Sermons on Better Priority:

Better Beginnings

Contributed by Bill Bowdle on Feb 1, 2018

BETTER BEGINNINGS for New Year help build our lives on better foundations, resulting in better endings. 1:RECOGNIZE GOD AS CREATOR (In beginning God..); 2: RESPECT GOD W. REVERENCE (Fear of God=beginning of wisdom) ; 3: RECEIVE CHRIST FOR NEW BEGINNINGS.

“BETTER BEGINNINGS” by REV. BILL BOWDLE ====================================== Retired United Methodist Pastor - Liberty Township, Ohio, Delivered this message at a nearby UMC during it's pastor's vacation on 01/07/2018 Genesis 1:1, Proverbs 9:10; John 1:1-4,12 ============= INTRODUCTION ...read more

Denomination: United Methodist

A Better Way Series

Contributed by Brian Williams on Jan 24, 2023

You can try to live the life on your own, you can try to serve the Lord in your own strength and wisdom, but Jesus came to show a better way, a living way and it comes from above, it comes from Him.

Most of us are familiar with the terms Baby boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Gen Z. All of these generations have a different way of looking at life and the world. Each has different priorities and set of values, and each thinks theirs’ is the best way to live and make sense of this world. ...read more

Scripture: John 8:21-30

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Better Together Series

Contributed by Matthew Stoll on Feb 12, 2009

This adapted sermon of Rick Warren challenges us to participate in the 40 Days of Community and join a small group.

What on earth are WE here for? That’s really the question we are asking over these 40 Days of Community. God has placed us here on this earth, in this place, and at this time for a reason, for a purpose. We are not here by accident. We are part of God’s plan. God’s #1 reason for bringing us on ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:5

Denomination: Methodist

Bigger Is Better

Contributed by Chuck Brooks on Aug 31, 2020

The needs of the body of Christ are abundant but God has taken care of that by strategically positioning the members in the body in order to meet the needs.

Have you ever done any renovation? I remember a friend of mine who was good at renovating--sometimes too good. He and his wife bought an old house in Catonsville and began to renovate it. He was the kind of guy that would go into a job with a sledgehammer, smashing all the old stuff, making way ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:20-27

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Want A Better Wife? - Be A Better Husband!

Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jun 5, 2007

Do you want a better wife? Be a better husband. God’s Word will show us how.

Want a Better Wife? - Be a Better Husband! Ephesians 5:25-33 Sermon by Rick Crandall McClendon Baptist church - June 3, 2007 *I know at least one husband who said he wasn’t coming today, because he didn’t want to get preached to about being a better husband. Men I am not here to beat up on you ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:25-33

Denomination: Baptist

Misplaced Priorities - Fools Series

Contributed by Gene Gregory on Apr 12, 2008

First in series on Foolish Living, based on fools found in the Bible. Examines qualities of a person God calls a fool.

MISPLACED PRIORITIES This week we celebrated April Fools Day. No one knows for certain, when or where this special day began, but it is celebrated in one form or another, often by other names, in many countries around the world. I still remember the first April Fool’s joke pulled on me. I was ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:13-21

Denomination: Baptist

Priorities For A New Year

Contributed by David Owens on Jan 7, 2008

In this sermon I borrowed and built on the seven priorities from a sermon by SermonCentral contributor, Darrell Garrett called "How to Meet the New Year".

Introduction: A. Happy New Year! This is the first Sunday of 2008! It is hard to believe we are almost through the first decade of the 21st Century! 1. For many people the first week in January is the most depressing week of the year. 2. The holidays are over, the family and friends have gone ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:1-3

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Setting Priorities In Life Series

Contributed by Matthew Stoll on Jun 16, 2009

Using the movie, The Bucket List, as a platform for setting our priorities in life and living by them.

[Give everybody a yellow pad of paper to take notes, and collect the pads in buckets at the end of the service. Have people put their bucket list in buckets anonymously so we can read them over the next few weeks.] Setting Priorities in Life -- What Really Matters -- Living Life on ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 39:4-5

Denomination: Methodist

The Priority Of God's Kingdom

Contributed by Guy Glass on Jun 14, 2010

GOD HAS MADE IT QUITE CLEAR WHAT HE WANTS US TO KNOW, AND HOW HE EXPECTS US TO ACT AS HIS AMBASSADORS IN THIS WORLD UNTIL HE COMES. THE PASSAGE IN FRONT OF US TODAY IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF CLARITY WE CAN EXPECT OF OUR CREATOR, SAVIOR AND LORD. IN PLAIN W

THE PRIORITY OF GOD’S KINGDOM Matthew 6:33 (NIV) But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. PROPOSITION: THAT WE WOULD SEEK GOD FIRST IN ORDER TO WORRY LESS AND TESTIFY TO THE WORLD OF THE TRUE PLACE OF CHRIST IN OUR ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:33

Denomination: Baptist

Bitter Or Better Series

Contributed by Mark Lennon on Feb 3, 2003

Intro on James, #1 Do trial and testings make you a bitter or better Christian?

Book of James Introduction & 1:1-4 The Book of James was written by the half brother of Jesus. It is also believed to be one of the first books of the Bible that was written. The Book is also a practical book rather than one of theology. It is call “the little big book”, it is often times ...read more

Scripture: James 1:1-4, John 15:18-21

Denomination: Baptist

Bitter Or Better?

Contributed by Pastor/Author: Terry Sisney on Aug 2, 2002

Bitter or Better The choice really is yours, We cannot choose what comes to us in life but we can choose how we respond to it and that is what determines whether we become better or bitter.

BITTER OR BETTER? As a couple exchanges their vows,( those vows include these words) for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, for better for worse. It could also be said: for better or bitter. Or bitter or sweet. Life just has some bitterness built into it. Everyone comes to bitter waters ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 15:22-27

Denomination: Pentecostal

A Better Way

Contributed by Dan Borchert on Aug 30, 2002

We are constantly looking for a better way to do things. Let us think back to a time before Christ and how much better off we are now

Hebrews 1:1-4 A BETTER WAY Introduction 1. In life we are always trying to find a better way to do something. This unending search has created many inventions. The Car, Computer, the cotton gin, most everything that was invented was to find a better way to do something 2. What did Jesus invent? ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 1:1-4

Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

Better With Age Series

Contributed by Shawn Drake on Mar 30, 2003

This is the 8th study in the study "Intimacy". This study shows how a marriage can grow stronger and stronger through the years.

BETTER WITH AGE Song of Solomon 6:4- 8:4 We have watched this couple form the first time they met, to their wedding, to their Honey Moon, to a fight, and to the reconciliation after the fight. The first years in marriage are extremely difficult. There are many reasons for this. Newlyweds ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

In A Better Place

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Apr 26, 2003

For Remembrance Sunday, when we honor the memories of those who have died in the previous year: Those who suffer loss go to a better place emotionally when they cast off unproductive patterns and allow themselves time to receive unconditional love. They

There is something we say to console ourselves when someone dies. It is a phrase I have heard over and over. We say,“I know she is in a better place.” My friend, my parent, my spouse has passed away, but it feels good to think of one truth: “He is in a better place.” By that, of course, ...read more

Scripture: Acts 18:1-23

Denomination: Baptist

A Better Relationship

Contributed by Jim Parisi on Jun 17, 2002

A Better Relationship is what the Lord wants.

A Better Relationship HHM April 28 2002 Philippians 3:13-15 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:13-15

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational