Sermon Topic: Christian Life

The Seven Christian Graces

Date: March 17th, 1974  |  Scripture: 2 Peter 1:5-9  |  Topics: Christian Life, Christianity, Faith, Growth, Love, Virtue, maturity

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged fContinue Reading


The Seven Christian Graces

Date: March 17th, 1974  |  Scripture: 2 Peter 1:5-9  |  Topics: Christian Life, Christianity, Faith, Growth, Love, Virtue, maturity

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged fContinue Reading


Perseverance

Date: March 20th, 1974  |  Scripture: Matthew 13:3-9  |  Topics: Christian Life, Faith, Perseverance, Salvation

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into gContinue Reading


The Christian Martyr

Date: March 7th, 1976  |  Scripture: Isaiah 51:1-2  |  Topics: Christian Life, Christianity, Martyrdom, Suffering

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.


The Christian Martyr

Date: March 7th, 1976  |  Scripture: Isaiah 51:1-2  |  Topics: Christian Life, Christianity, Martyrdom, Suffering

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.


It Is Reasonable to Be Christian

Date: October 15th, 1978  |  Scripture: Acts 17:16-34  |  Topics: Apologetics, Christian Life, Christianity, Evolution, Intellectuals, Salvation

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.Continue Reading


Have You Received the Holy Spirit?

Date: November 5th, 1978  |  Scripture: Acts 19  |  Topics: Born again, Christian Life, Conversion, Experience, Filling of the Spirit, Holy Spirit

And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that theyContinue Reading


How God Teaches Doctrinal Truth

Date: September 14th, 1980  |  Scripture: Isaiah 28:9-10  |  Topics: Christian Life, Doctrine, Fundamental, Interpretation, Mind of Christ, Preaching, Progressive Revelation, Stubborn, Teaching, Yoke

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:


How God Teaches Doctrinal Truth

Date: September 14th, 1980  |  Scripture: Isaiah 28:9-10  |  Topics: Christian Life, Doctrine, Fundamental, Interpretation, Mind of Christ, Preaching, Progressive Revelation, Stubborn, Teaching, Yoke

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:


Saints in a Sinful World

Date: January 9th, 1983  |  Scripture: Ephesians 1:1  |  Topics: Christian Life, Church, Discipleship, Holiness, Saints

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: