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 […]
Text: Colossians 3:5-11 Theme: The sins of the old man are supposed to be forsaken, and the new life in Christ embraced. Intro: The first 4 verses of this chapter were an exhortation to set our focus on the things which are above, on things of eternal value rather than on the temporal. In the […]
Text: I Chronicles 13:1-4, 7-14 & I Chronicles 15:1-5, 12-14, 25-28 Theme: We need to take the service of God seriously. Today, it is popular to have messy church, and to approach service for God in a slap-dash manner without proper consideration for the holiness of God and for Biblical patterns. The lesson to be […]
Text: Colossians 3:1-4 Theme: Lift your gaze off the temporal and fix it on the eternal. Intro: Chapter 2 outlined for us our identification with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection which brought us separation from sin, freedom from the Law, and liberty in Christ. As we enter chapter 3, the Apostle Paul builds […]
Text: Acts 17:30-31 Intro: The goals of this message are: To explain what repentance is and what it isn’t. To see how the word repentance is used in the Bible. To explain why we believe repentance is necessary for salvation. To answer a few questions which are commonly raised about repentance and salvation. We will […]