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40 Days in the Wilderness
5th Sunday Forum - Bible Questions and Answers (March 29, 2015)
a
A Basic Primer on the Islamic Religion
A Charge to Keep
A Compelling Confession
A Devoted Church
A Door Standing Open in Heaven
A Generation of Wanderers
A Great Work to Do
A Hard Road
A King Who Did Not Know Joseph
A Little Bit Won't Hurt
A Man Named Ananias
A Taste of Heaven
A Test for Sin
adultbibleschoolmaterial
1 Corinthians Studies
Romans
Sermon on the Mount
Studies in Samuel
Study Notes on 1 Thessalonians 4
Study Notes on James
All One in Christ Jesus
All the News That's Fit to Tell
Antidote for Apathy
Apologist for the Gospel?
As Others Who Have No Hope
Babylon Is Fallen
Babylon, Mother of Prostitutes
Babylon, Mother of Prostitutes
Baptism - Before and After
Be Good!
Bearing Fruit with our Tongues
Bearing the Reproach He Endured
Beginning of the End
Being With the Lord
Bible Questions 1
Bitter Cup
Bitter Cup
Bolder to Speak the Word Without Fear
Born Again
Bricks Without Straw
Build-a-Jesus
Calvinism #2 - Calvin and Arminius
Calvinism 1 - Augustine and Pelagius
Celebrating Jesus As a Preacher of Good News
Celebrating the Power and Compassion of Jesus
Celebrating the Teachings of Jesus About Love
Change of Heart
Children, Do You Have Any Fish?
Christ, the Cause of Division
Christian Freedom
Christian Suits
Christians in a Non-Christian Culture
Christians in a Non-Christian Culture
Church Building
Circles in the Body
Colossians
Colossians Notes
Coming Back to the Mountain
Coming Home
Coming Together to Worship Him
Complete My Joy
Confidence in the Bible
Confidence in the Bible #2
Confidence in the Bible 1
Consideration, Contentment, and Confidence
Continually Offer a Sacrifice of Praise
Continually Offer a Sacrifice of Praise
Continually Offer a Sacrifice of Praise
Could The Church Today Have Apostles (Part 2)
Could The Church Today Have Apostles? (1)
Crucifying the Lord
Daring to Discuss Divorce
Dating Decisions
Daylight Losing Time
Defiling the Heart
Deliverance at Baal Zephon
Demas the Deserter
Demonstration Dads
Devoted to Working For Christ
Discipline Yourself for Godliness
Diverse and Strange Teachings
Diverse and Strange Teachings
Do Not Neglect Hospitality
Do What Is Right
Doing What Needs Doing
Doing Your Part When the Church Assembles for Worship
Drawing Lines
Drifting from Christ
Drifting from Christ
Drifting From the Fellowship of Christ
Drifting from the Strength of Christ
Dual Citizenship
Earthquake!
Easy to Mistake
Enemies of the Cross
Ephesus, a City Filled With Confusion
Error Hurts
Essentials For a Strong Marriage (2)
Essentials For a Strong Marriage 1
Essentials For a Strong Marriage 3 -- Forgiveness
Euodia and Synteche
Evangelism in the First-Century Church
Eve, Mother of All Living
Every Tongue Confessing Jesus
Excellent Thinking
Exhortation to Zeal and Courage
Fatal Flaws in Christian Kids
Fathers and Leaders
Finding Faith in Unexpected Places
Fire
Fitly Spoken Words
For Love's Sake
For the Children
Forgiveness Without Repentance
Fork in the Road
Forty Days With Jesus
Free From the Love of Money
Friends Indeed
Friendship
From Sardis to Philadelphia
Front Door Hospitality
Front-Door Hospitality
Full-Time Religion
Gender Issues in the Body of Christ
Gentiles Hear the Good News
Getting It Right
Getting Ready
Getting the Bride's Dress Dirty
Getting the Job Done
Gift of the Magi
Giving More Than the Rich
God Is the Ultimate Reason to Celebrate
God Provides Food and Water
God Sees
God Sent Forth His Son
God With Us and Us With God
God's People and the Cross
God's Way Is Best
God-Defined Marriage
Godly Discipline
Good and Bad in the World
Good News Preached
Goodness
Greatness of God's House
Growing a Healthy Church
Growing Stronger by Overcoming
Hard Words
He Who Is Mightier Than I
Hearing and Doing
Heart of Desire to Serve
Heavenly Jerusalem
Hidden Manna and White Stones
Holiness Enabler
Holiness in the Fear of God
Home1
Honoring Women
Hope
Hope
How Do I Learn to Forgive?
How Does Jesus See Us?
How Long Is Eternity?
How Much Belief?
How to Be a Father Deserving Honor
How to Believe
How to Figure Out What the Bible Is Saying to You
How to Study the Bible More Effectively 2 -- Apparent Discrepancies
How to Study the Bible More Effectively (1) -- Consider the Context
How To Study the Bible: 3- Literal or Figurative?
I Am the Good Shepherd
I Am the Light of the World
I Will Follow Christ If
I Will Give Him to the Lord
If There Is No Resurrection
Influencing Our Community For Christ
Into the Hands of a Woman
Is It Ever Right to Lie?
Is the Bible Inspired or Inspirational?
Is the Church of Christ a Denomination?
Islam's Treatment of Women
Israel at Sinai
Jesus In Our World
Jesus In Our World
Jesus Made Sin So We Could Be Made Righteousness
Joy of Numbers
Judgment in the Harvest
Keeping God in the Center
Keys to Unlocking Our Understanding of Revelation
Killed and Raised
Kingdom Coming
Knowing Christ
Knowing What We Don't Know
Laying a Stone in Zion
Leading the Church to Growth
Lessons from Lukewarm Laodicea
Let Brotherly Love Continue
Let My People Go
Life and Death Matters
Living for God in This Ole Sinful World
Living Our Thanksgiving
Living Sacrifice
Living Stones
Look Out for the Dogs
Looking into the Future
Lord, We Come Before Thee Now
Love is the Badge of Discipleship
Love Superlatives
Love's Priorities
Loving Money in a Bad Economy
Loving Someone You've Never Seen
Magnificent Motherhood
Making Progress By Going Backwards
Manifesting the Mystery
Many Claims But One Lord
Marriage in Honor
Marriages Worth Fighting For
Married to the Lord
Married to the Lord
Meaning What It Says
Memories for our Children
More in the New Year
Moses and the Burning Bush
Mother Naomi
Mothers Have to Be Skilled Jugglers
Much More Than Enough
Murdering Jesus
Need Convincing about the Resurrection?
No Mighty Work in Nazareth
Not Peace, But a Sword
Notes on 1 Thessalonians
O Happy Day
Obstacles Into Opportunities
One God and Father
One-Chapter Books: Obadiah
Our Responsibilities to Our Elders
Overlooked Gifts
Parenting Spiritually-Strong Children
Paul and Felix
Paul and Peter
Paul and the Elders
Paul Appeals to Caesar
Paul Arrested in Jerusalem
Paul at Damascus
Paul in Antioch
Paul in Athens
Paul in Corinth
Paul in Cyprus
Paul in Ephesus - True Power
Paul in Galatia
Paul in Macedonia
Paul in Pisidia
Paul's Compromise With the Jerusalem Elders
Paul's Prayer for Philippi
Paul's Voyage to Rome
Paul, a Prisoner in Jerusalem
Paul, a Roman Prisoner
Perseverance of the Saints?
Pharaoh's Hardened Heart
Philemon's Reputation
Popular Ideas About Angels
Powerful Prayer
Practice These Things and the God of Peace Will Be With You
Praying for Sinners
Praying for Your Enemies
Praying Patiently
Preaching Like Jesus Preached
Primary Principles for Profitable Study
Principles from the Unprodigal Parent
Problems With Ephesus
Protecting the Weak
Purity Matters
Putting Our Wages Into a Bag With Holes
Questions for Self-Evaluation
Raising Faithful Children
Remember Prisoners
Remembering, Reevaluating, and Resetting
Remodeling the Church
Renewed Courage
Renewed Desire
Renewed Discipline
Renewed Passion
Reputations
Rescue the Perishing
Resistible Grace
Restoration
Revelation of Jesus Christ
Ringing a Bell
Rose Garden Gratitude
Rules, Rules, Rules
Salvation Matters
Samson's Tragic Life and Death
Satan's Attack on Our Families
Satan's Attack on the Church
Satan's Attack on the Church
Satan, our Adversary
Scroll With Seven Seals
Sermons
Sermons
Servanthood and Selfishness (3 John)
Seven Bowls
Seven Days in Troas
Seven Trumpets
Seven Truths from Seven Churches
She Gave Birth to Her Firstborn Son
Shine as Lights in the World
Shining Faces
Simeon Says
Since Christ Suffered
Sincere Brotherly Love
Sincere Brotherly Love
Skagit Valley Church of Christ bulletins
Smyrna's Test of Faithfulness
Some Things Matter
Standing in the Awe of God
Staying Happy
Still Friday, But Sunday's Coming
Stories of Grace
Strength in Unity (#1)
Strength of Unity (2)
Study Notes on James
Tasting the Goodness of the Lord
Tell Pharaoh
Tell Pharaoh
Ten Years After 9-11
test
Test 44
Test1
Thankful for Encouragement From Friends and Family
Thanking God for You
Thanksgiving 2012
The 1,000 Year Reign
The Art of Worship
The Bitter Cup
The Book of Jude
The Broken-Hearted Prophet
The Christ, the Son of God
The Christian's Response to God
The Church 101
The Church and Christ
The Church's Adversaries
The Critical Issue of Respecting Life
The Devil's Downfall
The Facts of the Gospel #1
The Facts of the Gospel - #2
The Final Plague
The Golden Calf - Idolatry in Israel
The Good Ole Days
The Great Church in Ephesus
The Greeks Have a Few Words for That
The High Priest's Sacrifice
The Imperfect Church in Ephesus
The Joy of Our Salvation
The Last Supper
The Lord Whose Name Is Jealous
The Lord's Supper
The Meaning of Adultery
The Message the World Needs to Hear
The Need for Unity
The Odd Folks Who Don't Have Pianos
The Pope, the Church, and the Bible
The Potter and the Clay
The Power of Christ
The Real "Greatest Generation"
The Reason for Worship
The Right Kind of Unity
The Right Kind of Unity
The Righteousness We Need
The Satisfied Mind
The Second Interlude
The Steadfast Love of the Lord
The Ten Commandments
The Times They Are A-Changing
The Times They Are A-Changing
The Two Beasts of Revelation 13
The Universal Desire for Salvation
The Urgency of Obeying the Lord
The Very Words of the Bible
The Wine of God's Wrath
The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon
The Work of Elders
The Work Trap
There's a Great Day Coming
They Will Kill Him
Things That Will Happen When Jesus Comes Again
Three Sad Statements and One Grand Declaration
Three Sad Statements and One Grand Declaration
Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
To the Elect Lady (2 John)
Too Clever For His Own Good
Too Depraved to Understand the Bible?
Tough Love
Traveling Man
Truths and Half-Truths
Unaffiliateds in the Pews
Unconditional Election
Unconditional Love and Acceptance?
United in One Baptism
United in One Faith
United in the Same Mind
United in the Same Mind
Up On the Mountain
Using Your Anger
Using Your Anger
Walking in Truth
Wanted: Qualified Shepherds
We Are Married to the Lord
We Are Married to the Lord
We Have Come to Worship Him
Well-Lived Lives
What Church Did the Ethiopian Join?
What Does the Bible Really Say About Women Preachers?
What Jesus Has Done For Us
What Jesus' Death Accomplished
What Matters - Family Matters
What Matters - Freedom Matters
What Matters - Money Matters
What Moses Learned
What Must Happen If We Do God's Will
What Paul Wanted
What Paul Wanted
What Samson Didn't Know
What Science Teaches About Why We Should Believe the Bible #2
What Science Teaches Us About Why We Should Believe the Bible
What Should People Think of Jesus?
What the Bible Teaches About the Pope
What We Owe Our Children
What We Should Give Our Children
What's In It for Me?
What's Right With the Church
What's Right With the Church Today
When Jesus Saw Jezebel
When People Will Not Listen
When Proverbs Aren't Proverbial
When Sin Controls Us
When Two Men Died
Who's the Boss?
Why Background Matters When You're Studying the Bible
Why Believe in Someone You've Never Seen?
Why Did My Savior Come to Earth?
Why Ignore Good Advice?
Why Should We Give Our Good Money?
Why Study the Old Testament?
Will Everyone Be Saved?
Winners!
Winning the Spiritual War
With One Accord in Prayer
Wives and Husbands
Worship Habits of Highly Effective Churches
Worship Services That Work
x
Zealously Pursue Excellence
Sermons by John Gaines
home
2009 Sermons
2010 Sermon Outlines
Born Again to a Living Hope
Earning Respect From Respectable People
Hope and Joy of our Salvation
John's Blog
Miscellaneous
2007sermons
2008sermons
2009sermons
2010 Sermons
2010sermons
2011 Sermons
2012 Sermons
2013 Sermons
2014 Sermons
40 Days in the Wilderness
5th Sunday Forum - Bible Questions and Answers (March 29, 2015)
a
A Basic Primer on the Islamic Religion
A Charge to Keep
A Compelling Confession
A Devoted Church
A Door Standing Open in Heaven
A Generation of Wanderers
A Great Work to Do
A Hard Road
A King Who Did Not Know Joseph
A Little Bit Won't Hurt
A Man Named Ananias
A Taste of Heaven
A Test for Sin
adultbibleschoolmaterial
1 Corinthians Studies
Romans
Sermon on the Mount
Studies in Samuel
Study Notes on 1 Thessalonians 4
Study Notes on James
All One in Christ Jesus
All the News That's Fit to Tell
Antidote for Apathy
Apologist for the Gospel?
As Others Who Have No Hope
Babylon Is Fallen
Babylon, Mother of Prostitutes
Babylon, Mother of Prostitutes
Baptism - Before and After
Be Good!
Bearing Fruit with our Tongues
Bearing the Reproach He Endured
Beginning of the End
Being With the Lord
Bible Questions 1
Bitter Cup
Bitter Cup
Bolder to Speak the Word Without Fear
Born Again
Bricks Without Straw
Build-a-Jesus
Calvinism #2 - Calvin and Arminius
Calvinism 1 - Augustine and Pelagius
Celebrating Jesus As a Preacher of Good News
Celebrating the Power and Compassion of Jesus
Celebrating the Teachings of Jesus About Love
Change of Heart
Children, Do You Have Any Fish?
Christ, the Cause of Division
Christian Freedom
Christian Suits
Christians in a Non-Christian Culture
Christians in a Non-Christian Culture
Church Building
Circles in the Body
Colossians
Colossians Notes
Coming Back to the Mountain
Coming Home
Coming Together to Worship Him
Complete My Joy
Confidence in the Bible
Confidence in the Bible #2
Confidence in the Bible 1
Consideration, Contentment, and Confidence
Continually Offer a Sacrifice of Praise
Continually Offer a Sacrifice of Praise
Continually Offer a Sacrifice of Praise
Could The Church Today Have Apostles (Part 2)
Could The Church Today Have Apostles? (1)
Crucifying the Lord
Daring to Discuss Divorce
Dating Decisions
Daylight Losing Time
Defiling the Heart
Deliverance at Baal Zephon
Demas the Deserter
Demonstration Dads
Devoted to Working For Christ
Discipline Yourself for Godliness
Diverse and Strange Teachings
Diverse and Strange Teachings
Do Not Neglect Hospitality
Do What Is Right
Doing What Needs Doing
Doing Your Part When the Church Assembles for Worship
Drawing Lines
Drifting from Christ
Drifting from Christ
Drifting From the Fellowship of Christ
Drifting from the Strength of Christ
Dual Citizenship
Earthquake!
Easy to Mistake
Enemies of the Cross
Ephesus, a City Filled With Confusion
Error Hurts
Essentials For a Strong Marriage (2)
Essentials For a Strong Marriage 1
Essentials For a Strong Marriage 3 -- Forgiveness
Euodia and Synteche
Evangelism in the First-Century Church
Eve, Mother of All Living
Every Tongue Confessing Jesus
Excellent Thinking
Exhortation to Zeal and Courage
Fatal Flaws in Christian Kids
Fathers and Leaders
Finding Faith in Unexpected Places
Fire
Fitly Spoken Words
For Love's Sake
For the Children
Forgiveness Without Repentance
Fork in the Road
Forty Days With Jesus
Free From the Love of Money
Friends Indeed
Friendship
From Sardis to Philadelphia
Front Door Hospitality
Front-Door Hospitality
Full-Time Religion
Gender Issues in the Body of Christ
Gentiles Hear the Good News
Getting It Right
Getting Ready
Getting the Bride's Dress Dirty
Getting the Job Done
Gift of the Magi
Giving More Than the Rich
God Is the Ultimate Reason to Celebrate
God Provides Food and Water
God Sees
God Sent Forth His Son
God With Us and Us With God
God's People and the Cross
God's Way Is Best
God-Defined Marriage
Godly Discipline
Good and Bad in the World
Good News Preached
Goodness
Greatness of God's House
Growing a Healthy Church
Growing Stronger by Overcoming
Hard Words
He Who Is Mightier Than I
Hearing and Doing
Heart of Desire to Serve
Heavenly Jerusalem
Hidden Manna and White Stones
Holiness Enabler
Holiness in the Fear of God
Home1
Honoring Women
Hope
Hope
How Do I Learn to Forgive?
How Does Jesus See Us?
How Long Is Eternity?
How Much Belief?
How to Be a Father Deserving Honor
How to Believe
How to Figure Out What the Bible Is Saying to You
How to Study the Bible More Effectively 2 -- Apparent Discrepancies
How to Study the Bible More Effectively (1) -- Consider the Context
How To Study the Bible: 3- Literal or Figurative?
I Am the Good Shepherd
I Am the Light of the World
I Will Follow Christ If
I Will Give Him to the Lord
If There Is No Resurrection
Influencing Our Community For Christ
Into the Hands of a Woman
Is It Ever Right to Lie?
Is the Bible Inspired or Inspirational?
Is the Church of Christ a Denomination?
Islam's Treatment of Women
Israel at Sinai
Jesus In Our World
Jesus In Our World
Jesus Made Sin So We Could Be Made Righteousness
Joy of Numbers
Judgment in the Harvest
Keeping God in the Center
Keys to Unlocking Our Understanding of Revelation
Killed and Raised
Kingdom Coming
Knowing Christ
Knowing What We Don't Know
Laying a Stone in Zion
Leading the Church to Growth
Lessons from Lukewarm Laodicea
Let Brotherly Love Continue
Let My People Go
Life and Death Matters
Living for God in This Ole Sinful World
Living Our Thanksgiving
Living Sacrifice
Living Stones
Look Out for the Dogs
Looking into the Future
Lord, We Come Before Thee Now
Love is the Badge of Discipleship
Love Superlatives
Love's Priorities
Loving Money in a Bad Economy
Loving Someone You've Never Seen
Magnificent Motherhood
Making Progress By Going Backwards
Manifesting the Mystery
Many Claims But One Lord
Marriage in Honor
Marriages Worth Fighting For
Married to the Lord
Married to the Lord
Meaning What It Says
Memories for our Children
More in the New Year
Moses and the Burning Bush
Mother Naomi
Mothers Have to Be Skilled Jugglers
Much More Than Enough
Murdering Jesus
Need Convincing about the Resurrection?
No Mighty Work in Nazareth
Not Peace, But a Sword
Notes on 1 Thessalonians
O Happy Day
Obstacles Into Opportunities
One God and Father
One-Chapter Books: Obadiah
Our Responsibilities to Our Elders
Overlooked Gifts
Parenting Spiritually-Strong Children
Paul and Felix
Paul and Peter
Paul and the Elders
Paul Appeals to Caesar
Paul Arrested in Jerusalem
Paul at Damascus
Paul in Antioch
Paul in Athens
Paul in Corinth
Paul in Cyprus
Paul in Ephesus - True Power
Paul in Galatia
Paul in Macedonia
Paul in Pisidia
Paul's Compromise With the Jerusalem Elders
Paul's Prayer for Philippi
Paul's Voyage to Rome
Paul, a Prisoner in Jerusalem
Paul, a Roman Prisoner
Perseverance of the Saints?
Pharaoh's Hardened Heart
Philemon's Reputation
Popular Ideas About Angels
Powerful Prayer
Practice These Things and the God of Peace Will Be With You
Praying for Sinners
Praying for Your Enemies
Praying Patiently
Preaching Like Jesus Preached
Primary Principles for Profitable Study
Principles from the Unprodigal Parent
Problems With Ephesus
Protecting the Weak
Purity Matters
Putting Our Wages Into a Bag With Holes
Questions for Self-Evaluation
Raising Faithful Children
Remember Prisoners
Remembering, Reevaluating, and Resetting
Remodeling the Church
Renewed Courage
Renewed Desire
Renewed Discipline
Renewed Passion
Reputations
Rescue the Perishing
Resistible Grace
Restoration
Revelation of Jesus Christ
Ringing a Bell
Rose Garden Gratitude
Rules, Rules, Rules
Salvation Matters
Samson's Tragic Life and Death
Satan's Attack on Our Families
Satan's Attack on the Church
Satan's Attack on the Church
Satan, our Adversary
Scroll With Seven Seals
Sermons
Sermons
Servanthood and Selfishness (3 John)
Seven Bowls
Seven Days in Troas
Seven Trumpets
Seven Truths from Seven Churches
She Gave Birth to Her Firstborn Son
Shine as Lights in the World
Shining Faces
Simeon Says
Since Christ Suffered
Sincere Brotherly Love
Sincere Brotherly Love
Skagit Valley Church of Christ bulletins
Smyrna's Test of Faithfulness
Some Things Matter
Standing in the Awe of God
Staying Happy
Still Friday, But Sunday's Coming
Stories of Grace
Strength in Unity (#1)
Strength of Unity (2)
Study Notes on James
Tasting the Goodness of the Lord
Tell Pharaoh
Tell Pharaoh
Ten Years After 9-11
test
Test 44
Test1
Thankful for Encouragement From Friends and Family
Thanking God for You
Thanksgiving 2012
The 1,000 Year Reign
The Art of Worship
The Bitter Cup
The Book of Jude
The Broken-Hearted Prophet
The Christ, the Son of God
The Christian's Response to God
The Church 101
The Church and Christ
The Church's Adversaries
The Critical Issue of Respecting Life
The Devil's Downfall
The Facts of the Gospel #1
The Facts of the Gospel - #2
The Final Plague
The Golden Calf - Idolatry in Israel
The Good Ole Days
The Great Church in Ephesus
The Greeks Have a Few Words for That
The High Priest's Sacrifice
The Imperfect Church in Ephesus
The Joy of Our Salvation
The Last Supper
The Lord Whose Name Is Jealous
The Lord's Supper
The Meaning of Adultery
The Message the World Needs to Hear
The Need for Unity
The Odd Folks Who Don't Have Pianos
The Pope, the Church, and the Bible
The Potter and the Clay
The Power of Christ
The Real "Greatest Generation"
The Reason for Worship
The Right Kind of Unity
The Right Kind of Unity
The Righteousness We Need
The Satisfied Mind
The Second Interlude
The Steadfast Love of the Lord
The Ten Commandments
The Times They Are A-Changing
The Times They Are A-Changing
The Two Beasts of Revelation 13
The Universal Desire for Salvation
The Urgency of Obeying the Lord
The Very Words of the Bible
The Wine of God's Wrath
The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon
The Work of Elders
The Work Trap
There's a Great Day Coming
They Will Kill Him
Things That Will Happen When Jesus Comes Again
Three Sad Statements and One Grand Declaration
Three Sad Statements and One Grand Declaration
Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
To the Elect Lady (2 John)
Too Clever For His Own Good
Too Depraved to Understand the Bible?
Tough Love
Traveling Man
Truths and Half-Truths
Unaffiliateds in the Pews
Unconditional Election
Unconditional Love and Acceptance?
United in One Baptism
United in One Faith
United in the Same Mind
United in the Same Mind
Up On the Mountain
Using Your Anger
Using Your Anger
Walking in Truth
Wanted: Qualified Shepherds
We Are Married to the Lord
We Are Married to the Lord
We Have Come to Worship Him
Well-Lived Lives
What Church Did the Ethiopian Join?
What Does the Bible Really Say About Women Preachers?
What Jesus Has Done For Us
What Jesus' Death Accomplished
What Matters - Family Matters
What Matters - Freedom Matters
What Matters - Money Matters
What Moses Learned
What Must Happen If We Do God's Will
What Paul Wanted
What Paul Wanted
What Samson Didn't Know
What Science Teaches About Why We Should Believe the Bible #2
What Science Teaches Us About Why We Should Believe the Bible
What Should People Think of Jesus?
What the Bible Teaches About the Pope
What We Owe Our Children
What We Should Give Our Children
What's In It for Me?
What's Right With the Church
What's Right With the Church Today
When Jesus Saw Jezebel
When People Will Not Listen
When Proverbs Aren't Proverbial
When Sin Controls Us
When Two Men Died
Who's the Boss?
Why Background Matters When You're Studying the Bible
Why Believe in Someone You've Never Seen?
Why Did My Savior Come to Earth?
Why Ignore Good Advice?
Why Should We Give Our Good Money?
Why Study the Old Testament?
Will Everyone Be Saved?
Winners!
Winning the Spiritual War
With One Accord in Prayer
Wives and Husbands
Worship Habits of Highly Effective Churches
Worship Services That Work
x
Zealously Pursue Excellence
More
home
2009 Sermons
2010 Sermon Outlines
Born Again to a Living Hope
Earning Respect From Respectable People
Hope and Joy of our Salvation
John's Blog
Miscellaneous
2007sermons
2008sermons
2009sermons
2010 Sermons
2010sermons
2011 Sermons
2012 Sermons
2013 Sermons
2014 Sermons
40 Days in the Wilderness
5th Sunday Forum - Bible Questions and Answers (March 29, 2015)
a
A Basic Primer on the Islamic Religion
A Charge to Keep
A Compelling Confession
A Devoted Church
A Door Standing Open in Heaven
A Generation of Wanderers
A Great Work to Do
A Hard Road
A King Who Did Not Know Joseph
A Little Bit Won't Hurt
A Man Named Ananias
A Taste of Heaven
A Test for Sin
adultbibleschoolmaterial
1 Corinthians Studies
Romans
Sermon on the Mount
Studies in Samuel
Study Notes on 1 Thessalonians 4
Study Notes on James
All One in Christ Jesus
All the News That's Fit to Tell
Antidote for Apathy
Apologist for the Gospel?
As Others Who Have No Hope
Babylon Is Fallen
Babylon, Mother of Prostitutes
Babylon, Mother of Prostitutes
Baptism - Before and After
Be Good!
Bearing Fruit with our Tongues
Bearing the Reproach He Endured
Beginning of the End
Being With the Lord
Bible Questions 1
Bitter Cup
Bitter Cup
Bolder to Speak the Word Without Fear
Born Again
Bricks Without Straw
Build-a-Jesus
Calvinism #2 - Calvin and Arminius
Calvinism 1 - Augustine and Pelagius
Celebrating Jesus As a Preacher of Good News
Celebrating the Power and Compassion of Jesus
Celebrating the Teachings of Jesus About Love
Change of Heart
Children, Do You Have Any Fish?
Christ, the Cause of Division
Christian Freedom
Christian Suits
Christians in a Non-Christian Culture
Christians in a Non-Christian Culture
Church Building
Circles in the Body
Colossians
Colossians Notes
Coming Back to the Mountain
Coming Home
Coming Together to Worship Him
Complete My Joy
Confidence in the Bible
Confidence in the Bible #2
Confidence in the Bible 1
Consideration, Contentment, and Confidence
Continually Offer a Sacrifice of Praise
Continually Offer a Sacrifice of Praise
Continually Offer a Sacrifice of Praise
Could The Church Today Have Apostles (Part 2)
Could The Church Today Have Apostles? (1)
Crucifying the Lord
Daring to Discuss Divorce
Dating Decisions
Daylight Losing Time
Defiling the Heart
Deliverance at Baal Zephon
Demas the Deserter
Demonstration Dads
Devoted to Working For Christ
Discipline Yourself for Godliness
Diverse and Strange Teachings
Diverse and Strange Teachings
Do Not Neglect Hospitality
Do What Is Right
Doing What Needs Doing
Doing Your Part When the Church Assembles for Worship
Drawing Lines
Drifting from Christ
Drifting from Christ
Drifting From the Fellowship of Christ
Drifting from the Strength of Christ
Dual Citizenship
Earthquake!
Easy to Mistake
Enemies of the Cross
Ephesus, a City Filled With Confusion
Error Hurts
Essentials For a Strong Marriage (2)
Essentials For a Strong Marriage 1
Essentials For a Strong Marriage 3 -- Forgiveness
Euodia and Synteche
Evangelism in the First-Century Church
Eve, Mother of All Living
Every Tongue Confessing Jesus
Excellent Thinking
Exhortation to Zeal and Courage
Fatal Flaws in Christian Kids
Fathers and Leaders
Finding Faith in Unexpected Places
Fire
Fitly Spoken Words
For Love's Sake
For the Children
Forgiveness Without Repentance
Fork in the Road
Forty Days With Jesus
Free From the Love of Money
Friends Indeed
Friendship
From Sardis to Philadelphia
Front Door Hospitality
Front-Door Hospitality
Full-Time Religion
Gender Issues in the Body of Christ
Gentiles Hear the Good News
Getting It Right
Getting Ready
Getting the Bride's Dress Dirty
Getting the Job Done
Gift of the Magi
Giving More Than the Rich
God Is the Ultimate Reason to Celebrate
God Provides Food and Water
God Sees
God Sent Forth His Son
God With Us and Us With God
God's People and the Cross
God's Way Is Best
God-Defined Marriage
Godly Discipline
Good and Bad in the World
Good News Preached
Goodness
Greatness of God's House
Growing a Healthy Church
Growing Stronger by Overcoming
Hard Words
He Who Is Mightier Than I
Hearing and Doing
Heart of Desire to Serve
Heavenly Jerusalem
Hidden Manna and White Stones
Holiness Enabler
Holiness in the Fear of God
Home1
Honoring Women
Hope
Hope
How Do I Learn to Forgive?
How Does Jesus See Us?
How Long Is Eternity?
How Much Belief?
How to Be a Father Deserving Honor
How to Believe
How to Figure Out What the Bible Is Saying to You
How to Study the Bible More Effectively 2 -- Apparent Discrepancies
How to Study the Bible More Effectively (1) -- Consider the Context
How To Study the Bible: 3- Literal or Figurative?
I Am the Good Shepherd
I Am the Light of the World
I Will Follow Christ If
I Will Give Him to the Lord
If There Is No Resurrection
Influencing Our Community For Christ
Into the Hands of a Woman
Is It Ever Right to Lie?
Is the Bible Inspired or Inspirational?
Is the Church of Christ a Denomination?
Islam's Treatment of Women
Israel at Sinai
Jesus In Our World
Jesus In Our World
Jesus Made Sin So We Could Be Made Righteousness
Joy of Numbers
Judgment in the Harvest
Keeping God in the Center
Keys to Unlocking Our Understanding of Revelation
Killed and Raised
Kingdom Coming
Knowing Christ
Knowing What We Don't Know
Laying a Stone in Zion
Leading the Church to Growth
Lessons from Lukewarm Laodicea
Let Brotherly Love Continue
Let My People Go
Life and Death Matters
Living for God in This Ole Sinful World
Living Our Thanksgiving
Living Sacrifice
Living Stones
Look Out for the Dogs
Looking into the Future
Lord, We Come Before Thee Now
Love is the Badge of Discipleship
Love Superlatives
Love's Priorities
Loving Money in a Bad Economy
Loving Someone You've Never Seen
Magnificent Motherhood
Making Progress By Going Backwards
Manifesting the Mystery
Many Claims But One Lord
Marriage in Honor
Marriages Worth Fighting For
Married to the Lord
Married to the Lord
Meaning What It Says
Memories for our Children
More in the New Year
Moses and the Burning Bush
Mother Naomi
Mothers Have to Be Skilled Jugglers
Much More Than Enough
Murdering Jesus
Need Convincing about the Resurrection?
No Mighty Work in Nazareth
Not Peace, But a Sword
Notes on 1 Thessalonians
O Happy Day
Obstacles Into Opportunities
One God and Father
One-Chapter Books: Obadiah
Our Responsibilities to Our Elders
Overlooked Gifts
Parenting Spiritually-Strong Children
Paul and Felix
Paul and Peter
Paul and the Elders
Paul Appeals to Caesar
Paul Arrested in Jerusalem
Paul at Damascus
Paul in Antioch
Paul in Athens
Paul in Corinth
Paul in Cyprus
Paul in Ephesus - True Power
Paul in Galatia
Paul in Macedonia
Paul in Pisidia
Paul's Compromise With the Jerusalem Elders
Paul's Prayer for Philippi
Paul's Voyage to Rome
Paul, a Prisoner in Jerusalem
Paul, a Roman Prisoner
Perseverance of the Saints?
Pharaoh's Hardened Heart
Philemon's Reputation
Popular Ideas About Angels
Powerful Prayer
Practice These Things and the God of Peace Will Be With You
Praying for Sinners
Praying for Your Enemies
Praying Patiently
Preaching Like Jesus Preached
Primary Principles for Profitable Study
Principles from the Unprodigal Parent
Problems With Ephesus
Protecting the Weak
Purity Matters
Putting Our Wages Into a Bag With Holes
Questions for Self-Evaluation
Raising Faithful Children
Remember Prisoners
Remembering, Reevaluating, and Resetting
Remodeling the Church
Renewed Courage
Renewed Desire
Renewed Discipline
Renewed Passion
Reputations
Rescue the Perishing
Resistible Grace
Restoration
Revelation of Jesus Christ
Ringing a Bell
Rose Garden Gratitude
Rules, Rules, Rules
Salvation Matters
Samson's Tragic Life and Death
Satan's Attack on Our Families
Satan's Attack on the Church
Satan's Attack on the Church
Satan, our Adversary
Scroll With Seven Seals
Sermons
Sermons
Servanthood and Selfishness (3 John)
Seven Bowls
Seven Days in Troas
Seven Trumpets
Seven Truths from Seven Churches
She Gave Birth to Her Firstborn Son
Shine as Lights in the World
Shining Faces
Simeon Says
Since Christ Suffered
Sincere Brotherly Love
Sincere Brotherly Love
Skagit Valley Church of Christ bulletins
Smyrna's Test of Faithfulness
Some Things Matter
Standing in the Awe of God
Staying Happy
Still Friday, But Sunday's Coming
Stories of Grace
Strength in Unity (#1)
Strength of Unity (2)
Study Notes on James
Tasting the Goodness of the Lord
Tell Pharaoh
Tell Pharaoh
Ten Years After 9-11
test
Test 44
Test1
Thankful for Encouragement From Friends and Family
Thanking God for You
Thanksgiving 2012
The 1,000 Year Reign
The Art of Worship
The Bitter Cup
The Book of Jude
The Broken-Hearted Prophet
The Christ, the Son of God
The Christian's Response to God
The Church 101
The Church and Christ
The Church's Adversaries
The Critical Issue of Respecting Life
The Devil's Downfall
The Facts of the Gospel #1
The Facts of the Gospel - #2
The Final Plague
The Golden Calf - Idolatry in Israel
The Good Ole Days
The Great Church in Ephesus
The Greeks Have a Few Words for That
The High Priest's Sacrifice
The Imperfect Church in Ephesus
The Joy of Our Salvation
The Last Supper
The Lord Whose Name Is Jealous
The Lord's Supper
The Meaning of Adultery
The Message the World Needs to Hear
The Need for Unity
The Odd Folks Who Don't Have Pianos
The Pope, the Church, and the Bible
The Potter and the Clay
The Power of Christ
The Real "Greatest Generation"
The Reason for Worship
The Right Kind of Unity
The Right Kind of Unity
The Righteousness We Need
The Satisfied Mind
The Second Interlude
The Steadfast Love of the Lord
The Ten Commandments
The Times They Are A-Changing
The Times They Are A-Changing
The Two Beasts of Revelation 13
The Universal Desire for Salvation
The Urgency of Obeying the Lord
The Very Words of the Bible
The Wine of God's Wrath
The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon
The Work of Elders
The Work Trap
There's a Great Day Coming
They Will Kill Him
Things That Will Happen When Jesus Comes Again
Three Sad Statements and One Grand Declaration
Three Sad Statements and One Grand Declaration
Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
To the Elect Lady (2 John)
Too Clever For His Own Good
Too Depraved to Understand the Bible?
Tough Love
Traveling Man
Truths and Half-Truths
Unaffiliateds in the Pews
Unconditional Election
Unconditional Love and Acceptance?
United in One Baptism
United in One Faith
United in the Same Mind
United in the Same Mind
Up On the Mountain
Using Your Anger
Using Your Anger
Walking in Truth
Wanted: Qualified Shepherds
We Are Married to the Lord
We Are Married to the Lord
We Have Come to Worship Him
Well-Lived Lives
What Church Did the Ethiopian Join?
What Does the Bible Really Say About Women Preachers?
What Jesus Has Done For Us
What Jesus' Death Accomplished
What Matters - Family Matters
What Matters - Freedom Matters
What Matters - Money Matters
What Moses Learned
What Must Happen If We Do God's Will
What Paul Wanted
What Paul Wanted
What Samson Didn't Know
What Science Teaches About Why We Should Believe the Bible #2
What Science Teaches Us About Why We Should Believe the Bible
What Should People Think of Jesus?
What the Bible Teaches About the Pope
What We Owe Our Children
What We Should Give Our Children
What's In It for Me?
What's Right With the Church
What's Right With the Church Today
When Jesus Saw Jezebel
When People Will Not Listen
When Proverbs Aren't Proverbial
When Sin Controls Us
When Two Men Died
Who's the Boss?
Why Background Matters When You're Studying the Bible
Why Believe in Someone You've Never Seen?
Why Did My Savior Come to Earth?
Why Ignore Good Advice?
Why Should We Give Our Good Money?
Why Study the Old Testament?
Will Everyone Be Saved?
Winners!
Winning the Spiritual War
With One Accord in Prayer
Wives and Husbands
Worship Habits of Highly Effective Churches
Worship Services That Work
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Zealously Pursue Excellence
Notes on 1 Thessalonians
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