Sermons on Keep Trying:

The Heart Of Happiness Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 12, 2021

No one claims to be adequate for the task of even explaining this beatitude. Preachers apologize for their audacity in even presuming to try and preach on this text.

Two soldiers were on a transport going overseas. Standing on the deck they gazed out across the vast expanse of water. One who had never been near the ocean said, "That's the most water I've ever seen in all my life. Did you ever see so much water?" His companion responded, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:8

Without Love We Have Nothing

Contributed by David Rogers on Aug 1, 2006

This is a sermon that shows Gods love and His desire to keep anyone from going to Hell.

Without Love We Have Nothing By Rev. David Rogers 1 Cor. 13:1-13 Prayer I enjoy going to the mall and walking around or sitting and watching people interact. I watch them running here and there to buy things to find happiness to fill a void. They spend large sums of money on clothes, jewelry, ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Denomination: Baptist

Not Bound By The O.t. Law

Contributed by William D. Brown on Mar 27, 2008

SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL CONFUSED WHEN IT COMES TO THE O.T. LAW, THIER STILL TRYING TO HOLD ON AND HOLE OUT.

KEEPING PEOPLE BOUND BY THE OLD TESTEMENT LAW Acts 15:1-5 1And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, “ Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.” 2When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, ...read more

Scripture: Acts 15:1-5

Denomination: Baptist

The Making Of A Great Nation

Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Jul 4, 2010

This message seeks to call us to the understanding of and the reponsibility for making & keeping this nation GREAT!

The Making of a Great Nation Proverbs 14:34-35 * I ran across this editorial written a few years ago by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. The following text was printed in our nation’s Congressional Record: “This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 14:34-35

Denomination: Baptist

Joy Series

Contributed by Joe Bedy on Nov 30, 2019

Please keep in mind this sermon was written for residents in an ALF memory care facility.

Sermon On Joy Market Street ( A memory care facility in Tarpon Springs, FL) December 1 2019 Welcome the church that meets at Market Street. Review gift of the Holy Spirit and who the church is. Talk about the woman at the well. Discuss again and we have the gift of the Holy Spirit and we truly are ...read more

Scripture: Acts 16:34

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Lent And Traditions

Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Feb 14, 2013

Is the Lenten season Biblical or does it spring from church tradition? Is it good, neutral or harmful? Just trying to answer these questions ....

Traditions... Body Bags: Israel's major airline, El Al, recently rejected a plea by ultra-orthodox Jews with a priestly heritage to fly inside body bags. Why would someone want to do this? Ritual law states that a priest who enters a cemetery becomes religiously "unclean." A ruling by a ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 2:6-8

Denomination: Nazarene

Galatians Part 5 - "“Be Free And Live By The Spirit!” Series

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 4, 2005

Freedom opens up the one thing that helps us to keep in step with the Spirit.

Galatians Part 5 – “Be free and live by the Spirit!” Thesis: Freedom opens up the one thing that helps us to keep in step with the Spirit. Opening thought about chapter 5: Paul tells the Galatia church to be free, to remember the one thing which is “faith is to express itself through love” and ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:1-26

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Carnal Motives Series

Contributed by J. Brad Campbell on Jun 15, 2007

this is the sixth sermon in this series dealing with things that will keep our prayers from being answered

HINDRANCES TO PRAYER ------------------------------------------------- LESSON #6 CARNAL MOTIVES TEXT: JAMES 4:3 REVIEW: What was our lesson last week? Neglect of mercy. What is the biblical definition of poor? Those that are too young, too old, or too crippled to help themselves. What poor is ...read more

Scripture: James 4:3

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Jesus Heals A Man With Who Won't Shut Up! (Mark 1:40-45)

Contributed by David Smith on Nov 6, 2007

Jesus has the power to heal, but He doesn’t seem to have the power to keep this man quiet! Why don’t this former leper shut up, and why is Jesus so concerned to keep him...

"And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, "If you will, you can make me clean." Moved with compassion , he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, "I will; be clean." And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. And Jesus sternly charged him ...read more

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

The Gift Of Marriage Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 17, 2021

Paul is trying to help Christians to be moral people in a very immoral world, and to do that he has to focus on the sex drive.

The most famous twins in history were Chang and Eng, born in Siam in 1811. They toured Europe and America repeatedly. They became so well known that all twins whose bodies are physically connected have ever since been called Siamese twins. By their early thirty's they had traveled the world, ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7:1-7

With God The Impossible Becomes Possible Series

Contributed by Michael Trigg on Oct 15, 2006

Today, are you living in and relying on God’s Holy Spirit, or are you trying to rely on your own might and power?

INTRODUCTION. We are continuing our exploration of the prophecies of Zechariah. We are looking, at the moment, at the visions that God gave Zechariah, and are recorded in chapters 1 to 6. This time we are looking at the fifth vision: The Golden Lampstand and the Two Olive Trees. These visions ...read more

Scripture: Zechariah 4:1-14

Denomination: Baptist

The Day The Sabbath Ended

Contributed by Coz Von on Apr 22, 2014

Why are people so stuck on the keeping of the commandments and the Sabbath. Did they not see the verses!

The following verse explains worship in heaven - after the second coming: Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. Jesus, while ministering to others healed people on the ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 2:13-14

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Their Story, Our Warning

Contributed by Dasol Kang on Jul 10, 2025

God holds up the mirror of the past to keep us from stumbling in the present.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” These were the words of the philosopher George Santayana about nations, politics, and the rise and fall of empires. But much earlier than George Santayana, the Apostle Paul, 18 centuries earlier, made the same point about our ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Fireproof Your Future - Preparing For Times Of Uncertainty Series

Contributed by Scott Kircher on Oct 27, 2008

What to expect in times of societal change as a person trying to live a godly life and how to prepare yourselves for those times

Fireproof your Future - Preparing for times of uncertainty A godly life brings opposition A godly life brings hard choices A godly Life requires that we know Who we believe in A godly life brings blessing and peace Slide Intro We are living in very uncertain times. Finances We have a financial ...read more

Scripture: Daniel 3:1-30

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Knowing God Series

Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Sep 25, 2002

Help on how to survive the spiritual and emotional droughts of life and keep on living in Christ

SERMON: Surviving the Drought by Knowing God 1 Peter 1:1-9 Sept 8, 2002 (First in a series) I. The Droughts of Life – Introduction A. We are in a Drought 1. It began in May 1998. We are now in our fifth year of a drought. 2. Here in Carroll County we are in one of the most ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:1-9

Denomination: United Methodist