Sermons on Fear Overcome:

Peter’s Struggle: Overcoming The Wall Of Prejudice

Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on May 19, 2022

It was essential for Peter to admit (And us), when prejudice is in operation. Our prejudices and biases always collide with God's grace. God has no favorites; we are all equal in his sight. He welcomes whosoever!

Sermon Peter’s Struggle: Overcoming The Wall of Prejudice Scripture Reading: Acts 10: 1-23 “1 In Caesarea there lived a Roman army officer named Cornelius, who was a captain of the Italian Regiment. 2 He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was everyone in his household. He gave generously to the poor ...read more

Scripture: Acts 10:1-23, John 3:16, Revelation 5:9

Denomination: Methodist

Recognizing God's Call Series

Contributed by Manny Salva Cruz on Aug 30, 2015

In this message, we will examine the keys to prosperity and success that allowed Joshua to fulfill his mission of bringing the people to the Promised Land in spite of the death of Moses. How did he overcome his fears and allowed God's Word to guide him?

Scripture Reading: Joshua 1:6-9 6 Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them. 7 “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 1:6-9

Denomination: Nazarene

Peter: How To Overcome Despair In Times Of Failure Series

Contributed by Rick Long on Feb 12, 2004

Second in the series "Meet the Cast." To really understand how to overcome despair in times of failure, we must see the transformation in Peter’s life after Jesus conquered death and rose from the dead.

Thank God He uses failures! I’m not sure where I would be if God did not use people who continually mess up. I believe there is man in scripture who can totally relate to this. It’s Peter. As I read the accounts of Peter while he faithfully followed Jesus, I also see a passionate ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 26:69-75, Matthew 14:22-32

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Freedom From Fear – Get Out Of Your Shell! Series

Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Nov 16, 2006

Fear traps us like a turtle inside its shell. Let’s talk about fear and discover how we can break free from its control of our lives.

FREEDOM FROM FEAR – Get Out of Your Shell! 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJ) For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. INTRODUCTION: A little 2 year old girl stands at the edge of a swimming pool frozen. Her daddy is in the water with his arms raised up toward ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:7

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Powerful Prayer Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Sep 8, 2017

If you want to pray with great power, pray constantly, confidently, corporately, and fervently to pray effectively.

Three pastors were talking about prayer as a telephone repairman was working in the room. One pastor said that the key to effective prayer was in the hands. He always held his hands together and pointed them upward as a symbol of worship. The second pastor suggested that real prayer was ...read more

Scripture: James 5:13-20

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Part 18: How To Overcome Sin, Storms, Stubbornness, And Sadness Series

Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jan 22, 2025

God shows us... 1. How to overcome our sins (vs. 1-5). 2. How to overcome our storms in life (vs. 6-7, 10). 3. How to overcome our stubbornness (vs. 8-9). 4. How to overcome our sadness (vs. 11).

Great Prayers of the Old Testament Part 18: How to Overcome Sin, Storms, Stubbornness, and Sadness Psalm 32:1-11 Sermon by Rick Crandall (Prepared January 22, 2025) (Revised June 1, 2025 to correct the definition for "sin" in vs. 1) BACKGROUND: *Today we will study the 32nd Psalm. Here ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 32:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

How Faith Helps Us Overcome Sin

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 2, 2005

An explanation of the New Testament words for sin: harmatia, parabasis, paraptoma, anomia, and opheilema and means of overcoming them.

How Faith Helps Us Overcome Sin (I John 3:9,10) "No one born of God continues to deliberately, knowingly and habitually practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him. His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him and he cannot practice sinning because he is born of ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:9-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Authority That Overcomes - Spiritual Warfare Part 2 Series

Contributed by Emile Wolfaardt on May 8, 2009

(PowerPoint Slides freely available by emailing Emile@Wolfaardt.com) We have been at war but not in a war. Understanding the critical fight we are engaged in, and the stakes we are fighting for.

Spiritual Warfare (SW-02) Authority that Overcomes Matthew 28:18-19 We are standing in the face of the greatest confrontation mankind has ever known. I am further persuaded, that other than Calvary, we have entered the most intense concentration of that battle humanity has ever gone through. I do ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:19-20

Denomination: *other

Utilize The Spirit's Power To Overcome Hidden Faults

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 11, 2005

"The mind set on the flesh is death but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace." Without the leading, help and encouragement from the Holy Spirit no one can overcome their hidden faults.

Utilize the Spirit’s Power to Overcome Hidden Faults Romans 8:6-31 "The mind set on the flesh is death but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace." 1. Without the leading, help and encouragement from the Holy Spirit no one can overcome their hidden faults. David prayed, " Who can ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:6-31

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Fire From Within

Contributed by Charles Mallory on Aug 10, 2006

Allow God to enflame your heart once again with the passion to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ!

WHEN IT COMES TO RELIGION AND ESPECIALLY MINISTERING IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, IT STILL CAN MAKE US CRINGE, IF NOT BRISTLE INSIDE, WHEN WE HEAR OTHERS USE WORDS AND PHRASES SUCH AS “TOLERANCE,” “INCLUSIVENESS,” “SENSITIVITY,” AND EVEN “RELGIOUS PLURALISM.” THE WORLD IS NO DIFFERENT TODAY THAN ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 20:7-9

Denomination: Free Methodist

“jesus Came To Overcome Blindness”

Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 11, 2013

We heard last week that Jesus says he came so that no one should remain in darkness, and just before that he says that anyone who sees me sees the Father. What does this mean? It means that the truth that is the most imperative for all people, is to believe that Jesus is God in the flesh.

“Jesus Came to Overcome Blindness” (2 Cor 4:1-7) English author H. G. Wells—famous for science fiction novels like The Time Machine, and The War of the Worlds—once wrote a short story called “The Country of the Blind.” It’s about an inaccessible, ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:1-7

Do Not Weep - Jesus Overcomes The Weeping Of This World

Contributed by Christopher Nerreau on Sep 19, 2009

Sermon Preview: St. Luke portrays the successive healing stories of the Centurion and now the Widow to demonstrate His authority over the suffering and the Weeping of this world. In our sermon time today we will better understand how to overcome our we

“DO NOT WEEP” “finding hope in our suffering” Luke 7:11-17 Fr. Christopher M. Nerreau Illustration: Yesterday I went to the hospital to bless Mark and Tara’s new baby girl. While I was there walking around in the halls I heard several babies crying. God spoke to me in that moment and I realized ...read more

Scripture: Luke 7:11-17

Denomination: Orthodox

Tearing Down The Walls

Contributed by Dan Cale on Mar 12, 2005

This short message deals with tearing down the walls that keep us separated from a lost world that needs us.

Tearing Down the Walls II Timothy 1:3-14 We have a problem with walls. Aside from holding up the roof – what is the purpose of a wall? What walls do we have that separate us from the world today? Walls of fear, walls of inadequacy, walls of insecurity, walls of self, and walls of sin. Three ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:3-14

Denomination: *other

Purpose Series

Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Oct 4, 2019

Fear will keep the church for being what we are called to be

INTRODUCTION • SLIDE #1 • Fear, fear can do some bad things to us. • In the first inaugural address in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt said, “First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16-21

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Who Is Lucifer That Man Should Fear Him? Series

Contributed by Preacher Fo Real on Aug 13, 2007

A redo of Armed to be set free.

Who is Lucifer that man should fear him? Understanding Lucifer The reason that we, as the children of God, need to understand Lucifer is, we are under constant attack from him and his evil forces. In order to defend ourselves from his attacks, we need be able to recognize him as the Scriptures ...read more

Scripture: Job 1:6-12

Denomination: *other