New Life Baptist Church | College Station Sermons

Back in chapter 7, Israel was defeated by the small army of Ai and Joshua cried out to the Lord. His biggest fear came out in that prayer - that the other armies would hear of Israel's defeat, band together, and wipe Israel off the map. Well...

Last week we saw that Joshua and Israel failed to take Ai because of sin in the camp, and because they failed to consult the Lord before the battle. They were soundly defeated and had to deal with Achan and his sin, because the war for the Promised...

Sunday's sermon covers Joshua 7:1-26 in a message I've called, "Sin: More Trouble than It's Worth." In the text, Joshua sends out spies to scout out Ai, who recommend sending a small detachment of soldiers to take the city...

This week's sermon covers Joshua 5:13-6:27 and is called, "Judgment and Salvation." This week is the "assault" on Jericho, where God fights for his people, brings judgment on his enemies, and saves Rahab and her family as...

This week we're covering Joshua 5:1-12. Too many of us live our lives in a way where what we say is most important to us gets the least amount of our time, energy, and attention. It certainly doesn't get our first and best. And that is...

This week's sermon covers Joshua 3-4 and is called, "Don't Forget to Remember." God leads Joshua and the nation into the Promised Land, and he does so by miraculously stopping the flow of the Jordan River at flood stage. This...

This week we are covering Joshua 2 in a sermon called, "Saved through Faith." Because Joshua believes they will have to take Jericho through conventional warfare, he sends two spies to scope out the land and the city's defenses so they...

This weekend we begin our new series through the Book of Joshua, "Courageous Faith." The sermon will cover chapter 1 and is called, "The Quest for Rest." After 400 years in slavery and 40 years wandering the desert, the...

Over the past three weeks, we've sought to answer the question, “Who Is the Christ?” We saw he was born of a virgin, fully God, and fully man. On Good Friday, we'll remember his substitutionary death on the cross. But if Jesus isn’t raised...

Very few people today are going to question whether Jesus was fully human. Plenty of people questioned his full humanity back in the day, but not really anymore. Why does the humanity of Jesus matter? Unless Jesus was fully human, he could not save us...

This week we continue our series leading up to Easter entitled "Who is the Christ?" and learn that Jesus is fully God.

This week we start a new series entitled "Who is the Christ?" focusing on the person of Jesus in preparation for Easter. This week we cover the virgin birth.

This Sunday we wrap-up our long "Messy Church" series with 2 Corinthians 13:1-14 in a message entitled, "The Final Test" Paul is about to come to Corinth for the third time, but there are still people in the church who are living...

This week's sermon is called "Spend and Be Spent" and covers 2 Corinthians 12:11-21. The truth is, we spend our time, money, and energy on whatever we believe to be valuable. For Paul, there was nothing more valuable than the glory of...

No one naturally embraces his or her weaknesses. We try to hide them, deny them, and run from them. We don't want anyone else to know we have them. But our weaknesses are the things God uses to highlight his strength and his grace. Our...

Paul's critics pointed to his suffering as evidence that he wasn't really an apostle of Jesus Christ. They, like many modern teachers today (there's nothing new under the sun), believed that true apostles and true believers' lives...

This week's sermon covers 2 Corinthians 11:7-15 and is called, "Exalting Others by Humbling Ourselves." Paul was under fire, strangely enough, for not accepting financial compensation for his ministry from the Corinthians. Instead, he...

This week's message covers 2 Corinthians 11:1-6 and is called, "Don't Be Led Astray." The Corinthians were being tempted by Satan through the false teachers, and were in danger of walking away from Christ and the Gospel. Paul, as a...

Since the Garden of Eden, we’ve been in the middle of a spiritual war. This war isn’t against flesh & blood, and this war can’t be fought or won with the weapons of this world. Paul understood that, so when his ministry came under attack in...

In his conclusion, Solomon will cover three of our biggest fears - fear of the unknown, fear of the aging process, and fear of man. We'll learn that if we fear the Lord, we have nothing else to fear.

In Ecclesiastes 9 we learn what is means to lament and hope in the hands of God even in the face of death.

We'll learn how to Reflect on the brokenness of our world, Rejoice in the many blessings of our lives and Rest in the absolute sovereignty of our God

In Ecclesiastes 3 we discover that our longing for God, eternity and the world to be renewed is set in our hearts by God and that he is the only one who can fulfill this longing.

Our author, presumably Solomon, will note that all in the world is vanity, a chasing after the wind. He sees this illustrated in the natural cycles of the earth - sunrise and sunset, prevailing winds, and the water cycle. He knows that all is vain...

We will learn that God blesses us to bless others through us.

This week we see that God equips his church with faithful servants and faithful stewards.

In the passage, Paul begins one of the greatest extended teachings we find in Scripture on the subject of giving, which leads us to greater freedom and joy if we'll hear and apply it to our lives. We'll learn that out of gratitude for...

This week's message is called "Good Grief" and covers 2 Corinthians 7:2-16. In this passage, Paul will explain the difference between good grief (which he calls “godly grief”) and bad grief (which he calls “worldly...

Paul reminds us that we need to be clean externally and internally so we can enjoy true fellowship with God and one another. We'll learn that because we are God's temple, we must joyfully pursue holiness.

In this section of Scripture, we see that how we go about the ministry of reconciliation will either help or hinder our Gospel witness. Paul and his companions understood this, so by the grace of God, they sought to ensure that no one could find fault...

We'll see that we've been given the message and ministry of reconciliation and are called to be faithful ambassadors for God. The main point: "Compelled by the love of Christ, we implore others to be reconciled to God."

This week we learn that God has prepared a heavenly dwelling and that they way we live now can be influenced by looking forward to the future reality of the resurrection of the body.

In this text, Paul honestly addresses the difficult circumstances he and his team face, but he sees his situation through the lens of the Gospel. We will learn that when we view this life in light of eternity, we can face our circumstances with faith.

As we've learned, Paul and his team faced a great deal of adversity – not just from unbelieving Jews and Gentiles, but even from professing Christians in the churches they planted. It would have been easy for them to get discouraged and throw in...

Paul certainly believed that freedom is a wonderful thing. The problem is that the way most people define and pursue freedom actually leads to bondage. That's what happens when people teach that Christians needed to submit to the Old Covenant...

Things weren't looking great for Paul - he had been rejected at Corinth, opposed in Ephesus, and was overcome with anxiety in Troas. It certainly didn't seem like his ministry was being blessed by God. His opponents in Corinth...

Last week, we saw that the Corinthians were upset with Paul because he hadn’t come to visit them after he said he would. Some accused him of vacillating and lacking integrity, especially after he sent them an emotional letter calling them to...

Broken promises make people upset because we were created in God’s image, and God never lies. Hardwired into us is an assumption that people mean what they say, that they’ll do what they promise. But some of the Corinthians were upset with Paul...

We learn that suffering is not outside of God's control and that there is purpose in our suffering.

We'll see that we must learn the secret of contentment, trusting God to supply every need.

Our lives are marked by anxiety, worry, uncertainty for a variety of reasons. Paul will teach us that if we want to experience the peace of God, we have to exercise obedient faith in the God of peace. That involves pursuing unity with other believers...

This week we take a look at the back half of Philippians 3 and discover that Christians have been made citizens of heaven by God and therefore should live as citizens of heaven on earth.