Sermons on Crisis Situation:

Trust Me

Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jan 29, 2010

The only one we can fully trust is the Lord.

Text: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart….” (Proverbs 3:5). Trust in the Lord. Do you really trust in the Lord? What does it mean to trust? To trust means that you have complete confidence in a person or in a thing. Children have complete trust in their parents. In ...read more

Scripture: Mark 5:21-43

Denomination: Christian Church

Trust Him

Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 23, 2009

Place your faith and trust in the Lord for He is the only one who is completely trustworthy.

Text: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5). Trust in the Lord for what? What does it mean to trust in the Lord? When should we trust in the Lord? Why should we trust in the Lord? How do we trust in the Lord? What is trust or what does it ...read more

Scripture: John 6:1-21

Denomination: Christian Church

Resources For Testing Times Series

Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Aug 3, 2009

Facing times of testing with a mature outlook demands insight beyond oneself & what is available in the natural realm. In vv 5-8 three things are mentioned as necessary for meeting successfully the trials of life. These are wisdom, prayer, & faith.

James 1:5-8 RESOURCES FOR TESTING TIMES [Matthew 21:21-22] Facing times of testing with a mature outlook demands insight beyond oneself and what is available in the natural realm. In verses 5-8 three things are mentioned as necessary for meeting successfully the trials of life. These are ...read more

Scripture: James 1:5-8

Denomination: Baptist

When Mamma Prays Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 10, 2009

The Bible tells us that God closed up Hannah’s womb. Really? Would He do that, or was this the kind of comment where we call something an "act of God?"

Real Mothers are special people. Real mothers would like to be able to eat a whole candy bar (all by themselves) and drink a Coke without any "floaters" in it. Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils are probably in the sandbox. Real Mothers often have sticky floors, filthy ovens and happy ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 1:1-28

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Having Real Faith Series

Contributed by Tom Shepard on Sep 8, 2008

This is a study into what it means to have "real faith".

Having Real Faith We have been making our way through the book of James. If you will recall – I have said that the book of James is a very practical book. It is perhaps one of the most practical books in the Bible. James has been telling us that we need to put our beliefs – our faith - into ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-26

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Love Myths Series

Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Jan 12, 2010

God's definition of love is also counter-cultural.

Love Myths: How then should we love? January 10th, 2010 Intro: Let’s begin by working together on some verbal pictures of love. I’m inviting you to describe the image or images that pop into your head that picture what you think of when you hear the word “love” – ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 22:36-40

Denomination: Baptist

Gut That House! Give Your Problems To God Series

Contributed by Stewart Holloway on Nov 14, 2006

To makeover your home, you have to destruct before you can construct.

I’ve never remodeled a house but I have remodeled a church. Ten years ago I served as Minister of Music at my parents’ church in Louisiana. While I was there, we were in the process of relocating to another church facility owned by the congregation. Phase One of the building project involved ...read more

Scripture: James 4:7-10

Denomination: Baptist

Divine Delivererance Defeats Deafness/Dumbness Series

Contributed by Mack Armstrong on Apr 17, 2007

A man is brought to Jesus who cannot hear nor speak and Jesus begins a healing process, which serves as a type of sinners needing a Divine touch of the Master’s hands

MARK 7:31, 32 DIVINE DELIVERERANCE DEFEATS DEAFNESS/DUMBNESS I. THE SUFFERER: * A. Sources. B. Stymied. C. Sustained. II. THE SYMPATHIZERS: ** A. Selective. B. Surety. C. Supplications. III. THE SINNER: *** A. Separation. B. Solitude. C. Speechless. It seems ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:31-32

Denomination: Methodist

Blessed Are The Hurting Series

Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 19, 2005

A look at the Beatitudes and how an understanding of the Kingdom of God, present and future, helps us to face the difficulties of life.

Mary Lewis tells this story: “Alexander M. Sanders, Jr., is the Chief Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals. When his daughter Zoe graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1992, he told this story that happened when she was just three years old. Sanders came home from work one ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:20-23, Luke 6:27-31

Denomination: Methodist

Jonah - His Message Then And Now Series

Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Dec 19, 2004

Jonah’s real life story is on him as a Runaway from Duty, his Repentantance of Sin, his Restoration to Fellowship and Recommissioning for Service

My first encounter with Jonah was when I was in my teens. Perhaps the preacher was parading his modern scholarship or talking “tongue in cheek”, but he certainly startled his congregation by saying that he wasn’t concerned “if Jonah was swallowed by a whale or if Jonah swallowed the whale!” He ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Let Go And Let's Go Series

Contributed by Victor Yap on Mar 5, 2004

Moses, Pt 3 of 15

LET GO AND LET’S GO (EXODUS 3:1-4:17) My wife always teased me about my resistance to change. When we first met, I declared to her that I already had a Master of Theology degree and that I did not need more study to do the work of ministry. Within a year, I left Los Angeles for studies at Trinity ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

These Are The Days Of Elijah Part 4: Righteousness Being Restored Series

Contributed by David Petticrew on Mar 16, 2004

Number 4 in a series looking at the imagery in the modern Hymn These are the days of Elijah, looking at Moses restoring rigtheousness and what it means for revival today.

Introduction I want to start this morning by using a quote from a Methodist. When you work around the church a while it comes quite naturally, the laughter of cynical disbelief. In 1986 the United Methodist General Conference, on the last day of two weeks of meetings, passed a resolution that ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 19:1-6, Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Denomination: Holiness

What Praise Will Produce

Contributed by Kirk Devine on Jul 29, 2002

This sermon will help the believer understand the awesome power of Prasie.

WHAT PRAISE WILL PRODUCE I CHRONICLES 4:1 As I look at the church today, I am amazed at the attitude that some of us have adopted… It blows my mind how many folks come into the House of God week after week and leave the same way they came… It’s mind-boggling to me how some folk treat the church ...read more

Scripture: 1 Chronicles 4:1

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

What's So Great About Gratefulness?

Contributed by Don Jaques on Dec 1, 2005

When we choose to give thanks to God in all circumstances, we reap the benefits of God’s blessings. The hearer will understand WHY he/she should give thanks to God and be motivated to develop the discipline of grateful living.

INTRO In “The Hiding Place”, Dutch woman Corrie ten Boom wrote of her family’s experience undergoing the trial of concentration camps under the Third Reich in World War II. Though not Jews themselves, she, her father, and her sister, Betsie, were sent to a series of prison camps for harboring Jews ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Stand, Fight, And Don't Run Away

Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Oct 28, 2010

As citizens of heaven we must fight together for the faith, stand together with one spirit and one purpose, and not be intimidated in any way.

Stand, Fight, and Don’t Run Away Oct 24, 2010 Phil 1:27-30 Intro: Only some of you here today have experienced military service. Only some of you know what it really means to go through basic training, to be put in a squadron, to be taught how to fight as a unit, where your very lives are ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 1:27-30

Denomination: Baptist