Sermons on Cost Of Discipleship:

Trick Or Treat - Reformation Sunday

Contributed by Spencer Homan on Mar 31, 2011

This is a sermon done on Halloween/Reformation Sunday. Dressed as a pirate. Oh joy!

1 John 1:5-10 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 1:5-10

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Advent 2 - Shepherds

Contributed by Spencer Homan on Mar 31, 2011

This is the second week of our Advent series 2010

Luke 2:8-18 8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:8-18

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

After Christmas - Angels

Contributed by Spencer Homan on Mar 31, 2011

After Christmas 2010 focusing on the angels.

Luke 2:8-15 8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:8-15

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Clothed As God's People

Contributed by Rodney Langley on Apr 1, 2011

Colossians 3 is filled with teaching about how to live as a Christian. The apostle Paul discusses clothing in this passage. Not our physical clothing, but how we dress and present ourselves to the world around us. He tells us that we who are in Christ

CLOTHED AS GOD’S PEOPLE Colossians 3:1-17 Rodney Langley Introduction: Colossians 3 is filled with teaching about how to live as a Christian. The apostle Paul discusses clothing in this passage. Not our physical clothing, but how we dress and present ourselves to the world around us. He ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:1-17

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The New Family

Contributed by Rick Stacy on May 21, 2009

The key characteristic of a growing and strong spiritual “young person” in God is that they have overcome the evil one. Notice that the word is overcome – not defeat. The idea is that you get past him – not that you crush him – that is up to God in the

Growing Up is Part of Life And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. Luke 2:52 I was a little child when I grew up in the small town of Kalkaska. It’s about 17 miles due east of Traverse City in northern Michigan and when I lived there it had about 2000 people – total. ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 2:12-14

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Spiritual Battle Series

Contributed by Rick Stacy on May 21, 2009

Every aspect of the Christian life -- salvation, sanctification (being cleansed and made holy), our home in heaven being made ready for us, everything -- is ours because Christ’s work is done. He is seated in the heavenlies at the right hand of God...

The Spiritual Battle 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-14

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Passing It On Series

Contributed by Rick Stacy on May 21, 2009

Lives that refuse to plug into God’s grace are self sufficient lives, lives that rely on self and ego. It takes humility to admit that we’ve sinned against God and to trust in Christ for our salvation, but until we do that we can’t plug into God’s grace.

TRANSFORMATIONS 6/15/08 – Father’s Day – Passing it On Passing it on… I still remember the exact moment when I realized that I was truly an adult. It wasn’t my 18th birthday, or when I moved out of the house a few months later. It wasn’t even my wedding day, which came just two years after my 18th ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:2

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Following Jesus

Contributed by C Jordan on May 23, 2009

Jesus said that whoever desires to come after Him must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Him. What does that look like in our world today?

FOLLOWING JESUS OPENING: My personal testimony of salvation experience and following Jesus today. KEY TEXT: “Jesus said, "Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:34-38

Denomination: *other

Lazarus And The Dogs

Contributed by Ron Hietsch on Sep 24, 2010

How has worldliness and sin clouded our view of other people and their motives? What gentle touches have we missed because our hearts are hardened to God and fellow children of God?

September 26, 2010 18th Sunday after Pentecost Text Luke 16: 19-31 Grace mercy and peace from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord. The Holy Spirit takes me to some interesting places when I am in the sermon preparation mode. In today’s Gospel the rich man certainly makes himself an easy ...read more

Scripture: Luke 16:19-31

Denomination: Lutheran

The Greatest Connection Series

Contributed by Gary Cox on Oct 6, 2010

Look at Jesus command to Go and Baptize.

Everyone who has ever been baptized (which I would guess is a percentage of this room) has a baptism story. You can remember the place, the time, if not the year. My dad was a church planter and we were meeting in a school, so we borrowed other churches baptistries until we had our own building. I ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Compassion Of Christ Part 2 Series

Contributed by Donald Rapp on Oct 12, 2010

This is part two of a sermon on compassion as demonstrated by Jesus.

The Compassion of Jesus Christ Part 2 The Book of Mark Mark 8:1-10 I. Introduction: A. Last week we started to examine compassion as exemplified in Jesus Christ’s life. B. Compassion is defined as a sympathetic consciousness of another’s distress together with a desire to help ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:1-10

Denomination: Baptist

My Brother's Keeper

Contributed by Rev. Mario Gonzalez on Oct 16, 2010

The question asked of God by Cain in Genesis was, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The unstated answer was yes. Apostasy is not just a theological departure, but a state of being promoted by our thinking and actions. Our responsibility is to identify it and re

My Brother’s Keeper By Rev. Mario Gonzalez [Slide 1] [Slide 2] I. Scripture: Hebrews 3:12 “See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.” II. Prayer III. Introduction Talk about the condition of the football player ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 3:12

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Blind Will See Series

Contributed by Donald Rapp on Oct 19, 2010

Our Savior's great love for us causes Him to have great compassion on us.

The Blind Will See. The Book of Mark Mark 8:22-26 I. Introduction: A. We have come to a major dividing point in the Book of Mark. B. That makes the miracle recorded here significant in several ways. 1. This the second of the 2 miracles which were recorded only in Mark. a) None of the other gospels ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:22-26

Denomination: Baptist

Pioneers Series

Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 20, 2010

The Book of Acts should be called the Book of the Holy Spirit chronicling the lives of spirit filled missionaries, ordinary, everyday people who are possessed by the spirit of Jesus. It describes their “Pioneer Adventures” because it’s about the in-breaki

Pioneers Acts 4 George Washington Bush was born in Pennsylvania in 1778 and was a veteran of the War of 1812 fighting in the battle of New Orleans. In 1830, he moved to Missouri where he met and married Isabella, a young German American. One of the first African Americans to head out West, Bush ...read more

Scripture: Acts 4:1-34

Denomination: Methodist

Be All That You Can Be Series

Contributed by Carl Kolb on Dec 29, 2009

A sermon explaining the meaning of sanctification.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "Be All That You Can Be!" Today we are talking about a word that most people have heard, many Christians brag about, and few understand: sanctification. Sanctification can be a really confusing word because of the way people use it. Most Christians understand the word ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational