Sermons on Emptying:

The Great Reversal (Esther 8)

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Dec 17, 2025

Does God punish the proud and lift up the humble?

Do we patiently wait for God’s great reversal, where He brings down the arrogant and lifts up the humble? Let’s begin in Esther 8. Does a great reversal happen, where powerful evil is punished and defenseless good is blessed? On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Eliphaz's Rebuke (Job 15)

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Dec 24, 2025

Are ancient traditions equal to scripture?

Are ancient traditions equal to or more important than God’s word? Do the innocent suffer? Let’s begin in Job 15. What did Eliphaz the Temanite say in his second reply to Job? Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill himself with the hot east wind? ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Prosperity (Job 21)

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Dec 27, 2025

How dangerous is prosperity?

Do we presume that the prosperity of the wicked means they are righteous? Does that sound like a false gospel? Let’s begin in Job 21. Are we among those who mock the poor, the homeless, the suffering of the world? But Job answered and said, Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Heart Of Worship PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Jan 28, 2024

This sermon challenges us to evaluate the authenticity of our worship and to ensure our faith is reflected in our daily actions.

What a joy it is to gather together, as the family of God, to ponder the precious truths of His Word. Our hearts are like parched soil, craving the life-giving rain of Scripture. Today, we turn to the book of Amos, a book that may not be as familiar as Psalms or as comforting as the Gospel of John, ...read more

Scripture: Amos 5:21-24

Topics: Continual Worship

Dismantling Our Doubt Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on Jul 9, 2004

Jesus walked through a wall, and the disciples went from fear to freaked out to faith.

Drowning in Doubt It was a hot, humid Mississippi night nearly ten years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I was sitting on the third step of the swimming pool at my apartment complex. I was twenty-six years and had just completed a very difficult seminary program. For nearly three ...read more

Scripture: Luke 20:24-31

Denomination: Baptist

Dismantling Our Doubts Series

Contributed by Jefferson Williams on Feb 9, 2005

Looking at the life of Thomas, we can discover how God views out doubts and how doubt can lead to faith.

Dismantling our Doubts Associate Pastor Jeff Williams 05-02-04 Drowning in Doubt It was a hot, humid Mississippi night nearly ten years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I was sitting on the third step of the swimming pool at my apartment complex. I was twenty-six years and had ...read more

Scripture: John 20:24-28

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Where Gratitude Graces The Gospel

Contributed by Byron Sherman on Jan 3, 2012

For the Christians in Rome, Paul delineated the relationship of gratitude to the Gospel. But Where does Gratitude grace the Gospel of Christ? Gratitude graces the Gospel in our...

WHERE GRATITUDE GRACEs The GOSPEL—Romans 1:15-24 Attention: Per ‘The 1621 Thanksgiving’ @ mayflowerhistory.com Written by Edward Winslow dated:Dec. 12, 1621 & first published 1622. “Our harvest being gotten in, our governour sent foure men on fowling, that so we might after ...read more

Scripture: Romans 1:15-24

Denomination: Baptist

Creation Series

Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jan 6, 2012

Through Genesis 1:1-5, we see the answers to: 1) Who Created What? (Genesis 1:1), 2) Where did God Create? (Genesis 1:2), 3) How did God Create? (Genesis 1:3), 4) Why did God Create? (Genesis 1:4), 5) When did God Create? (Genesis 1:5)

The beginning of a meal, date, year, job or a life in general can be daunting, yet exciting time. For the beginning of Scripture, Luther said of this book, “There is nothing more beautiful than the Book of Genesis, nothing more useful,” and he regarded the opening verses as “certainly the ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5

Denomination: Other

Faith That Fails

Contributed by Michael Stark on Mar 23, 2009

A message that seeks to encourage believers to have faith in Christ, and not faith in faith or faith in themselves.

JOHN 5:39-47 FAITH THAT FAILS “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. I do not receive glory from people. But I know that you do not have the love of God ...read more

Scripture: John 5:39-47

Denomination: Baptist

What The Women Did Not Find

Contributed by Michael Stark on Apr 15, 2017

When the women who had followed Jesus came to the tomb, they found a disturbed tomb and angels that spoke to them. What they did not find was the body of the Master. This becomes the basis for Easter, the foundation of the Faith of Christ the Lord.

“There was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, who had not consented to their decision and action; and he was looking for the kingdom of God. This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then he took it down ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Walk In Love Series

Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 2, 2015

1) The Plea (Ephesians 5:1–2a), 2) The Pattern (Ephesians 5:2b), 3) The Perversion (Ephesians 5:3–4)

The world claims to want love, and love is advocated and praised from every corner. Romantic love especially is touted. Songs, novels, movies, and television serials continually exploit emotional, lustful desire as if it were genuine love. Questing for and fantasizing about the “perfect ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:1-7

Denomination: Other

Savoring His Sacrifice And Salvation Series

Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 9, 2019

In this Easter Sunday message we will talk about savoring the forgiveness, restoration and hope that are ours because of His sacrifice.

Savoring His Sacrifice and Salvation Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 16:1-7

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Grace Given Series

Contributed by Michael Stark on Mar 1, 2014

Our giving as an act of worship flows from the grace we have received as redeemed people.

“I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.” [1] We want to worship in ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:9

Denomination: Baptist

Why Your Prayers Are Not Answered – Part Iii Series

Contributed by Thomas Swope on Jun 27, 2014

A study of chapter 59 verses 1 through 21

Isaiah 59: 1 – 21 Why Your Prayers Are Not Answered – Part III 1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 59:1-21

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Destination Bethlehem: A Boy Series

Contributed by Michael Stark on Dec 12, 2015

Grace was revealed to mankind in the birth of Jesus, the Christ.

“At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. “And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:21-40

Denomination: Baptist