Sermons on Jesus The Life:

Deliverance To The Captives Series

Contributed by Raymond Perkins on Jun 13, 2001

This is the third in this series based in Luke 4:16-21 and using Mark 5:1-20 as the main text.

THE UNEXPECTED JESUS "Healing the Brokenhearted" Mark 5:21-34 INTRODUCTION: On Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, after having been stabbed repeatedly by a man named Lewis Paine, Secretary of State William Seward, lay in a hospital bed physically crippled and emotionally drained. And to top it all ...read more

Scripture: Mark 5:1-20

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Freedom To The Oppressed Series

Contributed by Raymond Perkins on Jun 13, 2001

This is the fourth in this series based in Luke 4:16-21 and using John 8:1-11 as the main text.

THE UNEXPECTED JESUS "Freedom to the Oppressed" John 8:1-11 INTRODUCTION: On a hot August day in 1944, in the small village of Plelo, France, a 15 year old boy stood before a German Firing squad. He did not know why he and the other citizens of his hometown were about to die. Maybe it was ...read more

Scripture: John 8:1-11

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Recovery Of Sight To The Blind Series

Contributed by Raymond Perkins on Jun 13, 2001

This is the fifth in this series based on Luke 4:16-21 and using Luke 18:18-23 as the main text.

THE UNEXPECTED JESUS "Recovery of Sight to the Blind" Luke 18:18-23 INTRODUCTION: In my opinion, the best part of the newspaper is the comic section. I often find the truth about our society in the humor meant for children and then I can understand it. In one such comic strip, Andy Capp, I ...read more

Scripture: Luke 18:18-23

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Proclaiming The Acceptable Year Of The Lord Series

Contributed by Raymond Perkins on Jun 13, 2001

This is the sixth and final lesson in this series based in Luke 4:16-21 and using John 4:1-26 as the main text

THE UNEXPECTED JESUS "Proclaim the Acceptable Year of the Lord" John 4:1-26 INTRODUCTION: During the 1920’s and 30’s Al Simmons was one of professional baseball’s great players. By the end of his major league career he had amassed almost 3000 hits, but that was just it - almost 3000. When he ...read more

Scripture: John 4:1-26

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The High Priest

Contributed by Kenneth Bailey on Jun 13, 2001

Study in the High Priesthood of Christ and our response to His Priesthood.

The High Priest Today is April Fool’s Day. I toyed with the idea of making some sort of ludicrous statement and then proclaiming “April Fool’s!” but decided against that since I don’t want to ever mislead you, even in a time of jest. But as I was debating on how I would begin the sermon, I ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 9:11-15, John 8:46-59

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Amazing Faith, Where Is It Found?

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Jun 14, 2001

what it takes to have amazing faith

June 17, 2001 Luke 7:1-10 1 When Jesus had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. 2 There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. 3 The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:1-10

Denomination: Lutheran

The Path To The Pasture Of The Promised Land Is Prepared By The Good Shephe

Contributed by Joel Pankow on May 3, 2001

How Jesus, our Good Shepherd, fulfills his duty as our Good Shepherd - performing miraculous tasks to get us to heaven.

May 6, 2001 Micah 7:14-20 14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasture lands. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago. 15 “As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show them my ...read more

Scripture: Micah 7:14-20

Denomination: Lutheran

If Christ Had Not Come

Contributed by Dewayne Bolton on Feb 13, 2001

To better understand and appreicate the life and work of Christ

LUKE 15:18-25 IF CHRIST HAD NOT COME INTRO. A. In these verses Jesus is endavouring to comfort His desciples for He had told them previously He was going to leave them. a. He does this by assuring them His departure is only in the human and that only temporary. b. He tells them the Holy Spirit ...read more

Scripture: John 15:18-25

Denomination: Holiness

Radical Love Can Bruise Your Ego

Contributed by Michael Treston on Oct 24, 2001

loving your enemies is great in theory...

Radical Love can bruise your ego. WWJD is easy at times but some times it goes totally contrary to human nature. Example - Matthew 5:38-48. The problem is with wwjd is it makes sense until it comes time for getting even Loving your enemies is great in theory but the practice is so much ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:38-48

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Get Out Of Your Boat

Contributed by Michael Treston on Oct 24, 2001

inspired by John Ortberg

GET OUT OF THE BOAT. I used to always think Simon Peter was nuts for getting out of the boat and thinking he could walk on water. The weather conditions The physical impossibility of it Then I realized that is the point of the exercise God calls us out of our comfort zones to do the impossible That ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 14:25-32

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Taking Your Faith Through The Roof

Contributed by Michael Treston on Oct 24, 2001

inspired by Ct Studd

Some want to live within the sound of church and chapel bells I want to build a rescue shop within a yard of hell. Scripture illustrates the saying A typical church service People not shut out by the lack of seats but by attitudes You can see it when you visit them. The cold shoulder, The holy ...read more

Scripture: Luke 5:17-26

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

The Marks Of The Hypocrite Series

Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Nov 12, 2001

exposition on Matt ch 23 v 1 - 36

THE MARKS OF THE HYPOCRITE Matthew 23 v. 1 - 36 The Hypocrite is an actor or pretender - and here is seen in the Scribes and Pharisees by:- 1. What they sought They sought the :- v. 1 - 5, (a) Admiration of men - v. 5 "but all their works they do for to be seen of men" (1) The rigour in their ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 23:1-36

Denomination: Holiness

The Christ Child Was A Perfect Child

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Oct 8, 2001

how Jesus was a perfect child by staying at the temple - as our substitute

December 28, 1997 Luke 2:41-52 41 Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom. 43 After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:51-52

Denomination: Lutheran

The Name Series

Contributed by Greg Nance on Nov 30, 2002

The Name above all names should be in our hearts and on our lips. Hebrews 1:1-2:4 clearly proclaims the powerful message of who Jesus is and how we must heed and hold on to Him.

The Name Hebrews 1:1-2:4 I heard about a man who as he traveled he began to visit churches. He was traveling in the North East and out West and in the foyer of every church he visited he noticed a golden phone with a sign above it that said, “Talk with God, $10,000.” Finally, he came to ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Gift Of The Prophet Series

Contributed by John Knight on May 2, 2002

Third in series. The gift of the prophets and of Christ, the ultimate prophet.

The Gift Of The Prophet John 9:1-17 Intro: Head that I bought as a senior in H.S. -made fart sounds -some would consider this gross -Time when consumption of gross items rose -Nickelodeon’s slime; "You can’t do that on Television" -‘snot’ purchased out of gumball machines Behavior/ ...read more

Scripture: John 9:1-17

Denomination: Holiness