Category: Sermons
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Counting Works As Rubbish
Counting Works As Rubbish Sunday, March 25, 2018 Philippians 3:7-11 To counteract a growing influence of Judaizers upon the Philippian church, Paul made reference to his own Jewish pedigree to squash any talk about the merit of works. Paul not only identified his works as loss, he said that he counted them as rubbish that…
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God of Glory
Acts 7:1-8 As Stephen begins to respond to the charges brought against him, he begins with a peculiar title for the Lord, God of glory. The false witnesses rising up against Stephen said that he was preaching against the temple, but what he was preaching is that God was not confined to a building and that…
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Kingdom Workers
Romans 16:3-16 As Paul winds down his exposition of the gospel in this monumental letter to the Romans, he concludes by commending individuals who were laboring in kingdom work. Two categories of kingdom workers stand out: coworkers and hard workers. Paul highlights the labor of Prisca and Aquila who were now in Rome and who had…
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Urgency for the Harvest of Souls
John 4:31-38 John tells us (v4) that Jesus “had” to go through Samaria. Context indicates that this divine compulsion was on account of a need for Jesus to teach his disciples at this foundational moment of his ministry about their missionary calling. The point of emphasis was the purpose of Christ’s mission which was to do…
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A Kingdom Catalyst
Acts 6:8-15 In the first six chapters in Acts it is fair to say that the church had a Jerusalem-centric focus rather than an outward orientation. But, with Stephen’s stoning, a wave of persecution was unleashed upon the church and it was scattered as far north as Antioch where the mission to the Gentiles began to…