Sermons on billionaires:

Music: How It Has Degraded From The Original, Pt. 7 Series

Contributed by Kelly Durant on Oct 19, 2024

Music: Satan has degraded music to be used as a form of manipulation so we participate in his enslaving broken-ness, corruption, and psychosis; However, God's music soothes and heals

Psalm 149:3 Let them praise His name with the dance; Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp. Psalm 150:3 Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; Praise Him with the lute and harp! Psalm 100:1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. 2. Sound penetrates deeply into our ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 100:1, Psalm 149:3

Denomination: Salvation Army

God Of The Marginalized

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Feb 13, 2025

A sermon comparing God's ways with our ways.

“God of the Marginalized” Luke 6:17-26 Something VERY radical is taking place here in Luke Chapter 6. Jesus is speaking to His disciples, His followers, His students and He is giving them their first lesson. But it sounds VERY strange to our ears, does it not? I mean, this isn’t the American ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:17-26

Denomination: United Methodist

How Much Can God Trust You? Series

Contributed by David Dykes on Apr 4, 2003

Jesus used the parable of the shrewd manager to give us lessons about managing the money God gives us, the value of true investments, and a warning about becoming a slave to money.

How Much Can God Trust You? Luke 16:1-18 by David O. Dykes INTRODUCTION The recent accounting scandals have shaken our economy to its roots. I read about a third grade class in which the students were telling about the jobs their parents had. One little boy shocked the class by saying, “My dad is ...read more

Scripture: Luke 16:1-18, Luke 16:1-13

Denomination: Baptist

Sound Familiar?

Contributed by Thomas Swope on Feb 25, 2018

A study in the book of Genesis 42: 1 – 38

Genesis 42: 1 – 38 Sound familiar? 42 When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?” 2 And he said, “Indeed I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down to that place and buy for us there, that we may live and not die.” 3 So Joseph’s ...read more

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Being Rich Can Make Us Spiritually Poor Series

Contributed by Peter Toy on Mar 28, 2013

If we don’t learn to handle our wealth in a godly manner, it can separate us from God.

Being rich can make us spiritually poor. A story is told of a rich man who was on his death bed. He called in three of his friends, a pastor, a doctor and a lawyer to give them a strange request. He gave each of the men an envelope with one million dollars in it. He instructed the men that during ...read more

Scripture: James 5:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

The Good Example Of A Crook

Contributed by John Lowe on Oct 28, 2013

Sadly, Christians are some of the most gullible, naïve folks around. Almost every week you read another story about how some trusting Christian was bamboozled by a scam where he gave away his life’s savings in some “sure-fire investment.”

12-13-04 THE GOOD EXAMPLE OF A CROOK Luke 16:1-16:18 INTRODUCTION The recent accounting scandals involving big ...read more

Scripture: Luke 16:1-18

Denomination: Baptist

Thanksgiving Salvation

Contributed by Eric Amundson on Nov 24, 2000

Remembering our journey into the Promised Land

Many things come together this week. Finally, after all this time, the Israelites step foot into the promised land. This is also pledge Sunday, when we respond to God’s work and call in our lives and set our expectations of support for next year. Liturgically, this is Christ the King Sunday. It ...read more

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Babel Revisited

Contributed by Gerald Cornelius on Dec 15, 2000

We revisit Babel when we place other things before God, seek other ways to God and trust in our own ambitions

BABEL REVISITED TEXT: GENESIS 10:8-11, 11:1-9 INTRODUCTION: Words are powerful. Words can be negative. They can kill, maim, abuse, and ridicule. Do you remember hearing about the missionary kid (MK) who committed suicide? He wrote a suicide note to his parents saying that he could no longer ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 11:1-9, Genesis 10:8

Denomination: Baptist

Jesus: A Friend Many Seek

Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 11, 2005

Fanny Crosby captured the essence of this sermon when she wrote, "What A Friend We Have in Jesus."

JESUS: A FRIEND MANY SEEK John 15:12-16 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know ...read more

Scripture: John 15:12-16

Denomination: Wesleyan

Wealth – A Potential Enemy

Contributed by Robert Sickler on May 17, 2012

Scripture clearly states that people who long to be rich fall into all sorts of temptations and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that drag them down and destroy them.

WEALTH – A POTENTIAL ENEMY INTRODUCTION Scripture clearly states that people who long to be rich fall into all sorts of temptations and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that drag them down and destroy them. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some ...read more

Scripture: James 5:1-6

Denomination: Christian Church

Heaven In The Here And Now Series

Contributed by Pat Cook on Sep 30, 2004

#3 in Romans 8 - What a Way to Live! series. This speaks of having eternal life now, not just later in heaven. What does it mean to live?

Romans 8:10-11 – Heaven in the Here and Now Let me tell you the life story of a certain man. All he ever really wanted in life was more. He wanted more money, so he invested his inherited wealth into a billion-dollar pile of assets. He wanted more fame, so he broke into the Hollywood scene and ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:10-11

Denomination: Baptist

Biblical Attitudes Toward Money

Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 2, 2002

How to handle our attitudes re: money

Biblical Attitudes Toward Money Sunday School Lesson Grace International Baptist Church Intro: 1 Tim 6:3-12 (NIV) 3 If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4 he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 24:1

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Good And Bad Alike

Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Jun 11, 2007

What? “Good and bad alike” invited to the palace? The door is wide open and all of them are let inside: can you imagine what happened there, the horrendous stampede? Costly carpets, marble, gold, everything clean and suddenly dirty beggars and hungry peas

“…Everyone, good and bad alike” Matthew 22: 1-14… Mathew 22: 8-10: Then he said to his servants, ’The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ 1So the servants went out into the streets and ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 22:1-14

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Making Sense Out Of Dollars Series

Contributed by David Henderson on Nov 4, 2007

This message focuses on giving as outline by Jesus Himself. It was a part of a series I preached on the parables.

“Making Sense Out of Dollars” Luke 16:1-15 Last week we began a new teaching series I have titled Tell me the Stories of Jesus. We are looking at some of the stories Jesus told through the use of parables. One of the ways we could describe a parable is that it is an earthly story with a heavenly ...read more

Scripture: Luke 16:1-15

Denomination: Baptist

Unstrained Mercy

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 9, 2011

Unstrained mercy needs to be constrained by the same constraints that God himself recognizes: by wisdom, by justice, by the long-term, eternal good of the person you are trying to help.

We’ve seen a lot about pardons in the news lately, haven’t we. Why did former President Clinton pardon Marc Rich? The “fugitive financier” is the nicely alliterative phrase that all the commentators use - I bet the journalist who coined the phrase is wishing he - or she - ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:7

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed