Steve Moutoux

Subject: Condemnation
Scripture: Revelation 3:14-22
Sermon: “The Foolish Church”

Introduction:
A.  Increasingly, today's young people know little or nothing about the Western moral tradition.

Subject: Steadfastness
Scripture: Revelation 3:7-13
Sermon: “Remaining Steadfast in God’s Word”

Introduction:
A.  Some ask if there is a perfect church – If I knew of one I wouldn’t tell you because you would go there and ruin it

Subject: Chastisement
Scripture: Revelation 3:1-6
Sermon: “The Feeble Church”

Introduction:
A.  Light year = distance light travels in a year at 186,000 miles per second = over 6 trillion miles – if a star 30 light years away from earth exploded and died five years ago, we would not be able to tell this by looking at it for another 25 years

Subject: Chastisement
Scripture: Revelation 2:18-29
Sermon: “The Corrupted Church”

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Subject: Chastisement
Scripture: Revelation 2:12-17
Sermon: “The Compromising Church”

Introduction:
A.  Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life: The dogma we find so dull—this terrifying drama of which God is the victim and hero—if this is dull, then what, in Heaven’s name, is worthy to be called exciting? The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore—on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe.

Subject: Trial/Perseverance
Scripture: Revelation 2:8-11
Sermon: “Persevering unto Death”

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Subject: Love
Scripture: Revelation 2:1-7
Sermon: “Not Forsaking Your First Love”

Introduction:
A.  The May, 1984 National Geographic showed through color photos and drawings the swift and terrible destruction that wiped out the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD

Subject: Reaction/Response
Scripture: Revelation 1:17-20
Sermon: “The Proper Response to Jesus Christ”

Introduction:
A. Tammy Lindsey, Utica, New York: The praise chorus "We Exalt Thee" took on a whole new meaning when I heard my three-year-old daughter singing her version: "We exhaust thee. We exhaust thee, O Lord."

B.  The Lord is the ever living one and we must exhaust Him, which is an impossibility

Bible Background:
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Subject: Christ
Scripture: Revelation 1:12-16
Sermon: “One Like the Son of Man”

Introduction:
A.  Mark Moring in Men of Integrity, Vol. 1, no. 1: When our church organized a work team for a short-term missions trip to Spain, they wanted “skilled” workers, but were willing to take a few non-handy guys like me. (You’ll never see my face on “Home Improvement”!)

Subject: Second Coming of Christ
Scripture: Revelation 1:9-11
Sermon: “John’s Commission to Write Revelation”

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