New Sermon Series Now Available
Everything you need for your next series
AI Sermon Generator
Generate sermon ideas with a safe, secure tool for solid preaching.
Biblical Sermon Calendar
Customizable sermon manuscripts for verse-by-verse preaching
Sermon Research Assistant
Free custom sermon in 5-10 minutes!
Topical Sermon Calendar
Preach with creativity and impact throughout the year
Funeral Sermon Generator
Create a personalized, heartfelt funeral sermon
Faithful to the Finish
Peter's final call to a young and growing church
Grace and Glory
A short series through the highlights of 1 Peter
Entrusted
Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
God will answer our prayers. Jesus will return - but both often seem to be taking such a long time! This short talk encourages us not to give up on prayer, nor to give up on the return of Jesus.
On 10th May 2003, through the post I received six letters concerning my claim for Tax Credits - much to my annoyance, since I made my application quite some time before. Back in 2003 the Tax Credit Office were singled out for a lot of criticism, and every day there seemed to be a story of a ...read more
Scripture: Luke 18:1-8
Denomination: Anglican
There are no hopeless situations. Jesus asks us to trust and to keep praying. If we don't give up, miracles can happen in our lives.
Last week I went to visit an elderly nun in her retirement residence. She was very happy to meet me and we spent some time chatting. While looking around in her room, I noticed a small table in a corner of the room and three small statues facing the corner. One looked like the statue of our ...read more
Denomination: Catholic
The platitude, 'Just keep praying,' seldom helps us in our struggle to persist in prayer. What encourage does the parable of the unjust judge give?
Text: Luke 18:1-8 Theme: Keep Praying for Justice against Your Adversary Season: Pentecost 22c Date: October 24, 2010 Web page: http://hancocklutheran.org/sermons/Keep-Praying-for-Justice-against-Your-Adversary-Luke18_1-8.html Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and ...read more
Denomination: Lutheran
The tenacious widow serves as a lesson about prayer for us. God doesn't mind if we are prayerful pests. He'd much rather have us pray for any reason or any occasion than have us remain silent.
Luke 18:1-8 “Being a Pest” INTRODUCTION Prayer is one of the core spiritual disciplines of the Christian life. Billions of Christians have prayed throughout the millennia (along with those of other faith traditions). Thousands of books have been written on the subject of prayer, ...read more
A Demanding Widow and a Deluded Pharisee (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request - email: gcurley@gcurley.info)
Reading: Luke chapter 18 verses 1-14 Ill: • When a night club opened on the main street of a small American town; • The local Church held an all-night prayer meeting. • One member asked God to burn it down. • Within a few moments, lightning struck the club and it was ...read more
Scripture: Luke 18:1-14
Denomination: Brethren
How many like to wait. I mean it is hard to wait in a long line in Wall- Mart. You understand don’t you, you only have a few items and there are two or three people ahead of you who looks like they just bought enough for a year and all the other lines a
TEXT: Luke 18:1-8 Wait - To stay in place in expectation of. To remain stationary in readiness or expectation.- How many like to wait. I mean it is hard to wait in a long line in Wall- Mart. You understand don’t you, you only have a few items and there are two or three people ahead of ...read more
Scripture: Luke 18:1-18
Denomination: Pentecostal
Please forgive me for stating the obvious, but persistent prayer is hard work. It drains us. It is hard, but it is eventually worth the effort.
Prayer Keys - Persistence “Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.” Luke 18:1 Have you seen that cartoon with the pelican having a frog for dinner? His dinner is not agreeing with him. In fact, his dinner is violently ...read more
Denomination: Baptist
The Bible is a promise book and a prayer book. And while reading is reactive, prayer is proactive. Reading is the way you get through the Bible. Prayer is the way you get the Bible through you.
Introduction In standardized math tests, Japanese children consistently score higher than their American counterparts. While some assume that a natural proclivity toward mathematics is the primary difference, researchers have discovered that it may have more to do with effort than ability. In one ...read more
Scripture: Luke 18:1-5
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Sermon #9 in the Preaching of Jesus series deals with Luke 11:1-13, 18:1-14 where Jesus taught about prayer.
Jesus teaching on Prayer Luke 11:1-13; 18:1-14 CHCC: March 4, 2012 INTRODUCTION: It’s Faith in Action Sunday … and the most important action we can take is to PRAY. Prayer brings the power of God into our actions. And prayer is the topic Jesus preached about in the scriptures ...read more
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
Praying to God as His sons and daughters is an honor. We should beat down the doors to heaven and seek God's will.
Do you wonder what some of Jesus’ parables mean? Do you ever feel like Jesus’ message is obscure and obtuse? “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God have been given to you, but to them, I speak in parables” (Lk. 8:10). Well, there is not room for misunderstanding ...read more
Praying has to be persistent to be effective.
Luke 18:1-8 KJV And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; [2] Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: [3] And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine ...read more
"When the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" We talk about our disappointment with God, but is God ever puzzled by our lack of faith?
The parable of the widow and the unjust judge relates to our disappointment with God. Like the mistreated widow, we often wonder why God allows so much pain and injustice to go on. We pray and pray and yet no answer comes. The righteous perish and the wicked flourish. Sometimes we even wonder, ...read more
Denomination: Holiness
America has been blessed because of her roots, but those roots are being destroyed.
“The Charge of the Light Brigade: Let’s Make Some Noise!” Is. 62:1-7; Ezek 33:1-20 As I begin today I want to be perfectly clear. America is not God’s chosen nation. There is only one of those and it is Israel. But America has been richly blessed because of her ...read more
Scripture: Isaiah 62:1-7, Jeremiah 14:21, Jeremiah 6:17, Isaiah 58:1, Luke 18:1, Ezekiel 33:1 (view more) (view less)
Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed
The Parable of the Persistant Widow. God does not judge like the human judge. He does what is right and quickly, there’s no back log and no need for a bribe!
The Parable of the Persistent Widow; Luke18:1-8. Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, we have the Lords Prayer as an example of prayer. We also have in Luke’s gospel a little parable about prayer. Jesus uses the story of an un-just judge and a persistently annoying widow woman to make his ...read more
Denomination: Salvation Army
We are stuck in a rote way of praying. This lesson will help you to see how the faith of a child and the persistent widow should teach us how to pray.
There is a great book out on prayer called “A Praying Life” by Paul Miller. One of Paul Miller’s statements in his book says “”Learning to pray doesn’t offer you a less busy life, it offers you a less busy heart.” A lot of times in prayer we think we need ...read more
Sermon Central