Sermons: Practical Life
Maximize life! God knows best how to live it. Here are answers to everything from cremation to financial success, from tattoos to virginity, from swearing to marital sex, from job promotions to charity, and much more. As a Christian, God created you and bought you, so you are twice His. You owe Him everything. He jealously demands your affection and resents any flirting with the world. Most today love pleasure more than holiness, but the Bible teaches holiness that brings lasting pleasures of all kinds, both here and in heaven.
Recent Sermons: Practical Life
8/6/2025 PM
Conveying Truth to Children (replay from 2021) Slides
Truth will disappear unless parents teach children. Moses ordered it. Hezekiah and David did it. Paul ordered it. Joel listed the results as four generations. Here are helps and tools to make it as easy as possible for parents to teach their children the truth of God's word and to be spiritually minded.
7/27/2025 PM
Mercy
Jerry taught the value of mercy in God's relationship with us and our relationship with others. Our God delights in mercy, and He expects us to love mercy to please Him. Here are some good comparisons and lessons to show more mercy to others. Let the Spirit convict you to crush your flesh.
7/20/2025 PM
Ten Spies & Pergamos Warning for Us
JFC drew excellent lessons from the fearful and rebellious ten spies that would not take Canaan at God's direction, costing their lives and that of the nation. Titus exalted the Lord's warnings to the seven churches of Asia and exhorted our faithfulness against the common sin of fornication in America.
7/20/2025 AM
What Is Jesus Doing Now & Fear of God
Austin H. described seven things our Lord is presently doing for us as our risen, reigning, and returning Savior. We rejoice in His death, but there is more. Daniel J. defined the fear of God and taught its importance, its great benefits, and how to increase it. Based on the power of Christ, you can do it.
7/13/2025 PM
Bible Baptism & Explaining Bad Events
CHC gave us five rules for a proper baptism from the Bible, for which we give thanks, and we should passionately defend them. Jordan explained, Why do bad things happen to Christians? For several reasons that provide a great perspective for contentment and peace in times of discouragement.
7/13/2025 AM
Curing Discouragement & Back to the Bible
Collin explained all men get discouraged, and there are causes for it, but better are the Biblical cures for victory over it. Second, Breagan taught there is one source for right and true answers to any question or controversy - the Bible. Make sure you bring all thoughts into obedience to its wisdom.
7/6/2025 PM
Dominion of God & Holy Day Truth
Adam E. explained God's dominion over all, including us, yet we are responsible to obey His revealed will, though His secret will may use our disobedience. Daniel A. explained we must condemn pagan holy days like Christmas for many Bible reasons, but we allow national and personal days as liberty.
6/29/2025 PM
Forgotten Sins & Delighting in God
Matthew E. reviewed the forgotten sins of clamor and implacable and the forgotten virtue of meekness. Let the Bible remind you of these things. Brady taught the importance of delighting in the Lord, for it should permeate your entire life in all you do to the highest end - God's glory and your blessing.
6/29/2025 AM
Ministerial Authority
Adam W. taught, after Jesus ascended, He gave pastors as gifts to His church to feed, oversee, and protect. The divine authority of the pastor's office is vital to maintain the church’s purity, growth, and unity. How do we honor and submit to His appointed shepherd for the good of His people?
6/25/2025 PM
A Mighty Man’s Life
Our God and Father did not leave us in the dark about a perfect man. He provided a summary of the ten parts of a man's life with about 125 questions to prompt self-examination. Listen to the word of God from some select aspects of these ten parts of life to convict you to move the ball forward.
6/25/2025 PM
Am I Deformed? Slides
You can be a perfect man. You should be a perfect man. God has provided all you need, and you should not be a deformed man by doing well in some parts of life while lacking in other parts. What will you do? Here is a short and excellent challenge to be more than you are for God in your whole life.
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Christian and Taxes
True Christians submit cheerfully to government and pay all taxes for the Lord’s sake. They know obeying civil authorities is the will of God. They never use their gospel liberty to cheat government or give the gospel a bad name. They pray for their rulers and trust their King, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Techno-sins
Witty inventions are a blessing. But 100 years of inventions have brought Sodom into every house. If you love your children, and if you know evil communications corrupt good manners, you must be vigilant in the modern world. Get scared to become a technology protector of family and church.
Happiness Is a Choice
The subject is glorious, and God has given commands and comfort for His children to have a continual feast through life. Will you make the choice to be truly happy? Joy and love are far greater motivators than fear or threats. Christians should be the happiest people on earth.
Child Training Goals
A workshop sermon with handouts and a table of goals for training children. Do not be content with academic education, sports, and having fun. Reject the world’s foolish scope and sequence. If you want them to glorify God and have fruitful kingdom lives, you must train them His way.
Marital Speech
God gave you lips, mouth, and tongue for many uses, but the most important is speech. Death or life is in the power of the tongue – including marriage. Great lovers use words to please and win those they love. Bad speech by either spouse is a sin, and it is destructive. Learn to be a real lover.
Christian and Politics
Donald Trump is our new president. The Bible is a perfect political manual – detailed history of nations, incredible insider information, inspired laws for rulers and citizens, etc. Do you hold godly views of voting, reverence of rulers, paying taxes, civil government, compliance, rebellion, etc.?
Living Under Obama
God ordained submission to civil rulers, contradicting so-called Christian patriots. Paul and Peter taught obedience to Nero. Our fathers lived under other persecuting powers. We can easily live under President Obama without fear for four more years. Godliness and prayer changes nations.
Health, Sickness, and Death
Health, sickness, and death are realities. But we know things from the Bible unknown to other men. We know the cause and cure of sickness, death, and cemeteries. Christians should age and die graciously, full of faith and praise, after training the next generation. Live and die in the Lord.
Perfect Marriages
Christian marriage should be the best, easily! God created and designed marriage, and He knows better than all marital counselors combined. Are you taking advantage of the world’s best marriage manual – the Bible. A short and simple sermon for sinners and saints.
Love Is the Greatest
All men by nature are malicious and hateful, and only an incredible work of grace can cause them to truly love others. This brotherly love is the best evidence of eternal life – not faith or doctrinal knowledge. Devils believe. Love is the great measure of a person, marriage, family, and church.
Incremental Compromise
Sin lies. It deceives men to think they can get away with a few secret sins. Playing with sin by compromising God’s rules will bring you down. Think Lot! His family’s ruin did not happen overnight. It took many years of more and more compromise, but then destruction surely comes.
Ten Mothers & Ten Rules
Honor of mothers has been taught before. This sermon is to remind mothers that ordinary acts like birth, nursing, clothing, and feeding their children are no more than what animals do for their young. The Bible shows exemplary women and teaches rules for much higher goals for mothers.
Bible Economics
Money matters! Solomon said it answers all things. God loves His children, so the Bible is full of advice for financial success. Forget money-begging televangelists that want to harvest your seed money for their mansions. This study explores God’s word to help your family and prosper. Many have profited from it. Will you be the next?
Bring Everything Back to the Bible
The only source of truth and wisdom in the world is found in the Bible and nowhere else. All questions and problems are answered in the Bible, but you must know the Bible and obey it, in order to realize the benefit. Be a help to those around you – bring everything back to the Bible.
Godly Character
Character is those traits that identify you from others. It is the conduct that makes your reputation. It is the code of conduct that rules actions. It is the discipline and defaults of your choices. It will help you in jobs, in marriage, and glorifying God by your life. It is more important than anything else you pursue in life e.g. job, wealth, etc. The world measures by IQ and other vain standards, but not God and good men. It can be improved. Read this sermon!
Christian Charity: The Godly Response to Haiti’s Earthquake
On January 12, 2010 an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 shook the island of Haiti near its capital of Port-au-Prince. The Haitian Interior Minister estimates the dead could number 200,000. In response, America’s government, churches, and pagans have donated money and goods to help the survivors recover from the great damage. We have not done so. Why have we not done so? We have plenty of funds. Can we defend our position? What is a Christian’s duty from the Bible in such situations?