Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
During my years with you, I have preached about 75 messages on the subject of prayer. And several of those sermons and lessons have been a part of various series on the subject. For example, on Wednesdays for several months we looked a the prayers of the Apostle...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There are hundreds of millions of people who don’t think that being a Christian is very important. I wish that some of them were here today, so that I could reason with them. They either think that there is no difference between the Christian and the Hindu or...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
This verse strikes at the heart of a lot of false doctrine. For example it calls ATHEISM a lie – there is a God. It then thwarts the arguments of the PANTHEISTS. A Pantheist believes that the universe and God are one and the same. And that means that, to them,...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
“Romeo and Juliet,” of course, is a well-known play by William Shakespeare. The two young people bearing these names meet and grow in their love for one another. Unfortunately, their fathers and families hate each other, and the friendship between these...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Verse 28 is one of the most beloved statements in all of God’s Word. “We KNOW that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to His purpose.” Why is this so well-loved; why is this verse so...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There are basically two main doctrinal opinions about man’s deliverance from sin. And then come a multitude of thoughts between those two key positions. There are those who lay most, if not all, of the responsibility for salvation on the sinner’s...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
This chapter has two designs: to lift up our hearts and to cast us to our knees. Paul wanted to lift up the hearts of the people of church in Rome in the midst of their trials. And this book still accomplishes that same goal over twenty centuries later. The second...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Have you ever seen the 40-year-old movie “Camelot?” It came out in 1967 back when some of you were still going to movies and before you gave up television. It began as a Broadway play starring Richard Burton and Canadian Robert Goulet as Sir Lancelot....
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Unless you’ve been cast away on a desert island for the last two weeks, you should have heard about the government’s $700 billion bail-out of America’s economy. Do you realize how much money that is? That’s the number 7 with 11 zero’s...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There are several reasons why most Baptist pastors never preach about sovereign election and predestination. Some of them firmly believe that man’s deliverance from sin is the responsibility of that sinner – period. They believe that Jesus died for sins...