Sermon Archive (Page 10)

Sermon Archive (Page 10)

Here you’ll find our most recent sermons and all of our Genesis sermons. For a full list of recorded sermons please visit our YouTube Channel: Christian Life Church – YouTube.

Receiving Everything You Want From God

Introduction James 4:1-3 ESV  What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?  (2)  You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.  (3)  You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. James 4:2 ESV  You desire and do not have,…

They Just Don’t Get Jesus

Introduction Acts 19:21-32 ESV  Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”  (22)  And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.  (23)  About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way.  (24)  For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of…

Contrasting Wisdom: Finding a Harvest of Righteousness

Introduction James 3:13-18 ESV  Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.  (14)  But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.  (15)  This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.  (16)  For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.  (17) …

These Things Ought Not To Be SO (How We Ought to Use Our Tongue)

Introduction James 3:9-12 ESV  With it [our tongue] we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.  (10)  From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.  (11)  Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?  (12)  Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond…

Bless Yourself: Stop Running Your Mouth

Introduction James 3:4-8 ESV  Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.  (5)  So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!  (6)  And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members,…

a rISE sAVIOR, a rULING kING, aN iNDWELLING sPIRIT

Introduction (Make sure to change “He has risen” to “He [is] risen” for this sermon. Make sure to include the brackets “[ ]” so that it shows you made the change.) Matthew 28:1-9 ESV  Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.  (2)  And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled…

Living Faith – Part Two: The Works of Living Faith

Introduction James 2:20-26 ESV Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?  (21)  Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?  (22)  You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;  (23)  and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a…

Living Faith – Part One: Faith WIthout Works is Dead

Introduction James 2:14-19 ESV  What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?  (15)  If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,  (16)  and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?  (17)  So also faith by itself, if it does not have works,…

Feeding the Back Rows

Introduction Matthew 28:19-20 ESV  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  (20)  teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” John 3:16 ESV  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.…

Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment

Introduction James 2:13 ESV  For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. James 2:13 ESVa  For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. 1.    The law of mercy (Matthew 5:7) 2.    Law of forgiveness (Matthew 6:14-15) 3.    Law of sowing and reaping (Galatians 6:7-8) Matthew 5:7 ESV  “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Matthew 6:14-15 ESV  For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also…