Sermons

Are you enjoying your ministry today or are you just enduring your ministry? Is your ministry a blessing to you? Now I didn't ask is your ministry a blessing to others. Is your ministry a blessing to you? Jonah's ministry was a blessing to others, but it wasn't a blessing to him. He ended up in …

Wouldn't it be wonderful if all we had to do was enjoy the fellowship of the gospel? Or if all we had to do was just promote the furtherance of the gospel? It's a real joy to fellowship with God's people and to study the Word of God, and it's a delight to witness to people and to share the message …

Whether we admit it or not, each of us likes to look to role models to show us how to accomplish something. I suppose as we were growing up, we looked at the role models in those areas where we were the most interested. Those who are athletically inclined look to the great athletes and try to model …

Are you rejoicing in your privileges of service today or are you complaining because you have a job to do for the Lord? Oh, sometimes we have to confess that the burdens get heavy. Sometimes there's criticism, opposition, difficulty. We're going to throw up our hands and quit. Well, in Philippians …

The paradox of ministry is simply this, that those of us who minister find joy in serving others. You must remember that in the world where Paul lived and in the world that the church was born in, a service was done by slaves. People who were important did not do menial service. When the Lord Jesus …

There is joy in serving others. This is something the world just doesn't understand, but we who are Christians understand it because this is the way Jesus lived for us. And this is the way he wants to live in us and through us. In the book of Philippians, Paul is talking about the joy of ministry. …

If you and I are going to have joy in our ministry for the Lord, our motives must be right. There must be no hidden agenda in our hearts. We must do what we do with spiritual motives behind them. Our Lord made it very clear in Matthew 5-7 that motive has a great deal to do with the merit of what we …

Many books have been written about the secrets behind the success of great people. I have some of these books in my library. And I've heard people lecture on why great men were truly great. The Apostle Paul tells us in Philippians 3 one of the secrets of his life, and that was to have the right …

The next event on God's calendar is the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. I don't know of anything that has to take place other than the completing of the body of Christ for the Lord Jesus to come back. We don't set dates, we don't know the day or the hour. We do watch some of the signs of the …

Are you today rejoicing in your ministry? You say, well no, I'm not. We've got problems. Well, everybody has problems. Wherever God is at work, the devil is going to be at work. Wherever God is trying to accomplish His great purposes, Satan is going to try to thwart them. But in Philippians, we …