Sermons by Josh Scott
The Better Portion
Better than Busy Mary and Martha Luke 10:38-42 If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease? – Leonard Ravenhill My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF…my GOD. – Leonard Ravenhill Better than Safe Peter walking on water. Matthew 14:22-33…
A Tale of Two Churches
“Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.” Psalms 126:5-6 ESV Introduction Lots of soul searching Support stripped away Looking outward trying to “fix” what happened The Lord wanted MY attention to work in ME Laodicean Church…
The No Bandaid Gospel
Luke 5:36-39Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be…
Our Highest Calling
Philippians 3:12-14 NKJV Not that I have already attained,or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,…
Gold in the Dust
Introduction Psalms 37:4 – “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.” Job 22:24-26 – “If you lay gold in the dust and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed, then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver. For then you will delight…
Chosen and Loved – To Love
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18)The Cross changes our thinking from Bad vs Good, to DEAD vs ALIVE! CHOSEN 1 Corinthians 1:22-31 “For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a…
Only a Channel
Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:6-7
Justified by God and Not Ourselves
WHY so much emphasis on Justification? Justification is the ROOT which FRUITS of Sanctification grow. (Piper) Half-truths masquerading as whole truths are whole lies. (J.I. Packer) Calvin refers to Justification and Sanctification, the “Double Gift”. WHAT is Justification? Being Counted as Righteous because of Jesus. Use example of 3 people to demonstrate the difference…