Sermons on Listening Ears:

An Awesome Responsibility

Contributed by David Salyer on Dec 21, 2000

The treasure of raising God’s gift of children

An Awesome Responsibility Proverbs 22:6 Matt. 19:14 Psalm 127:3 Intro- I don’t know about you, but what I gather from the Word of God is that children are important in his eyes. We have to understand that our children are an incredible gift from God, which are really only on loan to us. God ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 22:6, Matthew 19:14

Denomination: Pentecostal

Hanging Around God: The Start Of The Growth Cycle

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 18, 2000

Hanging around God both exposes our spiritual need and helps us to address that need; it both diagnoses our problem and starts us on the road to recovery; it is a growth cycle that can be described in several phases...

1. I do not deny that I am a fan of Frozen Custard....lemon custard sounds bad but is delicious! 2. Interesting watching the groups of people who go there...groups of teens/adults...alike...birds of a feather flock together... 3.Ever wonder, which comes first? (1) people choose to hang around those ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 86:1-17

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Why It Is Important To Minister In The Divine Power Of The Holy Spirit

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000

Why It Is Important to Minister in the Divine Power of the Holy Spirit

Why It Is Important to Minister in the Divine Power of the Holy Spirit (Luke 4:18-20) Illustration: Author Jamie Buckingham once visited a dam on the Columbia River. He’d always thought that the water spilling over the top provided the power, not realizing that it was just froth, that deep within ...read more

Scripture: Luke 4:18-20

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Hanging Around God

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 18, 2000

Hanging around God both exposes our spiritual need and helps us to address that need.

1. I do not deny that I am a fan of Kokomo Frozen Custard....lemon... 2. Interesting watching the groups of people who go there...groups of teens/adults...alike...birds of a feather flock together... 3.Ever wonder, which comes first? (1) people choose to hang around those like them... (2) people ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 86:1-17

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Separated For Christ

Contributed by Thomas Clawser on Feb 3, 2002

Revival message for "Youth Night" teaches young people the value of being different from the crowd.

1. Introduction A. Young people, tonight is your night; our thoughts are turned to you 01. We have some advice for you; to make it fair, we will have some for your parents, too B. Our world is a confusing place. Our days are filled with conflicting messages 01. Stand for our convictions, as long ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:14-20, 2 Corinthians 6:18-21

Denomination: Other

Wrestling And Embracing

Contributed by Mike Honzell on Feb 9, 2002

A sermon about revival

WRESTLING AND EMBRACING Habakkuk 1: 1-4 INTRODUCTION: A. Habakkuk’s name means to wrestle or to embrace 1. The meaning of his name is about all we know about him 2. From the book’s message that bears his name, we know that he lived in the days shortly ...read more

Scripture: Habakkuk 1:1-4

Denomination: Baptist

God's Great Call To Missions

Contributed by Billy Ricks on Dec 4, 2004

God choose the foolishness of preaching! They can’t hear if someone doesn’t tell them good news, they can’t believe if they don’t hear, they can’t preach if they are not sent. God calls us all to proclaim the good news. So that people hearing will beli

God’s Great Call To Missions “ Lamak”* was born into a wealthy, powerful Muslim family in South Asia. His family’s reputation put pressure on him to live like a Muslim. Everything changed when Lamak turned his life over to Jesus Christ while working in Singapore. When he returned home four years ...read more

Scripture: Romans 10:14-15

Denomination: Baptist

God Encounters: Zacchaeus Series

Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Aug 21, 2004

This is about Zacchaeus’ encounter with Jesus.

Sing “Zacchaeus was a Wee Little Man.” Share recollections of Zach from Sunday school: short, tree, etc. Read Luke 19:1-10. Who was Zacchaeus? What happened to Zacchaeus? Who was Zacchaeus? The only biographical info is right here: “a tax collector and rich.” * He was DESPISED. To say that ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:1-10

Denomination: Wesleyan

Saul Or Paul

Contributed by Rodney Fry on Aug 9, 2004

How God changes you and I just like he did Saul to Paul. Who are you still being a Saul or a Paul?

Saul or Paul THERE WAS HIS FORMER LIFE Saul was the arch-persecutor of the church Saul was consumed with a fierce anger & wrath against Christ and His disciples He “breathed out threatening & slaughter. What is in the heart is what comes out, Saul actually hunted down and slaughtered ...read more

Scripture: Acts 9:2-18

Denomination: Baptist

Friend Or Foe? Series

Contributed by Terry Kreuger on Oct 31, 2002

Authority and Accountability

Friend or Foe? Authority and Accountability Introduction Leaders are involved with authority. One of the things that people instantly recognized about Jesus was that he had authority. He spoke with authority He acted with authority He lived with authority He taught with authority And at his ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 8:5-13

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Why

Contributed by Ronnie Smith on Jul 8, 2005

WHY? · AM I HERE? · IS MY PURPOSE? · AM I THE WAY THAT I AM?

WHY? · AM I HERE? · IS MY PURPOSE? · AM I THE WAY THAT I AM? JEREMIAH 1:4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 6Then ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 1:4

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Something Is About To Happen

Contributed by Sam Peters on Mar 1, 2007

A message for Advent

Something Is About To Happen Focusing Scripture: Isaiah 64:1-9 1 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! 2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to ...read more

Scripture: Mark 13:24-37

God's Promise Of Spiritual Revival

Contributed by Howard Strickland on Feb 13, 2007

Do you ever feel spiritually lifeless? How about inwardly empty? Are you less than hot in your love relationship with God?

God’s Promise of Spiritual Revival Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:” I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 57:15

Denomination: Pentecostal

Seeds And Soils Series

Contributed by John Harvey on Jul 23, 2008

Jesus teaches about the spiritual depth of people and their reception to the Word of God.

Seeds and Soils June 8, 2008 Me: I know nothing about farming. I can’t make anything but weeds grow in my lawn. But I get fascinated by people who do understand those things. Some people can make any plant grow. When I walk through the garden section at Home Depot the plants all lean over. ...read more

Scripture: Mark 4:1-20

Denomination: Baptist

At Christmas Jesus Comes Into Our Mess

Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Nov 14, 2007

A Christmas Eve sermon focussing us to seeing Jesus amongst our messy lives

Isn’t the Christmas story a wonderful story? It is a story that we hear every year. But it is more than just any old story. It is something that happened in history that affects you today and that affects your future. When we open our eyes and ears, and be honest with ourselves, we realise that ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-14

Denomination: Lutheran