Sermons on loss is gain: showing 346-360 of 48,623

How Can The Lord Help Us Find Comfort During The Loss Of A Dear Friend?

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000

How can we find comfort during the loss of a family member or friend? 1.

How can we find comfort during the loss of a family member or friend? 1. Ask the Lord to be your comforter in times of grief. Paul writes, "Who comforts us in all our sorrow so that we can offer others, in their sorrows, the consolation that we have received from God ourselves." (2 Cor. 1 :4) 2. ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 23:4

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Six Steps To Wisdom Series

Contributed by Tim White on Nov 7, 2014

"Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise". Paul then gives us instruction on being wise. We start with the first six.

Ephesians 5:15-21 Six Steps to Wisdom. A pastor was meeting with his staff and deacons. Suddenly an angel appears and says, “Pastor, because of your faithful sacrifice, you have been granted one of these three choices: Unlimited wisdom, or unlimited money, or unmatchable good looks. Which ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:15-21

Denomination: Baptist

Identity Theft

Contributed by Phillip Smith on Nov 11, 2023

An unstable person who feels inadequate in their identity might steal another’s because it might bring them personal gain. Others who have turned to evil find pleasure in stealing from a person more wealthy than they.

Knowing mankind has to have individual identifiers for every person, place and thing, he has instinctively created an almost impossibility to recognize things of a spiritual nature. Man cannot readily recognize things of a spiritual nature because he does not see, hear, touch, nor smell or taste a ...read more

Scripture: Acts 8:9-24, 1 John 2:15-16, Colossians 3:17, Philippians 2:5-11, Ephesians 4:1-3, Philippians 3:15-19, Colossians 3:1-8, John 13:34-35  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

To Be: Mournful Series

Contributed by Richard White on Oct 15, 2011

What do we mourn? Loss of loved ones, jobs, opportunities and the like. We are called to mourn our loss of our relationship with God.

To Be Mourning. Illust: I helped him cry. Some commentators deny that this mourning is for sin (e.g., Bonnard). Others (e.g., Schweizer) understand it to be mourning for any kind of misery. The reality is subtler. The godly remnant of Jesus' day weeps because of the humiliation of Israel, but they ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:1-4

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

A Strait Betwixt The Twain.

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Aug 24, 2023

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

A STRAIT BETWIXT THE TWAIN. Philippians 1:21-30. The Apostle Paul had just referred to his ‘earnest expectation and hope’ that Christ should now be ‘magnified’ in Paul’s body ‘whether by life or by death’ (cf. Philippians 1:20). Suddenly, it seems, Paul found himself in a state of ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 1:21-30

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Words Of Life Series

Contributed by David Dykes on Aug 9, 2010

Are you looking for life in all the wrong places? Everybody is living for something or somebody. Paul said, “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” As we get closer to death in this human flesh it seems we tend to talk about death in terms of loss

INTRODUCTION Over the past five weeks, we’ve been visiting the cross to listen again to the Final Words from the Cross. Today we’re going to consider words that continue to shake our world: The first words from the tomb. These words were spoken by angels to the women who had arrived at ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

Elisha

Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Mar 21, 2003

How Elisha dealt with the loss of his friend and mentor Elijah

My text this morning is taken from the Old Testament reading: 2 Kings 2:1-12 It is the well-known story of Elijah and Elisha and how God took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind and Elisha was left behind on his own. This morning, I would to look at Elisha, and see how he dealt with the loss of ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 2:1-17

Denomination: Anglican

Beatings

Contributed by Bala Samson on May 28, 2024

The gain outweighs the pain!

Proverbs 20:30"Lashes and wounds purge away evil, and beatings cleanse the innermost parts." I was led in the Spirit to write this devotion; nevertheless, it is tough to write on tough & hard subjects. Not many would want to hear about beatings, though, anybody listening? We find in ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 20:30

Denomination: Pentecostal

If You Were Only Guilty Of One Fleeting Sinful Thought, A Lifetime Of Righteous Deeds Could Not Justify You.

Contributed by David Goering on Aug 9, 2018

Our sin has earned a wage of infinite loss and this loss cannot be undone, even if we dedicated our entire life as an effort to undo it.

SCRIPTURE: James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in ONE point, he is guilty of all." Romans 3:20 "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." PROPOSITION: To use these texts and others to ...read more

The Love Of God-4

Contributed by Byron Sherman on Mar 16, 2021

4 of 5. Paul highlighted the necessity of self-giving love to the proper outworking of Christian living. Self-giving love is essential to true Christianity, but How or in What ways is it essential? As A Christian, the Love of God must Humble my...

The LOVE Of GOD-IV—1Corinthians 13:1-13 Need: To know & apply God’s self-giving(‘agape’) love, so as to prevent anything less from taking it’s place in our lives. Paul highlighted the necessity of self-giving, sacrificial love to the proper outworking of Christian living. Self-giving, ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Denomination: Baptist

If You Could See Me Now

Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jun 2, 2024

Introduction to Heaven after church family has multiple losses

I. INTRODUCTION I invite you to open your Bibles, this morning to John chapter 14 and verse 1. John chapter 14 and verse 1. We’re going to be there in just a minute. I said, “Please turn in your Bibles.” I hope you have one and that you have one with you. In Matthew 15:9 Jesus laments, > ...read more

Scripture: John 14:1-3

Denomination: Baptist

Framed! Series

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 11, 2019

Faith in God can help us to adjust and go on when we would be prone to fracture.

Framed! (Genesis 39:1-23) 1. A cow and a chicken were framed and thrown into prison. They knew they had to get out to bring the criminals to justice so they spent weeks designing escape plans. Finally, a month after they had been thrown in, they escaped in the middle of the night. However, they ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 39:1-23

Denomination: Independent/Bible

When Life Takes The Life Out Of Life Series

Contributed by Tony Klinedinst on Aug 9, 2002

Lessons on how we respond to times of loss and pain

WHEN “LIFE” TAKES THE LIFE OUT OF OUR LIVES Growing Through Loss: Luke 22,24 Introduction: Tony in the dryer. Explain loss (Swindoll) (Read text) Explain the loss felt by disciples. I.Times of loss require a control of your passions. (LK 22:49-51) A. Explain the context. 1.According to ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Why Does God Permit Evil On Babies At Birth?

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Feb 25, 2014

Why should children suffer from pain or loss?

A. INTRODUCTION 1. Thalidomide was introduced in 1957 and over 7,000 children were born without limbs (deformity). Forty percent died. 2. Birth problems, 1,500 deaths per 100,000 births. 3. Abortion. 4. Child starved and beaten by mother’s lover. 5. Birth Hypoxia, lack of oxygen at ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 139:15-16

Denomination: Baptist

Hundredfold Return!

Contributed by Bala Samson on Aug 31, 2020

God will remove the curses and make up for all the loss!

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 Hundredfold return! Genesis 47:1 “Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers and their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen." When you patiently ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 47:1, Joel 2:25

Denomination: Pentecostal