Sermons on Before:

"Keep Awake"

Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Nov 28, 2017

Before the day of The Lord appears there will be many disturbances so keep awake, be ready.

“Keep Awake” 1. The text comes from a response after the disciples Peter, James, John, and Andrew After learning that the temple will be destroyed, they ask, "Tell us, when will this be, and what will be the sign that all these things are about to be accomplished?" (vv. 2-4). The ...read more

Scripture: Mark 13:24-37

Denomination: Methodist

God Waits For Our Prayers! Series

Contributed by Paul Clemente on Feb 5, 2018

God is always available to us but we must humble ourselves before Him.

Please open your Bibles to Exodus 2….. In the last couple of weeks, we learned how a Hebrew boy was adopted by the daughter of the King of Egypt; she named him Moses. Moses grew up in Egypt for 40 years until he heard about God and that he was a Hebrew. Moses believed in God and left the ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 2:16-25

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Priorities

Contributed by Rick Boyne on Nov 11, 2018

God and His Kingdom must come before our own selfish desires.

Priorities November 11, 2018 Morning Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: God and His Kingdom must come before our own selfish desires. Focus Passage: Haggai 1:1-7 (Pew Bible page 1089) Introduction: A little boy, who loved his grandfather dearly, wanted to ...read more

Scripture: Haggai 1:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

Signs Of The Second Coming Of Christ

Contributed by Donnie De Loney on Oct 16, 2014

This message concerning the times that will be present before the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ

Signs of the Second Coming of Christ Matt. 24:32-35 (NIV) 32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it[e] is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 24:32-35

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Success Plan For The Righetous

Contributed by Lekan Adesanya on Sep 3, 2017

God has a plan for everyone on a condition that they work and walk righteously before him.

Brethren God has a plan for you on a condition that you work and walk righteously before him. His plan for Abraham was revealed with a condition of walking in perfection which is in righteousness. Ge:17:1: And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

Brothers Together

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on May 25, 2020

Shades of opinion in the Christian church. We shall all appear before Christ.

BROTHERS TOGETHER. Romans 14:1-12. This passage has much to say about receiving one another in the Lord. Paul defines “the weak in the faith” (Romans 14:1) as those who have scruples about what they eat (Romans 14:2). Do not “despise” them, warns Paul; but he also warns the weak not to ...read more

Scripture: Romans 14:1-12

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Finishing Well

Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Aug 8, 2022

We are called to run the race that is set before us, but also to finish the race.

Finishing Well Text: Hebrews 12:1-3 OPEN WITH PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING Well before we get into our text this morning, I want to tell you a little story. A few weeks back, my wife was watching a movie on TV. I was sitting at my desk, reading the news, so I wasn’t really paying a whole lot of ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-3

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Preparing For Prayer

Contributed by Jerry Cosper on May 10, 2022

An overview of how to truly prepare yourself before you go to God in prayer.

I have shared with a few of you the past few days or weeks that after the Bible study in the Book of Daniel I was thinking about explaining and giving detailed instructions on centering prayer. I haven’t done that in a number of years so I thought it would be good to discuss it this evening. I ...read more

Scripture: Mark 10:47, Luke 18:13

Denomination: Baptist

Count The Cost Series

Contributed by Roshelle Brenneise on Apr 18, 2022

Decide FIRST if you are willing to pay the price of discipleship BEFORE following Jesus

April 16, 2022 Have you ever asked this question, “How much is this going to cost?” Before buying a car…. Before investing in that cruise…. Before getting those Solar Panels…. Most of us don’t like to be surprised by the bottom line. We want to know UP FRONT how much that big purchase is ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 16:24-25, Matthew 8:18-20, Mark 8:34-38, John 6:53-66, Luke 14:25-32, Matthew 10:22, Luke 21:17, John 15:18-19, James 4:4, 1 John 2:15, Luke 4:21-30, Acts 4:1-3, Acts 16:22-24, Philippians 3:7-8  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

His Last Days! From The Lord's Supper To The Cross!

Contributed by Howard Gunter on Apr 9, 2019

Many events and observations of Christ's last days before The Resurrection

Weekend Message/Devotion April 14, 2019 Luke 22:14-23:56 HIS Last days! This week’s gospel reading covers many events and observations. Let’s just walk through them and really absorb the events in the last days of The Messiah leading up to His resurrection. We begin this reading with Jesus ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 10:17, John 18:10, Matthew 26:31-35

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Ninth Commandment Lesson 9 Series

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Oct 10, 2025

Jesus: You try to live a lie before Me, but I know the truth.

NINTH COMMANDMENT “You shall not lie to your neighbor” (Ex. 20:16, ELT). “I speak what My Father tells Me to say, but you speak what you father tells you . . . your father is the devil . . . a murderer from the beginning and does not have the truth in him. I tell you the truth” (John 8:38, 44). ...read more

Scripture: John 8:38, John 8:44, Exodus 20:16

Denomination: Baptist

Writing Your Dream/Vision

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Oct 20, 2025

You must become your vision, before you accomplish your dream.

THREE ASPECTS OF VISION “Vision . . . is a clear mental image of a preferable future, imparted by God to His chosen servants and is based upon an accurate understanding of God, self, and circumstance.” ~George Barna, The Power of Vision 1. God. Your vision comes from God, it is not thought ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 29:18

Denomination: Baptist

Only Walk In The Light

Contributed by Rev. Samuel Arimoro on Aug 5, 2025

To walk in the light means to live in the truth, in obedience, and in transparency before God and man.

ONLY WALK IN THE LIGHT By Rev. Samuel Arimoro Main Text: 1 John 1:5-7 "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 1:5-7

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Effective Prayer - Don't Give Up Series

Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 15, 2008

We don’t bring an issue before Jesus once, and that is the end of it, there is a purpose to our repeatedly bringing up an issue before God, and that purpose is the building of our faith. This is what Jesus does with Bart.

Bartimaeus. Physically blind, financially strapped. Stuck in a job that is going nowhere. He is a nuisance. He is in the way. He is a passing thought. He is in fact, a painful reminder to everyone walking by, that disaster is very possible in their own lives. This man is nothing….and yet, and yet, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 10:46-52

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Dependance On God Series

Contributed by Dan Brown on Dec 4, 2006

The first step in following X is to be wholly committed to Him, Allow Him to rule in our lives, come before Him poor in spirit, realizing your need for Him, bow before Him and Him alone,

EPIC-2/9/03-Dependance on God Begin a series I am going to call vintage Xianity. Why? When we look @ the xian faith as it is practiced today it can appear to be clouded by century’s of tradition, in vintage xianity going back to the beginning. Webster’s defines vintage as-being of old, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:3

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