Sermons on C Proper 14:

Can We Really Believe The Bible Today? Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on May 10, 2019

What you believe about the Bible will determine your beliefs and your behavior.

Can We Really Believe the Bible Today? Rev. Brian Bill May 11-12, 2019 Man on Street Interview Do we have any full-time missionaries here today? Could you raise your hand? Actually, every Christ-follower is called to live on mission as a missionary. If a missionary is one who is sent to cross ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 1:21, Luke 4:16-31

Denomination: Baptist

Finishing Well Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on Nov 29, 2021

If you want to finish well, celebrate God’s provision in the past, surrender to His plans in the present, and serve faithfully in the future.

Goodbyes are no fun, are they? We just returned from a few days with our two daughters and their families in Virginia. I cry like a baby every time we leave. In our family, some of our most painful goodbyes were when we left our parents and siblings to serve as missionaries in Mexico City for ...read more

Scripture: Acts 20:17-38

Denomination: Baptist

Why Do Innocent People Suffer?

Contributed by Dr. Jerry Hulse on Jul 13, 2022

Beloved Saints, the attacks on our faith are designed to conform us into the image of God’s Son, making us to become humble servants because they teach us to learn how to apply the truth of God’s word in greater ways to our situations, therefore God's love is without question toward his people.

SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES (Habakkuk 1:13) NASB "Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, And You cannot look on wickedness with favor. Why do You look with favor On those who deal treacherously? Why are You silent when the ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 52:13, Job 1:9, John 11:3-6, Isaiah 53:10-12, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 8:22-28, Revelation 13:8, Psalm 34:19, Habakkuk 1:13, Habakkuk 3:17-18, 1 Peter 4:19  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Pentecostal

Reset! Series

Contributed by Scott Turansky on Jul 27, 2022

young people, I would encourage you to understand the code. Where are you going to find out the code? You're going to find it in your own personal walk and your own personal Bible study. As you open the Bible regularly and you understand what God has for you personally.

I'm a Mac guy. I love my Mac toys. I've got a Mac watch, I've got my phone, I've got my iPad that I actually run the presentation with on Sunday morning. I enjoy my Mac toys until I get the little colorful wheel on my computer that freezes my computer and I can't do anything and ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 8:13-18

Denomination: Independent/Bible

How Do You Boil A Frog? Series

Contributed by Gordon Pike on Aug 1, 2021

How do you boil a society? How do you boil a whole nation? Paul knew the recipe or formula two thousand years ago and he spelled it out very clearly in his letter to the Christian community in Rome.

We live in an amazing time, don’t we? We have laptop computers that are literally thousands of times more powerful than the room-sized computers we used to put a man on the moon – actually, 12 men have walked on the surface of the moon … so far. The computer which landed Apollo 11 on the Moon ...read more

Scripture: Romans 1:18-25, Genesis 6:5, Ezekiel 10:4, Ezekiel 10:18, Ezekiel 11:23, 1 John 5:14-15  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: United Methodist

The Impact Of A Church With Pentecostal Power!

Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Apr 26, 2022

The power of the Holy Spirit enables his disciples to reach out and touch human needs and share the message of the Gospel. Pentecostal Power enables the church for inreach, outreach, evangelism and discipleship.

The Impact of A Church With Pentecostal Power! During this season of Pentecost, I want us to rediscover the purpose of the power made available to the Church. In describing the ministry of Jesus, Apostle Paul said, Ac 10:38 “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: ...read more

Scripture: Acts 3:1-11, John 20:21, Mark 6:4-6, 1 Peter 3:15

Denomination: Methodist

Sabbath Rest Series

Contributed by Chuck Gohn on Sep 6, 2022

This sermon focuses on the value of "rest" and the benefits to the believers who practice it.

Good morning. If you have your Bibles, you will want to open up to Genesis 2:2-3. That will be our reading for today. Before we actually discuss that verse, what I would like to do is go back to Genesis 1:1 and read through the first chapter just to give you a little background on this ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:2-3, Exodus 20:10, Mark 2:27-28, Isaiah 58:13-14

Denomination: Christian Church

The Power Of Awe Series

Contributed by Scott Turansky on Oct 9, 2022

Whereas some of us who've been Christians for a long time, we kind of get used to the holy things. Sometimes we take the holy things for granted.

Now Psalm 145 is the only psalm in all of the book of Psalms that is called A Song of David. Other psalms are called A Prayer of David or Of David. There are a lot of psalms written by David and have his name on it, but there's only one that says A Psalm of David. It is also one of the nine ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Sin's Beginning And It's Cost Series

Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Apr 19, 2021

Paul is reminding us of the simplicity as well as the necessity of the gospel.

Sin’s beginning and it’s cost I heard about a Christian cowboy who lost his New Testament while he was mending fences out on the range. Three weeks later, a bear walked up to him carrying the New Testament in its mouth. The cowboy ...read more

Scripture: Romans 5:12-21

Denomination: Baptist

Doing Church - God's Style

Contributed by Chuck Brooks on Nov 19, 2020

Today, thousands of churches are starting each year all across America but the question is, “Are they accomplishing the main purpose? Are they making disciples?

An engineer who worked for the General Motors Corporation; once showed his friend a plant that was all of a mile long. He told his friend that "raw" materials went in one end of the plant and cars came out the other, then he told his friend something revolutionary. That building exists ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:41-47

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Among The Lampstands Series

Contributed by Gordon Pike on Jan 4, 2021

The Jesus that we’re about to encounter is the Lion of Judah! The Eternal, Almighty, Self-Existent God of the Universe who has eyes that burn and pierce into your very soul … the judge before whom all of us will one day have to stand.

Jesus … What do you picture when I say that blessed and beautiful name? Do you picture the classic portraits and descriptions of “Jesus, Meek and Mild”? Maybe you picture a deified Mr. Rogers with a beard? Do you picture a carpenter from Nazareth? A rabbi wandering around the Galilean ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 1:9-18

Denomination: United Methodist

How To Listen To God: The Shallow & Divided Hearts - Mark 4:16-19 Series

Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on Sep 16, 2023

Coffee mug theology, which generates great zeal until suffering comes, but then ...

Mark 4:14 The sower sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. Immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 4:16-19, Matthew 13:20-22, Luke 8:13-14

How To Listen To God: The Good Soil - Mark 4:20-25 Series

Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on Sep 16, 2023

Why is Scripture hard and why so many different conclusions about Jesus? Because he hid the truth in hard sayings. Why make it so hard? This passage explains.

Mark 4:14 The sower sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. Immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 4:20-25, Matthew 13:12, Luke 8:16-18

What Is Really True In The World? Hell, Faith, And Heaven

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 30, 2023

Today, though, the Lord gave me a three-fold message that he wants me to share. First of all, we're going to talk about hell, then we're going to talk about Jesus Christ and the gospel, then we're going to talk about heaven.

If I go to my bank account and say, "well, I don't know what's true" that's not going to work. There will be an amount listed. It's either correct or it isn't. That's how it is with history. That's how it is with science. That's how it is with archaeology. ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 3:9, John 14:6, Philippians 2:12

Denomination: Salvation Army

One Step Closer To The Tomb Tenebrae Service

Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Mar 27, 2023

This is a solemn service for the night of Good Friday. It is a candlelight service that brings Jesus to the tomb and then ends with a solemn and quiet dismissal.

Welcome. Introduce guests. Instructions: Tonight is going to be a little different from most services that you are used to. A solemn occasion. It commemorates the crucifixion, the death, and burial of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. As we begin our service, I emphasize that as the service ...read more

Denomination: Baptist