Teaching on Sermons (Page 36)

Teaching on Sermons (Page 36)

On Heavenly Mindedness

Colossians 3:1-4  Turn in your bibles to Colossians chapter 3, Colossians 3. I’d like to take you, you to a text that’s really been on my heart lately. One that I have found particularly helpful throughout my Christian life. And it’s a message that I think we all need to hear this morning. It’s found in Colossians 3:1-4. This is Paul’s exhortation to heavenly mindedness.  Back in April, Gary Brotherton preached a message out of Colossians and went through some…

How to Find Rest in the Middle of a Storm

Luke 8:22-25 We are coming into a new section here in Luke, chapter 8, so you can turn there in your Bibles if you’re not already there. We are coming into a section in Luke 8 that is all about the supernatural power of Jesus Christ. And you can turn in your Bibles as, if you’re getting in there in Luke 8, go to verse 22. We’re going to be looking there at the first of those narratives, on the…

Does Jesus Call You Family

Luke 8:19-21  Turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 8. We are moving through this great chapter verse by verse and a following the organization and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit who wrote this down through Luke. And a, following his, just his organization of even how the chapter lays out, we’re coming into a section of scripture here, Luke 8:19-21, a, these verses are actually out of chronological, historical chronological order. Which is not Luke’s typical style and…

Take Care How You Hear

Luke 8:16-18 What is Jesus illustrating with the lamp lighting analogy? What are the hidden things that are made manifest? What are the secret things that will be made known and come to light? Are Jesus’ disciples to take that as a word of caution? That, that is why we are to take care how we hear?  That is to say, is that the fact that all of our dirty laundry will one day be hung out to dry? So…

How to Cultivate Good Soil

Luke 8:15 Grab your Bibles, turn to the 8th chapter of Luke. As we have been doing in this study of the parable of the soils, let’s read the parable again, along with its explanation. You’ll find that located there in Luke Chapter 8, verses 4-15. “And when a great crowd was gathering, and people from town after town came to him,” that is, Jesus, “he said in a parable, ‘A sower went out to sow his seed. And as…

The Tragedy of Fruitless Christianity

Luke 8:13-14 It is a joy to return again, once again to our study of Luke’s gospel. So I’d invite you to turn in your Bibles. Open them to Luke chapter 8. We’re studying the parable of the sower also known probably more accurately as the parable of the soils, the parable of the soils in Luke chapter 8. The parable that Jesus tells here, it doesn’t have to do with the sower per se, but it has to do…