By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: Romans 10:9-17 The mission of God is simple: to glorify Himself by giving eternal life to everyone who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ. The question is, are God’s people committed to His mission of redeeming a people for Himself? Is the church of Jesus today committed to seeing, “all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the

By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: Psalm 99:1-9  Psalm 99 is part of a group of five psalms (Psalms 95-99) that are called by most scholars, “Royal Psalms,” or “Coronation Psalms.” They are a group of Psalms that exalt God as Creator, the righteous Judge, and the Sovereign Lord who forgives and saves. Well, in the last of these five psalms extolling the greatness

By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: Colossians 1:3-12  Now while the admonition to pray is an all-encompassing truth, the main idea in our text for this week is that we commit to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ.  Yet, in truth, we seldom actually pray for one another as we should. We are experts at the “I’m praying for you,” statement, but

By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: Romans 12:3-16  The epistle of Romans is often called Paul’s theological treatise concerning salvation and God’s work of grace. However, when you arrive at chapter 12, the apostle’s message moves from the theological to the practical. One could say that Romans 12 begins Paul’s practical application of the gospel he declared in Romans 1-11. And in our lesson

By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: Psalm 119:1-11  Remember the words: “I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God’s Holy Word, and will make it a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path, and hide its word in my heart that I may not sin against God.” While we do not know who wrote Psalm 119, we can see that he was a

By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage:  Mark 10:13-22  In the passage this week, there are two main thoughts that teach what commitment to Christ looks like. First, when Jesus received the children in Mark 10:13-16, He was teaching His disciples that salvation and entrance into the Kingdom of God is a work of God alone in that we “receive” it by grace through faith

By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: Romans 5:6-12, 18-21  One of the great truths we see in the New Testament is that long before we committed ourselves to Christ, Christ committed Himself to us by dying for us. The fact that “God demonstrates His love towards us” (Romans 5:8) through the death of Christ should produce in us songs of praise and worship.  I

By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: Exodus 20:15-17; Psalm 37:1-6  As we come to the last three commandments, we need to remember that these commandments are just as important as the others.  They should not be thought of as add-ons just to make the commandments an even 10. They are as important as the first seven, and some scholars even believe that the tenth

By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill  Focal Passage: Exodus 20:14; II Samuel 11:1-5  There is no denying that we live in a world where there is much confusion, misunderstanding, and misinformation about gender and marriage. Many people no longer believe in or value traditional, biblical, monogamous marriage. Sadly, this is true even among some in the church, as with every new generation in the body of

By Eric Taylor Pastor, Cedar Hill Baptist Church, Cedar Hill Focal Passage: Exodus 20:13; 1 Samuel 26:7-11, 22-25 As we come to the sixth commandment, many people either misunderstand or misinterpret the phrase, “You shall not kill.” Actually, the best translation of the original language is, “You shall not murder.” The word here in the Hebrew is “murder,” and specifically means the wanton, intentional slaying of another human being. It