Sermons on Linger Longer:

Christmas Without Christ

Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006

In America Christmas no longer includes Christ.

Christmas without Christ Luke 2:1-20 Christmas 2005 We are in a point in American History that we want to take God and religion out of all public life for fear we will offend someone. So we don’t thank God at Thanksgiving we are just to be thankful. At Christmas we want to have a happy ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-20

Denomination: Wesleyan

Haunted By Hurts Series

Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Oct 10, 2014

We no longer have to be haunted by hurts

INTRODUCTION • SLIDE #1 • If there is one common experience we all share in life it is being hurt. Being hurt seems to be a part of the human experience. • One of the reasons we experience hurts in our lives is the fact that God created us to be relational. WE are created in ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 30:1-12

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Turning Back In The Day Of Battle

Contributed by Bill Rushing on Aug 9, 2010

Many are no longer fighting the good fight.

I. It was a time of conflict A. Isreal is a waring nation 1. God sent them in the promised land to fight! 2. Isreal had many victories B. There was an important battle to be fought 1. probably I Sam 4 "And the Philistines fought and Israel was smitten and they fled every man ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 78:9-11

Denomination: Baptist

An Age Of Nonsense: "The Failure Of 'ism's"

Contributed by Reverend Cooper Mcwhirter on Sep 29, 2016

An Age when our "Yes" no longer means yes, and our "NO" no longer means no. When right is wrong and wrong is right!

Sermon Preached at Grace Community Church (EPC) Sun City Grand, Surprise, AZ Sunday, August 5, 2001 by the Reverend Cooper McWhirter An Age of Nonsense: “The Failure of Isms” Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 Commencement is the one time each year when students get to hear a speaker say something ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:12-18

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

The Devil's Cup

Contributed by David Dailey on May 24, 2003

THE longer you drink the more bitter it becomes

John 2:9-10 is our text. The Governer of the feast said something here that is a very important truth. As we read this scripture, we see the manner of the world (or the devil) described, and we see the manner of the bridegroom (or the Lord). The Governer said; Every man at the beginning doth set ...read more

Scripture: John 2:9-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Yes We Have A Future

Contributed by Norm Story on Feb 7, 2003

Focus on immediate suffering, or a longer-term perspective?

"Yes, You Do Have a Future" Isaiah 40:26-31 Romans 8:18-28 (Isaiah 40:26-31 NRSV) " Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these? He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name; because he is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing. {27} Why do you ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:18-28, Isaiah 40:26-31

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Living The Life You Choose

Contributed by Dennis Munn on Dec 16, 2010

Bondage begins with the awareness that you are no longer free...

Living the Life You Choose Exodus 1:11-14, John 8:31-32 Introduction: I’d like to begin by asking you two questions this morning: First, are you happy with your life? If you could do something or be something different, would you? And second, do you understand the difference between ...read more

Scripture: John 8:31-32

Denomination: Apostolic

Who Holds The Key To Human Happiness? Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 20, 2024

We are shocked and horrified, but we are no longer surprised.

Palm Sunday 1964 Growing up in the 1950s and sixties, and going to Catholic schools, our Boomer generation hardly ever heard of things that are common today, and nobody knew that the Rockefeller foundation was funding researchers to reduce the Catholic population by finding a “Catholic ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 50:4-7, Philippians 2:6-11, Mark 11:1-10

Denomination: Catholic

Living In Freedom Series

Contributed by Rick Boyne on Apr 27, 2025

We are no longer slaves to sin but children of God.

Living in Freedom March 9, 2025, Morning Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: We are no longer slaves to sin but children of God. Focus Passage: Galatians 4:1-20 Supplemental Passage: For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 4:1-20

Denomination: Baptist

The Power Of Intersession

Contributed by Ethel Lamazon on Oct 27, 2022

WHEN OUR LEADERS GET TIRED GOD GIVES US INTERSESSORS TO INTERCEDE ON OUR BEHALF

THE POWER OF INTERSESSION, EXODUS 17: 11-13 11 As long as Moses held up his arms, the Israelites won, but when he put his arms down, the Amalekites started winning. 12 When Moses' arms grew tired, Aaron and Hur brought a stone for him to sit on, while they stood beside him and held up his arms, ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 24:1, Exodus 18:13-26

Transfusion

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jan 18, 2003

Funeral sermon for Henry Allen, who had lingered in weakened condition for many months, and who had become distanced from everyone, particularly his family.

What you see is not always what you get. What your eyes tell you is not always the whole truth. Sometimes there is more going on than you can see. Have you ever been tricked by an optical illusion? An optical illusion is something that, when you first see it, you think you know exactly ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Denomination: Baptist

The Purpose Of God’s Power Series

Contributed by Ken Henson on Sep 21, 2017

with God’s power we can be patient in difficulty and endure an increasing load longer and longer with joy in our hearts as we see His will accomplished

Worthiness Do you ever feel worthy of the LORD’s blessings? In general, I don’t. I think most of us don’t feel worthy, and that sense of unworthiness may increase with age. Jesus said “I do always those things that please the Father”. And when He said that, many who heard Him believed in Him (John ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 1:10-11

Denomination: *other

The Truth Shall Set You Free

Contributed by Robert Travis on Jun 29, 2001

We don’t have to be in bondage any longer.

John 8:31-36 THE TRUTH THAT SETS YOU FREE SCRIPTURE READING: JOHN 8:31-36 I. FREEDOM FROM FEELINGS. A. PROBLEM WITH THE FLESH. ROMANS 7:18 1. You may discern what right is. 2. But you may have a problem doing what you know is right. B. PERPLEXED BY YOUR FEELINGS. 1. Sometimes you may feel like you ...read more

Scripture: John 8:31

Denomination: Baptist

Invasion From The East Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Aug 19, 2015

Repent today before you no longer want to.

During a tourist bus excursion to a volcanic canyon in Iceland a couple of years ago, a woman was reported missing when she failed to return to the bus. The bus driver waited an hour before notifying the Icelandic police. Soon after the missing person's report, search and rescue teams and even a ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 9:13-21

Denomination: Evangelical Free

The Patience Of The Lord.

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Sep 12, 2023

The longer the Lord’s delay, the more time there is for repentance.

THE PATIENCE OF THE LORD. 2 Peter 3:8-15a. 2 PETER 3:8. Peter wishes to emphasize to his “beloved” friends that the longer the Lord’s delay, the more time there is for repentance. To the LORD a thousand years are but as a day when it is past (cf. Psalm 90:4). Yet He stretches out the day of ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 3:8-15

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational