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  • Philistines Punished (1 Samuel 5)

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Mar 31, 2025
     | 94 views

    Do people have an excuse for ignoring God? Let's look at 1 Samuel 5.

    Does God provide evidence of His existence? Do idols actually do anything for people? Let’s look at 1 Samuel 5. Where was the stolen ark of the covenant placed by the Philistines? Dagon was a half man half fish idol. After the Philistines took God’s chest, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. ...read more

  • The Greatest Invitation We Will Ever Receive Series

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jan 2, 2023
     | 3,571 views

    What should we do with God's great invitation? 1. Appreciate God's preparation (vs. 1-4). 2. Avoid rejecting God's invitation (vs. 2-7). 3. Invite more people to come (vs. 8-10). 4. Accept God's invitation (vs. 10-14).

    The Greatest Invitation We Will Ever Receive The Gospel of Matthew Matthew 22:1-14 Sermon by Rick Crandall (Prepared January 2, 2023) BACKGROUND: *Please open your Bibles to Matthew 22. Today we will study another of the Lord's parables. By this time, Jesus was less than a week away from ...read more

  • Why Should We Read The Bible?

    Contributed by Jeffery Karnes on Dec 10, 2002
    based on 35 ratings
     | 33,121 views

    Tells reason why we should read the Bible, and some of the excuses that Christians come up with for not reading it.

    Why should we read the Bible? 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Have you heard about the couple that sent their son off to college at Ohio State? When he left they gave him a Bible and told him to read it carefully, because it would be very helpful. Well after a few weeks of school the son wrote home and told ...read more

  • Seven Steps Of Bargaining With God

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Feb 8, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,356 views

    This message looks at some of the excuses that Pharaoh used to justify not obeying God. How many of these do we use?

    Seven Steps Of Bargaining With God: - these are the true and only 7 steps, but they are instructive. 1. “Absolutely not.” - Exodus 5:2, 4, 6-9. - don’t even want to think about or talk about God. 2. “I can make it without God.” - Exodus 7:11, 22, 24. - thinking some of God, but convinced ...read more

  • Hazard Ahead: Hypocrisy

    Contributed by Joseph Stapleton on Mar 29, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,781 views

    A main excuse for worldly people not to come to church is that the church is full of hypocrites, well there is always room for one more.

    HAZARD AHEAD: HYPOCRISY (All my sermons use illustrations found at www.sermoncentral.com and All scripture is NIV unless otherwise noted) Perhaps one of the biggest reasons given by non-churchgoers is “church is full of hypocrites.” This is true to some extent, but there is always ...read more

  • What Can God Do Through Me?

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Dec 6, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,688 views

    A look at the calling God places on each of us as well as some of the excuses we use to try to avoid that calling.

    GOD ONLY CALLS PREACHERS, RIGHT? We all have a calling from God. - Jeremiah 1:5. - NT references to call/jobs: Matthew 21:28; Mark 13:34; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Corinthians 16:15-16; Philippians 4:3. - Does God call only preachers? - There can be a call for someone to be a preacher, but a ...read more

  • The Sovereignty Of God And Human Responsibility

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on May 18, 2014
    based on 5 ratings
     | 8,230 views

    There is no pleasing some people. If they make up their minds not to put their trust in Jesus, any excuse will suffice to prevent commitment.

    THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD AND HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY. Matthew 11:16-30. A) The children were out playing on the streets. ‘Let’s play weddings,’ suggested the girls: but the boys would not. ‘Let’s play funerals,’ countered the boys: but the girls would not. A preacher came, austere in his ...read more

  • Plain To See Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 6, 2019
     | 2,573 views

    We cannot be excused from responding to the light we all have. This includes the obvious realization that there is a might Creator.

    Plain to See (Romans 1:19-22) 1. One cold, snowy Minnesota night, I got lost on the way home. The snow was blowing so fast and piling up so high, I couldn't see any street signs. With no map in my car and a dead cell phone, I thought I might be stranded so I pulled over to the side of the ...read more

  • Loose The Lion Inside

    Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Nov 24, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,754 views

    No matter how large or small the excuse, it will never be enough to justify, or negate our responsibilities of being a child of God!

    Loose the Lion inside Romans 12:1-2 MSG. 1-2. So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do ...read more

  • What A Lost Man Has

    Contributed by Howard Mcglamery on Jan 9, 2003
    based on 134 ratings
     | 6,690 views

    Ten things that a lost man has - No Life - No Peace - No Strength - No Christ - No Citizenship - No Promise - No Hope - No God - No Remedy - No Excuse.

    What A Lost Man Has I. No Life – I John 5:12 “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” 1. Eph 2:1 declares the lost man to be spiritually dead in his sins. 2. No Man has life if they don’t have Jesus – The way to have Jesus is to receive Him (John ...read more

  • Why Did They Do That? (Part 2) Series

    Contributed by Doug Johnston on Apr 23, 2001
    based on 27 ratings
     | 2,312 views

    Believers are different than unbelievers; we need to deal with our sins and not make excuses for our mistakes, sins, and omissions.

    Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves... For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature... And even as they ...read more

  • "How Does God Speak?"

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 2, 2006
    based on 23 ratings
     | 2,703 views

    This is an evangilistic message to reach the unchurched. Paul opens up quite clearly a number of reasons why people are without excuse.

    1)God speaks to us through creation.Rom: 1 v20 Gen.1v1 In the beginning God created. Men since the enlightenment period 18th –19th century the age of reason have come up with all types of theories in regard to the origin of life. Six theories pushed forward as Science yet only one is empirical ...read more

  • Daring To Make A Stand For God

    Contributed by Ty Tamasaka on Sep 14, 2011
    based on 7 ratings
     | 9,551 views

    This message is to challenge listeners to lay aside excuses (biblical buts) and to begin seeking Him in every area of our lives.

    Daring to Make a Stand for God Today’s verses teach me about “Biblical Buts". Biblical buts? Yes, we all have buts. Some are small, but most are usually pretty big. Although some may be bigger than others, we all have them. Some are so big that others try to hide behind them. ...read more

  • Fellowshipping With The Father And The Son - Part 3

    Contributed by Chuck Brooks on Jul 16, 2020
     | 1,018 views

    One day we all will stand before God and Paul says that no one will be able to utter an excuse for not knowing God.

    Review (1 John 1:3 NKJV) that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. (1 John 1:4 NKJV) And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. Last time we learned ...read more

  • Looking For Loopholes Series

    Contributed by Pat Damiani on Sep 23, 2019
     | 4,407 views

    You might be a “modern day Pharisee” if you look for loopholes in God’s Word in order to excuse your sin

    NOTE: This is a manuscript, and not a transcript of this message. The actual presentation of the message differed from the manuscript through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely that there is material in this manuscript that was not included in the live ...read more