Sermons on Diagnosis:

Enlarge Your Soul Through Grief And Loss Series

Contributed by David Flowers on Feb 12, 2011

Part 5 in series Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, this message looks at how the acknowledgement of grief and loss is ultimately part of spiritual and emotional health. Dave also warns that those who decide to begin living authentically will often be res

Enlarge Your Soul Through Grief and Loss Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, prt. 5 Wildwind Community Church November 7, 2010 David Flowers 1 John 3:18-20 (MSG) 18 My dear children, let's not just talk about love; let's practice real love. 19 This is the only way we'll know we're living truly, ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:18-20

Denomination: Free Methodist

There Is A Balm In Gilead

Contributed by Kevin L. Jones on Mar 14, 2015

Examining the disease of sin and the fact that there is a cure!

There Is A Balm In Gilead Jeremiah 8:18-22 Cancer... what a horrible disease! I venture to say that each person here has been impacted one way or another by this sickness. Many of you have fought it and beat it. Some of you here today are still fighting it. And most all of us have lost a precious ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 8:18-22

Denomination: Baptist

Let God Heal Your Eyes And Ears

Contributed by Michael Otterstatter on Mar 4, 2002

Through this LAW & GOSPEL prophecy from Isaiah we are encouraged to let God heal the eyes and ears of our soul.

You are handed something that looks like a strange plastic spatula. “Cover your right eye and read the smallest letters you can on the chart on the wall. Now do the same with the other eye,” you are told. The person speaking to you records the results. In another office an assistant to the ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 42:14-21

Denomination: Lutheran

Breaking Through The Belief Barrier Series

Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jan 27, 2006

This message is intended to help you learn how to do regular diagnostic work on your spiritual health and growth.

23“‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for him who believes.” 24Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” (Mark 9:22-23) Diagnostic testing is a regular part of life. We diagnose everything from health to a car. Your family physician ...read more

Scripture: Mark 9:14-31

Denomination: Pentecostal

Cross Reference Your Pastor

Contributed by Eric Vertein on Apr 28, 2005

If you hear something in the sermon that you aren’t quite sure is true, how do you get a second opinion? Cross Reference your pastor with God’s Word.

Acts 17:1-12 5th Sunday of Easter – A April 24, 2005 Acts 17:1-12 When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 2 As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the ...read more

Scripture: Acts 17:1-12

Denomination: Lutheran

How Bad Is It, Jesus?

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Aug 29, 2024

How deep is the sinful condition of humanity? What is the remedy? Jesus gives us a lovingly deep answer.

9.1.24 Mark 7:15, 21-23 15 There is nothing outside of a man that can make him unclean by going into him. But the things that come out of a man are what make a man unclean. . . . 21 In fact, from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual sins, theft, murder, 22 adultery, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:15, Mark 7:21-23

Denomination: Lutheran

The Man From Uz

Contributed by Maurice Brown on Jul 14, 2001

Bad Things can happen to Good People, but God can work all things together for GOOD!

Introduction A. The Book of Job describes a tremendous crisis in the life of a great man of God 1. It is a book that helps answer the lifelong question - "Why do bad things sometimes happen to good people? 2. Sometimes unconfessed sin can lead to great ...read more

Scripture: Job 1:13-22

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Lessons From The Hospital

Contributed by Robin Steele on Oct 21, 2004

After spending weeks in the hospital with my sick child, I preached this sermon to the congregation.

Lessons from the hospital 10/3/04 Hospitals are for the sick. Churches are for the needy. There are some great parallels from the halls and rooms of the hospital that directly correspond with the church and Christian life. The ICU waiting room and the maternity waiting room are always ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 4:12

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Funeral - Young Mother

Contributed by Thomas Bowen on Sep 23, 2005

Funeral – 32 year old mother of 3, student , social worker, lover of Christ, died of heart failure

Funeral – 32 year old mother of 3, student , social worker, lover of Christ, died of heart failure 2005 Family, friends, loved ones, We have come here to praise God and to celebrate the life of ( ) and to thank God for the Life will lived. We come together in grief, and we ...read more

Scripture: James 4:13-14

Denomination: Congregational

A Day Of Encouragement

Contributed by William Akehurst on Jun 28, 2007

Remain Fixed – Stand on HIS Promises – Call upon Him – With all of your Heart A DAY OF ENCOURAGEMENT BE STRONG – COMMIT YOURSELVES TO CHRIST

Remain Fixed – Stand on HIS Promises – Call upon Him – With all of your Heart A DAY OF ENCOURAGEMENT BE STRONG – COMMIT YOURSELVES TO CHRIST God wants us for His Own. I called a very good friend of mine, Rev Bob Savage on Friday, and it was a good conversation to bring us both up to speed on ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 29:11-13

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Parenting: The Forest View Series

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 23, 2012

Good parents want what is in the long-term best interest of their children, not what makes them happy for the moment. God’s Word offers us some balanced principles of parenting.

Parenting: The Forest View (Ephesians 6:1-4) 1. Parenting has its challenges. Part of the reason parenting is so challenging is that no two kids are exactly alike. Proverbs 22:6 is a principle, not a promise. Freewill. 2. (CBS News) Jake Barnett is one in 10 million. The Indianapolis 13-year-old ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:1-4

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Getting The Gospel Right

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Aug 31, 2012

Keeping a True Gospel Focus in the Midst of False Gospels

Getting the Gospel Right Dr. Elmer Towns May 6, 2012 A. THE CONTENT OF THE GOSPEL “Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel . . . by which also you are saved . . . For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4

Denomination: Baptist

The Verifier Approach

Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Oct 12, 2008

The four words that verifies our faith. 1. Written 2. Believe 3. Christ 4. Life

-Qopchedy qokedydy qokololy qokeedy qokedy shedy. [NOTE: For this to make sense to the congregation, you will need to project these words on a scene, or have them printed as part of the worship bulletin.] Try saying that! The best cryptologists in the world have been unable to decode the ...read more

Scripture: John 20:31

Denomination: Baptist

God's Character And Power In Trials Series

Contributed by Tom Fuller on Jan 14, 2013

In Psalms 29 & 30 23 see the awesome character and power of God, but in Psalm 30 we see David stuck in a trial. If God is so powerful how come He lets David undergo a life-threatening illness? In this we see how God works in difficulties in our lives as w

Psalm 29 is interesting to me as for one of the first times in the book of Psalms we find David not asking God for anything. There is no crisis here, no enemy that is trying to destroy David or the nation Israel. This is a psalm of pure praise and adoration for the Most High God. It reminds us that ...read more

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Getting The Gospel Right

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Feb 18, 2019

The gospel is powerful to transform people.

A. THE CONTENT OF THE GOSPEL “Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel . . . by which also you are saved . . . For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4

Denomination: Baptist