Sermons on Dodge Ball:

Love

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Feb 4, 2008

A 5-point sermon about the different types of love in our lives - from romantic, to parent-child, to the love of God. Text, audio, and communion message will be at www.sermonlist.com

As humans, our emotions can vary widely throughout a whole range of subjects. Valentines day is this coming Thursday, so today I want to focus in on love. We are capable of feelings several types of love, and each type has its own focus and intensity. There is an old saying concerning love. ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16

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Focus

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Feb 4, 2008

A message about: 1- the need to refocus 2- what we need to refocus on and 3- how to refocus. Text, audio, and communion message will be place at www.sermnlist.com

Why is it that a medium powered laser can cut through metal in a matter of seconds, but the world’s most powerful spotlight only makes that metal warm? Would you believe the answer lies in unity? Let me explain. The laser light is described simply as a bunch of excited molecules with mirrors ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 73:16-17

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A Goat Named Shrek

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Feb 12, 2008

Christians can do great things - through the One who was sent to save us. But first ...... (Text, audio, and Communion meditation will be placed at www.sermonlist.com)

We look for heroes today, and we only find them in comic books, but there used to be a real hero. He lived a long time ago. His name was Jesus, and He led a very action-packed life. Jesus had just healed a man in a cemetery from being demon possessed, and then when he got home, there was a ...read more

Scripture: Luke 9:1-2

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Presenting: The Lord's House

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Mar 9, 2007

This sermon focuses the congregation on continued growth and health in the church ... and the absolute need to be in unity and not be divisive.

Audio at: www.sermonlist.com/Presenting.m3u What do you want this church to look like to outsiders? What do you want it to accomplish? As Christians, we should want this church to look inviting to outsiders; a place that is warm and friendly, not a place that is distant and cold. As far as ...read more

Scripture: James 3:6

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Genesis 37-50: The Dreamer

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Mar 13, 2007

Last sermon in the GENESIS series. (Audio at www.sermonlist.com/2007.html)

Have you ever heard of people who became successful, even when everything around them pointed to failure? When all the circumstances around them say, “No way,” but they heard God saying, “No, this way!” There was a young boy in the 2nd grade whose teacher sent a note home with him to his ...read more

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The Exodus

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Mar 21, 2007

1st sermon in the EXODUS series. (Audio at www.sermonlist.com/2007.html)

Last Sunday, as we left the book of GENESIS, we talked about the faith of Joseph. How he kept focused on the Lord and the dreams he received, even in the face of great hardship. And, looking back, we can see how God blessed Joseph, by letting him become the second most powerful man in the world – ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 2:4-10

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You Are Only Called To Believe

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 3, 2007

An Easter morning sermon that supports the truth and dispells the lies surrounding the Resurrection with unarguable facts . (Audio at www.sermonlist.com/2007.html)

Easter is the center point of the Christian faith. Without Easter, Christianity would be just like every other religion in the world. We are the only belief on the face of the earth that has a founder who is alive, and we are the only religion in history that meets our enemies with our prayers ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:1-8

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The Promise Of Easter

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 6, 2007

The promise given to the disciples so many years ago is available to you this morning, too. And that is the Good News of all eternity. (audio at www.sermonlist.com/2007.html)

MATTHEW 28:1-10 [Read passage] All around the world this morning, Christians are proclaiming one message, and that message is; “HE HAS RISEN!” We have been raised in our world to believe that if something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. Most of us have been taken in by “empty ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:1-10, John 19:28

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The Sin Behind Your Back

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 9, 2007

Explaining how many American Christians are like the church of Laodicea, unfocused and with the wrong motives and reasons. (Audio will be placed at www.sermonlist.com/2007.html)

Christians talk a lot about prayer, and whenever we hear that something bad has happened to someone we know, the first thing we do is go into prayer. But I sometimes wonder if we go before the throne of a holy God - with the right heart and attitude. In 1 THESSALONIANS, we are told to pray ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:14-21

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The Burdens Are Heavy

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 10, 2007

"Self" is who we rely on in most storms, but "self" has no ability to help. It is "God" who must be depended on for He alone has the ability to help us in our valleys of despair. (Audio will be placed at www.sermonlist.com/2007.html)

A man was in the hospital for tests, and the doctor came in to see him. The doctor said he had some bad news and some really bad news for the man, and wanted to know which one he wanted to hear first. The patience said to tell him the bad news first. The doctor said the bad news was he only ...read more

Scripture: James 1:2-3

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Be Careful Then, What You Say

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 7, 2008

A message about what many Christians do not want to hear about .... personal accountability for what we say. Full text and audio will be placed at www.sermonlist.com

America has evolved into something that does not reflect its beginnings. In the beginning, our nation honored respect; today we don’t. In the beginning, our nation helped those who helped themselves. Today, we give handouts to those who refuse to help themselves. In the beginning, we ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 12:36-37

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Pastor - Flock - Church

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 16, 2008

A message regarding how the pastor & the flock make up the church, and how the church helps us as Christians. Text, communion meditation, and audio will be at www.sermonlist.com

The story is told of how they used to make the masts for the old sailing ships of the past. They would go into a forest and select a tree that was tall and straight. Then, they would cut all the surrounding trees down, leaving that large tree standing by itself to endure the winds of time for ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:14-16

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Being Real For God

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 30, 2008

A message about what it takes to reall experience God in our lives. EXODUS 33. Text, audio, & communion meditation at www.sermonlist.com

When electricity became available in remote rural areas, one woman went to great trouble and expense to have electricity installed in her home. A few months after the power was turned on; the power company noticed that the home didn’t use very much power. Fearing that there was a problem they ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 33:12-33

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An Honorable Woman

Contributed by Bruce Ball on May 8, 2008

A Mother’s Day message aimed at men and women in general, but specifically mothers. PROVERBS 31. Audio, text & communion message at www.sermonlist.com

Let me begin by wishing all of the mothers here today a Happy Mother’s Day. We had better all show some admiration to mothers, because, as the old saying goes; ‘if it weren’t for moms, none of us would be here.’ Now, we all know that motherhood has its sweet and wonderful times, but it also has ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 31:1-31

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Who Is Satan?

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Aug 28, 2007

A sermon explaining that Satan was created as Lucifer, rebelled, was thrown down to earth, and still wages war - through us! Audio/outline/powerpoint will be at www.sermonlist.com

I don’t know how many times over the years I have been asked who I think Satan really is. Now, that may not surprise you, but what should surprise you is that almost all of these questions came from people who referred to themselves as born-again Christians. That reminds me of an old Twilight ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:12

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