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  • Modesty In An Mtv World Series

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 4, 2005
    based on 21 ratings
     | 7,352 views

    This is the first of four sermons preached for the series "Reality Room." Using reality TV has a hook to talk about real issues, not contrived or assisted TV scenarios.

    “MODESTY IN A MTV WORLD” 1 Timothy 2:9 and Selected Scriptures INTRODUCTION TO SERIES: (Drama: “The Bachelor” ) That drama is not too far from reality. In a January 2004 interview with Joe Millionaire’s Evan Marriott, he told how the whole show had been faked. From adding “smooching sounds” ...read more

  • Conviction In A Tolerant World Series

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 4, 2005
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,547 views

    This is the third of three sermons preached for the series "Reality Room." Using reality TV has a hook to talk about real issues, not contrived or assisted TV scenarios.

    “CONVICTION IN A TOLERANT WORLD” Daniel 3 and 2 Timothy 3:16-17 INTRODUCTION TO SERMON: Wow! Good people, people who care for each other but with very different stances on a very tough situation. Which one’s right? Did you hear Angie’s significant other address the core problem here: He ...read more

  • Games People Play: "Trivial Pursuit" Series

    Contributed by David Ward on Sep 26, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,435 views

    BIG IDEA: Instead of pursuing the trivial, we should invest in the eternal.

    GAMES PEOPLE PLAY: “Trivial Pursuit” Matthew 6:19-24 INTRODUCTION: Trivial Pursuit is a board game for 2-6 players or teams, in which winning is determined by your ability to answer general knowledge and pop culture trivia questions. The game was created in December 1979 by two ...read more

  • We Are At War

    Contributed by Jay Robison on Mar 3, 2008
     | 3,880 views

    This sermon deals with the reality of spiritual warfare as Paul discussed it in Ephesians.

    I have used sermoncentral along with several other resources in this sermon. WE ARE AT WAR January 20, 2008 Jay Davis Robison EPHESIANS 6:10-13 Are We at War? For all of my life US at war against poverty & drugs Of course we are in Afghanistan and Iraq hear daily updates War is A FACT OF ...read more

  • Pluralism Vs. Exclusivism

    Contributed by Daniel Dennison on Oct 17, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,840 views

    A biblical look at the ideas posed by religious pluralism and religious exclusivism.

    Vespers, 1-31-06 1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God[a]; trust also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with ...read more

  • The Upclose God We Claim To Know

    Contributed by Anthony Zibolski on Mar 18, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,362 views

    People have different ideas of God and they have different ideas of their relationship with God. Do you really know the God you think you know?

    The up close God we claim to know Acts 17:22-17:32 Introduction This morning I want to talk to you about worship. I know that worship means different things to different people, and we will address that in a few minutes. I think it is sad that churches have worship wars. Churches have ...read more

  • The Real Insurgency, Pt. 1 Series

    Contributed by Jim Cunningham on Sep 2, 2006
    based on 24 ratings
     | 9,027 views

    A look at spiritual warfare, based not on the popular ideas on the subject, but on the biblical text.

    I am sure that nearly all of us are aware that our country, though not in a declared war, is still fighting two campaigns half a world away. What these campaigns have in common is that the enemy, while defeated, is still waging a war of insurgency against our troops and against our ...read more

  • Elijah's Confrontation Series

    Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Apr 11, 2009
    based on 7 ratings
     | 9,410 views

    Elijah challenges the people of Israel about the reality of God in their lives.

    Elijah’s confrontation I Kings 18:17-40 We’ve looked at Elijah in terms of where he’s been and what he’s done at the beginning of each week. And now I want to focus for a few moments on the man himself, even though we don’t know too much about his ...read more

  • Faith That Conquers The Impossible Series

    Contributed by A. David Hart on Dec 8, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 19,884 views

    To remind the reader that God can take the impossible and make it a reality.

    FAITH THAT CONQUERS THE IMPOSSIBLE Hebrews 11:11-12 My brothers and my sisters the Davis Sisters once sang a song called God Specializes, and I found the words to be appropriate for this message. The words are, [Have you any rivers that seems uncross able. Have you ...read more

  • Are We Serious About Hell? Series

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Sep 1, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,082 views

    This talk examines two common alternatives to the traditional idea of hell: universalism and annihilationism.

    The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from ...read more

  • Shrinking Jeans And Broken Bottles

    Contributed by Brett Adams on Oct 7, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 7,205 views

    What Jesus says about the realities of changing your church

    Shrinking Jeans and Broken Bottles Homecoming 2006 Luke 5:33-39 My daughter Briley and I (this is Briley - PIC) were driving down the road in my car the other day and she was sitting up front and found this 4 cassette copy of Zig Ziglar’s Secrets of Closing the Sale. She pulled it out and said, ...read more

  • The Light Of The World

    Contributed by J.d. Tutell on May 19, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,550 views

    A Children's Sunday sermon focusing on the reality of light and the illusion of darkness.

    Today you’ve noticed that we’ve been talking a lot about light. It’s because that is the theme for the summer program this year but also because the concept of light is so important to the church. Jesus used it as a metaphor to describe to people who He was and it still works ...read more

  • Sermon On Inspirational Teachings

    Contributed by William Meakin on Oct 19, 2024
     | 119 views

    One of the many definitions of teaching is said to be ideas or principles taught by an authority.

    Henry Brooks Adams, an American historian once remarked: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Titus 2:7-8 reminds us: “Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that ...read more

  • Church Growth

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Aug 27, 2001
    based on 54 ratings
     | 13,323 views

    More ideas on what it will take to make a church grow.

    CHURCH GROWTH Acts 18:7-8 INTRO.- ILL.- Top 10 Ways You Know You’re In A Bad Church 10. The church bus has gun racks. 9 . The church staff consists of Senior Pastor, Associate Pastor and Socio-pastor. 8. The Bible they use is the "Dr. Seuss Version." 7. There’s an ATM in the lobby. 6. The choir ...read more

  • Fitting Truth Into Our Box

    Contributed by Carlton Coon on Oct 12, 2001
    based on 39 ratings
     | 4,037 views

    Allowing God to explode our pre-conceived ideas.

    Fitting Truth Into Our Box I heard the story of a couple who married, over the years when the wife would prepare to cook a roast she would do as she had seen her mother do. She would cut off the small end of the roast. Years passed, and children were born. One day when the couple’s daughter was ...read more

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