All Sermons in Romans

Title: Perspective v18 (read) When we read this verse, we must remember the author, and the author’s tendencies.  Paul is not an author given to hyperbole, or exaggeration.  He does use vivid language from time to time, but is quite pragmatic in his approach to outlining sound doctrine, most especially in the book of Romans….

Title: The Expectation This is some very colorful, and somewhat difficult language to understand that Paul has laid out before us today.  He uses a lot of metaphoric language and symbolism, all of which points to one theme: the return of Christ and the hope we have in the coming Kingdom.  Paul’s main focus is…

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Title: The Great Intercessor v26 (read) Here we begin to see one of the pinnacle roles of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  The Spirit is our intercessor before God in prayer.  Can any of you relate to verse 26?  We know we should pray, but we do not know what to pray.  We know…

Title: The Golden Chain of Salvation, Part I I was commenting to Pastor Ron Cooper on the day I began working on this sermon that I was very excited to be delivering this text.  He said that from the inception of this church Biblical Accuracy is something that has been stressed, and therefore, this text,…

Title: The Golden Chain of Salvation, Part 2 There are probably not two verses that have shaped my theology as much as the two verses we will be looking at today.  From the first year of my walk with Christ until this very moment, these two verses have held my pride in check, kept my…

Title: The Golden Chain of Salvation, Part 3 Today we move into the third and final installment in our look at the incredible rich passage on predestination.  In this session we will be looking at observations 4 through 8, and then I will be opening the floor to any Q & A you might have….

Title: The Opposition’s Power Ever pick teams for Kickball at recess?  We used to always make the new kid do it, to load up our team. v31 Paul essentially asks, “Okay, so what should our attitude be in response to what we have learned thus far?”  If God is for us, if God is in…

Title: “For I Am Persuaded…” To be sure, this is a powerful text.  But it is even more powerful when put into context, coming at the conclusion of Paul’s dialogue on what power the enemy really has over our lives.  I think one of the personal conclusions I’ve come to in our study of Romans…

Title: The Tragedy of Paul’s Life By nature, human beings are relational.  We tend to like things that we can relate to.  The reason so many preachers, myself included, often use anecdotes and illustrations in sermons is to strengthen the relationship between the concept and the application.  To put it another way, one of my…

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Title: Objection! Doesn’t this make God unrighteous? To fully understand what, exactly, we are “objecting” to, we need to put this verse in context and read what comes before it.  My hope this morning is that seeing how Paul handles this question will allow us to deal the the objection from Ephesians “This isn’t fair!”…