Sermons on Gradual Drift:

A Call To Watchfulness

Contributed by Rev. Samuel Arimoro on May 30, 2025

This call to watchfulness is urgent in our present age of distractions, temptations, and spiritual deception. Without alertness, believers can easily drift into complacency, lose focus, or become overwhelmed by the cares of life.

A CALL TO WATCHFULNESS By Rev. Samuel Arimoro Main Text: Mark 13:33-37 Supporting Texts: Matthew 24:42-44, Luke 21:34-36, 1 Peter 5:8, Revelation 16:15 INTRODUCTION: The Bible repeatedly warns believers to be watchful and alert as the end times approach. Jesus, in His Olivet Discourse, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 13:33-37

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Five Men And Five Trees

Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011

Only Mark’s Gospel records this story. This particular miracle of healing is unique since it is the only miracle Jesus did which happened gradually. Usually Jesus’ healings happened suddenly and completely. In this miracle, however, the blind man’s vision

Intro: Only Mark’s Gospel records this story. This particular miracle of healing is unique since it is the only miracle Jesus did which happened gradually. Usually Jesus’ healings happened suddenly and completely. In this miracle, however, the blind man’s vision was restored in two stages. During ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:22-26

Denomination: *other

Give Me Just One More Last Chance ...

Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Mar 10, 2007

God provides many chances to repent from our transgressions, but at some point, even though it will break his heart, God will allow us to drift away from him if we choose.

Additional Scripture Reference: Exodus 3:1-15 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, Lord, my rock and my redeemer. Amen. (Psalm 19:14) Last week’s Old Testament reading discussed God’s ...read more

Scripture: Luke 13:1-9, Luke 13:1

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

A Message To The Church In Pergamos Series

Contributed by Larry Grant on Dec 4, 2022

Jesus writes this letter to call the Christians at Pergamos back to the right path. Even today, there is the danger that the Church of Christ might hold the right doctrines, but still drift into compromise with the world around us.

Revelation 2:12-17 A MESSAGE TO THE CHURCH IN PERGOMOS December 4, 2022 The city of Pergamos (also Pergamon or Pergamum) was the capital city of Asia Minor. It was renowned for its political power, its intellectual achievement and its pagan worship. Lady Sharon and I visited the ruins of ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 2:12-17

Denomination: Baptist

God’s Wisdom Is Health For The Whole Body

Contributed by Reuben Bredenhof on Nov 21, 2021

Either our heart is slowly being filled with evil things, or gradually being filled with good. One heart condition ends in death, the other leads to life. So guard your heart! Then God will bless your life, from the inside out.

Some of us are involved in health care. In our church, we have nurses and others who work at nearby hospitals or nursing homes. Health and wellness are their daily focus. But health is vital for everyone, of course. We should all give it attention. How do you care for the body God has given you? Do ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 4:20-27, Hebrews 12:1-13

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Six Signs Of Sleepiness - Mark 14:1-9 Series

Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on Apr 27, 2024

Why do so many people crash their cars because they fell asleep at the wheel? It’s because sleep comes upon you so gradually that you don’t realize when you’re crossing the threshold from being awake to being asleep. It’s the same spiritually.

Mark 14:1 Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him. 2 "But not during the Feast," they said, "or the people may riot." 3 While he was ...read more

Scripture: Mark 14:1-9, Matthew 26:6-13, John 12:1-8

Strait And Narrow Sermon Ix: Christians Keep Getting It Right And Growing In Christ Series

Contributed by Charles Cunningham on Jun 10, 2020

As culture drifts further away from biblical truth, mature Christians keep on following the guidelines laid down by the Apostle Paul so that God's Will might be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Amen.

TOGETHER WE KEEP ON GETTING IT RIGHT AND GROWING IN CHRIST Two hundred years ago, Francis Scott Key stood watch on behalf of American captives being held beneath the deck of a British ship off the shore of Maryland, while British warships pounded a US Fort with ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:11-16

Standing By Our Promises Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on May 21, 2003

We all fail to keep our pledges, don’t we? Our good intentions and plans often fall by the wayside. Sometimes we blatantly break our promises but other times, we just kind of drift away, a little at a time.

Standing By Our Promises As many of you know, I really like Snicker bars. For the past year, whenever I would go to Dairy Queen, I would always order a Snicker Bar Breeze. All I had to do was walk in and one of the workers would start filling a cup with chunks of tasty nougat. It was automatic ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 13:1-31

Denomination: Baptist

Heavenly Dreams

Contributed by Craig Condon on Oct 21, 2015

Advent calls on us to forget about our own expectations and remember the love of Jesus and Joseph and the love of God. We are called on to let God’s peace gradually warm our souls and free us for new expectations and the birth of something within us.

Today we begin the transition from Advent to Christmas. We are led to the stable. Our hopes, dreams and longing for a Saviour are the same hopes, dreams and longings people had on that first Christmas 2,000 years ago. The birth of the Messiah pointed to the promise of the Kingdom. To many people ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25

Denomination: Anglican

Fear Brings Callousness

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Nov 16, 2019

We have been studying fear. This lesson exposes a great danger of callousness. Doubt will always bring a hard heart or it will cause us to lose heart. Fear crushes dreams. We gradually build layer upon layer until we hinder our potential.

FEAR BRINGS CALLOUSNESS By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com TEXT: Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. 24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine ...read more

Scripture: Mark 9:23-24, Proverbs 4:23, Hebrews 3:12, Luke 6:45

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Fashioned For Greatness

Contributed by Christian Cheong on Dec 2, 2013

God has a design for your life, therefore we do not want to drift through life, without a course and a cause. We want to remember our divine calling. We want to ignore earthly distractions.

We’ve just completed WHY I BELIEVE study series. We heard at length about creation and evolution. • Something really stands out for me – God’s deliberate design! • If this universe is so well-made, orderly, consistent… if this material world is created with such ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 139:13-16

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Back To Bethel Series

Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Dec 31, 2014

WHERE ARE YOU PRE-BETHEL Life a mess, running from self BETHEL Coming to Christ POST-BETHEL Drifted away PENIEL Messed up again… Wrestling with God Come back to Bethel

BACK TO BETHEL “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob [“deceiver”]? He has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my b1essing!" You know the story… how the younger, wimpier, momma’s boy stole the birthright and blessing from his ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 28:13-15

Denomination: Baptist

A Future With Focus Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Apr 2, 2021

The key to happiness and success in the new year is to have a dream, and a goal to pursue. Without a dream or goal to motivate us we will just drift through the new year, and whatever we achieve will be a matter of chance and not design.

Vanna White, the glamorous star who turns the letter on Wheel Of Fortune, was a leader in her church youth group at North Myrtle Beach, North Carolina. Her pastor wrote about how he asked her, when she was a senior, what she was going to do after graduation. She responded that her dream was to ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:7-14

Eulogy For Tamika Scott Funeral Homegoing

Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Dec 20, 2021

This is a eulogy for my cousin who grew up in the church, drifted away and came back to the Lord in the final two years of her life. She died unexpectedly at age 45. Family meant a lot to her

Tamika Scott Psalms 12/16/2021 139:13-16 John 14:1-6 The people of the United States of America were getting ready to celebrate their 200th birthday as a nation with only 34 days to go in the year 1976. But for Eugene and Yvonne ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 139:13-16, John 14:1-6

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

The Devil's Triangle In Marriage Series

Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Aug 6, 2018

God's intention is for a man and woman, who don't know much about each other to come closer together but Satan's interference causes them to drift apart. God's intervention is found in Ephesians 5..

3 THE DEVIL’S TRIANGLE IN MARRIAGE Gen. 2:24-25; Eph. 5:21-33 From the Book “In the Beginning” homeorchurchbiblestudy bob marcaurele E. An Intimate Union - Gen. 2:24-25 We have seen that God designs and desires marriage to be a sacred union, an equal ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 3:1-7, Genesis 2:18-25

Denomination: Baptist