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Letting Go Of Our Golden Tickets

Contributed by Kyle Meador on Nov 30, 2000

The church must release our self-righteousness, pride and entitlement if we are going to offer Jesus to our community.

Letting Go of Our Golden Tickets Remember the classic children’s movie, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?” It starred Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. He’s basic a reclusive owner of a famous candy factory who starts a global craze by offering five children a tour of his factory and a lifetime ...read more

Scripture: Luke 18:9-14

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Guilt And How To Deal With It. Series

Contributed by Charles Holt on Apr 13, 2001

This subject deals with the good/bad conscience and guilt, using David’s encounter with King Saul as examples of how to handle guilt.

email: cholt@gt.rr.com GUILT and How to Deal With it. 1 Sam. 24:1-8ff. Garrison Keillor said, "GUILT: The Gift That Keeps on Giving." Last Thursday I talked with my daughter who lives in Houston. When I called, she asked, “What are you doing?” I told her I was working on a message for Sunday ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 24:1-8

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Four Small Things Series

Contributed by Denn Guptill on May 16, 2004

What can we learn from ants, locust, rock badgers and lizards when it comes to the church?

Well here we are. If Psalm 117 is indeed the middle chapter of the bible, and it is, then we are in a physical sense half way through the book. However that being said there are a lot more book in this half then there was in that half. Proverbs is the 20th book of the Bible out of 66, so it’s 20 ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 30:24-28

Denomination: Wesleyan

Understand Your Money Biblically Series

Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 22, 2004

2nd in a five part series on seeing your possessions from a Biblical prespective. Part 2- Understand your money from a God’s eye-view.

UNDERSTAND YOUR MONEY BIBLICALLY LUKE 12:15-21 INTRODUCTION: In the book of Revelation Jesus Christ addresses seven churches. He has praise for all of them, but He rebukes 5 of them for not holding to the faith more fully. The Church at Laodecia, in particular, is called to task by our Lord, ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:15-51

Denomination: Christian Church

But I Do Love You

Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Oct 13, 2005

This sermon deals with examining our hearts to see if we truly do love God.

But I Do Love You GNLCC 9/18/2005 Deut. 8:6-20 John 21:15-19 When James saw Carlita, he knew that this was the woman he had been waiting for all his life. He knew that she would be able to do for him, things that nobody else could. It was a whirlwind of a romance, and one day he ...read more

Scripture: John 21:15-19

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Grounding Faith Series

Contributed by Joseph Rodgers on Jan 17, 2007

A series in James about possessing a foolproof faith. This message focuses on faith that is built upon the truth of God’s Word and the necessity of hearing God.

Foolproof – A Study of James GROUNDING Faith – James 1:19-27 Sunday AM Recap: We’re in a series in James about how to have a foolproof faith so that we won’t be fooled into thinking we have genuine faith when we’re only religious and so we can’t be fooled into embracing anything not of God. ...read more

Scripture: James 1:19-27

Denomination: Baptist

Crazy Preachers

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Nov 15, 2002

How crazy are you and your Pastor?

Crazy Preachers Bruce Haynes sings the song, The Preacher from the Black Lagoon. It is about a lad in Louisiana that is a huntin’, alligator fightin’, hard workin’, crawfish pie eatin’, and grape Nehi drinkin’ good old boy. He’s a man’s man, but they poke fun at him because he preaches that the ...read more

Scripture: Acts 26:24, Isaiah 20:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

Himself He Could Not Save

Contributed by Alan Smith on Aug 16, 2002

His opponents said that Jesus could not save himself and, in a sense, they were right.

Introduction: What would you do if you were a high school football player and your coach sent in a play which called for you to run backward to your opponent’s goal line? It has happened! At the end of the 1988 football season, Tishimingo High was playing Faulkner High. The outcome of that ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 26:42

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Unity In The Church

Contributed by Stephan Brown on Jul 3, 2002

Demonstrates how unity and fulfilling the purposes of the church go hand in hand. Gives practical characeristics to exhibit in order to achieve unity.

Unity in the Church Philippians 2:1-11 Here Paul is instructing the church how they are to act one to another. He’s leading them to unity. And it’s unity for a purpose. Vs. 2 says "working together with one heart and purpose." It’s when we follow these instructions of Paul and we, the Church, are ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:1-11, Ephesians 4:4, Ephesians 4:3-6, John 17:20-26, Galatians 5:19-26  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Battle Against The Wasters

Contributed by Daniel Olukoya on Jan 19, 2010

The Bible says that no man can enter into the house of a strongman and spoil his goods except he first binds the strongman. This book focuses on the activity of the evil powers that has dealt a deadly blow on the black race in particular and has truncated

THE BATTLE AGAINST THE WASTERS Dr. D. K. Olukoya The Bible says that no man can enter into the house of a strongman and spoil his goods except he first binds the strongman. This book focuses on the activity of the evil powers that has dealt a deadly blow on the black race in particular and has ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 54:17

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Hypocrite's Triple Judgment

Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Mar 11, 2011

God looks on the heart, and sees through all of those things that we outwardly decorate ourselves with. Link inc. to formatted text, audio/video, PowerPoint.

The Hypocrite's Triple Judgment Romans 2:1-16 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/TripleJudgment.html Howard Carter discovered the tomb of old King Tut back in the early twenties and when he finally broke in to the tomb of one of Egypt's richest kings, he went in and found the casket, the sarcophagus, ...read more

Scripture: Romans 2:1-16

Denomination: Baptist

Battle Against The Wasters

Contributed by Daniel Olukoya on May 17, 2011

The Bible says that no man can enter into the house of a strongman and spoil his goods except he first binds the strongman. This book focuses on the activity of the evil powers that has dealt a deadly blow on the black race in particular and has truncated

The Bible says that no man can enter into the house of a strongman and spoil his goods except he first binds the strongman. This book focuses on the activity of the evil powers that has dealt a deadly blow on the black race in particular and has truncated its developmental process. We are talking ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 54:16-17

Denomination: Pentecostal

Built To Last

Contributed by H.b. Charles Jr. on Apr 25, 2012

"Built to Last" is an exposition of the Parable of the Two Builders. Sermon Point: The life that lasts is built on the word of God.Main ideas: (1) The life that lasts is built on a firm foundation. (2) The life that lasts is tested by severe storms. (3) T

BUILT TO LAST Matthew 7:24-27 My father typically ended his sermons with an illustration, which he would introduce by saying: “If you miss my message, keep my story.” Of course, he did not mean that literally. This catchphrase meant that to get the point of the illustration was the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 7:24-27, Matthew 7:24

Denomination: Baptist

Who Do You Say You Are? Series

Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 30, 2012

The call upon the life of every believer is to live a life in the light God calls us to.

That little phrase ‘from darkness to light’ should be an accurate description of what has happened in the life of every Christian. 1 Peter 2:9 says, ‘But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 1:5-7

God Alone

Contributed by James May on Jun 1, 2014

God Alone is God! Worship God Alone.

God Alone By Rev. James May We live in an hour when everything about God is being questioned. The faith of those who would trust in him is being tested, tried and proven by the words of men, the circumstances of life and the pressures to fit into the mold that has been set before us. Which ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 45:15-25

Denomination: Independent/Bible