Sermons on How Do We Get Wisdom:

How Do We Compare To Jesus First Disciples? Series

Contributed by Dean Courtier on Apr 1, 2016

When I think about the first disciples of Jesus there is one thing that I find really encouraging - they were very ordinary people, average people, people like you and me, people with faults and failings, imperfect people.

How do we compare to Jesus first Disciples? When I think about the first disciples of Jesus there is one thing that I find really encouraging - they were very ordinary people with very ordinary jobs - fishermen & a tax collector. If Jesus public ministry had begun here in Rayleigh and Jesus ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:19-20

Denomination: Pentecostal

Is Homosexuality A Sin? How Do We Respond As Christians?

Contributed by Glenn Newton on Jul 11, 2013

Maybe one of the biggest moral issues of our day, and the Bible has lots to say about it. If the church won't respond to this issue, who will?

Is Homosexuality a Sin? What should my response be to those who chose this lifestyle? Pastor Glenn Newton, July 7, 2013 Prayer – I put a question on our sign this week, “How do you decide what is true and false? And for the answer, I put “We use God’s Word”. So this ...read more

Scripture: Romans 1:18-32

Denomination: Nazarene

Learning How To Walk Series

Contributed by Donald Mcculley on Jun 10, 2019

Since we have been made “partakers of His nature” (2 Pet. 1:4) we should learn to imitate (mimic, copy) God. Now that we are children we should resemble our father. That can only happen as we grow more in grace.

Learning How To Walk Ephesians 5:1-22 Introduction: For you parents, do you remember the thrill of watching your child take that first step? Don’t you think God takes great delight in watching us learn to walk? Note in verse 1 how Paul describes us “dearly loved children”. Paul teaches us that ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:1-22

Denomination: Baptist

Do We Believe?

Contributed by O. K. Neal on Feb 1, 2010

Have things changed since Jesus’ friends he grew up with tried to kill him?

Do we Believe? Luke 4:16-30 Have you ever gotten mad because a friend made it good? Have you ever been so jealous you wanted to kill someone that made it good? Have you made it better than your childhood friends, and they will not speak to you? Sounds pretty silly doesn’t it? However, it ...read more

Scripture: Luke 4:16-30

Denomination: Independent/Bible

How Do We Please God? Pt 2

Contributed by Jim Kane on Oct 5, 2004

We please God when we follow God’s plan of salvation

Last week I spoke of pleasing God and indicated that for some the word pleasing is a negative term due to life experiences. As I prepared for this morning, I determined to define the phrase pleasing God before we go further into this series because sometimes the same phrase or word has a different ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 1:5

Denomination: Church Of God

Do We Match

Contributed by Casey Lieneman on Mar 28, 2011

Viewing Jesus' compassion and love for a the Samaritan Women we are invited to match that compassion and love for all people that Jesus has shown

Grace and Peace to you from God the Father, Son, and The Holy Spirit. Amen I was looking back through some pictures of when Corey and I first began dating and chuckled at one picture we took when we went to the Henry Dorley Zoo in Omaha. We were goofing around and found one of those headless ...read more

Scripture: John 4:5-52

Denomination: Lutheran

How To And How Not To Grieve The Holy Spirit

Contributed by Derek Geldart on Jan 29, 2019

This sermon is going start by looking at the roles of the Spirit and finish with how to and how not to grieve Him.

Do not Grieve or Quench the Holy Spirit Ephesians 4:29 Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567 When born-again believers continue to “conform to the ways of this world” (Romans 12:2) imagine how the Holy Spirit must feel! When we refuse to put off the former way of life but ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:17-32

Denomination: Baptist

Wisdom: What We Can Expect Series

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 31, 2016

Forewarned is forearmed. Wisdom not only guides us in our choices, it helps us anticipate what we may expect to see.

Wisdom: What We Can Expect (Proverbs 24:7-12) 1. A lot of times folks get very superstitious about finding God’s will. And, more often than not, they want God’s will to be their will, and somehow make it so. 2. By the time Bobby arrived, the football game had already started. "Why ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 24:7-12

Denomination: Independent/Bible

We Do Not Well

Contributed by Don Vickery on Nov 25, 2001

We have been brought in to Go Out

Many churches today consist of small groups of believers whose number never seems to grow or increase. The attitude of many believers being "We are just holding out until the Lord comes." Let me give you a picture of the true Church: "So mightily grew the Word of God and prevailed." Acts 19:20 ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 7:9

Denomination: Pentecostal

Getting Big

Contributed by Keith Broyles on Nov 5, 2007

How big are we? This doesn’t mean how big are we in a physical way. How big are we spiritually? Are we big enough to be a person that God can use?

In 1988 Tom Hanks stared in a wonderful movie titled Big, though Hanks is not the main character, Josh, at the beginning or the end of the movie, he is for most of the picture. David Moscow plays Josh at the beginning and end and wants more than anything to be “big.” The boy is at a fair ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:1-10

Denomination: Methodist

"Do You Want To Get Well?" Series

Contributed by Kevin Cummins on Jan 9, 2004

This sermon teaches us how to be made well by looking at the story of Jesus asking the man who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years, "Do you want to get well?"

“A father and son went fishing one summer day. While they were out in their boat, the boy suddenly became curious about the world around him. He asked his father, ‘Dad, how does this boat float?’ The father replied, ‘Don’t rightly know son.’ A little later, the boy looked at his father and asked, ...read more

Scripture: John 5:1-9

Denomination: Church Of God

What Are We Doing? Series

Contributed by Tiger Gullett on Jan 15, 2004

The first in a series of messages from 1 & 2 Timothy. "The Purpose Of The Church."

Introduction: The contemporary christian group, Casting Crowns, has recently released a song, "If We Are The Body." It says in that song that if we are the body, why aren’t his hands reaching? I will admit, as a pastor, that it is very easy to get side tracked - especially when it comes to growth. ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Do Not Get Drunk With Wine Series

Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Oct 26, 2018

Ephesians 5:18 teaches the difference between the old life and the new life.

Scripture We are currently in a sermon series in Ephesians 5:1-21 that I am calling, “Be Imitators of God.” In his letter to the Ephesian Christians, the Apostle Paul wrote in Ephesians 5:1a, “Therefore be imitators of God.” That is Paul’s overall command for this section of Scripture. He then ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:18

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

We Do Not Well

Contributed by William L. Vincent on Aug 15, 2011

They had stumbled into an absolutely abundant and overflowing blessing, but they knew that they could never keep such a thing to themselves. “We do not well” still resonates to us today – as we face a generations that needs to be reached with the Gospel o

We Do Not Well By W. L. Vincent (Bethel Community Church, Huntsville AL. 8/14/11) 2 Kings 7:8-9 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 7:8-9

Denomination: Orthodox

How To Get Rich Quick Series

Contributed by Shawn Drake on Jan 12, 2003

This is the 8th sermon in the series "Church On The Rocks". This sermon identifies the way to become rich in God’s eyes.

Sunday Morning January 12, 2003 Bel Aire Baptist Church Series: “Church On The Rocks” (#8) HOW TO GET RICH QUICK 1 Corinthians 3:18-23 Introduction: 1. Now I know as we sit here in church that there is a certain way to answer the question I am going to ask you, but I want you to be as ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:18-23

Denomination: Baptist