Sermon Topic: Purpose

Religion in the Letdown

Date: December 26th, 1954  |  Scripture: Luke 2:51  |  Topics: Boredom, Christmas, Mundane, Purpose

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.


Bought with a Price

Date: September 25th, 1955  |  Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:15-20  |  Topics: Courage, Forgiveness, Law, Purpose, Redemption

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy GhoContinue Reading


Pressing Toward the Prize

Date: May 26th, 1957  |  Scripture: Philippians 3:13-14  |  Topics: Baccalaureate, Calling, Christian Life, Prize, Purpose

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.


Stirring the Eagle’s Nest

Date: June 21st, 1959  |  Scripture: Deuteronomy 32:7-11  |  Topics: Eagle, High Priest, Priesthood of Christ, Purpose, Salvation, Sorrow, Trial

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed himContinue Reading


The Trial of Our Faith

Date: May 15th, 1960  |  Scripture: James 1:1-4  |  Topics: Job, Manna, Problems, Purpose, Strength, Trials, Trust, endurance

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.


Our Calling and Election

Date: October 2nd, 1960  |  Scripture: 2 Peter 1:10-11  |  Topics: Calling, Diligence, Election, Ministry, Purpose, Repentance, Service

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


My Church Reaching Out to the Inner Man in Outer Space (SBC)

Date: May 26th, 1961  |  Scripture: Matthew 28:20  |  Topics: Church, Command, Evangelism, Priorities, Purpose, SBC, Values

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.


The Motive for Missions

Date: November 28th, 1965  |  Scripture: Acts 4:12  |  Topics: Church, Evangelism, Giving, Jesus, Missions, Motivation, Purpose, Salvation, Support

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.


The Motive for Missions

Date: November 28th, 1965  |  Scripture: Acts 4:12  |  Topics: Church, Evangelism, Giving, Jesus, Missions, Motivation, Purpose, Salvation, Support

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.


The Eternal Purpose of God

Date: September 27th, 1970  |  Scripture: Ephesians 3:11  |  Topics: Eternity, God, Purpose, Salvation

According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: