Sermons on Everyday Life:

The Choice For Life

Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Mar 5, 2001

Jesus urges his listeners to the Sermon on the Mount to make The Choice for Life in entering the Kingdom of God, in terms of Two Gates, Two Ways, Two Destinations and Two Crowds.

Jesus was a wonderful teacher. He had the knack of making His teaching on the Kingdom of God interesting and easily understood by the use of graphic pictures. There’s a good example of this in two verses in our reading from Matthew’s account of the Sermon on the Mount: "Enter through the narrow ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 7:13-14

Denomination: Baptist

Struggling With Life Series

Contributed by Doug Johnston on Mar 7, 2001

Life’s struggles lessen as we listen to God ourselves and meet the needs God’s people experience.

Struggling With Setbacks Jonah refused God’s first request to follow Him. Instead, Jonah experienced: From the book of Jonah): Shock at God’s request (1:1-3) Anger/Guilt (1:2) Bargaining (1:3, 6, 12; 2:9 - "vow") Depression (1:12; 2:4, 5, 7) Hostility (4:1-3) Only temporary acceptance of God’s ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

The Superbowl Of Life

Contributed by Ed Wrather on Feb 21, 2002

Life is our own personal Superbowl with far greater importance than any single sporting event.

THE SUPER BOWL OF LIFE INTRO: Whether you like football or not most of you have heard that today is Super Bowl Sunday. 1. The New England Patriots and the St. Louis Rams are in this year’s edition of the Super Bowl. 2. Why do people watch the Super Bowl? There are a variety of reasons. (1. ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:7-14, Hebrews 12:1-3

Denomination: Baptist

Dealing With Life Series

Contributed by Anthony Smith on Nov 21, 2003

Knowing how to deal with ones own life, good or bad. Part of "Dealing With" series.

Dealing with Life A Bibles point of view.Part three How do we deal with the kiveing, others and ourselfs. Knowing how to deal with ...read more

Scripture: John 11:9-10

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Safeguards Of Life

Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Dec 29, 2003

We have certain spiritual safeguards in life.

INTRO.- ILL.- The story is told about a monastery in Portugal, perched high on a 3,000-foot cliff and accessible only by a terrifying ride in a swaying basket. The basket is pulled with a single rope by several strong men, perspiring under the strain of the fully loaded basket. One American ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:1-4

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

A Life Of Service

Contributed by Eric Sellgren on May 13, 2003

A Sermon for Ascension Day - and life after death!

My friend Ron, who is the Vicar of Sixpenny Handley, is a story teller like I am. Some years ago, in the week before Ascension Day, he told us this story.. "I was a little lad at School, and, at the start of the year in my new Class my teacher was giving jobs out to the boys and girls. "Mary, I ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:9-11

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Choose Life

Contributed by Wes Richard on May 21, 2003

Your choices today will affect your family tomorrow.

My mother was a Wenger. Her great-grandparents migrated from Basel, Switzerland, to Ontario, Canada, in 1835. Seventeen years later they chose to move to Iowa. They traveled in a covered wagon and just before they crossed the border into the U.S. someone stole all their clothing. All they ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Denomination: Brethren

Life Is Not Fair Series

Contributed by Joseph Smith on May 29, 2003

Life seems unfair to the disappointed, the cheated, the cynical. It was unfair to compel Simon to carry the cross -- injustice piled on. But God uses injustice to stir His people to action, to help us get beyond mere survival, to give us to one another.

Life is not fair. It just isn’t. The playwright MacLeish has his character “J.B.” scream out something we are all afraid to say, but it might be true: “If God is God, He is not good; if God is good, He is not God.” What an awesome thing to think, let alone speak! “If God is God, He is not ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:21-24

Denomination: Baptist

The Resurrection And The Life Series

Contributed by Byron Harvey on Jul 17, 2003

This is part 5 in a series I did on the 7 "I Am" statements of Jesus in John.

June 15, 2003 John 11:1-44 “The Resurrection and the Life” INTRO Our text for the morning is John 11; we have a lengthy section of text, and so I’ve asked the Praise Team to help me with the reading of the Scripture this morning. If you’d like to turn in your Bibles and follow along, that’d ...read more

Scripture: John 11:1-44

Denomination: Evangelical Free

The Bread Of Life

Contributed by James Little on Jul 21, 2003

Jesus is the Bread of Life.

The Bread of Life O LORD, our LORD, the majesty of your name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens! You are our exodus from slavery! our Salvation! and our glorious freedom! Our true temple is built and is our bread without yeast, our Sanctification and our Salvation. To God ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:17-21, John 6:35-40

Denomination: Methodist

Body Life Series

Contributed by Paul Fredericks on Apr 6, 2003

When the saints go marching in, they will be armed with a towel.

Key Priorities of a healthy church Part four: Acts 11:27-30 6 April 2003 INTRODUCTION: Over the past three weeks we have brushed off the dust from God’s journal on the early church. It has been an exciting adventure to see from the Antioch Church what we have called: Key Priorities of a Healthy ...read more

Scripture: Acts 11:27-30, Galatians 6:1-10

Denomination: Baptist

The Power Of Life Series

Contributed by Peter Parry on Apr 18, 2003

All power in Heaven and on earth has been given to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

The Power of Life (Mt.28:1-7;16-20) Each Easter we celebrate the victory of Jesus Christ rising from the dead: “up from the grave He arose (we sing) with a mighty triumph oer His foes; He arose a victor from the dark domain, and He lives forever with His saints to reign…Hallelujah! ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20

Denomination: Congregational

Not The Typical Life

Contributed by Robert Warren on Apr 19, 2003

This message points out that because He is risen our Christian life should be anything but typical, given the God, Savior, Spirit and beliefs that we hold in light of the Resurrection.

“He is Risen!” Mark 16:1-8 Robert Warren April 20th, 2003 Read Mark 16:1-8 I. Being a Christian can be pretty typical. A. If you are a regular church-goer, most Sundays are pretty typical. 1. You get up on Sunday, get dressed in some nice clothes. 2. You head down to your favorite house of ...read more

Scripture: Mark 16:1-8

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Seeds Of Life

Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Apr 23, 2003

When we do wrong, we plant the seeds of death within ourselves, but Jesus, in his death and resurrection can plant the seeds of life!

John 20 Easter 2003 The Seeds of Life If you really enter into the experience of the weekend, you experience many different emotions: extreme love, betrayal, fear, denial, great grief in death, and great joy in resurrection. For some of us the Friday experience of death is too close – we ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-31

Denomination: *other

Words Of Life Series

Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Sep 15, 2004

#8 in Proverbs & Parables series Proverbs 16:20-24 The words we speak are a life and death issue. DRAMA: A GOOD WORD incorporated into sermon

Words of Life Proverbs 16 SCRIPTURE READING: Proverbs 16:20-24 INTRODUCTION: According to some statistics I read, the average person spends one-fifth of his or her life talking. In fact, if all of our words were put into print, the result would be this: The words from a single day would fill a ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 16:20-24, Proverbs 16:18-33

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ