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Faithful to the Finish
Peter's final call to a young and growing church
Grace and Glory
A short series through the highlights of 1 Peter
Entrusted
Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
By Joe Mckeever on Sep 11, 2025
There are a thousand reasons for dropping the occasional story into your sermon, pastor. Here are the top three.
Scripture: Exodus 17:8-16
Tags: Preaching, storytelling, stories, preaching
By SermonCentral .com on Apr 1, 2021
Practical advice to take full advantage of this once-a-year opportunity--this year, and in years to come.
Tags: Easter, Outreach, New, Church Growth, Impact, preaching tips, Easter Palm Sunday (view more) (view less)
By Peter Mead on Apr 11, 2020
Easter is the real ground zero of the Christian faith. We tend to, or should, return to it week after week. So what do we do when Easter comes around?
Scripture: John 15:1-10
Tags: Crucifixion, Preaching, ground zero, preaching, Jesus, Easter (view more) (view less)
By Lance Witt on May 2, 2024
The greatest gift we give a new believer is not information, it is RELATIONSHIP. The primary need of a new believer is nurture not knowledge.
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 2:7-8
Tags: Easter, Discipleship, relationships, New believer
By Sherman Haywood Cox on Aug 3, 2020
Stories are powerful, but how do we make the points of our sermon while keeping the integrity of the Bible story that we are preaching?
Tags: Preaching, preaching
By Ray Hollenbach on Nov 12, 2024
Those of us who feed God's flock must become God's storytellers. Here's the journey we must take.
Scripture: 2 Peter 1:5-9, Exodus 17:8-16
Tags: storytelling, preaching, Parable, Preaching, narrative (view more) (view less)
By Jeff K. Clarke on Dec 21, 2019
In our pursuit of Jesus, sometimes we have to (un)learn what we thought we knew.
By SermonCentral .com on Dec 18, 2023
Hal Seed: "Reading these Christmas stories moves me to worship and bow before him. Then I am ready to consider how to preach it."
Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-7, Philippians 2:6-11, John 1:1-5
By SermonCentral .com on Apr 2, 2021
Let these great thoughts prime the pump for your Easter sermon. Start with great words and develop them uniquely for your congregation.
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7:17-24, John 10:1-18, John 20:1-30, Acts 2:1
Tags: Easter, Message, Preaching, Jesus Christ, preaching (view more) (view less)
By SermonCentral .com on Oct 11, 2019
Pastor Zach Zehnder of Cross Church began his quest on Friday, November 7, and by Sunday had preached for 53 hours and 18 minutes—Why?
Scripture: Lamentations 3:23
Tags: Preaching
By Joe Mckeever on Dec 14, 2024
Tell it with gusto and love. Tell the story of the birth of Jesus with all the excitement of someone hearing it for the first time. Tell the story without detouring into theories and guesses and myths and controversies.
Scripture: Luke 2:11
Tags: Christmas Advent, Christmas, Simplicity, storytelling
By SermonCentral .com on Dec 30, 2020
We all want to end our messages with application, but sometimes the next steps we offer are difficult for others to take.
Tags: Preaching, Story, success, step, next, preaching (view more) (view less)
By Ray Hollenbach on Oct 2, 2025
The Last Supper: More than history, more than a painting, it's the living example of how to go through stressful times.
Tags: preaching, Jesus, Easter, Preaching, Easter Maundy Thursday, the last supper (view more) (view less)
By SermonCentral .com on Apr 3, 2021
"As Jesus was raised to come back to live on Earth, so we will be raised to come back to live on Earth."
Tags: Preaching, Cross, Promise, preaching, Jesus, Easter (view more) (view less)
By SermonCentral .com on Apr 10, 2023
One of the best ways to follow up with your Easter guests, as well as to encourage your church members, is by preaching about living out the new life we have in Christ.
Tags: after easter, preaching, Worship, Preaching, sermon series (view more) (view less)
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