Sermons on Lake City Sc:

Ordination Sermon - "that I May Serve You With All My Might"

Contributed by Rev. Matthew Parker on Nov 20, 2023

This is the sermon for the ordination of an inner-city pastor who had already been serving as Associate Pastor for 5 1/2 years st an inner-city mission in Toronto, Canada.

Sermon Ordination May this holy flame ever warm my [heart], that I may serve you with all my might; and let it consume in my heart all my selfish desires, that I may in all things regard not myself but you.” - John Wesley That is the favourite quote, outside of Scripture, of Arleen Gomez. If you ...read more

Scripture: Luke 4:14-20, John 15:4-5, 1 Peter 2:9-10, Acts 20:28, 1 Peter 5:1-4  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Church Of Thyatira: The Consequences Of Appeasing Jezebel

Contributed by Donald Whitchard on Dec 23, 2023

Thyatira was the smallest of the seven cities mentioned in Revelation, Chapters 2 and 3. It is also the city about which little is known. Yet, it is to this church that Jesus addresses His longest letter.

Thyatira was founded by the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great some 300 years before the birth of Christ. The name Thyatira means "unceasing sacrifice". It more than likely received this name because it was a military "buffer city", located some 40 miles southeast of ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 2:18-29, 1 Kings 18:19, 2 Kings 9:33-35, Acts 16:14-15, 2 Corinthians 5:17  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Baptist

Have You Lost Your First Love?

Contributed by Colin Mcgeer on Aug 25, 2023

I once visited Ephesus and in that old destroyed city, I asked myself what the first love is. Find out what I received in that once great city.

Some years ago, I had the privilege of visiting Turkey. A Turkish man and one of his family members were going to do a business trip to Turkey so they invited me to go with them. I gladly accepted the invitation with one request that I would be allowed to spend a day in Ephesus. We were staying in ...read more

Scripture: Acts 19:8, Matthew 22:34-40, 1 John 4:7-8, 1 Peter 4:8, 1 John 4:17-18, John 19:26-27  (view more)  (view less)

Jesus Walks On The Water Series

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Jun 24, 2023

What’s the deeper message here for us today? It’s the gospel hidden in plain sight. I’ve noticed in the events of Jesus ministry we find the gospel again and again hidden in symbolic images.

Growing up in Wisconsin we would go “up north” twice a year at least, to a town called Minocqua. And we would spend hours boating, we would travel something they called up there the “chain of lakes.” We’d take my dads boat from lake Minocqua down through these thin passages, to lake Tomahawk, and ...read more

Scripture: Mark 6:45-46, Mark 6:50-52

Denomination: Salvation Army

Sought By God

Contributed by Barry O Johnson on Jun 24, 2022

The evil and wickedness we are seeing in the world is breaking God’s heart. And He’s looking for a people to work with Him to give those who don’t know Jesus an opportunity to avoid the lake of fire.

Turn with me to Genesis 18. I want to look at Genesis 18, but probably not for the reason that it was written. Oh, so you are going to take scripture out of context? No. You are getting ready to make scripture mean something that it doesn’t mean? No. It’s just that there so much that we can learn ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 13:13, Genesis 18:16-25, Luke 9:51-56, Luke 9:1-6, Ezekiel 18:21-23, 1 Timothy 2:1-4, Ezekiel 22:30  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Deep Cry In The Heart Of God

Contributed by Samuel M on Jul 5, 2023

There is a deep cry in the heart of God these days. When the cities where we currently live have become like Sodom and Gomorrah, we have built houses and settled in those cities.

There is a deep cry in the heart of God these days. When the cities where we currently live have become like Sodom and Gomorrah, we have built houses and settled in those cities. When the cry of the orphans and widows are so loud, how can we remain silent without offering them help? When there are ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 5:28, Jeremiah 5:29

He's Still Around

Contributed by Ken Alford on Nov 19, 2001

The book of Genesis starts out recording the activities of God in Creation. Some have called the Biblical account of creation a myth. I call it truth. Anything that might substitute for it, i.e., truth, can itself be considered myth. Skeptics and sc

HE’S STILL AROUND Genesis 1 INTRODUCTION: 1. At some time during the 1960’s, I think it was, a group of skeptics attempted to popularize the idea that God was dead. Bumper stickers declared allegiance to the campaign all across America. The movement died out but God is still around. 2. The ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 1:1-31

Denomination: Baptist

The Second Death Series

Contributed by Neil O'donnell on Feb 9, 2001

The dead appear before God, and all who are not written in the Book of Life- that is, who have not during one of history’s eras put their trust in God- are consigned to the lake of fire.

"I cannot preach on hell unless I preach with tears." - D.L. Moody "Then death and hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death" (Rev. 20:14) The thousand-year-reign. This is the only mention in the Bible of a thousand-year period during which Christ rules on ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 20:1-15

Denomination: Catholic

Stormy Weather Series

Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 23, 2020

When Jesus sent his disciples across the lake into the storm he was aware, prayed for them, went to them, and took care of them. What a picture for us in the COVID-19 Crisis!

1. Pessimist: A farmer had a neighbor that was just absolutely negative, no matter what. If it was raining, the farmer would say to his neighbor, "Boy, look at it rain, we sure need it." The neighbor would say, "Yeah, but if it keeps up it’s gonna flood." Then the sun came out ...read more

Scripture: John 6:16-21, Matthew 14:22-32, Mark 6:45-52

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Salt And Light

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Nov 25, 2013

True Christians cannot remain secret for long.

SALT AND LIGHT. Matthew 5:13-16. The metaphors of salt and light follow immediately after Jesus’ profile of the blessed Christian. The meek shall inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5) because meekness is not weakness, but quite the contrary. The peacemakers (Matthew 5:9) are surely not merely sitting ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Conquering The Giants In Our Lives

Contributed by Benjamin Utomo on Feb 3, 2021

Like the ancient Israelites, we have been set free from the slavery of sin and now are heading to the Promised "Land." We face various "giants" of problems personally, in the family, and from society against biblical truth.

The Jews were staying in Egypt for 430 years. In the last two hundred years, they were enslaved by the Egyptians. God sent Moses to deliver them from slavery and entered the Promised Land. Before they entered it, in verses 1 and 2, God gave the command through Moses to send twelve men, one from ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:10, John 14:1-3, Numbers 13:1-3, Numbers 13:25-33, Numbers 14:36-38, Daniel 2:21-22  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Entrance Of The Bride Series

Contributed by Ken Henson on Jan 12, 2019

There is a great contrast between the Prostitute and the Bride, the City of God and Babylon, this world, where we feel so distant from God, and the New Jerusalem, where we will be the habitation of God.

CHAPTER 21 1. And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth are gone, and the sea no longer exists. 2. And the holy city, New Jerusalem, I saw coming down out of heaven from God, having been prepared as a bride clothed for her husband. ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 21:1-2

Denomination: *other

The Shout Of Victory Series

Contributed by Gerald Van Horn on Feb 7, 2006

God made a promise to Joshua. "I have given you the city..."

The victory side of life # 8 The Shout of victory by Gerald Van Horn Joshua 6:1-20 Text. Joshua 6:20 1. Faith tested. v.1-15 God made a promise to Joshua. “I have given you the city.” The priest were to blow the rams horn. The people were to shout after they compassed the city. All the ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 6:1-20

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Turn Turn Turn

Contributed by L. Durham on Sep 29, 2001

Keeping our trust in God despite the tragedy in New York City.

TURN, TURN, TURN Biblical Text: 1 Kings 18: 24 and 37 “And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, ‘It is well spoken.’” “Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may ...read more

Scripture: 1 Kings 18:24-37

The Building That Is Faith Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 31, 2014

The God who is himself reliable gives us a city which is reliable.

Thursday of 7th Week of Easter 2014 Lumen Fidei (St. Boniface) The uproar between Pharisee and Sadducee that Paul engineered here almost ended in his premature death. Sadducees, the priestly class in Jerusalem, believed in the divine inspiration of only the Torah, the first five books of the ...read more

Scripture: John 17:20-26

Denomination: Catholic