Excerpts are short snippets taken from a full sermon. They tend to focus on a specific point that was impactful from the message.
Tim Conway Shares About His First Time Preaching
Tim Conway Shares About His First Time Preaching
One of the things that happened when I stood in that pulpit, that first time, is my legs barely carried me into the pulpit. When I got there...
Be Content: God Designed You With These Spiritual Gifts
Be Content: God Designed You With These Spiritual Gifts
But men, I want to say this. We need to be a church of men who are content in the way that God has made us. We need to be content with the gifts that God has given to us.
Has God Called You to the Ministry?
Has God Called You to the Ministry?
Some people think that you go to Bible college or seminary and you become a pastor. Let me ask you this, has God come to you and given you something that you did not have before?
Don’t Stop Going to the Prayer Meeting
Don’t Stop Going to the Prayer Meeting
Brethren, don't be deceived, Satan does not like praying churches; he loves it when the prayer meetings begin to diminish.
An Eye for the Eternal
An Eye for the Eternal
As believers we need an eye for the eternal and we ought to mark that which is temporal or eternal.
Hearing of Christ Makes a Man Want to Repent
Hearing of Christ Makes a Man Want to Repent
If Jesus Christ is not the center of our message to the lost, then we have nothing that can change lost men's minds. Yet upon hearing of Christ...
Ignorance Keeps People From Becoming Christians
Ignorance Keeps People From Becoming Christians
Ignorance is the very explanation as to why all men in this world who are not Christians, are not Christians. Why do the lost feel that the things of Christ are boring?
Us and Them? Black and White? Or One in Christ?
Us and Them? Black and White? Or One in Christ?
When we speak as Christians about "us and them", isn't the very nature of those pronouns divisive talk? The Bible doesn't teach us, "black and white"...
What Does It Mean to Be a Saint?
What Does It Mean to Be a Saint?
What does it mean to be a saint? The Catholics want to pronounce Mother Teresa to be a saint, but is that the reality of what the term saint means? No, rather every true Christian...
What Does It Mean to Believe?
What Does It Mean to Believe?
What does it mean to believe? It does not mean a mental assent only, but it means to trust. What does it mean to trust? It means...
Be Careful Before You Call Someone Antinomian
Be Careful Before You Call Someone Antinomian
When you start talking this way people want to label you as antinomian, you know saying, "You guys just allow everything." No, that's not it...
God’s Unlimited Resources for the Believer’s Holiness
God’s Unlimited Resources for the Believer’s Holiness
How can we pray that with confidence? Because God's unlimited resources are available for the believer's holiness and conformity to Jesus Christ.
The Nearness of God is My Good
The Nearness of God is My Good
That's the issue. That's always the issue. The nearness of God is my good. So, if I'm gonna cleanse myself let me put myself there, near to God.
Racism is Opposed to God
Racism is Opposed to God
The division that is created in racism is part of a system that is organized against God. Racism opposes the love of God the Father. Our greatest identity is not our skin color...
Nothing Can Stop The Gospel
Nothing Can Stop The Gospel
Islam will never wipe out Christianity. Why? Because the power of God is in this.
The Truth of the Roman Catholic Church
The Truth of the Roman Catholic Church
If I trust in Christ's finished work, in His once and for all sacrifice, and that justifies me in the sight of God; then there is no place for purgatory whatsoever. The Catholic teaching...
Soft Americans Have Instant Everything
Soft Americans Have Instant Everything
Everything is instant, we want it now. We're very entertained people. We're a very soft people. Let's just call it what it is.
Nosy Christian: Mind Your Own Business
Nosy Christian: Mind Your Own Business
How much are we carnally curious about other people's issues when we haven't even fully dealt with our own, and we aren't fully obeying Christ as to what He's shown us to do.
Is Your Faith Directed Towards Yourself or to Christ?
Is Your Faith Directed Towards Yourself or to Christ?
We are not called to have faith in our faith. There is a different object of faith that the writer of Hebrews is pleading with you here in verse...
A Conscience Led by the Word of God Alone
A Conscience Led by the Word of God Alone
Believing in the sufficiency of Scripture not only means that you say all the scripture says, but that you don't say what the scripture doesn't say. Because if God shuts his mouth...
You’re Dead to Sin, But Still at War
You’re Dead to Sin, But Still at War
Sin will plead to you and say, "Just spare me, I'm just a little one!" But give it no accommodation. Remember, you're dead to sin. You can do this clinging to Christ.
God’s Will vs. Your Will
God’s Will vs. Your Will
If in your heart you're not truly sold out to God's will, you are going to misinterpret your will as if it's God's will.
God’s Love for a Little Jungle Pastor
God’s Love for a Little Jungle Pastor
Paul shares a powerful story of how God in His providence allowed him to be able to help a poor pastor. The incredible thing to realize about the love of God...
The Christian Life is One of Death to Self
The Christian Life is One of Death to Self
The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us...
Life Transformation Will Always Accompany Forgiveness
Life Transformation Will Always Accompany Forgiveness
Life transformation will always accompany the forgiveness of our sins. Always. When God declares the sinner righteous, legally they're forgiven; it always accompanies...
Believer, You’re Loved by God!
Believer, You’re Loved by God!
If I could pray one thing for you, I mean above everything else, if you are truly a child of God, if I could give you one gift – it would be that you would comprehend...
Others May, You Cannot
Others May, You Cannot
Others may you cannot - others may boast of themselves, of their work, of their success, of their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such thing, and if you begin it...
We Must Get Our Minds Off Ourselves
We Must Get Our Minds Off Ourselves
If we get our minds off of ourselves and get our minds on our brother's and sisters, and especially our minds in worship on the Lord Jesus Christ...
Christian: You Can Fight Sin Because You’re New!
Christian: You Can Fight Sin Because You’re New!
I need a new heart. And I got news you for you: I have one! God made me new. He saved me. He took my heart...
Laying Hold of The Lord in Prayer
Laying Hold of The Lord in Prayer
When revival and true conversion happens, it is not because of some person taking clever initiative and having a new idea, but it is because God came in power.
God is Working in Your Life to Train You
God is Working in Your Life to Train You
I’ve found out that the Lord will give you a test, and if you don’t pass it, He takes you through a course again and you’ve got to go back to the same test.
Christ is the Absolute Owner of Everything
Christ is the Absolute Owner of Everything
Christ... is the absolute owner. Go out to your car this afternoon and you just stop in your tracks and look at it and you recognize that's His.
Slothful Servants are Wicked Servants
Slothful Servants are Wicked Servants
Third thing, slothful servants are wicked servants. Notice verse 26. "But his master answered him, you wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap...
You Are Responsible to Pursue Forgiveness
You Are Responsible to Pursue Forgiveness
If your forgiveness is going to look like and be modeled after Jesus Christ, then you have to be a pursuer of people.
What is the Sin that Leads to Death?
What is the Sin that Leads to Death?
First John 5:16 says that "there is sin that leads to death" and in the context of this letter he is dealing with those false prophets that are false to the true Christ.
Right Response to Sexual Temptation: Flee!
Right Response to Sexual Temptation: Flee!
People ask, "What am I supposed to do if I am in the midst of, or being tempted by sexual immorality?" And the Bible has one simple, clear word: flee!
The Gospel of Christ Powerfully Saves
The Gospel of Christ Powerfully Saves
The separation from God that you and I should experience throughout all of eternity was suffered for us by Jesus Christ on the Cross.
Explain the Book of Acts: God Came!
Explain the Book of Acts: God Came!
How do we explain what happened in the book of Acts? Or in the biographies of those from the past like George Whitefield?
Testify of the Facts of Jesus Christ
Testify of the Facts of Jesus Christ
The Bible calls us to testify of the facts of Jesus Christ, who is the eternal Word of God, who took on flesh...
Stewards of the Mysteries of God
Stewards of the Mysteries of God
We are ambassadors and stewards of the mysteries of God and there is no greater privilege.