Agape Baptist Church - Sermons

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on Matthew 18:21-35 The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant 21  Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”  22  Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. 23  “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 15:9-17 9  As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.  10  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.  11  These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. 12  “This is my commandment, that you love one anot...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 15:1-8 I Am the True Vine 15  “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.  2  Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.  3  Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.  4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear frui...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 14:15-31 Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit 15  “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.  16  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper,[ a ] to be with you forever,  17  even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be[ b ] in you. 18 ...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 14:15-31 Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit 15  “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.  16  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper,[ a ] to be with you forever,  17  even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be[ b ] in you. 18 ...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 14:12-14 12  “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.  13  Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  14  If you ask me[ e ] anything in my name, I will do it.

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 14:1-11 I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life 14  “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God;[ a ] believe also in me.  2  In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?[ b ]  3  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where...

a Sermon by Pastor Carl Lehmkuhl on John 13:18-38 18  I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled,[ a ] ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’  19  I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.  20  Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 13:1-17 Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet 13  Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.  2  During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,  3...

a Sermon by Mike Ellis, Talking about the Holy Spirit in the Old and new Testament and how we should perceive and understand that workings of the Holy Spirit.

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 12:44-50 Jesus Came to Save the World 44  And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.  45  And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.  46  I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.  47  If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 12:37-43 37  Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,  38  so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us,      and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” 39  Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said, 40  “He has blinded their eyes...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on Luke 24:13-35 On the Road to Emmaus 13  That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles[ a ] from Jerusalem,  14  and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened.  15  While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.  16  But their eyes were kept from reco...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 12:27-36 The Son of Man Must Be Lifted Up 27  “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.  28  Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”  29  The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thunder...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 12:12-26 The Triumphal Entry 12  The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.  13  So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”  14  And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 12:1-11 Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany 12  Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.  2  So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.  3  Mary therefore took a pound[ a ] of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and a...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 11:45-57 The Plot to Kill Jesus 45  Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,  46  but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.  47  So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.  48  If we let him go...

a Sermon by Pastor Carl Lehmkuhl on John 11:17-44 I Am the Resurrection and the Life 17  Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.  18  Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles[ c ] off,  19  and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.  20  So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, bu...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 11:1-16 The Death of Lazarus 11  Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.  2  It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.  3  So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”  4  But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illn...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 10:22-42 I and the Father Are One 22  At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,  23  and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.  24  So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”  25  Jesus answered them, “I told you,...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 10:1-21 I Am the Good Shepherd 10  “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.  2  But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.  3  To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.  4  Wh...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 9:6-41 6  Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud  7  and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing. 8  The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 9:1-5 Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind 9  As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.  2  And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  3  Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.  4  We must work the works of him who sent me wh...

a Sermon by Pastor Daniel Crane on John 8:39-59 You Are of Your Father the Devil 39  They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,  40  but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.  41  You are doing the works your father did.” They...

a Sermon by Pastor Bryant Crane on John 8:31-38 The Truth Will Set You Free 31  So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,  32  and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  33  They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?” 34  Jesu...