Sermons on Domestic Unrest:

Power To Cleanse And Resurrect Series

Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Mar 30, 2011

This message from Mark 5:21-43 deals with the healing of two women, a woman with a 12 year issue of blood, and a 12 year old girl who Jesus brought back to life.

Power to Cleanse and Resurrect Mark 5:21-43 CHCC: February 13, 2011 INTRODUCTION: This message focuses on two significant miracles – Matthew, Mark, and Luke all three tell about these two miracles. Both are healings of women … Both involve the number 12 - a 12-year-old girl and ...read more

Scripture: Mark 5:21-43

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

A Family Kind Of Place

Contributed by Bob Joyce on Nov 5, 2010

God is keenly interested in children and in family life. God wants the family to be the true laboratory of life, where family members ... regardless of age ... live, learn, love and grow in the Christian graces.

The photo that was flashed across the country told the heartbreaking story of an American tragedy. A weary fireman held the limp, lifeless body of a little child. The little girl was killed in the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. Her name was Baylee Almon, and she was ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:1-4, 1 Timothy 4:6-16

Denomination: Baptist

Integrity?

Contributed by Anthony Seel on Aug 28, 2011

A sermon about the life of David and his commitment to walk with God.

The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost August 28, 2011 Proper 17 A St. Andrew’s Church The Rev. M. Anthony Seel, Jr. Psalm 26 Integrity? John Jacques Rousseau, the 18th century philosopher, heard the three words that strike fear into the hearts of sexually active single men or ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 26:1-12

Denomination: Lutheran

Be Careful What You Ask For

Contributed by Keith Broyles on Dec 4, 2007

We need to be careful of what we ask for. When we ask for things of this world we just might get them. But, if we place God first we will have live that are truly touched and blessed.

I remember one Sunday several years ago, just a couple of years after I went into the ministry. It had been raining non-stop for a couple of days. I was appointed, at that time, in farm country. Those folks are always praying for rain. My phone had rung all morning with people calling to tell ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 8:4-22, 1 Samuel 8:4-34

Denomination: Methodist

Does God Really Cares For Us This Christmas?

Contributed by Randy Bataanon on Dec 14, 2009

If Christ has already redeemed the world, why evils such as injustice still happen in the world today?

Just a week before Christmas 2011, My country, Philippines has been devastated by strong typhoon that killed more than 500 people with hundreds still missing. I wonder how the victim’s family can celebrate Christmas this year. A month before Christmas 2009, 57 people including 30 journalist had ...read more

Scripture: Luke 4:18-19

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The God Perspective

Contributed by Chris Surber on Jun 11, 2009

When we look to the culture for answers we go astray. We need God’s perspective in our lives.

The God Perspective, 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13 Introduction An American Indian tells about a brave who found an eagle’s egg and put it into the nest of a prairie chicken. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life, the changeling eagle, thinking he was a prairie ...read more

Denomination: Christian Church

Can God Himself Change Your Mind? Series

Contributed by Glenn Newton on Nov 13, 2012

A turning point for the Church, as God uses two unlikely characters to accomplish His will, taking the Gospel to the Gentiles...breaking down the past barriers.

Read Acts 10 (long text but needed for context) The question for today, the title of this message is….Can God Himself Change Your Mind? And on the end of that question we could add such things as…. Can God Himself Change Your Mind about what you believe to be true in the Bible? Can ...read more

Scripture: Acts 10:1-48

Denomination: Nazarene

Responsible For A Deliverer

Contributed by Jason Jones on Jan 21, 2013

Exposition of Responsibility

Text: Esther 2:5-7, Title: Responsible for a Deliverer, Date/Place: NRBC, 1.20.13, AM A. Opening illustration: Voddie Baucham video, hopefully Keith and Joanna Daniels, NLCH kid video instead of announcements B. Background to passage: the nutshell version of the story of Esther is that the Jews ...read more

Scripture: Esther 2:5-7

Denomination: Baptist

The Deadly Sin Of Anger--Part Two Series

Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Mar 10, 2008

The second of two messages on anger in this series, this message deals with constructive anger and the need to let go of the anger that leads to grudges, bitterness, and sin through repentance and forgiveness.

The Deadly Sin of Anger—Part Two --Ephesians 4:26-5:2 During Christmas Break of my junior and senior years at Asbury College and the summer before that senior year, I had the privilege of working for my good friends from my home Church V. G. and Mary Buckner at their Gospel Bookstore in Marion, ...read more

Denomination: Methodist

The Empire Strikes Back Series

Contributed by Jason Jones on Mar 27, 2008

Exposition of Acts 12:1-17 regarding the attack of Herod on the church and the churches response to persecution

Text: Acts 12:1-17, Title: The Empire Strikes Back, Date/Place: NRBC, 3/30/08, AM A. Opening illustration: Ignatius Kung was ordained as a Bishop of Shanghai in 1949, shortly after the communists took over China. The Chinese government pressured him to align his loyalties to the "Chinese Catholic ...read more

Scripture: Acts 12:1-17

Denomination: Baptist

A Church That Sets The Captives Free

Contributed by Rev. Dr. Peter Ramos on Feb 5, 2011

A New Testament model of the mssion of the church.

Theme: A Model of Worship for a Church That Sets the Captives Text: Acts 3:1-10 1One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. 2Now a man crippled from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every ...read more

Scripture: Acts 3:1-10

Denomination: Christian Church

The Mustard Seed Series

Contributed by Tim White on Mar 12, 2014

Jesus uses a living illustration to tell us about being productive in the Kingdom.

Over 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find the source of the Missouri River, and from there to discover a relatively easy water route west to the Pacific. Such a waterway, they discovered, doesn't exist. But they did succeed in mapping the Northwest ...read more

Scripture: Mark 4:30-32

Denomination: Baptist

The Dark Side Of Christmas

Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jan 2, 2014

Why does Matthew add the story of the slaughter of the baby boys in Bethlehem. First becasue it is fact and second to trigger assocaiations between Jesus birth and Moses birth (see details in sermon)

I came across this excerpt from a sermon from the Early Church Father St. Quod-vult-deus (Sermo 2 de Symbolo: PL 40, 655) “A tiny child is born, who is a great king. Wise men are led to him from afar. They come to adore one who lies in a manger and yet reigns in heaven and on earth. When ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 2:1-23, Hebrews 2:10-18, Exodus 1:15-22, Exodus 2:2-10, Isaiah 63:7-9  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Anglican

Into The Heart Of Worship

Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2009

We are called to worship God however, whenever, wherever. Loving God with all of being including all of our mind means engaging in a variety of worship activities.

Into the Heart of Worship Matthew 22:23-40 September 6, 2009 This morning we are going to do something a little different. Today’s worship consists of a theme: worshipping God: however, whenever, and wherever. I’ve been studying the effects that God has upon the brain. Specifically, neuroscience ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 22:23-40

Denomination: Church Of God

Courageous Faith Series

Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 27, 2011

In our Quest for God, we sometimes have to go against the flow and stand up for God's words. This takes courage and commitment. It promises a great reward!

1. Doing the right thing: A man dies, arrives at the Pearly Gates, and (as always in stories like this), St. Peter is there and asks him to relate a good deed he had done. He thinks for a moment then says, “Well, there was the time I was driving down a road when I saw a group of hoodlums ...read more

Scripture: Acts 6:8-10

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ