Opening thought of where this sermon idea originated:
I was sitting in a local coffee shop reading my daily devotional when I overheard three older ladies discussing their children. The one lady was upset that her granddaughter was moving in with another young man and not even contemplating
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
"The world does not need sermons; it needs a message.
You can go to Bible college and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Brethren
Contributed by Matthew Redder on Sep 25, 2018
based on 1 rating
| 6,271 views
The impossibly difficult instructions found in the sermon on the mount have often troubled me.
When I think about loving enemies, turning the other cheek, giving to the poor, storing up treasures in heaven, etc... I often feel like there's NO WAY I can be successful in the correctives Jesus
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
based on 2 ratings
| 1,208 views
In 1998, Teresa and I took our kids on a short vacation to St. Simon’s Island off the coast of Georgia. It would turn into one of the most memorable vacations that we would take over the course of the years. It was there that we begin to chase lighthouses scattered along the coastlines of
...read more
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 26, 2001
based on 127 ratings
| 5,110 views
A very short boy wanted so badly to play basketball. He even told his dad that he wanted to become a pro when he was older. Knowing that his son would never be able to play the game, the dad asked the local coach if there was anything he could recommend to make the boy taller. "You might take
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by W F on Jul 16, 2007
The Rev Martin Luther King lived a short but high impact life. He once said …
“…if I can help somebody as I pass along,
If I can cheer someone with a word or a song,
If I can show somebody he is travelling wrong,
Then my living will not be in vain.
If I can do my duty as a Christian ought,
If I
...read more
Denomination:
*other
Contributed by Richard Goble on Oct 31, 2007
While on a short-term missions trip, Pastor Jack Hinton was leading worship at a leper colony on the island of Tobago. A woman who had been facing away from the pulpit turned around.
"It was the most hideous face I had ever seen," Hinton said. "The woman’s nose and ears were entirely gone. She
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 4, 2008
I have a short list of qualities that might mark you as someone from the 'burbs. In other words, this might show what community you belong to.
You might be from the suburbs if:
You have a garage but you can't get your car into it. (Now this could be because you have too much stuff stored there
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Church Of God
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Apr 3, 2010
I remember seeing some shorts to a movie once where a millionaire agrees to pay a couple a million dollars if the wife will sleep with him for one night. What would you do? The answer to that question tests your character. Impatience is often willing to sleep with the enemy to achieve it's
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Kent Mishleau on Apr 5, 2010
I would like to share a short story with you about a young man who was to write a PhD dissertation about the Navajo Indians. He was from Indiana and had never met or seen one of these and so knew little to nothing about them. So it was decided that he would go to live with a family of the Navajo on
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 9, 2009
In the trenches of life when decisions need to be made quickly, we often depend upon short principles that offer us immediate direction and give us spiritual instincts. C. Everett Koop is a great medical ethicist; when addressing end of life decision-making in a booklet he wrote for
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 10, 2005
based on 2 ratings
| 3,186 views
As we talked about my research for this sermon, my wife said it seemed to her that the message of the New Testament on discipline in the church was that we should use the minimum action, or the minimum amount of force necessary to accomplish the desired result.
In the comedy move “Police Academy”
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Orthodox