Sermons on Goods:

Drop The Weight, The Tongue Series

Contributed by Art Good on Aug 14, 2007

If I were to ask you what the most powerful thing in the world is, what would you say? What if the most powerful thing in the world are our words? The words that we speak to each other.

Drop The Weight, The Tongue Hebrews 12:1 says “Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders, and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race set before us.” If I were to ask you what the most powerful ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:1

Denomination: Wesleyan

Drop The Weight Of Trivial Pursuits Series

Contributed by Art Good on Aug 14, 2007

This backpack I am wearing has stones, rocks within it that weekly we are exposing, and laying them down, giving them to God. Well, today we are talking about the weight of trivial Pursuits, the weight of the pursuing meaningless things.

Drop the Weight of Trivial Pursuits Over the past few weeks we have been talking about dropping the weight, dropping the weight of junk we are carrying that tire us out, wear us down, and cause all sorts of problems in our relationships with each other, and our relationship with God. This ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:1

Denomination: Wesleyan

Beyond The Tomb Series

Contributed by Art Good on Jun 5, 2007

This series examines the life and continuing mission of the church after the resurrection of Jesus. And reminds us that there is work to be done!

Drama (I started with a dram about 2 people Jan and John who had become disillusioned about the church.) In the book of Acts the church emerges and enters the world in a powerful way. But somehow, over the years something has changed. Like Jan and John’s relationship the church has lost it’s ...read more

Denomination: Wesleyan

Living Sacrifices Series

Contributed by Art Good on Jun 7, 2007

Why do Christians wear a cross? What is its meaning to the church? In this message we are going to look at 4 images that will help us understand the place of the cross in the life of the believer.

Illus. In Texas last week, an 18 year old man was arrested for wearing a noose in public. As Jewelry. Seems kind of morbid doesn’t it? A noose is an instrument of an agonizing death. It represents vigilante law, I would never be proud to wear a noose. What about an electric chair? Did you ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:1

Denomination: Wesleyan

Called To Be His Heart For The World Series

Contributed by Art Good on Jun 8, 2007

In this final sermon in the series we are going ee that we have been called to be His heart for the world! When someone is passionate about someone or something we say their heart is really in it. What was Jesus’ heart really into?

Called to be His Heart for the World I have a confession to make. The other night I snapped. My wife and I get a dozen or so “Sales calls” a day. I was watching an NBA playoff game and the phone rang…and it was a sales call, so I grabbed my referee’s whistle, leaned into the mouthpiece and ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 5:7

Denomination: Wesleyan

You Are The Reason For The Season

Contributed by Art Good on Jun 8, 2007

Why did Jesus come? What is the real reason for the season? This sermon will reminds us that we are the reason for the season.

I had a plan…When I was about 13, there was a skunk that hung out around our house. My Dad used to complain about it. Our neighbors dog would bark and it would spray, and the house smelled like…well…skunk for a few days. Dad was worried that one of us would be outside at night and we would ...read more

Scripture: John 1:1

Denomination: Wesleyan

Do All Religions Lead To God? Series

Contributed by Art Good on Jun 19, 2017

This sermon was a part of a series titled, "Great Question" where we asked our congregation to text us questions they would like answers to through sermons. This particular sermon was my favorite of the series.

Today we are continuing our sermon series we are calling, “That’s A Great Question.” By the way, if you have a great question we want you to share it with us. You can text your great question to ______. This past week I read this excerpt from an article on Preaching Today’s website: “Buried ...read more

Scripture: John 14:6

Denomination: Wesleyan

Membership Matters Series

Contributed by Art Good on Jun 19, 2017

The message today is based on a book written by Thom Rainer, titled, “I am A Church Member.” Thom is the President of Lifeway resources and spends a great deal of time researching all different kinds of churches!

Good morning. Last week Pastor Steve talked a little bit about how we all have our preferences when it comes to where we sit. Personally I sit in a different spot most weeks… And I have met lots of great neighbors. Sometimes though I wonder how YOU feel when one of the pastors sits with you. ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27

Denomination: Wesleyan

Community - Weirdest Herd I've Ever Seen!

Contributed by Art Good on Jun 20, 2017

What a great description of the church! A weird mix of people of different generations, different personalities, different ethnic, economic, religious backgrounds, who might never hang out together— except for the fact that we all love Jesus!

“Weirdest herd I’ve ever seen.” (Show clip from Ice Age 1 where the mammoth saves the saber tooth tiger, Diego. Afterwards Diego asks the mammoth why he risked his life to save him. The mammoth replies, "Because that's what you do when you are a part of a herd. To which the sloth says, ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:20-23

Denomination: Wesleyan

Everyday Heroes - Part 1 Parents Series

Contributed by Art Good on Jun 20, 2017

Pastor Steve O'Dell brings the first in the series honoring everyday heroes in our community. These people are often unsung heroes who deserve to be recognized for all they do.

Funny Parenting tweets - (Title Slide) One of the reasons we are honoring parents today is very simple...parenting is often a hard and thankless job! So we want to recognize and thank you for your commitment to the task of raising your children. I remember the first time I did a sermon series on ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:2, Proverbs 13:20, Proverbs 12:26, 1 Corinthians 15:33

Denomination: Wesleyan

From Being A Bad Witness To Good Series

Contributed by Paul Clemente on Feb 23, 2009

What should we do when we make mistakes and can we become good witnesses for God again?

We have all done it! We have all done something not good; then we say to ourselves, “Wow, I was really a poor testimony for God with that one.” Did anyone get hurt? Did you do anything about it? You know, this is actually a good sign when you realize you have done something wrong for God. This ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 26:1-33

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Good Friday Of The Lord’s Passion

Contributed by Paul Andrew on Mar 6, 2020

There is God in us, in our suffering.

God’s humiliation of himself from a survivor of Auschwitz: “The SS hanged two Jewish men and a youth in front of the whole camp [of Auschwitz]. The men died quickly, but the death throes of the youth lasted for half an hour. ‘Where is God? Where is he?’ someone asked behind me. As the youth still ...read more

Denomination: Catholic

Fight The Good Fight - Opponent #4

Contributed by Jerry Rittenhouse on Mar 12, 2019

We finish our Fighting the Good Fight of Faith with our strongest opponent yet - God!

VIDEO: ROPE SKIP DRUM ROLL Walkout with me jump roping badly, Seth better, Corrie amazing! MAIN SLIDE: FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT SCRIPTURE SLIDES: 1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:12, 2 Timothy 4:7-8, 1 Peter 5:1

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How Can I Be A Good Neighbor?"

Contributed by David Henderson on Jan 23, 2018

In this message we look at what it means to be a good neighbor and how we can become better at it.

THE ART OF NEIGHBORING “HOW can I be a good Neighbor?” 1st Corinthians 9:20-23 So we began a new series of messages last Sunday I have titled “The Art of Neighboring.” Last week we looked at the story of the Good Samaritan and we said that there are often several things that seem to keep us from ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:20-23

Denomination: Baptist

Remember God's Goodness Series

Contributed by Christian Cheong on Sep 3, 2019

The Feast of Purim was instituted to remember God's deliverance of His people, for the generation that was saved, as well as for the generations to come.

We have come a long way through the book of Esther. • Against all odds, and through a set of amazing and miraculous twists, Esther and Mordecai achieved the mission – the mission of God, actually - to save their people from certain annihilation. • It was successful because God has a hand in it. ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 12:21-27

Denomination: Independent/Bible