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  • God And Sinners Reconciled

    Contributed by Ruth Hind on Dec 26, 2007
    based on 9 ratings
     | 6,293 views

    A Christmas sermon asking whether the audience will take up God’s offer of reconciliation

    There was once a woman who hated Christmas.Many years ago she’d fallen out with her daughter who had left slamming the door behind her and saying she wanted nothing more to do with her mother. The woman had never seen her since. Every Christmas the woman nursed a secret hope that this would be ...read more

  • Family, Love, And Grace Series

    Contributed by Antonio Torrence on Sep 15, 2006
    based on 20 ratings
     | 11,639 views

    To truly accept God’s love, we must learn to love ourselves as well as others.

    Family, Love, and Grace 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 I. On the surface Madea’s Family Reunion is comedy about family and love. For families to survive love is necessary and crucial. It may be a cliché but what the world needs now is love. What the family needs now is love. What the church needs now is ...read more

  • Jesus, The Good Shepherd

    Contributed by Dan Santiago on Dec 4, 2006
    based on 17 ratings
     | 6,325 views

    This sermon explains the reasons Jesus is the good Shepherd of everyone.

    JESUS, THE GOOD SHEPHERD JOHN 10:1-39 The “I AM” statements represent a particular relationship of Jesus to the spiritual needs of men. 1. Bread of life – source of provision for life. 2. True Vine – source of vitality and productivity. 3. Resurrection & Life – ...read more

  • Affirm Your Doctrine

    Contributed by Carl Allen on Dec 12, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,200 views

    Do you know what you believe? Are you just following the crowd? As believers we all should know what doctrine we follow.

    Affirm Your Doctrine 2 Timothy 1:13-14 INTRODUCTION 1. Knowing that his death was imminent, Paul charged Timothy regarding his duties as an evangelist... a. To stir up the gift of God given him - 2 Tim 1:6 b. To not be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord, or of those who suffer for Him ...read more

  • Dutiful Christians Series

    Contributed by Joseph Mcculley on Dec 28, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 11,953 views

    This message reminds us of basic Christian duties, like being in subjection to governmental powers...

    1 Peter 2:13-17 Dutiful Christians Introduction: Do you like to go to masquerade parties? Let me tell you about a party that occurred a long time ago. On December 16, 1773 Samuel Adams was speaking and in his closing comments, he gave a prearranged verbal signal. He said, "This meeting ...read more

  • Part 5 - Matthew 11:13-14 - In A Previous Life I Was A Dolphin? Series

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 11, 2010
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,759 views

    How can John the Baptist be Elijah the prophet? Reincarnation? Malachi 4:5 (NLT) gives a prophecy about Elijah. It says "Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord arrives."

    Part 5 - Matthew 11:13-14 - IN A PREVIOUS LIFE I WAS A DOLPHIN? I asked some friends what they thought about REINCARNATION last night and got some funny responses - should have known. One of them said "once, in a previous life, I was a dolphin... lol jk." Another one said "It’s weird to think you ...read more

  • Facing Future With Confidence Series

    Contributed by Robert Fa’atoia-Collins on Jan 20, 2012
    based on 6 ratings
     | 8,800 views

    When you think life is getting dark and you feel lonely, here is assurance from our Lord and Saviour.

    Are you and your church members just a little anxious about the events leading up to the end of time? I am not. Let me tell you why. All the predicted “last-day events” meet their climax in the seven last plagues. These are the final events that usher in Jesus’ second coming and ...read more

  • Connecting The Disconnected

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Jun 15, 2011
     | 7,543 views

    This sermon focuses on those who are connected to Jesus Christ as disciples as opposed to those who are connected with (asociated) Christ.

    CONNECTING THE DISCONNECTED Text: Hebrews 4:14 – 16, 5:7 – 9 Just recently I read a sermon in last Friday’s edition of the Times and Democrat by the Rev. Frank Hay. He made some interesting comparisons in his sermon. He mentioned how Judas’s kiss which ...read more

  • The Abiding Principle

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Mar 30, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,765 views

    Listen to Romans 5:10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Intimacy with God begins now. He desires for His followers to cultivate His presen

    The Abiding Principle John 15:1-2, 5-6, 15 1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. ...read more

  • Down In The Valley

    Contributed by Danny Nance on Mar 21, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,488 views

    Sermon on the need to be among the hurting in order to be able to minister God’s love.

    Down in the Valley Mark 9:9, 14-29 On a morning news show this week, I heard one of the most incredible acts of either bravery or lunacy. A mountain climber (forgive me, I did not write down his name) went up Mt. Everest, and was the first person ever to ski down the entire mountain in a single ...read more

  • Get In The Zone Series

    Contributed by Ken Hubbard on Feb 3, 2010
    based on 5 ratings
     | 8,060 views

    A sermon about how to live in the shadow of God, i.e. "the Zone"

    INTRO: We've been talking about being in the zone. To Dwell -- to exist in a given plan, to reside Psalms 91 says there is a place that will cause us to have God's shadow on us. -I call that the ZONE -We've been using football as our metaphor -And since today is Superbowl ...read more

  • I Will Be A Functioning Church Member (1) Series

    Contributed by Rodney Fry on Apr 15, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,729 views

    This sermon is to speak to members to Funcition better as a whole member of the Body of Christ and the Local Chu This sermon series was taken from the book by Tom Rainer I am a Church Member – I added , my thoughts are other to make this sermon complete

    SERMON SERIES I am a Church Member Series SERMON 1 I will be a Functioning Church Member I will be a a Functioning Church Member I Cor 12:12-31 This sermon series was taken from the book by Tom Rainer I am a Church Member – I added , my thoughts are other to make this sermon ...read more

  • Spiritual Formations: First Things First

    Contributed by C Jordan on Jul 24, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,733 views

    Three of the key spiritual formations are abiding in Jesus in prayer, abiding in the Word, and abiding in His love.

    SPIRITUAL FORMATIONS #4: FIRST THINGS FIRST SPIRITUAL FORMATIONS QUOTE: “To live the spiritual life and to let God’s presence fill us takes constant prayer, and to move from our illusions and isolation back to that place in the heart where God continues to form us in the likeness of Christ takes ...read more

  • Lent 1: Temptation Is A Good Thing

    Contributed by Fr. Rian Adams on Mar 8, 2019
     | 2,985 views

    A sermon on growing through temptations and not repressing them. The sermon centers around the temptation of Jesus.

    Title: Temptation Is A Good Thing The Rev. Rian Adams Spiritual growth happens in the desert. That’s spiritual and literal for me! Every year Lent begins with Jesus in the desert as he prepared for his ministry. Throughout the scriptures, deserts are places of purification. I lived in the ...read more

  • Laodicea: The Church Of Nauseating Ineffectiveness Series

    Contributed by David Taylor on Jan 23, 2014
     | 4,303 views

    Laodicea: The Church of Nauseating Ineffectiveness

    The Seven, part 15 Laodicea: The Church of Nauseating Ineffectiveness Revelation 3:14-22 September 8, 2013 We are on our last letter this week, the letter to the church of Laodicea, what I am calling the church of nauseating Ineffectiveness. Laodicea is a church whose affluence had blinded them ...read more