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Pleasing God PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Jan 4, 2024

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This sermon explores the profound importance of faith as the foundation of our Christian lives, enabling us to please God and overcome life's challenges.

Good morning, dear friends. As we gather here today, we are knit together by a common thread, a shared hope, a mutual faith. We are a tapestry of believers, each of us a unique strand, yet woven together in the loom of God's love. We are here to seek, to learn, and to grow in our understanding of ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:6

Topics: Funeral, Sermon

Fix Your Holiness Series

Contributed by David Salisbury on May 29, 2003

based on 54 ratings

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Lesson 14 in a series on the Sermon on the Mount. I spent the whole sermon talking about holiness and what it means and how it changes us. I took the people through the process of putting this sermon together to help them see how I arrived at my conclusio

Fix Your Holiness Matthew 7:6 This morning I am going to do something that I very rarely do. As we are moving through the Sermon on the Mount, I have tried to select sections of scripture for us to examine. We have looked at as many as 10 verses at one time. This morning, we will examine a ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 7:6

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

When They Persecute You Series

Contributed by J. Yeargin on Nov 7, 2005

based on 4 ratings

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Jesus warns us that we will have many trials and sorrows. We need to be prepared for those trials and sorrows. Not to worry over them, but not to be naïve. One of our greatest sorrows is when our friends or loved ones come against us for our commitmen

Tonight we will conclude our study on The Sermon on the Mount. There is still much more that Christ taught in chapter five, but our focus has been primarily focused on the portion that includes “The Beatitudes”. Last week we looked closely at verse 10, and I would like to connect a final study ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:10-12

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Be-Attitudes - Part Vii Series

Contributed by Carl Willis on Mar 18, 2003

based on 8 ratings

| 2,643 views

God blesses those who work for peace.

This morning we are continuing our series on the "Be-Attitudes" looking at the issue of being a peace maker. Our passage today comes from Matthew 5:9: Matthew 5:9 (NLT) God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God. You’ve all seen the bumper sticker that ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:9

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Spiritual Mourning Series

Contributed by Mitchell Skelton on Dec 26, 2004

based on 14 ratings

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As much as being "poor in spirit" is diametrically opposed to the conventional wisdom of today’s culture, so to with the thought that happiness could be connected with mourning. If there is one thing that the world tries to avoid it is mourning. Everyth

Spiritual Mourning Matthew 5:4 #2 of 8 in series INTRODUCTION Last week we started a series of sermons on the Beatitudes of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. We considered poorness of spirit and the role it plays in salvation. One must first realize that he is in sin before He can come to ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:4

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Blessing In Poverty Series

Contributed by Chip Monck on Feb 26, 2008

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As we continue our series on the Sermon on the Mount, we dive into the descriptions of a Christian’s character as defined by Christ in the Beatitudes. "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

For the next three weeks we are back to our in depth study and look at the Sermon on the Mount. If you have accepted the challenge to do some scripture memory as a part of this journey together, then you would be up to Matthew 5, verse 3. And depending on your translation, you will have memorized ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:3

Denomination: Wesleyan

"Happiness" Series

Contributed by Clark Tanner on Mar 20, 2006

based on 11 ratings

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Indroduction sermon to a new series on the Sermon on the Mount

1 When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him. 2 He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying, 3 “Blessed…” Matthew 5:1-3a There is a triviality that I want to address before we move fully into this study. It is not so important ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:1-3

Denomination: Orthodox

Don't Worry Series

Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 23, 2001

based on 18 ratings

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Part 17 of Sermon on the Mount Series, a look at avoiding worry

Don’t Worry Be Happy April 20th BCC Rev. Denn Guptill isn’t a great song. I remember when that song first came out we were living in Truro at the time. Now I have a confession to make I prefer two types of music either country music or music from the seventies. "Don’t Worry Be Happy" doesn’t ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34

Denomination: Wesleyan

"Godly Sexuality" - Part 1 Series

Contributed by Warren Lamb on Apr 10, 2005

based on 4 ratings

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Sex sells...are you buying? Sex is an every-day, all-day, in-your-face issue. What are we to do?

"Godly Sexuality" – Part 1 Matthew 5:27-32 (Cognates: Matthew 19:3-12; 1 Corinthians 6:9-20; 7:1-17; Hebrews 10:26-31) God’s stand on sexuality, marriage, divorce and remarriage is clear when we take the whole of Scripture, prayerfully read it and then trust the Holy Spirit to open our hearts and ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:27-32

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

"Achieving Perfection" Series

Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jun 30, 2006

based on 14 ratings

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Sermon #11 in a study in the Sermon on the Mount

In the previous two sermons we have handled verses twenty and twenty one, if not thoroughly, I hope at least sufficiently to stress to the hearer and reader that what we have before us is a faithful record of the Lord of the universe, the one who spoke all things into existence, the one who has ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:20-48

Denomination: Orthodox

Fix Your Love Series

Contributed by David Salisbury on Jan 16, 2003

based on 59 ratings

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Lesson 7 in a series. This lesson focuses on how to love our enemies.

Fix Your Love Matthew 5:43-48 Intro. Did you ever wonder why we like super heroes so much? I mean what is it about us that wants to fly, leap tall buildings, bend steel and stop bullets? Why do we have such a fascination with being able to read peoples thoughts or turn invisible? I think ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

"Public Piety: To Be Seen By Men"

Contributed by Quintin Morrow on Nov 12, 2003

based on 68 ratings

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A message on substanceless piety.

The Rev’d Quintin Morrow St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church www.st-andrew.com According to the Chicago Tribune, a man named Joe from Rockford, Illinois, ran a live Internet sex site called Video Fantasy. Joe had a ten-year-old son. On his home computer Joe installed filtering software to limit the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:1-18

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Blessed Are The Peacemakers

Contributed by David Taylor on Oct 7, 2004

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What it means to be a peacemaker

Sermon on Mount Blessed are the peacemakers In the beatitudes, Jesus’ aim was to create a lifestyle in his followers that would make people think about the value of God, or to glorify God. The beatitudes start out showing us our great need for God and then the rest show us what it means to live ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:9

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Blessed Are Those Who Hunger And Thirst Series

Contributed by Don Jones on Feb 22, 2008

based on 10 ratings

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The message deals with 1. Hunger and Thirst, 2. For Righteousness, and 3. They Will Be Filled

Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst Matthew 5:6 Introduction The beatitudes have thus far focused on attitudes of humility, mourning, and meekness. None of these can truly be seen from the outside, they are inner states of being. They are attitudes of the heart and mind that are seen in ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:6

Denomination: Baptist

Single Minded Devotion Series

Contributed by Chris Appleby on Mar 14, 2005

based on 17 ratings

| 4,658 views

Where are you putting your energy, your money, your time? Are you putting them into your own personal future, your own worldly security, or are you investing them in a future with God? Look to God’s future for security and hope.

Stop being so anxious! Don’t worry, just relax! Why are you so stressed? You’ve probably heard words like that fairly recently. It’s the nature of our age to be stressed isn’t it? In fact this passage from Matt 6 could have been written specifically for us, couldn’t it? We live in an age where ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:19-34

Denomination: Anglican

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