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Defining Love - Sacrifice Isn't Optional Series

Contributed by Daren Mitchell on Jul 16, 2013

The people of Jesus know how to sacrifice. Genuine followers of Jesus know what it means to be faithful and experience joy in suffering. How about you? Are you weird like that?

We're in the second week of our series "defining love" last time we talked about how genuine love, God's love, isn't normal. We defined love as faithful and that the result of faithfulness is joy. We talked about how our culture defines love in a million different ways, but, God defines love much ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 4:10

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Being And Telling The Good News

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Feb 5, 2010

To tell the good news, one must BE good news. It can start in the home, with marriage; with children; and with the children and youth of the community.

You must be good news before you can tell good news. You must be good news before can tell good news. If you have a story to tell, and it’s supposed to be good news, it won’t make any sense unless you sound like a good news person. There used to be a character on the Saturday cartoons. His name ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Taking Care Of People In The Church Series

Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Aug 20, 2011

Paul lists different people groups in the church and then advises Timothy how to treat them. 1- The older men 2- The younger men 3- The older women 4- The younger women 5- The widows

INTRO.- We must admit there is a discrimination in our world: racial, political, religious, financial, and any other kind you want to talk about. ILL.- For example, I remember back when I was in elementary (or grade school, as we called it) that there were a few kids whom we considered to be less ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 5:1-8

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Stranger In A Strange Land

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Feb 27, 2010

For Prayer Breakfast given by a Francophone African church. We must respond to immigrants because God commands it, our history demands it, it serves our own best interests, and the Gospel includes it.

Valentine Michael Smith was born on Earth, raised on Mars, and returned to Earth. He never felt fully at home in either place. But his interaction with Earth, when he returned as a young adult, transformed Earth culture and impacted many lives. His most important contribution to Earth was the ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 2:11-22

Denomination: Baptist

Pentecost Is Not A History Lesson

Contributed by Randall Long on May 21, 2020

This message relates the events of Pentecost to our situation as the Church in a lost world today.

Today is the day we celebrate the birthday of the church on Pentecost, nearly 2,000 years ago. However, while we are going to read about the remarkable, earth-shaking events of that day, this is not a history lesson. The story of Pentecost does tell us how Christ's first disciples reached the ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:1-13, Acts 1:6-8

Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

Aligning Our Days

Contributed by Dennis Lee on Feb 17, 2020

Today's message is from the Getting Spiritually Aligned series. We are looking at getting our days aligned with the Lord's day, or the Sabbath.

Getting Spiritually Aligned “Aligning Our Days” Matthew 28:1 {Audio File: https://mega.nz/#!7REBQajS!N1OFIDtE73xGCQWe1ZoXyl_aCP3aN1LxQM2Mm-2m43Y } Most of you may not know that I’m a sports fan; whether it is football, basketball, and baseball, but mostly I watch when it gets to the playoffs. I ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:1, Colossians 2:16-17, Matthew 12:7-8, Hebrews 10:24-25

Denomination: Foursquare

What Is Greater? Man On The Moon Or God On The Earth?

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Sep 5, 2019

I switch things up a bit and do an extended illustration for this Sunday's sermon

9.8.19 What is Greater? Man on the Moon or God on the Earth? Just recently America celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11’s historic landing on the moon. Over 600 million people were estimated to have watched this historic event on July 20, 1969. When Neil Armstrong put made his ...read more

Denomination: Lutheran

How To Live In The Last Days!

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jan 15, 2018

We have no way of knowing just when "the last days" will be. But the Apostle Paul does have something to say about how we should be living as we face our "last days," whenever that may be.

MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK ILL. A few years ago my wife & I made a trip to Dallas. And when we got there we found that the local TV stations & newspapers were all reporting what to them was a major news story - the swarming of a Taiwanese cult into a Dallas ...read more

Scripture: Romans 13:8-14

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Reclaiming Your Inheritance

Contributed by Kevin L. Jones on Jun 20, 2015

Abraham left Isaac an inheritance, the Philistines robbed him of that inheritance. Isaac took the proper steps to reclaim what was rightfully his. There is a great lesson for us in this text as well.

Reclaiming Your Inheritance Genesis 26:15-25 Listen online at - https://www.facebook.com/Stockdalebaptist or http://www.stockdalebaptist.com/ In 1940, after Paris fell under Nazi control, German troops began looting thousands of artworks from museums, galleries and personal collections ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 26:15-25

Denomination: Baptist

The Power Of God For Weak People Series

Contributed by Rick Burdette on Jun 3, 2014

God's Power, Our Weakness, Suffering, Thorns

John 9:1-12 (p. 747) June 8, 2014 Introduction: The Macuma People of Southeast Columbia in South America were “animists.” “Animism” worships the Gazelle for its speed...the eagle for its vision, the lion for its power...and because of this the Macuma’s ...read more

Scripture: John 9:1-12

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

First Century Style Rip Van Winkles Series

Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Aug 20, 2017

Rip Van Winkle is the story of a man who woke up after a 20-year nap, only to find that the world had radically changed! Acts 19:1-7 tell the story of 12 1st century Rip Van Winkles who discovered that God’s entire way of dealing with mankind had changed.

First Century Style Rip Van Winkles Series: Acts Chuck Sligh August 20, 2017 Adapted from a longer sermon by Stephen Davey. TEXT: Please turn in your Bibles to Acts 19:1-5 INTRODUCTION Illus. – In 1820, a lawyer named Washington Irving published his first short story. It became so popular that ...read more

Scripture: Acts 19:1-5

Denomination: Baptist

Biblical Fellowship (A Communion Sermon)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Mar 30, 2022

Someone said, “Fellowship is like fellows in a ship!” Then they said, “The only thing wrong with fellowship is that there are not enough fellows in the ship.”

As we read through the New Testament, we can see that FELLOWSHIP is essential to God’s church. For a church to be a strong church, FELLOWSHIP IS ESSENTIAL. Let me give you an example how important it is. Illus: Romanian orphans have a medical condition that many of them suffer from. In ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:41-47

Denomination: Baptist

Biblical Fellowship (A Communion Sermon)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 8, 2022

Someone said, “Fellowship is like fellows in a ship!” Then they said, “The only thing wrong with fellowship is that there are not enough fellows in the ship.”

As we read through the New Testament, we can see that FELLOWSHIP is essential to God’s church. For a church to be a strong church, FELLOWSHIP IS ESSENTIAL. Let me give you an example how important it is. Illus: Romanian orphans have a medical condition that many of them suffer from. In ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:41-47

Denomination: Baptist

John Envisions The Saints Living And And Reigning

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Nov 7, 2024

What power do saints have? What risks do they face? Find out.

11.10.24 Revelation 20:4–6 4 Then I saw thrones, and those who were sitting on them were given the authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast and his image, and ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 20:4-6

Denomination: Lutheran

You're Valuable In The Here And Now

Contributed by Jay Patton on May 20, 2002

A sermon about God uses all ages of people to accomplish his purposes.

The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old. NIV Introduction: Grandma and Grandpa illustration Read Scripture/Pray Background: Proverbs wise truths of life from a father to his son Purpose Statement: It is important that we recognize the value of... I) Youth to the ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 20:29

Denomination: Baptist