Sermons on Drastic Measures:

Focus On Joyful Christian Living

Contributed by Timm Meyer on Apr 22, 2010

EASTER 3(A) - Believers will focus on joyful Christian living as each one believes God's forgiveness and everyone values faithful, Christian fellowship.

FOCUS ON JOYFUL CHRISTIAN LIVING (Outline) April 18, 2010 - Easter 3 - ACTS 2:36-47 INTRO: The infant Christian church was about to drastically change. On Pentecost thousands of souls would be added to the small group of believers who had followed Jesus. These thousands of new ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:36-47

Denomination: Lutheran

Helpless But Not Hopeless Series

Contributed by Scott Chambers on Mar 28, 2013

This message examines the fact that although we are condemned for our sins there is still hope.

Paul has made quite a case against us up to this point. However, it is easy for us to sit back and look for those who we think are a lot worse than we are. We have a hard time accepting since we have not really done anything that bad, we are in danger of being condemned for our sins. Perhaps this ...read more

Scripture: Romans 3:21-31

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Exodus, Part 3 Series

Contributed by T.j. Conwell on Feb 21, 2018

First, we see a faithful woman who honors God and is rewarded; and we also see a carnal man who has decided to take control, and has serious challenges. Curious that these are mother and son … yet so very different in how they respond to God.

Exodus, Part 3 Exodus 2:1-25 Introduction - Exodus is an incredible study of God's faithfulness to man -- It is also a great encouragement to see man's ability to be faithful to God There are two stories in today's passage for us to explore " The first is about a mother " The second is about a ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 2:1-25

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Pursue Righteousness

Contributed by Bala Samson on Aug 21, 2019

Your goodies are guaranteed when you walk in the path of righteousness.

Pursue righteousness Isaiah 51: 1"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, Who seek the LORD…” This would be quite a crazy statement to make to a bunch of people who are pursuing film celebrities, entertainers, magicians, con men, rock stars, sports stars and all the stars in the world ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 51:1

Denomination: Pentecostal

Cleansing The Temple Series

Contributed by T.j. Conwell on May 31, 2016

Who is Jesus to you? A miracle worker, or the Lord of your life? We have got to be able to answer that before we can fully understand the mission He was on because having faith in Christ is more than a catch-phrase, but a life altering decision.

Cleansing the Temple John 2:12-25 Introduction - The gospel of John screams of the faith that we should have in Christ -- It is the clearest example of living life FOR the one who redeemed you and I - If we can learn to love others like Jesus’ … we can bring them TO Him -- Re: We ...read more

Scripture: John 2:12-25

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Praying For God's Intervention

Contributed by Billy Ricks on Sep 7, 2013

Have you ever known someone who needs an intervention to prevent damage or destruction? This describes what will happen if God's people in America do not wake up from our sleep and repent of our wicked ways. We need an intervention.

Intro: This is an excerpt from the Daily Chronicle December 13, 1904 William Stead reports, “Employers tell me that the quality of the work the miners are putting in has improved. Waste is less, men to go their daily toil with a new spirit of gladness in their labour. In the long dim ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7:14

Denomination: Baptist

The Call

Contributed by Chidi Ejeagba on Jan 7, 2019

We are all called to express the life of God. Expression of this life of God becomes our dominion on earth. The starting point in answering this call is to encounter the Word which carried both the SPIRIT & the LIFE of God.

INTRODUCTION The main problem with the people of Israel is that they stop believing in the promises of God. They didn't believe he will still take them to the Promised Land. So it is in our time now, our present Church leaders had stopped believing in the promises of God – that is why they ...read more

Scripture: John 6:63

Two Are Better Than One Series

Contributed by Jon Daniels on Oct 12, 2020

Based Ecc. 4:9-12 - This sermon encourages believers to develop intentional relationships within the Body of Christ.

“TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” Ecc. 4:9-12 FBCF – 10/11/20 Jon Daniels INTRO – I want to jump right into this sermon today & get to the text as quickly as we can. Today: INTENTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS. All of us need some intentional relationships that will keep us moving forward in our walk w/ Christ. ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Denomination: Baptist

Caught In The Act

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Apr 8, 2023

If what Peter and John and the others claim is true, what will happen to the religious establishment? They'll have to kill the movement to survive themselves.

Good morning. This is Hannah Batyoel from Inside Jerusalem, reporting on a breaking story that began late yesterday afternoon when two Galileans were arrested for creating a disturbance in the temple precincts. But first, a backgrounder from our religion correspondent, Shlomo Yehudi. Good ...read more

Scripture: Acts 4:1-20, Acts 3:1-10

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

What Wilt Thou Have Me To Do?

Contributed by Chris Swanson on Jan 13, 2023

A man on his way to work has an encounter that he was not prepared for. His life changed that day and he was never the same, nor were the people that he knew or met as he traveled.

Undoubtedly many people have heard this story of Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus. The story of how the primary enemy of the early church meets Jesus is told in Acts 9:1-9. Saul, the man who had detained the followers of Jesus in Jerusalem (Acts 7:58, 8:1-3), moves north to Damascus, ...read more

Scripture: Acts 9:1-19

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Kingdom Keys - Ezra Series

Contributed by Robert Butler on May 22, 2023

To fully restore our connection to God, we must become aware of our sins, admit them to another and act in a way which totally removes the sin and its tempters from our presence quickly. Any compromise robs us of a true connection to our God.

So maybe you’ve heard it said, ‘read your bible’ so you tried and failed. Our hope as leaders is that all of us will pick up God’s word and come to understand the true nature of God. After all, the bible is God’s Word curated over centuries detailing His nature, His will, the meaning of life and ...read more

Scripture: Ezra 9:1-7, Ezra 9:13-15, Ezra 10:1-2, Romans 3:21-24, Matthew 5:37, Ezra 10:12-15  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

A Trustworthy Saying Series

Contributed by Brad Beaman on Oct 13, 2023

Paul is giving Timothy this trustworthy saying. He emphasizes that this is a sure word that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.

Do you remember when you made a concentrated effort to clean your house and felt the satisfaction of a clean house? Then after all the work straitening, dusting, vacuuming you look across the room and everything looks clean and then a beautiful ray of sunlight comes through the window. In that ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:12-17, Luke 18:9-14, 1 Timothy 1:15

Denomination: Baptist

God Is Your Freedom Series

Contributed by Charles Mallory on Jul 3, 2020

God is merciful, compassionate and slow to anger. He is willing to set us free if we are willing to do what it takes to be free.

WHEN IT COMES TO FREEDOM, IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE BOSTON POST-BOY NEWSPAPER, IN 1774, BY AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS BLACK POET OF THAT DAY, MS. PHILLIS WHEATLY, THE FOLLOWING: “IN EVERY HUMAN BREAST, GOD HAS IMPLANTED A PRINCIPLE, WHICH WE CALL LOVE OF FREEDOM; IT IS IMPATIENT OF OPPRESSION AND PANTS FOR ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 9:9-21, Matthew 11:28-29, Matthew 15:20, 2 Chronicles 20:15

Denomination: Free Methodist

Wrecking Ball (Fourth Sunday After Epiphany 2017).

Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 14, 2020

Sometimes what we learn is like a “Wrecking ball” that crashes against walls in much the same way that our new insights made the old ones obsolete. ... The Beatitudes can be like a wrecking ball as to how they can help us to grow where we thought we had arrived.

WRECKING BALL Text: Matthew 5: 1 -12 Back in the 1800’s, the cleanliness factor involved in surgeries within the practice of medicine was far different than what is practiced today. Multitudes of people were dying shortly after their surgeries. There was one doctor who figured ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12

Denomination: United Methodist

God Will Give A Way Of Escape

Contributed by Bala Samson on Aug 24, 2020

The world will say, ‘just leave that place when the problem starts’, but the Holy Spirit tells us when the heat becomes hotter in your life ‘ leave your flesh’ and walk in the Spirit, God will give a way of escape!

Way of escape! 1 Corinthians 10:13” God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. God will provide a way for us to escape! This promise is so comforting and ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:13

Denomination: Pentecostal