Sermons on No Other Gods:

Serving With Purpose: The Vital Role Of Deacons In The Local Church Series

Contributed by Dean Courtier on Feb 7, 2024

In the tapestry of a vibrant local church, each thread plays a crucial role in weaving together the fabric of community and service. The role of deacons stands as a cornerstone of support and service. Let's explore why deacons are essential to the life and mission of a local church.

Serving with Purpose: The Vital Role of Deacons in the Local Church In the tapestry of a vibrant local church, each thread plays a crucial role in weaving together the fabric of community and service. Among these threads, the role of deacons stands as a cornerstone of support and service. ...read more

Scripture: Mark 10:45, Hebrews 10:24-25, Psalm 133:1

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Parable Of The Weeds Among The Wheat: A Lesson In Spiritual Growth By Joseph Ondu

Contributed by Joseph Ondu on Feb 26, 2024

However, there will come a day of reckoning, a time of harvest when the separation between the righteous and the wicked will occur. The harvesters will gather the weeds and throw them into the fire, while the wheat will be brought into the owner’s barn.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Today, let us delve into the profound teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ as recounted in the Gospel of Matthew, specifically in the passage from Matthew 13:24–43. In this passage, Jesus shares with us the parable of the weeds among the wheat, revealing ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 1:2-3

Denomination: Pentecostal

Beatings

Contributed by Bala Samson on May 28, 2024

The gain outweighs the pain!

Proverbs 20:30"Lashes and wounds purge away evil, and beatings cleanse the innermost parts." I was led in the Spirit to write this devotion; nevertheless, it is tough to write on tough & hard subjects. Not many would want to hear about beatings, though, anybody listening? We find in ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 20:30

Denomination: Pentecostal

Mature Thinking

Contributed by Bala Samson on Mar 25, 2020

Spiritual growth is very important for believers

In your thinking be mature 1 Corinthians 14:20 “Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.” Spiritual growth is very important for believers, it is not all over the day you accept Jesus into your life or that you were born to ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:20

Denomination: Pentecostal

Choosing Friends Outline

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on May 12, 2020

Your friends will make you or break you so choose wisely!

Sometimes, it is good to do without friends. There was fella back in the 19th century by the name of Lorenzo Dow, whom folks called Crazy Lorenzo Dow. With a nickname like that, he and I would have been close friends. It seems that when Brother Dow was only four or five, he asked a playmate if he ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:33, 2 Corinthians 6:14, Proverbs 27:17, 1 Corinthians 10:15, 1 Corinthians 10:21, 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, Deuteronomy 13:6-11, Proverbs 29:24, Leviticus 24:10-16, Obadiah 1:10-13, Luke 11:23, Joshua 24:15, Proverbs 18:24, James 4:4  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Baptist

Jesus Returns To Jordan.

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Dec 3, 2022

Jesus escapes the clutches of His opponents.

JESUS RETURNS TO JORDAN. John 10:37-42. JOHN 10:37. Jesus insisted upon the evidence of “the works of my Father” which He was doing. By this He meant that the miracles that He was performing were signs of the veracity of His claim to be the Son of God. Without the proof of His miracles, people ...read more

Scripture: John 10:37-42

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Christ-Addicted

Contributed by Paul Richard on Aug 10, 2022

Christ-addicted are prisoners of Jesus

I am a Christian', that is always the response from most people when asked of their religious status. Often than not, it is a title bestowed as a result of the family religious background. In the real sense, Christians are christ-like. They admit being prisoners of Jesus ( Philemon 1:23) ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17, Philemon 1:23

Denomination: Pentecostal

What About That Third Servant?

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 25, 2022

Life on this earth is hard, and acting as a Christian sometimes makes it even more demanding.

Saturday of 21st Week in Course So we’ve all probably read or heard sermons on this parable from Matthew’s Gospel, and typically–to cut to the conclusion–we are told that Christ has given each of us a measure of talent or gifts, and we’d better use them properly. If we do, we get rewarded; if we ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31, Psalm 33:18-21, Matthew 25:14-30

Denomination: Catholic

Jesus Is The One Who Casts Evil Out

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 29, 2022

Job is able to put the words “good,” “afflicted,” “learning” and “law” together in one sentence. And we could add the word "joy," too.

Saturday of the 26th week in course Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the OT, has the prayer of somebody in the midst of a crisis: “It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.” It may very well be a prayer of Job, whose life and response we have been studying over the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:17-24, Job 42:1-17

Denomination: Catholic

The New And Living Bread

Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on Oct 26, 2021

What Jesus is to the world if would except him.

THE NEW AND LIVING BREAD John 6: (1) True bread. 31Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread ...read more

Scripture: John 6:31-32

Denomination: Baptist

Psalm 3 - How To Sleep Peacefully In Times Of Distress Series

Contributed by Rob De Jongh on Oct 15, 2020

David is in great distress, yet manages to sleep peacefully. How?

In Psalm 3 and 4 David is obviously in great distress. Many times he repeats his cry for help, “save me” or “hear my cry!” How interesting, then, that in verse 5 David says “I lay down and slept”. How could someone sleep whilst in a state of such trouble and anxiety? I laid me down and slept; ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 3:5, Psalm 4:4, Psalm 4:8, Matthew 8:24-26

It Time For Us To:

Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on May 2, 2017

Things we need to do today for our Lord.

IT TIME FOR US TO: Psalms 40: 1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 1. Now we need to sing up. ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 40:1-2

Denomination: Baptist

Flee Fornication

Contributed by Mark Stevens on Jan 7, 2017

Sexual immorality has run rampant in the world and YES in the CHURCH too, what can we do? FLEE!!!

Internet pornographers target web sites and addresses that appear to be Christian. The enemy knows that porno is a HIGHLY addictive force in his arsenal of evil tricks. I had a bad experience with pornography myself, I am not proud to admit it, but if it will help another man get free from it ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 7:21-23

Denomination: Pentecostal

Baby You Should Go And Save Yourself ...♩♬♪

Contributed by Peejay Delima on Jan 12, 2017

Never waste your time, energy, and life to those people who thinks they’re always better than anyone else - and those with appetites’ impossible to be satisfied!

Never waste your time, energy, and life to those people who thinks they’re always better than anyone else - and those with appetites’ impossible to be satisfied! Why? 1. You can never satisfy them! No matter what you do, whether you fail or succeed, whether you do it the way they want it or not, ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 11:4

Sweat For Pay Not Pay To Sweat

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Sep 16, 2018

Has our quest to overcome the curse cursed us worse?

Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Coming home from my granddaughter's soccer game (they won), I passed by one of the gyms in town and saw a lad on his way in ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 3:19, Proverbs 9:10, Proverbs 1:7

Denomination: Baptist