Sermons on How Often Is Often:

How To Handle Anger Series

Contributed by Harold Hansen on May 22, 2009

Just some thoughts on controlling anger. The true onlky help is through Jesus. A totally suttrnder life. Just some thoughts

How to Handle Anger Part 2 Proverbs 20:2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 20:2

Denomination: Baptist

How To Identify A Counterfeit

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 30, 2005

Today we live in a media saturated world where we find dozens of "medicine men and women" dishing all kinds of partial truths. We all need the Holy Spirit’s discernment to identify counterfeit teachers, leaders and purveyors of ideas that are not 100% tr

How to Identify a Counterfeit (2 Cor. 11:12-18) Today we live in a media saturated world where we find dozens of "medicine men and women" dishing all kinds of partial truths. We all need the Holy Spirit’s discernment to identify counterfeit teachers, leaders and purveyors of ideas that are not ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 11:12-20

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How Your Built Series

Contributed by Steven Spillman on May 2, 2008

some aspects of God’s specific purpose for your life and how He works to fulfill that purpose.

I wrote in an earlier letter (Purpose Vol. 1, Issue 10) that I wasn’t big on recipes or seven step strategies for spiritual success. Well, I’m not. But until now I may have been a little philosophical or “big picture” in my approach to understanding our real purpose and fulfilling the true ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How's Your Memory? Series

Contributed by Darryl Bell on Apr 17, 2006

Remembering Jesus’ in the Lord’s Supper, we share in his death and his life.

“How’s Your Memory?” Mark 14:12-26; 2nd Lent; 2nd of 7 in “All for You” series; The Promise; 3-12-06; Darryl Bell How is your memory? I heard of an older couple that was having some trouble remembering so they took a memory course together. A few months later the husband was out work-ing in his ...read more

Scripture: Mark 14:12-26

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How To Approach God Series

Contributed by Tom Fuller on Mar 17, 2013

Have you ever wondered how to approach God? Mankind makes up all kinds of ways to do it including external shows of relgious piety or elaborate ceremony. But in these three psalms we see God's recipe for drawing close to Him.

While Psalm 49 taught us that no amount of money can rescue you from the grave or redeem your life before God, Psalm 50 teaches that no amount of religious practice can save you from the wrath of God against evil. As in both psalms, only trusting in God for your salvation is what matters. This ...read more

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

How Will The World End? Series

Contributed by Coz Von on Jun 11, 2016

Matthew 24: There will be wars, rumors of wars, pestilence and earthquakes, all these are the beginning of sorrows, but the end is not yet: So what is the difference between tabloid sensationalism and the Bibles predictions - and How will the world end?

...there’s a serious side to the end of the world. Several years ago a cover story on Newsweek announced, “Doomsday Science: New Theories About Comets, Asteroids, and How the World Might End.” By “how the world might end,” scientists mean the extinction of the human ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 24:8-13, Revelation 6:14

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How To Live Forever Series

Contributed by Coz Von on Jul 13, 2016

Do you want to live forever, there is a way!

God had a problem. This may seem improbable for a Being who’s capable of speaking galaxies into existence, but the fact was that two of His latest creations had just made the decision to reject His authority and go their own way. And the penalty for that was death. So God did what any ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 33:11

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How To Overcome Sin

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 2, 2022

Years ago a newspaper reporter asked then Governor of Arkansas, William Jefferson Clinton,

who was seeking to get the nomination of the democratic party to be the next candidate for president of the United States, this question, “Sir, it has been stated that you have had many adulterous relationships, is this true, or not true?” Mr. Clinton, with anger in his voice for being asked such ...read more

Scripture: Numbers 32:23

Denomination: Baptist

How To Measure Love Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 30, 2021

Love is only effective and truly Christian love when it is built on the foundation of all the other virtues. As soon as this is forgotten love becomes sentimental, and is reduced to an emotion, and its power is gone.

Tradition says that John the Apostle of love was carried to the Christian assembly when he was so old he could not walk, and his constant advice was, "Children love one another." When he was asked why he told them one thing all the time he replied that nothing else was needed. On the ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:7

How The Father Sees.

Contributed by Howard Strickland on Feb 2, 2020

You’re simply a person in want, and you’re turning to ‘things’ because you have not understood how good ‘Father’ is!!! “Stop solidifying your identity based upon what you do, or what you did; Start identifying with who you are in Jesus, and you’ll change what you do.” P.H

How the Father Sees. Luke 15:1-7TLB (Download a good picture of Rembrandt’s portrayal of the younger son. Play on screens while I talk). Author Henri Nouwen recalls his visit to a museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he spent hours reflecting on Rembrandt’s portrayal of the younger son—You ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:1-7, Ephesians 3:17-19

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Slow Slide Series

Contributed by Joseph Marshall on Mar 21, 2020

Many people struggle with the same temptation for many years. Often, people will wonder, “How is it possible for a Christian to struggle with a temptation for so long? How did things get so bad?” I’ll tell you how: so slowly that you wouldn’t even notice what was taking place.

The Slow Slide Text: Genesis 13:2-13 Introduction: Ever seen a Chinese handcuff? Maybe you know it better by the name “Chinese Finger Trap” or “that joke your friend played on you that one time after asking, ‘Wanna see something cool?’” The genius of this gag toy is its simplicity; it’s just a ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 13:2-13

Denomination: Baptist

How To Be A Great Friend

Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 15, 2002

A look at how to be the kind of friend we want others to be!

How to be a Great Friend Various Scriptures May 5, 2002 Introduction It’s been said that a dog is man’s best friend. And depending on who he hangs out with, that might be true for some men. Groucho Marx once said that outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog it’s too dark ...read more

Scripture: John 15:13, Proverbs 17:17

Denomination: Wesleyan

How To Be A Victorious Christian

Contributed by Chris Gowen on Apr 1, 2001

We can learn from the children of Israel by following the Lord Jesus and know real victory!

Small children can say some funny things...especially when it comes to matters pertaining to church and listening to the stories in the Bible. Here are some stories someone gave me: A Sunday school teacher asked the children just before she dismissed them to go to church, "And why is it necessary ...read more

Scripture: Judges 3:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

How To Be A Difference Maker

Contributed by Scott Cox on Dec 9, 2000

How to be a high impact Christian in a lost world.

Introduction: Every year at Christmas time one of my favorite movies is shown on TV, "It’s A Wonderful Life", staring Jimmy Stewart. In the movie Jimmy plays a man named George Bailey. George has big dreams of going to college and being a world traveler. Instead, he winds up having to take over ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:14-16, Philippians 2:14

Denomination: Baptist

How Are The Mighty Fallen

Contributed by Duke Jeffries on Oct 18, 2000

A. INTRODUCTION 1.

A. INTRODUCTION 1. This morning we conclude our study of Samson, the most famous of those who served as judge over Israel during the historical period before the monarchy. God willing, we shall begin a study of that period in the autumn of 1997, beginning with the book of 1 Samuel. a. Nearly ...read more