Sermons on Acceptable Anger:

Agents Of Grace: Absalom Series

Contributed by Daniel Habben on Nov 1, 2015

Learn how God's chastisement is indeed an agent of his grace and not an agent of God's anger.

Have you ever witnessed a scene like this? You drive up to a crosswalk and stop because there is a pedestrian. But as that person starts to make his way to the other side of the road, you nervously watch a car in the opposite lane. The driver of this car doesn’t seem to see that there is a ...read more

Denomination: Lutheran

To Whom Do I Belong?

Contributed by John Kapteyn on Oct 18, 2000

1. As a child and a teenager, I wanted to be accepted.

1. As a child and a teenager, I wanted to be accepted. To belong to the circle of friends that lived on my street. I wanted them to like me and to let me be part of the things they did. To be asked to play with them. To be part of the baseball games. To be invited to the birthday parties. To be ...read more

Scripture: John 15:18-27

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Wisdom In Worship

Contributed by Ulysses Mckneely on May 28, 2011

God centered worship is all God will accept.

Not Long ago there was a study performed by The Program on Public Values at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., regarding religion in America. That survey found that those who identify themselves as Christians have decreased from 86% of Americans in 1990 to only 76% in 2008. During that same ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

The Parable Of The Prodigal Son

Contributed by Simon Bartlett on Feb 20, 2021

The parable explains why Jesus received tax collectors and sinners and why we need to too. It's all about God's grace!

Today we’re going to look at the Parable of the Prodigal Son. It’s Jesus’ longest parable and one of the most famous. We can look at this story from several perspectives. We could reflect on the father in the story and what he shows us of God’s extraordinary grace. We could think about the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:33, Proverbs 12:26

Denomination: Baptist

#5seasons Of Testing Series

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 7, 2002

We close the series on testing, and look at anger and how it adds to the testing process.

#5 of a 5 part series: SEASONS OF TESTING By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com If you lack any part of the series, have a comment or a point to add contact me: Kyfingers@aol.com This is part #5 on Being tested. TEXT: Gal. 5:15 warns of this testing process -- But if you bite and devour one ...read more

Scripture: James 1:19, Galatians 5:15

Denomination: Assembly Of God

How To Feed An Angry Man Series

Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Feb 20, 2007

Severe Anger is a form of Temporary Insanity! How to diffuse a short-fused man!

How to Feed an Angry Man Romans 12:20, 21 Romans 12:20-21 20 On the contrary: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head." 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (NIV) Anger is ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:19-21

Denomination: Church Of God

The Message Of Nahum Series

Contributed by Daniel Austin on Mar 20, 2010

The Lord may be merciful and slow to anger, but the Day of Judgment does finally come!

The Message of Nahum Judging Nineveh part 2 01/11/09 PM Text: Nahum 1:1-3:19 Introduction The Book of Nahum is one of two books of the Minor Prophets that centers on Nineveh, the capital city of Assyria. In the Book of Jonah, written in the eighth century BC, we behold a man of God who was called ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

26 - It's Love That Really Matters Series

Contributed by Michael Collins on Aug 6, 2021

This is the 26th of 30 Studies in the Book of Romans and talks about the love that we need to share with one another as believers in Jesus.

Romans 14:14-17 14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the ...read more

Scripture: Romans 14:14-23

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Simple Salvation

Contributed by Dr. Jonathan Vorce on Feb 22, 2018

It's the goodness of God that draws people to Him. Not the madness of God, the anger of God or the disapproval of God.

INTRODUCTION Romans 1:16-17 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall ...read more

Scripture: Romans 1:16-17, John 3:16-18, Deuteronomy 30:19-20, Romans 10:9-13, Ephesians 2:8-9, Acts 9:1-19, Acts 16:29-31, John 3:1-18  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Church Of God

Christ’s Spirit Or Fleshly Desires

Contributed by Lee Houston on Nov 13, 2021

Have you accepted Christ as your Savior?

Christ’s Spirit or Fleshly Desires We have less than half the number of churches in America that we had a hundred years ago and yet the population in those hundred years is three times what it was then. There are 250,000 Protestant churches in America and 80% are showing a decline or no growth in ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:15

Irritating God

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 3, 2024

We human beings can and do sometimes irritate God. When we fail to respect God properly, the result is not a pretty picture. Our attitude toward God affects our lives significantly.

Irritating God (Numbers 11:1-35) 1. This older Jewish man was on the operating table awaiting surgery and he insisted that his son, a renown surgeon, perform the operation. As he was about to receive the anesthesia he asked to speak to his son. "Yes Dad, what is it?" "Don't be ...read more

Scripture: Numbers 11:1-35, John 6:1-36

Denomination: Independent/Bible

It's Time To Turn To The Lord

Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 17, 2011

This sermon pleads with the lost to turn to Christ in faith and full commitment of their life to Him. It also deals with some truths concerning those who are mere "fans" of Christ rather than "followers" of Christ.

It’s Time to Turn to the Lord Text: Isa. 55:6-7; Heb. 2:3-4 Intro: In the book of Ecclesiastes, we find these words, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” (Eccl. 3:1). According to one commentator, the meaning of this verse is as ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 55:6-7

Denomination: Baptist

Murder He Spoke Series

Contributed by Larry Turner on Oct 23, 2014

Jesus was well known for upsetting people's "apple carts." In this sermon He challenges us to go beyond the obvious sin of murder and to dwell on anger, judgment, and provoking others.

Don’t you hate it when someone comes along and “upsets the apple cart?” This saying originated sometime in the 1800’s. The idea behind it was that a farmer had carefully loaded his cart with apples to take and sell at the market place. However, some clumsy oaf would come ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:21-22

Denomination: Foursquare

The Appeal For The Useful

Contributed by Chris Swanson on Dec 5, 2022

Christian relationships must be filled with mercy, forgiveness, and acceptance.

Paul wrote this letter as a plea for a runaway slave of Philemon’s named Onesimus. He had stolen from Philemon then ran away to Rome where he met Paul. Subsequently he accepted Christ as his Savior, so Paul was writing this letter as he was sending Onesimus back to Philemon, but he wanted Philemon ...read more

Scripture: Philemon 1:8-15

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Escaping Temptations

Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jan 29, 2009

We see Cain yielding to sin and falling bait to it just because of his heart condition. He did not take any stand to rule over it or run from it. He just yielded. For Cain (and for us) there is an exit on every level of temptation, and we need to see the

Opening illustration: When we sin we often do so with the futile hope that we shall obtain the maximum amount of pleasure at the minimum penalty. It seldom works that way, however. I once heard the story of a man and his wife who decided to go to a drive-in movie. They thought the price was too ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 4:1-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational