Sermons
Free Sermons and Sermon Outlines for Preaching :

Sermons on Lowell Strite:

showing 496-510 of 1,774
Filter Results
Close Filters

Scripture

Rating

Date

Denominations

  • Show more

Language

Structure

Sermon Type

Audience

  • Try PRO

    Confident Preaching

    Try PRO free and preach with confidence when people need it most.
    Free to start now
  • Guilty Of Innocent Blood (Whose Line Is It?) Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 16, 2003
    based on 68 ratings
     | 14,520 views

    Was Judas a good man or bad? What can his actions warn us of in our own walk with God?

    OPEN: When a couple caught an intruder in their bedroom, the thief pulled a gun and announced, "Now that you’ve seen me, I’m going to have to shoot you." He pointed his gun at the woman and said, "I like to know the names of my victims. What’s your name?" "Elizabeth," the woman replied. The ...read more

  • A New Hope Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 16, 2004
    based on 89 ratings
     | 28,429 views

    God was giving Jeremiah a chance to be a messenger of hope. There was to be a new covenant. But when was this covenant to take effect and who would be part of it?

    OPEN: I recently ran across a “good news” “bad news” joke for preachers: Good News: You baptized four people down at the river last Sunday Bad News: You lost 2 others to the river’s current Good News: You finally found a choir director who did things your way. Bad News: The choir mutinied Good ...read more

  • Knowing God's Phone Number Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 23, 2004
    based on 108 ratings
     | 47,711 views

    Why did God tell Jeremiah to "call upon" Him? And just how do I "call upon the name of the Lord?"

    OPEN: Last year, when Jim Carrey starred in his movie “Bruce Almighty” the writers of the script gave God a phone number that Carrey could dial to talk with the Almighty. But instead of using the 555 prefix that movie makers and TV shows generally give phone numbers – they gave God a 776 prefix. ...read more

  • You Can't Tell Some People Anything Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 30, 2004
    based on 91 ratings
     | 19,706 views

    This passage contains one of the most tragic but repeated statements in all Scripture: "We will not listen to God..." Why did the Jews say it and how can we avoid the same error in our lives and in our churches?

    OPEN: A young boy, about eight years old, was at the corner "Mom & Pop" grocery store picking out a pretty good size box of laundry detergent. The grocer walked over and, trying to be friendly, asked the boy if he had a lot of laundry to do. "Oh, no laundry," the boy said. "I’m going to wash my ...read more

  • Fancy Footwork - Contagious Christianity Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 5, 2004
    based on 88 ratings
     | 14,709 views

    God say our feet are beautiful when we talk about Jesus with others. What’s so significant about our feet that God would think they would be beautiful?

    OPEN: Leonardo da Vinci had once worked on a great masterpiece for a long period of time. There was a young student standing next to him as da Vinci worked, and the student watched the master work as the painting had evolved in front of him. The student was awed by da Vinci’s technique and had ...read more

  • Creating Thirst - Contagious Christianity Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 12, 2004
    based on 94 ratings
     | 11,499 views

    How would Jesus witness to my friends and relatives. Could I do what He did?

    (We began the service with a video clip from “Contagious Christianity” called “Lesson #8 - Objections” where a Christian woman was trying to witness to a skeptic who maintained that Christianity was too narrow and exclusive for her tastes). OPEN: Someone once speculated about how certain people ...read more

  • Telling Your Story - Contagious Christianity Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 20, 2004
    based on 128 ratings
     | 27,098 views

    The unsaved are really looking for something that can work in your life. How can you convince others that Jesus has made a difference in yours?

    OPEN: They tell me that being a “preacher’s kid” can be difficult for a young child. I read once of a preacher’s little boy who was told by his mother that he should wash his hands because there were germs living in all the dirt he’d been playing in. He looked up at his mother and got this really ...read more

  • Hisstory - Contagious Christianity Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 26, 2004
    based on 94 ratings
     | 10,069 views

    The Cross is a central focus of Christ’s story. But why? Why did Jesus need to die on the cross?

    VIDEO – Session 7 – “Putting It All Together” (up thru the phrase “There’s No Middle Ground”) OPEN: Richard Bandler tells one story about visiting a mental institution and dealing with a man who insisted he was Jesus Christ - not metaphorically, not in spirit, but in the flesh. One day Bandler ...read more

  • Remember Me (Whose Line Is It?) Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 11, 2003
    based on 66 ratings
     | 18,254 views

    The story of the thief on the cross is one of the most powerful in all the Gospels. But it is possible to get some wrong impressions from what this teaches us.

    OPEN: A minister was talking to a professing Christian and asked him if he was active in his local Church. The man responded, "No, but the dying thief wasn’t active in a local Church and he was still accepted". The minister then asked if the man had been baptized. He said, "No, ...read more

  • Let Him Save Himself (Whose Line Is It?) Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 20, 2003
    based on 66 ratings
     | 9,647 views

    The Chief Preists and Teachers of the Law challenged Jesus to save Himself, come down off the cross... then they’d believe in Him. Why didn’t He do that?

    OPEN: April 15th was just this past week, and I ran across this bit of information about the IRS that I wanted to share with you this morning. According to the "Newhouse News Service:" Over the past 193 years, the federal government has received approximately $4 million in unsolicited funds from ...read more

  • Surely This Was The Son Of God (Whose Line Is It?) Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 27, 2003
    based on 114 ratings
     | 26,186 views

    Something happened the day Jesus was crucified that turned a callous Roman Centurion into a worshipper at the cross. It was something he "saw" and something he "heard." But what?

    OPEN: Years ago when I was in Bible college, a movie premiered in the movie theatres that some friends of mine and I wanted to attend. What struck me as I watched, were the powerful images of Christianity in the movie. The movie? It was called "The Poseidon Adventure." How many of you have seen ...read more

  • Rocky - Preparing For The Fight Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 5, 2003
    based on 118 ratings
     | 19,613 views

    Why did Jesus take His disciples to Caesarea Philippi? Why go to a pagan, idolatrous city to ask His disciples the most important question of His ministry?

    OPEN: I read once the story of a young black man in the ghettos. He was fortunate in that he had both of his parents, and they struggled to make ends meet. But for his birthday that year they had scraped together enough money to pay for a brand new bicycle. A few days later someone stole it. ...read more

  • Rocky Ii - The Real Mccoy Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 12, 2003
    based on 66 ratings
     | 12,812 views

    Why did Jesus take Peter, James and John up to the Mount of Transfiguration? Because there was something that He could only teach in that place and in that way. Find out what that means to us.

    OPEN: The real McCoy really wasn’t... That is, the real McCoy wasn’t really a McCoy. His real name was Norman Selby. Raised on a farm in Indiana he left home around 1890, and after year in training, emerged as a boxer with the name "Kid McCoy." In a day of bare fisted boxing, the Kid was ...read more

  • Rocky Iii - Ko'd Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 19, 2003
    based on 91 ratings
     | 14,055 views

    Peter is often depicted as a weak and unreliable disciple, but was that really his problem... or was there something else that lay behind his denials of Christ in the High Priest’s Courtyard?

    OPEN: Nearly 30 years ago on October 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman squared off in the boxing ring in Zaire. Ali had dubbed it “The Rumble in the Jungle.” Foreman was heavily favored, and was considered to be the hardest puncher in heavyweight history. Foreman was fairly confident he ...read more

  • The Fellowship Of The Ring Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 15, 2003
    based on 95 ratings
     | 13,651 views

    Why did Jesus create the church? What is our main objective? Playing off the popular "Lord of the Rings" series, this sermon tells us one of the most powerful goals of the church.

    OPEN: On a spring break trip to Italy, a tour group was standing just inside St. Peter’s Basilica, the 2nd largest church building in the world. The tour guide was trying to explain the enormity of the building and part of his presentation went like this: “This church is so large no man on earth ...read more