Sermons on Incompleteness:

Summer Of Love, Through The Glass Darkly Series

Contributed by Denn Guptill on Sep 3, 2017

Even when we can't understand why and life is a puzzling reflection we have to believe that a day will come that we will understand and that in the end love wins.

Summer of Love 10 Seeing clearly By September of 1967 the residents of Haight Asbury had fallen out of love with the 100,000 hippies and flower children who had descended on their neighborhood for what had come to be known as the Summer of Love. The bloom was coming off the rose for the ...read more

Denomination: Wesleyan

What Time Is It? Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Mar 10, 2023

If you want to enjoy a meaningful life, appreciate God’s timing in everything. Then cooperate with God. Cooperate with God and find beauty, pleasure, and permanence.

City Slickers is an old movie (1991) that tells the story of three friends having mid-life crises. They escape the city and head west for a two-week cattle run to discover what's important in life. Before they leave, Mitch (played by Billy Crystal) shares what he does for a living on ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-15, Ephesians 1:11, Romans 8:28

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Not The Guy I Would've Picked Series

Contributed by Guy Caley on Dec 14, 2001

The Story of Jepthah demonstrates that God calls unlikely heroes.

Not the Guy I Would’ve Picked Text: Judges 10-11 Introduction Audie Murphy was an eighteen year old kid, weighing 112 pounds and the son of dirt poor Texas sharecroppers, an unlikely hero to say the least. Yet he became the most decorated soldier of WW II. Proposition: The pages of ...read more

Scripture: Judges 11:1-31

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Sufficency Of Christ (Part 1) Series

Contributed by Joseph Rodgers on Jun 14, 2004

The 7th message of 13 in an expository series on the book of Colossians.

The Sufficiency of Christ – Part 1 Colossians 2:8-10 8See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. 9For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 2:8-10

Denomination: Baptist

Counting The Cost Of Following Christ

Contributed by Phillip Wright on Jan 27, 2007

How is your walk and you talk? Is your flavor up to the task at hand. Too many believers fail to see the importance of complete discipleship.

Counting the Cost of Following Christ Luke 14:25-35 Rev. Phillip A. Wright I. The Instructions Given by Christ A. The instructions given about the Family 1. Luke 14:25-26 25 Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them, 26 "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father ...read more

Scripture: Luke 14:25-35

Denomination: Baptist

Living A Life That God Will Bless

Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 18, 2009

Three principles for securing God’s blessings on your life.

LIVING A LIFE THAT GOD WILL BLESS Text: Proverbs 3:5 – 10 Introduction: · Title · Bless doesn’t always mean health and wealth · Bless doesn’t mean name it and claim it · Bless doesn’t mean no problems · Bless means that God will approve and bestow His favor upon you · Some people think that ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-10

Denomination: Baptist

Evidence Of Faith

Contributed by Kevin Malone on Aug 26, 2007

This is an expository sermon from James explaining that good works are the result of God-given faith, and contrasting this true faith from God with a false faith of man.

Sermon on James and Faith In the English language, there are many different applications of the word “work”. My children just finished some lovely artwork. I like hamburgers with “the works”. It’s almost the 4th of July, and I’m looking foreword to both a day of from work, and also lighting off ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-26

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Living Single

Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 11, 2009

Being a single person isn’t a bad thing.

LIVING SINGLE 1st Corinthians 7:1-2, 8-9, 25-40. INTRODUCTION: Many of you in our congregation are single. And perhaps you have been made to feel like you’re a second-class citizen for being single. As if being single is something to be ashamed of. Well, I’d like to try to dispel those erroneous ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Sanding The Floors Series

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Sep 5, 2009

Developing leaders is like sanding floors -- acknowledging that flaws will be removed only by abrasion. But such weaknesses become a channel for strength and for God’s grace to work.

We could all have such perfect houses if people didn’t use them. The most beautiful and perfect rooms you will ever see are the ones in furniture displays at the store or maybe in a museum someplace, and the reason they are so perfect is that nobody uses them. But in the real world houses are ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Denomination: Baptist

Encountering God's Purpose Series

Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Sep 20, 2010

These verses summarize the Book's strategy, subject, & purpose. The strategy was to use selected works or "signs" of His subject, Jesus, which illustrate Jesus' character, demonstrate His power, & relate Him as the answer to man's great needs.

JOHN 20: 30-31 ENCOUNTERING GOD'S PURPOSE For many scholars these last two verses of chapter 20 constitute the conclusion of John's Gospel with chapter 21 being John's personal appendix. These verses summarize the Book's strategy, subject, and purpose. The strategy was to use selected works ...read more

Scripture: John 20:30-31, John 20:20-31

Denomination: Baptist

Marriage As It Was Meant To Be Series

Contributed by Jonathan Mcleod on Jun 20, 2006

The first marriage shows us what God meant marriage to be.

[Read Genesis 2:18-25.] In Genesis 2:22, we read of the world’s first marriage ceremony: “[God] brought [the woman] to the man.” God “gave away” the first bride and Mr. Adam and Miss Eve were joined together in holy matrimony. You could say it was a marriage “made in heaven.” Once when the ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:18-25

Denomination: Baptist

Jesus My Cities Of Refuge

Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Jun 21, 2015

To show that the LORD JESUS CHRIST is represented as a city, if we dwell inside the city, we are safe, the same with dwelling inside the LORD JESUS CHRIST, we are saved.

I. EXORDIUM: Who is your city? The LORD JESUS CHRIST. John 15:4-7 John 15:4-7 Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide ...read more

Scripture: Numbers 35:13

Denomination: Pentecostal

Completing Our Initiation Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 26, 2009

Baptism is called the “portal to all the sacraments,” but it is our participation in the Eucharistic sacrifice which perfects within us the gifts given to us at Baptism.”

January 26, 2009 Timothy and Titus Sacramentum Caritatis On this feast of Saints Timothy and Titus, who are linked forever in the Church’s memory with St. Paul, whose conversion we celebrated yesterday, we continue with the Holy Father to reflect on the relationship between the Blessed Eucharist ...read more

Scripture: Titus 1:1-4

Denomination: Catholic

Without God You Are Nothing, With God You Are Everything Series

Contributed by Shaila Touchton on Sep 22, 2025

The Bible emphasizes the importance of our profound relationship with God...

The Bible emphasizes the importance of our profound relationship with God, highlighting the dramatic contrast between life without Him and life with Him. Let's explore this concept through biblical verses. Without God, We Are Nothing Without God, we are incomplete and lacking in true purpose. ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:12, 2 Corinthians 5:17

More Than Enough!

Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000

Jesus gives us more than enough.

More Than Enough! John 2:3-4 KJV "And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. [4] Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come." The Gospel of John includes 7 of Jesus' 35 recorded miracles, less than any other Gospel, ...read more

Scripture: John 2:3-4

Denomination: Baptist