We've been talking about the kind of church that we ought to be, the kind of church that I've tried to teach you to be in these years that God has given me the wonderful privilege of being your pastor. This morning, I want you to open God's Word, if [...]

Be finding John chapter 14 and verse 12. We have been in a series of studies together talking about the kind of a church that we want to be, the new horizons, what God has for us, and what I've tried to teach you to do and be for over 30 years. And [...]

Be finding Nehemiah chapter 4. We're in a series of Bible studies, things that I want to say to the church. What kind of a church should this church be? What kind of a church have I been trying in these past years to allow God to lead me to make [...]

Would you take your Bibles and turn to Ephesians chapter 4. I'm beginning a series of messages that I'm going to be preaching, God willing, all this month and next month that is going to be a distillation of things that I want you to remember, [...]

Take your Bibles, find Galatians chapter 1. Now we fly, many of us, many places. I heard of an airline pilot who came on the intercom and said to his passengers, he said, "Folks, I've got bad news and good news. The bad news is this: we are [...]

Would you take God's Word please and open to Matthew chapter 5. In a moment, we're going to be reading from verse 17 and verse 18. In these Sundays, the ones that precede us and the ones that will follow us for a short time, I'm going to be speaking [...]

Would you take God's Word and turn to the book of Romans, Romans chapter 1. You know, books are an interesting thing, I have a library full of books, and my books have been my good friends. I think of books that have changed the world. I think of a [...]

Would you take God's Word and turn to Psalm 78. And I want to say, that the great American dream was placed in the heart of our founding fathers, I believe, by Almighty God. No nation, no nation ever had such a Christian beginning as America. I say [...]

Would you take God's Word and turn to Joshua chapter 7? And when you've found it, let me tell you something about you. God has planned; God has programmed for you a life of victory, unbroken victory. However, many Christians are not living in [...]

Would you be finding the book of Nehemiah, please, in the Old Testament, and when you found it turn to chapter 1, and then when you found that let me speak with you for just a moment. Before I read the Scripture to you we're going to read, in just a [...]

Would you take your Bibles and turn to Ephesians chapter 4. I'm beginning a series of messages that I'm going to be preaching, God willing, all this month and next month that is going to be a distillation of things that I want you to remember, [...]

I would like for you to find, please Ephesians chapter one. In a moment we're going to begin reading in verse 15. Now there was a truth that Paul wanted the church at Ephesus to know, and I'm certain that God wants the church in Memphis to know, and [...]

Would you find in God's Word the book of Job chapter 9? For our Christmas message this morning, we're thinking on this subject, The GodMan, Our Mediator. The GodMan, Our Mediator. Job chapter 9. Now if you're familiar with the book of Job, you know [...]

I would like for you to find in your Bibles, Luke chapter 15. And if you have been on the trail for a while, you'll recognize this as a story that Jesus told about how much God loves you. Now perhaps you think, "You know, Pastor, I have sinned [...]

Take God's Word and find, if you will, Joshua chapter 20. We're going to be in the Old Testament, but we're going to be talking about Jesus, our Lord and Savior. One of the things I've learned about the Bible is all of the Bible is about Jesus. [...]

Take your Bibles and turn with me, if you will, please to Isaiah chapter 6, a very familiar passage of Scripture. And in just a moment we're going to be talking on this subject: Treasuring the Trinity. Now, the doctrine of the Trinity is one of the [...]

Would you take God's precious Word and be finding John chapter 15, if you would please. John chapter 15. In a moment I'm going to begin reading in verse 12. Some years ago when Joyce and I were quite young, we had a little baby boy to die and Joyce [...]

Turn with me please to John chapter 7 and I begin reading in verse 37; John chapter 7 and verse 37. I love to hear the rustle of those pages. Sounds like angel wings fluttering when I hear you turning those pages. That's wonderful. You'll get [...]

Take your Bibles, and turn to the book of Exodus, if you will, chapter 33, Exodus chapter 33 and in a moment we're going to begin reading in verse 11. Now I want to talk to you about not just simply knowing about God; I think all of us here know [...]

Would you take God's Word and be finding John chapter 11, and when you've found it, I want to tell you that Jesus is the only reason that we live. As a matter of fact, He came that we might live. He said in John 10 and verse 10, now you're in John [...]

Be finding John chapter 6, please in the Word of God. Let me tell you what I want to do this morning. I want to introduce you to an old friend that you've known for a long time; but you didn't know he was a friend. Now what is a friend? Well a [...]

Would you take your Bibles and turn to John chapter 6? We're in a series of messages talking about the miracles of Jesus Christ. And we believe in a miracle-working God, and if you believe the Bible, you'll have no difficulty believing in miracles. [...]

Turn, would you please, to John chapter 4. The Gospel of John, chapter 4. Beyond miracles and on to Jesus. John had a strategy when he wrote the Gospel of John. He lists seven miracles, he calls these miracles "signs"; that is they are [...]

Take God's Word and find Isaiah chapter 53. We're in a series of Bible studies entitled, "His Passion; Our Purpose". We've been thinking about the passion of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the film by Mel Gibson that has caused really a fire [...]

Would you open your Bibles to John chapter 6 and in a moment we're going to begin reading in verse 63. And as you're turning to that, let me ask you a question. How many of you know a man or a boy named John? Or, how many of you know a man named [...]

Now, would you open your Bibles and find your place in the Word of God in Matthew chapter 12. And in a moment, we're going to begin reading in verse 31. What a joy to think of God's amazing, incredible, indescribable grace and love that He's poured [...]

Take your Bibles, please, and turn to Matthew chapter 27, and look in one verse here in just a moment, verse 22. The background is this; Jesus is on trial before Pilate. He's standing before Pilate. One of these days, Pilate will stand before Jesus. [...]

Would you take God's Word and find, please Psalm chapter 19, the nineteenth Psalm? And when you've found it, I want to read to you from a little leaflet that has been handed to me. The title of this leaflet is, "An Invitation to the [...]

Take your Bibles and turn to Matthew chapter 19. And while you're turning to that, let me tell you that we're seeking and asking God for a revival. And, of course, we want revival in our nation, and we want revival in this, our church, but, friend, [...]

Find John chapter 13, the Gospel of John. And in a moment we're going to look at verse 34. A psychiatrist said that, "Man's greatest need is to be loved and to be able to show and to give love," and that is so true. Now, we're going to [...]

Find Matthew chapter 7 and in a few moments we're going to begin reading in verse 24. As you're looking for Matthew chapter 7, may I ask you a question? Do you know somebody, somebodies, perhaps an entire family, that were faithful to the church, [...]

Would you be finding John chapter 15 and put your finger on verse 11. John chapter 15 is a chapter that is written about the life of the Lord Jesus Christ as He is facing the cross that we've been talking about. But here's the interesting thing. The [...]

I want to talk to you today about how to be a fully committed disciple of Jesus Christ, a fully committed disciple of Jesus Christ. What is discipleship? What does it mean to you to be a disciple? Are you a disciple? The word disciple means learner. [...]

Today we're talking about God's amazing grace and how to turn grace into victory. Now, folks, we are saved by grace; that means there's absolutely nothing that we do in order to earn our salvation. As a matter of fact, Dwight L. Moody, who was an [...]

Would you take please the Bible and look now in Romans chapter 5, find it if you will. I heard somewhere of a little boy who had a horse and the horse was really just an old, oat burning nag. The horse was decrepit, sway-backed and wasn't much of a [...]

Would you find Psalm 119? As you're finding it, let me tell you what a wise man said a long time ago, "These hath God married and no man shall part, dust on the Bible and drought in the heart". Now if you do not know, love, understand, [...]

Would you be finding the book of Exodus chapter 33, as we continue our study on worship? If you were to give a definition of worship, what would it be? Is worship enjoying God? I believe it is. I think that worship is enjoying the presence of God. [...]

Would you take God's Word and be finding the Gospel of John chapter 4, and in just a moment we're going to look at verse 24. For a month now we're going to be talking about worship. We're going to be preaching messages every Sunday morning on [...]

Would you take your Bibles and find First John chapter 3? We're making our way through this wonderful book of First John, this epistle written by the beloved apostle, and we're calling this Bible study: "The Sweetest Fellowship this Side of [...]

Be finding First John, the second chapter, and when you've found it, let me tell you that education is costly, but ignorance will cost you far, far more. And no child of God can afford to be ignorant in these dynamic days in which we're living. All [...]

Be finding First John the second chapter, and when you've found it let me tell you something that you may not know. When you're a Christian, the Lord fills your heart with love but you are not to love everything. As a matter of fact, there are some [...]

Let me tell you this, that when you were Heaven-born, you became Heaven-bound. But when you were Heaven-born and Heaven-bound, God put some indelible marks upon you. These are traits of the twiceborn. These are the birthmarks of the believer. And [...]

Would you take God's Word and be finding First John? That's back near the book of the Revelation, and we're studying the book of First John. It's a short book, only five chapters. And we're entitling this study; "The Sweetest Fellowship This [...]

Be finding First John, that's right back near the back of the Bible, almost to the book of the Revelation. First John, and find the first chapter. And we're going to be studying the book of First John, it's not a very long book, only five chapters, [...]

Take God's precious Word and open, if you will, to Matthew chapter 12. Let me tell you that we entered these new buildings in November of 1989, and we wanted God to bless in a very special way. And I thought, "What would I preach about? What [...]

Take your Bibles and find John chapter 15. And while you're finding it, let me say something to you. I don't know a lot about you. I certainly don't know everything about you, but I know one thing about every mother's child today. May I tell you [...]

Find in God's Word Joshua chapter 3. There's a story of an old boat that was in the sea, in a dark and stormy night. It's always a dark and stormy night with these stories. And, the boat was chugging along and the waves were very rough, and a [...]

Take God's precious Word, if you would, and turn to John chapter 11. John chapter 11, and I want us to look at a couple of verses as we begin, and then we're going to go back and look at more verses in detail. How many of you would like to live [...]

Take your Bibles, find the Book of Acts, A-C-T-S, right after the Gospels, and turn to the fourth chapter where we were last week. And we're going to read just two verses to get us started. In a moment, we're going to read verses 36 and 37. If I [...]

Would you turn in God's Word to Luke chapter 10? When you've found it, I want to talk to you on this subject; "How to be a good friend". And the story that we have today is in a way a familiar one. It's about a parable, perhaps the [...]