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52 Topical Sermons Volume 1

By Barry L. Davis, D.Min.

Copyright©2013 Barry L. Davis

All Scripture taken from the King James Version.

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CONTENTS

1. MY FAITH FOR ALL TO SEE

2. DECLARING THE GOSPEL

3. WHAT THE CROSS REVEALED

4. OUR QUEST FOR JESUS

5. WHAT GOD HAS PREPARED

6. WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO CONFESS

7. DEFINING THE SON OF GOD

8. THE 3S FORMULA FOR SPIRITUAL SUCCESS

9. WHO IS DEAD TO GOD?

10. JESUS’ AUTHORITY

11. PROFESSION, POSSESSION, CONFESSION

12. SALVATION DEMONSTRATED

13. JESUS PROVES HIS LOVE FOR US

14. WHICH WILL IT BE?

15. A GOD YOU CAN COUNT ON

16. A GOD YOU CAN TRUST

17. JESUS—THEN, NOW, AND FOREVER

18. WHAT JOHN SAID

19. THE NEED FOR ONE ANOTHERING

20. LIFE CHANGE IN THREE TENSES

21. HOW THE GOSPEL FUNCTIONS

22. GOD’S WRATH

23. FOUR FACETS OF LOVE

24. THREE KNOCKS AT THE DOOR

25. WHO ARE YOU?

26. YOU ARE INVITED!

27. YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE

28. THE SAVIOR

29. GRASPING TRUE WORSHIP

30. WHAT A BORN AGAIN PERSON LOOKS LIKE

31. FOUR FRIENDS OF JESUS

32. WHAT TYPE OF FAITH DO YOU HAVE?

33. TERMS OF ENDEARMENT

34. WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO

35. THE POWER OF THE WORD

36. “LAID UP” FOR YOU!

37. GRACE OVERFLOWING

38. WHAT JESUS DOES

39. DO THIS! UNTIL JESUS COMES

40. AN EXPLANATION OF PRAYER

41. BASIC EQUIPMENT FOR DISCIPLES

42. TRANSLATED, TRANSFORMED, TRANSFIGURED

43. GOD GIVES US REST

44. OUR BELOVED LORD

45. HOW DO YOU WALK?

46. THE TESTIMONY OF THE SPIRIT

47. SAVED BY JESUS

48. WHERE IS YOUR PLACE?

49. SOUL FOCUS

50. WALK WORTHY

51. GET READY

52. HOW TO BE GOOD FOR GOD

1. MY FAITH FOR ALL TO SEE

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.—Psalm 40:10

ILLUSTRATION:

1Two weeks after 9/11, I was in Queens, New York, training church planters. Every night I walked down to a local Irish Pub to eat dinner with some friends. A waitress named Fiona not only served us well, but seemed curious about our faith and what we were teaching pastors. Each evening our conversation deepened.

“So, why would you help pastors lead their churches if churches really don’t do much good?” she asked.

Knowing that one-third of her Irish friends in the 1980s and 1990s were sexually abused in the Catholic school system, and that two of her friends were killed in “Protestant/Catholic” fights, gave me ample reason not to judge her criticism of organized religion. What could I say? How could I explain my love for Jesus without bringing the church into it?

I simply talked with her about the Kingdom. “Fiona, Jesus came to ...