Sermons on Lose Focus:

Treating The "unpresentable" With Special Care

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 23, 2025

Losing that witness leaves a community injured, even emotionally and socially bankrupt.

Third Sunday in Course 2025 Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people come into our lives over the seventy or eighty years of an average American lifetime. If we look at St. Paul’s words written almost two thousand years ago, describing an early Christian assembly, we can see images of people we have ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 8:2-10, Psalm 19:8-14, 1 Corinthians 12:12-30, Luke 1:1-4, Luke 4:14-21  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Catholic

The Glorious Work Of The Messiah

Contributed by Gerald Van Horn on Apr 11, 2006

Rather than focus on some wierd predtion we focus our spiritual telescope on the work of Jesus

The Glorious Work of the Messiah by Gerald Van Horn Daniel 9:24 “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon the Holy City, to finish the transgression, and to make an end to sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision ...read more

Scripture: Daniel 9:24

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Keep Pushing

Contributed by Rev. Samuel Arimoro on Jan 18, 2025

The Christian journey is a marathon, not a sprint. It demands consistent effort, unwavering faith, and persistence. Just as a woman in labour must push until the baby is delivered, so must we persevere in our spiritual race until we receive our eternal crown.

Title: KEEP PUSHING By Rev. Samuel Arimoro Main Text: “But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.” (2 Thessalonians 3:13) Supporting Text: Luke 9:57-62 INTRODUCTION: The Christian journey is a marathon, not a sprint. It demands consistent effort, unwavering faith, and persistence. Just as a ...read more

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 3:13, Luke 9:57-62

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Once Saved, Always Saved? What Would Have To Happen If A Person Willingly Chooses To Lose Their Salvation

Contributed by Dr. Craig Nelson on Sep 6, 2017

A review of the events described in the Bible that would have to take place if a person willingly chose to 'fall' and 'slip away,' losing their salvation and become unBorn-Again.

There are two fundamental schools about this have many branches of differing thought. First is the Armenian teaching that believes the believer maintains salvation and can be lost due to sin. Second is Calvinism, which teaches that salvation can never be lost because it was preordained from the ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:8, James 2:26, 1 John 3:9, 1 John 5:4-5

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Look Unto Jesus And Live

Contributed by Rev. Samuel Arimoro on Sep 4, 2025

This message calls believers to fix their eyes on Jesus as the source of salvation, strength, direction, and eternal life, regardless of life’s distractions and challenges.

LOOK UNTO JESUS AND LIVE By Rev. Samuel Arimoro Main Text: Hebrews 12:2, Numbers 21:8-9 Key Verse: “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:2, Numbers 21:8-9

Denomination: Assembly Of God

A Prayer In Beginning A New Year

Contributed by William Wyne on Feb 28, 2013

The believers focus in facing the unknown.

You can begin the New Year however you choose to, you were made that way by a sovereign God to choose the path of your attitude and action that you desire. However the outcome is often intrinsically tied to your choices. Because every choice we make has an end result, good, bad, or indifferent. ...read more

Scripture: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10

Denomination: Baptist

Ascention Day!!!

Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on May 21, 2013

To focus on the significance of Ascension Day...

ASCENSION DAY Several important events mark the life of our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ. Traditionally the Universal Church has been very dutifully celebrating Christmas (day of birth), Good Friday (the day the atoning work was completed on the Cross) ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:9-11

Denomination: *other

Tongue: It's "All" There...

Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Sep 6, 2013

To focus on the Creative force of the tongue

TONGUE: IT’S “ALL” THERE… Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit �“Proverbs 18:21 “Sticks can break bones but a lashing tongue can break hearts”, “Beware! Tongue is in a wet ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 18:21

Denomination: *other

The Dream Analyzed

Contributed by Larry Wolfe on Jul 1, 2009

Focus upon the dream of Nebuchadnezzar

Daniel Chapter 2-The Dream & Interpretation I. The Dream Told (v.31-35) A. It Was a Dream of A Gigantic & Terrible Image/Statue of a Man [Colossus] (v.31) B. It Was A Statue w/4 Parts (v.32,33) 1. Gold Head 2. Silver Breast & Arms 3. Brass Belly & Thighs 4. Iron Legs & Feet C. It Was A ...read more

Scripture: Daniel 2:31-45

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Forgive Them Series

Contributed by Rodney Fry on Apr 3, 2022

The Focus on the Cross to Bring Revival

Forgive Them Luke 23:35 I. Introduction A. The Focus on the Cross to Bring Revival 1. The New Testament church our example of revival 2. The cross and resurrection their message B. Approaching the Cross 1. ...read more

Scripture: Luke 23:35

Denomination: Baptist

What Drives Our Lives? Series

Contributed by Paul Clemente on Dec 9, 2014

What's the focus of our hearts?

Please open your Bibles to 1 Samuel …… We noted from the beginning of the Book that Samuel was prayed for by his mother Hannah. Samuel was dedicated to the Lord and the Lord called him to be a prophet. Later in the Book of 1 Samuel, we will be introduced to a godly man named David. But ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 10:9-16

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Guarding The Good Deposit Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on Jun 27, 2023

Focus on good doctrine and be an example of faithfulness.

Guard the Good Deposit 2 Timothy 1:13-18 Rev. Brian Bill June 24-25, 2023 I want to begin with a provocative quote from a post called, “The Cult of Culture” by Kenny Luck. “Watch out for the world. It’s after you. It wants you in its cult following, wooing you with pleasures and power, fame and ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:13-18

Denomination: Baptist

Construction Of Kingdom: Wisdom Of A Woman

Contributed by J. Ritter Jr on Oct 18, 2000

Introduction A young minister was losing his congregation to sleep during a rather dry sermon.

Introduction A young minister was losing his congregation to sleep during a rather dry sermon. To revive those napping in the pew, he said, I lived with a woman for over 17 years that was not my wife. The sleepy heads in the pew quickly woke up. He then said, She was my mother! A visiting ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 25:18-35

The Shame Of The Cross

Contributed by Paul Norwood on Mar 19, 2012

While we normally focus on the pain Jesus suufered, this is an attempt to focus on the horrible shame associated with His crucifixion.

The Shame of the Cross Text: Deuteronomy 21:22-23 I. Welcome II. Introduction Our theme this year is “Beyond Ourselves in 2012!” The thrust of this theme is on carrying the gospel to our community as the Lord commanded us in the great commission recorded in Matthew 28:19-20. Just as our ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-2

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Temptations -- Jesus' And Ours Series

Contributed by Revd Dr Ruwan Palapathwala on Jan 1, 2025

Temptation is our awful struggle not to lose ourselves and our potential to lose ourselves. Temptation also highlights God’s mercy and grace in our lives in the wilderness for forty minutes, hours, days or years.

In today’s Gospel reading, we encounter the most human and common experience: temptation, which Jesus also experienced in a very profound way. The temptations of Jesus are found in all four Gospels. But we are accustomed to thinking that Jesus was tempted three times before his public ministry ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 4:1-2, Luke 4:1-13, Mark 1:12-13

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican