Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Sermons: Recent Episodes
Westminster Reformed Presbyterian
Text: Exodus 16:1 - 17:7
Title: Saved to Be Tested
- The LORD Tests Us… to Show Us our Self-Absorption.
- The LORD Tests Us… to Train Us in Trust and Obedience.
- The LORD Tests Us… so that We’ll Know Him as the Bread of Life.
Sermon Series: Spiritual Warfare in the Modern WorldSermon Text: John 21:1-19Sermon Title: “Jesus: Our Medic on the Battlefield”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide * SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea: Jesus is Not Only Our Captain … But Our Medic in this War.*
He Wants to Heal Us … then Help Us Return to the Fight. SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Jesus Visits the Battlefield … Our Captain and Our Medic (vv. 1-14) + SLIDE 4 – John 20:22-23 – “And … he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.’” + SLIDE 5 – Luke 5:4-6 – “[Jesus] said to Simon, ‘Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.’ And Simon answered, ‘Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.’ And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.’” + SLIDE 6 – Luke 9:12-17 – “Now … the twelve came and said to him, ‘Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages … to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place.’ But he said to them, ‘You give them something to eat.’ They said, ‘We have no more than five loaves and two fish’ … And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.” + SLIDE 7 – John 18:17-18, 25-27 – “The servant girl at the door said to Peter, ‘You also are not one of this man's disciples, are you?’ He said, *‘I am not.’ Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold … Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, ‘You also are not one of his disciples, are you?’ He denied it and said, ‘I am not.’ One of the servants of the high priest … asked, ‘Did I not see you in the garden with him?’ Peter again denied it, and at once a rooster crowed.” + SLIDE 8 – 1 John 1:8 – “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” + SLIDE 9 – “We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.” – Pastor Tim Keller * SLIDE 10 – Point 2: Jesus Heals Peter’s Wounds … to Return to Christ (vv. 15-17) + SLIDE 11 – Surgical Kit Picture (See Attached Picture) * SLIDE 12 – Point 3: Jesus Helps Peter Up … to Return to Battle (vv. 18-19) * SLIDE 13 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Your Life + SLIDE 14 – If You Don’t Get Your Wounds Treated … They Can Kill You. + SLIDE 15 – To Overcome Sin … We Must Avoid Self-Pity and Pursue Self-Denial. + SLIDE 16 – There’s a Time to Deal with Sin, and a Time to Move On with God. + SLIDE 17 – Wounds Will Still Leave Scars. + SLIDE 18 – What is God Calling You to Do? Call for a Medic, Help Someone Up, or Storm a Stronghold?
Sermon Series: Spiritual Warfare in the Modern WorldSermon Text: Ephesians 6:10-20Sermon Title: “Getting the Victory in Spiritual Warfare”Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide
* SLIDE 2 – 2 Samuel 11:1 – “In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem*.”
* SLIDE 3 – Today’s Big Idea: The Christian Life is Not Only a Walk … But a War.
And the Goal is Not Just to Fight … But to Win. SLIDE 4 – Point 1: Who is the Real Enemy? … Satan and His Schemes (vv. 10-12) + SLIDE 5 – “In Christ we inherit not only all the love of God but all the hate of the Devil.” – Ruth Paxton + SLIDE 6 – Mark 5:2, 6-9 – “And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him … a man with an unclean spirit … And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. And crying out with a loud voice, he said, ‘What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.’ For he was saying to him, ‘Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!’ And Jesus asked him, ‘What is your name?’ He replied, ‘My name is Legion, for we are many.’” * SLIDE 7 – Point 2: What Has God Provided? … Spiritual Armory and Weaponry (vv. 13-20) + SLIDE 8 – Hebrews 4:12 – “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword.” + SLIDE 9 – Romans 1:16 – “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.” + SLIDE 10 – Psalm 18:6 – “In my distress I called upon the Lord … from his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.” * SLIDE 11 – Six Uses of This Sermon for Your Life* + SLIDE 12 – Focus Less on Today’s News, and More on the Good News. + SLIDE 13 – You Must Know Your Enemy, to Defeat Your Enemy. + SLIDE 14 – Get Into God’s Word, So It Will Get Into You. + SLIDE 15 – Be Careful About Friendly Fire. + SLIDE 16 – Since our War is Spiritual, it Can Only be Won by Faith. + SLIDE 17 – What Do I Do if I’ve Been Losing My Battle with … ?
Sermon Series: Spiritual Warfare in the Modern WorldSermon Text: Ephesians 5:3-18Sermon Title: “Building Character in a World Gone Mad”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: Building Character is Spiritual Warfare. * SLIDE 2 – Point 1: We Build Character … By Resisting the Darkness (vv. 3-8a) + SLIDE 3 – Ephesians 2:1-3 – “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following … the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience … by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.” + SLIDE 4 – Ephesians 4:22 – “Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.” + SLIDE 5 - Matthew 7:21-23 – “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’” + SLIDE 6 – Genesis 3:4 – “But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die.’” + SLIDE 7 – John 3:19-20 – “And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things … does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.” * SLIDE 8 – Point 2: We Build Character … By Revealing the Light (vv. 8b-18) * SLIDE 9 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Your Life + SLIDE 10 – We are Called to Use Wise Judgment, But Not Be Judgmental. + SLIDE 11 – A Christian is Not Called to be Everyone’s Friend. - SLIDE 12 – 1 Peter 4:4 – “With respect to this *they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you.” + SLIDE 13 – Obedience to God’s Commands isn’t Legalism, but Loving God. + SLIDE 14 – We Can Only Build Godly Character … if Christ is our Foundation.
Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old TestamentSermon Text: Exodus 15:1-21Sermon Title: “The Greatest Love Song”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea*: What Makes a Great Love Song … is a Great Love Story.
So, the Greatest Love Story … Needs to be Sung. SLIDE 2 – 1 Corinthians 10:1-6 – “For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food … drank the same spiritual drink … the spiritual Rock that followed them … the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.” * SLIDE 3 – Chorus: The LORD … is Salvation’s Song (vv. 1-2, 20-21) + SLIDE 4 – Genesis 18:23-26 – “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city … Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! … Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” And the Lord said, ‘If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.’” + SLIDE 5 – Psalm 14:1-3 – “There is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, *not even one.” * SLIDE 6 – Verse 1: I Will Sing … Because He Rescued Me From My Enemies (vv. 3-12) + SLIDE 7 – Isaiah 14:12-14 – “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! … You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God. I will set my throne on high; I willsit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I willascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself **like the Most High.’” + SLIDE 8 – Exodus 6:6-8 – “‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians … I will deliver you from slavery to them … I will redeem you with an outstretched arm … I will take you to be my people … I will be your God … I will* bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham … I will give it to you … I am the Lord.’”* * SLIDE 9 – Verse 2: I Must Sing … Because He Rescued Me For Himself (vv. 13-18) + SLIDE 10 – Romans 8:28-30 – *“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good … For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son … And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.”* * SLIDE 11 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Your Life** + SLIDE 12 – Our Worship Must Be Generous, Not Stingy. + SLIDE 13 – Sin Can Make our Worship Fall Silent. + SLIDE 14 – The Sovereign Grace of God, Should Cause Supreme Delight in Us. + SLIDE 15 – The Gospel Has One Chorus, but Never-ending Verses.
Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old TestamentSermon Text: Exodus 13:1-22Sermon Title: “Putting God First”Sermon Points: 1. Putting God First … is How We Must Worship Him (vv. 1-16) 2. Putting God First … is How We Should Follow Him (vv. 17-22) 3. Uses of this Sermon for Your Life
Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old TestamentSermon Text: Exodus 12:29-42Sermon Title: “The Great and Greater Exodus”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: The Exodus* Solves an “Egypt-Sized” Problem.
But a “World-Sized” Problem Needs a Greater Exodus. SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – The Great Exodus … is Out of Egypt (Ex. 12:29-42) + SLIDE 3 – Genesis 47:1-7 – “So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, ‘My father and my brothers … have come from the land of Canaan … ‘We have come to sojourn in the land … for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan.’ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph … ‘The land of Egypt is before you … Let them settle in the land of Goshen’ … Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.’’’” + SLIDE 4 – Mark 10:29-30 – “Jesus said, ‘Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time … with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.’” * SLIDE 5 – Sermon Point 2 – The Greater Exodus … is Out of the Grave(Jn. 20:1-9) + SLIDE 6 – John 20:1-9 – “Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.’ So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.” + SLIDE 7 – Deut. 18:15 – “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen.” + SLIDE 8 – Matthew 17:5-6 – “He [Peter] was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “*This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” + SLIDE 9 – John 8:34-36 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin … if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” + SLIDE 10 – 1 John 3:8 – “Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared **was to destroy the works of the devil.” + SLIDE 11 – 1 Corinthians 15:20-24 – “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep … For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.” * SLIDE 12 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life + SLIDE 13 – Jesus Christ Ties Together both the Old and New Testaments. + SLIDE 14 – Our Escape from Sin … is Not Escapism from this World. + SLIDE 15 – Christ’s Resurrection Victory Means We Now Belong and Live for Him.
Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old TestamentSermon Text: Exodus 10:1-29Sermon Title: “What’s it Going to Take?”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: To Not Totally Surrender to God, is a Totally Losing Proposition.*
So … What’s it Going to Take? SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – The Source of Darkness … is Our Unsubmissive Pride (vv. 1-7, 12-22, 28-29) + SLIDE 3 – Exodus 20:5-6 – “For I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.” + SLIDE 4 – Isaiah 14:12-15 – “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! … You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God, I will set my throne on high … I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.” + SLIDE 5 – John 8:42-44 – “Jesus said to them, ‘If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires … for he is a liar and the father of lies.” + SLIDE 6 – “In this dramatic evolution of Pharoah’s reactions there is a consistency of principle – the core of his intransigence – namely the maintenance of his sovereignty. That is the crux of the matter; that is what cannot coexist with God’s authority … under pressure it will show flexibility and accommodation, even … confessing guilt and making concessions. But after all its retreats … it [still] clings to independence. And it resists … unto death.” – Moshe Greenberg * SLIDE 7 – Sermon Point 2 – The Solution to Darkness … is God’s Miraculous Light (vv. 22-23) + SLIDE 8 – Isaiah 9:2 – “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.” + SLIDE 9 – 2 Corinthians 4:5-6 – “For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”* * SLIDE 10 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life + SLIDE 11 – Discipleship is Taking All of God’s Works to Heart … and Passing them On. + SLIDE 12 – Submission is Taking All of God’s Rule to Heart … and Surrendering to His Will. + SLIDE 13 – Salvation is Free, But Salvation** is not Easy.
Title: None Like Me
Text: Exodus 9:1-35
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Pharoah’s hard heart… grows colder as the plagues heat up.
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Pharoah’s hard heart… shows the LORD’s freedom.
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Pharoah’s hard heart… produces counterfeit repentance.
Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old TestamentSermon Text: Exodus 8:1-32Sermon Title: “Who is the Lord?”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Picture #1 (Mike Tyson’s Eye Swollen) * SLIDE 2 – Picture #2 (Mike Tyson Knocked Out) + SLIDE 3 – Today’s Big Idea: Who is the Lord? He Won’t Endure Idols and He Doesn’t Negotiate with Terrorists … but He Judges and Saves in Righteousness. * SLIDE 4 – Sermon Point 1 – Who is the Lord? He Won’t Endure False Idols (8:1-6, 16-17, 20-21) + SLIDE 5 – Picture #3 (Haboob Dust Storm) + SLIDE 6 – Isaiah 45:5-7 – “I am the Lord, and there is no other,besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other. I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.” * SLIDE 7 – Sermon Point 2 – Who is the Lord? He Doesn’t Negotiate with Spiritual Terrorists (8:7-15, 18-19, 25-32) + SLIDE 8 – Exodus 9:16 – “But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”* * SLIDE 9 – Sermon Point 3 – Who is the Lord? He Judges and Saves in Righteousness (8:22-23) * SLIDE 10 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life** + SLIDE 11 – Sin Will Stink Up Your Life. + SLIDE 12 – Compromise … is the Bargaining Tool of the Enemy. + SLIDE 13 – God Sends Pestilence … but also Provides a Screen Door.
Title: By This You Shall Know…
Text: Exodus 7:1-25
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The Plagues Reveal… Creation’s Master.
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The Plagues Reveal… the LORD’s Perfect Anger.
Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old TestamentSermon Text: Exodus 5:1-6:12Sermon Title: “God’s Way is Longer, But God’s Way is Better”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: God’s Way is Longer … But God’s Way is Better. * SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – God’s Way is Longer … It Faces Resistance and Demands Patience (5:1-23) + SLIDE 3 – Romans 1:18-19 – “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.” + SLIDE 4 – Psalm 23:4 – “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” * SLIDE 5 – Sermon Point 2 – But God’s Way is Better … Because it Ends with True Salvation (6:1-12) + SLIDE 6 – Acts 2:23-24 – “This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.” * SLIDE 7 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life* + SLIDE 8 – The Christian Life isn’t a Playground, but a Battleground. + SLIDE 9 – God’s Timing Isn’t Ours, So We Need to Be Flexible. + SLIDE 10 – God Saves in an Unmistakable Way, So We Don’t Get Mistaken.
Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old TestamentSermon Text: Exodus 4:18-31Sermon Title: “A Covenant Relationship is a Two-Way Street”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: We Expect a Lot from God … But What Does He Expect from Us?*
A Covenant Relationship with God is a Two-Way Street. SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – Our Covenant Faithfulness to God … Needs Work (4:18-26) + SLIDE 3 – 1 John 2:18, 24, 26 – “*Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour … Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you … I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.” + SLIDE 4 – 2 Corinthians 5:17-20 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation … Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.” + SLIDE 5 – Exodus 3:18 – “The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.” + SLIDE 6 – Proverbs 21:1 – “The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.” + SLIDE 7 – Exodus 8:15 – “But when Pharaoh saw that there was a *respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.” + SLIDE 8 – Matthew 2:13-15 – “Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.’ And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, ‘Out of Egypt I called my son.’” + SLIDE 9 – Genesis 17:10-14 – “This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised … and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised … So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant. Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.*” * SLIDE 10 – Sermon Point 2 – God’s Covenant Faithfulness to Us … Is Perfect (4:27-31) * SLIDE 11 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life + SLIDE 12 – Our Obedience Should Never Be Dependent on our Circumstance.** + SLIDE 13 – The Details of God’s Will Matters. + SLIDE 14 – Our Faithful Obedience is Permissible Only Because of Christ’s Obedience was Perfect.
Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old TestamentSermon Text: Exodus 3:10-4:17Sermon Title: “Out of Egypt: Willing God, But Unwilling Moses”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: God Doesn’t Call the Qualified, He Qualifies the Called … But What If We Don’t Want to Go?*
What if we’re Unwilling to Change, Unwilling to Grow, and Unwilling to Go? SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – God Lays Out His Plan … And Moses Humbly Questions (3:10-22) * SLIDE 3 – Sermon Point 2 – God Explains His Provision … But Moses Kindly Declines (4:1-17) * SLIDE 4 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life* + SLIDE 5 – We Must Live in What God Wills, and not in Our What Ifs. + SLIDE 6 – Being ‘Too Lowly’ is Just as Problematic as Being ‘Too Lofty’. + SLIDE 7 – In God’s Rescue Plan: Moses Had to be Convinced, But Christ Had to Be Held Back.
Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old TestamentSermon Text: Exodus 3:1-10Sermon Title: “God: The All-Consuming, Non-Consuming Fire”Sermon Slides: + SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: God’s Revealed Presence is a Holy Fire. But God’s Revealed Purpose is a Saving Rescue. * + SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – The Burning Bush … God, the All-Consuming Fire(vv. 1-6) - SLIDE 3 – “With Moses, the sheep were in good hands. The man’s words were few, and his appearance was crude, but his actions were gentle, and his eyes reflected a heart that had found peace … the mannerisms of the courts of Egypt had been replaced by the virtues of gentleness, kindness, patience, meekness, and childlike trust in God.” – Rev. Bernard Woudenberg - SLIDE 4 – Genesis 15:17-18 – “When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torchpassed between these pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.’” - SLIDE 5 – Leviticus 6:8-9, 12 – “The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it … The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out.’” - SLIDE 6 – Deuteronomy 4:23-24 – “Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you.*For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.” - SLIDE 7 – Revelation 20:14-15 – “Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.” * + SLIDE 8 – Sermon Point 2 – The Gracious Gospel … God, the Non-Consuming Fire(vv. 7-10) - SLIDE 9 –Psalm 18:16-17, 19 – “He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters. He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me … He brought me out into a broad place;* he rescued me, because he delighted in me.” * + SLIDE 10 – *Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life - SLIDE 11 – Fiery Holiness Does Not Make God a Moral Monster, but a Glorious Sovereign. - SLIDE 12 – God Often Gets Our Attention by Using Humble Means. - SLIDE 13 – The Fire and Thorns of the Burning Bush, Point Us to the Cross of Christ.
Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old Testament
Sermon Text: Exodus 2:11-25Sermon Title: “When We Blow It With God”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: Our Failures Can Teach Us, But Our Failures Won’t Defeat Us* …
If We’ll Exchange Them for God’s Faithfulness. SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – Moses in Egypt … A Failed Revolution (vv. 11-15) + SLIDE 3 – Deuteronomy 32:35 – “*Vengeance is mine, and I will repay, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.’” * SLIDE 4 – Sermon Point 2 – Moses in Midian … A Rejected Fugitive (vv. 16-22) + SLIDE 5 – John 1:9-12 – “The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” * SLIDE 6 – Sermon Point 3 – Exchanging Our Failures … For God’s Faithfulness (vv. 23-25) * SLIDE 7 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life + SLIDE 8 – We are all Failures because we are all Sinners; Do We Know Our Need? + SLIDE 9 – We are Called to Be Used by the Holy Spirit, But Not to Be the Holy Spirit. + SLIDE 10 – Our Failures are Often the Places God Presses Us into His Service.
Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old TestamentSermon Text: Exodus 1:1-2:10Sermon Title: “When Life Takes a Turn for the Worse”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: God’s Plans to Bless Us and to Save Us Are Stronger … Than the Enemy’s Plans to Oppress Us and to Kill Us. * + SLIDE 2 – Genesis 46:1-4 – “So Israel [Jacob] took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, ‘Jacob, Jacob.’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’ Then he said, ‘I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation. I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again.” + SLIDE 3 – Genesis 1:28 – “And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’” + SLIDE 4 – Genesis 9:1 – “And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.’” + SLIDE 5 – Genesis 12:1-2 – “Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.” + SLIDE 6 – Genesis 35:10-12 – “And God said to him, ‘Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.’ So he called his name Israel. And God said to him, ‘I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body. The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.’” * SLIDE 7 – Sermon Point 1 – The Enemy Wants to Oppress Us … But God Plans to Bless Us (1:8-21) * + SLIDE 8 – Jesus answered them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.” + SLIDE 9 – Picture Attached [Pilgrim’s Progress Illustration] * SLIDE 10 – Sermon Point 2 – The Enemy Wants to Kill Us … But God Plans to Save Us (1:22-2:10) * SLIDE 11 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life* * + SLIDE 12 – Our Conclusions about God Must be Based on His Character, Not Our Circumstance. + SLIDE 13 – Moses and His Mission will be a Type of Christ and His Mission. + SLIDE 14 – The Enemy’s Threats are Really Loud, But God’s Love is Really Long.
Sermon Text: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27Sermon Title: “The Body and Business of the Church”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: The Church is Not a Business … But a Body.*
But the Body Has a Business … Its Members’ Mutual Care. SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – The Church is Not a Business … But a Body (vv. 12-20) + SLIDE 3 – John 3:8 – “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” + SLIDE 4 – John 6:37-39 – “All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.” + SLIDE 5 – Dr. Tom Constable – “Believers who have spectacular gifts, ministries, or effectiveness are not necessarily more spiritual than Christians who do not. Each believer, not just certain believers, makes a unique contribution for the common good.” + SLIDE 6 – Soren Kierkegaard – “Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.” * SLIDE 7 – Sermon Point 2 – The Body Has a Business … Its Members’ Mutual Care (vv. 21-27) + SLIDE 8 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer – “The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from everyday Christian life in community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; for in the poor sister or brother, Christ is knocking at our door.” + SLIDE 9 – “God is in the business of cleaning up our messes. So, the Business of the Church is to care for people in their mess, not to tell them to come back once their mess is gone.” * SLIDE 10 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life* + SLIDE 11 – Submit to the Gifts and Calling God’s Given You, Don’t Yearn for Others. + SLIDE 12 – If We Want the World to Change, We Must First Love Our Church Well. + SLIDE 13 – Where Can You Share in the Mess and Inefficiency of Relationships Here?
Sermon Text: Isaiah 11:1-10Sermon Title: “The Greater David: The King Who is Worth the Wait”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Isaiah 6:9-13 – “And he [God] said, ‘Go, and say to this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.’’ Then I said, ‘How long, O Lord?’ And he said: ‘Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste, and the Lord removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak*, *whose stump remains when it is felled.’ The holy seed is its stump.” + SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea*: Waiting is Hard, But Waiting was Part of God’s Plan.
For the King Who’s Coming … Will Be Worth the Wait. SLIDE 3 – Sermon Point 1 – The Greater David … Will Be the Perfect King (vv. 1-5) + SLIDE 4 – Isaiah 10:33-34 – “Behold, the Lord God of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power;the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low. He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.” + SLIDE 5 – Psalm 89:38-39, 46, 49 – “But now you have cast off and rejected*; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust … How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire? … Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David?” + SLIDE 6 – [Attached Picture #1 – Terebinth Tree] + SLIDE 7 – [Attached Picture #2 – Terebinth Tree, Regenerated] + SLIDE 8 – Psalm 51:11 – “Do not cast me **from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.” + SLIDE 9 – John 3:34 – “For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.” + SLIDE 10 – Matthew 5:3, 5 – “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven… Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” * SLIDE 11 – Sermon Point 2 – The Greater David … Will Bring the Perfect Kingdom (vv. 6-10) + SLIDE 12 – Isaiah 9:6-7 – “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given;* and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called ‘Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness … The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.” + SLIDE 13 – Revelation 22:16 – “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.” * SLIDE 14 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life* + SLIDE 15 – All the Davidic Kings Were Types and Shadows of the Greater David. + SLIDE 16 – Christ’s Peace is Given on Earth, but Must Be Applied to our Hearts and Homes. + SLIDE 17 – Christ is Altogether Lovely, Are You Altogether His?
Sermon Text: Isaiah 7:1-16Sermon Title: “The Greater David: A New Hope”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: If our Hope is in Man, If our Hope is in Circumstance, We’ll End up Hopeless. So, Hope in God! + SLIDE 2 – 2 Samuel 7:12-15 – “When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul.” + SLIDE 3 – 2 Chronicles 13:5 – “Don’t you realize that the Lord, the God of Israel, made a lasting covenant with David, giving him and his descendants the throne of Israel forever?*” * SLIDE 4 – Sermon Point 1 – Hope Fades: King Ahaz is a Son of David … But Not the Greater David (vv. 1-12) + SLIDE 5 – 2 Chronicles 28:5-6 – “The Lord his God gave him [Ahaz] into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. *He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force. For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the Lord*, the God of their fathers.” + SLIDE 6 – Psalm 2:1-3, 6 – “Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, **against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, ‘Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us’ … ‘As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.’” + SLIDE 7 – Hebrews 11:1, 6 – *“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen … And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” + SLIDE 8 – Psalm 2:8-9 – “*Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.” + SLIDE 9 – 2 Chronicles 28:1-4 – “Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, *as his father David had done, but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made metal images for the Baals, and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.”* * SLIDE 10 – Sermon Point 2 – Hope Restored: King Immanuel is the Greater David … And He Comes with a Sign (vv. 13-16) + SLIDE 11 – Hebrews 2:1-4 – *“Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.”* * SLIDE 12 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life** + SLIDE 13 – Being in the House of God is not Enough for Salvation, You Must Put Your Trust in Christ. + SLIDE 14 – The God Who is with Us, Reveals the God Who is For Us. + SLIDE 15 – Our Ultimate Hope Must be in the Leader God Made His Promise of Hope Through.
Sermon Text: Psalm 2:1-12Sermon Title: “The Greater David: Preparing for the King of Kings”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: This Christmas, are we Preparing for a King … or are we Preparing for a Holiday? The Greater David is Coming. * SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – The Kings of the Earth … Prepare to Throw Off Heaven (vv. 1-6) + SLIDE 3 – Nehemiah 9:6 – “You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.” + SLIDE 4 – Luke 4:5-7 – “And the devil took him [Jesus] up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and said to him, ‘To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.’” + SLIDE 5 – Romans 3:23 – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” + SLIDE 6 – Romans 8:7 – “For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.” * SLIDE 7 – Sermon Point 2 – The King of Heaven … Prepares to Take Back the Earth (vv. 7-12) + SLIDE 8 – Hebrews 1:1-2 – “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.” + SLIDE 9 – Acts 4:23-27– “When they [Peter & John] were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, ‘Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’— for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel.’” * SLIDE 10 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Your Life* + SLIDE 11 – A Higher View of Christ, Will Correct Too Low a View of Christmas. + SLIDE 12 – Sweet Sentiment and Godly Submission Aren’t the Same Thing. + SLIDE 13 – Christmas is the King’s Invasion, But Also God’s Rescue Operation.
Sermon Text: 2 Samuel 7:1-17Sermon Title: “The Foundation and Expectation of Christmas”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: If Your Expectations for Christmas are Built on God’s Promises … You’ll Never be Disappointed by Christmas. * SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – The Foundation of Christmas … Is God’s Covenant with David (vv. 1-11) + SLIDE 3 – Deuteronomy 12:10-11a – “But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety, then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you.” + SLIDE 4 – 1 Samuel 15:26 – “And Samuel said to Saul, ‘I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.” + SLIDE 5 – 2 Chronicles 6:18 – “But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!” + SLIDE 6 – Exodus 6:7 – “I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God*, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.” + SLIDE 7 – Exodus 20:1-3 – “And God spoke all these words, saying, *‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me.” + SLIDE 8 – Exodus 34:5-7 – “The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him [Moses] there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” + SLIDE 9 – Psalm 78:67-70 – “He did not choose the tribe of Ephraim*, but he chose the tribe of Judah … He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds.” * SLIDE 10 – Sermon Point 2 – The Expectation of Christmas … Is God’s Promise of a Greater David (vv. 12-16) + SLIDE 11 – Exodus 4:22-23 – “Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, and I say to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me.’’” + SLIDE 12 – Deuteronomy 17:14-15 – “*When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you.” * SLIDE 13 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life* + SLIDE 14 – The Old Testament is Crucial for our Understanding of Christmas. + SLIDE 15 – God’s Grace Includes Loving Discipline, but His Mercy is Always More. + SLIDE 16 – Advent is About Learning to Wait.
Sermon Text: Colossians 4:2-18Sermon Title: “Be Opportunistic for the Gospel”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: Opportunities to Share the Gospel – Aren’t Created by Cleverness, But by Faithfulness. * SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – Create Opportunity for the Gospel … Through Steadfast Prayer (Col. 4:2-4) * + SLIDE 3 – Hebrews 4:12 – “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” + SLIDE 4 – Revelation 3:7-8 – “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shutsand no one opens.”* * SLIDE 5 – Sermon Point 2 – Create Opportunity for the Gospel … Through Winsome Living (Col. 4:5-6) * SLIDE 6 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Your Life** * + SLIDE 7 – We Must Learn to Share the Gospel with Clarity. (Col. 4:4) + SLIDE 8 – We Must Learn to Share the Gospel with Charity. (Col. 4:6) + SLIDE 9 – To Be Effective Examples for Christ, We Must Work Hard to Fulfill our Ministries. (Col. 4:12-13, 17) + SLIDE 10 – Winning People to Christ, Happens through People Who’ve Been Won Over. + SLIDE 11 – We Must Become a Church That Invites People to Church Again.
Sermon Text: Colossians 3:22-4:1Sermon Title: “Work as Witness”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: Since Jesus has Risen from the Dead, Our Work Must Also Rise with Him… Even if Our Circumstances Haven’t. * SLIDE 2 – Genesis 3:17-19 – “And to Adam he said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you … By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground …” * SLIDE 3 – Romans 8:20-21 – “For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.” * SLIDE 4 – Sermon Point 1 – Our Work in a Fallen World … Has Been Redeemed by the Risen Lord (Col. 3:22 and 4:1) + SLIDE 5 – Galatians 3:28 – “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” + SLIDE 6 – 2 Corinthians 4:5 – “For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants [slaves] for Jesus' sake.” + SLIDE 7 – 1 Corinthians 9:19 – “For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.” + SLIDE 8 – 1 Corinthians 7:22 – “For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.” * SLIDE 9 – Sermon Point 2 – Our Work in a Fallen World … Should be Motivated by the Risen Lord (Col. 3:23-25) + SLIDE 10 – Galatians 1:10 – “For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.” + SLIDE 11 – 2 Peter 1:10-11 – “Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” + SLIDE 12 – Luke 16:10-12 – “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much … If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?” + SLIDE 13 – 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 – “According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.” * SLIDE 14 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Your Life + SLIDE 15 – Employees: Our Danger is to Underperform and Fail to See Past our Earthly Bosses. + SLIDE 16 – Bosses: Our Danger is to Overcorrect and Fail to See Past our Earthly Employees. + SLIDE 17 – The Key to our Work is Not Earthly Success, but Godly Faithfulness. + SLIDE 18 – Christians: The World is Watching our Work. Who is it Witnessing to? + SLIDE 19 – Amid Work Injustice – God is Calling us to both Pursue Flourishing and Endure Persecution. - SLIDE 20 – 1 Corinthians 7:21 – “Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)” - SLIDE 21 – Romans 12:21 – “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”*
Sermon Text: Colossians 3:18-21Sermon Title: “Advancing God’s Kingdom One Family at a Time”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: We Can Have Strong Families … Because We Have a Strong Savior. * SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – Strong Families are Built … Through Ordinary Family Duties (Col. 3:18-21) + SLIDE 3 – John 4:9-10 – “In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” + SLIDE 4 – 1 Peter 3:7 – “Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.” + SLIDE 5 – Titus 2:3-5 – “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.” + SLIDE 6 – Ephesians 6:1-4 – “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother’ (this is the first commandment with a promise), ‘that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.’ Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them upin the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” * SLIDE 7 – Sermon Point 2 – Strong Families are Built … Upon the Strong Example of Our Savior (Lk. 2:46-51; Phil. 2:5-8) + SLIDE 8 – Luke 2:46-51 – “After three days they found him [Jesus] in the temple, sitting among the teachers … And when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, ‘Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.’ And he said to them, ‘Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?’ And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.” + SLIDE 9 – Philippians 2:5-8 – “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who,though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” * SLIDE 10 – Eight Uses of This Sermon for Your and Your Family’s Life* + SLIDE 11 – Husbands: We are Not the Head-Kings of our Households, but the Head-Servants. + SLIDE 12 – Wives: Keep Your Eyes on Jesus,Even if Your Husband Isn’t. + SLIDE 13 – Marriages: If You’re in Trouble Get Help – Don’t Wait. + SLIDE 14 – Parents: Be a Unified Front of Firm Boundaries and Gentle Guidance for Your Kids. + SLIDE 15 – Families: Put Down the Devices, Get Off Your Screens, and Spend Time Together. We All Need It. + SLIDE 16 – Our Savior is Strong Enough to Put What is Broken Back Together. But it Must be His Way. + SLIDE 17 – Our Goal isn’t to Build Perfect Families, but Strong Families who Focus on a Perfect Savior. + SLIDE 18 – The Christian Family is a Primary Means of God for Cultural Transformation.
Sermon Text: Colossians 3:12-17Sermon Title: “In the Key of Thankfulness”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: If you Believe in the Gospel, Your Life Will Sing with Thankfulness. But if you’ve Lost Your Gratitude, it’s because you’ve Forgotten the Gospel. * SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – God’s Chord of Perfect Harmony … Is Grace, Love, and Peace (Col. 3:12-15) + SLIDE 3 – John 15:12-13 – “This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater lovethan to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” + SLIDE 4 – Psalm 84:10 – “For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.” * SLIDE 5 – Sermon Point 2 – The Key to Thankfulness … is the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Col. 3:16a) + SLIDE 6 – Ephesians 3:17-19 – “So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” * SLIDE 7 – Sermon Point 3 – The Gospel-Transformed Heart … Produces Songs of Thankfulness (Col. 3:16b-17) * SLIDE 8 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Life* + SLIDE 9 – Thankfulness is a Shield Against the Devil. + SLIDE 10 – Thankfulness Leads to Affectionate Living. + SLIDE 11 – We Must Root the Music of our Lives in the Gospel.
Text: Colossians 3:1-11Title: Be True to Yourself1. Be True to Yourself… in relation Christ.2. Be True to Yourself… in relation to community.
Text: Colossians 2:16-23
Title: Exposing Fakes
- Christ’s supremacy exposes… fake substance.
- Christ’s supremacy exposes… fake growth.
- Christ’s supremacy exposes… fake discipline.
Sermon Text: Colossians 2:6-15Sermon Title: “Banging the Drum for Discipleship”Sermon Slides: SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: To Mature as a Church and to Grow Up in Discipleship, We Must Remove Idols, and Put Jesus in Front. * SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – Banging the Drum … Putting Jesus in Front (Col. 2:6-7) + SLIDE 3 – Romans 5:6-8 – “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” * SLIDE 4 – Sermon Point 2 – How Do We Mature? … By Removing Our Idols (Col. 2:8) + SLIDE 5 – Judges 18:30 – “And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.” + SLIDE 6 – Deuteronomy 28:36-37 – “The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.” + SLIDE 7 – Matthew 15:6, 9 – “For the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God … in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” + SLIDE 8 – Romans 1:21, 23 – “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened … [they] exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.” * SLIDE 9 – Sermon Point 3 – How Do We Mature? … By Keeping Jesus in Front (Col. 2:9-15) + SLIDE 10 – Colossians 1:19 – “For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.” + SLIDE 11 – Matthew 3:16-17 – “And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, *with whom I am well pleased.” * SLIDE 12 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Life + SLIDE 13 – Don’t Be Captured by Idolatry, Be Captivated by Christ. + SLIDE 14 – If Idols are Capturing You, Get Help Before You’re Led Into Captivity. + SLIDE 15 – Discipleship is the Great Omission in the Great Commission.
Why Are We Here? "Crowned with Glory and Honor" Genesis 1:26-28; Psalm 8:3-6 Preached by Ruffin Alphin