Sermons on Clapping Hands:

Love Hospitality PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 22, 2025

The sermon urges believers to embody Christ’s love through everyday acts of kindness, service, and hospitality, making faith tangible in ordinary life.

Some of the most life-changing sermons are preached without pulpits. A handwritten note in a mailbox. A casserole on a front porch. A hand on a shoulder in a waiting room. A smile across a sanctuary. You have seen these sermons. Many of you have preached them. And if you listen closely, you can ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:10-13

Topics: Hospitality, Kindness

Be Fruitful PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 24, 2025

God calls us to fruitfulness, inviting our prayers and faithful actions to cultivate blessing, growth, and goodness in every area of our ordinary lives.

If you listen closely to the first pages of Scripture, you can almost hear it—the cadence of creation, the hush before the first sunrise, the smile of God as He blesses the world He just made. And then, over the first man and woman, He speaks a sentence that still sighs through every hallway of ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 1:28

Topics: Fruitfulness, House Of God

The Importance Of The Holy Spirit Series

Contributed by Izak Shipman on Jan 25, 2004

Why were Peter, John and Paul so eager to pray for people to receive the Holy Spirit? This answer the Question: Why is the Spirit so important.

The importance of the Holy Spirit A. Background: Acts 8:9-13 Here we found the working of the Holy Spirit through a man that was full of FAITH and the HOLY Spirit Acts 6:5 · God is using him mightily. · Multitudes listen to him. · Miracles were done and then even the GREAT POWER V10 , Simon, ...read more

Scripture: Acts 8:14-25, Acts 8:9-25

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Loosing Our Rose Buds Funeral

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 12, 2002

I was asked to develop a funeral for the one that died before their time, adapts into a lesson on living.

Loosing our Rose’s buds for the Master’s Bouquet? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com I did this for a funeral but this is easily adapted for a lesson on living. Text: Isa. 35:1 The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. Luke 12:27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 35:1, Luke 12:27-30

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Male Role Models - Good & Bad

Contributed by Brian Atwood on Jun 17, 2005

Beneficial versus detrimental models of manhood juxtaposed in the lives of David and Nabal.

The 25th chapter of First Samuel tells the story of two vastly different approaches to being a man. One is rewarding and the other ruinous. One is admirable and the other despicable. One is to be repeated and the other repudiated. To this day most men fall into one of the two categories ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 25:1-42

Denomination: Baptist

How The Holy Spirit Can Lead You As He Led Jabez

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000

Instead of being bitter, or changing his name to something like "love" or "peace," Jabez turned to the Lord. He asked God to bless his life indeed. Let us boldly ask God for His blessings in an extraordinary empowering and enabling way.

How the Holy Spirit Can Lead You as He Led Jabez (I Chron. 4:9,10) Illustration: Oh, that You would bless me . . . and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain! –1 Chronicles 4:10 When we read through the Bible, we’re inclined to skip the first nine chapters of 1 Chronicles ...read more

Scripture: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Christmas The Important Announcement

Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 2, 2007

Christmas the IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. Of all the important announcements that were ever made this was it. This was the most important announcement since the fall of Adam and Eve. I have heard announcements all my life. However, the only announcement tha

Christmas IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Luke 2:8) "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." (Luke 2:9) "And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid." (Luke ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:8-18

From Servants To Friends

Contributed by Ken Pell on Sep 25, 2007

A Sermon on Compassionate Minsitry

From Servants to Friends Luke 10:27-37 A Sermon on compassionate ministry 27He answered: " ’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ’Love your neighbor as yourself.’" 28"You have answered correctly," Jesus ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:27-37

Denomination: Nazarene

It's About Your Heart

Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Aug 22, 2009

Ordinary Proper 16: Christ came to set us free from blind traditionalism. His liberating Spirit frees our hearts to serve Him and the neighbor out of a spirit of love and forgiveness.

There’s a story about how in 1903 the Russian Czar noticed a sentry posted on the Kremlin grounds for no apparent reason. When he inquired, he discovered that in 1776 Catherine the Great found on that very spot the first flower of spring. She ordered that a sentry be posted there so that no one ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-8

Denomination: Lutheran

A Touch For Serving

Contributed by Rodney Kelley on Sep 14, 2009

When you are touched by Jesus, you cannot help but wanting to serve Him.

Intro: Series - Just a Touch is All We need - Matthew 8:2 "And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed." This ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 8:14-15

Denomination: Baptist

You Can Be The Person

Contributed by Marilyn Murphree on May 4, 2007

It doesn’t take a lot of resources to be a blessing to someone and meet their need. All of us can be the person. Here’s how.

May, 2007 You Can Be the Person Mark 14:12-16 INTRODUCTION: Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “where do you want us to make preparation for you to eat the Passover?” There was not much time for them to make the needed preparation because the Passover had to be eaten between sundown and midnight ...read more

Scripture: Mark 14:12-16

Denomination: Methodist

Spirit Of The Overcomer Pt 2 Series

Contributed by Danny Williams on Oct 25, 2006

7 leeters to the churches

REVELATION - Part 2 August 20, 2003 - Danny L. Williams Revelation 1:1-7 THE BOOK OF REVELATION is the culmination of Bible prophecy -the point at which all the prophecies of the ages converge and find their ultimate fulfillment. Revelation shows the future of the Jew, Gentile, and the ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 1:1-7

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Spirit Of The Overcomer Pt 2 Series

Contributed by Danny Williams on Oct 25, 2006

7 leeters to the churches

REVELATION - Part 2 August 20, 2003 - Danny L. Williams Revelation 1:1-7 THE BOOK OF REVELATION is the culmination of Bible prophecy -the point at which all the prophecies of the ages converge and find their ultimate fulfillment. Revelation shows the future of the Jew, Gentile, and the ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 1:1-7

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Binding Jesus

Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Oct 28, 2006

Ways Jesus is bound

Binding Jesus 1 Corinthians 9:12 "If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather?" Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. Introduction: 1. Jesus is bound after the betrayal of Judas and led to Annas the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:12

Denomination: Baptist

Jabez, A Role Model For Prayer, Part Iii Series

Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Jun 18, 2007

This is the final of a three part series on the Prayer of Jabez as an example for praying for God to bless the local Church in effective outreach for His Kingdom.

Jabez, a Role Model for Prayer, Part III We have been looking at the Prayer of Jabez as a role model for our own prayer life, especially as we look to the Holy Spirit to “increase our territory” as we embrace the lost and the least in our community. We have seen that God’s plan for ...read more

Scripture: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10

Denomination: Methodist