Biblical Preaching

Jesus gave a new command to His apostles to love as Jesus loved them. By that love, the world will recognize the disciples of Christ. However, that does not mean the world will join the faithful but Jesus reported that the world will still hate Christians. This message encourages us love like Christ, which is counter cultural. Christians don't love like the world as Christ stood against the evil a...

Jesus of Nazareth promised His Spirit to His messengers --- the Apostles. Jesus told them that the Spirit of Good would guide them into all truth. The first followers of Jesus lacked nothing because Jesus's messengers had all truth to give to all who trust in Jesus. This message stresses the mission of God's Spirit to transform with truth those who trust in God to be more like Jesus.

Jesus of Nazareth taught that those who would not listen to Him because they did not believe His works. If they believed His works, then they would listen and understand Him, so they could follow Jesus. Jesus gives eternal life to those who follow Him. This message focuses on reasons to trust that Jesus did miraculous works so that believers may become followers and inherit eternal life.

The Holy Spirit has a significant role in bringing Christ into the world. The message examines the way that the Spirit worked within Christ without measure.

Christ came into the world and the world did not know Him. The Gospel of John illustrates bringing others to Christ and sharing Christ and eternal life. This message is a simple observation of people coming to Christ and becoming confident in leading others to Jesus Christ.

The Old Testament Scriptures reveal much about the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit spoke by the prophets giving them revelation. Likewise, Isaiah predicted the Holy Spirit of wisdom and knowledge would rest upon the Christ, who is the Prophet predicted by Moses. This message draws essential points from scriptures about the operation of the Holy Spirit in giving God's wisdom in His Word.

What is a living sacrifice? The apostle Paul expanded on the teaching of Christ revealing how baptized believers are transformed. This message builds on how to change your life as Good wants you to do. Jesus taught how it is essential to take up one's cross daily to be His disciple and to lose one's life to be saved.

Being zealous for God is not enough according to Romans 10. Paul taught that one must have knowledge. What knowledge? Paul means a knowledge built on saving faith that Jesus is the Lord and that He resurrected from the dead. This message draws vital points like these that are essential to preaching the gospel.

This message is in a series of messages covering what the Bible reveals about the Holy Spirit. In this sermon, the operation of the Holy Spirit among the nation of Israel is emphasized to recognize the work of the Spirit to come through Jesus Christ.

As difficult as it is for people to reconcile with one another, no one should think it is a small thing that God reconciled sinners and enemies through Jesus Christ. This message draws observations from Romans 5 to realize the magnitude of God's gift of grace and reconciling humanity through Jesus. The blessings are numerous and great so that every faithful Christian has reason to rejoice and enjo...

The Spirit hovered over the face of the deep. Who not what is the Holy Spirit? This message observes insights from the Scriptures to see what the Spirit reveals about Himself.

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.