Sermons on Celebrant:

Your Statutes Are My Heritage Forever

Contributed by Don Schultz on Jan 27, 2010

God's Word is my great heritage

I was just reading the other day about a couple in Minnesota that was celebrating an unusual wedding anniversary**(see footnote). What made it unusual was the number. They had been married for 83 years. They’re both right around 100 years old. Can you imagine celebrating an anniversary ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 119:111

Denomination: Lutheran

Before There Was A Christmas

Contributed by Luther Sexton on Jun 13, 2018

Describes situation before Christ and after Christ

BEFORE THERE WAS A CHRISTMAS INTRODUCTION: Christmas, as we know it, is a rather modern innovation. Christ’s birthday was not celebrated until more than 300 years had gone by, years in which accurate birth records (if there were any) had been lost. The early Church remembered and celebrated ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Predecessor From God

Contributed by Dr. Jeffrey Dukeman on Dec 3, 2018

John the Baptist was a predecessor from God at Jesus' Baptism. We today should reflect on all those who have preceded us and helped us to know God, and we should also strive to be predecessors from God for others.

Historian David Barton has an interesting discussion in an article entitled “Christmas—as Celebrated by the Presidents.” Barton writes, Even though Christmas did not become a national holiday until 1870, it has a centuries old history in America. Interestingly, in colonial America, the southern ...read more

Scripture: Luke 3:1-20

Lesson 7: Exegesis Not Eisegesis

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Mar 5, 2018

Let's diminish bad Bible interpretation in the pulpit.

Lesson Goal In this lesson I hope to eradicate or greatly diminish bad biblical interpretation in churches. I also hope to arm both preacher and congregation against the shoddy Scriptural analysis of many televangelists and popular Christian writers. Lesson Intro You can give a man a fish or ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

The Good News Of Christ

Contributed by Anthony Zibolski on Dec 2, 2014

The Gospel is good news when you respond, and we have the hope of eternity is His return.

The Good News of Christ Introduction- This morning marks the beginning of Advent. The 4 weeks prior to Christmas. It is a time set aside for waiting in expectation for the celebration of the Christ child. For believers in 2014, we celebrate that Christ the savior has come and we anticipate ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:8-10

Denomination: Nazarene

Being The Broom Mk3 Series

Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Aug 15, 2016

This is my third attempt at this sermon, They call it the parable of the lost coin, what is the christian's role in finding this coin, the lamp, I believe there's a role that is over looked, will you be the broom?

Sri Lankan edition MK 3; Being the broom. Luke 15:8-10 When we look at the scriptures there is a certain amount of danger in putting a label on something that can take our focus away from other important things. In the following parable what is important, what are the important features of this ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:8-10, Luke 4:18-21

Denomination: Salvation Army

The First Passover (Exodus 12)

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Aug 17, 2024

How did Passover foreshadow Jesus? Let's look in Exodus 12.

English speakers call it Easter. Most languages still call the Christian celebration the equivalent of Passover. What was the original Passover like? How did it foreshadow Christ? Let’s look at Exodus 12. Did God begin to give Israel a calendar? The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Christmas Is Coming Again

Contributed by Abraham Shanklin on May 22, 2003

His first coming brought you liberation, His second coming is going to bring you transformation. His first coming brought heaven down to you; His second coming will bring you up to heaven.

Christmas Is Coming Again Scripture Reference: Acts 1:1 – 11 Introduction There is clear evidence that we are in the throes of the holiday season. It actually started the day after Thanksgiving. Someone even said that preparations where even being made after Halloween. Have you caught the fever ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:1-11

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Halloween: Should We Participate Or Not?

Contributed by James Bryant on Oct 22, 2002

Many Christians have reservations over this question. What does THE-BOOK say?

HALLOWEEN SHOULD WE PARTICIPATE OR NOT Ephesians 5:11 (11) And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. As the 31st of this month of October 2002 fast approaches, many Christians are asking themselves the same question. Should we participate in Halloween ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:11

Denomination: Baptist

God To The Rescue Series

Contributed by Dennis Lawrence on Apr 6, 2001

One story began at Christmas and goes to the cross and Easter!

God to the Rescue April 7, 2001 We’ve celebrated the meal that Jesus left us to remind us of Him and His work on earth, as well as the work that followed from His ascension to heaven. We celebrated Jesus, and each time we do, we celebrate some different facet of our Saviour. We’ve just seen the ...read more

Scripture: John 1:14, 1 John 3:5

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Original Christmas Announcement - The Angel Series

Contributed by John Baggett on Dec 15, 2005

Not a Hallmark but the very best Christmas announcement was the original one from God delivered by the angel. Calmed Fear, Created Hope, Called others to Worship. It should be our announcement.

Original Christmas Series #4 The Original Christmas Announcement LK 2:8-15 I invite you to find Luke Chapter 2 this morning. It was a chilly December morning as an elderly woman entered her small town post office and made her way to the counter. The clerk asked her "How may I assist you?" She ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:8-15

Denomination: Baptist

The Prize Prisoner

Contributed by Bradley Boydston on Apr 12, 2004

Easter sermon which contains a parable telling the story of the resurrection from the perspective of the devil.

It was the pinnacle of his existence. The Prince was more than elated, almost giddy, as he personally led the new prisoner into the dungeon of death. This is what he had been working for all these years -- years and years of opposition by the King -- years and years without any respect for his ...read more

Denomination: *other

Can You Hear The Singing?

Contributed by Tim Hbc on May 1, 2009

A stunning promise! God rejoices over his people with singing? But can we, by faith, hear it?

There is a story about a father and his son. The two were extremely close. Since the mother had died of cancer a few years earlier the two grew closer than ever. The boy grew up to be a young man. And suddenly he was called up to fight in the war. The father’s heart was broken as his son ...read more

Scripture: Zephaniah 3:14-17

Denomination: Baptist

Bondage Or Liberty? You Choose: But Christians Are Free People!

Contributed by Kelly Durant on Jun 29, 2015

The rules or laws of a nation or a church is not our main message, our main message, rather it is Jesus Christ’s liberating and soul saving love!

Bondage or Liberty? You Choose: But Christians Are Free People! Re: 4th of July Kelly Durant 7- 2015 John 8:36 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with ...read more

Scripture: John 8:36

Denomination: Salvation Army

Freedom

Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Jul 2, 2021

It is by our genuine obedient faith in Jesus and His atoning work on the cross that makes us free. When we surrender our life to Jesus and His death on the cross which paid for our sins, we can be really free. This freedom supersedes anything any nation or people can provide for us.

Alba 7-4-2021 FREEDOM Romans 1:26-32 Today is the 4th of July, otherwise known as Independence Day. 245 years ago, our forefathers pledged their honor and their lives to the formation of a new nation free from outside interference and control. On the 2d of July 1776, a resolution declaring the ...read more

Scripture: Romans 1:26-32

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ