Sermons on Brokeness Restoration:

Laying Down The Law Series

Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 22, 2010

God lays down the law because He konws what we need to experience blessing in life.

“Law & Order: SPU – Laying Down the Law” Ex. 19:1-25; Ps. 19:7-13 Their teenager, with a brand-spanking new drivers’ license, is asking to use the car at night for the first time – and to pick up several friends to go to the mall. So mom and dad lay down the law, ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 19:1-25

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Stop! Thief!

Contributed by Bob Joyce on Jun 14, 2009

When the enemy fails in his attacks from the outside, he then begins to attack from within.

When the enemy fails in his attacks from the outside, he then begins to attack from within; and one of his favorite weapons is selfishness. If he can get us thinking only about ourselves and what we want, then he will win the victory before we realize that he is even at work. Selfishness means ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 5:1-19

Denomination: Baptist

What Are The Benefits Of Giving?

Contributed by Pastor Dre on Apr 21, 2014

Here is a sermon that shows you and I the benefits of giving in the Kingdom of God.

What are the benefits of Giving? II Corinthians 8:7 This morning I would like to speak a message that I believe the Lord has placed upon my heart. How many here could use a financial miracle. Well this morning I would like to speak a message on how to get it. The title of the message is "What ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:7

Denomination: Pentecostal

Easter An Empty Tomb Not Empty Promises Series

Contributed by Dean Courtier on Apr 13, 2017

“He’s alive, the tomb is empty. Jesus is alive. He has risen from the grave”

Easter an empty tomb not empty promises It’s Easter Sunday evening on the 16th April 2017, but I want you to imagine it’s very early on the first Easter Sunday Morning, nearly 2000 years ago. Imagine you are one of the disciples of Jesus and you wake up in a cold sweat remembering the horror of ...read more

Scripture: Romans 4:25, Romans 6:3-11, Mark 16:1, John 20:1-2, Mark 16:5-7, Matthew 28:8-10, Luke 24:13-34, John 20:29, Philippians 3:10  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Pentecostal

Easter 2015: Empty Promises Of Easter

Contributed by Scott Bayles on Mar 22, 2016

Let's examine the promises of Easter. Each promise is marked by something empty—an empty cross, empty clothes, and an empty cave. It is the very fact that each of these is empty that assures us God's promises are not.

EASTER: EMPTY PROMISES Scott Bayles, pastor Blooming Grove Christian Church: 3/27/2016 I just want to take a moment to thank everyone for choosing to spend Easter morning with us here at the Grove. Whether you’ve been coming to the Grove all your life, or this is your first time visiting, or ...read more

Denomination: Christian Church

Being The 29th Chapter Of Acts

Contributed by Melvin Maughmer, Jr. on Jul 25, 2021

You are writing a Gospel, a chapter each day, by the deeds that you do and by the words that you say, others read what you write, whether faithless or true; hey, what is the Gospel According to You?

Being Acts Chapter 29 By Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr. Scripture:- Acts 1:1-3 “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began to both to do and teach. Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:1-3, Acts 28:30-31

Denomination: Apostolic

Home Is Where You Left It: The Three Gifts Of The Redeemed

Contributed by Sean Dees on May 1, 2021

We are living in a time of runaways. All around us we are hearing of cases of children and teenagers running away from home in search of the “good life”.

Intro: We are living in a time of runaways. All around us we are hearing of cases of children and teenagers running away from home in search of the “good life”. We have adults that are packing up and leaving their families, marriages, and responsibilities behind to start a new life; all because ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:11-24

The Holy Spirit In The Kingdom Period

Contributed by John Gaston on Jun 24, 2015

Our purpose is to expand our understanding of the Holy Spirit & to learn how to yield to Him and work with Him today.God has not changed His gameplan; the Holy Spirit is just as vital to the church’s success today as He was in the Book of Acts.

THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE KINGDOM PERIOD INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR: CAR BREAKDOWN 1. 4 engineers were traveling in a car; a mechanical engineer, a chemical engineer, an electrical engineer and a computer engineer. The car broke down. 2. “Sounds to me as if the pistons have seized. We’ll ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 6:1-7

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Jesus Commissions His Fearful Followers Series

Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 22, 2018

Sermon 3 in an after-Easter series.

Jesus Commissions His Fearful Followers Sermon # 3 in After Easter Series: Close Encounters with the Risen Lord Chuck Sligh April 22, 2018 TEXT: Please turn in your bibles to Luke 24. INTRODUCTION Illus. – Lee Eclov tells of a dear friend who gave him a small cross adorned with roses bearing the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:36-49

Denomination: Baptist

Maga

Contributed by Thomas Swope on Feb 18, 2019

A study in the book of Ezra 3: 1 – 13

Ezra 3: 1 – 13 MAGA 3 And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. 2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built the ...read more

Scripture: Ezra 3:1

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Getting A Glimpse Of God

Contributed by Derek Geldart on Oct 7, 2023

The following sermon is going to review five people's glimpses of the Lord and how their lives were forever changed! Since meeting God is not an impossibility but a divine gift from our Creator, let us never stop seeking Him and inviting Him to transform our very lives for His honor and glory!

Getting a Glimpse of the Lord John 1:43-51; Mark 10:17-25; Luke 13:10-17; John 21:15-19; Luke 18:9-14 Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567 There are so many things happening in this chaotic merry-go-round called life that to keep from succumbing to its chaos we tend to ...read more

Scripture: John 1:43-51, Mark 10:17-25, Luke 13:10-17, John 21:15-19, Luke 18:9-14  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Baptist

Eyewitnesses

Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 10, 2023

The eyewitnesses to the resurrection are trustworthy and modern witnesses can be, too.

Eyewitnesses About 10 years ago, during a Homicide trial in Nassau County in New York, the prosecution examined their witness on the stand. In his testimony, the witness stated that he saw the victim lying on the ground, obviously dead. When the prosecution had finished, the defense lawyer rose to ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:3-8

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Proving Not So Much That He Is God As What Sort Of God He Is...

Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Aug 26, 2025

A sermon on Jesus healing the woman bent over double in the Synagogue.

In our intercessions today (as we do every week)– we will be praying for people who are sick – praying because we wish Jesus to make them well. If you read the Quran you will find something surprising. The Quran refers on multiple occasions to the miracles that Jesus performed – to him healing the ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 21:4, John 9:1-11, Luke 17:11-19, Matthew 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45, Luke 10:10-17  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Anglican

The Road Where Hope Returns

Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 19, 2025

Jesus walks beside discouraged hearts, opens the Word, breaks the bread, and turns despair’s road into the path where hope returns.

Introduction — When Hope Walks Beside You and You Don’t Know It It is late afternoon on the first Easter Sunday. Two travelers walk the dusty road westward from Jerusalem toward a village called Emmaus. Seven miles, Luke says — not far, but far enough for grief to stretch every step. Their ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:13-35, Psalm 119:130, Isaiah 53:4-5, John 20:29, Romans 15:13  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Taking The Bread And Cup

Contributed by Douglas Phillips on Apr 12, 2018

A SERMON ON THE MEANING OF COMMUNION

TAKING THE BREAD AND CUP 1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-34 SOMETIMES IT’S IMPORTANT FOR US TO LOOK TO THE REASON WHY WE CELEBRATE COMMUNION AND IT’S MEANING. IT IS A GREAT SYMBOLIC REMINDER OF THE LOVE AND GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. WHAT WE REMEMBER IS THAT GOD WANTS A RELATIONSHIP WITH US AND TO HAVE ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-34

Denomination: Baptist