Sermons on A Great Star:

Light And Fire Series

Contributed by D Marion Clark on Sep 21, 2016

Assyria pridefully thinks it is the great power, but God will demonstrate that it is but a tool in his hands.

Isaiah 10:5-19 Light and Fire 3/11/01e D. Marion Clark Assyria the tool of God. 5 “Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath! God’s purpose for his tool. 6 I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 10:5-19

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

What's Ahead For The Christian

Contributed by Jim Butcher on Feb 16, 2012

A look at four of the great things we can anticipate being in our future.

The Big Idea: For the Christian, what’s ahead is better than what’s behind. - The specific context here is that things are going to be better for Israel. - In Romans 11 (see vv. 11-12, 28-29), Paul makes it clear that God is not done with Israel. - Those passages speak of how the ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 3:16-17

Denomination: Baptist

Outward Conformity Or Inward Embrace? Series

Contributed by Pat Damiani on Mar 7, 2011

The Great White Throne judgment points out the importance of inwardly embracing Jesus.

Although the number of people identifying themselves as “Christians” here in the United States has dropped significantly over the past two decades, most surveys show that somewhere around three quarters of Americans still claim to be Christians. But when some more probing questions are asked about ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 20:7-15

Denomination: Baptist

"Peter, Feed My Sheep” (15 Of 21)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Mar 11, 2022

Many people take great delight in trying out different restaurants in town.

Sometimes you can hear folks around church saying, "Let's get together, I have found a G-R-E-A-T restaurant!” When a RESTAURANT serves good food, the customers will keep coming back for more, even if they have to travel a long distance to get there. The same thing is true for a CHURCH. ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:1-15

Denomination: Baptist

Acts Of The Apostles (7 Of 39)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Mar 14, 2022

Luke wrote to Theophilus, telling him of some of the great events of the early church.

As he tells of these events, it is like an unwinding story in which one event leads into the next. For example, after Pentecost, he leads into chapter 3, and tells of Peter and John going into the temple. He tells of the man who had been crippled from birth, asking them for alms. Luke related ...read more

Scripture: Acts 5:1-16

Denomination: Baptist

Add To Your Salvation…

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Jan 14, 2022

Many people take great delight in trying out different restaurants in town.

Many people take great delight in trying out different restaurants in town. Sometimes you can hear folks around church saying, "Let's get together, I have found a G-R-E-A-T restaurant!” When a RESTAURANT serves good food, at a reasonable price the customers will keep coming back for ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:1-15

Denomination: Baptist

The Word Is Near

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Dec 29, 2023

You need not travel or spend a great deal of money on conferences to hear the Lord.

Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word ...read more

Scripture: Amos 8:11-12, Jeremiah 23:16-17

Denomination: Baptist

The Destruction Of Jerusalem.

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Apr 8, 2023

For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. Luke 21.23.

THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. Luke 21:20-24. LUKE 21:20. Jesus predicted the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, which took place some forty years after His prophecy. This was divine foreknowledge, Jesus as God ‘declaring the end from the beginning’ (cf. Isaiah 46:10). We may not know what ...read more

Scripture: Luke 21:20-24

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Seventeen Percent Or The Seventy-Two? Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 13, 2023

Frodo from Lord of the Rings is great fiction, but Jesus is the Risen King of the Universe.

Sunday After Easter 2023 A couple of years ago, Rasmussen surveyed Americans and found that seventy-two out of every hundred Americans believe that Jesus is Son of God and raised from the dead. Seventeen percent definitely deny that. Thomas the Apostle, after being told of Christ’s physical rising ...read more

Scripture: John 20:19-31, 1 Peter 1:3-9, Acts 2:42-47

Denomination: Catholic

How To Listen To God: The Shallow & Divided Hearts - Mark 4:16-19 Series

Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on Sep 16, 2023

Coffee mug theology, which generates great zeal until suffering comes, but then ...

Mark 4:14 The sower sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. Immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 4:16-19, Matthew 13:20-22, Luke 8:13-14

Loving Neighbor Series

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Oct 12, 2021

Let's take a look at the second of the great commandments, love of neighbor.

Let's take a look at the second of the great commandments, love of neighbor. Matthew 22:39-40 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.” The second great commandment is to love our neighbor as ourselves. ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 22:39-40

Denomination: Baptist

Redeemed How I Love To Proclaim It Series

Contributed by David Welch on Jul 10, 2018

Message 3 in our exposition of Colossians focusing on our great redemption in Jesus.

Chico Alliance Church “Redeemed How I Love to Proclaim It” Introduction Not many of us have experienced actual imprisonment. We can only imagine what it might be like. There are Christians all over the world experiencing such punishment even as we meet this morning. There are more Christians ...read more

Scripture: James 3:17-18

Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

Resurrection Sunday 2018

Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Apr 3, 2018

Believing in the unbelievable is almost impossible unless you serve an unbelievably Great God!

Please open your Bibles to John 20:1-18 which we will read in a few minutes. Do you trust the Bible? Do you believe the Bible? When the Bible says that Jesus: - Was born of a virgin … do you believe it - Lived a sinless life … do you believe it - Performed miraculous signs pointing to His deity, ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-18, Luke 23:55-56, John 19:38-42, Luke 1:1-4, 1 John 1:1-4, Romans 10:9-10, John 3:16-18, Matthew 22:37-38  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Nazarene

Under The Mercy

Contributed by Jim Keegan on Aug 27, 2020

We're all sinners, saved only by the great mercy of God.

1 Timothy 1:12-17 (Greet the congregation with “Good morning, saints.” After they reply, greet them again with “Good morning, sinners.” They’ll probably miss a beat before replying, but the point will be made.) We’re both saints and sinners, aren’t we? We’re saints seeking God, and sinners ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:12-17

Genuine Christian Fellowship Series

Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Sep 3, 2019

Paul and his companions give us a great example of genuine Christian fellowship.

Here are mentioned six persons who sent greetings through Paul to the church in Colossae: Aristarchus, Mark, Justus, Epaphras, Luke, and Demas. In their examples, we learn the characteristics of genuine Christian fellowship. Genuine Christian fellowship . . . 1. Reaches across social ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 4:10-14

Denomination: Baptist