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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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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
14 Oct
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 [...]
13 Oct
Sermon mischief
This is worse than texting during the sermon, methinks. (HT: Colossians Three Sixteen)
9 Oct
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 [...]
1 Oct
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 [...]
17 Aug
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 [...]
11 Aug
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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