Text: Colossians 3:5-11 Title: A Radical Walk Theme: New life in Christ leads to a radical walk in this world. For Paul, doctrine demands duty; creed determines conduct; facts demand acts.” – R. Kent Hughes But now things are different. You’ve moved on. You don’t live at that address any longer, so why keep pretending [...]
Posts Tagged ‘preaching’
12 Oct
Texts & Topics for October (oops)
Well, here it is and two Sunday’s are already in the books. Here are the texts & topics for the rest of October: October 18th: AM: Associate Pastor Hammond preaching from Genesis 37:1-11, 44:30-34, 49:8-12 PM: Associate Pastor Hammond teaching from Genesis 38 October 25th: AM: Colossians 3:12-14 PM: Praying the Psalms: Psalm 145
5 Oct
Notes from the Sermon (10-4-09)
Sermon Text: Colossians 3:1-4 Sermon Title: New Life in a Dead World Sermon Theme: How do we live new life in a dead world? I did not use any quotations in the sermon yesterday. I did refer to a cartoon (How to Over-Spiritualize Everything) that can be seen here.
28 Sep
Notes from the Sermon…(9/27)
Text: Colossians 2:16-23 Theme: The Gospel free us, but man-centered religion enslaves us. Quotations: “The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness [...]
21 Sep
Notes from the Sermon…(9/20)
I am going to start posting some of the quotations that I use in my sermons…these are from yesterday’s sermon: Text: Colossians 2:13-15 Theme: Our freedom flows from the Cross of Christ (We are freed from death, debt, and dominion) Quotations: Be sure you see this most wonderful and astonishing of all truths: God took [...]
14 Sep
Winslow Quotation
Here is a quotation from Octavius Winslow‘s book Our God that I used in the conclusion of Sunday’s sermon on our completeness in Christ (Colossians 2:11-12). I actually quoted the second paragraph, but the first provides some context. You can read all of Winslow’s works at Grace Gems, buy a hardcopy from Reformation Heritage Books, [...]
2 Sep
September Texts & Topics for North Hills
Here are the text and topics for our worship services in September at North Hills Church. Series for Morning Worship: Book of Colossians Series for Evening Worship: The Lord’s Prayer September 6th AM: Colossians 2:6-10 PM: “As We Forgive” September 13th AM: Colossians 2:11-12 PM: “Lead Us Not Into Temptation” September 20th AM: Colossians 2:13-15 [...]
26 Aug
More Used Books…
I can stop anytime I want. But last Friday, I found a few more books to add to my library at two used bookstores: Like most library systems, the Huntsville-Madison County Library has a Friends of the Library bookstore. Here is what I found there: Promise and Deliverance, Vol 4 (Christ and the Nations). by [...]
25 Aug
The Perfect Pastor…
I used this as an illustration this past Sunday as part of my sermon on Gospel-Centered Ministry from Colossians 1:24-29. One of the things that I said, is that we often evaluate ministry (whether pastoral or otherwise) on the wrong set of benchmarks. I do not remember where I found this, but it is [...]
7 Jul
May & June Books (2009)
I failed to do a post for May, so here are the books that I completed reading in May & June of 2009: May Books Why Johnny Can’t Preach: The Media have Shaped the Messengers by T. David Gordon: Gordon is a professor at Grove City College and he wrote this book while he was [...]
10 Nov
Sermon on Romans 13:1-7
There are two things we are not suppose to talk about…politics and religion. In this sermon, I got to talk about both on the Sunday after our national elections. This is a part of our preaching series through Romans at Calvary and we were not intentional about this passage falling on this particular date (all [...]
21 Oct
Sermon: Romans 12:3-8 – “Dying to Live”
I preached at Calvary this past Sunday from Romans 12:3-8. Theme: We must die to self to live for God. Main Points: I. Self-perception II. Self-promotion III. Self-protection Leave me a comment or send me an email if you would like a way to download this sermon (this particular post gets a lot hits – [...]
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