Posts Tagged ‘sermons’

Wedding Homily: Welcome One Another

This is a wedding homily I gave this past Saturday: [Intro] One of the joys of working outside the home is the gift of returning home.  Not just because it’s nice to be home or because I get to kick my feet up to relax, but because of the welcome that I receive.  My children [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Real Preachers of Genius

(HT:  PastorHacks)

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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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Movies as Sermon Illustrations?

Okay, since we’re on a roll here at helpmyunbelief on sermons and the last couple of posts on some sermon hijinks, I wanted to bring to throw out a question based on Ed’s comments from the previous post (“Sermon Mischief”). To use movies as sermon illustrations or not? If you are a pastor/preacha, why or [...]

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Sermon mischief

This is worse than texting during the sermon, methinks.  (HT:  Colossians Three Sixteen)

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Thou Shalt Text?

This blog post is prompted by an article in my local paper last Saturday, though the story originated in St. Louis and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  Tim Townsend writes about a new practice that has cropped up in a few churches and in particular this church (Morning Star Church) is profiled.  Unfortunately, I could not [...]

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Sermon: Romans 11:11-24

I preached this past Sunday from Romans 11:11-24 and my theme was:  How do we respond to those who have rejected the Gospel?  To make clear, the response I am speaking of is a more internal/heart response rather than three things to say to that person/tips/techniques etc…  You can download the sermon for a limited [...]

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Sunday Sermon: The Sovereignty of God in Election

You can download an mp3 of this Sunday’s sermon from Romans 9:19-29 here.  (available for the next seven days).  One note about the recording:  the Scripture Introduction and Reading are on a separate track and so not on this sermon.  I dislike this because it should all be one track since it is all a [...]

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Sunday Sermon: Divine Prerogative (Romans 9:14-18)

You can download Sunday’s sermon on Romans 9:14-18 here (for the next 7 days). I will put this up on the sermons page (streaming) shortly.

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