Sermons on Hedge Around Believers:

7 Habits For Growing Believers Series

Contributed by Scott Maze on Apr 29, 2024

Over the next few minutes, I’m going to touch on each of these seven habits. I’ll be all over the pages of the Bible. I hope to serve as a catalyst for your personal spiritual growth for the next few moments. I want to encourage you to form some personal habits that shape and focus your life.

In my mother-in-law’s house, there is a really important wall. It’s a wall that has marked our children’s physical growth over the years. When you walk into the guest bedroom and look down at the base of the wall, you see little pencil marks next to dates from years ago. Then as you look eye-level, ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16, 1 Thessalonians 4:18, Luke 18:1-8, Malachi 3:8-9, 1 Thessalonians 3:12, Romans 1:16, Psalm 95:6, Psalm 95:1  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Baptist

The Identifying Mark Of A True Believer

Contributed by Shawn Rose on Jan 20, 2009

We can sometimes be fooled by people who claim to be Christians but really have no relationship with Christ, but Jesus revealed a way that we could identify true believers.

THE IDENTIFYING MARK OF A TRUE DISCIPLE Text: John 15:1 – 8 Introduction: • When I was a kid I used to watch a game show called “To Tell the Truth” • Three contestants appeared, all claiming to be the same person, and a panel of judges had to guess who was the real person by that ...read more

Scripture: John 15:1-8

Denomination: Baptist

Grace And Peace To All Believers

Contributed by Stephen Becker on Nov 26, 2007

A Thanksgiving (Sanctification) sermon which explores what it really means to be thankful for Jesus’ salvation in your...growing your character to be more Christ-like

Grace and Peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ! Many times you will hear ministers begin their sermons with these same words that Apostle Paul uses to open his various letters we find in the New Testament. Have you ever wondered why? Because all of us—as ministers of ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:15-22

Denomination: Lutheran

Whose Report Will You Believe?

Contributed by Derrick Thompson, Sr. on Dec 26, 2004

People today like to go along with the majority; they like to go along with the influential, they like to go along with those who think they know, but I prefer to go along with the Lord and believe his report.

Sunday Morning, December 5th, 2004 Let us pray Welcome..... We are now in the final month of the year 2004, and today is the second Sunday of the Advent season. It is a time of cel-e-bra-tion of our Lord’s coming to earth as God In-car- nate; God in the flesh. Last Sunday we talked about The ...read more

Scripture: Numbers 13:25-33, Isaiah 53:1

Denomination: Church Of God

How Not To Act Like A Believer

Contributed by Brian Garner on Mar 12, 2003

A backwards look at what Christianity is supposed to look like.

A young pastor was frustrated by how things weren’t “happening” in his church and so he asked one of the deacons what the problem was. “Is it ignorance or is it apathy?” he asked. The deacon responded, “I don’t know, and I don’t care.” Look, we’ve been in the church long enough that we know what ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:1-13

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Remembering Our Hope As Believers Series

Contributed by Guy Glass on Jul 27, 2015

This message deals with the thought of remembering our future -- the blessed hope.

REMEMBERING OUR HOPE AS BELIEVERS Philippians 3:20-21 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21  who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:20-21

Denomination: Baptist

Spiritual Stimulus Package For Believers

Contributed by Samuel Stephens on Feb 7, 2009

The word of God stimulates us and causes changes in us on the inside and outside! God has a free package to stmulate you right now!

Spiritual Stimulus Package for Believers 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Denomination: Baptist

See My Scars And Believe

Contributed by Rick Burdette on Apr 16, 2019

John 20:24-30

SCARS - See My Scars and Believe (Easter Sunday) April 21, 2019 John 20:24-30 (p. 757) Introduction: One of my favorite movie scenes is from the movie Jaws…you remember the one where Brody, Quint and Hooper go out to try and kill this gigantic white shark who’s been ...read more

Scripture: John 20:24-30

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Believe Week 9 - Stewardship Series

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Jan 16, 2015

Believe week 10 looks at Stewardship

Believe 9 - Stewardship Psalm 24:1-2 / Luke 12:41-48 November 16, 2014 I think most of us who have lived a little bit of life, basically anyone who is in the working world . . . I think you would agree with the fact that life is not necessarily easy. Not only is it not always easy, we may find ...read more

Scripture: 1 Chronicles 29:10-16

Denomination: Baptist

Becoming A New Testament Believer

Contributed by Howard Strickland on Sep 19, 2010

What does it mean to be a New Testament believer? Most, sit in Church every week with their mouths closed, maybe, maintaining a facade of respectability. Moreover, that might be our problem, most think and act as though praise and worship is about coming

Text: Psalm 150:1-6 Becoming a New Testament Believer Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary;praise him in his mighty heaven! 2 Praise him for his mighty works; praise his unequaled greatness! 3 Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn; praise him with the lyre and harp! 4 Praise him ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 150:1-6

Denomination: Pentecostal

Believers Are Predestined To Praise God

Contributed by Timm Meyer on Jan 7, 2004

CHRISTMAS 2(A) - Believers are called to praise God by God’s choice and for God’s gifts.

BELIEVERS DECLARE GOD’S PRAISES Ephesians 1:3-6, 15-18 - January 4, 2004 EPHESIANS 1:3-6, 15-18 3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4For he chose us in him before the creation of the ...read more

Denomination: Lutheran

Believers Look To The New Jerusalem Series

Contributed by Timm Meyer on Jun 4, 2003

EASTER 6(C) - Believers look forward to the New Jerusalem because the gates are open and God’s glory shines in it.

BELIEVERS LOOK TO THE NEW JERUSALEM REVELATION 21:10—14, 22, 23 MAY 25, 2003 REVELATION 21:10-14, 22,23 10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11It shone with the glory of God, and ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 21:10-22

Denomination: Lutheran

Do We Really Believe?

Contributed by David Trexler on Oct 11, 2006

This sermon challenges our claim to believe. The thought process was started by a wonderful sermon submitted by David Moore entitled The Hard Gospel.

Sermon for Mark 10:17-31 October 15th 2006 I’m one of people that can’t seem to shut their brain off in the evening. The other night my mind was churning because someone had mentioned to someone that pastor lately had been preaching a “hard” gospel. My puny little mind wandered to a time when I ...read more

Scripture: Mark 10:17-31

Denomination: Lutheran

Faith Over Fear Series

Contributed by Peter Naveen Saketi on Aug 14, 2021

There's lot of fear around during this pandemic and also we get fear of various things in our daily lives. Having fear, over concern, being anxious of things, fear of future are not the solutions for life. How do we deal with this issue?

Fear plays a vital role in everyone's life which needs to be dealt with. 2 Timothy 1:7 says God has not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. The Question here is how do we get rid of this fear? We cannot remove fear by itself but we can conquer fear by ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:5, Psalm 43:5, Habakkuk 3:17-19, Romans 10:17, 2 Timothy 1:7, John 17:17, John 8:32, Galatians 5:22-23  (view more)  (view less)

Why Are Believers To Have Boldness?

Contributed by Chris Swanson on Sep 21, 2025

Boldness is the willingness to act. Having confidence and courage.

Why Are Believers to Have Boldness? Acts 4:23-31 Why is it that there are Christians of today that do not have more boldness than what they do? We shall start with a little bit of background information before we get to the main topic. In the first part of chapter three, Peter heals a crippled ...read more

Scripture: Acts 4:23-31

Denomination: Independent/Bible