Sermons on Commissioning Service:

A Heart For What's On God's Heart Series

Contributed by Art Campbell on May 26, 2007

If we are to become a missions oriented church we must have a heart for the things that are on God’s heart.

Most of us want to make some sort of difference in the world. How can we do this? Matthew 9.35-38 35a. JESUS WENT THROUGH ALL THE TOWNS AND VILLAGES - not just his home town "Shouldn’t we reach our own backyard first?" ILL: Brisbane City Church: building a hospital in Uganda, also reaching ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 9:35-38

Denomination: Baptist

America Need For Revival

Contributed by Dr. Keion Parrish on Jun 9, 2007

Revival for the streets of America

Sermon Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7:14 and 2 Chronicles 34—35 America’s Need for Revival Introduction: Christians should individually be involved in the political process and churches like ours should take biblical stands on the moral issues of our day. But the answer to our nation’s problems is ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7:14

Denomination: Baptist

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

Contributed by Curt Cizek on Oct 24, 2007

Jesus invites Himself to Zaccheus’ home just like He invites Himself into our lives. He simply wants us to respond to His invitation.

-“Guess whose coming to dinner” is a famous movie -It is #99 on the American Film Institutes top 100 films of the last 100 years -It has a star-studded cast with Sidney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy -It is about a young African-American doctor who meets a young Caucasian woman and ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:1-10

Denomination: Lutheran

The King's Business

Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007

As believers in Jesus Christ, we are to be about His business and that business is the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Back in Luke 9:51, we’re told that Jesus had set His eyes toward Jerusalem, and He was on His way. A crowd of people traveled with Him through all the stories that Jesus has been telling on this journey. They’re following Him to Jerusalem, and now they’re almost there. They are at Jericho, which ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:11-17

Denomination: Baptist

Open Handed Blessings, Closed Handed Consequences

Contributed by Andrew Drummond on Jul 30, 2006

When we look back on all of the gifts that have freely been bestowed upon us by God we clearly see richness, yet how freely are we giving it away? I believe that Jesus desires that we not hoard these gifts, but give them away...

How many of you know what it is like to have a kid coming up to you asking for candy? I had Pastor Adam and Emi’s kids Harry and Jordan in my office the other day wanting a lolly. How do you look into the faces of those cute kids and say, ‘no’? You can’t. I opened up my drawer and gave them each a ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 10:7-8

How Jesus Delegated Responsibility And Authority

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Sep 17, 2006

Let your disciples have responsibility and the authority to trust God for greater works without having to constantly supervise or control them.

How Jesus Delegated Responsibility and Authority Acts 1:8 (NIV, NIRV, TNIV, KJV) How Jesus Delegated Responsibility and Authority - Acts 1:8 Illustration:Peter Drucker offers insightful guidance to the church when he calls leadership a peak performance by one who is "the trumpet that ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:8

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Mission: One Sinner

Contributed by Ron Hicks on Sep 13, 2005

If you think Hell is so bad, why aren’t you doing everything you can to keep people from going there?

MISSION: ONE SINNER Luke 15:4-10 4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep (he made an investment in 100 sheep, and let me say here that God made an investment in all humanity), if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:4-10

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Los Testigos Del Altisimo Series

Contributed by Manuel Amparo on Apr 21, 2006

Napoleon vino al poder, y sabiendo que no podia controlar a Europa sin romper el poder Papal. Manda a su general, Berthier a que tome prisionero al Papa en Febrero 15, 1798.

LOS TESTIGOS DEL ALTISIMO APOCALIPSIS 11:1-19 I. LA BESTIA QUE SUBE DEL ABISMO A. Hara guerra contra ellos y los vencera- 1. A quien vencera la bestia? a. Los dos testigos b. Apocalipsis 11:3 2. Quienes son estos dos testigos? - Apocalipsis 11:1-7 3. Que dice la Palabra de Dios en relacion con ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 11:1-19

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Go Into The City! Our City!

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Jan 15, 2008

We must follow Jesus’ call to go into our community and make disciples.

Acts 1:1-11 August 12, 2007 ACTS 1:1-9 1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he showed himself to ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Choosing The Twelve Lesson 12

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Sep 27, 2018

Jesus commissions 12 disciples

Lesson 12: Choosing the Twelve September 18, 2016 A. THE CONVERSION AND CALL OF MATTHEW (MATTHEW 9:9-13). 1. The oldest disciple – because of the financial rewards, the position came late in life. 2. He was considered the most outrageous of sinners. a. They collaborated ...read more

Scripture: Mark 3:14

Denomination: Baptist

Isaiah's Encounter With The Holiness Of God (Isaiah 6:1-8)

Contributed by Donald Whitchard on Jun 4, 2024

Isaiah receives a vision of the LORD God Almighty in HIs glory and splendor. He recognizes himself for the sinner that he is, yet God commissions him to be His prophet. This is an encounter of reverence, fear, and service.

The events described in Chapter 6 of Isaiah occur early in the life of the prophet. We read in verse 1 that King Uzziah had died after a reign of fifty-two years. He is also referred to Azariah. He was a king who walked in the ways of the LORD until he tried to offer incense in the Temple, ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-8, Habakkuk 1:13, Revelation 4:8, Revelation 15:4, Habakkuk 2:20  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Baptist

Come Before Winter Series

Contributed by Michael Stark on Oct 15, 2016

The coming of winter imposes an urgency on our service to Christ. For someone we know, it is "winter, or never." Whatever we are to do, it must be now.

“Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Trophimus, who was ill, at Miletus. Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers. “The Lord be with your ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:19-22

Denomination: Baptist

Bringing The Harvest

Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Jun 15, 2011

A Pentecost sermon with context and Great Commission

Bringing The Harvest United Presbyterian Church of Terra Bella June 12, 2011 Joel 2:28-29 Acts 2:1-14; 1:5-8 Ps 104 Matt. 28:19-20 Ex. 19:17-19 The Passover sacrifice remembers Israel’s day of deliverance from Egypt. The “ Pentecost” – the 50th day after ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:1-14

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Jesus And The Black Sheep (John 21:1-25) Series

Contributed by Garrett Tyson on Apr 23, 2022

Jesus knows what Peter did, and restores him, and commissions him. Jesus leaves no sheep behind. Also, the two words for love don't matter at all-- Peter isn't trying to trick Jesus.

Let's start today by rereading our passage from two weeks ago, John 20:19-23: (19) Then, when it was evening on that day-- the first day of the week, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were because of fear of the Judeans-- Jesus came, and he stood in their midst, and he says to ...read more

Scripture: John 21:1-25

Dead Works Vs. Godly Service

Contributed by Shawn Raloff on Jun 7, 2003

Nine ways we can distinguish between Dead Works and Godly Service.

Introduction: During World War II, England needed to increase its production of coal if it was going to have any hope of winning the war. Winston Churchill called together labor leaders to enlist their support. And at the end of his presentation he asked them to stand with him and picture in ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 25:31-36

Denomination: Free Methodist