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  • The Way: On Trial Series

    Contributed by David Richardson on Mar 28, 2004
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,031 views

    The Path to Jerusalem for Jesus contained His Betrayal, His Arrest and His Persecution. Our lives as Christians will also, in some form or another, contain similar Betrayals, possible confinement and most assuredly persecution. Are you up to it?

    The Way: On Trial John 14:1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God ; trust also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you ...read more

  • A Parable Of Two Sons

    Contributed by Ray Ellis on Oct 6, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,717 views

    In this parable Jesus is comparing the younger son to the tax collectors and sinners who came to Jesus. The elder son represented the Pharisees and religious rulers who continually found fault with the teachings of Jesus.

    A Parable of Two Sons Luke 15:1-2, 11-32 “Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. This made the Pharisaical teachers of religious law complain that Jesus was associating with such despicable people – even eating with them.” Luke 15:1-2 The Pharisees and ...read more

  • Jesus Makes All Things New Series

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jun 4, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,759 views

    In this message from Matthew 9:9-17, Jesus calls Matthew the tax collector to follow him. Matthew throws a party for his sinner friends and invites Jesus and his disciples to it

    The Person of Jesus series Jesus Makes all things New Matthew 9:9-17 CHCC: April 4, 2010 - EASTER INTRODUCTION: Happy Easter. How many of you got up early and came to the Sunrise Service? At least this year Easter didn’t fall on the same day we move to Daylight Savings time! I ...read more

  • Is Your Prayer Good Enough?

    Contributed by Sajeev Painunkal, Sj on Oct 25, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,434 views

    The Pharisee made a show of his prayer with his arrogance. But the tax collector understood that the heart of prayer must be humility. We have something to learn before we kneel down to pray.

    There was a little boy who was kneeling by his bed with his mom to say his nighttime prayers. He began to shout to the top of his lungs, “Dear God, I’ve been real good this year so please let me get a new bicycle for my birthday.” His mom said, “Johny, God is not deaf; you ...read more

  • I'm Looking For You!

    Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Aug 6, 2019
     | 7,095 views

    the Scribes and Pharisees were confused as to why Jesus spent so much time with Tax Collectors and Sinners! Jesus came to seek and save the lost and that mission is ongoing! Praise His Name!!!

    I’m Looking For You Please stand as we read our newest memory Scripture together … John 14:23-24 “Jesus said, ‘If anyone loves Me, he will obey My teaching. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make our home with him. “He who does not love Me will not obey My teaching. These ...read more

  • The Parable Of The Lost Treasure Examined Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Jun 5, 2022
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,140 views

    A few years ago a military vehicle collector named Nick Mead was browsing on eBay of all places, looking at rare military vehicles, and he spotted one that interested him.

    A few years ago a military vehicle collector named Nick Mead was browsing on eBay of all places, looking at rare military vehicles, and he spotted one that interested him. It was an Iraqi tank, type 69, in wide use in the 1980s but today considered obsolete. In any case Nick Mead was able to trade ...read more

  • Living A Life Of Purpose.

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Jun 23, 2022
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,952 views

    Zacchaeus was despised by the Pharisees – the most orthodox faith of the Jews. Jesus was rebuked by them for even eating with tax collectors (Mt. 9:11; Mk. 2:16; Lk. 5:30).

    Living A Life Of Purpose. Luke 19:1-10NLT Recently, in a Delta flight magazine, one author wrote a column about a new course at Harvard business school for business leaders. At a cost of $13,000, the executives study absolutely nothing about business. Instead, for six days they ...read more

  • An Exposition Of 1 Peter, Part 15: Christ As The Example Of Submission And Suffering

    Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Apr 16, 2022
     | 1,229 views

    Jesus is the ultimate example of how to be a suffering servant. Let us follow His example

    An Exposition of 1 Peter, part 15: Christ as the Example of Submission and Suffering 1 Peter 2:21-25 Introduction In the last study, Peter told those who were slaves how they should respond to unfair suffering because they were Christians. Slaves were supposed to adopt the religion of the ...read more

  • The Right Hand Of God.

    Contributed by Abimbola Salu on Nov 2, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
     | 21,513 views

    Jesus Christ is at the right hand of God interceeding for us.

    The right hand of God must indeed be a wonderful place to be! When someone is described as being the right hand man of another, it connotes the image of someone who is indispensable, important, reliable, that can be trusted and can deputize for the top man. In some cultures and governments, the ...read more

  • The Ones The Wolves Pulled Down!

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Sep 6, 2005
    based on 70 ratings
     | 20,829 views

    Be strong and don’t lag behind for the wolves are watching and drooling!

    The Ones The Wolves Pulled Down! Garth Brooks had a song awhile back called Wolves written by Miss Stephanie Davis. In it he speaks of thinking about the ones the wolves pulled down the morning after he drove heifers to lower ground during a bitter January with ten-foot drifts and wind that had ...read more

  • Last-Days Survival Kit

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jan 3, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,927 views

    Jesus gives us key strategies to survive the coming end days.

    Those must have been frightening words to hear from their Lord. It’s Jesus’ warning of the coming storm that would return over and over and over again until he returned. Wars have NEVER ceased, persecution has continued, rebellion is still going on. Much of what Jesus told his ...read more

  • The Boldness Of John The Baptist Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Feb 3, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,348 views

    In this lesson we examine the boldness of John the Baptist in Luke 3:18-20 and learn several truths about bold Christians.

    Scripture We are studying the life of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke in a sermon series I am calling, “To Seek and To Save the Lost.” The first two chapters of Luke’s Gospel deal with the prophecies and births of John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ, and then what happened to ...read more

  • Spiritual Thermodynamics Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on May 4, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,901 views

    We grow and multiply through faith, oppression, and obedience as God's ancient people did when they experienced harsh treatment in Egypt.

    In The Last Days Newsletter, Leonard Ravenhill tells about a group of tourists visiting a picturesque village. They walked by an old man sitting beside a fence, and one of them asked, “Were any great men born in this village?” The old man replied, “Nope, only babies.” ...read more

  • The Price Of Freedom

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on May 25, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,396 views

    We must understand that Christ paid the ultimate price for our freedom from sin and the clutches of Satan. The price of our freedom from sin was paid in blood. How do we respond to that sacrifice will ultimately determine our eternity too!

    Opening illustration: When I talked to some young men shortly before D-day during Gulf War II, I observed that they were scared. None of them wanted to die. However, the vast majority expressed their conviction that the cause for which they were fighting was right and worthy of the risk. Queen ...read more

  • Duped Series

    Contributed by Thomas Swope on Feb 19, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,387 views

    A study of chapter 2 verses 23 through 28

    Mark 2: 23 – 28 Duped 23 Now it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain. 24 And the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”25 But He said to them, “Have you never read ...read more