GREYFRIARS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH THEMES FROM ROMANS 1. THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD Passage: Romans 1:17 - 32 Introduction: In this letter to the Romans, Paul sets out for Christian people he has never met his understanding of "the Gospel". It is also to prepare the way for a personal visit (see 15:28‑32) when…

LIVING UNDER THE LAW Grace: The Truth that Transforms - Part 15 of 36 Romans 6:14 Rick Warren Romans 6:14 is one of the key verses on Christian living in the Bible. The believer who fully grasps the meaning of "you are not under the law, but under grace" will understand the secret of becoming all God…

Are you living in the Spirit?

1 Samuel and the book of Acts describe David as a man after God's heart. He had a genuine relationship with God. If you've been around a Gospel-preaching church for long, you may have heard the phrase, "it's not about religion, it's about having a relationship with God." Psalm 5 gives us a glimpse into the reality of that phrase through the prayer of David. This Sunday we'll explore what it means to have that kind of relationship with the Lord.

Prayer: For the past several months I’ve been contemplating where we would head after Easter. It wasn’t really clear to me where we were going to head until this past Monday. Up until this point in time, as AFBC, we’ve only gone through an OLD TESTAMENT survey for a particular sermon series regarding…

Intro: We continue our series on “Foundations.” The Latin word sola means “alone” or “only” and the essential Christian doctrines represented by these five Latin phrases accurately summarize the biblical teaching on these crucial subjects: sola scriptura —Scripture alone, sola fide —faith alone, sola…

A survey of all of the pieces we have been studying in the first eight chapters of Romans. Very lengthy, but some of the most powerful theology there is.

SERMON TYPE: EXPOSITORY Chad Williams Box 336A Romans, BIB 641, 5-6th Hour Title: The Rational Response of the Redeemed Text: Romans 12:1-2 Sub/Comp: The mercies of God compel the believer to respond with a personal life of dedication, with proper Christian separation, and with a pursuit of thorough…

Introduction: At the center of the Christian life lie two fundamental truths required for living the life God has called the Christian to live. These two truths are that of being a living sacrifice and having a transformed life. A TV show from the late 80’s to the late 90’s was centered around a family…

Merlin Carothers, author of the book Prison to Praise, had firsthand experience of what it is like to be declared righteous. During World War II, he joined the army. Anxious to get into some action, Carothers went AWOL but was caught and sentenced to five years in prison. Instead of sending him to prison,…

A Renewed Life Romans 12 March 11, 2007 I listened to a sermon series, called The Ride of Your Life. It was introduced with the song, Born to be Wild – by a rock group, called Steppenwolf – who are older than I am and I gather still doing their rock n roll thing. The title of the series likened the Christian…

The means of Justification - How God can justify us

Palm Sunday 2011 Matthew 21:9 In the Name of the Lord Now, we begin this Holy Week Celebration. We commemorate the Death of our Lord and Savior and Celebrate his victory over sin and death through his death and resurrection. Some people get very serious about whether they call it Easter or not. I personally…

March 16, 2012 By John Barnett Read, print, and listen to this resource on our website www.DiscoverTheBook.org This week as Gerry and I had lunch someone stopped by our table and asked, “Could you define ‘grace-energized’ for me?” I did briefly there at that restaurant, but as I thought and prayed about…

Pastor Luke continues our series on the 5 Sola's looking at Sola Fide -- Faith Alone, and how we become part of God's family, and how we accept and embrace the grace God has shown to his people Also features Hymns by Deanna Unruh. All Music performed under license by CCLI, License Number 252077; Streaming License Number 20635834

At Sinai the people (Israel) presented themselves to God for a very intense personal encounter in which God bound Himself to them as a people and they were transformed and became His people. Paul now tells us to present ourselves for transformation which will prepare us to be His messengers.