Text: Colossians 4:5-6 Theme: Our lives should be characterised by godly wisdom Intro: This evening, we are going to address the believer’s conversation toward the lost around us. We will start by considering how having godly wisdom should impact out behaviour, and then finally how wisdom and grace should govern our conversations. I. Walk […]
Text: Mathew 23:13-23 Intro: At this time in the Lord Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry, he is in Jerusalem, and this is only a short time before his crucifixion. In chapter 22, the Lord Jesus had the Herodians, the Sadducees, and the Pharisees all ask him questions in an attempt to trick him into saying something […]
Text: Colossians 4:1-4 Theme: The Christians actions and attitudes toward fellow Christian’s ought to testify of Christ. Intro: In the previous chapter we were looking at Paul’s command for Christian living. We noted some general principles governing our lives and then look at the specifics of certain relationships like marriage and parenthood. Chapter 4 continues […]
At this time in the Lord Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry, he is in Jerusalem, and this is only a short time before his crucifixion. In chapter 22, the Lord Jesus had the Herodians, the Sadducees, and the Pharisees all ask him questions in an attempt to trick him into saying something that they could use […]
Theme: Service for Christ ought to be the goal in every human relationship. Last week, we looked at the first 2 of our 4 main points for this passage, drawing thoughts from Ephesians 5:22 – 6:9 which is the sister passage to Colossians 3:18-25, and which gives us some further details that help to explain […]
At this time in the Lord Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry he is in Jerusalem and this is only a short time before his crucifixion. – In chapter 22, the Lord Jesus had the Herodians, the Sadducees, and the Pharisees all ask him questions in an attempt to trick him into saying something that they could […]
Theme: Service for Christ ought to be the goal in every human relationship. Previously in this chapter we covered the lifestyle of the Old Man that we have put off, the godly lifestyle of the new man that we have put on, and now we come to the way we ought to behave toward others […]
Text: Joshua 2 Theme: God often working things out before we even get there. Intro: In the previous chapter, the Israelites learned that Joshua was their new leader and that God had commanded him to lead the nation into the promised land. In this chapter, Joshua is preparing to take the nation into the land […]
Text: Colossians 3:12-17 Theme: The new man has new lifestyle which honours Christ. Intro: We dealt previously with the fact that we are a new man in Christ, and last week we looked at the habitual lifestyle of the old man, and our death to that lifestyle. Today, we are going to look at a […]
Text: Joshua 1:10-18 Theme: We need people who are willing to lead, and others who will get behind leadership. Intro: Several weeks back we looked at the first 9 verses of this chapter under the message title, “Go Forward for God.” We noted that after Moses death Joshua was appointed by God to lead the […]