Faith in Christ Our text is Col 2:5-7.  The Colossians had a faith in Christ that Paul could behold.  Their faith was evident to him.  Their faith wasn’t a religious expression like you hear people say today. A friend of mine once said, “I need to be more concerned about...

Local Church Missions Local church missions is as much a ministry of the local church as any other ministry of the church.  Like one preacher said, “Missions is not an optional ministry of the local church.  It’s like your heart and lungs.  Both are necessary in the body”. The first...

How to Overcome Your Ai Joshua 7:1-12 After destroying the city of Jericho the next battle Israel faced was Ai. This battle did not go so well because Achan had taken the accursed thing when they conquered Jericho. Israel is defeated and thirty six men die as a result of...

What Does the Bible Say About Religion? James 1:26-27 In this sermon we are going to look at the subject of Religion. According to google there are anywhere from 4000 to 10000 different religions in the world. Why so many? It is simply because religions do not work. Here we...

Local Church Gospel Preaching One of the three purposes of a local church is and should be to evangelize sinners.  The other two purposes are to exalt the Savior and to edify the saints. We want to discuss our purpose of evangelizing sinners tonight.  Our text is 1 Cor 4:24-25. ...

Be Ready Always You should be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you… 1 Pet 3:15.  People need to know what we know.  And when they ask you, you must be ready to answer. How? Sanctify...

Charlie Kirk’s Death, A Biblical Perspective Since Charlie Kirk’s death this past Wednesday, you have heard and seen a lot of commentary.  You now have the political perspective, the worldly perspective, the legal perspective, the family perspective, and so forth.  Today, we want to look at the Biblical perspective.  What...

The Cretians Titus was given a charge in Titus 1:5 that would have taken him a lifetime to complete.  He was to set in order the things that were wanting, and there were 80 cities in which he was to ordain elders.  The people from among whom these “men of...

What God Can Do With You The texts for this message are found in Ezek 47:1-10, 1 Cor 1:26-31, and Matt 19:26.  This sermon encourages us, through many illustrations, that God can and does accomplish great things through us, inspite of us.  “Attempt something so big that if God doesn’t...

Personal Witness of Jesus John 4 is the only place in the New Testament where you see the personal witness of Jesus.  What he said and how he handled the conversation with the woman at the well is a great example of how we should witness to the lost.  Notice...