Sermons on Failure Areas:

Moses Messes Up Series

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 19, 2010

Those who lead are accountable for their failures, but so are followers who stress out and aggravate their leaders.

Moses Messes Up (Numbers 20:1-13) 1. Let me share my preaching schedule with you. Next week, Luke will be preaching. The week afterward, we will look at the Bronze Serpent incident here in Numbers. The week after that, we’ll look at a midrash on this whole section from I Corinthians 10 and ...read more

Scripture: Numbers 20:1-13

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Diagnosing Your Heartburn

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Aug 10, 2009

All of us get "heartburn" feelings over the questions "What is our world coming to?" and "What do I do with my life?". The risen Lord gives us better answers than we are able to develop on our own.

"Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road?" Every now and then, when you’re tired, or you’ve worked too hard, or there’s been a lot of stress ... every now and then, do you get a strange, tight feeling in the chest? Do you sometimes feel peculiar, a little ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:13-35

Denomination: Baptist

En Route To A Better Country

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Aug 24, 2009

For Remembrance Sunday, celebrating the lives of those who had passed away during the previous year: We resist change because we fear failure and we fear temporariness. But faith launches us and God equips us to new things.

Why do some of us embrace change and others of us resist change? Why do some people look for new things to do, search for new things to learn? But others of us resist until our dying breath doing anything but what we’ve always done? Why is that? Why do we approach to life so very differently? ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:8-16

Denomination: Baptist

Great Couples Of The Bible 3: Boldness Series

Contributed by John Dobbs on Feb 26, 2010

Looking at the virtue of Goodness through the eyes of Abram and Sarai.

Great Couples of the Bible 3 The Boldness of Abraham and Sarah A young man called his mother and announced excitedly that he had just met the woman of his dreams. Now what should he do? His mother had an idea: "Why don't you send her flowers, and on the card invite her to your place for a ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Failing, Fruitless, Flourishing

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Mar 7, 2010

We are a part of this world's injustice and brokenness, and need to repent, for we have too often attempted nothing or have given ourselves to pointless activity. "Only what you do for Christ will last" and that is guaranteed by His risen life.

There are just too many things that are not the way they ought to be, and I don’t like it! Are you with me? There are too many things going on that should not be going on, and when I hear about them or experience them, it disturbs me. I don’t like the brokenness I see in this ...read more

Scripture: Luke 13:1-9

Denomination: Baptist

Lesson 2: When Doubts Make Us Fail

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Mar 12, 2010

This series is not about sin, but about our failures.

A. INTRODUCTION 1. This series is not about sin, but about our failures. Failure is: (a) omission to do your duty, (b) not measuring up to standards, (c) inability to perform, (d) unwilling to perform. 2. Difference between: (a) intentional, you must confess (I ...read more

Scripture: Mark 16:13-14

Denomination: Baptist

Handling God's Success When We Wanted It For Ourselves Series

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jun 29, 2009

Ministry looks impossible, and we want to run the other way. But when we do finally tackle it, and God redeems, then we want the credit. In His grace He assures us that we are not forgotten even though we are inappropriate.

All during this month we’ve worked together on the theme of compassion. Because we are a church which urgently needs to do ministry in this community; because we are a people with much to give and much to share, and with a place to share it, by the time this week is over we will have invested four ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

What Might Have Been

Contributed by Rick Pendleton on May 20, 2008

Look at famous failures (like Mike Tyson and Michael Vick) and Judas to see how we can avoid failure in our life.

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN Luke 22:1-6, Mark 14: 17-21 He was a big man on campus, a quarterback with the speed of a gazelle, his moves left would-be tacklers holding a handful of air, an arm like a rocket launcher, and the looks of a model. He had it all… but then he went to the dogs. He found he ...read more

Scripture: Luke 22:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

Second Chances

Contributed by Rick Boyne on May 9, 2011

God makes successes out of our failures. Satan wants us to think we are washed up when we fall, but God will still use us if we are repentant and confess our sins....

Second Chances May 8, 2011 Morning Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: God makes successes out of our failures. Focus Passage: John 21:15-19 Supplemental Passage: I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. ...read more

Scripture: John 21:15-19

Denomination: Baptist

Burning Bushes And Second Chances Series

Contributed by David Owens on Jun 8, 2011

This sermon spends time at the burning bush and discusses the fact that failure doesn't disqualify us from God's service.

Introduction: A. Maybe you have heard the story of the day that President George W. Bush was in an airport and noticed a man in a long flowing red robe with a long flowing white hair and beard. 1. The man had a staff in one hand and some stone tablets under the other arm. 2. George W. approached ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 3:1-10

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

God Knew Series

Contributed by Patrick Nix on Feb 1, 2011

The main theme of Exodus 2:23-25 is the Providence of God… God Knew – and He still does! He heard the cry and groans of His people, He cared about their suffering, and He knew just how to deliver them.

The main theme of Exodus 2:23-25 is the Providence of God… God Knew – and He still does! He heard the cry and groans of His people, He cared about their suffering, and He knew just how to deliver them. In Ex. 2:1-10, we see *A Parent’s Faith: a young couple married in the midst ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 2:1-22

Denomination: Baptist

Back To The Real World Series

Contributed by Thomas Swope on Apr 18, 2012

A study of the Gospel of Luke 9: 37 – 42

Luke 9: 37 – 42 Back To the Real World 37 Now it happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met Him. 38 Suddenly a man from the multitude cried out, saying, “Teacher, I implore You, look on my son, for he is my only child. 39 And behold, ...read more

Scripture: Luke 9:37-42

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

What Decade Are You From Dad? Series

Contributed by Larry Turner on Jun 17, 2012

The TV dads from the 50s till today can teach us a lot.

Things are a lot different now then they use to be when it came to the sex or even amount of babies being born. With my first born, dads set in a waiting room until the nurse came in and said “It’s a boy.” With my next two I was present at their birth but had no idea of their sex until they were ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-6

Denomination: Foursquare

A Risky Business

Contributed by Martin Ellgar on Nov 15, 2014

A perspective on Luke 5: 1-11. How does one give their life to Jesus? There is only one step. Listen to the Word of God. The rest is up to Jesus.

Luke 5: 1-11 A Risky Business We have heard in our text a fishing story, the failures and success of catching fish. When we look at our picture with Jesus in the fishing boat it appears as if his hands have just cast out the net. But his net is one to catch the shoal of people that have gathered ...read more

Scripture: Luke 5:1-11

Denomination: Lutheran

Pergamos, Mail Call Series

Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Oct 1, 2012

Sermons detailing the Lord’s instructions to the churches of Asia Minor.

Pergamos, Mail Call! Revelation 2:12-17 Revelation 2:12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; 13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 2:12-17

Denomination: Baptist