Sermons on Mental Illness:

"We" Instead Of "Me" Series

Contributed by Eyriche Cortez on Oct 7, 2007

We enjoy our best life now if we shift from a "me" to a "we" mentality

Last December 2004, Joel Osteen’s “Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential” hit the number one slot on the New York Times bestsellers list. Personally, I have qualms about its “name it and claim it” or prosperity theology. That’s why I don’t endorse the book.[1] Publishers ...read more

Scripture: John 13:34-35

Denomination: Baptist

Breaking The Mind Siege

Contributed by Jeremy Poling on Feb 23, 2011

When we break the defeatist mentality and move towards God we will win our battles.

2Ki 7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? 2Ki 7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 7:3-4

Denomination: Pentecostal

What In The World Is Going On? Are We Creating A Frankenstein?

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 25, 2019

Blindness is a sad medical case, but mental blindness will create terrible problems? Are we creating a FRANKENSTEIN?

ARE WE CREATING A FRANKENSTEIN? WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com FRANKENSTEIN: is the creator of a fictional man like monster which eventually turns on the master. This term is used as a monster thing that becomes destructive and terrifying and ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 13:13-16, 2 Corinthians 3:14, Romans 1:20-31

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Who's Your Momma? #4 Series

Contributed by Robert Butler on Oct 3, 2019

We are all influenced (directed) by the people who raised us physically, mentally and especially spiritually.

This week we continue in our sermon series entitled, “In Need of a GPS”. We have been walking through the letter Paul wrote to the Galatians in 54 AD. As you know, Paul was writing to the church plants he started over the course of three years of missions work. He was upset because the original ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 4:21-28

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

When God Teaches His People To Obey (Exodus 16:1-33) Series

Contributed by Garrett Tyson on Feb 23, 2022

God breaks his people from a slave mentality, and teaches them a better way to live.

Let's start today by rereading last week's little passage, Exodus 15:22-27: (22) And Moses led Israel from the Sea of Reeds, and they went out to the wilderness of Shur, and they walked three days in the wilderness, and they didn't find water, (23) and they came to Marah/Bitter, and ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:1-33

Let Go Off Toxic Relationships. Series

Contributed by Shaila Touchton on Mar 8, 2024

Bad relationships can be toxic and harmful to our mental, emotional, and even physical well-being.

Have you ever felt trapped in a relationship that was draining your energy, suffocating your joy, and hindering your walk with God? Maybe it was a toxic friendship, a harmful romantic partnership, or a family bond that was weighing you down. Are you tired of being weighed down by relationships ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:14-17, Galatians 5:1, Psalm 119:130

Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evi?

Contributed by Kelly Benton on Nov 10, 2010

Our churches are afraid to speak against such issues within the church itself because of the fear of losing people and stepping on toes. Christians are afraid to speak out against it because we do not want to be viewed as bigots or as intolerant right w

Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil? Scripture: 2 Timothy 4: 2-8 Date: 14 November 2010 Purpose: Accepting everything means you believe in nothing. When it comes to right and wrong, sitting on the fence won’t get you – or the people ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:2-8

Denomination: Other

Care For The Poor

Contributed by C Jordan on Oct 23, 2007

A message delivered to our congregation by John Mohan, director of Siloam Mission in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Dear friends, <note - this is more of an article than a sermon outline - to go along with the audio file> In January of this year, the Lord spoke this Scripture to my heart for a vision for our church ministry for 2007: "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 61:1, Isaiah 61:1-5

Denomination: *other

Dens And Caves

Contributed by Bala Samson on Feb 15, 2014

God wanted His people to be conquerors and warriors but today contrary to the promise of God, we see many who are conquered, crushed, beaten and routed!

Dens and caves! Judges 6:2”And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.” God wanted His people to be conquerors and warriors but today contrary to the ...read more

Scripture: Judges 6:1-10

Denomination: Pentecostal

Individualism And Making Holy Families Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 26, 2021

Individualism, like most isms, is a philosophy of “me, first.” “I don’t care about anything or anybody but me.”

Homily for Feast of the Holy Family Sir 3: 2-7, 12-14; Psalm 127; Col 3: 12-21; Lk 2: 22-40 Version 2 (request that lector read the long version of Colossians) Is any English word so misunderstood today as the key word in Paul’s letter to the church of Colossae? No, I don’t mean the word ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:12-21, Luke 2:22-40, Malachi 2:16

Denomination: Catholic

The Wisdom Of Not Engaging With The Arrogant And Vengeful Series

Contributed by Shaila Touchton on Jan 20, 2025

In this sermon, we will explore biblical wisdom on how to explore interactions with such people.

As Christians, we are called to live a life of love, humility, and kindness. However, we often encounter individuals who embody the opposite qualities such as arrogance, prideful,pathological liers, manipulators,toxic and negative people and those who desire for revenge. In this sermon, we will ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 16:18

A Foolish Message

Contributed by Johnny Cox on Apr 11, 2018

A message given Easter Sunday in 2018 when it also fell on April Fools Day.

Welcome to Church today! Do you like dumb riddles? I do. While you are turning to John 3:16, let’s see if you are awake! Why did the Easter egg hide? He was a little chicken! What do you call a rabbit with fleas? Bugs Bunny! What do you get if you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole? A hot ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Love One Another: John 15: 9-17

Contributed by David Smith on Dec 21, 2006

The theme couldn’t be more basic - ’love one aother’. I’ll leave you to be the judge.

"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you ... love one another." I think it was Mark Twain that I first saw quoted, saying that it was ...read more

Scripture: John 15:9-17, John 15:5-17

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Ripples (Part 2 Of Series) Series

Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Feb 4, 2013

The ripples of our life choices continue for good or ill, long after the splash of that choice was originally made.

Roots, Ripples and Reference Points Lessons from the Lake, Part 2 TCF Sermon August 12, 2012 One of the things my youngest daughter Laura and I used to do, when we were at her grandparents’ lake house on Beaver Lake in NW Arkansas, is skip stones on the lake. There are a lot of stones on the ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-6

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Hatred – A Path Of Self-Destruction.

Contributed by Robert Sickler on Mar 11, 2013

Hate is a mental condition that harms the mind, body and spirit, which if allowed to remain will also destroy our relationship with God.

Introduction The Hatfield and McCoy feud was recently on TV; this is one of the saddest things I have ever watched. It is so wrong for people to hate people just because of their name or because of something they have done in the past. When Christians hate people they are in direct violation of ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:14-15

Denomination: Christian Church