Years ago
when I first started out in ministry a sermon title revealed what was coming. When I look over the past decades of my own
sermons I can see where I went from very biblical titles of messages to seek
friendly titles that were tied even into
the latest movies & trends of the
day so as be make the Word of God and the preaching thereof more relevant. Well I guess
I have come full circle again because I do not see how being relevant to the latest
trends in the movies , celebrities and
politics is going to win the lost and sanctify the hungry at heart. A few years ago I did the funeral for a veteran
holiness pastor who died in his mid 90’s. He
had pastored over 50 years of his life preaching holiness. I had the rare opportunity to look through his
decades of sermon notes before then went off to his family. I took the time to
just jot down some of the titles and scripture texts of dozens of his messages. I thought I would share a few of those
titles here today as a point of
reference on how staying relevant to the Word is much more in line with true
biblical holiness then staying relevant with culture. The culture needs a fresh biblical Word to
provoke them to seek after God, more then they need a slick sermon title that
sounds like the filthy movie they just watched the week before. Just saying……
- Burglar Proof Religion
- Fair Warning
- I stand at the door and knock
- White Robes
- The Crucial approach to holiness
- God hath given eternal life
- Jesus Saves from all sin
- Acceptable to God
- 5 Things God does not know
- Who then shall be Saved?
- Our glorious heritage and our holy responsibilities
- The uses of trial
- The Changeless Christ
- The way of holiness
- A perfect man
- The disowned
- The World’s Danger
- The Christians Body & the life of holiness
- The Believers Wisdom, Righteousness, sanctification and redemption
- Do you need a new God?
- Living to the point
- Forgiveness of sins
- Christ in relation to the religious feeling of mankind
- Watch
- The attraction of Holiness
How many mega churches or want to be mega churches pastors have
sermon titles like those above? So many
sermon titles today have shock em type words like sex and non bible related bible terms in them. I have even seen where the pastor of a
church on TV sat on a bed instead of preaching from a pulpit to make the point
about sexual purity more real. It just seems like we need to look to those Godly
men of the past decades again and rid ourselves of
the filth of this world and let God be Holy proclaimed again in our pulpits.
Just saying………
