Sermon Topic: Ministry

Our Golden Tomorrow (37th Anniversary)

Date: October 4th, 1981  |  Scripture: Philippians 3:12-21  |  Topics: Church growth, Education, FBC-Dallas, Ministry, Training

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye bContinue Reading


Our Golden Tomorrow (37th Anniversary)

Date: October 4th, 1981  |  Scripture: Philippians 3:12-14  |  Topics: Church growth, Education, FBC-Dallas, Ministry, Training

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.


The State of the Church

Date: January 2nd, 1983  |  Scripture: Philippians 3:14  |  Topics: Building, Evangelism, FBC-Dallas, History, Ministry, Missions

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.


Intercessory Prayer

Date: March 20th, 1983  |  Scripture: John 17:9, 20  |  Topics: Boldness, Help, Intercession, Jesus, Ministry, Paul, Peter, Prayer

In the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of John, which is an intercessory chapter, our Lord’s high priestly prayer, in verse 9 of John chapter 17, our Lord says, “I pray for them,for them which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine. I pray for them.” Then in the twentieth verse of the same seventeenth chapter of John, “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word”; and that prayer comes down to us and includes us; our Lord’s intercessory remembContinue Reading


Intercessory Prayer

Date: March 20th, 1983  |  Scripture: John 17:9-20  |  Topics: Fellowship, Help, Intercession, Jesus, Love, Ministry, Paul, Peter, Power, Prayer

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the sonContinue Reading


These Forty Years

Date: October 7th, 1984  |  Scripture: Acts 14:27  |  Topics: Biographical, Church Programs, Commitment, FBC-Dallas, History, Ministry, Outreach, Retirement

And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.


Woman’s Work in the Church

Date: October 21st, 1984  |  Scripture: Philippians 4:3  |  Topics: Church, Church Government, Ministry, Women

And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.


Woman’s Work in the Church

Date: October 21st, 1984  |  Scripture: Philippians 4:3  |  Topics: Church, Church Government, Ministry, Women

And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.


The Preacher As A Man of God

Date: January 17th, 1985  |  Scripture: 2 Kings 4:8-9  |  Topics: Faith, Ministry, Preachers, Undershepherd, Walk

And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.


Loving the Church of Our Lord

Date: September 29th, 1985  |  Scripture: Ephesians 5:25  |  Topics: Church, Love, Ministry, Pastors, Shepherd

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;