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Love Isn't Just For Weddings! 1 Corinthians 13

Contributed by Wendy Gravolin on Mar 2, 2016

Love isn't just fro weddings Paul is encouraging the church to live out of the fruit of self sacrificial (agape) love but he isn't ruling out using the gifts of the Spirit which God has given to empower the church for its mission to make disciples.

Love isn’t just for weddings: 1 Corinthians 12:31- 13:1-13 Reverend Wendy Gravolin St Thomas Anglican Church Winchelsea, Victoria Australia We live in a culture that is obsessed with erotic & romantic love. Doing a quick search on the internet for a love song I quickly found list after list ...read more

Denomination: Anglican

I Just Feel Like Something Good Is About To Happen!

Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Aug 25, 2014

How many have come this morning expecting something from God… How many have come this morning and are willing to not let go and seek him until you receive what you came for?

I just feel like something good is about to happen! Illus. I heard a story about a scrawny kid from West Texas who attended a small high school. They didn't have a wrestling program, but he read a book on wrestling and asked one of the assistant football coaches if he would enter him in some of ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 118:21-25

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Isaac : When He Lied, Just Like His Dad

Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Feb 10, 2021

Isaac was a man of faith, but there was one time when he did the same thing as his father, Abraham, had done years earlier. They both did it for the same reasons, but were they right to do it?

Introduction: Like father, like son. How many of us have heard that saying? Perhaps we should ask this: how many of us have made the same mistakes as our dads? We may never know how closely Isaac copied his father’s mannerisms or way of managing a household but we do know he followed Abraham’s ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 26:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Don't Just Remember The Past, Look To The Future

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Mar 31, 2022

Isaiah tells the Israelites to forget the Exodus, looking forward to the new thing - Jesus.

4.3.22 Isaiah 43:16-21 16 This is what the LORD says, who makes a road through the sea and a path through mighty waters, 17 who brings out the chariot and the horses, the army and the strong warrior. They will all lie down together. They will not get up. They are extinguished. Like a wick ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 43:16-21

Denomination: Lutheran

Arrows Of Truth # 3 - Why Not Just Invite The Dropout To Church? Series

Contributed by Louis Posthauer on Mar 19, 2022

A weekly series to help believers engage with loved ones, friends and neighbors who are dropout believers to restore them to the church - the Body of Christ.

Arrows of Truth # 3 - Why not just invite the dropout to church? A great question! Do that! After several different people and attempts you may see that this doesn’t typically work. Why not? The strongholds in their mind will offer up thoughts like: >Already been there – done that. >Just ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 13:18-23, Hebrews 10:25

God Chose Joseph, Just Like He Chose Mary

Contributed by Jenny Franklin on Dec 25, 2021

God hand-picked Joseph just like He hand-picked Mary. 

We often think about God choosing Mary to be the mother of the Christ child. Let’s think about Joseph for a minute: Joseph is the man God chose to be Daddy to His Son! What kind of man would you choose for your child? — patient — kind —Firm but gentle —Slow to anger —Disciplines not in anger, ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 3:1-7, 1 Timothy 3:10-13

Denomination: Baptist

Solomon’s Temple- Just Forget About The Price Tag Series

Contributed by Brad Beaman on Aug 25, 2022

This temple is called the first Temple or sometimes called Solomon’s Temple. This was not officially named Solomon’s Temple. This was not Solomon building a monument to himself. This was the Temple of the Lord. This was a temple inspired by God.

We have been looking at the life of Solomon. His great heritage as son of King David. His great wisdom as the wisest man ever and ever to come, except only Jesus is greater. The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 2:1-8

Denomination: Baptist

A Triangle Isn't A Square Just Because It Says It Is

Contributed by Roshelle Brenneise on Jul 19, 2024

A Sqaure is a Sqaure because it meets the criteria for being a Square

July 20, 2024 Matthew 7:21-23 - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 7:21-23, Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 3:18, John 15:4-5, Galatians 5:22-25  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Sunday School - It's Not Just For Kids Anymore.

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jan 21, 2023

People will drop their kids off and then come back for the morning service.

I have noticed a trend over the last several decades that fewer and fewer adults attend Sunday School. Yet, we live in a time when it is needed desperately. There are so many cults and crazy things going on in the world that it is imperative that believers have the Word dwell richly in ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:16, 2 Timothy 2:15

Denomination: Baptist

Just Whose Steadfast Love Does God Delight In? Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 27, 2024

God has joy in that fidelity He enjoys within the Blessed Trinity of love and faithfulness.

Saturday of Second Week in Lent 2024 Our Scripture from the prophet Micah comes in the middle of a chapter that begins inauspiciously, “what misery is mine.” And it goes on to tell the tale of fruitless fields, uninhabited lands, roads populated by robbers and muggers, courts led by judges that ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:1-32, Micah 7:14-20, Matthew 10:36

Denomination: Catholic

Joshua 2: The Spies Found More Than Just Info! Series

Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Feb 29, 2024

Spies have the mission to find out selected, desired, information and report what they found. Two Hebrew spies were sent to find out what they could about Jericho, but they found something they didn't expect to see!

Introduction: This second chapter of Joshua has the record of two spies, sent by Joshua, to get as much information about Jericho as they could. This chapter also has the account of how Rahab, a Canaanitess and native of Jericho, had come to believe in the God of Israel. Rahab protected the two ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

More Than Just Sending Cards Or Giving Chocolates And Flowers

Contributed by Benjamin Utomo on Feb 12, 2022

Americans spent $21 billion on Valentine's Day in 2021 to send cards or buy chocolates and flowers for their loved ones. God wants us to show our love more than that. As Christ always loves us, He wants us to love others every day!

Opening: A husband always carried a photo of his wife in his wallet. Whenever he faced a difficult situation, he opened his wallet and saw the picture of his wife. When his friends saw what he did, they said, "You love your wife so much, don't you?" He replied, "When I saw my ...read more

Scripture: Acts 5:27-29, 1 Corinthians 1:18, John 15:13, Galatians 2:20, 1 John 3:23  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Calling Sinners Home Series

Contributed by John Hamby on Feb 26, 2002

The church can become just another club – an elite society that has all the right externals but has forgotten what its true purpose is. Principles taken from the call of Levi (Matt).

A Study of the Book of Luke Sermon # 10 “CALLING SINNERS HOME!” Luke 5:27-39 “It was a beautiful Sunday morning. People were filling the church to its fullest capacity. As they entered, each were given a bulletin filled with ...read more

Scripture: Luke 5:27-39

Denomination: Baptist

Romans Chapter 3 Verses 26-31 - Messages In Romans – Justified Through Faith By A Righteous God And Now Declared Innocent - Message 13 Series

Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 24, 2023

Jew and Gentile must now come to God through faith and there can be no boasting. God’s grace leads to salvation. In becoming saved through grace, each one is justified because the just God justifies them. Only a just God can do that. No king on this earth can justify anyone.

ROMANS CHAPTER 3 VERSES 26-31 - MESSAGES IN ROMANS – JUSTIFIED THROUGH FAITH BY A RIGHTEOUS GOD AND NOW DECLARED INNOCENT - MESSAGE 13 [1]. PART 1 – JUSTIFIED BY FAITH IN JESUS {{Romans 3:26 “for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, that He might be just and the ...read more

Scripture: Romans 3:26, 1 Timothy 2:4, Romans 3:25-26, Romans 3:27, Luke 18:9-14, Romans 3:29-30, John 3:14-15, John 12:32, Galatians 3:23-25, Galatians 2:15-16, Romans 3:31, Galatians 3:10-11, Galatians 3:13, Galatians 3:21-25  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Da Vinci Code: Isn't The Bible Just Another Book? Series

Contributed by David Wolf on Jun 7, 2006

2nd in a Da Vinci Code series; this message explores the historical reliability of the Bible with a goal to increase people’s trust in the Bible as God’s Word.

Looking at DVC movie opened blurs line b/t fact & fiction conspiracy theory Bible born from conspiracy is it trustworthy? we preach on weekly basis, urge you to live life by it “The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. . . . The Bible is a product of man, my dear. Not of God…it has evolved ...read more

Scripture: John 5:39-40

Denomination: Independent/Bible