Why was Jesus rejected so much? Why did he anticipate his apostles being similarly rejected? Should we expect the same, and if so, what should we do about it? (Bonus! A little discussion about Jesus as a child.)
(Preaching through Mark. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on March 1, 2020.)
Through a sequence of stories, Mark conveys a set of Jesus’s teaching that are easy to say; they aren’t complicated or complex. But, they are really hard to put into practice. How can we do so?
(Preaching through Mark. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on February 23, 2020.)
Mark wastes no time moving from Jesus’s identity to Jesus’s purpose. Why did Jesus come to earth? What did he hope to accomplish in his earthly ministry, and how did he go about it? What can we learn from his methodology?
(Preaching through Mark. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on January 12, 2020.)
As we begin to wrap up our discussion on the hidden spiritual war around us, we must ask: what about us? What role does humanity have to play?
(Preaching on Spiritual conflict. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on December 8, 2019.)
How hard is it to teach someone the gospel? How do we make it more complicated than it needs to be, and why do we do that? What should our approach be?
(Guest speaker Richard Brant from Denver, CO. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on October 14, 2018.)
A sword is very different from armor, in both form and function. How is the Sword of the Spirit different from the rest of the pieces of the armor of God? In what way is the word of God a sword?
(Preaching on the Armor of God. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on March 4, 2018.)
In the armor of God, the shoes are easily the most unusual piece. Rather than being a typical spiritual quality, we are told to don the shoes of “readiness” or “preparation”. What prepares us, and what should we be ready for?
(Preaching on the armor of God. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on February 11, 2017.)
Following up from Ron’s report of the work in Tulsa, what is faith? What are we trying to do when we evangelize? Why does faith matter so much?
(This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on November 12, 2017.)
This is a special lesson from one of the works we support. Ron Babbit talks about the work in the inner city of Tulsa, OK.
As we have delineated God’s will between what God wants and what God has decided to do, we must examine the first of those: God’s will as seen in His commandments and in the life of His son.
(Part 2 in a 3 part series on the will of God. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on October 1, 2017.)
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