Agape Baptist Church - Sermons

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on Ephesians 5 Walk in Love 5  Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.  2  And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 3  But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.  4  Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor cru...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on Gen 2:15-25 | Rom 1:21-32 | Eph 5:15-6:4, Doing a series on the Family. Gen 2:15-25 15  The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.  16  And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,  17  but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that y...

a Sermon by Partor Carl Lehmkuhl on Joshua 1:1-9 Joshua Installed as Leader 1  After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide:  2  “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites.  3  I will give you every place where you set your foot, as...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on Isaiah 9:1-7 For to Us a Child Is Born 9  [ a ] But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.[ b ] 2  [ c ] The people who walked in darkness      hav...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on Matthew 1:18-25 The Birth of Jesus Christ 18  Now the birth of Jesus Christ[ a ] took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed[ b ] to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.  19  And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.  20  But as...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 21:18-25 18  Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.”  19  (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Fol...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 21:15-19 Jesus and Peter 15  When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”  16  He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.”...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 21:1-14 Jesus Appears to Seven Disciples 21  After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way.  2  Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.  3  Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They...

a Sermon by Pastor Carl Lehmkhul on John 20:30-31 (Sermon in Afrikaans) The Purpose of This Book 30  Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;  31  but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 20:24-29 Jesus and Thomas 24  Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin,[ a ] was not with them when Jesus came.  25  So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.” 26 ...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 20:19-23 Jesus Appears to the Disciples 19  On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews,[ a ] Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”  20  When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the L...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 20:11-18 Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene 11  Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb  12  and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. 13  They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 20:1-10 The Resurrection 20  Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.  2  So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where t...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 19:38-42 Jesus Is Buried 38  After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.  39  Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus[ e ] by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and a...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 19:17-42 17  and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.  18  There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.  19  Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”  20  Many of...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 19:1-16 Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified 19  Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him.  2  And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.  3  They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.  4  Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 18:28-38 Jesus Before Pilate 28  Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters.[ a ] It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.  29  So Pilate went outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this ma...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 18:15-27 Peter Denies Jesus 15  Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest,  16  but Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the...

a sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 18:1-14 Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus 18  When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.  2  Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.  3  So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 17:13-26 13  But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.  14  I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.  15  I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.[ a...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 17:1-13 The High Priestly Prayer 17  When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,  2  since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.  3  And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only tru...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 16:25-33 I Have Overcome the World 25  “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.  26  In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;  27  for the Father himself loves you,...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 16:16-24 Your Sorrow Will Turn into Joy 16  “A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.”  17  So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”  18...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 16:4-15 4  But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. The Work of the Holy Spirit “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.  5  But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’  6  But because I have said these things to y...

a Sermon by Pastor Carl Lehmkuhl on John 15:18-John 16:3 The Hatred of the World 18  “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.  19  If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.  20  Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater tha...