Sermons on Deceased:

Truth Telling

Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 8, 2010

Paul sharing his faith before Festus - email for PowerPoint slides - gcurley@gcurley.info

Truth Telling Reading: Acts chapter 26 verses 19-29. ill: 4 boys entered the classroom at school two hours late; • And nervously, rather sheepishly; • They told their teacher they were late due to a flat tire. • The teacher knowing what rascals these 4 boys were decided to test their ...read more

Scripture: Acts 26:19-29

Denomination: Brethren

Man Panics, God Chooses Series

Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 9, 2010

God’s way of choosing over mans way - PowerPoint slides for this talk are available on request - email: gcurley@gcurley.info

Who will be king? Reading: 1 Samuel chapter 16 verses 1-13: Ill: • Garage photos. • They look great but they are of course without substance. King Saul’s greatest concern was his looks/image: • How he looked before the people was all important. • He was chosen as king because of his ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 16:1-13

Denomination: Brethren

Questions & Answers About Heaven

Contributed by Mike Fogerson on Dec 14, 2010

Several questions that people often ask about death and eternity.

Of Heavenly Things: Biblical Answers to Questions About Heaven Series Questions and Answers About Heaven Nov. 7, 2010 I Is cremation O.K. for a Christian? A Cremation has become more popular, either at the request of the deceased or from the family (with the average funeral running over $6,000, ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 25:9

Denomination: Baptist

A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

Contributed by Joseph Smith on May 2, 2010

Martin Luther King Birthday 1989: Solomon began with promise, but lost his identity and squandered his gifts. African-Americans and the church must recommit to solid teaching, to evangelizing, and to fighting the scourge of drugs, lest we waste a whole

There is a kind of presumptuousness involved when a white preacher stands to offer any words on this the anniversary of the birthday of Martin Luther King. It is audacious indeed, as Janice Williams pointed out when she was teaching our foreign mission study on South Africa about a month ago, for ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

No Reservations Series

Contributed by Johnny Wilson on May 29, 2010

In shifting to a blitzkrieg examination of the role of the church in the Book of Acts, I reworked my sermon on Acts 1. This has some repetition with the other one posted a couple of years ago, but has some new material, too.

Do any of you know what is the last word in the Book of Acts? It is ακωλυτως, pronounced “ah-koh-LOO-tohs” by some and “ah-koh-LEE-tohs” by others, and means “not-hindered,” “not prevented,” “not ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:1-26

Denomination: *other

The Man Who Sold His Future Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 7, 2011

What’s wrong with being godless? If you can answer that question, you can avoid the tragedy that took Esau’s future away from him.

OPEN: A man filled his car with gas at a self-service gas station. After he had paid and driven away, he realized that he had left the gas cap on top of his car. He stopped and looked and, sure enough, it was gone. He thought for a second and realized that other people must have done the same ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:14-17

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Hell

Contributed by Joel Smith on Apr 16, 2011

Hell is the eternal, conscious, tormenting state of existence of those separated from God.

The summer of my seventh year I attended a Vacation Bible School at Grace Baptist Church in Tyro, North Carolina. My family attended a United Methodist Church in the neighboring community and this VBS was quite similar to what I was used to: games; sugar wafers; cherry Kool-Aid; flannel-graph; I ...read more

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9

Denomination: Baptist

"Oh Look, A Squirrel" A Sermon On Distractions

Contributed by Calvary Callender on Jul 8, 2010

Sometimes we as Christians get distracted by things in our lives. This sermon takes a look at Mary's statement of belief in Jesus and then withdrawing from that statement when she is distracted by her surroundings.

Introduction: When I was in 6th grade all of my friends were getting girlfriends and I wanted to have one too. The only problem was that all the girls I liked already had a boyfriend. There was one girl that ran around in the same group as I did and her name was Tina. I remember Tina very well, ...read more

Scripture: John 11:28-37

Denomination: Nazarene

Trusting God In An Unjust World Series

Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Sep 19, 2010

In today's lesson we learn that we can trust God even though the world is filled with injustice.

Scripture We like stories with happy endings. Whether the story is in a book or movie or even in real life, we like stories with happy endings. Sometimes, however, stories don’t have happy endings. Sometimes stories have sad endings. And although we prefer stories with happy endings to ...read more

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

How To Handle Adversity Series

Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Oct 17, 2010

We are encouraged to trust in our sovereign God by looking for what is relatively good in times of adversity.

Scripture In his quest to find out how to live a meaningful life the writer of Ecclesiastes addresses the issue of how to handle adversity. Let us read Ecclesiastes 6:10-7:14: 10 Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with ...read more

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Linked In Series

Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 17, 2012

Why do we need to worship in a group? What's wrong with worshiping at home - or somewhere else - alone?

“More Words on Worship: Linked In” Hebrews 12:18-29 She was deeply moved; the time of worship had led her into a deeper level of commitment, into a deeper intimacy than she had ever before experienced. She drove home a different person than the one who had left a couple of hours ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:18-29

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

The Day Jesus Wept Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 22, 2012

Odd things about this story: Why does the Bible tells us "Jesus wept"? And why didn’t Jesus "show up" a few days earlier and make sure Lazarus didn’t die? Why allow this close personal friend to die, and allow his friends and family to mourn?

OPEN: Back in March of 2008, the mayor of a city in SW France had a problem. It seems his village was running out of space. Not in housing, nor in the retail district, nor even at City Hall. It seems they were running out of space… in the cemetery. There was no room for any more graves. It was ...read more

Scripture: John 11:1-45

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Afterlife: Hades Series

Contributed by Scott Bayles on May 25, 2015

What lies beyond death's door? The Bible describes three realms: Hades, Hell, and Heaven. The first of this three-part sermon series explores that first realm of the Afterlife - Hades.

Afterlife: Hades Scott Bayles, pastor Blooming Grove Christian Church: 5/17/15 On January 18, 1989, around 11:45 a.m., thirty-nine-year-old Larry Donald Piper’s Ford Escort collided head-on with a semi-truck. EMTs arrived shortly thereafter and pronounced him dead at the scene. Unconscious ...read more

Scripture: Luke 16:19-31

Denomination: Christian Church

The Worst Place To Die

Contributed by Kevin L. Jones on Nov 28, 2015

A sermon examining the danger of dying "in your sins".

THE WORST PLACE TO DIE John 8:21-29 (Antioch Baptist Church: Sunday Morning, May 25th. 2025) Death is not a subject that we enjoy thinking about. However, despite efforts by doctors, rescue workers, and other medical professionals worldwide, the global death rate remains constant at 100 ...read more

Scripture: John 8:21-30

Denomination: Baptist

5 Weddings In The Bible

Contributed by Ken Henson on Jan 6, 2016

a wedding message chronicling the 5 weddings of the Bible

Marriage. These days some people are afraid of it. In fact there is a name for fear of marriage: Gamophobia According to www.fearof.net (a compendium of phobias), psychological and emotional symptoms at the thought or subject of marriage/commitment: Psychological symptoms include: • Feeling ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:15-25

Denomination: *other