A Christ-Centered Church
Sermons by Stephen Weaver (Page 17)
Our text for this Sunday morning is James 4:16-17. We are finishing up a paragraph we started 2 weeks ago where James is addressing the problem of making plans without God. Now he talks in verses 16-17 about a further problem of making plans without the Lord: arrogance (boasting), and not doing what we know we should be doing. …
We’ll take a break this morning from our James series to do a special message for Father’s Day. While we will make special application to fathers, we will still be speaking about faith in everyone’s life. Our text for this message is Mark 4:35-41. Here Jesus gives the disciples a test on the waters of…
Our text for this Sunday morning is James 4:13-15. Do we tend to make plans without the Lord? Do we often think that the “details” of our lives don’t matter to God? This Sunday, I want to tell you a story about someone, a believer, who was so busy with his life, his family’s life;…
Our text this Sunday morning is James 4:11-12, part 2. Having talked about the dangers of slander, (speaking evil about someone), last week we talked about that not only is it wrong; but how easy it is to fall into it. In this passage James is talking about speaking evil about a fellow believer (others),…
Our text this Sunday morning is James 4:11-12, part 1. In this passage James is talking about speaking evil about a fellow believer (others), or judging others and thus looking down on them. We live in a society that does this type of evil speaking regularly. The world also justifies doing it, making excuses for…
Our text this Sunday morning is James 4:7-10, part 2. We are talking about principles to, or toward, salvation and sanctification. Here is the rest of James test, a spiritual test, which is his list of sharp, terse commands. Basically he’s saying THIS: a person who truly comes to Christ, or knows Christ, will have…
Our text is James 4:7-10. This sermon and the next are talking about principles to, or toward, salvation and sanctification. Here we have another of James tests, a spiritual test, which is a list he gives of sharp, terse commands. Basically saying THIS: a person who truly comes to Christ will have these! 10 principles,…
This Sunday, being Mother’s Day, we will break away from our James series to do a message in honor of our mothers. Our text will be 1 Kings 1:15-21; 28-37. Here we have a story that includes a mother who is faithful; she is a leader and used of the Lord to work on behalf…
Our text once again for this Sunday morning is James 4:4-6. We’ll especially focus on the verses we didn’t get to last week (verses 5-6). James, in this passage, is giving a plan for victory in these verses. Victory for what James has been talking about: the tongue in chapter 3, fighting that we talked…
Our text for this Sunday morning is James 4:4-6. Plans, we all make plans in every area of our lives. But how do you plan spiritually? James, in this passage, gives a plan for victory in these verses. Victory for what? What James has been talking about: the tongue in chapter 3, fighting, that we…