Sermons on Gods Sovereignty:

Almost Series

Contributed by Todd Pugh on Jan 14, 2008

Pilate was almost changed by his face to face encounter with Jesus. What should he have done?

Almost Series: “face to Face” Sunday sermon / July 8th 2007 Intro: Not every person who came face to Face with Jesus was beautifully transformed. Some of their stories are tragedies rather than “Happily-ever-afters.” The man we will look at today did come face to Face with Jesus and the best we ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

Empowering Leaders

Contributed by Brien Sims on Jan 16, 2008

Empowering leadership means putting the “church at large” back into the hands of the people. Elders are there to help govern and protect.

Society today has placed its seal of approval on single parent households and homosexual adoption. The laws allowing such activity give evidence of such a stamp of approval. The ideas of familial leadership have begun to fail quickly. Sociologists and experts in family studies have just recently ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 5:1-4

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Meaningful Relationships Series

Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Mar 4, 2009

Sermon #5 of 6 sermons entitled "I’m in!" dealing with the ways people participate in the life of the local congregation. This message deals with connecting with other christians, making friends, etc. Ideas borrowed from Southeast Christian Church, Louisv

Meaningful Relationships Acts 2:44-47 CHCC: February 1, 2009 INTRODUCTION: Today is the 5th week in our series that’s called “I’m In!” So far Ronnie has talked about worshipping together, and studying God’s word in community. Then I spoke about finding a place to serve and giving generously. ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:44-47

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Perfume On A Guy?

Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jun 17, 2009

Message about Mary’s sacrifice of expensive perfume to anoint Jesus before His death.

Perfume on a Guy? Matthew 26:6-13 June 14, 2009 Me: Most of you know that my wife and I lived in Colorado Springs, CO, for two years, just after we got married. We worked for The Navigators, which is a missions organization that I was involved with while I was in college. We were part of a ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 26:6-13

Denomination: Wesleyan

Meeting Your Husband's Needs In Christian Marriage Series

Contributed by Bruce Willis on Mar 29, 2008

This is the third sermon in a series of four on Christian marriage which deals with wives meeting the most basic needs of their husbands – a unique need for praise, an innate need to be head and a need for physical intimacy - from an “exchanged life’ pers

Bill and Anabel Gillham give a list of the qualities a man needs in a wife. A Need For: faithfulness, for submission to his decisions, for encouragement when things go wrong, to be consulted for advice in making decisions and plans, to be confronted about flesh patterns. A man needs a wife with ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:22-24

Denomination: Baptist

He Has Risen Indeed!

Contributed by Andy Flowers on Mar 31, 2008

Easter

Easter Service- 2008 Title- He Has Risen Indeed! Text- Matthew 28 Matthew 28:1-20 Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave. 2 And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:1-20

Denomination: Baptist

Adventure Calling Series

Contributed by Tim Shepard on Jan 27, 2009

One of the keys to a good fairy tale is adventure and this sermon tells people that they are being called to an adventurous life in Christ.

FAIRY TALE DREAMS: Adventure Calling It was the call of adventure that actually drew Bilbo Baggins out the Shire. He had lived there all of his life, among people who never went anywhere. But Bilbo was a little different than the rest of the hobbits that lived around him. Often he could be ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 4:18-20

Denomination: *other

"The Alabaster Box"

Contributed by Andy Grossman on Sep 25, 2012

Examines the people at this event.

“The Alabaster Box” September 30, 2012 Luke 7:36-50 36 When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. 37 A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s ...read more

Scripture: Luke 7:36-50

Denomination: Holiness

A Slave For Christ Part 4 Series

Contributed by Rodney V Johnson on Feb 11, 2012

Part 4 focues on the Greek words translated as servant to determine which words actually mean slave versus another type of servant.

A Slave for Christ Part 4 Scriptures: Matthew 8:6-10; 20:25-27; 23:11; Luke 16:13; I Cor. 9:19; Introduction: In my last message I shared with you the history of slavery during the New Testament times. I shared with you that the Romans and Greeks had taken slavery to a whole new level. I spent ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 8:6-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Broken Church In This Broken World Series

Contributed by Allan Quak on Apr 28, 2012

Like the seven churches in Revelation the church today is broken - compromise, spiritually dead, lukewarm, loveless. The only way the church can have an impact is to hold onto the truth that Jesus is among us.

You can listen to this message in full here:- http://www.nec.org.au/index.php/listen-to-a-sermon-series/revelation/ Message Revelation 2:1-3:22 “The Broken Church In This Broken World”. In a moment we are going to read through two chapters in Revelation – the chapters which contain the letters to ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

No U Turns Series

Contributed by Rick Burdette on May 18, 2012

Faithfulness, backsliding, living for Jesus

NO U TURNS Luke 9:62 (p734) May 20, 2012 INTROUDUCTION: I married a native Floridian…worked and lived in Florida for 2 summers…yes…those two things went together, but I noticed something about driving in Florida U turns are legal…not everywhere …but in a lot of ...read more

Scripture: Luke 9:62

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Running The Race

Contributed by Gregory Mc Donald on Jul 6, 2011

The Christian life is not for sprinters...it's for marathoners who can steadily keep moving toward a dream. We're in a race...a spiritual race. Many will never complete the course. But as a Christian, we have all the tools necessary to equip and train us

Running the Race 1 CORINTHIANS 9:24-27 Bud Greenspan, author of 100 Greatest Moments in Olympic History, wrote the following: At the Olympics, glory doesn't only go to those who win. Dorando Pietri was in a state of collapse as he entered the stadium for the final yards of the 1908 marathon. ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27

The Blueprints Series

Contributed by Sean Harder on Aug 5, 2011

Can you build a real house without blueprints? Sure you can throw up a square storage shed maybe without them, but do you not need to have some kind of visual plan of the dimensions, how many rooms, where the rooms go, and so on in order to start building

Can you build a real house without blueprints? Sure you can throw up a square storage shed maybe without them, but do you not need to have some kind of visual plan of the dimensions, how many rooms, where the rooms go, and so on in order to start building an actual house? I remember when I worked ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 4:12

When The Swineherds Lost Their Jobs

Contributed by John Gaston on Feb 7, 2013

The story of Jesus stilling the storm and delivering the Madman of Gadara, TOLD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE SWINEHERDS. They saw things and got insights that would surprise you!

WHEN THE SWINEHERDS LOST THEIR JOBS Mk. 4:37-39; 5:2-19 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR: Karl the Pig Farmer Karl the pig farmer was telling his buddies back on the farm about his first visit to a big city church: 1. "When I got there, they made me park my old pick-up in the corral," he began. "You mean in ...read more

Denomination: Assembly Of God

End Of The World Bible Study

Contributed by John Gaston on Dec 6, 2012

With Dec. 21, 2012 (the END OF THE WORLD!) just days away, it’s a good time to remind our people of 5 principles of interpreting Scripture that will help them not be deceived by false predictions that bring fear and concern. These 5 principles will help

END OF THE WORLD BIBLE STUDY 5 Principles for Interpreting Scripture 2 Tim. 2:15 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR: Lack of Appreciation 1. A collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance who told him he had just thrown away an old Bible that he found in a dusty, old box. He happened to mention that ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:15, 1 Samuel 7:7

Denomination: Assembly Of God