Sermons on Generous Heart:

Building Bigger Hearts Series

Contributed by Rick Duncan on Apr 7, 2003

Contentment doesn’t come from our circumstances. It comes from the heart. And that’s where the root of the problem really lies. Not in our wallets, but in our hearts.

My son, Evan, plays for the 10year old North Royalton travel team. The other day, the players received their uniforms. They are beautiful – very nice. And the hats! They are purple with a gold NR embroidered on the front. And they are fitted. Evan even has his number embroidered on the back ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Jesus On Adultery And Lust

Contributed by Simon Bartlett on Feb 10, 2024

Jesus teaches on lust. It isn't something preachers generally like to speak about but it's really important. Jesus shows how God's commandment on adultery needs to be practised and he tells us how we can do it.

Western society is completely comfortable talking about sex. Most people think a lot about sex. Especially men. The Bible talks a lot about sex too. Most preachers, however, do not like to talk about sex. When preachers preach on the Sermon on the Mount, they talk about the Beatitudes. There ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:27-30

Denomination: Baptist

How To Listen To God: The Shallow & Divided Hearts - Mark 4:16-19 Series

Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on Sep 16, 2023

Coffee mug theology, which generates great zeal until suffering comes, but then ...

Mark 4:14 The sower sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. Immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 4:16-19, Matthew 13:20-22, Luke 8:13-14

God Gave Us A Perfect Heart; He Is Able To Keep It Perfect.

Contributed by David Leach on Jan 5, 2014

In order to receive a new, perfect heart we must be made clean from all our past sins:

1 God gave us a Perfect Heart; He is able to keep it perfect In order to receive a new, perfect heart we must be made clean from all our past sins: Ezek 36:25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean... What is this clean water that cleanses us from all our past sins? The ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 36:25-26

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

A Christian’s Heart - Introduction Series

Contributed by Dennis Lee on May 21, 2016

This is the introduction to the new sermon series, "A Christian's Heart." In this sermon we look at the heart, specifically the spiritual heart and three aspects of what a Christian's heart should be, a loving, changed, and a heart that follows God.

A Christian’s Heart - Introduction Today we’re going to begin a new series on the type of heart Christians are to possess. This morning I’m going to give you a little taste of this series as we look at three things I consider to be tantamount to anyone who calls themselves ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 4:23

Denomination: Foursquare

Do You Want A New Heart?

Contributed by John Lowe on Sep 2, 2015

Fallen man, created by God, pure and holy, has willfully and wickedly rebelled against God, and lost his first estate, but he is to be the subject of a new creation through the power of God's Holy Spirit.

8-4-05 How's Your Heart "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh."—Ezekiel 36:26. I want to begin by revealing a wonder of God’s love. When God makes one of ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 36:26

Denomination: Baptist

A Desire For God

Contributed by Dr. Kenneth Rhodes, Jr on Dec 10, 2001

A call to developing a heart for God

A Desire For God Psalm 73:25 (NASB95) 25 Whom have I in heaven but You?And besides You, I desire nothing on earth. I. Its Need A. The universal experience: Losing the excitement of falling in love. Revelation 2:1-5 (NASB95) 1 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The One who ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 73:25

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Giving Series

Contributed by Keith Andrews on Jun 8, 2006

Third of the Form the Heart Series

Giving Mark 12:41-44 All Scripture Marked NKJV: The New King James Version. 1996, c1982. Nashville: Thomas Nelson. All Scripture Marked NLT: Holy Bible : New Living Translation. 1997,Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House. This week all the celebrity gossip surrounded a 14 year old girl from Palm Dessert ...read more

Scripture: Mark 12:41-44

Denomination: Baptist

A Noble Prayer

Contributed by Bledar Valca on Dec 24, 2008

A prayer for every heart to be content.

A Noble Prayer Proverbs 30:7-9 God has provided a wonderful avenue for the sinful man to reach Him in prayer. Unfortunately, too many prayers are like “shopping lists.” We go to God with a very clear understanding of what we want Him to do for us. I. The Petition (7) Two things I ask of you, O ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 30:7-9

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Heart Of Your Problem Is The Problem Of Your Heart Series

Contributed by David Dykes on Jan 25, 2018

The reason we like traditions, whether it’s washing your hands or dressing up for church, is that it is something we can do outwardly and feel good about ourselves.

INTRODUCTION Part of this message is about traditions. Why do we do the things we do? Sometimes we do them because we’ve always done them the same way and we never questioned the reason. Growing up, I had exactly the same breakfast every morning: two fried eggs, bacon, grits, and toast. And the ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-23

Denomination: Baptist

Wash My Feet, Wash My Heart

Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Oct 16, 2008

Jesus understood full well that in a few short hours all those 24 feet that were so wonderfully cleansed would soon desert Him and run for their life and flee from His presence... And He knows it. They don’t know it. Only the feet of John would stay put.

Disaster struck me one day when I was a boy. I don’t know where in the world my little sister came back to the house real dirty and smelly. Some type of dark sticky slimy stinky substance was all over her and she was crying up loud. She had tried to get rid of it by using her dirty hand and as you ...read more

Scripture: John 13:2-5, John 13:1-20

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Lessons In Love Series

Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 4, 2007

This is the last of four and looks at the heart of Jonah compared to the heart of God and the lessons in love that Jonah would need to learn as a consequence.

Jonah chapter 4: 1-11. Lessons in love. I recently watched documentary on the internet it we Louis theorux and he was spending some time with a Christian family from Texas who had formed a Church called Westboro Baptist church and part of their evangelistic strategy was to travel around America ...read more

Scripture: Jonah 4:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Is God's Heart Your Heart?

Contributed by James Wallace on Jan 18, 2025

God's heart bleeds for the lost. How about yours?

I’m not sure if I have ever had so many things happen in a short time that would point to this being the very passage I need to teach from today. For example, about 10 days ago we received a prayer letter from missionaries we support in the Netherlands, the Van Dillens. They had mentioned in a ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:10

Denomination: Bible Church

I'm Forgiven Series

Contributed by Robert Higgins on May 1, 2008

What produces worship in your heart?

Why do I worship? Last week we asked that question and answered it with the first of many answers, because God’s Presence leads me to respond in worship. Worship, as we defined it last week is a response of all that I am to all that God is. In other words, it is a RESPONSE to God’s revelation of ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Workers In The Vineyard PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Dec 14, 2023

This sermon explores the radical grace of God's kingdom, where all are treated equally and the last are first, challenging our human notions of fairness.

Good morning, beloved family in Christ. As we gather here today, we are united in our shared love for our Savior, and our common desire to understand His word more deeply. We are not here by accident, but by divine appointment. We are not here to merely pass the time, but to seek wisdom and truth ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 20:1-16

Topics: Heart