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If you have read ahead in Romans 5 to the verses we will study this week, you probably noticed that there is a significant difference between verses 12-21 and verses 1-11. A few years back, the deacon body set out to memorize Romans 5. The first eleven verses were no problem. The last nine were incredibly difficult, not just to memorize, but also to understand. I even had the thought this week tha...

Pastor Ryan McDaniel | Psalm 146

In our “big event” culture, Christmas is always the biggest annual event of all. We plan for it, prepare for it and celebrate it for over a month, and it doesn’t even matter if we are believers or not. When it comes to Christmas, we all want the same thing. We want Christmas to be perfect. We have this hope that everyone will get along. We want perfect decorations, we want to give (and get) the pe...

A Church for all generations. Weekly Sermons from Lenexa Baptist Church.

The birth of Christ occurred under the noses of and in the presence of many people, and yet so many of those people missed it. The innkeeper missed it. The incarnation and birth of the Son of God, one of the most significant events in salvation history, occurred near or even on his own property, and yet he missed it. Maybe he was too busy with travelers or too concerned with the stuff of earth, an...

In 1987, a little girl named Jessica McClure fell down an abandoned well shaft. The shaft was eight inches in diameter and twenty two feet deep. She was lost to her parents with no way to get her out. Her rescue became the focus of the little town of Midland, TX. For 15 hours, men dug and drilled. The limestone around the shaft made her rescue incredibly difficult and almost impossible. At the end...

Over the years, there have been some incredibly effective ad campaigns used to market products. One such campaign was run by the credit card company, American Express, from 1987-1996. Their slogan was “membership has its privileges.” It was widely recognized by people as a way to live an elite lifestyle, and it was very effective in helping to contribute to the debt of those who enjoyed living abo...

After Faith and I got married, we lived in student housing on the campus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The small apartment was affordable, and Faith did a great job of making it home. The apartment had one downside. Just outside our apartment on the other side of a small fence was a set of train tracks with a crossing about a hundred yards away. Do you know how many times a train b...

Few disasters are more well-known than the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic was an amazing marvel of human ingenuity and achievement created to make transatlantic ocean crossings between Southampton, England and New York City. But it had a major flaw. The quality of the steel and rivets was too weak and brittle to withstand contact with any of the icebergs floating in the Atlantic Ocean. A lot...

Much emphasis today has been placed on discovering your cultural heritage. Today, using your DNA with precise geographic detail and historical insights, you can connect yourself with the people and places in your genealogical past. In Romans 4, Paul traces our spiritual lineage. You might say that Romans 4 is Paul’s version of ancestry.com. Paul will demonstrate how Jews and Gentiles who place the...

Growing up, I went to a barbershop not far from the school where my dad worked. Once a month, my dad would give me $6 for my haircut. In the barber shop was a sign that read, “In God we trust, all others pay cash.” You couldn’t pay with a check. You couldn’t pay with a credit card. Cash was the only acceptable payment that the barber would accept. As we continue the study of Romans this week and l...

Our passage this weekend includes three words that are essential to understanding the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are theological terms that take us into three different realms of understanding and illustrate all that Christ accomplished for us in His life, death and resurrection, and they must be considered simultaneously. All three united together demonstrate, as we see in v.26, how God can be...

Our passage this week marks a significant transition in Paul’s outlining of the gospel. It has been said that this paragraph in Romans 3:21-24 is the most significant paragraph in all of God’s Word. No other passage more clearly outlines the righteousness of God and the salvation of man. It would take years to plumb the depths of the wonders of the biblical truths in this passage. My study of this...

The Jewish people were privileged and given priority in so many ways. God birthed the nation. They were brought forth by God from the barren wombs of Sarah and Rebekah. They were led by God out of Egypt. They had seen His power and might and grace. Even more than this, they had been given His Word. God had spoken to the nation and given them His Word on tablets of stone. They received so many priv...

Paul spends a lot of time explaining the sinfulness of man. It is the focus of our text this week and for the next several weeks. In my study, I have often thought to myself, why can’t we just get this in one verse? Why not just summarize it in a paragraph? Why three chapters drilling down on the sinfulness of man? Then the Spirit reminds me that until we have plummeted the depths of our sinfulnes...

We live in a difficult day. The moral decline of our nation is more rapid than ever. The sacred nature of marriage is collapsing. The dignity of man as made in the image of God is under attack. Life is no longer sacred. Truth has eroded into relativism. Our world is filled with self-indulgence and lies, and yet, God has seen fit in His sovereignty to give us the PRIVILEGE of serving Him at this ti...

Our passage this week brings us into some of the most controversial territory in all of God’s Word. More than this, we find a statement of judgment from God that is unrivaled in its severity and finality as we find a biblical explanation for the confusion of our world today. When God is rejected and exchanged for lies and idols, everything tends towards moral and spiritual chaos. Is there hope? Th...

If God is just and punishes sin, where is His wrath and justice against sin? The world sins and goes on about their lives. The answer to this question is found in the first verse of our passage this week. Romans 1:18 says, “The wrath of God IS revealed from heaven….” This means, any culture that rejects the Word of God by which they must be saved will experience the wrath of God. God will give the...

Have you ever experienced a moment in your life when you were ashamed of the gospel? We live in a culture and world that opposes the gospel message. In today’s culture, we often find ourselves in situations where the gospel is challenged, and we struggle to find our voice. The Roman culture was no different. The darkness has always hated the light. The gospel has always been challenged. Make no mi...

In my 20 years of ministry, I have never preached through Romans. It has been said that a faithful preacher will lead his congregation through Romans at least twice. As I begin my 21st year of preaching, I realized I had better get started on my first. Romans is critical to our faith. No other book of the Bible has had a greater effect on church history. Martin Luther’s study of Romans was the imp...

We have finally come to the end of 2 Samuel this weekend. I love the way the book ends. The Bible is written in such a way that each author, inspired by God faithfully records His Word, then passes it on to the next, continuing the divine narrative across generations. Every book is pointing us to one person who will die in one place for the sins of man. There are some points that you can’t miss wh...

A Church for all generations. Weekly Sermons from Lenexa Baptist Church.

In 2 Samuel 23, we will delve into David’s final words and the extraordinary tales of his mighty warriors. Discover the deep reflections of a king on God’s covenant, the qualities of a just ruler, and the incredible feats of bravery performed by David’s elite fighters. Just as David’s men displayed unwavering loyalty and courage, Jesus, our ultimate Savior, demonstrated the greatest act of love an...

In 2 Samuel 23, we will delve into David’s final words and the extraordinary tales of his mighty warriors. Discover the deep reflections of a king on God’s covenant, the qualities of a just ruler, and the incredible feats of bravery performed by David’s elite fighters. Just as David’s men displayed unwavering loyalty and courage, Jesus, our ultimate Savior, demonstrated the greatest act of love an...

God is both transcendent and immanent. The transcendence of God means that God is above, completely other than and independent from creation. God is infinite, sovereign and unchanging. God needs nothing, depends on nothing and owes nothing. He is “holy, holy, holy.” God is also immanent. The immanence of God means that God sustains, is involved with, and present within His creation. Sometimes thes...