Sermons

A commentary on the racist policies of the Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church.

Review of a book which illustrate the Christian character of the American revolution.

You might be a nicer guy, but you cannot be seen as righteous and justified in God's eyes by being a nicer guy. That justification comes through faith in Christ, and what he did for us on the cross. A life well lived starts with trusting Christ.

God's final Word. Those who trust Christ, and accept him as their personal Savior, will meet Him, face to face. It's a promise of God.

When we love each other, we give evidence that we are genuine followers of Christ.

Peter tell us clearly: To be holy is to be in every way the opposite of being “common” or “profane.” As God is holy in that He is “utterly different and distinct from His creation”, so His people must also be utterly different and distinct from the world.

Either we are of God’s Spirit, being of “He who is in you,” – or we are not of the spirit, being of “he who is in the world”. There is no “on the fence” position.

Faith is alive. In the Bible, the way people lived always demonstrated what they believe. They were never separate. They always went hand in hand. Always.

God says very clearly “You cannot worship yourself or trust yourself. You cannot worship the world, or trust the world. It will not work.” While we are waiting here, we must live by faith, not in people, or things, but in GOD.

We should note that beyond salvation, scripture tells us that there are great rewards in store for Christ's approved workers. So how do we number among the approved?

Even if we are an 30 gallon jar of nothing worthwhile at all, he can change us instantly. And not change us back into what we were before but change us into the good stuff.

My journey in going from being a lip service christian to being a Christian in real time.

Our great doctor can heal quickly, and completely, if we let Him.

Paradise is yours. Forever. Guaranteed.

We should remember that every last one of us gives sermons every day with our words and our actions. People will come to Christ, not just through pastors and preachers but through each you, as well. They will come to Him, or they will turn away.

Preaching That Changes Lives by Michael Fabarez is reviewed in terms of strengths and weaknesses and effectiveness for preaching.

So here again, in the midst of the book of Joshua, is another of God's salvation stories. Rahab sees her shot to turn to God and be saved, and she takes it.

From the time He first appeared and began His earthly ministry, to the moment He ascended back into Heaven, Jesus was busy upsetting tradition and destroying the sacred cows of his day.

The bottom line is.....and I'm sure for most of you '" you've heard this before....merely pursuing worldly wealth leads to earthly emptiness. But pursuing our God-given vocation leads to heaven-sent happiness.

Literary analysis of sermons over time.

And we're going to talk about choices a little bit today, and how God gives us direction in which are good choices and which are not. And we're going to talk about Love.

Deep and real prayer addresses ourselves last, and focuses almost entirely on the Great Commandment. When we love and adore our God, the only ways we know how, we cannot get it wrong.

And a real test of church is not how the people act, or what the people do on Sunday Morning, but rather how the people act and what the people do all the rest of the time.

We are to live in the world as counter culture revolutionaries. One of the greatest ways of Standing UP for Christ is Standing OUT for Christ.....

When God said...go...rebuild this temple...it's been in ruins far too long....he gathered the right people and got down to it.

Billy Graham was not always a respected and successful Christian evangelist. Learn how his early days of preaching were filled with difficulties, failures, and even mistreatment.

This article reviews Eugene Lowry's book, How to Preach a Parable: Designs for Narrative Sermons.

It seems that President Barack Obama and his family have found a church with a pastor whose sermonizing style they find familiar and perhaps comforting. That man is Dr. Wallace Charles Smith of the Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.

Lamentations doesn't mask the pain, doesn't gloss over it '" it stares it right in the face so that we can see the purpose in it. To see why God put it there.