Sermons – Temple Baptist Church of Rogers, AR

The fourth verse of the great old hymn, "How Firm a Foundation," says,

"The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose I will not, I will not desert to His foes;That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,I'll never, no never, no never forsake!"

This hymn is written as if God is speaking to us, promising us that He will never forsake us. What a blessed assurance this is! God's presence is with us and God's providence is for us.

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The intense desire to be right is instinctive for human beings. As we continue to explore Paul’s experiences in the city of Jerusalem, we will be able to pull back the curtain and see some of the struggles and patterns of sin that Paul continued to deal with even later in his life. Our goal today is to see ourselves clearly so that we will allow the grace of God to intervene in us to help us focus more on being righteous instead of being right.

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As we venture into this next section of our passage, Paul is continuing to model obedience for us. Just as everyone predicted, Paul’s arrival in Jerusalem triggered a series of events that brought about his imprisonment and eventual death. Paul was one of the first missionaries that served the Lord in the face of danger, but he certainly was not the last. So as we look back to Acts 21 and see how Paul was faithful to obey God in the face of danger, I want us to evaluate our own lives to determine if we are willing to obey God when it doesn’t make sense, or even, in the face of danger.

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The Book of Acts chronicles the empowerment, growth, persecution and expansion of the New Testament church; but the end of the book was not the end of the church! It was only just the beginning! The church has continued to grow and expand ever since the time that it was established by Jesus. We need to realize that the Book of Acts records less than 2% of the overall history of the church from its birth until now. We may be coming to the end of this book in the Bible, but it is only the beginning when it comes to the work of God through His church in this world.

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I want to invite you to join us online this Thursday evening—December 24th at 5:00 pm—for our Virtual Christmas Eve service. The service will be premiered on both Facebook and YouTube. We have spent the last couple of weeks capturing video of many of you guys so you might want to watch to see if you make the final cut! One of the highlights of the service will be getting to see the Christmas Story through the eyes of some of our children here at Temple Rogers. Again, it is helpful to consider the “Age-Old” story from different perspectives from time to time. That is exactly what I would like to do today—I would like to consider the role of the shepherds in this narrative. Who were they? What did they do? How do they contribute to the overall story? Why were they included?

Through out our life, we are faced with times of abundance and times of great need. In our last sermon of "Separate but Connected", we are reading through Philippians 4:10-23. Paul here not only models a Spiritually Mature Contentment, but shows us how we can obtain it. Today let's strive for a spiritually mature and content Christian life.

The Bible has much to say about our thought-life and how our thoughts influence not only what we say but also what we do—and ultimately who we become. This is why Paul encouraged us to have the same mind-set as that of Christ in Philippians 2. If we allow the Holy Spirit to transform our minds—as the Bible instructs us to do—our words and actions will soon follow.

Unity is a huge theme throughout Philippians, and actually it is a huge theme carried throughout a lot of what wrote in his letters. There is a personal cost as well as a corporate price that we pay when we do not prioritize unity in the church body. Today we are going to discuss the ways we should approach conflict, and protect ourselves from falling into faithless worry.

The Bible is clear in its teaching about the goal of the Christian life—God wants us to be conformed to the image of His Son (Romans 8:29). That is the goal—that is the “end” that God wants for each one of His children. So if we are to live our lives with the end in mind, we must always be thinking about what it means to be conformed to Jesus’ image—what will my life look like if I look like Jesus? If we do not start now to think about what that life should look like, we will never be able to do it in the last weeks or months of our lives. We need to begin living with our eternal end in mind.

This week we will be in Philippians Chapter 3, dealing with the first 11 verses. Paul here is warning us of false righteousness, giving us an example of his own self-righteousness, and describing what and who is true Righteousness. What is your faith placed in today? Is it Flesh, or Faith in Jesus Christ?