Sermon Outline Pure darkness is disorienting Light in Scripture Light is an important theme in the Bible from the opening to the closing pages God creates light on the first day (Gen 1:3-4, 14-18) God removes light as punishment (Ex 10:23). God leads his people ‘in a pillar of fire to give them light’ (Ex…
Sermon Outline Christmas is a wonderful holiday The Fullness of time (Gal 4:4, Mt 3:17, Jn 3:16) The Christmas Story The Bare Facts of Christmas (Gal 4:4) The Son of God is born of a woman (Lk 7:28) The Son of God was born under the law And his entrance into the world was…
Sermon Outline Describe the perfect worship service. Where? What happening? Who is present? What are you doing? Context (John 4:3-6, Gen 33:18-20, 34:25-27, 48:22) The Gift of God (John 4:10) Is the Gift Jesus Himself? (John 3:16) Is the Gift the Holy Spirit? (John 7:38-39) YES! It is both (John 14-17, 4:21) Worshipping the Father…
SERMON OUTLINE I. Introducing Advent Series II. New Covenant a. Context (Jer 19:9, Lam 4:10, Jer 31:31) b. The Hope of reconciliation (Jer 31:31, Lk 22:20, Jer 11:10, 13) c. A Regenerating Covenant (Jer 31:33-34, 2Cor 3:3, John 16:7, 13) d. A Covenant with Forgiveness (Jer 31:34) e. A Covenant without end (Jer 31:35-40) III. Jesus and the New Covenant a. The…
Sermon Outline Introduction Examples & Review Roadmap for Today Humility through 2 parables (Lk 14:7-11, 18:9-14) Both end with nearly identical statements (Lk 14:11, 18:14) In our first story humility is closely related to honor and shame, or said another way – our relationship to others. In the second, humility is related to our…
Sermon Outline Introduction What is the conscience? BDAG: the inward faculty of distinguishing right and wrong…attentiveness to [internal] obligation[1] it isn’t identical with what we know, or with the Spirit of God within/outside us, or even with what we have been taught is right/wrong in our family and culture but it is informed…
Sermon outline Gentleness is not… Rehoboam’s story (1Kings 12:1-14) How would you feel hearing this kind of response from one you were asking for relief? How do you think Rehoboam felt being summoned and having the terms of his kingship dictated to him? A Harsh Answer (Prov 15:1) Gentleness is hard to define in positive…
Keeping Trust in our Dark Times – Isaiah 50:10
Faithfulness – Genesis 15:1-6
Sermon Outline Stories to Ponder William Ladd Sheep Problem A Hiking Husband An injured soldier A Divorced Woman Natural Inclinations – eye for eye, tooth for tooth… The Weapon of Goodness Romans 12:9-21 appears on first glance to be a list of disconnected commands But the passage isn’t disconnected there are 2 structural details…