Sermons on Embracing Change:

Handling Our Fear Of Change

Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Apr 12, 2013

This sermon looks at the need to overcome our fears by looking at how God changed Gideon. Our church is considering merging with another church and fear has some people paralyzed.

Handling Our Fear Of Change Glenville 4/7/2013 Judges 6:1-28 Matthew 14:22-33 How many of you are afraid some things, and you don’t even know why? You just know that if you see it you are going to go the other way. Our professionals have identified 322 unique phobias. The word ...read more

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Has Your Walk Changed?

Contributed by Jerry Flury on Apr 21, 2013

One’s walk is the daily conduct of one’s life; the habitual way or direction of one’s life. When a person receives Christ as Savior and the Lord of their life that person is to live a changed life, walking in a new direction. Has your walked changed?

Has Your Walk Changed? Ephesians 2:1-7 In Colossians 2:6, we are instructed, “As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.” One’s walk is the daily conduct of one’s life; the habitual way or direction of one’s life. When a person receives Christ as Savior and the Lord of ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

Change Comes From Within

Contributed by Victor Yap on Dec 31, 2011

1 Kings 14

CHANGE COMES FROM WITHIN (1 KINGS 14:1-18) As Bill was approaching mid-life, physically he was a mess. Not only was he going bald, but years of office work had given him a large pot belly. The last straw came when he asked a woman co-worker out on a date, and she all but laughed at him. That does ...read more

Scripture: 1 Kings 14:1-18

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Immutability - God Does Not Change Series

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Aug 12, 2011

Our goal as believers is to know God; not to merely gain information about Him; however, we want to know the "one true God" as He is, as He has revealed Himself, not as we imagine or presume Him to be.

Dakota Community Church August 14, 2011 Immutability Jeremiah 9:23-24 This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that ...read more

Scripture: James 1:16-17

Denomination: Mennonite

Three Days That Changed The World

Contributed by Js Collins on Apr 24, 2012

No one ever impacted the world like him. No one ever washed our sins away like him. no one ever loved like him.

The Three Days ThatChanged the World. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. My starting place this morning: It was through his grace and sacrifice he washed all your sins ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Studies In Ephesians: Changing Clothes Series

Contributed by Edward Hardee on Oct 18, 2011

Study in Ephesians about how our life needs to change when we encounter Christ.

Note: This is a study through the book of Ephesians as done in 1995. One of the main sources I used at the time was Beacon Bible Commentary vol. 9. Title: Changing clothes Theme: Cleaning out our lives is important Text: Eph 4:17-32 Materials needed: Old T-shirt, work pants, overcoat, running ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:17-32

Denomination: Church Of God

Some Things Never Change

Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Oct 19, 2011

Though things in this life are changeable - our great God never changes - a sermon examining the immutability of God

10 Years Later: Some Things Never Change TCF Sermon September 25, 2011 In the days surrounding two weeks ago today, September 11, we were bombarded with several days of remembering what happened 10 years ago on that date. You couldn’t turn on a TV set, open a newspaper, turn on the radio, ...read more

Scripture: Malachi 3:6

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

"Two Laws That Changed America"

Contributed by Andy Grossman on Oct 4, 2012

Shows how laws have intimadated the church from preaching God's Word

“Two Laws That Changed America” October 7, 2012 2 Timothy 3:1-5 “You should know this, Timothy that in the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:1-5

Denomination: Holiness

Five Life-Changing Questions Series

Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Nov 2, 2012

The answer to these questions can change the way we see and live life!

INTRODUCTION SLIDE #1 • How would you like to know that no matter how you looked, what you did, that you were loved unconditionally? • Of the many people who end up living a life of crime, how many of them do you think came from backgrounds in which they felt unconditionally loved by ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:31-39

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Ten Seconds That Changed The World Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 10, 2012

Like the widow in the Gospel, little actions of doing good can attract the attention of the Lord, whose Word and grace can work miracles of healing, and can even heal our culture of death.

32nd Sunday in Course 2012 Verbum Domini Ten Seconds Can Change the Course of the World On August 3, 1943, General George S. Patton entered a tent in a military hospital in Sicily to visit wounded soldiers. He had just been briefed by one of his commanders that malingering was thinning out the ...read more

Scripture: Mark 12:38-44

Denomination: Catholic

Brotherly Kindness - It Changes Me! Series

Contributed by Jason Pettibone on Nov 9, 2013

It is amazing how genuine kindness and love touches others! Equally amazing to me is why we fail to express love or receive love until the most desperate kind of circumstances sweep over us.

Series: “Becoming a Complete Christian” Message # 7 TEXT - 2 Peter 1: 3-8 Becoming Complete Disciples, developing conduct and character that reflect those of our Master, Jesus Christ. Complete disciples, the Bible teaches us, must first have a spiritual transformation through ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:11

Denomination: Assembly Of God

[change] Smelly Socks The Sermon Series

Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Aug 3, 2012

In a time of rapid change, some explanation, our city is being demolished after a series of devistating earthquakes, fifty percent of the CBD is going. So in this change what can we hold onto what can we be sure of. This is a youth service sermon. Use of

[Change] Smelly Socks the sermon! James 1:16-17. I was born in ward three of Nelson Hospital on the 10th of October 1963. In the same year the tape cassette, something that is pretty much redundant was invented, the Beatles released a single “I want to hold your hand” and on my birthday they ...read more

Scripture: James 1:16-17

Denomination: Salvation Army

[change] 1937, A Sermon For The Elderly Series

Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Aug 6, 2012

Adapted from [Change} Smelly Socks the Sermon, this is a sermon for use in rest homes. Again it touchs on teh point that Christchurch our city having been hit by a series of earthquakes is by and large being demolished and rebuilt. Alot for the elderly to

Rest Home service sermon. If you were born on 1937 and I guess that some of you may have been. There was a fair number of interesting things that happened in that year, my own parents were born, if you were born prior to 1937 you will probably remember this stuff. Disney released “Snow White and ...read more

Scripture: James 1:16-17

Denomination: Salvation Army

Changing Lives By Studying Together Series

Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Aug 10, 2012

WE can change the life of another person by simply being willing to study god's Word together!

INTRODUCTION • SLIDE #1 • Think for a moment about some of the more exciting things in life. Watching your child being able to ride a bike without training wheels for the first time. Watching your daughter throw her first no-hitter. Oh, the joys of life. • How would it feel if you ...read more

Scripture: Acts 8:26-39

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Four Life Changing Words Series

Contributed by Tim Diack on Aug 22, 2012

Sin is easy to see in someone else's life but it's often hard to see it in our own. Simon the Pharisee thinks he's righteous in God's eyes when what he really needs to see is the reality of his own sin that he might discover what the woman weeping at Jes

Four Life Changing Words - Luke 7:36-50 - July 15, 2012 Series: Forgiven For Forever - #1 (Baptism Service) I very much appreciate that passage we just heard from the book of 2 Chronicles. Those words are a call to humbleness and holiness, to righteousness and revival. The occasion was the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 7:36-50

Denomination: *other