In Preaching Articles: "God"

The Secret To God’s Power In Your Life And Preaching - Part 2

By Lance Witt on Jun 12, 2023

If you read last week’s article you know that we talked about holiness not just being a legalistic set of rules. True holiness always starts with relationship. And the highest motive for keeping ourselves pure is our love for God, not the fear of consequences.

Scripture: Acts 20:35

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Preaching God's Dangerous Truth

By Sherman Haywood Cox on Jun 16, 2020

Preaching must resist political birthright-stealers and proclaim the dangerous truth that God has come. Advent calls us to vision, courage, and bold proclamation.

Scripture: Luke 2:10, Matthew 13:17, Matthew 10:7, Revelation 10:10-11, Micah 4:1-2  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Preaching, preaching, pastoral courage, Pastoral Courage

Is Your Preaching God-Centered?

By Bernie Van Eyk on Sep 10, 2024

People crave practical help, but their deepest need is God Himself. God-centered preaching lifts hearts from self to the glory revealed in Jesus Christ.

Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:4, Genesis 1:1, Psalm 73:17-26, John 1:18, 1 Corinthians 2:2  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Preaching, spiritual formation, preaching, Spiritual Formation

Is Preaching Your Work Or God's?

By Peter Mead on Jul 28, 2021

Paul wrote and he wrote very strongly, but where was his confidence?

Tags: Paul, Preaching, work, action, preaching  (view more)  (view less)

Thanksgiving And The Will Of God: A Preacher's Guide

By Ray Hollenbach on Nov 23, 2025

Thanksgiving sermons can sometimes sound like such a scolding, but guilt is a terrible motivation for giving thanks.

Scripture: Deuteronomy 26:1-11

Tags: Thanksgiving, Thanks, motivation, guilt

Thanksgiving: Echoing The Grace Of God

By SermonCentral .com on Jul 2, 2025

The Christian life, from the beginning to end, is a life of extraordinary grace. Saying "thank you" just makes sense.

Tags: Grace, Trust, Preaching, nullify grace, grace, preaching  (view more)  (view less)

The Silence Of God (Psalm 13)

By Josh Reich on May 5, 2022

While we often think God’s silence means He has abandoned us or left us, that is not true. God’s silence does not equal God’s absence.

Scripture: Psalm 13:1, Psalm 13:1-6

Tags: Community, Sin, God's silence, prayers, community  (view more)  (view less)

Church Growth And The Work Of God

By Josh Reich on Oct 5, 2023

We know that God is the one who makes a church grow, that it isn’t on us. This is both a comfort and a problem.

Tags: Communication, vision, Discipleship, Church Growth, communication  (view more)  (view less)

God Plans For The Unexpected And Inconvenient

By SermonCentral .com on Jun 1, 2022

What’s odd is that a story about a socially humiliating situation and a reluctant, irritated benefactor is supposed to encourage us to pray.

Scripture: Luke 11:2-4, Luke 11:5-8, John 15:5, Luke 11:9-13

Tags: Sacrifice, Lord's Prayer, Unexpected, inadequate

Trusting God In The Eleventh Hour

By Josh Read on Nov 3, 2025

We live by the clock. Every minute is measured against what we hope to achieve. Waiting, then, feels inefficient. We pray for breakthrough and expect God to move as fast as we refresh our screens. But when the silence lingers and the plans fall apart, what then? The parable in Matthew 20:1–16 reshapes how we see God’s timing, grace, and trust.

Scripture: Habakkuk 2:3, James 1:4, Psalm 13:1, Isaiah 55:8-9, Galatians 6:2, Galatians 6:9, Matthew 6:8, Isaiah 40:31, Matthew 20:1-16, Matthew 5:45, Numbers 14:6-9, Genesis 21:1-3  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Faith, Grace, Trust, Perseverance, encouragement, God's timing, spiritual growth, Kingdom of God, Waiting on God, christian living, kingdom of God, God's Timing, grace, Christian Living, Spiritual Growth, Encouragement  (view more)  (view less)

God's Grace Sermon Outline

By Josh Read on Mar 10, 2026

Grace might be the most preached-on topic in the history of the church and the least understood. Every pastor has a grace sermon in their back pocket. The problem isn't that we preach it too rarely. The problem is that we've filed it under "God is nice to us" and moved on. Dietrich Bonhoeffer identified this seventy years ago and named it precisely: cheap grace. Grace as doctrine, as principle, as system. Grace without discipleship, grace without the cross. Most congregations have heard enough grace sermons to believe God accepts them. Far fewer have heard one that made them uncomfortable. This outline is for that second sermon. Not grace as comfort but grace as disruption. The kind that doesn't just forgive what you were but refuses to leave you there.

Scripture: Titus 2:11-12, Romans 6:1-2, Ephesians 2:8-10, John 8:10-11, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Genesis 6:8, Luke 7:47, 2 Corinthians 5:14-15  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Grace, grace, sermonprep, SermonPrep, PastorLife, ChurchLeader, GodsGrace, PreachingWithPurpose  (view more)  (view less)

The Most Difficult Aspect Of Praying

By Joe Mckeever on Jun 7, 2024

"If we cannot walk by faith and believe by faith–a redundancy, of course–we will stop praying."

Scripture: Psalm 23:3, Luke 18:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7

Tags: Faith, Prayer, God's Will, Confidence, Trust God, God in control, God hears prayer  (view more)  (view less)

Jars Of Clay | 3 Observations On God’s Design For Weakness In The Ministry Of His Gospel

By Thomas C. Brown on Jul 29, 2022

"He has not chosen the strong, but the weak. He has not recruited the mighty, but the frail. He has not selected those who think themselves capable and worthy, but those who know themselves deficient and disqualified apart from his cleansing, preserving, and empowering grace."

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:5-7, Revelation 7:11-12, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Matthew 23:1-12, 1 Corinthians 2:1-5, John 15:5, Acts 4:13, Ephesians 3:11, Hebrews 1:3, 2 Corinthians 12:8-10, 1 Corinthians 2:2-5, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Faith, Humility, obedience, leadership, Submission, Meekness, glorifying God, pastoral leadership, Pastoral Ministry, strength in weakness, gospel proclamation, gospel ministry, Leadership  (view more)  (view less)

How God Saved My Sermon

By Steve Fuller on Sep 4, 2024

Even careful sermon preparation can fall apart. This reflection shows how prayer, humility, and trust in God’s promises bring clarity when anxiety sets in.

Scripture: James 4:1-2, James 1:5, Psalm 127:1, 1 Corinthians 15:10, 2 Timothy 2:7  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Preaching, dependence on God, preaching, Dependence on God

Preaching The Power Of The Person Of Christ

By Peter Mead on Sep 11, 2020

When preaching loses sight of the personal God, it drifts into moralism. Captivating preaching flows from knowing and loving Christ.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:23, Genesis 1:26-27, 1 John 1:3, John 15:4-5, 2 Corinthians 5:14  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Love, Prosperity, redemption, God's Kingdom, Kingdom of God, kingdom of God, love, Kingdom Of God  (view more)  (view less)