Sermon Topic: Preaching

Preaching Christ

Date: March 18th, 1973  |  Scripture: Acts 10-11  |  Topics: Cornelius, Prayer, Preaching, Salvation

There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial beforContinue Reading


Preaching Christ

Date: March 18th, 1973  |  Scripture: Acts 10-11  |  Topics: Boldness, Christ, Cornelius, Preaching

There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial beforContinue Reading


Christ in Hades

Date: December 9th, 1973  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18-22  |  Topics: Ark, Baptism, Cross, Incarnation, Preaching, Spirits in Prison

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the fiContinue Reading


Christ In Hades

Date: December 9th, 1973  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18-22  |  Topics: Ark, Baptism, Cross, Incarnation, Preaching, Spirits in Prison

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the fiContinue Reading


The Pastor and His People

Date: March 15th, 1974  |  Scripture: 1 Timothy 1  |  Topics: Church, Fellowship, Pastors, Preaching

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. NowContinue Reading


The Shepherd Heart

Date: July 7th, 1974  |  Scripture: Acts 20:28  |  Topics: Baptist, Baylor, Church, Feed, Pain, Pastors, Preaching, Shepherd, Texas, Truett

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.


The Shepherd Heart (30th anniversary of the death of Dr. Truett)

Date: July 7th, 1974  |  Scripture: Acts 20:28  |  Topics: Baptist, Baylor, Church, Feed, Pain, Pastors, Preaching, Shepherd, Texas, Truett

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.


The Lamb of God

Date: April 25th, 1976  |  Scripture: Isaiah 53:1-12  |  Topics: Atonement, Cross, Lamb, Preaching, Prophecy

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we didContinue Reading


The Lamb of God

Date: April 25th, 1976  |  Scripture: Isaiah 53:1-12  |  Topics: Atonement, Cross, Lamb, Preaching, Prophecy

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we didContinue Reading


Everywhere Preaching the Word

Date: July 31st, 1977  |  Scripture: Acts 8:1-4  |  Topics: Evangelism, Missions, Preaching, Sorrow, Witness

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison. Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preacContinue Reading