Sermons on Food Coloring:

A Faith That’s Sincere.

Contributed by Kenneth R. Jenkins on Mar 9, 2022

If you had a choice to defile your body by eating from a table filled with defiled food or starve and obey God? The young men in your hearing had to face that decision in front of the Persian king.

If you had a choice to defile your body by eating from a table filled with defiled food or starve and obey God? The young men in your hearing had to face that decision in front of the Persian king. God Brought Favor for You. Daniel had made up in his mind that he would not eat the King’s ...read more

Scripture: Daniel 1:8-21

Denomination: Baptist

Harvest Is Bigger. God Does More.

Contributed by Simon Bartlett on Oct 1, 2022

At our harvest festival we usually think of food, crops. But we need to expand our concept of harvest. We also need to recognize just how much God is involved in providing for us.

Today is our Harvest Thanksgiving service. It’s a time to thank God for the harvest. But what exactly are we thanking God for? I want to do two things today. The first thing is to encourage us to see harvest as something bigger than what the combine harvester picks up. The second thing is to ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 104:10-14, Exodus 23:16, Genesis 1:29, Deuteronomy 28:1-12

Denomination: Baptist

The Temptations Of Christ (Luke 4)

Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Jan 25, 2023

Jesus fasted or ate no food for 40 days after He was baptized. While there, the Devil came and tempted or put Jesus to the test in three different areas. Jesus triumphed, and so can we!

Based on a message preached at First Baptist Church, Chamois, MO, on 1-22-2023. This is not an exact transcription. Introduction: Last week we looked at how John the Baptist came preaching, far away from town, much like he might do here if he lived here. To give a kind of local flavor, he might ...read more

Scripture: Luke 4:1-13

Denomination: Baptist

Let The Good Times Roll! Series

Contributed by Donald Whitchard on Jan 26, 2021

There is a time for fasting for the glory of God, and then there are times to enjoy food, company, and good times. However, some people are not satisfied with anything and prefer to stay miserable, indecisive, and closed to what God has in store for them.

I was born and reared in south Louisiana, the heart of what is known as "Cajun Country". The city in which I grew up was surrounded by lakes, bayous, swamps, and refineries. You couldn't go ten miles down one of the major highways that went through town before you spotted your ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 9:14-17, Mark 2:18-22, Luke 5:33-39, Matthew 6:16-18

Denomination: Baptist

Making Life Beautiful

Contributed by Rolando, Jr Pama on Mar 11, 2023

Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

1. EAT WITH ENJOYMENT • “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks. • Food and drinks are necessity and essential for us to live. • Eating is one of life’s greatest pleasures. • Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 12I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 8:10

Newness: Façade And Reality

Contributed by Sterling Franklin on Jan 1, 2011

What type of Newness is meaningful? Basic outline: (1) Newness will be experienced in full through Jesus alone, (2) Newness can be experienced now through Internal Transformation through Jesus alone, (3) Will you experience Newness through Jesus?

GKJ (Glorious King Jesus) Apex, NC January 2, 2011 Now webcast via Ustream Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:1-21 Message At the start of each New Year, there is a façade of newness. People make resolutions to try to change their ways, in order to experience somewhat of a new feeling in their ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:1-21

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Christians And Christmas, Part 1 - An Overview Series

Contributed by Warren Lamb on Nov 29, 2006

What comes to your mind when I said the word, “Christmas”? Christmas trees, presents, lights, candles, food, parties, snow, decorations, the star, angels, Santa Claus…wow! There are about a zillion symbols we have for Christmas, aren’t there? What do they

If everyone would take a moment and close their eyes…I am going to say a word and I want you to tell me what you picture when I say it. Ready? Christmas. What came to your mind when I said the word, “Christmas”? Christmas trees, presents, lights, candles, food, parties, snow, decorations, the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-20

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Is Your Dreams Alive

Contributed by Norman Bernad on Sep 28, 2020

We all have dreams. I am not referring to our dreams in a fantasy world while we slept soundly but to those vivid dreams we had when we were younger, at least once upon a time in our colorful life.

Is your Dreams Alive? 1. Genesis 37.1-11 2. Acts 16:9-15 Psalm 126 We all have dreams. I am not referring to our dreams in a fantasy world while we slept soundly but to those vivid dreams we had when we were younger, at least once upon a time in our colorful life. Everyone must have had a chance ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 37:1-11, Acts 16:9-15

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Influence

Contributed by Jay Mcphearson on Oct 28, 2003

We are to change the world we live in.

Intro: (Start with Blank) A lady was getting on a bus for her early morning commute. She had her small baby in her arms. She walks up the steps and the bus driver looked at the baby and said – mam – that is the UGLIGIEST baby I have ever seen. It made her mad. She slowly walked to the back of ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Christmas In A Different Light | Mary And Joseph Series

Contributed by Jeff Poor on Dec 11, 2017

We sing the same songs, eat the same food, ignore the same people at dinner, and read the same story from the Bible every year at Christmas. But what would happen if we approached this in a Different Light?

Title: Christmas in a Different Light Text: Luke 1:26-38 and Matthew 1:18-23 Intro I love this time of year… Anybody else? I love the decorations, the food, the smells, the sounds, I love it all... I might be wrong… But I think the reason, or at least one of the reasons, some people do not ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 1:18-23

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Setting My Priorities

Contributed by John Colbert on Jun 27, 2015

If we put God first, and do His will, and obey His Word, God says He will take care of us by providing us with our needs, food, clothing ,and other temporal blessing.

The sermons that I have listed are 30 to 40 minute sermons. I have only listed the points and a couple of comments under each point of each sermon to give the preacher a remembrance which the Holy Spirit can lead on and speak through the man of God. Setting My Priorities Matthew 6:33 But ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:33

Denomination: Baptist

Thanksgivingness: Honor It!

Contributed by Kelly Durant on Nov 24, 2016

People are losing their thankfulness! We must honor not just Biblical sacrifices of thankfulness as King David did, but we should also recognize the importance of being thankful for food and all our needs supplies by God.

Thanksgivingness: Honor It! Kelly Durant Psalm 116:17 I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of the Lord. 18 I will pay my vows to the Lord Now in the presence of all His people, 19 In the courts of the Lord’s house, In the midst of you, O ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 116:1-19

Denomination: Salvation Army

God Accepts You As Gentiles, In Christ (So Don't Become Jewish Christians; Ephesians 2:1-10) Series

Contributed by Garrett Tyson on Jan 23, 2022

What is faith? Also, "works" and "good works" are not the same thing. "Works" are works of the Mosaic covenant, specifically food laws, circumcision, holy days (inc. Sabbath).

Today's sermon is on Ephesians 2:1-10. But I want to start by reading all of chapter 2. We often make a mess of chapter 2, especially in verses 8-10, and the reason we make that mess is because we ignore Paul's larger argument. Paul is writing to Gentiles, explaining to them that they are ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10, Ephesians 2:11-22, Galatians 2:11-16

This Lent Get Your Passions Under Control Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 21, 2023

We take pleasure in the lesser goods of earth–food, drink, beauty, sex. And if we take too much pleasure there, we can treat them as if they were the highest good and we fall into sin.

Ash Wednesday Homily What brings us here today so early? We are here because we want something. Not a mere smear of black soot, no. If that were our goal, we’d be certifiably insane. We are here because we want at the end of our lives to be united with the Blessed Trinity forever, body and soul, ...read more

Scripture: Joel 2:12-18

Denomination: Catholic

David Takes The Sacred Bread & The Sword Of Goliath Series

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Feb 23, 2023

David now has food. But he is still unarmed. He ran away in such a hurry, he doesn’t have much of anything aside from the clothes on his back, and now a stack of sacred bread.

David is on the run! He is in a panic. Saul had tried to kill, pin him to a wall with a spear while he was playing music for him. Then Jonathan David’s friend goes and tries to calm Saul down and make things right. And Saul tries to kill Jonathan too. So David makes a run for it. His first stop is ...read more

Denomination: Salvation Army