Sermons about Meaningless Wandering

When Everything Feels Empty Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on Jun 25, 2024

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Because life is fleeting, base your life on what will last forever.

When Everything Feels Empty Ecclesiastes 1:1-2 Rev. Brian Bill June 22-23, 2024 A Peanuts comic shows Linus working diligently on the beach, constructing a large and elaborate sandcastle. A few frames later, it begins to rain, eventually pouring down so heavily that his castle is completely ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:1-2

Denomination: Baptist

Prayer And The Prodigal Series

Contributed by Ewen Huffman on Nov 21, 2003

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An encouragement for us to seek out the wanderer.

Prayer and the prodigal Jas 5:17-20 WBC 23/11/03pm In July 2002 in an incident that the news-media called "The Miracle at Quecreek," nine miners were trapped 240 feet under-ground for three days in a water-filled mine shaft. You probably remember, you were no doubt holding your breath with me as ...read more

Scripture: James 5:19-20

Denomination: Baptist

Do Not Become Callous

Contributed by Nettie J Pennington on Feb 24, 2025

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Do not wander from the life in Christ.

Father God, Lord Jesus, hallowed is your holy name. Thank you for mercy and grace. Lord Jesus, today, we ask that You sweep across this nation and create a clean heart and renewed spirit in everyone who calls You, Lord. I say a special prayer for those with a hardened heart: soften their hearts and ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:18-19, Colossians 3:5, Romans 13:14

Denomination: Other

Are You For Real?

Contributed by Ron Hicks on Jun 15, 2006

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Motions are meaningless. True worship comes from the heart.

ARE YOU FOR REAL? Matt 27:27-36 27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. 28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. 29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:27-36

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Finding Your Way Back Home...again

Contributed by Richard Laraviere on Aug 9, 2008

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Finding our way back to relationship with our heavenly father not so much when we have sinned as just wandered away

Finding Your Way Back Home…. AGAIN Opening: 1. I was taking time to read again the Word last evening and the freshness of the word just washed over me and then I realized it had been awhile since I had actually held the word in my hands and was reading. I needed to again come back to center ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:13-34

Denomination: Mennonite

You Still Don't Get It

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 28, 2020

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Do we listen to the voice of God in our hearts telling us what we must do in order to free up His grace?

Tuesday of the 5th Week of Lent 2020 You Still Don’t Get It When I was growing up and first encountering the Bible stories, the years after the departure from Egypt were characterized as “forty years they wandered in the desert.” So I pictured the Hebrew people churning around the Sinai peninsula ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 102:1-20, John 8:21-30, Numbers 21:4-9

Denomination: Catholic

Watchfulness And Witness Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 25, 2020

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God has delivered us up to the results of sin, with this horrible virus causing all kinds of evils, even people dying without the sacraments, and with politicians promising to take away, and actually taking away our God-given rights of free speech and religion and assembly.

First Sunday in Advent 2020 Watch! These are reflections for the new liturgical year, beginning with this first Sunday of Advent in the plague year. But every year, month and day is a time to get closer to the awesome loving kindness of our God, brought to earth in the passion, death and ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 63:16-19, Isaiah 64:2-7, Psalm 80:15-19, 1 Corinthians 1:3-9, Mark 13:33-37 (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Catholic

Proverbial Wisdom

Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Oct 18, 2004

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1- Discerning and wandering 2- Knowledge and understanding

INTRO.- Quips and quotes. - A man in Missouri was told that most accidents happen within twenty miles of home so he moved to another town fifty miles away. - The most talked about people at a family reunion are those who didn’t show up. - A friend is one who strengthens you with his prayers, ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 17:24

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Under The Sun Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Feb 19, 2023

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If you want to find any significance in an otherwise insignificant life, look above the sun.

The movie Antz begins with an ant named Z talking to his therapist. Take a look. (Show Antz (1998)—You Are Insignificant scene). All my life I've lived and worked in the big city…. I always tell myself there has got to be something better out there. Maybe I, maybe I think too much. I think ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

Denomination: Evangelical Free

What If There Is No Bodily Resurrection? Series

Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Mar 25, 2012

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In this lesson we learn that it is meaningless to live as a Christian if there is no bodily resurrection for Christians.

Scripture We continue our study in The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians in a series I am calling Challenges Christians Face. One of the challenges that Christians face is the issue of bodily resurrection, and particularly as it relates to how Christians live in view of our bodily ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:29-34

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Finding God's Blessing After We've Been Wandering Series

Contributed by Jim Butcher on Oct 18, 2019

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This sermon discusses the need to return to God, not just return to doing good. Is religious activity enough to get God's blessing?

- Background on the book: - Addressed to the Jews who had returned to Jerusalem from Babylon in 538 B.C. Two years later they started to work on the temple, but opposition led that to be put aside for 16 years. - This opening statement comes right after the restarting of the temple project. - ...read more

Scripture: Zechariah 1:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

The Lost Sheep: God's Pursuit Of The Wanderer Matthew 18:12-14 Series

Contributed by Dean Courtier on Apr 15, 2024

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Matthew 18:12-14, unveils God's heart for the lost and His relentless pursuit of those who stray from His flock. Let us delve deep into this scripture and uncover its profound implications.

The Lost Sheep: God's Pursuit of the Wanderer Matthew 18:12-14 Introduction: Today, we embark on a journey through the transformative truths revealed in Matthew 18:12-14. This passage unveils God's heart for the lost and His relentless pursuit of those who stray from His flock. Let us ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 18:12-14, Luke 19:10, Ezekiel 34:11-16, 2 Peter 3:9, Luke 15:7, John 3:16, Romans 5:8 (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Pentecostal

Look! Up In The Sky!

Contributed by Gary Robinson on Oct 18, 2000

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God rescues us from meaningless, purposeless, hopeless living.

You can forget "The New Adventures of Superman." As far as I’m concerned, his old adventures are the greatest. I remember jumping off that big, yellow school bus, racing across the road and into the living room. I’d snap on the TV and wait for the tube to warm up. If I’d gotten home in time, I’d ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 18:3-19

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Vanity Of Vanity, All Is Vanity!

Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Mar 25, 2010

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Life is meaningless if we leave God and eternity out of the picture.

Intro: 1. “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow a poor player That struts and frets ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:1-3

Denomination: Baptist

The Great Commission Of The Church Series

Contributed by Rev. Dr. Vivek Gundimi on Aug 3, 2019

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if Jesus is not raised from the dead, this commission in verse 19 is meaningless.

Church and its Commission Matthew 28:16-20 Introduction: This evening the title of the sermon is, “Commission of the Church”. When you look at the title it conveys the idea that the church should be a force in the community that it is placed in; because you see the community does not run the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:16-20

Denomination: Methodist

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