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  • Why Jesus Came Series

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Dec 8, 2003
    based on 100 ratings
     | 19,483 views

    Three reasons from Isaiah 61:1-2 for why Jesus came.

    We’re continuing our Christmas series in hopes of fostering a more meaningful Christmas. We get so busy with travel plans, shopping, parties and the like that we forget whose birthday we are celebrating. Christmas celebrates Jesus’ birthday. The December 1999 issue of Time Magazine contained an ...read more

  • A Promise Of Prosperity Series

    Contributed by Aubery Moore on Dec 17, 2005
    based on 11 ratings
     | 8,080 views

    The sermon utilizes Maya Angelou’s Amazing Peace to lift up critical issues raised during this Christmas season and examines how the promisie of the Messiaha responds to those conderns.

    Amazing Peace: A Promise of Prosperity Isaiah 9.1-7 As we lend our attention to the advent season I am cautiously optimistic about what this season brings in the light of a difficult year in our nations history. As we examine the past twelve months we find ourselves needing a season of ...read more

  • Worship Fully - Escape The Noise Series

    Contributed by Jim Martin on Nov 19, 2012
     | 7,364 views

    This sermon is the first of a four sermon series for a church that is supporting International Justice Mission through Advent Conspiracy. This sermon elaborates on the topic of Worshipping Fully in the Advent season by exploring sciptures in Isaiah, encou

    Worship Fully — Escape the Noise Isaiah 58 This sermon is one in a four-part series encouraging congregations as they join the Advent Conspiracy and Give More, Spend Less, Worship Fully and Love All. For the remainder of the sermon series, visit www.IJM.org/adventconspiracy. 1. Introduction to ...read more

  • "Christmas Surprises"

    Contributed by Ray Scott on Dec 16, 2003
    based on 91 ratings
     | 15,228 views

    This brief message was used after our Sunday Morning Christmas Cantata ... to wrap up the Christmas story ... and prepare hearts so there will be no SURPRISES when we must face Jesus.

    “Christmas Surprise” INTRODUCTION: Christmas is full of surprises! Gifts are tightly wrapped in multi-colored paper, so you don’t know what’s inside until you open them (UNLESS, you peeked!). We get “surprise gifts” … o Like that tie that you’ll never wear. o Like the underwear you got as a ...read more

  • "Enjoying A God-Planned Christmas" Series

    Contributed by Marilyn Murphree on Mar 24, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
     | 6,617 views

    A God-Planned Christmas is one in which we open our hearts to his great love.

    Iliff and Saltillo UM December 22, 2002 Enjoying a God-Planned Christmas Psalm 89:1-4; 19-26 Introduction: STORY: On Sunday afternoon, June 1st 1975, Darrel Dore was on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly it wobbled, tipped to one side, and crashed into the sea. Darrell was trapped ...read more

  • Have A Merry Christmas! Series

    Contributed by Jeff Armbrester on Dec 22, 2004
    based on 16 ratings
     | 8,805 views

    The theme will be relationships. This worship experience will focus on our relationships with family and friends. The challenge will be to move from merely going through the activities of Christmas with our family and friends to knowing those we love on a

    Last week we learned that the spirit of Christmas is relationships, beginning with our relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Today we see that to have a merry Christmas involves relationships with people. It seems that God screams this message to us every year through the writers of ...read more

  • Tragedy Series

    Contributed by Jim Erwin on Dec 12, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,406 views

    Tragedy can cause me to be better or bitter.

    Ruth 1 - Tragedy We are beginning a new series for Advent. Advent means "coming towards" in Latin. Advent means the days approaching the coming of the Christ on earth. We take these four weeks to celebrate the coming of Christ years ago. So you may be wondering why I am having us read from the ...read more

  • Csi (Cross Scene Investigation) Week 4 - Investigating The Resurrection

    Contributed by Mark Canfield on Nov 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,431 views

    A friend’s betrayal, an illegal trial, an execution and an empty grave. What do these things have in common? Enter the world of CSI and search for the truth with the entire Cross Scene Investigation team. Delve deeply into the mysteries of four baffling c

    CSI: Cross Scene Investigation Week 4: Investigating the Resurrection [The message began with a CSI sytle drama that investigated the evidence of the Ressurection] For Most People in Our Culture – SEEING IS BELIEVING! [Show me the Money] BUT . . . For Eric Weihenmayer [WHY-in-Mayor] SEEING ...read more

  • A Strange Way To Save The World

    Contributed by Stephen Colaw on Nov 29, 2005
    based on 94 ratings
     | 28,641 views

    In contrast to what we would do, God didn’t send a superhero to save the world, he sent His Son, the humble, gentle, loving Christ.

    A Strange Way to Save the World Scripture: I Corinthians 1:27-31 Theme: God’s ways are not our ways. He chose to save the world in a way that would bring glory to himself and not to us. Seed: Song “A Strange Way to Save the World” Purpose: To help people understand that God’s view of ...read more

  • Core 52 Week 40 - My Skin, Your Skin Series

    Contributed by Lanny Smith on Oct 6, 2020
     | 1,566 views

    Racial tensions are running high in America. What are we supposed to do about it?

    You can listen to the audio of the sermon here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/697261/5771518 God’s Plan for Racial Reconciliation • Jump right in. Difficult topic in the best of circumstances even more so with the racial unrest so prevalent in our society. • It’s not only a national/international ...read more

  • Go Tell It On Mt. Carmel Series

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Dec 20, 2003
    based on 24 ratings
     | 5,243 views

    We turn our successes into failures because we see only the negatives, and we need approval. But in the Incarnation God accepts our incompleteness and offers us His unconditional love.

    All of us want success. All of us need success. If you don’t care about doing something well, you are in sad shape. You are in trouble if you don’t want to succeed at something. And yet the problem is that we are our own worst enemies. We defeat ourselves time and time again. We take ...read more

  • Too Pooped To Pray Series

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jul 5, 2004
    based on 44 ratings
     | 8,023 views

    When spiritual exhaustion strikes, we fail to pray. It means that we have not dealt with our control issues, and we compromise principle to save ourselves. But God will give us a sign of His presence, even when we do not ask.

    There is a weariness of heart that goes so deep, it puts us in danger of losing our souls. There is an exhaustion of the soul that goes so far inside us that, if someone does not do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, we wiII be lost in despair. There is a weariness of heart, an exhaustion of ...read more

  • Christmas, A Line In Time Between Yes And No Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Dec 8, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,082 views

    This message looks at how Christmas drew a line between those who would say Yes to Christ and those who would say no.

    It was almost as if someone had dragged a stick though the sand drawing a line that said this was then and this is now. There has never been an event in the history of man that has so defined human history as the birth of Jesus. That single solitary event has shaped the world like no other ...read more

  • War Is Over

    Contributed by Cameron Horsburgh on Dec 7, 2002
    based on 33 ratings
     | 4,271 views

    The story of the angels isn’t so much about a heavenly sing-song than God announcing the end to the war between himself and the human race.

    I’m sure we’re all fairly familiar with this scene—a group of shepherds are in the field quietly minding their own businesses when an angel appears to them. *The Angels* We don’t know the name of this angel. However, the only angel to be named in the gospels in connection with the birth of Jesus ...read more

  • A Risky Christmas

    Contributed by Paul Stokes on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 12 ratings
     | 4,270 views

    Carol Service sermon focussing on the disturbing ’bad news’ we prefer to leave out of our cosy Christmas celebrations.

    I wonder - have you ever thought how risky Christmas is? It’s official. RoSPA - The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - has issued regular warnings about a whole range of hazards just waiting to happen... all of them arising from what you thought were innocent, Christmas-related ...read more