Sermons on Breakthrough Prayer:

Sermon On The Mount: What The Believer Is Like

Contributed by Christopher Arch on Feb 8, 2025

Series

Title: Living as Disciples in a Fallen World Script: Mt. 5:13-20 Type: Expos. Where: GNBC 2-9-25 Intro: Indianapolis pastor Davey Blackburn knows what means to live as a disciple in a fallen world. "I cannot thank you enough for the unbelievable outpouring of love that you have shared with ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:13-20

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Ministry Partnerships-1(2025)

Contributed by Byron Sherman on Feb 11, 2025

1 of 6. Elizabeth & Mary shared their experiences as ministry partners in God’s service. Ministry partnerships foster an atmosphere for sharing experience in God’s service. But What exactly do those partnerships in God's service share? Ministry partnerships share...

MINISTRY PARTNERSHIPS-I—Luke 1:39-40(:39-56) RECAP: Around Christmas, 2023, Salem was met with a series of sermons entitled, ‘MEETING The DEMANDS For GOD’s PLAN’(Lk. 1:26-38). In those sermons, we looked into some early events surrounding the birth of Jesus thru the eyes of Luke. And there we ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:39-40, Luke 1:39-56

Denomination: Baptist

Marriage Is More Than Simply Falling In Love.

Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Feb 18, 2025

Marriage is more than falling in love. Both parties to the marriage have a complementary role to play to the other. And you need to work at it.

Marriage Foundation Introduction: The marriage covenant predates the Fall I would like to like to go back to the very basics of when marriage was instituted. We first read about it in Genesis 2. I am not talking about a piece of paper saying you are married but to the marriage covenant between ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:15-25, Matthew 19:4-6, Ephesians 5:31, Malachi 2:13-16

Denomination: Anglican

The Question Of Eternal Life

Contributed by Terry Hovey on Feb 19, 2025

He had a dream of obtaining his life goal of eternal life. He had the desire to attain it. He had every opportunity to receive it placed right in his lap...but he ended up with nothing.

The Question of Eternal Life Matthew 19:16-30 America has been called the land of opportunity. Many people have come here over the years in the hope of building a better life than what they had in the country of their origin. My ancestors came from England on my mom's side and Sweden or ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 19:16-30

Denomination: Methodist

Goats To The Left Of Me And Sheep To The Right

Contributed by Terry Hovey on Feb 21, 2025

To the world that nailed Him to a cross, He will return as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He came once as a Lamb, but He will return as a Lion. Once as a Savior, He will come again as the Judge who will sit on His throne to judge the nations.

Goats to the Left of Me and Sheep to the Right Matthew 25:31-46 Matthew chapters 24 and 25, otherwise known as the Olivet Discourse, contain the most detailed description of events that are to occur in the future among the Lord’s recorded teachings. As the Lord and His disciples walked out of the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 25:31-46

Denomination: Methodist

A Return To Civility: 10 Don't Covet Series

Contributed by Denn Guptill on Aug 31, 2024

We don't hear the word covet a lot this days, but being greedy is pretty close. This message looks at why we shouldn't be greedy.

A Sunday school teacher was asking her class if anyone knew what the Tenth Commandment was, to which a little boy responded, “You must not take the covers off your neighbour’s wife.” Pretty close. Well, here we are—the last week of our series, A Return to Civility. When we started the series in ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:1-17

Denomination: Wesleyan

The Church's First-Century Martyr Series

Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Sep 6, 2024

Acts 6:8-7:60 shows us three ways God makes death into the servant of his believers.

Introduction After the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost and Satan’s counter-attack, the first-century church is ready to begin its worldwide mission of telling everyone about Jesus. So far, the church has been composed only of Jews and restricted to Jerusalem. However, the ...read more

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Furthering Your Faith-6

Contributed by Byron Sherman on Sep 17, 2024

6 of 6. The apostle Peter encouraged the Churches to bolster/strengthen their faith in Christ, in order to provide an abundant entrance to God’s kingdom. God’s people are obligated to further their faith. ?What does ‘Furthering Your Faith’ involve or entail? Furthering Your Faith involves...

FURTHERING Your FAITH-VI—2Peter 1:10-11(:5-11) Attention: The Secret Of Life: A father used to say to his children when they were young: —When you all get older, I will tell you the secret of life. For many years the oldest had been pondering what ‘the secret’ could possibly be. So whenever ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:10-11, 2 Peter 1:5-11

Denomination: Baptist

The Rewards Of A Servant Series

Contributed by David Owens on Sep 23, 2024

God knows that serving Him is not always easy or pleasant, so He encourages and motivates us to not give up by His promised rewards.

A. Allow me to begin today’s sermon with two brief stories. 1. The first story is about a woman who lost her purse in the chaos of Christmas shopping. a. Her purse was found by an honest young boy who returned to her. b. When the woman looked into her purse to see if everything was there, she ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:58, Matthew 19:27-29, Mark 10:29-30, Matthew 6:19-21, Hebrews 11:6, 2 John 1:8  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Isaiah 53: Will Of The Lord Series

Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 25, 2024

Isaiah predicted Jesus’ single-minded devotion to the will of God prompting the same in us.

ISAIAH 53 SERIES: WILL OF THE LORD ISAIAH 53:10 | #Isaiah53 PERSON IN THE CONGREGATION READS ISAIAH 53 READ ISAIAH 53:1-12 (ESV) “Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For He grew up before Him like a young plant, and like a root out of ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 53:10

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Art Of Listening Series

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Sep 30, 2024

The book of James meets us head on.

James - No Spin Zone James 1:19-26 September 15, 2024 According to relationship and communication experts, the most important aspect in any relationship is what? LISTENING! Yet, listening is not easy, is it? How long it will take some of you to start day dreaming during my message? When you ...read more

Scripture: James 1:19-26

Denomination: Baptist

Christian Living - Watch Your Speech Series

Contributed by Gene Gregory on Oct 2, 2024

Continues series in James. Addresses the power of our speech

James 1:19-21, 3:1-12 Speech - Read James 1:19-21 Prayer On a wind-swept hill in an English country church yard, stands a drab slate tombstone. The faint etching reads, Beneath this stone, a lump of clay Lies Arabella Young Who, on the twenty-fourth of May Began to hold her ...read more

Scripture: James 1:19, James 1:19-21, James 3:1-12

Denomination: Baptist

"safe And Sound With Danger All Around"

Contributed by Christopher Arch on Oct 10, 2024

Life of David series

Title: “Safe and Sound with Danger All Around” Script: I Sam. 19 Type: Series on David Where: GNBC 10-13-24 Intro: Dr Ken Elliott and his wife Jocelyn were both kidnapped in Burkina Faso, after serving as medical missionaries for 44 years. Ken was 82 at the time of his kidnapping. The Elliots ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Humble Hearts, Healing Nation Series

Contributed by Duane Wente on Oct 13, 2024

Humility is the key to fostering unity and healing. Drawing from the example of Jesus in Philippians 2 and warnings about pride from Proverbs, humility dismantles pride and invites healing, not only in our relationships but in our nation as well.

### ** Introduction ** Video Ill.: Danger of Pride — Church Fuel Pride and politics are a dangerous combination. Pride and arrogance have devastating consequences in politics and in real life: isolation, separation, division. ### **Illustration: The Downfall of Richard ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 16:18-19, Philippians 2:1-11, James 4:1-10, 2 Chronicles 7:13-15, Matthew 5:9  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

No Publicity Stunt: Missing God In Plain Sight Series

Contributed by Scott Maze on Oct 16, 2024

How do you explain that when people want to curse, they don’t say, “Muhammed,” but they swear by saying the words “Jesus Christ”? Why do Muslims, Sikhs, Mormons, Unitarians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Deists all find a way to incorporate Jesus into their religion?

Have you heard someone say, “I wouldn’t bet the farm on that if I were you?” There are a lot you cannot of people you cannot count on. But there’s one you can bet the farm on, and His name is Jesus. Find John 7 with me, if you will. Jesus finds Himself poked and prodded by the public in every ...read more

Scripture: John 7:1-36

Denomination: Baptist