10-16-05 Dallas Baptist Church 40 Days of Purpose Week 2: Created for God’s Pleasure…first purpose: Worship Sermon Transcript Rick Warren tells of a true story that was reported by Mike Royco in the Chicago Tribune. The story goes like this: There was man whose name was Bill Mallory. Mallory traveled…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

John Macarthur and further back the SBC have made Women’s roles in the life of the church a front and center issue. The SBC had knuckle heads making statements like… a women in my pulpit… never . Then a couple of weeks ago, John MacArthur made the satement about Beth Moore… stay home. Unfortunately today…

Today we are studying John 12:20-50 . It is important to know the setting when studying any passage, so while you are turning there in your own bibles, does anyone remembers what was happening? We saw the context last week in John 12:12-19 . What was the context? What was the situation in which we saw…

Pastor Juan Ocampo begins a new sermon series in the book of Colossians. In this introduction pastor Juan gives us a brief overview of this book and encourages us with for reasons why we should study this rich letter to the Colossians.

We are surrounded by the Glory of God.!!

First of all, we are all ministers. Jesus did not come to our world and live here so we could just come to church and hang out, He came to empower us to change the world. Why did God create us? Let’s review God’s purpose for creating us in the first place. 1. We were made to have a relationship with…

Turn to Colossians 3 The last two weeks we have looked in depth at Colossians 3:5-11 and at the primary command in verse 5 in particular. By way of review Paul says in light of the fact that you have died with Christ and have been raised with Christ we are to 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly…

We can never settle because of who we are and Who's we are. Go as hard as we can, as long as we can, as smart as we can.

When Judges Rule The first recorded question that God asked was "Adam, where are you?" God was not looking for his physical location. He is God and know's all things. So why ask the question? The question drew attention to the new condition of man. The man that God had created had sinned. Just as God…

Our Purpose To Glorify God by Enjoying Him Forever. for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Enjoy God Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for…

Introduction *Two godly men were very helpful in preparing this sermon. If you would like to study more about this I would direct you to the works of John Piper and J.D. Greear on this topic. Most of you are not professional Christians. Most of you don’t work for a church or deal with Christians most…