Sermon Topic: Anniversary

The Eleventh Anniversary

Date: October 2nd, 1955  |  Scripture: Psalm 48, 137  |  Topics: Anniversary, Church growth, Evangelism, FBC-Dallas, Inner-City, Israel, Ministry

This sermon is entitled Today We Begin Our Twelfth Year, and it is a message that comes out of the turning over in my heart the ministry of Christ under our hands here in this church and in the heart of this city as I thought of it this summer especially far away.


The Twelfth Anniversary

Date: October 7th, 1956  |  Scripture: Acts 2:17  |  Topics: Anniversary, Biographical, FBC-Dallas, School

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:


Look Unto the Rock

Date: July 30th, 1967  |  Scripture: Isaiah 51:1-2  |  Topics: Anniversary, FBC-Dallas, History, Spurgeon Harris

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.


A Century of Blessing

Date: July 28th, 1968  |  Scripture: Isaiah 51:1-2  |  Topics: Anniversary, Building, Century, FBC-Dallas, History

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.


A Century of Blessing

Date: July 28th, 1968  |  Scripture: Isaiah 51:1-2  |  Topics: Anniversary, Building, Century, FBC-Dallas, History

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.


My Heart Is Fixed on God

Date: August 4th, 1968  |  Scripture: Psalm 57:7  |  Topics: Anniversary, Downtown Church, Dr. Criswell, Dr. Truett, FBC-Dallas

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.


In Pictures of Silver

Date: October 5th, 1969  |  Scripture: Proverbs 25:11  |  Topics: Anniversary, Criswell College, FBC-Dallas, Ministry

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.


These Thirty Years

Date: October 6th, 1974  |  Scripture: James 4:10-14  |  Topics: Anniversary, Church, FBC-Dallas, James, Paul, Striving

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sContinue Reading


These Thirty Years

Date: October 6th, 1974  |  Scripture: James 4:10-14  |  Topics: Anniversary, Biographical, Dr. Criswell, FBC-Dallas, Life

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sContinue Reading


The Preeminent Christ

Date: October 7th, 1979  |  Scripture: Colossians 1:15-20  |  Topics: Anniversary, Christ, Deity, Incarnation

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For itContinue Reading