Sermons about Light Affliction

Heavenly Offer! Reprogram Your Imagination By Renewal Through God’s Word. Series

Contributed by Victor Ramlall on Jul 14, 2013

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Living the new life in Christ requires a reprogramming of our thoughts and manner of thinking by the renewal of our mind

Rom. 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:1-2

Denomination: Pentecostal

Play To Your Potential Series

Contributed by Mark Atherton on Mar 31, 2001

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Paul tells us to live up to what we have already attained. This is a crucial obligation of every believer. We must walk in the light that we have.

Play To Your Potential Philippians 3:16 -- Don’t worry about what you don’t understand. "What I don’t understand about the Bible does not worry me; What I do understand does!" Mark Twain --God gives understanding. -to those who have ears to ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:10-16

Denomination: Holiness

A Message For Those Living In The Land Of Shadows

Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Dec 14, 2002

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Third Sunday in Advent: We live in a land of shadows. But God calls us to live joyfully - to let Christ’s light come into our land of shadows.

Have you ever walked into a room and said, “Good morning” only to receive a roomful of, “What’s so good about it?” It’s that way in the land of shadows – people live with anger and frustration. Yesterday I was driving up West Avenue. I signaled to make a left-hand turn. A lady driving an SUV from ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:16

Denomination: Lutheran

Pentecost In Joel

Contributed by David Petticrew on Jun 8, 2003

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A look at the prophecies of Joel in light of Peter’s speech on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has been made available to all who will repent and turn to God.

Introduction The day of Pentecost. I don’t know what your traditions have been in the past but I don’t think I’d really heard much about the day of Pentecost until I moved to the Nazarene Church. Now this might be strange considering we moved from a Pentecostal church but then again I was only ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:1-42

Denomination: Holiness

How Do You Taste?- Series

Contributed by Ryan Akers on Jul 24, 2006

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God calls us to be salt and light, but what does that mean? Learn how Christians like salt are to silently be preserving, seasoning and cleansing in our walks with Christ.

The Power of the Parables Part 3- How Do You Taste? Pastor Ryan Akers Matthew 5:13-16, Luke 11:33-36 (A very small portion of the historical research was taken from Jose Marin’s sermon, Salt and Light Witnessing.) Matthew 5:13-16 13"You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:13

Denomination: Wesleyan

Christ: Our Peace

Contributed by Danny Moss on Mar 19, 2003

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In light of terrorist threats, possible nuclear war, the threat of economic collapse, and denuci- ation of Christians and Christian values, we des- perately need peace with God.

CHRIST:OUR PEACE Text-Ephesians 2:14 "For he is our peace..." Introduction- We are now living in one of the most trying times our nation has ever faced. There are threats of terrorist activities in our homeland, fears of nuclear war globally, and ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:14

Denomination: Baptist

Dreams That Continue

Contributed by Bruce Landry on Jan 15, 2007

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In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this sermon looks at dreams of the past, dreams for our future and dreams in light of Christ’s callings in our lives.

“Dreams that Continues?" Multiple Verses Dreams of Past Dreams of Future Dreams in View of Christ’s Calling Today we seek to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and we will start with a portion of Dr. King’s "I have a dream speech". …And so even though we face the difficulties of today and ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 37:5-8

Denomination: Baptist

What Would It Matter?

Contributed by Thomas Bowen on Oct 25, 2007

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Influence - famous people influence lots of people. Advertising influences people. Christians are salt and light and they infuence flavor...What influence does OUR church have?

What would it matter? SLIDE - influence This morning we are focused on one topic….influence perhaps considered power. It is one of the many words that can easily have a double meaning. It can be used to mean and ability to influence someone or something in a good or bad way …depending on your ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16

Denomination: Congregational

The Possibilities Are Limitless: When You Are Turned Over To God. Series

Contributed by Aubery Moore on Feb 19, 2008

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Fifth in the series, which looks at the new year in the light of limitless possibilites as modeled by the election. In this sermon Saul is introduced and his emergence on the scene is a reflection of limitless possibilities.

The Possibilities are Limitless: When you Are Turned Over To God. Samuel 10.1-25 Last week Senator Obama took the lead in total committed delegates as he moves toward the nomination for the democratic ticket. Presently Senator Obama has 1262 of the 2025 delegates while Senator Clinton has 1213 ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 10:1-25

Denomination: Baptist

Complete Honesty? Series

Contributed by Paul Clemente on Jul 20, 2009

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Our dishonesty with God is like a veil between us and the light, we can interfere with God’s love (although God’s love is always there)!

A police officer pulls over a speeding car. The officer says, ‘ I clocked you at 80 miles per hour, sir.’ The driver says, ‘Gee, officer I had it on cruise control at 60; perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating.’ Not looking up from her knitting the wife says, ‘Now don’t be silly dear, you know ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 44:1-34

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Religion And Government

Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Aug 6, 2009

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We need to restore to society a common moral code by being a light of Christ actively involved in our communities. Religion should be in government but government must not be in religion

As we struggle to understand to live out our faith and God’s will in our lives, we know that God does in fact care about all of the issues we will address during our Tough Issues Sermon series. Can anyone who is a believer truly think that God does not care what we think regarding criminal justice ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16

Denomination: United Methodist

The Coming Of The Holy Spirit

Contributed by Daniel Haas on Aug 7, 2009

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We tend to ask: How does the Bible fit my life? But in reality the question is: What does my life look like in the light of scripture?

Acts 2:1-21 Flames today - tongues of fire dancing over every head and all of us - every single one of us is filled with the Holy Spirit - everybody speaking a different language - right here, right now, in church - "that is not the way to behave in church" - Scary! Flames back then - people from ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:1-21

Denomination: Congregational

Make Your Way Pure Series

Contributed by Daniel Austin on Mar 3, 2010

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We are all called to repentance and in answering the call we are sanctified by God; called out of the world and into the Kingdom, called from death into life, from darkness into the light.

Make Your Way Pure 10/19/08 AM Text: Psalm 119:9-16 INTRODUCTION: In our lesson last Lord’s day we examined the idea that all have been called by God. We are all called to repentance and in answering the call we are sanctified by God; called out of the world and into the Kingdom, called from death ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 119:9-16

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

"Did His Feet Smell That Bad?"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Mar 16, 2010

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John 12 brings us a perplexing situation. Is Jesus giving the green light to personal jets for evangelists who preach the prosperity gospel? Or is there another point altogether?

John 12:1-8 “Did His Feet Smell that Bad?” By: Ken Sauer, Pastor of East Ridge United Methodist Church, Chattanooga, TN I must admit, this can be a very perplexing passage of Scripture. Wouldn’t it just be easier to ignore it? Of course, if we ignore it… …we loose the incredible insight ...read more

Scripture: John 12:1-8

Denomination: United Methodist

Cain & Abel

Contributed by Neil Richardson on Mar 14, 2008

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Why Cain’s offering rejected, Abel’s accepted, why Cain killed Abel, how God responded, how we should live in the light of this

Children’s Talk • Sisters: Carol (13, going into year 9) & Abbie (10, going into year 6) • It was day before Mother’s Day • Both girls got a card for their Mum  Abbie went and bought the nicest… coloured card, glue, glitter, colouring pens…made the card (drew some sheep- Mum likes ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 4:1-17

Denomination: Baptist

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