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  • Windows From History

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 3, 2007
    based on 34 ratings
     | 22,112 views

    A series of stories from history illustrating Jesus’ call to carry the cross in Mark 8:434-38.

    Windows from History Mark 8:34-38 Mk 8:34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. Mk 8:35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and ...read more

  • Living For A Cause

    Contributed by James May on Apr 15, 2007
    based on 25 ratings
     | 14,900 views

    Make your life really count. Find a cause greater than life itself and more important than yourself. That cause is found in Christ.

    Living For a Cause By Pastor Jim May Someone once asked me if I knew all of the answers to life’s many questions? In a joking manner I answered, “Sure I know the answers. The problem I have is matching the right answer to the right question.” But as I think about it, I don’t know all the ...read more

  • Biblical Algebra 101

    Contributed by Greg Carr on Mar 5, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,918 views

    Here’s Biblical algebra problem for you to solve. S+D+T= The mind of God and everything else. (I had to fill in for our youth pastor and this is what I preached.)

    Tonight we are going to do some simple algebra. Are you going to be a Wednesday night only Christian or are you going to be a sold out and radical one? How would you define a Wednesday night only Christian? How would you define a sold and radical Christian? If you want to get closer to ...read more

  • Knowing Jesus

    Contributed by Danny Nance on Mar 22, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,997 views

    Knowing Jesus is more than knowing facts; this sermon stresses the need for personal knowledge of and commitment to the Lord.

    Knowing Jesus Mark 8:27-35 Who is Jesus Christ? Opinions vary. He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a ...read more

  • A Successful Life

    Contributed by Matthew Mobley on Mar 28, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,541 views

    Jesus’ description of a successful life is different than that of most folks.

    Bishop Will Willimon is the resident bishop for the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church. But before he was elected bishop in 2004, he was dean of the chapel at Duke University – one of the most prestigious universities in America. He tells this story from his days at Duke about ...read more

  • How To Become Givers Of Life - I See Dead People

    Contributed by Dr. Craig Nelson on Sep 12, 2003
    based on 43 ratings
     | 4,567 views

    Do we desire to be givers of life?

    Not too long ago I attended the funeral of my Aunt Betty at Forest Lawn in Los Angeles, Ca. She experienced 79 years of this life before passing on to the next. It was a gentle and reverent service in the heat of the afternoon sun, interspersed with quiet sobs and the shedding of tears. My Uncle ...read more

  • In Giving Everything We Gain Everything

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Sep 12, 2003
    based on 69 ratings
     | 8,942 views

    The giving away of our lives for others through Christ is where real life is found.

    Mark 8:34-38 "In Giving Everything We Gain Everything" The first question in the Bible is found in Genesis, chapter 3. God asks Adam and Eve, "Where are you?" The answer?... ... "I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid." And so we have not only the first question in the Bible, but we ...read more

  • Calling All Losers

    Contributed by Antonio Torrence on Sep 12, 2003
    based on 51 ratings
     | 13,876 views

    Discipleship is about our willingness to lose ourselves in God’s will.

    "Calling All Losers" Mark 8:34-38, John 12:23-28 By Rev. A. LaMar Torrence, Pastor of Cross of Life Lutheran Church The great statesman, Winston Churchill, once said, “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” That proverbial statement best captures the meaning of this ...read more

  • The Cost Of Discipleship

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 14, 2003
    based on 324 ratings
     | 52,970 views

    The Text is the Gospel Reading for Common Lectionary, Year B, the theme is characteristics of a Disciple as seen in this text.

    THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP—MARK 8:27-38 --by R. David Reynolds Billy Graham has said, “Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have” [--Edythe Draper, Drapers Book of Quotations for the Christian World (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1992)]. In our text this morning ...read more

  • A Love We Don't Expect Series

    Contributed by Maurice Schaus on Sep 15, 2003
    based on 44 ratings
     | 7,656 views

    God’s love reaches us when we least expect it, inviting us to take up our Cross and follow.

    There’s just something about a surprise party. I think it has to do with the surprise part of the deal. It’s like your day is going along, maybe you’ve even forgotten that it’s your birthday. You’re just going through your day, thinking about a project you have to do after supper, and then, BAM! ...read more

  • Faith's Famous Four Words

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Sep 17, 2003
    based on 44 ratings
     | 9,686 views

    A Sermon for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 19 Peter telling Jesus he is the Christ

    14th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 19 Mark 8:27-38 "Faith’s Famous Four Words"   27 ¶ And Jesus went on with his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?" 28 And they told him, "John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and ...read more

  • Get Behind Me Satan

    Contributed by Johnny Small on Jun 20, 2002
    based on 124 ratings
     | 18,820 views

    We need to tell Satan to get out of our lives when he is there trying to tempt us because we are doing Christ’s will for our lives.

    Get Behind Me Satan Out of all of the disciples, I think I like Peter the best. He reminds me a lot of myself. Peter always had good intentions, but his mouth was always getting him in trouble with Jesus. I am the same way. I speak before I think and end up sticking my foot in my mouth. ...read more

  • Grace And The Gospel

    Contributed by Greg Adams on Jul 30, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 3,974 views

    The importance of preaching a gospel that does not leave men in their sins and uncommitted to Jesus.

    Grace and the Gospel We must be careful not to preach a gospel that leaves men in their sins and uncommitted to Jesus Christ. The Son of God made unmistakably clear the absolute necessity of repentance (Matt. 18:8,9 and Mark 1:14&15) and self denial (Luke 9:23-26) if we would have to do with ...read more

  • Go The Distance

    Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Mar 14, 2004
    based on 28 ratings
     | 5,916 views

    This is about total commitment to Christ.

    I am sure you have seen that wonderful bumper sticker that says something to the effect, “Whoever dies with the most toys wins.” It seems that is the way many people think about life. The chief goal in life for many people is comfort and luxury. Many of the “poor” in the United States have ...read more

  • Are You Gaining Or Losing? Series

    Contributed by Garth Wehrfritz- Hanson on Mar 10, 2003
    based on 129 ratings
     | 22,513 views

    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