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Faithful to the Finish
Peter's final call to a young and growing church
Grace and Glory
A short series through the highlights of 1 Peter
Entrusted
Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
Pentecost 21(C) - Believers wrestle with God both in troubles and also for blessings.
BELIEVERS WRESTLE WITH GOD (Outline) October 25, 2009 -- PENTECOST 21 -- Genesis 32:22-30 INTRO: Today’s text teaches about Jacob struggling. Our earthly lives are filled with various struggles that everyone wrestles with from time to time. At times people wrestle with problems, ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 32:22-30
Denomination: Lutheran
Believers have the hope of an eternal reunion with Christ and with believing loved ones who have passed away. That’s why Paul exhorted us to “comfort one another with these words” (v.18). Today, encourage someone with the hope that allows us to say “so lo
Illustration: Ben Johnson easily outdistanced Carl Lewis in the 100 meter dash. I will never forget Johnson’s look of triumphant disdain and Lewis’s look of amazement as they crossed the finish line. Johnson’s victory was short lived. The world’s admiration soon turned into revulsion as we learned ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
what the devils believe and how their belief affects them.
SCRIPTURE: James 2:19 "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble." Matthew 8:29 "And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?" Mark 1:24 "Saying, Let ...read more
Scripture: James 2:19
Understand and appreciate the profound love of God as expressed in John 3:16, and to recognize that it is not by our own works, but by faith in God's sacrifice, that we are granted eternal life.
Good morning, family! Today we are going to dig deep into one of the most well-known and powerful scriptures in the entire Bible, John 3:16. This scripture is a clear and beautiful declaration of God's love, the meaning of true faith, and the life-changing power faith has. John Locke once said, ...read more
Scripture: John 3:16
Topics: Transformative Faith
Our text tells us how to silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. 1- Submit to authority 2- Live as servants 3- Show proper respect 4- Love the believers
INTRO.- Ignorant talk. There is a lot of that going around. Much of it is in Hollywood. Here is some ignorant talk from foolish people. - JODIE FOSTER: "I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don’t believe in God." - BILLY JOEL: "I wasn’t raised Catholic, but I used to go ...read more
Scripture: 1 Peter 2:13-17
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
The reason we need this message is to help us through times such as experienced by the prophet Habakkuk: Habakkuk’s words show the difficulty that many of us have concerning our world.
Do You Believe? Scripture Text: John 11:26 (Read John 11) Introduction: Jesus’ question to Martha in John 11:26 was this: Do you believe? The Book of John was written that you might believe that Jesus is the Son of God. John 20:31. In the first six miracles of Jesus in the book, ...read more
Scripture: John 11:1-57
Denomination: Baptist
Learning to connect reason with faith in order to strengthen our faith.
This morning I’m going to begin a series entitled “Faith Has It’s Reasons.” Several months ago…a discussion with the staff encouraged me to do a series of messages addressing the common questions that are posed in regard to knowing God. Purpose of this series is two-fold 1) To help us communicate ...read more
Scripture: 1 Peter 3:15
To enumerate the areas of our lives that we should be an example to the believers.
I. EXORDIUM: Are you an example for the believers? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To enumerate the areas of our lives that we should be an example to the believers. IV. TEXT: 1 Timothy 4:12 (Amplified Bible) Let no one despise or think less of you because of your youth, ...read more
Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:12
Denomination: Pentecostal
Through our belief and faithful witness that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, we can influence this community to have life in Jesus name.
What is our motto, our slogan, at St. Thomas? A Believing Church in an Doubting World. From the very beginning, God called His people to believe, to be faithful, to trust Him. God told Noah to build an ark; and he believed Him and was saved. He told Abram that he’d give him the land of Canaan ...read more
Scripture: John 20:19-31
Denomination: Anglican
Knowing for sure that we belong to Christ is vital to a healthy Christian life. This text shows us how we can know if our assurance is real or not.
Are You a Borderline Believer? Hebrews 5:10-12 Purpose: To show that some who claim to know Christ are not really believers. Aim: I want the listener to gain assurance of salvation if they are being faithful to Christ and I want them to fear being lost if they are not being ...read more
Scripture: Hebrews 5:10-12
Denomination: Independent/Bible
God had a mystery He has revealed through Paul to the church
A mystery-lover takes his place in the theater for opening night, but his seat is way back in the theater, far from the stage. The man calls an usher over and whispers, ’’I just love a good mystery, and I have been anxiously anticipating the opening of this play. However, in order to carefully ...read more
Scripture: Ephesians 3:1-13
"Look at yourself and doubts will increase...look at God, and doubts will cease." Link inc. to formatted text, audio, PowerPoint.
Believing Without Seeing! John 4:45-54 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/BelievingSeeing.html Jesus returns to the site of His first public miracle, and He’s going to work a second public miracle. In between the two was a miracle not so public. It was more internal than external, and it was the ...read more
Scripture: John 4:46-54
Faith in Christ
Hebrews 11:1 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. What can God do with a heart that would believe? There are some that believe for the winning lottery ticket, others believe liars time and time again, some believe the meteorologist all the time but very ...read more
Scripture: Hebrews 11:1
A Strong or weak believer, what’s the difference and what am I?
The Life of a Strong Believer Romans 15:1-13 * If you are given a choice, which would you choose, to be weak or to be strong? It’s kind of a useless question because everyone desires to be strong and for good reason. In the matter of our health we know that if our body gets weak we become ...read more
Scripture: Romans 15:1-13
A grace-filled sermon about Peter. We all mess up, even though we shouldn’t, and don’t have to, but we do. There’s still hope for us anyway.
Luke 22:31-34; 54-62 – When a Believer Fails Today, as we continue to look at The Life of Jesus, we are looking at a familiar story from Scripture. We are going to look at Peter, in particular, his failure. But what it really a failure of faith? What was it? And are we likely to go through it ...read more
Scripture: Luke 22:31-62
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