Sermons on Equipped For Service:

If You Love God: You Must Learn To Love To Service Series

Contributed by John Dixon on Feb 14, 2016

what is required of a Christian in Service to God

If You Love God: You must Learn To Love To Service Christians are "saved to serve." Their service is a result of their salvation. Service should be an expression of gratitude that others should experience salvation but not all the saved serve as they ought. Paul uses the Isthmian Games to ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:19-27

Denomination: Christian Church

Use Somebody Series

Contributed by Rob Yanok on Oct 5, 2013

God has a call for every person. It’s indispensable for the Christian life. Titled after Kings of Leon's hit song Use Somebody. That is our prayer, God use me!

Use Somebody Ephesians 2:10 NIV For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. I. God has a call for every person. It’s indispensable for the Christian life The Call to Salvation I Timothy 6:12 NIV - Fight the good ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Called To Serve

Contributed by Michael Bates on Sep 14, 2023

Every Christian is called to serve in the ministry. Only a select few are called into full-time pastoral ministry, but many others are called to serve God in other capacities. This short sermon explores that calling a little further.

The Bible says in 1 Peter 4:10-11: Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 4:10-11, Luke 10:12

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Seven Ones

Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Jul 29, 2021

This passage is the beginning of a "handbook" for the Christian disciple.

7 Ones – Ephesians 4: 1 - 16 Intro: I found the following poem while researching this sermon. “One night, I had a wondrous dream; one set of footprints there was seen, the footprints of my precious Lord, but mine were not along the shore. But then some stranger prints appeared, and I asked the ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:1-16

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Called To Make A Difference In Others Series

Contributed by Tom Bartlett on Dec 27, 2011

Basics of the Christian life

The Dummies Guide To Christianity - Part 4 called to make a difference in others March 27, 2011 We’re here in week 4 of a 5 week series covering the basics of the Christian life. If someone were to ask you what the Christian experience was all about, we think you could easily take the ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 6:3

Denomination: Baptist

The Accomplishments Of Christian Teamwork

Contributed by Byron Sherman on Aug 23, 2010

Paul typified the necessity of Christian teamwork to the readers of his epistle to Titus. Christian teamwork is indispensible to the faith. But when is it typified? Christian teamwork is typified in its satisfying...

The ACCOMPLISHMENTS of CHRISTIAN TEAMWORK—Titus 3:12-15 Paul typified the positive nature of Christian teamwork to the readers of his epistle to Titus. Christian teamwork is indispensible to the faith. When is Christian teamwork typified? Christian teamwork is typified when the team ...read more

Scripture: Titus 3:12-15

Denomination: Baptist

Called To Go!

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Aug 14, 2020

Looking at God's calling in our lives. We are called to serve!

Called - Who to a Do! August 16, 2020 As followers of Christ, you have been chosen by God, set apart, gifted, enabled, and empowered to fulfill a very unique calling. Last week we were talking about our calling by God. I said your calling is more about who, before you do. Our starting point was ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:1, Philippians 3:12-14, 1 Corinthians 1:26-31

Denomination: Baptist

(Lesson 6) Jeremiah: Built Up For A Call To Service

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Apr 10, 2003

God set Jeremiah apart for ministry from His mother’s womb. God later encountered 21 year-old Elijah to call him to a ministry of rejection and persecution.

A. INTRODUCTION: JEREMIAH 1:1-10 1. Father the High Priest. "Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah of the priests that were in Anathoth" (1:1). "They came to Hilkiah the high priest" (II Chron. 34:4). 2. Born in evil days. "Amon . . . did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord . . . sacrificed unto ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 1:1-10

Denomination: Baptist

Christian Responsibility In The End Times

Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 24, 2021

Last message in 2 Thessalonians. It addresses Christian responsibility to those in and out of the church, and our response to the lazy.

2 Thessalonians 3 (2) Our Responsibility in the End Times Years ago, I went out to the dump in Geneva. I believe that is the first place I remember seeing it, though I’ve seen it at several other dumps since the. If you go out there now you will see the same sad sight. You will see 10 or more ...read more

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 3:7-15

Denomination: Baptist

Zechariah's Fifth Vision: Empowered For Service Series

Contributed by Richard Tow on Apr 19, 2022

How will we finish the assignments God gives us in life? In this vision, God gave Zechariah the timeless principle that answers that question. This vision in Zechariah 4 has a lampstand and two olive trees. What do they represent? What message is God sending His people in this vision?

Intro Zechariah 4 records this prophet’s 5th vision. As in the previous vision (chapter 3), God is addressing the concerns Zechariah and his companions had in their assignment to rebuild the temple and restore worship in Jerusalem. The concern dealt with in the previous visions was how can we be ...read more

Scripture: Zechariah 1:9, Zechariah 2:3, Exodus 25:31-40, Matthew 5:14, John 9:5, Isaiah 60:1-3, John 8:12, Mark 11:22-23, Luke 4:18-19, Acts 1:8  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Charismatic

Take Up Your Cross

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jan 10, 2001

What does it mean to "take up" or "bear a cross? What does it mean when someone says, "I want to take up my cross and follow Jesus"?

MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK This morning I want us to look at a passage of Scripture found in Mark 8:34-35. "Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples & said: ‘If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself & take up ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:34-35

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Roles Of Ministry - Where Do I Fit In? Series

Contributed by Bobby Stults on Feb 17, 2013

There IS a place for you in serving God! He had called us to SERVE and not to sit idly by and watch. Where are you called to serve?

Sermon Brief Date Written: February 14, 2013 Date Preached: February 17, 2013 Where Preached: OPBC (AM) Sermon Details: Series Title: Building with God Sermon Title: Roles of Ministry – Where do I fit in? Sermon Text: Nehemiah 7:1 [ESV] 1After the wall had been rebuilt and I had set ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 7:1-5

Denomination: Baptist

Can God Use You? Series

Contributed by Sean Harder on Oct 31, 2013

Some of you will walk away today completely untouched or even offended by what you heard, others will be positively convicted. Either way you and I need to make a decision about how we want to be used. Like Saul, or like Paul?

The truth is God is using you. Whether you are a Christian or not, whether you know it or not, the sovereign God of the universe knows everyone and is orchestrating everything either by intervening or by taking his hands off. He uses all human beings to fulfill His purpose. The question becomes is ...read more

Scripture: Acts 9:1-31, Ephesians 4:25-28

Practical Pointers For Grief 1 Series

Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 30, 2022

Grief is hard and we practical need help to work through it.

Last week we began what I hope will be a regular podcast on the topic of grief. Grief is a reality and will generally affect all of us at some time or another. Grief is not limited to the death of a loved one. We grieve the loss of many things such as our dreams when they are shattered; the loss of ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:4

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Unsown Seed Series

Contributed by Chris Swanson on Nov 3, 2022

Have we been obedient? Is the seed yet in the barn?

This is Haggai's subsequent message, given during the Feast of Tabernacles, around the month of October, 520 B.C. The more seasoned individuals, the elders, could recollect the unbelievable magnificence of Solomon's Temple, which had been annihilated 66 years sooner. Many were debilitated ...read more

Scripture: Haggai 2:1-23

Denomination: Independent/Bible