Sermons on Law And The Prophets:

Thinking With The Church And Jesus, Not With Social Media Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 6, 2021

Perverse patterns of thought and will can even mess up your brain chemistry.

On those times when we open the newspaper or click on the news and immediately are confronted with the evil of the world, we may reflect on how apparent the doctrine of original sin is. We don’t even need special revelation to realize that the tendency of the world is toward selfish behavior and ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 23:7, Luke 17:1-6, Psalm 139:1-10

Denomination: Catholic

Lord Of The Sabbath ( Matthew 12:1-14)

Contributed by Donald Whitchard on Mar 23, 2025

In this chapter, Jesus teaches the true meaning of the “Sabbath” and how it is to bring glory to God, not to be used as a religious weapon. The hostility towards Jesus was starting to grow.

Before we undergo any further study of this chapter, it would be helpful to understand the concept of the “Sabbath”. According to the fourth commandment (Exodus 20:8), the Sabbath was set aside as one day in seven to cease from labor and take a rest from all unnecessary activity. Exodus 31:15 ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 31:15, Colossians 1:16-17, Hosea 6:6, Matthew 12:1-8

Denomination: Baptist

Christ's Sacrifice (Hebrews 10)

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on May 26, 2024

How is Jesus a better sacrifice than all the animal sacrifices of the old covenant? Let's discuss this in Hebrews 10.

Was the law a shadow of the good things to come? Was it impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins? Did God really want such a sacrifice or an offering? Did He perfect the people who are being made holy with one offering for all time? Do we need patient endurance, so that we will ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Who Were The People Liberated From Egypt? Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 24, 2024

It’s not important to our eternal happiness just who our ancestors are, or what racial or ethnic group we belong to.

Who Were the People Liberated From Egypt? Lent 2024 In today’s Scripture reading from Matins, we read how Moses and the other Israelite leaders led their people out of Egypt. The numbers look staggering: “six hundred thousand on foot, not counting the children.” Now there was no roll call, but we ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 12:37-49, Exodus 13:11-16, Psalm 95:8-9, Numbers 14:30, Matthew 7:13-14, Exodus 10:12-15, Exodus 12:3  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Catholic

Behold Thy God Series

Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Mar 19, 2024

Behold Thy God

Psalm 119:73 - 80 ? Jod - Jot - The Tenth Part. 1. God the Creator The Source - 73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: The Secret - give me understanding, The Supply - that I may learn thy commandments. 2. God the Controller - The Saved - 74 They that fear thee The Satisfied - will be ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 119:73-80

Denomination: Holiness

Suppose You Show Up At The Banquet With No Oil?

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 10, 2023

The experience of God is transcendent, in a sense more real than anything we’ve felt or smelled or seen. It is an experience of ultimate goodness, awesome beauty, and absolute truth.

Thirty-Second Sunday in Course 2023 Every human being yearns for true happiness. The problem with us as we grow up, however, is that our earliest experiences even before birth start us off in life as materialists. After conception, we are either growing or we are dying, so we are nutrition hogs; ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 63:2-8, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, Matthew 25:1-13

Denomination: Catholic

Welcome To The Family Sermon Ii: Attribute Of Distinction Series

Contributed by Charles Cunningham on Sep 13, 2020

In times of national unrest, mature Christians resist worldly standards and continue to live their lives according to the Christian faith by practicing the royal law of love.

ATTRIBUTES ASSOCIATED WITH BELONGING TO THE FAMILY OF GOD . . . DISTINCTION Upon my public profession of faith in Christ, followed by a unanimous vote of the Church to accept me into the Fellowship of Believers, pending baptism, the presiding officer said ...read more

Scripture: James 2:1-10

Christ Is Still Risen!

Contributed by Jonathan Kruschel on Oct 12, 2020

How does Jesus take the sting out of death? Life is still hard and losing a loved one is sad. How does Easter help? No matter what you're going through Easter doesn't change. Christ is still and always will be risen from the dead!

This Easter is unlike any that I’ve ever experienced and I’m guessing that I’m not alone in feeling that way. This is a rather strange Easter morning. The church is empty. Your normal family gatherings have likely been cancelled or postponed. You likely watching this worship service by ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:54-57

Denomination: Lutheran

Bastazo!

Contributed by Charles Mallory on Aug 30, 2019

Bastazo is the Greek verb meaning to "bear" or "to take up in order to carry." It can also mean to support or sustain. As Christians we are to help each other through all of life's many challenges.

A POWERFUL STATEMENT OF CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY COMES IN ACTS 4:32, THAT PROCLAIMS, “ALL THE BELIEVERS WERE ONE IN HEART AND MIND. NO ONE CLAIMED THAT ANY OF THEIR POSSESSIONS WAS THEIR OWN, BUT THEY SHARED EVERYTHING THEY HAD…AND GOD’S GRACE WAS SO POWERFULLY AT WORK IN THEM ALL THAT THERE WERE NO ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 6:2-3, John 13:34-35, Acts 4:32, James 4:17

Denomination: Free Methodist

Inspiring Purity Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Dec 23, 2020

If you want to encourage people pursue purity and follow Christ, begin with a blessing; don’t lay down the law.

After Helene Talbert of Wahpeton, North Dakota, completed her first semester at a Christian college, she had a lot to tell her family. Just before the end of the semester, they had an open house in her dorm – one of the few times men are allowed in the women's rooms. When her family came to ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 27:46, Genesis 28:1-9, Romans 2:4, Romans 5:20, Romans 7:8  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical Free

The Illustration Of Faith Series

Contributed by Greg Powell on Aug 19, 2020

As an example of salvation by faith and not works, Paul uses the Jews own patriarch Abraham against them!

INTRO: Let’s review...we have been talking about works versus faith. At the crux of the debate going on in the lives of the Galatian believers was the question of salvation through works or through faith in Christ alone. How are we truly justified? Justification is the gracious act of God by ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 3:6-14

Denomination: Baptist

How Is The New Covenant Better Than The Old? Series

Contributed by Jim Butcher on Oct 19, 2018

In what ways is the new covenant better than what Moses shared?

What Should We Do? Embrace the better new. - Sometimes Christians seem to pine for the Old Testament way of doing things. A couple examples: a. Getting to see God show up physically with smoke and lightning fireworks. b. Having a list of rules to follow. - A larger problem than that, though, ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:7-18

Denomination: Baptist

"ten Lords," Ten Commandments

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 29, 2018

Anything that causes us to turn our backs on the two great commandments–love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves–is sin, and needs the healing power, the forgiving power of Christ.

January 3, 2019 Tenth Day of Christmas According to one interpretation of the overused carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas, this tenth day is the one which adds “ten lords a leaping” to the list of gifts given us by our true love, Jesus Christ, who is the “partridge in a pear tree.” The ten lords, ...read more

Scripture: John 1:29-34

Denomination: Catholic

Do Not Become Weary Doing Good

Contributed by Derek Geldart on Dec 31, 2018

This sermon is going to look at some of the practical ways that today’s church can walk in the Spirit so that we might no longer look “foolish” but faithful in the eyes of our risen Savior!

Do not Become Weary Doing Good Galatians 6:1-10 Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567 To either get a word or pdf copy or to see a video of the sermon go to the website “You foolish Galatians” is what the church of Galatia has been known for ever since Paul wrote to them. ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 6:1-10

Denomination: Baptist

A Confessing Adulterer Series

Contributed by Larry Turner on Nov 7, 2014

Jesus appears to stongly condemn remarriage after a divorce. This tends to create a bleak future for a lot of folks. But was this his intent? This sermon covers the message that Jesus was delivering concerning divorce and remarriage.

We are in the midst of a series entitled “Upsetting the Apple Cart.” We have already discovered that murder is wrong but Jesus equated being angry with someone to murder. We have already discovered that adultery is wrong but Jesus equated looking with lust to adultery. Today He really ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:31-32

Denomination: Foursquare