Sermon Notes

INTRODUCTION   QQQ … “When Christ is in the vessel, you can smile at the storm.”   Where did that saying come from?  What inspired it?  What does it mean?  According to one of my favourite theologians, Dr. Google AI: The phrase comes from a popular Christian children’s song and hymn. The full line is, “With Christ […]

INTRODUCTION Two weeks ago … the title of the sermon was “Wanted: Dead, But Alive”.  The point was that God wants us dead to sin, but alive to Him … being “dead to sin” means being “free from the power of sin” … NOT that we can’t/won’t sin, BUT that we are able to resist

  OBSERVATION … What does the text say?    Romans 6:12-23    12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as [d]instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin

  INTRODUCTION    A.  Think of a WANTED poster … like the ones seen in westerns … with the caption “WANTED – Dead OR Alive”.     B.  In this case, however think of the caption as saying … “WANTED — Dead, BUT Alive”.   C.  That’s the title of my sermon for today … It may

        Why do you love God? Why did Apostle John say Christians love God?  1 John 4:19 (NKJV) … 19 We love  Him  because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19 (NIV) ..….. 19 We love  because He first loved us. a profound biblical truth found in  It beautifully expresses that our capacity to

INTRODUCTION     Are you fully convinced? … That’s the title of my sermon …. The text is Romans 4:13-25 …  13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.  14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith