Sermons from 2023 (Page 3)

Sermons from 2023 (Page 3)

Come Now You Rich: Avoiding the Sins of the Wealthy

Introduction James 5:1-6 ESV  Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.  (2)  Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.  (3)  Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.  (4)  Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out…

Reject Passivity

Introduction James 4:17 ESV  So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. James 4:17 ESV  So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. 1 Timothy 2:14 ESV  and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Genesis 3:6 ESV  So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was…

Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise

Introduction James 4:13-16 ESV  Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—  (14)  yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.  (15)  Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”  (16)  As…

In Case of Backsliding

Introduction James 4:7-12 ESV  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.  (8)  Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.  (9)  Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.  (10)  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.  (11)  Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.…

Seven Weeks Later (The Power of Pentecost)

Introduction Acts 2:1-21 ESV  When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.  (2)  And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.  (3)  And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.  (4)  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them…

Grace Upon Grace Upon Grace

Introduction James 4:6 ESV  But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Point One – God Gives Grace To the Humble James 4:6 ESV  But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” ·         James here is quoting an old testament principal that is found all throughout the Bible, but you kind find these words nearly exactly in Psalm 18 and…

Don’t Cheat On God

Introduction James 4:4-5 ESV  You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.  (5)  Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? James 4:4a ESV  You adulterous people! … Point One – Be in the World but not…

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) …