Sermon Topic: Church growth

Facing the Future with God

Date: November 19th, 1944  |  Scripture: Acts 27:20-25  |  Topics: Church Order, Church growth, Membership, Pastor

And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away. But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose IContinue Reading


The City Church

Date: January 10th, 1954  |  Scripture: Acts 18:16  |  Topics: Church growth, Motivation, Opportunity, Popular, Vitality, Youth

And he drave them from the judgment seat.


While Apollos Was At Corinth

Date: January 17th, 1954  |  Scripture: Acts 19:1  |  Topics: Charismatic, Church growth, Motivation, Popular, Preachers

And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,


The Eleventh Anniversary

Date: October 2nd, 1955  |  Scripture: Psalm 48, 137  |  Topics: Anniversary, Church growth, Evangelism, FBC-Dallas, Inner-City, Israel, Ministry

This sermon is entitled Today We Begin Our Twelfth Year, and it is a message that comes out of the turning over in my heart the ministry of Christ under our hands here in this church and in the heart of this city as I thought of it this summer especially far away.


Visions in Our Soul

Date: October 3rd, 1965  |  Scripture: Acts 2:17  |  Topics: Church Finance, Church growth, City Church, Inner-City, Satan, Tithing, Vision

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:


Visions in Our Soul

Date: October 3rd, 1965  |  Scripture: Acts 2:17  |  Topics: Church Finance, Church growth, City Church, Inner-City, Satan, Tithing, Vision

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:


State of the Church

Date: January 2nd, 1977  |  Scripture: Psalm 48  |  Topics: Ben Gurion, Church growth, City Church, Evangelism, FBC-Dallas, Ministry, Outreach, Tithe

A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. God is known in her palaces for a refuge. For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away. Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in tContinue Reading


Those Grievous Wolves

Date: January 7th, 1979  |  Scripture: Acts 20:28-30  |  Topics: Church, Church growth, False Religion, Lampstand, Ministry, Pastor, Paul, wolves

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.


Those Grievous Wolves

Date: January 7th, 1979  |  Scripture: Acts 20:29  |  Topics: Church, Church growth, False Religion, Lampstand, Ministry, Pastor, Paul, wolves

For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.


Our Golden Tomorrow (37th Anniversary)

Date: October 4th, 1981  |  Scripture: Philippians 3:12-21  |  Topics: Church growth, Education, FBC-Dallas, Ministry, Training

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye bContinue Reading