Sermons on Confession

Sermons on Confession

Nehemiah 1:1-2:5 

Kneehemiah, Man of Prayer, or Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There                                                 Introduction:  The crisis hits in your life….          You are informed that your company doesn’t need your service any longer. Or, you discover that your father is leaving your mother and their thirty-five year marriage.          Or, in the happy aftermath of the birth of your new baby, the pediatrician                    lets you know there is a problem. Perhaps, it’s one of the more common everyday crises ….          You run out of…

Romans 10:1-17

Our Responsibility in Salvation   Introduction:  And now for the rest of the story ….  If you were here last Sunday you heard a very strong message on the sovereignty of God.  Romans 9 can almost take our theological breath away, as it teaches that God does what He wants with His creatures, and there is no one who can accuse Him of being unjust or unfair—because He is God.  He makes choices among men before they are ever born, and those choices are not…

1 Cor. 6:12-20

Six Reasons Why Sex Outside Marriage Is Wrong SCRIPTURE: 1 Cor. 6:12-20                                                                    Introduction:  I read recently of a wife who went to lunch with eleven other women who were taking a French course together, since their children were all in school.  One rather bold woman asked the rest, “How many of you have been faithful throughout your marriage?”  Only one raised her hand.  That evening when the woman of our story related the incident to her husband and admitted she was not the one who had…

Daniel 9

Repentance: Prerequisite to Spiritual Renewal Introduction:  One of the most profitable studies a Christian can do is a study of the great prayers in the Bible—prayers of Moses, Joshua, David, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Paul, Peter, and of course, Jesus Himself.  We have before us this morning one of the greatest of all the prayers in the Bible.  It is a prayer of repentance and confession—both personal and national.  It is a model we desperately need today.  I think it would be valuable for us to read…