Sermons on Compensation Giver:

What Being A Parent Sometimes Means

Contributed by Marilyn Murphree on Mar 21, 2007

Mothers have to often make difficult decisions. With God’s help they can do it wisely.

Mother’s Day Sermon “What Being a Parent Sometimes Means” Exodus 2:1-11 INTRODUCTION: “The Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don’t give ye a mother but once” says Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Today is the day set aside each year to pay tribute to Mothers, ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 2:1-11

Denomination: Methodist

Lessons From The Pandemic

Contributed by Charles Payne on Apr 22, 2020

Two extremes to the Reactions to this pandemic teach something about another older epidemic

INTRODUCTION: A. During this epidemic 1. I have been noticing something about people Sort of a lesson in human nature The Pandemic reveals Two kinds of people Two extremes #1 extreme those go to store - hoard up all the bottled ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Need Deliverance?

Contributed by Jason Jones on Sep 12, 2018

As we all experience the need for deliverance throughout or lives, we shall look today at this anonymous psalmist expression of praise for the God who delivers!

Text: Psalm 107, Title: Need Deliverance? Date/Place: WHBC, 6.3.18, AM A. Opening illustration: Plymouth Colony’s Governor William Bradford’s proclamation on Monday, December 11, 1620. Boice’s Commentary, p. 864 B. Background to passage: This Psalm is the first psalm in the 5th book of Psalms. No ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

1 John 1:1-4 - Know Jesus, Proclaim Jesus, Make Our Joy Complete! Series

Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Jan 8, 2019

The apostle John had a certain way of hammering his points home in the opening verses of his letters. What points were so important to John that he had to repeatedly emphasize them in these opening verses of this letter?

1 John 1:1-4 Please stand as we read our newest memory Scripture together … 1 John 1:5-7 “This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 1:1-10, 1 Peter 3:15, 1 John 1:1-4, Luke 1:1-4

Denomination: Nazarene

Our Turning Point

Contributed by Jason Jones on Jun 10, 2024

We must determine what our commitment will be financially in a time of scarcity in view of the ministry we seek to have.

Background to passage: The Corinthian church had been corrected for disunity, pride, immorality, suing each other, their understanding of marriage, their understanding of love, their understanding of spiritual gifts, and their understanding of the resurrection. There was also a “severe letter” that ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 9:13

Denomination: Baptist

Our Redemption In God’s Promises Series

Contributed by T.j. Conwell on May 14, 2023

Even in the face of despair and frustration (which many face today) there’s hope! God is still the God who authors our faith, and completes it through His righteousness.

Alpha and Omega, Part 19 Our Redemption in God’s Promises Genesis 15:1-21 Introduction HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! BE THANKFUL FOR GOD’S GIFT! - 2023 has been led with “one purpose”: To know there is a God! -- Continuing our series, “Alpha and Omega”; examining the beginning to the end - ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 15:1-21, Matthew 6:33, John 14:1, Romans 3:10, John 14:6, Acts 13:39, Hebrews 6:13-14  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

When You... Series

Contributed by Jon Daniels on Oct 28, 2024

Based on Matthew 6:1-21 - Challenges hearers with Jesus' teaching in the Sermon on the Mount on giving, praying, & fasting.

“WHEN YOU…” Matthew 6:1-21 FBCF – 10/27/24 Jon Daniels INTRO – Nov 3 – Sweet celebration Sermon on the Mount – Matthew 5-7 - Kingdom Manifesto – Jesus’ declaration of the principles of the K’dom of God that He introduced into the world as He taught & preached & healed in His earthly ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:1-21

Denomination: Baptist

Bless The Lord O My Soul (Part 3) Series

Contributed by Delray Lentz on Nov 29, 2023

In part 2 we examined how man blesses man. Our key verses were: • 2 Corinthians 9:6-11,

Part 3 in a series called “Blessings”. In part 1 we looked at how God blessed man. Our key verses in part 1 were: • Genesis 12:1-3, o where we learned that God told Abram if you get out of your country, from your family, and fathers house, to a land I will show you, I will make you a great ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 5:12-14, Psalm 100:4

Why Christians Are Different? Series

Contributed by Scott Maze on Jun 4, 2021

We are in a series of sermons called, The Seven Practices of a Healthy Christian. This week we’re focusing on “Why Christians are different” by examining our giving.

Part One (This message is in two parts as the offering separates it.) This morning I want to talk about, “Why Christians Are Different.” We are different in many ways from the rest of the American population but one of the ways we are different is in how we use our money. I want to call your ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16, Matthew 6:19-34, 1 John 2:15-17

Denomination: Baptist

Christ And The Church Series

Contributed by Rev. Duraimony Dickson on Jun 12, 2021

You are the body of Christ. You are created and designed to carry out God’s plan. This is the responsibility that God has given to the church: to pray, to fast, to give, to nurture, and raise up the next generation of the body of Christ.

Christ and the Church Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it. (Ephesians 5:25) Genesis lays out God's blueprint. It lays out His pattern for His design of both male and female. We meditated on this topic last week. In the modern era today, ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:25

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

A Broken Crutch Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Apr 2, 2021

You can't ask for a stronger statement on faith than this. Faith, when it is true faith, is identical with trust. Faith that stops short of trust is neither saving nor sanctifying faith.

A BROKEN CRUTCH Based on Prov. 3:5-6 A social science teacher once told my sister that faith in God was only a crutch. My sister asked me how to answer that, and my immediate response was to deny it and tell her she doesn't know what she is talking about. As I reflected more, however, I ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-6

The Light Of Joy Series

Contributed by Lynn Malone on Dec 5, 2018

Lights and Christmas go together like peas and carrots. This message series focuses on the candles of the Advent wreath. The message deals with the candle of joy.

All the Pretty Lights: The Light of Joy Psalm 96 You can’t have Christmas without lights AND you can’t have Christmas without music. The two go together, as Forrest Gump would say, “Like peas and carrots.” Have you been to Sterlington to see the house on Toucan Cove? The family there has put ...read more

Denomination: Methodist

"God Is Powerful” Series

Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Jan 2, 2019

God wants to display His power through the lives of his people to accomplish His purposes.

When Asa became king of Judah, he got rid of idols and places of false worship. As he sought to turn people back to God, God blessed him. In 2 Chronicles 14:8-15, we’re told a crisis faced Asa and Judah, when a million-man Ethiopian army with three hundred chariots invaded the land. Asa sought ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 16:9

Denomination: Baptist

Empty Or Full?

Contributed by Andrew Corbett on Mar 11, 2016

The believer's relationship to their local church depends upon whether they see their church service as the place where they arrive empty and expect to leave full, or arrive full and expect to leave empty.

Empty Or Full? The Believer’s Relationship To Church by Dr. Andrew Corbett There are some places where it is good to turn up empty and leave full. If you’re a customer, this includes the supermarket, the gas station, or a restaurant. There are other places where it is good to turn up ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 4:10-11

Denomination: Pentecostal

Living On A Shoe String

Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Feb 3, 2018

Stewardship is not a mater of quantity but quality. The widow did not have much but Jesus said "she gave her all".

Our text today depicts an event in the live of Jesus when He was just sitting back and observing people. He is not keeping tabs on what the people are putting to the treasury, but He is seeing the attitude of the spiritual heart of those who are bring their gifts to God. What is in our heart is ...read more

Scripture: Mark 12:41-44

Denomination: Baptist