Sermon Notes

“As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.”—Acts 16:4-5...

James 5:7-11 When we don’t get what we want and life gets hard for us, we are not called to fight to get our own way; rather, we are commanded by God to be patient in our sufferings. We must be patient in our suffering. “So, James says, when it comes to the Lord’s...

Worship is a matter of the mind (truth; our thinking & reasoning). Worship is a matter of the heart (our affections). __________________________________ AFFECTIONS EXPRESSED IN BIBLICAL WORSHIP: 1. Stunned silence; awe & wonder; fear & holy dread. 2....

James 5:1-6 “Do not envy ungodly rich people, for they will be judged by God.” 1. God is going to judge ungodly rich people. “These words suggest a solemn, forgotten truth—that wealth is not an advantage, but rather a spiritual handicap.” —Kent Hughes 2. Ungodly rich...

I. “Preserve me, O God, for in You I take refuge” (v.1). II. “Making God our Refuge” means that we have (vv.2-8)… A. A new way to define our “good” and determine our “heroes” (vv.2-4). B. A new way to evaluate the “boundary lines” that have been set for us (vv.5-6)....

James 4:13-17 The will of the Lord is to be acknowledged and embraced as the condition under which we plan and live out our lives. Arrogant people plan and live out their lives as if they know the future. “Our default view is that once we plan something, it will...

“If I set the sun beside the moon, and if I set the land beside the sea, and if I set the flower beside the fruit, and if I set the town beside the country, and if I set the man beside the woman, I suppose some fool would talk about one being better.”—GK Chesterton...

7 Shared Values Series: An Elder-Governed Church A pastor is a man called by God and affirmed by the church to lead and shepherd the people of God through the ministries of the Word of God. Slide 1: Sovereign Grace Churches’ 7 Shared Values 1) Gospel-Centered 2)...

James 4:11-12 PROP: Since God is the only lawgiver and judge, we must not speak evil against one another. 1. When we speak evil against one another, we exalt ourselves above God’s law. “The argument here is meant to deliver us from mind games which tell us it’s okay...

James 4:4-10 “Our blindness to materialism is similar to the western culture’s blindness to the sins of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today we look back in amazement that Christian people could not see it for what the evil it was. And likely,...