Spiritual Giving
Spiritual Giving 1Chronicles 29: 1-17 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Giving is a very spiritual aspect of our salvation. This passage contains some of the major components of giving. In giving there is: Affection – v.3-5a – David had affection to the “house of my God” and so he gave – 2 Cor 8:7-8 – love is […]
Three Great Qualities of Christ, Jn 6:15-21
Three Great Qualities of Christ John 6:15-21 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO This story is also found in Mark 6:45-51 and Matthew 14:22-33. When you study these other accounts, you find three great attributes that are part of Jesus’ ministry. The people realized Jesus was the Son of God based on what they saw. These three great […]
Jesus’ Humility Phil. 2:5-8
Phil 2: 5-8 Jesus’ Humility CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO As a preacher said about the Christian life, “The way up is down.” In the life of John of whom it was said, “There is not a greater prophet than John,” he made the way of humility clear when Christ began to minister. “He must increase, but […]
A Pastor’s Joy Phil. 2:1-4
Philippians 2:1-4 A Pastor’s Joy CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Paul said, “Fulfill ye my joy.” And the joy was about everyone in the church getting along without the back biting and bickering and division that is so common today. What he was asking for is a pastor’s dream – a church without division and discord. Now […]
Humility
Humilitiy 1 Peter 5: 5-9 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO 1 Pet 5:5-9 – Read also Prov 15:33 and Phil 2:5-8. According to our text, humility is the greatest way for you to: Get along with each other – v.5 – “all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility” – it […]
They Were Righteous
Luke 18: 9-14 The Pharisee And The Publican CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO The Audience addressed by this parable was the self-righteous crowd. They trusted in themselves that “they were righteous.” To illustrate their true unrighteousness Jesus compared a Pharisee to a Publican. Observe: The Pharisee’s: Confident Approach – “he stood and prayed thus with himself” […]
Philippians 2:5-13 The Mind of Christ
God wants to work his will in our lives and for him to be able to do this we have to have the mind of Christ – God was able to get done therough Jesus Christ what he wanted because Jesus had the right mind about what God was going to do through him and […]
Philippians 2:1-4 Others
Others Phil. 2 1-4 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When Salvation Army founder William Booth was on his death bed, he was visited by one of the managers of the telegraph system of London. The man asked Booth if he had a last message he would like to send to his Salvation Army officers around the world. […]
Matthew 15:21-39 The Canaanite Womans Request
In this lesson, we find a break in God’s dispensational dealings with the Jews. He heals the daughter of a Canaanite woman even though his ministry is exclusively to the lost sheep of the house of Israel [15:24]. He also heals the multitudes and feeds four thousand men miraculously. Before we study the healing of […]
Matthew 10:16-31 Opposition to the Kingdom
Jesus warned his disciples whom he had chosen to preach the kingdom that they would meet with opposition to the kingdom along the way. While they were to prepare the Jews for his kingdom, there were many who would resist them. They’d be like sheep in the midst of wolves. So here he told them how […]