Sermons on losing identity: showing 151-165 of 56,313

Losing Your Religion

Contributed by Gary Washburn on Jul 11, 2002

REligion and spirutality have always been at odds with one another. Do we need to lose our religion?

Losing Your Religion Romans 2:17-29 Intro: 10 years ago Bette Midler had hit song entitled, “God is watching us.” I believe it was popular because it expressed our cultural theological view. We want a god who provides but does not intrude, who protects and helps us out but does interfere with our ...read more

Scripture: Romans 2:17-29

Denomination: Baptist

Losing Sight Of The Goal

Contributed by Johnny Carver on May 17, 2001

This sermon encourages Christians to stay focused on the goal that God has designed for our walk with Him.

Scripture: 1 Peter 5:1 – 11 Title: “Losing Sight of The Goal” Introduction: It was a fog-shrouded morning, July 4, 1952, when a young woman named Florence Chadwick waded into the water off Catalina Island. She intended to swim the channel from the island to the California coast. Long-distance ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 5:1-11

Denomination: Pentecostal

230 - Choose To Lose Series

Contributed by Joel Vicente on Aug 24, 2002

A great paradox in the Christian walk is the more we lose, the more God wins.

Sermon Study 230 – CHOOSE TO LOSE (1) CHOSE TO LOSE – YOU WILL FIND Mat 10:39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ILLUST: One evening a woman was driving home when she noticed a huge truck behind her that was driving uncomfortably close. She ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 10:39

Denomination: Baptist

I Hope They Lose Series

Contributed by Shawn Drake on Jan 27, 2003

This is the 3rd sermon in the series "Stubborn Saints". This sermon looks at serving God with the right motives.

Sunday Evening January 26, 2003 Bel Aire Baptist Church Series: “Stubborn Saints” (#3) I HOPE THEY LOSE Jonah 3:1-4:11 Introduction: 1. As we watch the Super Bowl, most people have chosen a team in which they hope wins. The motives for each person wanting a particular team to win are ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Losing Your Testimony Series

Contributed by Paul Newell on Jul 11, 2003

This is an outline of part one of the series The Power of Testimony.

All of us desire to have a good testimony. We want our walk to match our talk. We want the story of God’s work in our lives to be as powerful to those who here it as it is to us. The Apostle Paul is dealing with the issue of testimony in this final chapter in Galatians. In the first part of the ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 6:1-9

Denomination: Baptist

Are You Gaining Or Losing? Series

Contributed by Garth Wehrfritz- Hanson on Mar 10, 2003

In losing life for the sake of Christ and the gospel we gain life. Do you live by cheap grace or costly grace? Have you counted the cost of true discipleship?

Sermon for 2 Lent Yr B, 16/03/2003 Based on Mk. 8: 31-38 "Are you losing or gaining?" Grace Lutheran Church, Medicine Hat, Alberta By Pastor Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson Someone (I’ve unfortunately lost the source) tells the following humorous story: When Ole quit farming, he discovered that he was ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:31-38

Denomination: Lutheran

Use It Or Lose It! Series

Contributed by David Dykes on Mar 27, 2003

The parable of the Ten Minas is a wonderful lesson for Christians and how to take advantage of opportunities to serve the Master, the resources He has given us and how we will be judged by our management of these gifts.

Use It or Lose It! Luke 19:11-27 By Dr. David O. Dykes INTRODUCTION One of my heroes is Billy Graham. Although he is in his mid 80s, and battling Parkinson’s disease, he is still preaching the gospel. In 1996, he and Ruth were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for their service to America. ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:11-27

Denomination: Baptist

Losing Your Mind

Contributed by Tony Fox on Dec 12, 2000

To be the kind of Christian God wants you to be you must be willing to give up your attitudes, aspirations, and actions so that Christ’s attitudes and actions become yours.

Losing Your Mind 8/6/00 (Phil. 2:5-11) RPBC p.m. Maybe you have read this letter before, but let me share it with you. Dear Sis, I thought I’d take a few minutes to write this letter to you. I hope you are doing well. I think I’m losing my mind. The other day, I was standing at the ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:5-11

Denomination: Baptist

Never Lose Heart

Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jan 2, 2001

A devotion for young believers

16 “THEREFORE WE DO NOT LOSE HEART, BUT THOUGH OUR OUTER MAN IS DECAYING, YET OUR INNER MAN IS BEING RENEWED DAY BY DAY. 17 FOR MOMENTARY, LIGHT AFFLICTION IS PRODUCING FOR US AN ETERNAL WEIGHT OF GLORY FAR BEYOND ALL COMPARISON, 18 WHILE WE LOOK NOT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Denomination: Orthodox

Losing Sight Of The Cross

Contributed by Doug Stringer on May 15, 2005

This message uses a large wooden cross as a prop. As I discuss each item, I place it on the cross. By the time I am done the sermon, the cross is completely hidden from all the garbage hanging from it.

Losing Sight of The Cross REV. 2:2 5a I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 2:2-5

Denomination: Pentecostal

Playing A Losing Game!

Contributed by David Aswat on May 23, 2005

To show that we cannot win at the game of sin.

SUBJECT: GAMBLING TEXT: Lk. 12:13-21 THEME: Meeting The Needs of The Person Through The Word of God! TITLE: Playing A Losing Game! INTROD.: Definition of Gambling - .... PROP.: We Cannot Win At The Game of Sin T/SENT.: By briefly looking at three aspects ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:13-21

Denomination: Pentecostal

Snooze You Lose

Contributed by Joe Burke on Jan 16, 2007

Christians stuck on a hamster wheel of religious activity

Snooze You Lose "The Lord will raise up against you a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, that swoops down like an eagle, a nation whose tongue you do not understand; a nation of stern visage, that shows neither respect for the aged nor pity for the young... They will besiege you in each ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 28:49-52

Denomination: Catholic

Losing Your Way Series

Contributed by Tom Fuller on Sep 23, 2007

Like a hiker without a map, compass, or landmark - Israel has gone off the trail and into danger. How can that happen to us and how to get back on the trail to God?

Perspective is a nice thing. When you are on a long hike, like in my Boy Scout days, it was always great to come up on the top of a ridge so you could have a look around and get your bearings and chart the course ahead, knowing that once you plunged down into the forest it’d be hard to get the big ...read more

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Is Christianity Losing America?

Contributed by Anthony Smith on Jul 24, 2004

The apostasy of the professing church. (2Th 1:3); (Luke 18:8); (2Ti 3:1-8).

Is Christianity Losing America? The apostasy of the professing church. (2Th 1:3); (Luke 18:8); (2Ti 3:1-8). Why is the truth in Christ so hard for people to understand? The Christian culture is dwindling according to scripture and there are those that continue to denigh the very existence of a ...read more

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 1:3-4

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Fear Of Losing Out

Contributed by Michael Hollinger on Sep 24, 2006

Why struggle for the approval of worldly things when the things of heaven are better in so many ways?

Mary Mallon was a very ordinary woman. She had the same desires as you and me. She was born in 1869, died in 1938, and because of that the career options opened to her were different, but the impulse was the same. She just wanted a better life. She had been born in the aftermath of the Irish ...read more

Scripture: Daniel 1:8-21

Denomination: Baptist