Sermons on Coming:

Pleasant Interruptions

Contributed by Joey Nelson on May 20, 2002

We were created for community and we need community.

INTRODUCTION Sermonic Theme Opening Statement: We were created for community and we need community. While life is very enjoyable the journey of life and faith is often trying, difficult and painful. Discouragement. Relentless temptation. Debilitating sins. Doubts. Ridicule. Burdensome weaknesses. ...read more

The Ways Of God Series

Contributed by Jerry Fenter on May 23, 2002

The faithfulness of God is seen in the new era of Israel under Joshua’s leadership.

The Ways of God Joshua 1,3, 4 (Scripture reading is from Psalms 77:11-15). Over the past several weeks we’ve been pushing our way through the book of Joshua, looking closely at some of the ways that God works in the lives of His people. This week I decided it was time for us to step back, take a ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 77:11-15

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

God's Plan For Intimacy

Contributed by Jerry Fenter on May 23, 2002

The need for intimacy is fulfilled in marriage, family, and the church.

God’s Plan For Intimacy Genesis 2:18-25 A small child came home from Sunday School and told his mother: "The teacher told us how God made the first man and the first woman. He made man first, but the man was very lonely with no one to talk to, so God put the man to sleep, and while he was asleep, ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:18-25

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Choices That Honor God Series

Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Dec 20, 2001

There are so many choices in life. How can I know the choices I make will honor God? And why should I do that anyway?

December 9, 2001 1Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3Know ye not that we shall ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:1-20

Denomination: United Methodist

God's Plan For Your Life Series

Contributed by Greg Nance on Dec 29, 2001

The World uses the best equipment to send their message. Shouldn’t God’s people do at least the same?

Finding God’s Plan for Your Life - Jeremiah 1:4--10 When we open our Bibles and read the first few words of the first book we discover many things about the God who made us. He is the great creator of heaven and earth. His power to create is in his Word. His Spirit moves over the vast depths ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 1:4-10, Hebrews 8:5

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Can't See The Forest For The Tree

Contributed by John Beehler on Jan 8, 2002

A tree in the garden did in Adam and Eve and allowed sin to gain it’s hold on us. But it was another tree, the one Jesus was nailed to, that rescued us from death.

Can’t See the Forest for the Tree I’m here to tell you, Adam and Eve had it made. They lived in a perfect world created by the hand of God. They had unlimited access to God and full enjoyment with only one stipulation. Adam and Eve could eat the fruit of any of the trees in the garden, ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:15-17, Genesis 3:1-7

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Calling The First Witness

Contributed by Chris Talton on Jan 13, 2002

This sermon talks about the fact that faith is more than something that is just in our head. It is expressed in our giving and in our living.

November 11, 2001 Hebrews 11:4,5 “Calling the first witness” I. INTRODUCTION A defendant was on trial for murder in Oklahoma. There was strong evidence indicating guilt, but there was no corpse. In the defense’s closing statement the lawyer, knowing that his client would probably be ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:4-5

Denomination: Baptist

Desire: "It'll Make You Or Break You” Series

Contributed by David Yarbrough on Jan 28, 2002

. Righteousness is not an optional spiritual supplement but a spiritual necessity. We can no more live spiritually without righteousness than we can live physically without food and water.

Intro: “Mommy I’m so thirsty. I want a drink.” Susanna Petroysan heard her daughter’s pleas, but there was nothing she could do. She and four-year-old Gayaney were trapped beneath tons of collapsed concrete and steel. Beside them in the darkness lay the body of Susanna’s sister-in-law, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:6

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Ehud- Agent 002 Series

Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 4, 2002

A sermon on Ehud, from the 3:16’s of the Bible

Judges 3:12-30 Ehud Sermon for 2/3/2002 Introduction: A. Don’t read this story while eating breakfast. B. This is the first of 5 major accounts of national deliverers, all of which are meant to sicken the reader as well as celebrate Israel’s deliverance. C. Sin is sickening. When we deal with it ...read more

Scripture: Judges 3:12-30

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Naked And Not Ashamed Series

Contributed by Rob Morton on Jun 5, 2001

Building trust within a marriage. God wants us to be uninhibited, transparent within marriage.

Becoming One Flesh Part 2, Naked and not ashamed: trust. Genesis 2:20-25. May 27 The book of Genesis records for us the original marriage, Adam and Eve’s, and it describes for us what marriage was intended to be by God. God placed these two together in the Garden of Eden and gave them to each ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:20-25, 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

He Went A Little Farther

Contributed by Jerry Carr on Jun 9, 2001

We find as Jesus went to Gethsemane, Gabbatha, Galgotha, and the Grave, that he conquered every obstacle that was set before him, just as we must.

When we think of Calvary, it speaks of sins forgiven, but in order for those sins to be forgiven there had to be someone to pay the price. It speaks of Peace with God, but before we can experience Peace there must be Victory. It speaks of Eternal Life, but before we can have eternal life, the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 26:36-46, John 19:10-13

Denomination: Independent/Bible

In The Pit

Contributed by Marian Diceanu on Jun 24, 2001

Joseph’s pit experience

Genesis 37d. In the pit Last Sunday we looked at the fact that there was a great animosity on the part of the brothers toward Joseph. That animosity steamed from rivalry among the mothers. That bitterness was very obvious that weather they meant it or not the boys developed that, toward ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 37:1-36

Denomination: Baptist

What's The Point? - To Share A Message Series

Contributed by Charles White on Jun 27, 2001

Church purpose

 WHAT’S THE POINT? - TO SHARE A MESSAGE Luke 24:45-49 - Sunday AM - August 10, 1997 INTR: When George Bush and his military advisors determined to engage Saddam Hussein and his military forces they first poured all the military might of the United States onto the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:45-49

Denomination: Baptist

Vagabond Anointing

Contributed by Daniel Olukoya on Jul 1, 2001

The vagabond anointing is responsible for the lack of direction and aimlessness in so many lives. The devil himself is a vagabond and he likes to distribute that anointing.

In Genesis 4:12, we see the first example of a vagabond person. It says, "When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shall thou be in the earth." Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 says, "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will ...read more

Scripture: Job 6:1-7, 1 Peter 5:8, Job 6:1

Denomination: Pentecostal

We Have A License

Contributed by Edward Frey on Jul 18, 2001

Our freedom in Christ is freedom from the burden of guilt

Semon Text: Galatians 5: 1, 13-25 July 15, 2001 WE HAVE A LICENSE It’s summer time again, and that means a whole bunch of new drivers will be out on the roads. High school students are finishing their Driver’s Ed. Courses and practicing for their tests, all in the hopes of getting a driver’s ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:1-25

Denomination: Lutheran