Sermons on Giving Joy To God:

God's Promised Paradox Series

Contributed by David Haun on Feb 29, 2004

A stewardship sermon for pledge Sunday for for teaching as to how stewardship applies to our life.

GOD’S PROMISED PARADOX Luke 6:38 Dr. David L. Haun Hope Christian Church, Tamarac, Florida February 29, 2004 There are two language concepts that are confusing to some: the Paradox and the Oxymoron. Oxymoron’s are the joining together of what appears to be opposite and absurd concepts. There ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:38, 1 Corinthians 16:2-3

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Caring For God's Temple Series

Contributed by Carl Willis on Oct 30, 2003

God has given you a unique physical body. Are you taking care of it?

Caring For God’s TempleStewardship…A Matter of The Heart – Part V 1 Corinthians 6:12 – 20 1 Corinthians 6:12 – 20 (NIV) “Everything is permissible for me” – but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me” – but I will not be mastered by anything. “Food for the stomach and ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Giver God Blesses

Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Nov 8, 2003

This is a sermon on the stewardship of giving based on the account in Mark 12 about "The Widow’s Mite."

THE GIVER GOD BLESSES—MARK 12:38-44 --by R. David Reynolds Dr. Haddon Robinson is Co-host and teacher on the radio broadcast “Discover the Word,” a writer for the devotional guide Our Daily Bread, and Harold J. Ockenga Distinguished Professor of Preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary ...read more

Scripture: Mark 12:38-44

Denomination: Methodist

Honoring God. {1}

Contributed by Melvin Shelton on Apr 24, 2005

God has devised a way to let you know if he is No. 1 and you trust him to meet your every need and it is called the tithe.

Honoring God. {1} Proverbs 3: 9 -- 10. 04/17/05 Paul Harvey told of the woman a few years ago that had a butterball turkey she had had in her freezer for 23 years. She called Butterball Company to ask them about whether the turkey would be all right to eat. The company said we think it ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 3:9-10

Denomination: Baptist

Are You Robbing God Series

Contributed by Steve Smith on Apr 2, 2007

The principle of tithing shows our trust of God. It shows if He (in your mind) is big enough to handle your life. His promise is that He will not only take care of us but that He will fill the barns with blessing - if we trust Him!

INTRODUCTION A. Why Now? 1. Began a Series “How do we Accomplish the Vision” a. “Whether on Temple and even More So if on Bullsboro” b. Part I – Last week was the importance of the Journey in that “We Must Offer God Our Best” from the example of Mary. We considered the statement, “God does not ...read more

Scripture: Malachi 3:7-12

Denomination: Baptist

The Open Hand Of God

Contributed by Marilyn Murphree on Apr 13, 2007

What things open the hand of God in our lives? How can we position ourselves to receive what He promised to give us?

April, 2007 The Open Hand of God Psalm 107:9 Psalm 104:21-28 Psalm 68:9 INTRODUCTION: Many people today are living as if God is not interested in their life or in how they are living it. As a result, their life has become one struggle after another with seemingly no one to turn to. Not only ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 107:9

Denomination: Methodist

It's All God's Series

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Nov 26, 2007

What we have is ultimately God’s and His gift to us.

It’s All God’s November 4, 2007 Various We’ve been convinced that if we could have more, if we could have what we wanted, if we own something more, possess something more, if we could get more stuff . . . then our lives would be happier. In the past week, have you seen the price of gas? How ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 24:1

Denomination: Baptist

Shaped For Serving God Series

Contributed by David Flowers on Dec 1, 2007

Part 5 in series The Purpose-Driven Life, this message looks at Ministry, the fourth of God’s five principal purposes for our lives.

Shaped for Serving God The Purpose-Driven Life, part 5 Wildwind Community Church David K. Flowers November 11, 2007 In spite of enormous success, Elvis Presley was, according to friends, an unfulfilled and unhappy man. He died of obesity and drug dependency at 42. And in an interview with his ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:25-27

Denomination: Free Methodist

Put God To The Test Series

Contributed by Don Hawks on Sep 30, 2007

The ist in a series of sermons on guidelines to living a more abundant life that God wants us to live. Put God to the test by tithing and observing the benefits of the practice.

Today I am talking about a subject that people don’t like to hear about—I’ll say that up front. Preachers don’t like to talk about tithing and money because we don’t like people’s eyes glazing over or people getting fidgety or you start flip through the hymn book or something. Church members ...read more

Scripture: Malachi 3:10

Denomination: Methodist

God's Generosity And Grace

Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 17, 2007

As Christians we should have a shift in values and we should place more value on our relationship with God then on created things.

Luke 12:13 Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." 14 Jesus replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?" 15 Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:13-21

Denomination: Lutheran

God Will Find Another

Contributed by Michael Martin on Sep 9, 2006

If you won’t do what God tells you, He will find another, but...

(1 Kings 20:35-43) "Then he found another man..." This preacher wants to make a point so he devises a way to teach on object lesson. He wants to have this man hit him and cause a bruise, so that he could fool the king of Israel. The object lesson (v. 39-40): I was in charge of a man under ...read more

Scripture: 1 Kings 20:35-43

Denomination: Baptist

God And Your Stuff Series

Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007

Is the stuff in your house yours or God’s? Who owns it?

God and Your Stuff Hope for the Financially Challenged - Part 4 Two men crashed in their private plane on a South Pacific island. Both survived. One of the men brushed himself off and then proceeded to run all over the island to see if they had any chance of survival. When he returned, he rushed up ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30

Denomination: Baptist

God's Promises To Supply

Contributed by Joel Santos on Sep 9, 2007

Can God really supply us? In this text, we can learn the 3 Promises of God to us.

GOD’S PROMISES TO SUPPLY US “But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Phil. 4:19 A preacher died and found himself waiting in line at the Pearly Gate in heaven. Ahead of him was a guy dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket and jeans. ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 4:19

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How God Guides Series

Contributed by Lynn Malone on Mar 23, 2006

God uses certain means to guide His people in the decision making process.

Building on Faith: How God Guides Exodus 13:17 – 14:31 The Atlantic salmon leaves the place of its spawning, swims downstream as a silver streak in the sunlit stream, and makes its way 900 miles out into the ocean. By some unknown process, it makes its way back to the exact tributary it ...read more

Denomination: Methodist

Open Hands Of God Series

Contributed by Andy Almendarez on Dec 11, 2006

Human beings cling tightly on what belongs to us, and yet God showed us, through His Son, that there is a better way to walk through life – not with clenched fists, but with open hands of love.

Open Hands of God II Corinthians 8:9; Philippians 2:5-11 Human beings cling tightly on what belongs to us, and yet God showed us, through His Son, that there is a better way to walk through life – not with clenched fists, but with open hands of love. I. The Generosity of God God gives and gives ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:9

Denomination: Holiness