Sermons about Checking Ourselves

Seeing Properly Series

Contributed by Tim White on Mar 19, 2014

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Jesus cares how we view him, ourselves and our possessions.

• We value our vision. Seeing is important. • Many have had to experience, either for a temporary period, or in an advancing stage, life without good vision. • Part of that is getting old, I am learning. Just another inconvenience of living to be older. • A pastor went to a ...read more

Scripture: Mark 12:35-43

Denomination: Baptist

Don't Deceive Yourselves!

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Mar 13, 2001

based on 91 ratings

| 13,333 views

Don’t compare ourselves with others? Why would the Bible say that?

MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER CENTRAL CHRISTIAN, BROWNSVILLE, TX ILL. I have a friend who says that he can remember going to church with his parents when he was a little boy. Now that isn’t unusual, except that his family didn’t really go to church all that often. So he has some ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 6:3-5

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Power Of Pull

Contributed by Monty Newton on Jul 18, 2009

| 5,020 views

The pulls in our lives compel us to act compassionately in behalf of others... and ourselves.

Title: The Power of Pull Text: Mark 6:30-34 (53-56) Thesis: The pulls in our lives compel us to act compassionately in behalf of others… and our selves. Introduction Sometimes when we think of the word “force” we are thinking in terms of power and speed. G-Force as related to gravitational ...read more

Scripture: Mark 6:30-34

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Breakthrough Comes From A Proper View Of God Series

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 3, 2020

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Key Point: We overate ourselves and under-rate God.

Video Illustration: So will I – the song and video from Hillsong Sermon: Breakthrough comes from a proper view of God! Thesis: With the wave of coronavirus impacting everything from economy, to people’s health, disrupting peoples lives, causing shortages to food supplies, impacting businesses, ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 40:28-31, Psalm 91:1-6, Luke 12:7, Job 38:31-32, Isaiah 40:12 (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

3 Facts About Attitude

Contributed by Donnie De Loney on Feb 4, 2010

based on 34 ratings

| 54,458 views

This sermon deals with our thinking and ways to help ourselves and other with attitudes

3 Facts About Attitude Proverbs 23:7 Next to knowing Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, nothing is more important than having a good positive attitude. Your attitude WILL: 1. MAKE OR BREAK YOU 2. HEAL OR HURT YOU 3. Make FRIENDS or ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 23:7

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Separate Yourself

Contributed by Timothy Brewington Ii on Sep 9, 2003

based on 94 ratings

| 49,905 views

We must separate ourselves from whatever is not like God. We must also separate ourselves unto God. This means that we most make ourselves only available to God. God uses people that have mad themselves available to him.

2 Corinthians 6:17 "Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord...” God has always required His people to separate. He told Israel, “be ye holy, for I am Holy.” God knows that we become like, whoever and whatever we spend the most time with. God wants us to be like Him, ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:21

Denomination: Apostolic

Descending Into Greatness Series

Contributed by Steve Bond on Oct 30, 2007

based on 4 ratings

| 9,313 views

Putting others before ourselves will bring us to our knees. Learning to give ourselves away is also the first step to a deeper experience of true joy.

There is something that stirs deeply within us when a man or woman gives up their life for another. A few decades ago Roger Rosenblatt wrote a moving tribute in Time Magazine. It was about a passenger on Air Florida Flight 90 that crashed into the Potomac River. The nameless 50-some-year old man ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:1-11

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Family Obligations

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 24, 2023

based on 1 rating

| 2,283 views

Why is it that we come to church? Why do we open ourselves up to the possibility that we might have to confront ourselves, to repent and even to change?

How many of you have heard someone say, “Why do I have to go to church? Can’t I be just as good of a Christian at home, reading the Bible, doing good deeds, praying by myself, maybe watching a favorite preacher TV in the comfort of my own living room? Why should I bother getting up on Sunday ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 18:15-20

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Eighth Sunday In Ordinary Time Year C- Mote And Beam

Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jan 27, 2025

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We get impatient with others who represent aspects of ourselves that we have pushed away

Doctor Jesus is like an ophthalmologist and a psychologist in our Gospel today. He is speaking about projection. We get impatient with others who represent aspects of ourselves that we have pushed away.1 We are aware of all the mitigating factors that go into our own mistakes but not those ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:39-45

Denomination: Catholic

Growing Pains Series

Contributed by Scott Jewell on Oct 16, 2016

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| 12,220 views

The good news and the bad news is that growth brings people and new people bring different ideas. What do we do in times of conflict? Check out these thoughts from the church in Jerusalem.

Growing pains- they can be a good thing. There’s a saying that goes, “What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger.” Growing pains can also be bad- after all, they’re a pain. It hurts. As a child growing to maturity, there are a number of times you go through ...read more

Scripture: Acts 6:1-7

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

What Faith Looks Like Series

Contributed by James Wallace on May 11, 2021

| 4,626 views

This is a reality check. When you're surprised by the challenges of the Christian life and even tempted to quit, consider how the people who are part of Faith's Hall of Fame lived.

This past week we all heard about another horrific tragedy on the border. Three people died and 25 were injured as smugglers attempted to bring dozens of illegal immigrants into the U.S. via boat along the California Coast. The 40-foot boat broke up on a reef just west of Point Loma off the San ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-16, Romans 1:18-20, Matthew 6:33

Denomination: Bible Church

What Are You Holding Back

Contributed by Walter Troup on Apr 13, 2019

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What keeps you from giving everything to God? Check out two sets of people who were following Christ and made two different decisions about their lives, causing two different outcomes.

This morning I want us to look at two sets of people: one set held nothing back from God, and God used them to change their world and ours too. The other set, not so much. Because they kept something back from God, their lives came to a quick end. Before we look into the lives and circumstances ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:42-47, Acts 4:1-20, Acts 5:1-11, 1 John 2:15-17, 1 Timothy 6:7, Matthew 10:39 (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Baptist

Facing Me

Contributed by Jeremy Farmer on Mar 7, 2003

based on 28 ratings

| 3,182 views

We need to look at ourselves - inward instead of outward.

Facing the Inside Matthew 26:20-22 Jeremy Farmer Pomona Assembly of God May 5, 2002 PM Service Matthew 26:20-22 “WHEN THE EVENING HAD COME, HE SAT DOWN WITH THE TWELVE. NOW AS THEY WERE EATING, HE SAID, ‘ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, ONE OF YOU WILL BETRAY ME.’ AND THEY WERE EXCEEDINGLY SORROWFUL, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 26:20-22

Denomination: Pentecostal

Worship Like The Shepherds

Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 28, 2002

based on 98 ratings

| 9,908 views

Finding ourselves in the story of the shepherds and responding by worshiping God

Worship Like the Shepherds ¡V Luke 2:8-20 Steve Simala Grant ¡V Dec. 8/9, 2001 Intro: I want you to think about God. Just for a moment, concentrate on God in your mind. Use your imagination if you like, or reflect on God¡¦s characteristics, or meditate on all that God has done for you. ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:8-20

Denomination: Baptist

I Dare You To Compare Yourself To Abram

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Feb 21, 2002

based on 37 ratings

| 5,213 views

how there are striking similarities and differences between ourselves and ABram

February 24, 2002 Genesis 12:1-8 The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 12:1-8

Denomination: Lutheran

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