Sermons on Looking Ahead:

Looking Back On 2020

Contributed by Rick Boyne on Dec 22, 2020

We can end 2020 well if we keep focused on God and not our circumstances.

Looking Back on 2020 December 27, 2020 Morning Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: We can end 2020 well if we keep focused on God and not our circumstances. Focus Passage: John 21:20-22 Introduction: We are certainly tempted to throw 2020 in the garbage and ...read more

Scripture: John 21:20-22

Denomination: Baptist

God Looks At The Heart Series

Contributed by Obeth Jebakumar on Dec 23, 2020

God “tries the heart,” “sees the heart,” “refines the heart,” and “searches the heart.”

1 Samuel 16:7 For God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. In both the Old and New Testaments, the word “Heart” refers to the center of an individual’s mental, emotional and spiritual life. Put another way, the heart is the “innermost ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 16:7, Acts 13:22

Denomination: Methodist

Abraham: A Final Look Series

Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Feb 3, 2021

The last years of Abraham's life have less coverage than his middle years, between leaving Ur and settling in Beersheba. Even so, several events happened, so let's take a last look at Abraham's live

Introduction: Abraham, like most Bible characters, had his high and low points. The highest point, arguably, would be the episode where he was commanded to offer Isaac as a burnt offering but was stopped before he actually did so (Genesis 22). The last years of Abraham’s life don’t have much ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 23:1-2, Genesis 24:1-9, Genesis 25:1-10, Luke 16:19-31

Denomination: Baptist

Just Look At That Snake!

Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Mar 8, 2021

There is something far more deadly than the venom of a snake which has bitten all. But Jesus becomes the curse for us.

Just Look at that Snake! Numbers 21:4-9 The Old Testament book of Numbers can be a difficult read. Unlike Leviticus which is hard to read because of all the details of numerous offerings and ritual, Numbers is hard to read because of the constant failures of and judgments on the children of Israel ...read more

Scripture: Numbers 21:4-9, John 3:14-21

Denomination: Independent/Bible

A Fresh Look At The Cross

Contributed by Claude Alexander on Mar 22, 2021

In the ancient world, the cross was a depraved and distasteful affair. Romans used it, but the sparse reference to it in their literature shows their aversion to it. They considered it a barbarian form of punishment Similarly, the Jews detested it.

A fresh look at the Cross. John 12:27 Every religion and every ideology has its own symbol for its identification. . For the Buddhist it is the Lotus Flower. Judaism has the Star of David and Islam the Crescent. In this century the Communists were known for the hammer and the sickle and the Nazis ...read more

Scripture: John 12:27

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Looking For A Great Church

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 8, 2022

We live in a changing world.

Illus: A woman goes to the doctor's and says: • "Doctor, Doctor, you have to help me. Every time I eat I throw-up DIMES!" The doctor tells her to relax, go home, rest with her feet up and come back in a week. • A week later the woman returns and says, "Doctor, Doctor, it's ...read more

Scripture: Acts 4:23-33

Denomination: Baptist

God Looks On The Heart

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 25, 2022

The nation of Israel is a nation bless by God. Did you know that God actually led them by a CLOUD BY DAY AND A PILLAR OF FIRE BY NIGHT.

No nation can boast and say that the Lord led them the same way. Other nations were led by kings. However, when Samuel grew old, and Israel looked around and saw other nations had kings, they decided they WISH they also had kings like other nations. Looking around and wishing for something ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 16:7, Jeremiah 17:9

Denomination: Baptist

Look In The Mirror: Isolationism

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 28, 2020

Today we live in a mean, cruel world. Seems there is a danger of to move to spiritual isolation as fear takes deep roots. We need each other. No person is an island...

LET US LOOK IN A MIRROR --- MOVING TO ISOLATION? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com I have a bunch of banana’s and I lift them high. Is there a lesson here? They are all safe together … but when you break one from the bunch it will be isolated, skinned and it will be ate. WARNING, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 22:37-38, Jeremiah 24:7, Romans 13:9

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Looking For A Better Pastor

Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Nov 14, 2020

Jesus has set the example for what a good pastor is to be.

Looking for a Better Pastor Ezekiel 34:1-31 Ezekiel lived in a time of deep distress among the Jews. At the beginning of Ezekiel, part of them, including Ezekiel, had been exiled to the river Chebar in Babylon. The remaining Jews in Jerusalem would rise up in one last rebellion against ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ezekiel 34:11-16, Ezekiel 34:20-24

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Looking For Spiritual Loopholes?

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 20, 2022

Who is my neighbor? Trying to justify self? There are no love loophopes.

LOOKING FOR A LOOPHOLE…? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com Text: Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? What would it take to make me happy? What if every dream ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:36, Psalm 142:4, Luke 10:29

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Wisdom Of Looking Back Series

Contributed by Yewande Olowookere on Jan 24, 2022

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom is the principal thing in all thy getting get wisdom. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom James 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. James 3:14 But if ye have bitter envying ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 4:4

How To Look To The Lord!

Contributed by Tony Abram on Aug 1, 2022

How to Look to the Lord! We need to look both ways before crossing when first time visiting a country that drives on the opposite side as your country. Walking with Jesus may require you looking more than one way to have the blessings of God.

How to Look to the Lord! We need to look both ways before crossing when first time visiting a country that drives on the opposite side as your country. Walking with Jesus may require you looking more than one way to have the blessings of God. I. First the need to start each day by Looking up and ...read more

God Looks At The Heart

Contributed by Rev. Samuel Arimoro on Sep 23, 2025

God examines the heart, not outward appearances, when evaluating our devotion, obedience, and faith.

GOD LOOKS AT THE HEART By Rev. Samuel Arimoro Main Text: 1 Samuel 16:7 Key Verse: “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 16:7

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Stop Look And Listen

Contributed by David Parks on Oct 11, 2023

We need to Stop Look and Listen

STOP LOOK AND LISTEN INTRODUCTIONS 1. Stop Look and Listen. Does this sound familiar? 2. Describe the weekend rat race: Dad works over, gets up Saturday washes the car, cuts the grass leaves with the camper (constantly yelling at Junior) runs to the campground etc. 3. Wait. Stop!......... ...read more

Scripture: Romans 10:17, Ecclesiastes 1:16, Psalm 19:1

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Looking For Volunteers: Intercession

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Mar 5, 2024

THE ENEMY TRIES TO RUB THE BELLY OF SAINTS TO KEEP US ASLEEP. We need intercessor to arise and stand in the gap for the hurting, the lost and the back slidden. Will you intercede for others?

LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS? INTERCESSION! By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (Watch: YouTube: Wade Hughes) LET US HAVE AN ENGLISH LESSON. 4 KINDS OF SENTENCES. 1. DECLARATIVE: STATEMENT. 2. EXCLAMATORY, ! , 3. INTERROGATIVE?, 4. IMPERATIVE, COMMAND. “Pray one for another!” is a ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 22:30, James 5:16-17, Luke 2:7

Denomination: Assembly Of God