real justice? The God we serve is a God of justice. The answers to the great evils of society are to be found in God the Judge. This sermon is from Micah 1:1–16. "For behold, the Lord is coming out of His place; He will come down And tread on the high places of the earth. The mountains will melt under Him, and the valleys will split like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place." Micah 1:3-4
A sermon from 2 Timothy 1:1–2. "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, To Timothy, a beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord." 2 Timothy 1:1–2
A sermon from John 2:13–25. "Jesus answered and said to them, 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.' Then the Jews said, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?' But He was speaking of the temple of His body. Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said." John 2:19-22...
A sermon from Psalm 39. "I said, 'I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin; I will put a muzzle on my mouth while in the presence of the wicked.' So I remained utterly silent, not even saying anything good. But my anguish increased; my heart grew hot within me." Psalm 39:1-3a
"And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. And many more believed because of His own word. Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world." John 4:39-42 A sermon from John...
