John Sypert, Author at Preston Highlands Baptist Church

Ephesians 1:3-6 | “Saved By God, For God”

[display_podcast] Why and How Are We Christians? Why are you a Christian? How did you become a Christian? These are usually questions we answer from our point of view, from the street-level existence of our lives. We say that we’re Christians because we accepted Jesus. We say that we became a Christian when we prayed a prayer, walked an aisle, got baptized, or made a commitment to live a new life. How would God answer these questions? Why are we Christians according to God’s point of view? How did we [...]

By John Sypert|2020-07-30T16:10:19-06:00February 4th, 2018|Ephesians, John Sypert, Sermons|

Ephesians 1:1-2 | “May Grace and Peace Be to You”

[display_podcast] Why Study Ephesians? This morning we’re beginning a study of Ephesians. We’ll spend thirty weeks this year going through this letter. We’ve spent the bulk of the last two years on Sunday mornings covering large portions of Scripture, going through Matthew and Acts one chapter a week. It’s important to study large portions of Scripture in order to see the overarching scope of what God is saying. But it’s also important to study smaller bits in order to see the precious gems that make up each paragraph and sentence [...]

By John Sypert|2020-07-30T16:11:40-06:00January 28th, 2018|Ephesians, John Sypert, Sermons|

Psalm 127:3-5 | Children Are a Blessing, Not a Burden

[display_podcast] Cultural Schizophrenia Concerning Children Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a failure to understand what is real. Common symptoms include false beliefs and unclear or confused thinking. .5% of people are affected by schizophrenia during their lifetime. Concerning the topic of children, I’d argue that a much larger percentage of people in our culture are suffering from schizophrenia. A large portion of our society struggles with unclear or confused thinking concerning children. Over the last decade, between 45 and 50 percent of Americans have identified with the [...]

By John Sypert|2020-07-30T16:13:28-06:00January 21st, 2018|John Sypert, Psalms, Sermons|

Colossians 3:16 | “Where Will You Live in 2018?”

[display_podcast] Where We Live Shapes Our Lives Where we live shapes who we are and who we become. The place where we lived growing up shapes our values and thought-processes and preferences and behaviors. I love hearing people’s stories. I love asking people about where they’re from and what their life was like growing up. Why? Because our past has a way of shaping our present and guiding our future. I spent the most formative years of my life, grades one through twelve, in a small country town of [...]

By John Sypert|2020-07-30T16:18:41-06:00January 14th, 2018|Colossians, John Sypert, Sermons|

Colossians 4:2 | Watch for God in 2018

[display_podcast] What We Love Watching Most of us love watching television. The average American watches between four and five hours of television a day. Two thirds of us watch television while we eat dinner. Over half of us pay for cable TV. We love television. We love it so much that we usually make the TV the centerpiece of our living rooms. So much that we’ll spend money we don’t have on getting bigger and better and more TV’s. So much that, at the end of a long day, [...]

By John Sypert|2020-07-30T16:21:18-06:00January 7th, 2018|Colossians, John Sypert, Sermons|

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