Joseph Smith
802 Sermons
Title: Pastor/Minister
Church/Ministry: Retired
Denomination: Baptist
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802 Sermons
Scripture: Ezekiel 36:22-36:27
Sermon Topic: Born Again
Brief Description: God works in our lives much as a surgeon does in our bodies: cleansing thoroughly of old idolatries, assisting us in the transition, and then giving us a new indwelling presence, that of Christ.
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Scripture: 1 John 3:11-3:18
Sermon Topic: Christian Love
Brief Description: We are divided over whether to invest more in charity or more in the church program. A key element must be the compassion that gives from the core of our beings.
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Scripture: Acts 2:37-2:47
Sermon Topic: Church: Body of Christ
Brief Description: A church that wishes to grow must "get over" negatives about evangelism and must tell the truth about the human spiritual condition; must present a full diet of worship and study and preparation; and must be a source of radical community.
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Scripture: Revelation 6:12-6:17
Sermon Topic: Racism
Brief Description: Celebrates the literary insights of James Baldwin, who had died shortly before; the privilege of redemptive suffering on the part of a person or a people participates in the suffering of Christ and of His victory. Includes readings from Baldwin’s writing
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Scripture: Luke 15:11-15:32
Sermon Topic: Father's Day
Brief Description: The waiting father reaches deep into the reservoirs of love, extending compassion to his wayward son. So we also as parents must seek not to control but to guide and then be ready for forgiveness.
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Scripture: James 1:19-5:12
Sermon Topic: Jesus Teachings
Brief Description: Monologue, as if the speaker were James, illustrating points by incidents in the life of Jesus. Truth comes with compassion, it does its own convicting, and must be backed with a life of integrity.
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Scripture: Micah 6:6-6:8
Sermon Topic: Humility
Brief Description: FBC Gaithersburg: funeral for Julia McNeely Vance, centenarian, physician, daughter of Irish Baptists. Text and poem requested by family. Julia's commitments, nurtured early, brought her into an unusual life. Not delivered by me because of illness.
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Sermon Series: We Are Some BODY
Scripture: Ephesians 3:7-3:21
Sermon Topic: Church: Body of Christ
Brief Description: Montgomery Hills Baptist Church: As the old Charles Atlas method used muscle against muscle to build young bodies, so the church may use its forces against the values of the world to build itself. Inclusion rather than clannishness, love rather than comp
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Scripture: Acts 17:1-17:9
Sermon Topic: Commitment to Christ
Brief Description: We are called to turn the world upside down, as revolutionaries. But our energies dissipate and we become frightened. Let us look to the one who did not flinch from His mission.
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Scripture: Luke 22:31-22:62
Sermon Topic: Repentance
Brief Description: Calverton Baptist Church, Silver Spring, MD, 1983: Our denials, like Peter's, reflect our confusing loudness with loyalty and our seeing ourselves as victims rather than victors. But Christ is able to look at us, evoke repentance, and turn us around.
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