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Priorities For A New Year

Contributed by David Owens on Jan 6, 2025

In this sermon, we explore three priorities that will help us live a life that pleases God.

Introduction: A. Happy New Year! This is the first Sunday of 2025! 1. It is hard to believe we are halfway through the third decade of the 21st Century! 2. For many people the first week in January is the most depressing week of the year and that is the case for a number of reasons. 3. One ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-3, John 3:16, Romans 5:8, Romans 8:37-39, 1 John 4:16, Ephesians 1:7-8, John 1:16, 1 Peter 1:13, Matthew 6:33, Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 3:11-12, Hebrews 10:24-25  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Results Not Typical

Contributed by Wayne Lawson on Nov 3, 2014

People are fed up with empty claims and so we as the church, we have to present a different kind of life; an effective different kind of life

TITLE: RESULTS NOT TYPICAL SCRIPTURE: ACTS 9:20-31 We live in a media saturated culture. Not only saturated with media, but saturated with advertising. Everywhere we look people are trying to sell us something. Seems like more and more websites that are free, now have some kind of advertisement ...read more

Scripture: Acts 9:20-31

Denomination: Baptist

How To Be An Exceptional Wife Series

Contributed by Scott Maze on Jun 4, 2021

Cosmopolitan can teach you how to win a man to yourself. But only the Scripture can teach you how to win him to God.

This morning I want to talk to women whose need hope. I want to speak to women who are married to men who are not converted to Christ. And Peter has some very unusual counsel for godly women married to ungodly men. He tells them to submit to such men! Talking to women about being gentle, quiet, ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 3:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

Lesson Of The Loaves

Contributed by Bill Lobbs on Oct 19, 2000

In the miracle of the loaves and fishes there are five valuable lessons applicable for daily Christian living.

Lesson of the Loaves Pastor Billy G. Lobbs Theme: Lessons learned from the feeding of the Five Thousand Text: John 6: 1-13, (KJV) "After these things Jesus were over the sea of Galilee which is the sea of Tiberius. And a great multitude followed him, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 6:45-52, John 6:1-13

Denomination: Pentecostal

Beware

Contributed by Jose R. Hernandez on Oct 19, 2000

Beware of the doctrines of man.

Beware Last week we spoke about the church, the power that Christ gave to the church and the foundation of a true Christian church. Today I want us to examine this topic a little further. Today we will not be talking about the church itself, but we will be talking about the different doctrines ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 16:5-12

Denomination: Independent/Bible

How Jesus Measures Success

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000

Jesus knew that human success is often a temptation that leads to greater worries, riches and troubles in this life. The Lord Jesus said, "Still, others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth

How Jesus Measures Success Illustration: One thing I do, . . . I press toward the goal. --Philippians 3:13-14 In Daniel Schaeffer’s book on Esther, Dancing With A Shadow, he summarizes with a single sentence the lives of each of the main characters in that wonderful Old Testament book. For ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:13-14

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Godly Mothers

Contributed by Donnie De Loney on May 7, 2005

A brief look at 3 mothers whose lives greatly influenced the lives of their children.

Godly Mothers Exodus 1:15-2:8 HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! A teacher asked a boy this question: Suppose your mother baked a pie and there were seven of you--your parents and five children. What part of the pie would you get? A sixth, replied the boy. I’m afraid you don’t know your fractions, said ...read more

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Payday For Mom

Contributed by Russell Brownworth on May 13, 2002

Not working outside the home? There’s enough to be done within the home to keep ten women busy (and probably twenty men). Consider the wages...

May 12, 2002 Erma Bombeck writes; For the first 4 or 5 years after I had children, I considered motherhood a temporary condition -- not a calling. It was a time of my life set aside for exhaustion and long hours. It would pass. Then one afternoon, with 3 kids in tow, I came out of a ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 2:9, Exodus 2:2-9

Denomination: United Methodist

Should Mothers Be Honored?

Contributed by Claud Owens on May 5, 2004

Why we should honor our mothers on Mother’s Day

SERMON FOR-MOTHERS DAY SCRIPTURE READING: Deuteronomy 5: 16 GOSPEL READING: Matthew 15: 21 - 2 8 "Should Mothers Be Honored?" Deuteronomy 5:16 16 "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:16, Matthew 15:21-28

Denomination: Church Of God

"Holler For Jesus" Revised

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Oct 25, 2003

If we feel like we don’t matter; in Christ we find that we matter a great deal.

“Holler For Jesus”(Revised) Mark 10:46-52 By Rev. Kenneth Emerson Sauer, Pastor of Parkview United Methodist Church, Newport News, VA www.parkview-umc.org There’s a song…and I think it’s by Bob Segar…the lyrics go like this: “I feel like a number, I’m just a number…” Well, I bet there are a ...read more

Scripture: Mark 10:46-52

Denomination: United Methodist

Jesus Feeds 5000

Contributed by Charles Lindquist, Jr. on Aug 10, 2002

Jesus feeds 5000 men plus women and children with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish.

This story, the feeding of the five thousand is the only miracle Jesus preformed that is recorded in all four Gospels. Therefore we can conclude this to be a very important occurrence. It occurred during the Passover season about one year before Christ’s death (John 6:4). Wherever Jesus went ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 14:13-21, John 6:1-15

Denomination: United Methodist

At The Foot Of The Cross: Powerlessness Series

Contributed by Kathleen Kisner on Aug 12, 2002

The Good Friday story told from the viewpoint of Salome

Oh my, what an exhausting day! Crucificitions should be banned! There are cruel and a horrible way to die. I know that the great and mighty Roman government thinks it is a great way to reduce crime, but I think they are wrong. They just make innocent people, like my sister, suffer. I have ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:33-41

Denomination: Methodist

Avoid Becoming A Camouflaged Christian

Contributed by John Troutman on Aug 7, 2003

Why we must not be conformed to this world.

Avoid Becoming a Camouflaged Christian Scr. Ref: Rom. 12:1-2 1 I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:1-2

Denomination: Baptist

Principles Of Multiplication

Contributed by Jay Mccluskey on Dec 31, 2011

A sermon based on the story of the fishes and the loaves, noting principles about the way Jesus multiplies things in our world.

PRINCIPLES OF MULTIPLICATION School days, school days. Dear old golden rule days Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic. Taught to the tune of the hickory stick We do not use hickory sticks in schools today. But school was not that way when Gus Edwards and Will D. Cobb composed that little tune in ...read more

Scripture: John 6:1-15

Denomination: Baptist

Goal Line Stands

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Feb 6, 2012

Do we push and strain to score a touchdown or hold the offense on goal line stands? Do we really care about what Christ calls us to do and be?

Goal Line Stands 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 January 22, 2012 One of the most exciting parts of a football game occurs when one team gets the ball near the other teams goal line. Then it becomes time for a goal line stand. The defense digs in to stop the offense, while the offense does everything ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27

Denomination: Baptist