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  • It Pays To Tell The Truth PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 20, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 81 views

    This sermon calls us to honest, wholehearted living before God, trusting His grace to free us from pretense and form a sincere, holy community.

    Friends, some stories hush a room. They slip in like a soft wind and stir the curtains of the soul. Acts 5 is one of those stories. It starts with open hands and generous hearts in the early church, and then a sudden stillness falls. Have you ever smiled on the outside while your soul flinched ...read more

  • Fortune Leads To Death, Christ Leads To Life PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 24, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 109 views

    Trust God alone for guidance and power; avoid seeking answers from occult or counterfeit sources, and rely on prayer to overcome deception and fear.

    Friends, pull up a chair. Some weeks feel like the weather—gusts of news, gusts of need, gusts of noise—and our souls long for a quiet corner and a steady word. As October rolls across our calendars, costumes cover store shelves, cobwebs (the plastic kind) creep across porches, and talk turns to ...read more

  • The Journey Of The Wise Men: How The Grinch Stole Christmas Series

    Contributed by Dwight Gunter Ii on Dec 14, 2000
    based on 214 ratings
     | 8,587 views

    Within people there is a desire for meaning in life. This is a sermon for those who are searching.

    Introduction . . . Illustration: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas Years ago, Dr. Seuss wrote a book called "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." It’s also been made into a video. Many of you know the story which happens in the town of Who-ville. The Grinch hated seeing and hearing all the ...read more

  • Waiting For The Surprise

    Contributed by Sheila Crowe on May 28, 2009
     | 5,991 views

    A Surprise God, A Surprise Blessing, A Surprise Interruption Surprise on the Run

    Today marks the beginning of the season of Advent, a time of preparation, a time of the Messiah’s coming, going and coming, a time of great expectation and great anticipation. But exactly what is advent and what are we anticipating? What are we getting ready for? What do we expect to happen? Are ...read more

  • The Be Happy Blessings Of Revelation Pt 7 Series

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 8, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,060 views

    Jesus is coming back for His church and for us to be a part of this return we must follow the words of this prophetic book. We must live by them and keep true to them because this will lead right into Heaven.

    “The Be Happy Blessings of Revelation” - part 7 Key Scripture Verse: The 6th Blessing - Revelation 22:7: 7“Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book.” Thesis: Jesus is coming back for His church and for us to be a part of this return we must follow ...read more

  • Joy To The World! Why God’s Glory Demands A Global Choir - Psalm 67 Series

    Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on Jul 16, 2025
     | 229 views

    You pay taxes because you have to. You eat banana splits because you want to. Make it your goal to make your commitment to missions more like your commitment to banana splits than like your commitment to paying taxes.

    Introduction: Making missions a delight I am on a quest in my spiritual life at this time to convert more and more of the things I do from mere discipline to the expression of or pursuit of joy. The man who can’t stand being around his wife but who forces himself to take her out on dates anyway ...read more

  • 66 Gospels | Genesis Series

    Contributed by Michael Monica on Dec 18, 2015
     | 7,068 views

    The Gospel in all of Scripture.

    66 Gospels | Genesis Genesis 3:1-21 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees ...read more

  • Can You Pass The Test?

    Contributed by Mike Hays on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 64 ratings
     | 8,426 views

    What is true faith? There is so much misinformation being offered that we need to know the Truth and then He will set us free.

    Can You Pass The Test? 1 John 4:1-6 Reverend Bible was a fourth generation preacher. He was his father's son. He was a chip off the old block. While he was growing up he watched his father mount the pulpit week after week at First Church and offer his thoughts to the people. The son of a preacher ...read more

  • Philippians 1:12-19 Series

    Contributed by Craig Simonian on Sep 4, 2001
    based on 46 ratings
     | 8,958 views

    This sermon shows how Jesus was not only magnified through the life of Paul but purposes to be magnified thru our lives as well.

    Philippians 1:12-19 Last week, while flipping thru the stations, I happened to see Jim Baker’s son, Jay, on Larry King Live. It was so encouraging to hear to how God brought him out of a life of alcoholism and drugs and raised him up as a minister to the broken, punk culture of Atlanta. ...read more

  • No Tripping Allowed

    Contributed by Dan Erickson on Nov 25, 2000
    based on 164 ratings
     | 6,090 views

    About spiritually tripping another person, or as Paul says, being a stumbling block to another Christian.

    Though one of the objectives of football is to knock the other guy down, tripping is not allowed. If the Packers' Ross Verba is blocking the Vikings' John Randle, trying to prevent him from sacking Brett Favre, he is not allowed to stick out his leg and trip him. If he does, and the referee sees ...read more

  • The Slippery Slope

    Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Apr 10, 2001
    based on 80 ratings
     | 5,617 views

    Sin is dangerous - even "little" sins are a slippery slope which can become nearly impossible to escape.

    The Slippery Slope TCF Sermon February 4, 2001 Read from Romans 1:18-32 Here we read a passage that shows how clearly sin has captured our world - we read a disturbing picture of a culture in moral free fall, all restraints gone, full of compromise with righteousness, headed toward destruction ...read more

  • When The Church Fails Series

    Contributed by Timothy Peck on Mar 12, 2003
    based on 76 ratings
     | 10,345 views

    Our failures in the Christian community remind us of our need for total and complete dependance on Jesus.

    Like you, I’ve been watching the terrible scandal surrounding the abuse of children by priests in the Roman Catholic church. And the worst part of the scandal isn’t the abuse of children, as horrible as that is. The worst part has the cover up, that rather than stepping in and removing sexual ...read more

  • Redemption - Part Ii (The Riches Of His Grace) Series

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 36 ratings
     | 7,427 views

    The ungrace of the world does not nullify the Grace of God. (#5 in the "Every Spiritual Blessing" series)

    “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us. ” Redemption: to bring back into rightful ownership (restoration to one who possesses a more fundamental right or interest) by the paying of a price, ...read more

  • Why You Need A Blood Donation Series

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 30, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,812 views

    A study of blood atonement and why we need it

    1. Title: Why You Need a Blood Donation – first hour edition 2. Text: Hebrews 9 3. Audience: Villa Heights Christian Church, AM crowd., August 27, 2006, in the series “Nothing Better Than The Best” 4. Objectives: -for the people to understand the meaning of atonement, why it is necessary, and ...read more

  • The Father Of All Fatherhood

    Contributed by William Mouser on Jul 14, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,988 views

    God is not called Father because he reminds us of dear old Dad. Exactly the opposite is true. The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the one from whom all fatherhood in heaven and earth takes its name.

    On the way here, as we were traveling across America last week, I saw the film _The War of the Worlds._ If you haven’t yet seen it, I heartily recommend the monsters, and the film contains great scenes carnage and destruction. It also has very satisfying scenes of the evil aliens getting their ...read more