Sermons on Good Heart:

What's So Good About Good Friday?

Contributed by Dave Bootsma on Mar 30, 2006

How you view the cross makes all the difference.

I wasn’t raised a Catholic, but I used to go to Mass with my friends, and I viewed the whole business as a lot of very enthralling hocus-pocus. There’s a guy ... nailed to a cross and dripping blood, and everybody’s blaming themselves for that man’s torment, but I said to myself, ’Forget it. I had ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 6:14

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

The Good News And The Bad News Of The Good News

Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Feb 23, 2007

God’s free grace may be good news for a dying backslider; but what about the dying missionary? Doesn’t he deserve at least equal treatment? Analyzing the parable of laborers in the Vineyard from Mat. 20, we continue to be astonished at God’s way of worki

The Good News and the Bad News of the Good News A man and a women had been friends for many years, had died and gone to heaven. They told St. Peter that they wanted to be married. - “Take your time and think about it,” said St. Peter, “you have eternity so take fifty years and see me ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 20:1-16, 1 Corinthians 9:19-27

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

What Makes A Good Samaritan Really Good?

Contributed by Marilyn Murphree on Mar 22, 2007

Describes the characteristic that makes a good samaritan a really good samaritan. It is not what we often think this characteristic is but something often overlooked.

March,2007 “What Makes a Good Samaritan REALLY Good?” Luke 10:25-37 INTRODUCTION: What color was the first ambulance in the Bible? Who knows? It was probably gray or brown. A donkey. Today our scripture talks about a need and who God used to fill that need. It wasn’t probably the person ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:25-37

Denomination: Methodist

Good Enough For Him - Is Good Enough For Me Series

Contributed by Thomas Swope on Apr 30, 2017

A study of the Gospel of John 5: 30 – 47

John 5: 30 – 47 Good Enough For Him - Is Good Enough For Me 30 I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. 31 “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. 32 There is another who ...read more

Scripture: John 5:30-47

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

God Versus Evil, Good Versus Goods

Contributed by Victor Yap on Feb 5, 2017

Ecclesiastes 5

GOD VERSUS EVIL, GOOD VERSUS GOODS (ECCLESIASTES 5) https://bible.ryl.hk/web_en Grammar Bible (English) https://bible.ryl.hk/web_Bah Tatabahasa Alkitab (Indonesian) https://bible.ryl.hk/web_Esp Biblia de Gramática (Spanish) https://bible.ryl.hk/web_Tag Gramatika Bibliya ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:1-20

Denomination: Independent/Bible

But God Knows Our Hearts Series

Contributed by Doug Fannon on Jan 20, 2020

What matters more to us, what other people think of us or what God thanks of us? But God knows our hearts.

But God ... But God has a better idea, but God intervenes, but God knows better. But God knows our hearts. One of the marks of our modern culture is the belief if one will just follow their own heart they will be alright. Award winning Christian author Steven James comments in an interview with ...read more

Scripture: Luke 16:14-15

Denomination: Baptist

Father's Day: Dads Who Share Their Hearts For God With Their Children

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 16, 2004

Dads must develop a heart for God and share that heart with their children¡¦ they must be a pastor to their little flock.Many of the qualities that make a good Christian dad also make for good pastors; that is why elders are to be chosen, at least ideally

Father’s Day: Dads Who Share Their Hearts for God with Their Children (Job 1:1-5) INTRO Erma Bombeck wrote this: FATHER’S DAY I received a letter from a single mother who had raised a son who was about to become a dad. Since he had no recollection of his own father, her question to me was "What ...read more

Scripture: Job 1:1-5

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Tell Everyone How Good, The Good News Is

Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Oct 28, 2010

God’s grace is His unmerited favor. And that means we can’t earn it. We can’t work for it, and we can’t change His mind about it, even if we tried. He pours out His blessing on us not because of what we do, but because of who He is.

Tell everyone how good, the good news is! "From the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another" (John 1:16, NIV).  God wants to pour out His blessing and favor upon you each and every day. I talked Sunday from psalms 68:19 It says in the Psalms that He daily ...read more

Scripture: John 1:16

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

What's So Good About Good Friday?

Contributed by Sean Harder on Jul 8, 2009

Why do we call this day Good Friday when it was the darkest day in history?

What is good about “Good Friday”? This is the darkest day in history, Wall Street could have a million “Black Fridays” and it wouldn’t compare to the day the world killed its Saviour. The only thing Christians have to celebrate about this day is that we don’t have to work. Sure we know that it ends ...read more

Calluses And Compassion

Contributed by Richard White on Apr 3, 2009

Why does God continue to search for us?

Calluses and Compassion Matt 21:33-22:14 Max Lucado tells of a time, as a young child, he was in church and his father’s hand was on his lap. He noticed the calluses and wondered how hard they were. He found a pin in the welcome packet and began to probe his father’s hand. It took a while for ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted

Contributed by Kenneth R. Jenkins on Sep 15, 2023

Let not your be troubled....

Back in February 1966 in the Hitsville USA, Studio A, a young man recorded a song newly written by Motown’s songwriting team of William Weatherspoon, Paul Riser and James Dean backed up with instrumental Motown’s in-house studio band, the Funk Brothers. Originally, the song was going to have a ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 34:18

Denomination: Baptist

Do Good Men Make Good Fathers?

Contributed by Gregory Mc Donald on Sep 5, 2011

Training and proper discipline based on love will result in a family that will be a true testimony of God's grace. And the buck stops with you, dad! You are the one who will stand before a holy God and answer for the way your children are raised.

DO GOOD MEN MAKE GOOD FATHERS? 1 SAMUEL 2-4 A father of five children had won a toy at a raffle...so he called his kids together to decide which one of them should get the present. So he asked them, "Who is the most obedient... who never talks back to your mother...who does everything she says?" ...read more

The Good Shepherd - A Picture Of Goodness, Love & Devotion Series

Contributed by Darren Woods on Feb 25, 2012

A Visionary/Pictoral style Sermon based on John 10:14-21

The Good Shepherd John 10:14-21 Intro I’m sure that many of you will be familiar with the 1980’s sit-com The Golden Girls. The show is about 4 older ladies who share a house together. One of the main characters is Sophia Petrillo – she’s the oldest of the ladies, and the ...read more

Scripture: John 10:14-21

Denomination: Salvation Army

The Good Shepherd Takes Good Care Of Us

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Apr 30, 2020

Jesus, the Good Shepherd gives us abundant life. What does that really mean for us?

5.3.20 John 10:1-10 1 “Amen, Amen, I tell you: Anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the door, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep listen to his ...read more

Scripture: John 10:1-10

Denomination: Lutheran

Arrow Prayers: From Your Heart To The Heart Of God

Contributed by Geoffrey Foot on Feb 19, 2017

Arrow prayers are short prayers from your heart to the heart of God and express uniquely your feelings, desires, fear and wonder of a loving Father who is there ready and waiting to hear and act.

Arrow prayers Have you ever been in the situation when you needed to pray an instant prayer for Gods help, in a situation of great danger? Many years ago I was travelling with friends on a country road near Aberthaw cement works. It was a very windy road, narrow with sharp bends. All of a sudden ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 21:22