“JUDAS – A TRAITOR” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction “The same sun which melts wax hardens clay.” It was Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great nineteenth century English preacher, who said that. It has since become “an old cliché” that many of you have heard before. But you may not have heard the rest of the quote. […]
“JAMES, SIMON, AND JUDE – LESSER KNOWN BUT…” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction If there is one thing we have learned in our verse-by-verse study of Romans, the gospels, and various other NT writings, it is this: God chooses those whom He will save. Much of the professing church denies that. They either reject it outright […]
“MATTHEW AND THOMAS – HUMILITY AND DOUBT” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction If I were to take a poll this morning and ask you to name the worst possible sin, what would you say? Some would probably say that killing someone is the worst possible sin. After all, the sixth commandment says, in KJV English, “Thou […]
“PHILIP AND NATHANAEL – TWO KINDS OF FAITH” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction “I do believe; help my unbelief.” There are few words in Scripture that strike so deeply into my heart as do those; that convict me of my own lack of faith in God as do those. “I do believe; help my unbelief.” It […]
“JAMES AND JOHN – SONS OF THUNDER” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction I have a question for all you parents who have had two or more children. Are they very much alike or are they very much different? There are some ways in which they are probably very much alike. For example, they share certain physical […]
“THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction The most fundamental and essential function of the church is to worship God. Whether it’s the Hebrew word “shâchâh” (shaw-khaw´) in the OT, or the Greek word “prŏskunĕō” (pros-koo-neh´-o) in the NT, they mean the same thing. God is to be worshipped. In a broad sense […]
“PETER – A ROCK (PART 2)” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction One of the greatest debates of our age is the debate over how we came to be, how you and I and everyone and everything came into existence. On one side of the debate are those who say that everything came from nothing by a […]
“PETER – A ROCK (PART 1)” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction During the 1980’s and 90’s one of baseball’s best pitchers was the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Orel Hershiser. He was a three-time all-star, and in 1988, his best year, he won a Gold Glove award, the Cy Young award as the National League’s best pitcher, and […]
“ANDREW – A QUIET MAN” SELECTED SCRIPTURES I. Introduction The Apostle Paul preached the gospel and planted the first church in the Greek city of Corinth on his second missionary journey in the year 50 A.D. By that time Corinth had become the primary center of immorality in an already immoral region. It was there […]