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Focusing Our Hope
Hope must be aimed in the right direction. From 1 Peter 1:13, this sermon urges Christians to gird up the mind, stay sober, and fix their hope completely on the grace to be revealed when Christ returns.
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The Bible
We hold in our hands the most familiar and the most neglected book on earth. Familiar, because it sits in every home; neglected, because we rarely stop to consider what it actually is. Boles asks us to look at the Book itself — its impossible unity…
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Born of Water and the Spirit
To enter the kingdom a man must be born again — begotten by the Spirit through the word and delivered through the water of baptism; “born of water and the Spirit” is not natural birth and not a direct, wordless work of the Spirit, but the…
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Can Good People Be Saved Out of the Church
Salvation is in Christ, and to be in Christ is to be in His body, the church; therefore no one — however good — is saved outside the church, because every saving blessing God gives is found only there. This question makes people uncomfortable, and it…
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The Language of Ashdod
When God’s people borrow the world’s religious vocabulary, they soon borrow the world’s religious ideas; faithfulness therefore requires that we hold the pattern of sound words and call Bible things by Bible names. This is a lesson about words, and someone will object that words are…
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The Sin of Ananias and Sapphira
The sin that struck Ananias and Sapphira dead was not stinginess and not even mere lying to men; it was hypocrisy before God — the loss of the sense that God inspects the heart — and that sin is as deadly to a congregation now as…
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God Gives Grace to the Humble
God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. James 4:6–10 is not soft advice for religious people. It is a call to surrender, repentance, and real submission before God. Pride puts a man in opposition to God, but humility opens the floodgate of greater grace. This sermon presses the hearer to submit to God, resist the devil, draw near to God, and humble himself before the Lord.
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Show Me Your Faith – James 2:18
James 2:18 forces faith into the open. This sermon exposes the emptiness of religious talk without obedience and presses one question: can your faith be seen? James contrasts an unprovable claim with a demonstrable faith and demands evidence that holds up in public. Real faith shows up in decisions, service, speech, and daily conduct. The church’s witness depends on more than words—faith must be shown by works.