Sermons on 2023:

How We Can Be Called "blessed" Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 20, 2024

The Law is good, but the command of Jesus makes it even better.

Saturday of First Week in Lent 2023 Today the psalmist declares: “Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart.” These words begin the longest psalm in the Bible, psalm 119, which is a ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 4:10, Matthew 5:43-48, Psalm 119:1-8, Deuteronomy 26:16-19

Denomination: Catholic

(The Why) Frazier B. Baker The Lynching Of The Lake City Mail Man?

Contributed by Amiri Hooker on Feb 25, 2023

I was asked to give a 3 -5 min Sermon net on the Lynching of Frazier B. Baker, whose family, on the night of his murder, ran across the street and hid in the Church I now Pastor, Wesley Chapel UMC Lake City

Frazier B. Baker was an African-American teacher appointed as postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina in 1897 under the William McKinley administration. He and his infant daughter Julia Baker died at his house after being fatally shot during a white mob attack on February 22, 1898. The mob set the ...read more

Scripture: Romans 14:10-11

Denomination: United Methodist

Jesus On Two Mountains Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 3, 2023

It's hardly possible to contemplate Mt. Tabor without thinking of Mt. Calvary.

Second Sunday of Lent 2023 After St. Aelred I don’t know if it is possible to hear the Gospel accounts–any of them–of the Transfiguration of Christ on Mt. Tabor without thinking of another elevation a few miles away. I mean the holy hill we call Mt. Calvary, where Jesus, the Son of Man and Son of ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 12:1-4, 2 Timothy 1:8-10, Matthew 17:1-9

Denomination: Catholic

Has The Way Of The Most High Changed? Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 8, 2023

God loves us. He wants to shed His grace–His very divine life–on every human being.

Saturday of the Second Week in Lent 2023 Every four weeks, those of us who pray the Church’s official morning prayer encounter Psalm 77, which is a lament by a temple Levite. Things are not going well for Israel, in this man’s view, and after reviewing all the awful things that have been ...read more

Scripture: Micah 7:14-20, Psalm 103:1-4, Psalm 103:8-12, Luke 15:1-32

Denomination: Catholic

Looking Forward To The Reward Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 23, 2023

This flesh of ours, when given the choice of visiting a prayer chapel or going to a wild party, pushes us to choose the party.

Fifth Sunday of Lent 2023 It’s very easy for us to be so taken with today’s Gospel that we push aside the short Epistle taken from St. Paul’s letter to the Church at Rome. So let’s look at what he is telling this relatively young community of Jews and Gentiles who have believed in the Gospel of ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 37:12-14, Psalm 130:1-8, Romans 8:8-11, John 11:1-45

Denomination: Catholic

Easter's Ray Of Hope

Contributed by Mary Erickson on Apr 10, 2023

A sermon for Easter, Year A

April 9, 2023 - Easter Sunday Rev. Mary Erickson Hope Lutheran Church Matthew 28:1-10 Easter’s Ray of Hope Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. The dawn was slowly eroding the darkness of the night. When the women left their homes, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:1-10

Denomination: Lutheran

Jesus--Crazy Or Victorious?

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 18, 2023

It appears here that the relatives of Jesus want to have Him committed to a mental ward.

Saturday of the 2nd week in Course 2023 Today’s Gospel is one of the shortest readings in the Lectionary. If you don’t pay attention, it’s over before you can grasp it. Why? Mark’s community of Rome was under almost constant persecution. So he took mostly Matthew’s Gospel and abridged it, ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 9:2-14, Mark 3:20-21

Denomination: Catholic

Forgiving Sins Is Also A Spiritual Gift Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 25, 2023

Our biggest problem can be fixed by repentance and confession. We can be healed through this charism of the Church.

Pentecost Sunday 2023 Today’s first reading from the Acts of the Apostles is so striking, with its description of the Holy Spirit’s descent in the form of fire, and the resulting prayer in tongues, that it tends to overwhelm the rest of the Scriptures. So let’s look at today’s psalm 104 to ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:3-13, John 20:19-23, Acts 2:1-11

Denomination: Catholic

No "pay For Play" In God's Economy

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 22, 2023

God Does Not Need Anything from Us. It's the Other Way around.

Twelfth Sunday in Course 2023 The words of Jeremiah today sound very much like a political candidate’s lament over the words of an enemy: Here’s what my opponent is plotting: “Denounce him. . .perhaps he can be deceived, then we can overcome him. . .” But really, those of us who have been around ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 20:10-13, Romans 5:12-15, Matthew 10:26-33

Denomination: Catholic

Obedience, Faith, Jesus And The Centurion

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 28, 2023

Three stories: the centurion's faith and humility, the response of Jesus, and the healing of the anonymous mom.

Saturday of the 12th Week in Course 2023 There are really three stories in today’s Gospel. The first is about the Roman centurion asking for healing for a valued servant, paralyzed by some accident or illness. It shows that the centurion had compassion. Servant in the first century almost always ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 8:5-17, Genesis 18:1-15

Denomination: Catholic

Friends In Low Places Series

Contributed by Scott Maze on Apr 13, 2024

Naaman lived because he reluctantly listened to people who were “beneath” him. He left Syria because of a captured slave who kindly told him where to find healing. He wanted to speak to Israel's king, but it was a prophet’s assistant who told him where to go for healing.

As fall is here, our church family is examining the life of Elisha. Elisha shows us how to remain faithful during challenging times. Our God always leaves His light for us even in the most troubling of times. Elisha’s life is the story of God’s bright light in the darkest of skies. I invite you ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 5:1-7, 2 Kings 5:15-19

Denomination: Baptist

"Jesus' Prayer For You”

Contributed by Byrene Haney on Dec 11, 2003

Jesus before he left gave believers this incredible prayer.

CHRIST’S prayer was for a special people. He declared that he did not offer an universal intercession. "I pray for them," said he. "My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you." (v. 9) In reading this beautiful prayer through, one big question comes ...read more

Scripture: John 17:11-19

Denomination: Lutheran

Marching To Zion Series

Contributed by Jon Miller on Mar 1, 2011

Part of a series on the book of Exodus. God gives the Hebrew people promises about conquering the promise land. God has also given us promises concerning the promise land of Heaven to those who believe.

Marching to Zion Exodus 23:20- -God has now given them the commandments and all the needed instruction in observing those commandments from chapters 20-23 -last week we looked at the three feast they were commanded to keep the feast of unleavened bread, firstfuits, and ingatherings -we showed ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 23:20-26

The Fourth Church Of The Apocalypse Thyatira Series

Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jun 2, 2020

The Church at Thyatira had much to commend it but had one fatal flaw, it allowed Jezebel and her teaching to flourish

The Fourth Church of the Apocalypse - The Church at Thyatira Introduction We have been looking at the Churches of the Apocalypse during lockdown However, as it was Pentecost last week, we ducked out of our series to look at Acts 2 as an exception We are now back on course and looking at the ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 2:18-29, Matthew 23:25-39

Denomination: Anglican

No Idols ... Just Give Me Jesus

Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Dec 3, 2020

Recently our church was accused of idolatry because we have a cross in our sanctuary and one in front of the church. Are our crosses idols? Can they be idols? Hmmm.....

No Idols ... Just Give Me Jesus Please stand with me as we go over our current memory Scripture: Psalm 1:1-2 “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His Law ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:1-6, Exodus 20:22-23, Exodus 20:8, Leviticus 26:1, Judges 8:22-27, Matthew 22:37-40, Revelation 2:1-5  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Nazarene