Recent Sermons

How does the gospel work as God's power for salvation? How does God save believers? Why does the Jew have a priority in the gospel? Paul responds to all of these questions as he explains how the gospel works as the power of God for salvation.

Paul relates himself to the gospel in terms of an obligation, an eagerness, and an unashamed boldness. Why did Paul feel this way about the gospel? Why did he feel so obligated to share the gospel? How could he remain so unashamed of the gospel? It all goes to his understanding of the power of the gospel.

Why would you want to disciple someone or be discipled by someone? While there are many reasons that we feel obliged to disciple, throughout this lesson we will unpack the three primary reasons.

Although Paul had never been to Rome, he had strong feelings for the Roman Christians. In this passage Paul shares his appreciation for them as well as his desire to minister among them.

The terms disciple and discipleship have come to mean many different things to different Christians. Who is a disciple? What is discipleship? Who needs discipleship and who should be discipling others? All of these questions need to be answered from the Scriptures.

God is the most important word in the letter to the Romans. His gospel, his son, his righteousness, his justice and more dominate the teachings of this epistle.

Habakkuk asked God over and over again, “WHY?” Is it ever right to question God? Others have done so - Moses, Joshua, Job, Jeremiah, the psalmist and others. Saying, “why?” is natural for little children, but are we not spiritually wiser than to question God? There are two key reasons we would ask God this question. 1) Failure to trust Him and 2) because we cannot see what God sees or know what He alone knows. He wants us to trust Him by faith even when life, from our perspective, is filled with trouble and all seems illogical. Jesus Himself is our example who endured the cross on our behalf for the joy that was soon to be His at the right hand of the throne of God. Knowing the outcome, we also can rejoice in the Lord (1 Peter 1:6; 4:13; Philippians 4:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:16).

In this session, the concept of Redemptive Praying will be explained further. Then we will extract principles of effective praying from the prayers of Nehemiah.