Biblical Preaching

The apostle Paul sought to evangelize to the church in Rome. However, Paul first taught about God's judgment revealing that all stand accountable before God, because all have sinned. The background of judgment reveals the need for God's justness and a Savior.

This message concludes a long series from 1 Corinthians where the apostle Paul collected much error to unify this congregation. First Corinthians shows Christians how to unite in doctrine, discipline, God-given tradition, and more. For the preacher, this encouragement becomes personal and heartfelt.

This message helps Christians to understand how God changes repentant believers into a new person throughout life. God does the work of raising the believer alive to new life putting off the old self of sin. The focus and perspective of the Christian changes to Christ and so changes one's life.

The apostle Paul gave specific commands from God for the Christian home. This message draws directly from the Bible. This sermon addresses how wives are to subject their husbands, how husbands are to love their wives, why children are to obey, and how fathers are to their children.

Some will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" This is quoted from 1 Corinthians 15:35. Paul answered the question of how the faithful will resurrect like Jesus Christ when Christ returns. This is the hope and an essential Christian teaching.

Many people declare that they would give up everything for God. However, when a ballgame is scheduled, a promotion comes, a needed vacation begins, and a favorite show started, we often forget our thanksgivings to God and Christ. The apostle Paul sets a common example among mature Christians that helps us to devote ourselves faithfully to reading, prayer, service, giving, worship, evangelizing, an...

Does what a person believes about God and Christ affect one's behavior? The church at Corinth had many problems. Behind their moral struggles, some in the church did not believe in the coming resurrection of the dead. Paul explained the gospel again with evidence of eyewitnesses to Jesus's resurrection. Furthermore, Paul taught how Jesus's bodily resurrection was the first of the resurrection to c...

God calls everyone through the gospel. The gospel calls us to more than mere belief but a living faith. The church are those called out of their homes to glorify God.

Paul taught the order of the assembly consisting of two or three speakers one by one.

Without holiness, no one will see the Lord. Being holy is essential to salvation. God strengthens the hearts of believers to be blameless in holiness before the coming of Jesus Christ. This message explores God's Word to the church to be sexually pure and no longer covet various sexual passions.

Few Christians today talk about their hope of eternal life by Jesus's resurrection. Throughout Acts, apostles and evangelists have spread the gospel of hope. In this study, Paul stood to defend himself before the Roman governor of Judea from the accusations of Jerusalem's high priest. Paul revealed that he was on trial for his hope in the resurrection that the sect of the Sadducees rejected. Paul'...

"Maintain the traditions just as I have delivered them to you" wrote the apostle Paul. The assembling of a church is not only for worship but for edification --- to build up one another in teaching. This message is a biblical review of the principles that organize the assembly of Christians. The focus of edification is to teach and worship with meaning specifically with intelligible words so that...

Through the Book of Acts in the Bible, evangelists proclaimed the gospel of Jesus mostly to those were already devout believers of God who accepted the Jewish Scriptures. In Acts 18, a woman and her husband pull aside an eloquent speaker who teaches about Jesus accurately but his teaching about baptism is not accurate. Furthermore, another preacher will teach twelve men about another baptism than...

This message draws from the love chapter as Paul counters the lack of love that divides and hurts the church.

Many place rules, laws, and judgments on others. In Acts 15, some were trying to place the burdens of the Law of Moses on new converts. However, salvation is by grace in Jesus Christ and not Moses's Law. This message draws from the speeches of a church council in Acts 15 to help Christians understand what Christians must obey today.

The gift of various kinds of tongues was not for every Christian. God gave supernatural gifts by the Holy Spirit for the common good of the church. Spiritual gifts all came from the same God for unity. These points and others are essential for Christians to have a biblical view of gifts from the Spirit.

After persecution scattered Christians, Philip went out proclaiming the gospel so that many men and women were baptized. The Holy Spirit sent Philip to preach to an Ethiopian official traveling in his chariot reading from the scriptures of Isaiah. This account teaches Christians how to preach Jesus from the prophecies of the Christ in the Book of Isaiah and that devout believers of God need to hea...

The apostles preached Jesus's resurrection for the coming resurrection on the last day. Jesus's resurrection is His conquest over death bringing eternal life to the faith. Jesus's resurrection is essential to all Christian beliefs and teachings. Christ rising from the dead unites the faithful in the church. This message draws every point from the Bible.

This message recognizes the confusion of the world and its inability to know God by the world's wisdom. Only by God's wisdom in preaching the gospel can humanity understand God and the need for Christ's crucifixion. The crucifixion of Jesus in Luke 23 reveals the perspectives of unbelief and belief that Jesus is the Messiah. By the cross, believers realize and reconcile the love and just wrath of...

Paul taught the church to maintain the traditions just as delivered, and then he taught that God is the head of Christ, Christ is the head of man, and man is the head of woman. This message addresses this statement's basis in God creating man distinctively from woman. Furthermore, the text applies this practice to men uncovering and women covering their heads in teaching and prayer.

The dead can't warm you about your life. Mediums are not really contacting the dead. However, the dead may want warn you about your life and what is to come from your living. Jesus warned about the lack of compassion and giving that leads to torment in fire. This message will explain more about what Jesus means by Hell.

The church at Corinth had been justifying behaviors that hurt more than oneself but other "weak" Christians. Paul reminded of their communion with Christ's body and blood to teach them not to justify communing with demons. This message draws out essential points for not justifying specific actions to join with evil.

Jesus commands His disciples not to be anxious. How can Jesus command this of all disciples? Christ warned of how anxieties and cares can choke out faith in God's Word. Jesus gave instruction for what to focus and seek so that His followers will not lack the necessities of life. This message turns to the Bible to gain that truth.

The apostle Paul made himself a servant to all. In 1 Corinthians 9, Paul revealed the right of the evangelist to receive payment for his labor, but he didn't use the right for sale of those who are weak. Paul sets an example being willing to become like those who are weak in faith to win them. He disciplined himself for the good of others. This message observes how the apostle gave up rights to se...

The apostle Paul addressed those spreading false teaching who have swerved from rightly using the law, thinking that they have an understanding, and teaching speculations in vain discussions. At the core, these teachers have drifted from sound doctrine by lacking certain qualities. This message examines these qualities as the aim of the Apostles' charge.