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Guard Your Heart

Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Apr 13, 2011

Godliness is maintained by persistent attention and protection of our attitude toward the truth.

Title: Guard Your Heart Text: Proverbs 4:20-27 Truth: Godliness is maintained by persistent attention and protection of our attitude toward familiar truth. Aim: To help them maintain consistent Christian living. Life ?: How do we maintain consistent Christian living? INTRODUCTION Despite the ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 4:20-27

Denomination: Baptist

Preparing Our Hearts Series

Contributed by Bobby Stults on Apr 13, 2011

How do we prepare ourselves to approach the Lord's Table? What does it mean to 'prepare' yourself? What does it entail? Why is it important? When we celebrate the Lord's Supper, we must do it in a worthy manner and with a worthy heart...

Sermon Brief Date Written: April 13, 2011 Date Preached: April 17, 2011 Where Preached: OPBC (AM) Sermon Details: Series Title: Falling in Love With Jesus Sermon Title: Preparing our Hearts for What He Has Done Sermon Text: John 19:16-18 [ESV] 16So he delivered Him over to them ...read more

Scripture: John 19:16-18

Denomination: Baptist

A Humble & Obedient Heart

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 21, 2011

A message about the necessity of humbling our hearts, as shown by Jesus in LUKE 14:1-14. It is an explanation of this passage.

MATTHEW 23:11 “But the greatest among you shall be your servant.” When I was a teenager, I remember telling my father that I wanted to be a successful businessman when I grew up. He asked me what type of business I wanted to work in, and I told him I didn’t know, I just wanted to be a ...read more

Scripture: Luke 14:1-14

Denomination: *other

A Mouth And Heart Matter

Contributed by Jerry Flury on Nov 11, 2011

Jesus Christ taught that the path to heaven was very narrow and very few find it as many misguidedly choose to travel wrong paths. The bottom line is that salvation is a matter of the mouth and heart.

A Mouth and Heart Matter Romans 10:1-13 The Philippian jailer asked in Acts 16, “What must I do to be saved?” Another way of asking this question is, “How do I get to go to heaven?” When people are asked this question a myriad of answers pour forth. Jesus Christ taught that ...read more

Scripture: Romans 10:1-13

Denomination: Baptist

The Soil Of Your Heart

Contributed by Jay Bunting on Jul 9, 2011

Do we live our lives open to God? We need to allow the seed of God's word to penetrate into fertile soil of our heart.

4th Pentecost 11 The soil of your heart. Matthew 13:1-13:23 In the 19th Century and into the first part of the 20th (before radar was invented) ships avoided each other by looking out for beacons or lights on other ships. And they communicated with each other by flashing messages to each other by ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 13:1-23

Denomination: Anglican

Rahab, A Heart Of Gold Series

Contributed by Denn Guptill on Jul 31, 2011

This is week six of our series from Hebrews 11. Here we look at what made Rahab a candidate for the Faith Hall of Fame.

Rahab Every story has a beginning and this one begins in a most unlikely place. . . a brothel. Not many stories in the Bible start in a house of ill repute, as a matter of fact I can only think of one other.. The scripture was read earlier and there is a lot that was left unsaid in the Hebrews ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:30-31

Denomination: Wesleyan

Spiritual Heart Trouble

Contributed by Mike Ingo on Aug 11, 2011

Exploring symptoms of spiritual heart disease.

Heart Attack Info: now we talk about spiritual heart failure: more deadly: kills us twice! Heart: in text: seat of feelings, desires, affections, impulses: seat of intellect (in the mind). As a noun: innermost, core, center: (inner man). Signs / Symptoms: see signs, have to be told ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:8

Denomination: Holiness

Help For Hungry Hearts

Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Aug 12, 2011

Only Christ can satisfy the deepest longing of the human heart.

“Help for Hungry Hearts” Acts 8:26-40 Acts 8:26 “And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. 27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of ...read more

Scripture: Acts 8:26-40

Denomination: Baptist

God, The Heart-Broken Series

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 22, 2011

Like a grieving husband who has been deserted by the wife he loves, God reflects upon his relationship to unfaithful Israel.

God, the Heart-broken (Hosea 12-13) 1. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tampa police arrested an expelled student after thwarting what they called a "catastrophic" plot to set off a bomb at his former high school next week, authorities said Wednesday. Police Chief Jane Castor said Jared Cano, 17, had threatened ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

A Heart To Make Disciples Series

Contributed by David Taylor on Mar 13, 2014

Making Disciples; Making a Difference: A Heart to Make Disciples

Making Disciples; Making a Difference A Heart to Make Disciples Matthew 28:18-20 How does the high school football team know when it wins? How does the church know if it wins? What defines a win for us as a church? Popular way of determining a win in a church setting is the size of the church, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Home Is Where The Heart Is

Contributed by Larry Scott King on Mar 22, 2014

My Christian home is where I discovered my heavenly home.

Home Is Where the Heart Is Home. This little word in its best definition holds so many memories and meanings for each of us gathered here today. This little word, home, conjures up for us warm memories of days gone by, family, celebrations, hard work to keep farms up and running, memories of ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16, Colossians 3:1-17

Denomination: United Methodist

Whole-Hearted Love!

Contributed by Bala Samson on Apr 19, 2014

Let us not love God in mere words, put them in action today! James 2:26 says, “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.”

Love Him with all your heart! Deuteronomy 6:5”You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”(Memorize) It was a wonderful, spacious, clean, ventilated, centrally located house in a beautiful colony and just apt for the place that ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:5

Denomination: Pentecostal

Conflict: The Heart Of Conflict Series

Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 19, 2012

Conflict is inevitable. Watch your heart in a conflict. Focus on the heart of the matter. Seek to please the heart of Christ.

Just like to share with you a funny story at the start. A man was stranded all alone on the desert island for years before he was finally rescued. His rescuers asked him what the 3 huts were that he had built on the island. It’s perplexing for one man to have 3 structures. He said one ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:38-42

Denomination: Independent/Bible

A Heart Like Joseph

Contributed by Lance Hostetter on Dec 25, 2012

This sermon calls all believers to demonstrate behavior like Joseph in time of stress.

A Heart Like Joseph Matthew 1:18-25 Introduction: Circumstances have the potential to change us. Traumatic events have a lasting effect on our lives. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Maybe: The divorce of our parents. A sudden loss! A difficult upbringing—a the trial of one of the most ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:18-23

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Battle Of Heart And Mind Series

Contributed by Tim Smith on May 12, 2013

In this sermon series, we’re going to be talking about the unseen enemy and the dangers of living for Jesus. We’re caught up in the spiritual battle between good and evil, and so it’s important to take proactive measures in regard to the unseen opposition

The Battle of Heart and Mind Ephesians 6:10-13 Read Romans 7:14-25 at the beginning of service A number of years ago, I was invited to preach a revival in Zwolle, LA. Anybody know where that is? It’s right by Many, LA. Hope that clarifies it for you. I had to leave right after church to make ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-13

Denomination: Methodist