Sermons on Juan 3:20:

A Lesson On God's Love Series

Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Aug 15, 2001

This is a look at God’s love

INTRODUCTION  An overzealous preacher felt it was his calling to aggressively "make" people become Christians as they would ride on the city bus system. One day a drunk stumbled onto the bus that the preacher was on. He sprang into and shook his family Bible in the face of the inebriated ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16-21

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Religious Sinner, Nicodemus Series

Contributed by Jimmy Davis on Sep 19, 2001

Picture # 3 in the series: The 14 Candid Snapshots of the Maturing Christian as found in the Gospel of John. Nicodemus, a picture of the religious sinner who sits in the pew week after week but is not saved. John 3:16, preached to a religious sinner.

Picture # 3: The Religious Sinner, Nicodemus John 3:1-21 The Surgeon General teaches us that the key to good health and physical fitness is plenty of exercise, a balanced nutritional diet, and the proper amount of rest. The Surgeon General doesn’t mention that we have a body and a soul. It’s ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-21, John 3:16

Denomination: Baptist

Walking With Others Series

Contributed by Timothy Peck on Feb 1, 2001

Three ways our relationships with other Christians demonstrates our faith in Jesus

When I was in high school my friends always told me that I was born twenty years too late. You see, in high school I idealized the countercultural movement of the 1960s, when the youth culture was demonstrating against everything from the Viet Nam War to Civil Rights. But I was in high school in ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:11-28, John 3:11-36

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Death Valley Days

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Mar 10, 2001

Ties together Israel’s disobedience during the Exodus, people’s failure to recognize Jesus when he came, and our own obliviousness to the warning signs around us. Lesson: Hardships aren’t for punishnment, it’s to point us to God.

Have any of you ever watched a movie or a TV show about a wagon train? You know, a column of Conestoga wagons, what they called prairie schooners, with the rounded canvas tent-tops? When I was young Westerns were the commonest sort of show, and everyone knew the conventions: The square-jawed ...read more

Scripture: John 3:14-21, Numbers 21:4-9

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Jesus And Nicodemus Series

Contributed by Troy Borst on Mar 13, 2001

We learn that Jesus came to offer answers to our deep and longing questions

TOWARDS EASTER 2001: JESUS AND NICODEMUS John 3:1-21 INTRODUCTION This morning I want us to meet a man and get to know him a little better than we might have before. His name is Nicodemus. There is a lot we don’t know about this man, but I think we can learn a lot about him and about Jesus from ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-21

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Hell Is A Choice

Contributed by Roddy Chestnut on Oct 18, 2000

Thesis: God doesn't send people to Hell; people choose to go there.

Thesis: God doesn't send people to Hell; people choose to go there. Intro.: 1. Troublesome question: Would a good God send people to Hell? a. Some: Unthinkable--fit the crime? (No Hell/no God). b. Others: Yes!--relish idea; "roast `em & toast `em!" 2. This AM we want to approach this ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16-21

How To Walk In The Light As Jesus Did

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000

One thing that we cannot live without is light.

One thing that we cannot live without is light. It may be easy to take light for granted, but nothing can live without it. Even though Christ is the light of the world John writes, "Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who ...read more

Scripture: John 3:19-20

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Man's Greatest Need

Contributed by Gary Webb on Oct 24, 2006

An annotated outline of a basic salvation message. Nicodemus had a lot going for him, but none of it was enough.

John 3:1-21 Man’s Greatest Need A man’s greatest desire and his greatest need are not always the same. Nicodemus was a man who seemed to have it all, except what he needed most. He wasn’t yet prepared to enter the kingdom of God. Jesus made it clear about those who would not be able to enter ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-21

Denomination: Baptist

"Look And Live!” Series

Contributed by John Hamby on Oct 30, 2006

# 9 in series. Jesus ends his conversation with Nicodemus by telling him three things about salvation.

“Look And Live!” John 3:14-21 Earlier in John chapter three Jesus has confronted Nicodemus with the momentous announcement that even he must be born again. Although he is a respected leader, a moral man, even a religious man he is still lost. Jesus is ...read more

Scripture: John 3:14-21

Denomination: Baptist

An Uncomplicated Message

Contributed by Jon Daniels on Jun 2, 2004

This is a clear presentation of the Gospel based on Jesus’ encounter with Nicodemus in John 3.

“AN UNCOMPLICATED MESSAGE” John 3:1-21 INTRO – There are some things in life that seem very complicated to some people, and relatively easy to others. For instance, algebra seems very complicated to me. Only “D” I ever made in high school was in algebra. Too complicated to me. But for the ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-21

Denomination: Baptist

The 3 R's Of The Church

Contributed by Dan Steadman on Feb 14, 2003

This sermon outlines the three primary functions of the Church:Reconciliation, Rejoicing, and Reproduction.

Jn 3:16-21, Acts 2:41-47 THE THREE R’S OF THE CHURCH Why does the church exist? You may have many answers to that question, but what does God think? Let’s look at His answer. It can easily be summed up in one word: RELATIONSHIP. Relationships are definitely number ONE with God. To make it ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16-21, Acts 2:41-47

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Jesus Is The Reason For The Season! Iii

Contributed by Glen Lawhun on Dec 19, 2004

On my mother’s side my work seem to end, But on my Father’s side I will be the judge of all man kind.

Read John 3:16-21 This is the third sermon on “Jesus is the reason for the season”. We have learned how Jesus was before the beginning of time. He was there when the earth was created. He was there in the Garden of Eden. He was there when Adam, the first person ever to walk on the earth, was ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16-21

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Real Prize

Contributed by Glenn Newton on Nov 1, 2003

The Prize that we are all searching for in life... Jesus Christ.

JN 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16-21

Denomination: Nazarene

How To Change For Good

Contributed by Greg Laurie on Nov 29, 2006

I suggest we don’t always know as much as we think we do. And sometimes we miss the obvious. Here in John 3, Jesus reveals something that that is an ESSENTIAL truth of life. So much so, that to miss it is to MISS EVERYTHING. If you don’t get this one rig

“How to Change for Good” John 3. There are certain things we ALL KNOW in life. You don’t Tug on Superman’s cape. You don’t Spit into the wind. You don’t tug on the mask of the old Lone Ranger AND? I suggest we don’t always know as much as we think we do. And sometimes we miss the obvious. Here ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-26

He Came To Be Our Deliverer

Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Dec 7, 2006

What a mess we are in. And we aren’t even aware of it! The whole purpose of Christmas was to respond to our need for deliverance.

Passage: John 3:10-21 Intro: Someone has said, “Ignorance is bliss.” PP to which Thomas Gray responded, “If ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise.” PP Cater Burwell has continued the thread, “If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.” PP but Philip Wylie has ended the discussion for me: ...read more

Scripture: John 3:10-21

Denomination: Evangelical Free