Sermons on Ask Yourself:

How Can I Tell You About Jesus When I Am Afraid?

Contributed by Randy Rodenborg on Mar 28, 2006

Max is a Jr Higher who hates the locker room, and is now likely to be picked on for having a ash cross on his head after the Ash Wednesday service. It ends with a call to pray for others and submitting yourself to God to use you to lead others to Him.

Max hated the locker room. It wasn’t a mild dislike, like the days he would rather not go to science or choir. Max really dreaded walking into the locker room and confronting first the smelliness of the locker room and then those small lockers. These lockers were really just baskets that you could ...read more

Scripture: Luke 22:54-61

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Pleasure Of Positive Thinking Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Apr 5, 2021

Positive thinking does not mean, if you always think positive nothing will ever go wrong. That is wishful thinking, and it won't work. Positive thinking is telling yourself that even when things do go wrong, that is never the last word.

Have you ever watched a movie or play that ended with some basic problems unresolved? It is a great let down, for we expect that no matter how bad the situation is the bottom line will be a happy ending. We are conditioned to this. It is a part of our heritage through our fairy tales, novels, ...read more

Are You Living Or Existing?

Contributed by Darrin Fish on May 7, 2014

And For those of us who have already given our hearts to Jesus, We must ask ourselves Are we truly allowing Him to be the Lord of our daily lives.

Are you living or existing?  It seems like a lot of times in our lives  We are simply existing instead really living life for all its worth.  We get up, go to work or school, or we begin our daily routine,  Whatever it may be and we simply go through the ...read more

Scripture: John 17:1

Denomination: Christian Church

Stewardship Series

Contributed by Tyler Edwards on May 11, 2009

Stewardship is about more than what we do with 10% of our check. That is not all God is asking for. So what does God really want in the offering plate?

4. Spiritual Disciplines Series May 3rd, 2009 Stewardship The parable of the talents indicates that we will be held accountable for what we do with the time that we have been given. The Earth is the Lord’s and everything in it. Everything that is belongs to God. We do not own anything we ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:24-26

Denomination: *other

Part 21: How To Get God's Help In The Hard Times Series

Contributed by Rick Crandall on Apr 3, 2025

1. Call on the Lord (vs. 1-4). 2. Check our attitudes (vs. 5). 3. Commit ourselves to the Lord's care (vs. 6-7). 4. Confess our faith in God (vs. 8a). 5. Keep calling on the Lord (vs. 8-10). 6. Keep checking our attitudes (vs. 11).

Great Prayers of the Old Testament Part 21: How to Get God's Help in the Hard Times Psalm 42:1-11 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - August 20, 2017 (Revised - April 3, 2025) BACKGROUND: *Anyone who has read a good portion of God's Word knows that there are a lot of prayers ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Life, Love And Liberty

Contributed by Mark Hensley on Jun 27, 2001

Ruth is a 44 year old stay at home mother of five from Pennsylvania when asked why don’t you attend church she replied:

West Greeley Baptist Church July 1st 2001 Galatians 2:20 “ Life, Love and Liberty” By Pastor Mark Hensley "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 2:20

Denomination: Baptist

The Journey Is A Miracle

Contributed by Byron Maynard on May 24, 2005

We ask God to work miracles in our lives, but have you ever considered that God’s daily activity, His divine intervention, is a miracle in itself?

The Journey IS The Miracle! Your life’s Journey is a constant miracle from God Text: Exodus 14 - Exodus 17 by Pastor Byron Introduction: We ask God to work miracles in our lives, but have you ever considered that God’s daily activity, His divine intervention, is a miracle in itself? The miracle ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

From Sinner To Saint Series

Contributed by Allan Quak on Feb 27, 2018

During the crucifixion a man who was a certified sinner asked Jesus for forgiveness. Forgiveness was freely given and he died with no good works to his name. This is grace in action.

Message Luke 23:39-43 From Sinner to Saint Through out history the last words of people have become notorious. Let me give you a few examples. Oscar Wilde, who was a 19th century author, looked around his hospital ward and said, “This wallpaper is horrendous, either it goes or I go”. Just ...read more

Scripture: Luke 23:39-43

Denomination: Baptist

Sixteen Signs Of A True Believer Part 5 Series

Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 9, 2010

Sermon 9 of the series, "Things that Accompany Salvation." In the current sermon we ask: Am I free from moral guilt? Have I experienced answered prayer?

Series: Things That Accompany Salvation Hebrews 6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. Message 9: Sixteen Signs of a True Believer (Part V) (2 Cor. 13:5; 1 Jn. 3:20-23) 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:20-23

Denomination: Baptist

The Winner Takes It All

Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 6, 2008

The first thing God will ask us when we arrive home- Did you keep my commandments? In 1 Thessalonians 2: 19 it says there will be an award for such winners.

Illustration: The man at the lottery stand shouts aloud. Be a winner and go home with millions of dollars. Everyone wants to be a winner and go home rich. But have you wondered if we are really rich in the walk of our life and getting ready to go home as winners. Introduction: The Lord God wants ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:19-23

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Rocky - Preparing For The Fight Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 5, 2003

Why did Jesus take His disciples to Caesarea Philippi? Why go to a pagan, idolatrous city to ask His disciples the most important question of His ministry?

OPEN: I read once the story of a young black man in the ghettos. He was fortunate in that he had both of his parents, and they struggled to make ends meet. But for his birthday that year they had scraped together enough money to pay for a brand new bicycle. A few days later someone stole it. ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 16:13-28

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Biblical Meditation Series

Contributed by Richard Tow on Apr 9, 2006

How well do you get along with yourself? How much truth do I want? These questions are relevant to our ability to meditate. Practical suggestions for how to mediatate. Biblical meditation is distinguished from Eastern meditation that has been popularized

Biblical Meditation (Fifty Days of Consecration #5) Psalm 1:1-3[1] 4-17-05 Intro How well do you get along with yourself? It may seem strange but that is a fundamental question that has to be addressed when we talk about meditation. Before I can effectively get into meditation I have to turn ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 1:1-3

Denomination: Charismatic

Pride Of Solomon

Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Mar 3, 2013

I. EXORDIUM: Are you still full of yourself or full of GOD? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show the need to acknowledge GOD in everything good and perfect that happened in our lives. IV. TEXT: 2 Chronicles 6:2 (N

I. EXORDIUM: Are you still full of yourself or full of GOD? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show the need to acknowledge GOD in everything good and perfect that happened in our lives. IV. TEXT: 2 Chronicles 6:2 (New Living Translation, Second Edition) Now I have built a ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 6:2

Denomination: Pentecostal

Return To The Gold Standard

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 6, 2023

"Doing to others as you would have them do to you" is another way of saying "Love your neighbor as yourself," which isn't easy. Love seeks their long term good, not their short term happiness.

About 50 years before Jesus’ time, two famous rabbis were competing for the future of Judaism. One, Rabbi Shammai, was an engineer known for the strictness of his views. The Talmud - that is, the authoritative commentary on the Hebrew scriptures - tells that a gentile came to Shammai and told him ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 7:12, 1 Peter 3:13-16

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Droughts

Contributed by Delray Lentz on Sep 9, 2024

Last week I asked “Am I the fear-filled Spirit void Peter denying Christ, or the Holy Spirit filled Peter proclaiming the gospel of Jesus”?

For a large part of 2010 and 2011 our area experienced a major drought. In fact, it was the most severe in about 50 years. Rainfall was well below the seasonal average for both years, with long stretches of 90+ degree days and almost that high for the lows. There was a record stretch of triple ...read more

Scripture: Luke 5:1-11, John 21:1-4