Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 19, 2009
based on 2 ratings
| 2,592 views
FORGIVENESS VS. TOLERANCE: CHURCH DISCIPLINE
If we look closer at Jesus words, he tells us that we do not have to tolerate sinful behaviour in order to forgive a person. He says in verse 17 that if the person doesn't listen after going through all the steps, to treat that person as a tax collector
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Vonnie E James on Mar 21, 2010
SALVATION BRINGS FORGIVENESS...FOR YOU AND FOR OTHERS
This person was working in a certain company for may years. However for whatever reason, he was unable to get along well with the Supervisor. The relationship was like trying to stick adhesive tape on a bottle covered with grease. He never
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Glenn Robertson on Nov 16, 2005
based on 2 ratings
| 2,685 views
Oswald Chambers once said,
“We trample the blood of the Son of God if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation for the forgiveness of God... is the death of Jesus Christ... There is absolute reinstatement into God by the death of Jesus Christ and by no
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 3,066 views
Forgiveness is a gift from God. It is a portion of His grace. What you have been freely given, you should freely give away. Jesus said in Matthew 6:15 that if we do not forgive others, neither will God forgive us.
When the first missionaries arrived in Alberta, they were savagely opposed by a
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Ken Pell on Feb 10, 2008
Forgiving One Another -- the Monkey Trap
>>I used this as a children’s sermon to open the worship services<<
I’m going teach to you something this morning. I’m going to show you how to catch a monkey! Do any of you have wild monkeys running around your neighborhood? Well, in case there ever is
...read more
Denomination:
Nazarene
Contributed by Wayne Burnett on Feb 28, 2001
based on 302 ratings
| 2,579 views
-All I will ever need to know I learned from Noah. One, Don’t miss the boat. Two, Remember that we are all in the same boat. Three. Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark . Four, Stay fit. When you’re 600 years old someone may ask you to do something really big. Five, Don’t listen to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2001
based on 1 rating
| 2,292 views
Engage the congregation in a pricing game. Ask them to estimate the value of objects in the worship room. Enlist assistants to tape a blank piece of paper on each object and write the estimated value. After the congregation has estimated several object values ask for a child to come and stand by
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 27, 2002
based on 76 ratings
| 1,589 views
“The Big Feather Bed”
Dr. J.C. Massee was pastor of Tremont Temple in Boston but he was reared in Georgia. He said his mother was the sweetest woman in the world, but there was one thing she was very strict about. She wouldn’t let her children play on her snow-white feather beds. She prided
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
based on 4 ratings
| 3,569 views
As Vice President, George Bush represented the U.S. at the funeral of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Bush was deeply moved by a silent protest carried out by Brezhnev’s widow. She stood motionless by the coffin until seconds before it was closed. Then, just as the soldiers touched the lid,
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 30, 2011
based on 2 ratings
| 3,240 views
FORGIVEN
My pastor for most of my life, Dr. Harold Sightler, used to tell of a woman bad to shout. (He would stop there and say, I mean "good" to shout.) When they mentioned Jesus in sermon or song, she would say, "Hallelujah, praise the Lord." The dead, dry church she attended didn’t like this.
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 5, 2001
based on 69 ratings
| 2,568 views
In A Forgiving God in an Unforgiving World, Ron Lee Davis retells the true story of a priest in the Philippines, a much- loved man of God who carried the burden of a secret sin he had committed many years before. He had repented but still had no peace, no sense of God’s forgiveness.
In his parish
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Showalter states, “I define forgiving as the elimination of all desire for revenge and personal ill will toward those who deeply wrong or betray us. This elimination usually brings an inner peace of heart and the freedom of not having our lives
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
based on 5 ratings
| 2,270 views
“Forgive us for thinking that prayer is a waste of time and help us to see that without prayer our work is
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Sermon Central