Sermons on Betting:

Matters Of The Heart Series

Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jun 24, 2009

Seek to please God more than man. Seek to bless others more than self. Seek to do everything out of love more than anything else.

THE MOST PROUD THING The President of Moody Bible Institute tells this story: A young man from school took the bus to class. It was crowded. Before the conductor came around to take the fare, he had gotten off at the school without paying. Later on, he remembered it. And he thought, "That ...read more

Scripture: Acts 5:1-11

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Discipline Leads To Joy! Series

Contributed by Paul Clemente on Jul 12, 2009

God disciplines Christians when they mess up not to punish them but to reveal the awesome glory of Christ!

God reveals Himself to people in mysterious and powerful ways. And do you know what God’s desire is for people? God’s desire is to bless people, make them holy, and daily walk with Him. Ever since Creation this is God’s desire for people! God chose the People of Israel, descendants of Abraham, to ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 43:1-34

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Love God First Series

Contributed by Paul Clemente on Mar 22, 2009

If you don’t love God first above all other things, consequences to sin will soon follow.

Remember what we talked about last week? God chose Abraham and his descendants to be a testimony for Him. Abraham passed the “baton” of being in God’s team to Isaac who in turn passed the “baton” to Jacob. Please open your Bibles to the end of Genesis Chapter 28; we read……. Jacob heard the godly ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Born Identity Series

Contributed by Tim Smith on Dec 10, 2008

Sometimes it takes a baby to remind an old man what your world is really about” in that one moment when Christ was born. Oh, Praise his name for that one moment! Thanks to Jim Altar for the intro to this message

In One Moment In one moment, one seemingly insignificant measurement on the span of time, "The Word became flesh". In that moment, undiminished Deity became humanity. What an incomprehensible thought! In one moment, the one for whom are all things and by whom are all things, became a thing —like ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-7

Denomination: Methodist

Iwant To Experience Peace Series

Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Dec 16, 2008

Jesus offers us the gift of peace. How do we receive it? What is it?

INTRODUCTION • PC VIDEO • Slide #1 • We all have things that we want for Christmas. As we continue with our “iWant” series, we will examine another one of those wonderful ‘Iwant” items that we can get from God. • We live in a world that is very unsettled at best; we see wars, rumors of wars, ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:8-14

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Ihope

Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 18, 2008

Without hope we will continually find our faith subject to the whims and haphazard circumstances of this fallen world.

IHOPE #1 November 30, 2008 Introduction Saw IHOP sign. Add an E and you get HOPE. Had Cina make a powerpoint. Henriann thought it would make people hungry for pancakes. Sorry, no pancakes. We need to talk about hope Especially relevant in this time of the year leading up to Christmas and ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-3

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Thinking Outside The Crib Series

Contributed by Bob Gillchrest on Dec 29, 2008

Fourth in a series of sermons developed around and following the Magnificat (Luke 1)

Thinking Outside the Crib Luke 2:4-7 INTRODUCTION: What was God thinking? Why did God choose the time and place He did for the birth of his son, the savior of the world? To quote Victor Hugo in Les Miserables, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” What he said about eighteenth ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:4-7

Denomination: Baptist

Second Of Four Things That Will Change Your Life...obedience 3 Series

Contributed by Clayton Beck on Jan 16, 2009

When we are obedient to what God wants us to do…He will open doors that seem impossible for us to be opened.

Four Things that will Change Your Life…2c…Obedience Over the past couple of weeks we have discussed obedience. We talked about the obedience of Noah doing all that God commanded him, even when it all seemed too much to accomplish. Last week we began talking about Jonah. And, that he was ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

"Yes, God Is Working Even In That” - Part 2 Series

Contributed by Ed Taylor on Jan 29, 2009

The comfort and encouragement of Romans 8:28.

“Yes, God is working even in that” is the comfort and encouragement of Romans 8:28 • As everything around us swirls in confusion & pain and difficulty… God is on the throne, in love, working… Things can get real tough… as things don’t line up the way that we had planned or anticipated. • Then ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:28

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Wouldn't You Like To Know?

Contributed by Curt Cizek on Aug 22, 2008

A sermon on discerning God’s will

-I’d like to know! -I bet you would too. -I don’t know a person alive, on this earth who would not like to know. -You’d like to know what God’s will is, wouldn’t you? -We’d all like to know what God’s plan for our lives is -Why don’t we know what God’s will is? -I think Paul gives us the answer in ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:1-8

Denomination: Lutheran

Blessed Believers

Contributed by Phillip Schrimsher on Sep 12, 2008

The attitudes that should be present in the life of the believer

Blessed Believers Luke 6:20-26 Introduction: The setting for our text today took place on a mountain plateau not far from the city of Capernaum, thus the phrase (sermon on the mount). The section of that sermon that we will examine today is called the (beatitudes) taken from the word “beati” ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:20-26

Denomination: Baptist

In The Face Of Discouragement Series

Contributed by Michael West on Sep 29, 2008

Discouragement. We all experience it one time or another. Discouragement can immobilize even the righteous people of God and hinder them or stop them in their tracks to the point that they stop working on their God given visions.

Sunday January 27th, 2008 Series: the Fight part four Scripture: Mark 9:23 Sermon: In the face of discouragement Speaker: Pastor Michael West, River of Life Discouragement. We all experience it one time or another. Discouragement can immobilize even the righteous people of God and hinder them ...read more

Scripture: Mark 9:23

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Biological Brother's Of Judas Iscariot

Contributed by Darren Sirmans on Oct 30, 2011

"Blood is thicher than water;" birds of the feather flock together."

ST. Mark 14: 18-21 Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, will do anything to satisfy his wants, even if it means betraying a Holy Man of God. What that tell you about certain people, you don’t think your closes friend will do anything like that. There’s no telling what people will do as ...read more

Scripture: Mark 14:12-21

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Missing Link

Contributed by Jason Jones on Nov 28, 2011

Exposition of Ephesians 5 and John 15 regarding living the Spirit-filled Christian life out of the two most important texts that deal with the matter.

Text: Eph 5:18, John 15:5-8, Title: The Missing Link, Date/Place: NRBC, 11/27/11, AM A. Opening illustration: read the story at the opening of The Spirit Filled Life, “I’m willing to bet there are millions of churchgoers across America who cannot confidently say they have experienced ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:18

Denomination: Baptist

Hope For Even Me Series

Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 4, 2012

Our dependence on God is the source of our hope. Biblical hope is more than desire. It is a focus on the realities of our God.

1. Self-Sufficiency A couple of years ago in the Rocky Mountains a bighorn ram approached the home of a man named Ed Bailey while he was watching football on television. The bighorn stopped suddenly, seeing its reflection in a plate glass window. Thinking it was another ram, the bighorn bowed its ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 146:5, Psalm 146:1-10

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ