Sermons on Human Nature:

Lesson 5: Why Doesn't God Do What I Ask?

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Oct 1, 2014

You're not the only one with unanswered prayer

Pastors Bible Class Thomas Road Baptist Church Series: When God Is Silent Lesson 5: Why Doesn’t God Do What I Ask? A. INTRODUCTION: WHY OUR PARENTS DON’T DO ALL WE ASK 1. It’s not good for us. 2. They don’t have resources. 3. They have other plans for ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:10

Denomination: Baptist

Lesson 5: Why Doesn't God Do What I Ask?

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Oct 1, 2014

You're not the only one with unanswered prayer

Pastors Bible Class Thomas Road Baptist Church Series: When God Is Silent Lesson 5: Why Doesn’t God Do What I Ask? A. INTRODUCTION: WHY OUR PARENTS DON’T DO ALL WE ASK 1. It’s not good for us. 2. They don’t have resources. 3. They have other plans for ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:10

Denomination: Baptist

Life And Death Matters

Contributed by Timm Meyer on Aug 16, 2013

PENTECOST 7 - The apostle Paul teaches about life an death matters. Believers are to be dead to sin but alive to God.

LIFE AND DEATH MATTERS (Outline) July 31, 2011 - Pentecost 7 - ROMANS 6:3-11 INTRO: Each of us has life changing events in our lives that we remember. Some events are happy and others not so pleasant. Joyful life changing events include: graduations, weddings, births, etc. As ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:3-11

Denomination: Lutheran

Recipients Of God's Mercy Series

Contributed by Christian Cheong on Oct 29, 2021

To accept God's purpose in election, we need to understand the sovereignty of God, His nature and His will for our salvation.

In Romans 9-11 Paul took the opportunity to address the thorny question of the Jews and their rejection of the gospel. • He expresses his heart for the Jewish people. He hopes they will understand the salvation of God and be saved, and yet knowing that many would reject the Messiah. This does not ...read more

Scripture: Romans 9:19-33, Isaiah 40:13-26

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Use It Or Lose It

Contributed by Kerry Haynes on Nov 19, 2017

Jesus' parable of the talents is a call to us to invest all that we are and all that we have in God's kingdom building work. The story reminds us not to compare, but to faithfully invest what we have, and to get to know the Master's heart.

Matthew 25:14-30 Use It or Lose It Today’s parable is a story about investments. Sometimes we think it’s about using our natural abilities to serve God. Why do we think that? Because the story uses the word “talent” throughout. Our English word “talent” actually comes from that interpretation of ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30, 1 Peter 4:10-11

Denomination: Baptist

Identity Crisis

Contributed by Horace Wimpey on Jun 6, 2015

Paul describes three Identities in our world. All mankind fall into one of these identities. The natural man, the carnal man and the spiritual man.

IDENTITY CRISIS 1 Corinthians 2:14-3:4 (NLT) ( for an audio and visual of this sermon go to www.thecreekmonroe.com) Back in the late sixties and the early seventies there was a TV show called “To Tell The Truth”. They would have a panel of 4 celebrities who would attempt to identify a ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

It's All About Jesus (Colossians 3) Series

Contributed by Scott Bayles on Dec 14, 2022

The book of Colossians is all about Jesus! In this five-part series, we'll explore Paul's letter to the Colossian church and come to know Christ better.

It’s all about Jesus: Colossians 3 Scott Bayles, pastor Blooming Grove Christian Church: 11/6/2016 For the last couple of weeks we’ve been making our way through the book of Colossians, which is all about Jesus. In the first chapter Paul spotlights Jesus with a poetic declaration of Christ’s ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:1-15

Denomination: Christian Church

Led Forth With Joy In The Holy Spirit

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 17, 2023

God always remembers His covenant, His unbroken promise, so in all our words and actions, as the psalmist proclaims, we are led forth with joy.

Saturday of 28th Week in Course 2023 One of the requirements for a just law, according to the Fathers of the Church and Thomas Aquinas, is that it be promulgated to those we expect to obey it. Now there is a natural moral law that is summarized in the Ten Commandments. St. Paul talks about that ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:8-12, Psalm 105:6-9, Psalm 105:42-43, Romans 4:13-18

Denomination: Catholic

Becoming A Holy Family Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 29, 2022

Joseph, Mary and Jesus give us a model of the family all of ours should strive to become.

Feast of the Holy Family 2022 If there is anything we can be certain of when we consider the past fifty or sixty years, it is that there has been a massive cultural, media and even governmental assault on the natural family. I say “natural” family because one of the prongs of this assault has been ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:12-21, Psalm 128:1-5, Matthew 2:13-23

Denomination: Catholic

Go! And Fear Not — For I Am With You - Isaiah 41:10 Series

Contributed by Dean Courtier on Aug 10, 2025

Fear is one of humanity’s oldest emotions. But into the noise of our fear comes the voice of God — clear, steady, and unchanging.

Go! And Fear Not — For I Am With You - Isaiah 41:10 Introduction — Capturing the Moment Have you ever been in a moment where fear gripped your heart so tightly that it felt like you couldn’t breathe? Maybe it was a doctor’s diagnosis. Maybe it was the sudden loss of a job. Maybe it was standing ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 41:10, Matthew 28:20, Psalm 46:1-2, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, John 10:28-29, Genesis 26:24, Exodus 3:12, Joshua 1:9, Psalm 121:2  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Pentecostal

Fix Your Cape Series

Contributed by David Salisbury on Oct 2, 2002

The second in a series. A look at the distinctive nature of Christians.

Quick Sermons for Permanent Fixes Lesson 2 Fix Your Cape Matthew 5:13-16 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

How Precious To You Is Life

Contributed by Dean Rhine on Dec 9, 2003

Sanctity of Human Life

“How Precious to You is Life” Exodus 1 Intro: You know, there is one thing that is common in all of mankind. Whether rich or poor, young or old, in America or Africa or Australia. Life is precious! Sometimes the lives of others don’t seem precious to us, but when it comes down to our own ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

He Calls For New Birth Series

Contributed by James Petticrew on Jan 11, 2002

A sermon on the neccessity and nature of being born again

HE CALLS FOR A NEW BIRTH JOHN 3:1-18 Introduction In Greenock the town where I come from in Scotland there is really only one big employer and that is the computer company IBM. IBM pay the best wages and give the best conditions to their workers so people are desperate to work for them. One the ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-18

Denomination: Holiness

Divine Power And Precious Promises 2 Peter 1:3-4 Series

Contributed by Dean Courtier on May 23, 2024

2 Peter 1:3-4 is a passage rich with encouragement and assurance for every believer. Through His divine power and precious promises, God equips us to live godly lives and partake in His divine nature.

Divine Power and Precious Promises 2 Peter 1:3-4 2 Peter 1:3-4 (NLT): "By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvellous glory and excellence. And ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:3-4, Ephesians 1:19-20, Philippians 3:10, 2 Corinthians 1:20, Romans 12:2  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Pentecostal

Following The Grand Illusion

Contributed by Bill Huffhine on Jun 11, 2004

A message about the universal condition of human sinfulness and depravity and how we got to this point, taken from the first 3 chapters of Romans.

A few moments ago I performed for you a very poor illusion. My attempt was to so distort your perception of reality that you would believe with your mind that I had actually caused the band to disappear. I, however, am not an illusionist. Neither my techniques or presentation were ...read more

Scripture: Romans 1:1-32

Denomination: Free Methodist