Sermons on Make Up The Hedge:

How To Help Make Your Church Great

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000

* Let God's character be your standard and source for how your church defines greatness.

* Let God's character be your standard and source for how your church defines greatness. Many churches fall into the trap of thinking that greatness is found in large numbers. David wrote, "Thine is the greatness and the power and the glory and victory and the majesty." (I Chron. 28:11,12) Ask the ...read more

Scripture: Acts 4:30-37

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

It Does Make A Difference What You Believe!

Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Nov 23, 2002

Those who say: "it doesn’t matter what you believe so long as you are sincere" are espousing a very dangerous and false doctrine. It really does matter what you believe.

IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHAT YOU BELIEVE “Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.” Hebrews 10:38-39 The statement "It ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 10:38-39

Denomination: Baptist

"Making A Big Deal Out Of A Widow Woman":

Contributed by Jerry Depoy on May 11, 2004

This preacher had but one church member in Chapter 17 who believed in him, but it was enough encouragement to give Elijah the boldness to call down fire from Heaven in Chapter 18!

“Making a Big Deal out of a Widow Woman” How God provided for Elijah... God could no longer bless the nation of Israel. Elijah was instructed by God to go to wicked King Ahab and his notorious wife, Jezebel, that a famine was coming. This famine would effect all of the people of Israel including ...read more

Scripture: 1 Kings 17:1-24

Denomination: Baptist

How Can I Make It Through Suffering? Series

Contributed by Ross Anderson on Oct 25, 2005

Be prepared for times of suffering, lest affliction cause you to lose your grip on your relationship with God.

Be prepared for times of suffering, lest affliction cause you to lose your grip on your relationship with God. I. DON¡¦T BE DUMBFOUNDED BY SUFFERING (12-13) 12 Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 4:12-19

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

When God Doesn't Make Sense

Contributed by Keith Crouch on Feb 21, 2005

This is a message that has to do with following God by faith even if it doesn’t make sense in our flawed earthly sense of thinking.

When God Doesn’t Make Sense I Kings 17:1-16 I. Go Where God Says Go (v. 1, 3-9) A. Be faithful where God has planted you (v. 1) 1. Be faithful to God when it is popular 2. Be faithful when it is not popular B. Be faithful when it is plentiful and when it is dry (v. 2-7) 1. God is the God of ...read more

Scripture: 1 Kings 17:1-16

Denomination: Baptist

Making Sure Your Legacy Is Build To Last

Contributed by Jim Butcher on Jul 11, 2005

This message points out 6 things we need to be doing to make sure our lives will have an eternal impact.

Making Sure Your Legacy Is Built To Last: 1. Plan before you build. - v. 10b - “take heed how he builds” - Do I care if I build? Do I want to do quality work? 2. Get skilled in building. - v. 10 - “as a wise master builder” - Knowing how to do it well v. just giving a “whatever” job. - The ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:9-15

Denomination: Baptist

Part 1:what Makes Us Unique Series

Contributed by David Beirne on May 17, 2005

A series on values of our church. If we really are a people led by the Holy Spirit, what will that look like?

What Makes Us Unique? 1 Peter 2:9-10, Romans 8:14 Today I want to address the values that drive me. As your pastor, I want you to know where we are going, and why we’re going that direction. Values are *what is valuable to our church. (if we aren’t reflecting this value, we’re not a ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 2:9-10

Denomination: Baptist

How Did Jesus Take It And Make It?

Contributed by Dennis Deese on Aug 25, 2003

There are three Christ-like qualities that will empower us to take it and make it.

“ HOW DID JESUS TAKE IT AND MAKE IT? ” By: Dr. Dennis Deese - www.dennisdeese.com 18:12-19 1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. There ...read more

Scripture: John 18:12-19

God Can Make The Vilest Sinner Clean

Contributed by Jonathan Powell on May 15, 2007

Evangelistic Sermon - based out of Acts, the conversion of Saul

God Can Make the Vilest Sinner Clean Evangelistic Sermon Acts 8:1-3; 9:1-22 Over the past month in our study of the book of James in both morning and evening services, we found out “How to Live the Christian Life” by looking to God through Faith and having patience and endurance through all of ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

How To Make 2007 The Best Year Yet

Contributed by Patrick O'loughlin on Jan 2, 2007

Making this year the best year yet is based upon faith in Christ and asking anything in His name.

Text: John 14:12-14 Title: How to make 2007 the best year yet. Introduction Whenever someone suggests to me how I can make my life better I usually am very skeptical. I ask “Is it true?” I ask “Is it for me?” I ask “Is it doable?” In our text Jesus answers the skeptic with truth, personal ...read more

Scripture: John 14:12-14

Denomination: Assembly Of God

It Just Don’t Make Sense!

Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Jun 9, 2013

Trying to understand the things that happen in this world

Ecclesiastes 8:9-All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt. 10-Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were forgotten in the city where ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 8:9-17

Denomination: Baptist

Laodicea: The "You Make Me Sick” Church Series

Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 2, 2008

This was a church by the people for the people and to the people! They had in-grown eyeballs!

Revelation 3:14-22 Laodicea: The “You Make Me Sick” Church A Celebrated Church 14a “And to the church of the Laodiceans” The church in Laodicea was a wealthy, self-indulgent church. Notice that it was the church of the Laodiceans not just in Laodicea. They were geographically situated in a ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:14-22

Denomination: Baptist

"Only Jesus Can Make A House A Home”.

Contributed by Barry Edmondson on Nov 8, 2007

This is a wedding sermon I preached for an older couple in our church who got married after coming to the Lord.

A Young businesswoman was approached by a real estate agent who wanted to sell her a home. “A Home?” she said. “Why do I need a Home?” I was born in a hospital, educated in a boarding school, courted in an automobile, and married in a church. My Husband and I work in office buildings. On ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-13

Denomination: Pentecostal

What Makes The Great Commission So Great?

Contributed by Rick Boyne on Aug 6, 2012

What makes the great commission great?

What Makes the Great Commission so Great? August 12, 2007 - Morning Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne INTRODUCTION: 1. Matthew 28:18-20. 2. What makes the great commission great? DISCUSSION: I. It is great because of the one by whom it is given. A. All authority ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20

Denomination: Baptist

The God Who Makes All Things New

Contributed by Philip Gill on May 31, 2008

Even with its outrageous characters and weird scenery the Book of Revelation does have relevance for us today. We can look around us and name some of the beasts that plague us – terrorism, global warming, severe drought, rampant consumerism,and so on.

I have a love hate relationship with the telephone. Real phones I mean not these mobile ones with which I simply have a hate relationship. On one occasion when I was just beginning in ministry I answered a phone. On the other end was a voice of a man who wanted to come and discuss the Book of ...read more

Denomination: Anglican