Sermons by Pastor Christian Shields (Page 2)
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…
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…
Christians are Under the Law (Of Liberty)
Introduction James 2:12 ESV So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. James 2:9 ESV But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. James 2:12 ESV So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. Galatians 5:1 ESV For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to…
Guilty of the Whole Law
Introduction James 2:10-11 ESV For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. (11) For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. (12) So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. James 2:1 ESV My brothers, show no partiality as…
Can We Just Be a Christian church?
Introduction James 2:1-9 ESV My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. (2) For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, (3) and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You…