Sermon: What Makes God Mad?

This is the first in a three part series that I just finished.  It occurred to me one day that we could learn a lot from the emotions that Jesus showed during his earthly ministry.  After all, Jesus was 100% human and 100% divine, so his emotions show a good mix of human reaction and divine will.  Since Jesus only did God’s will, the things that made him mad were the same things that make God mad.  I’m careful to not assign human emotions to God yet I think it’s significant when we see Jesus clearly showing emotion.

In this first sermon I show that Jesus got particularly mad at sin and our refusal to take it seriously.  No, this is not a hellfire and brimstone sermon, but it shows that God clearly detests our sin and hypocrisy.  Enjoy.

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Sermon: Colossians 1:24-29 “Marching Orders”

I finished my series on Colossians yesterday.  It’s been a great verse-by-verse expository series– something I’m going to try to do more often.  I’ve really gained a deeper appreciation for the supremacy of Christ through this series.

Here’s the next in the series.  Again, rough draft, sorry for any typos, etc.

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Sermon: Colossians 1:21-23 “Enemy, AWOL, or Enlisted?”

 Here is another in my series on Colossians.  This one points out that there is no middle ground when it comes to God: you are either on His side or not.  It also explores the terminology of us being “enemies of God”.  I thought it was a pretty powerful sermon.

Standard disclaimer: this is the first draft, so there may be typos and things that were cut out in the presentation.

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Sermon: Colossians 1:15-20, “The Supremacy of Christ”

 Here is another installment in my sermon series on Colossians.  I’m almost done with the book, one more sermon to preach, and will post the rest of the sermons periodically.  You can find all the sermon on this blog by clicking on the “Sermons” category on the right side of the screen.  I really enjoyed this sermon, as I feel that our view of Christ is what makes the difference between Christian and non-Christian.

Standard disclaimer: This is the rough draft, so there are probably typos and things that I cleaned up later… forgive any messiness.

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Sermon: Colossians 1:9-14, “God’s Strength”

Here is the next sermon in the Colossians series, showing how we as Christians find our strength in God alone.

Again, this is the raw copy, please forgive any typos, grammos, or contentos.

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Sermon: Colossian 1:9, “The Knowledge of His Will”

Oops, in my slackness I have also fallen behind in posting my sermons. I am in the middle of a verse by verse expository sermon on Colossians (sorry, no sermon series on Red Hot Sex is in the works, but next week I WILL talk about how to be a better spouse!). It looks like the last sermon I posted in this series was from Colossians 1:1-8, so here is the next one on Colossians 1:9. Yup, one verse. Yup, I’ve been in Colossians 1 for a while. I think a person could preach on the riches of Christ’s supremacy in Colossians 1 for 10 years and never scratch the surface.

This sermon is very practical, it speaks on how to know and do God’s will, always a difficult thing for Christians to figure out. Enjoy. Comments appreciated. Oh, and as always, these are my first draft notes… there will likely be typos, grammos, and contentos, things that I corrected in the delivery but which remain here. Sorry, but I’m doing good to get them posted, getting them corrected too would take too much time! 😎

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