Sermons by Bryan Crotts (Page 7)
All Flesh Shall Come to Me
Isaiah 66:10-24 So our New Testament reading will be from Isaiah, I’m sorry, from Revelation 21. This is a picture of the end times, the heavenly city. So Revelation 21, verse one, John says, I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and the sea was no more. I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God prepared as a bride adorned for…
Q & A With Paul
1 Corinthians 7 Turn in your copy of the scriptures to 1 Corinthians chapter seven, we’ll be looking at verses one through 40, the chapter in its entirety. This is sort of section two of Paul addressing the problems at Corinth. One side of the problem was believers said, oh, body soul, soul good, spirit good, body bad, we can go visit prostitutes. The other side of the coin we get today, body soul division, soul good, body bad. So…
Re-Creation
Isaiah 65:17-25 Let’s hear God’s word together. Isaiah 65, beginning at verse 17. So remember God is responding to the prayer of Isaiah. Does God hear us? And does God care about our condition? So he’s begun to answer that. And we pick up in 17, for behold, I create new heavens and a new earth and the former thing shall not be remembered or come into mind. but be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create. For…
How to Inherit the Kingdom of God
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Please be seated. Turn in your copy of God’s holy word to 1st Corinthians chapter 6. Today we’ll be looking at verses 9 through 11. 1st Corinthians 6, 9 through 11. This is what I call a two water bottle sermon. You know how you go to the Mexican restaurant and the top of your head is sweating because of the spices. This is this is one of those passages. And so we want to be faithful…
Sabbath People
Isaiah 56:1-8 Hear God’s word, Isaiah 56, beginning at verse one. Thus says the Lord, or Yahweh, keep justice and do righteousness for soon my salvation will come and my righteousness will be revealed. Blessed is the man who does this and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil. Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, the Lord will…
Meat & Potatoes
1 Corinthians 2:1-5 Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to first Corinthians chapter two. Today we’ll be looking at chapter two verses one through five. So far in Corinthians, in this section, Paul has been comparing the wisdom of the world with the foolishness of God. He’s been comparing the strength of the world or the power of the world with the weakness of God. And he concluded that the weakness of God, the foolishness of God are…
Come!
Isaiah 54-55 Y’all will remember over the last bunches of weeks, really once we got to chapter 40, one of the things that we’ve heard over and over is Israel or God’s people have two predicaments. One predicament is they’re stuck in Babylon. So there’s a geographical problem. Then the other predicament, a bigger, worse one, is they are exiled from God because of their sin. So God is going to repair their exile problem geographically through Cyrus. Cyrus will…
Foolish, Weak, Low & Despised
1 Corinthians 1:26-31 You may be seated. Turn in your copy of the scripture to 1 Corinthians 1. Today we’ll be looking at 26-31, but to give us a bit of reminder of what we considered last week, we’ll add verse 25. 1 Corinthians 1, we’ll read 25 and then look today at 26-31. Let’s ask for God’s help and grace now before we read and hear God’s word. Pray with me. Lord, we give you thanks that our risen…
Folly of the Cross
1 Corinthians 1:17-25 Hear God’s word, 1 Corinthians 1, beginning at 17. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise…
Suffering Servant
Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Isaiah 52.13 through Isaiah 53.12 is our passage. After a long stretch, you’re finally getting to something in Isaiah that you know might have been since chapter 9. Behold, the virgin shall conceive. That might be the last time there was something familiar to you. So here we are again at a good familiar passage. You’ll notice all kinds of things pop out at you, things that you know from the gospels, things you know from the book…
Singing Off the Same Songsheet
1 Corinthians 1:10-17 Amen. Please take out your copy of the scriptures and turn to 1 Corinthians 1 verses 10 through 17. Remember the apostle Paul wrote four letters to the Corinthian church. He wrote one that we don’t have, but he refers to it in this letter. It’s generally called Corinthians A, something like that. And then in our Bibles, we have 1 Corinthians and he wrote another letter often referred to as Corinthian B. don’t have that one.…
Pay Attention, Pilgrims
Isaiah 51:1-52:12 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 51, Isaiah 51 1 through 52 12, kind of a chapter and a half will be our passage for tonight. So last week we looked at servant song number three and next week when we get into 52 verse 13 and into chapter 53, you’ll see Servant Song number four, the one you are probably most familiar with. And then we are, believe it or not, getting in the homestretch, the backstretch of Isaiah.…