Sermons on Open Rebuke:

Hands Open Series

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Sep 21, 2008

Hands open may be a handshake or a salute, signalling friendship or respect. Just as those gestures affirmed Saul, we also must approach others by leading them to safety and by affirming their potential.

f I come toward you with an open hand, what does that mean? If I approach you from across the room with either one hand or both hands open, how would you interpret that? Well, of course, it would mean different things for different kinds of open hands. There is more than one way to be ...read more

Scripture: Acts 9:1-19

Denomination: Baptist

Open Doors

Contributed by Aaron Kilbourn on Oct 8, 2008

This sermon is about loving your neighbor and treating them with compassion and mercy. It also tells about the Good Samaritan in an updated version.

Luke 10:25-37 reads, “And behold a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?” So he answered and said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:25-37

Denomination: Baptist

Open Doors

Contributed by Gregory Mc Donald on Dec 15, 2008

For a number of years the Apostle Paul endured strained relationships with Christians friends in a church in Corinth. Even though he had helped establish the church, some serious misunderstandings developed between Paul and his friends.

OPEN DOORS 2 COR. 2:12 17 For a number of years the Apostle Paul endured strained relationships with Christians friends in a church in Corinth. Even though he had helped establish the church, some serious misunderstandings developed between Paul and his friends. In order to repair this broken ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 2:12-17

Always Open!

Contributed by Lew Slade on Dec 22, 2008

What does it mean for us that the "Stone was rolled away"?

Always Open Have you ever set out on a journey not knowing what was in store? I remember when I was very young our family would catch a bus each year for our summer holiday. I had no idea where we were going or what it would be like when we got there. I suspect that some of the younger ones here ...read more

Scripture: Mark 16:1-8

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

The Opened Gate

Contributed by Darren Sirmans on Sep 6, 2010

There are certain seasons when you enter into His gate with praises, present your body as a living sacrifice holy and exceptable to God.

Ezekiel 46 : 1 - 6 Six days have passed in the inner courts; a gate is still closed at the inner court yard Jesus says let’s go all of my people and, we all shall say where you lead; we will follow; Jesus leads us to open the gate on the Sabbath of the new moon because the gate has been ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 46:1-6

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Open Reward

Contributed by Dimeji Adebayo on Feb 6, 2009

Principles that will guarantee open reward

Beloved are you looking to the Lord to prosper you in your endeavour in this year 2009; then you need to put into operation the three principles outlined by the author and the finisher of our faith. Preamble A long time ago, there was a period of boom in a particular country's economy, but ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:1-34

Denomination: Pentecostal

An Open Door

Contributed by Dan Campbell on Nov 5, 2009

Evidently, Paul is tired. He has already spent more than eight years on his first two missionary journeys traveling from city to city, working tirelessly, preaching the gospel, starting churches, facing opposition, sometimes even having to flee from thos

AN OPEN DOOR 1 Corinthians 16:5-9 Tonight I feel a little bit the way the Apostle Paul felt when he wrote the words we find in 1 Corinthians 16:5-9. After I go through Macedonia, I will come to you—for I will be going through Macedonia. Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 16:5-9

Denomination: Assembly Of God

An Open Door

Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Nov 22, 2009

A Call to follow God through the doors HE opens and not try to walk through doors which others may open.

An Open Door 1 Corinthians 16:5-9 * When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. -- Alexander Graham Bell * What comes to your mind when hear the term open door? A door is a movable barrier ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 16:5-9

Denomination: Baptist

Open Windows

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jan 25, 2011

Annual Theme for the church for 1988, announcing a program of enhancing the educational ministries.

(Annual Theme Sunday, Takoma Park Baptist Church, Washington, DC, Jan. 24, 1988) A little over a year ago I brought you a report on the rebuilding of Takoma Park Baptist Church. In that report I said that our rebuilding and renewing process could be compared to the business of building a building, ...read more

Scripture: Malachi 2:1-9

Denomination: Baptist

Opening Eyes!

Contributed by K. Heath Mcdougal-Deans on Mar 29, 2020

Open your eyes, your 2020 vision is not over! It should be growing. The current pandemic is an opportunity to open our eyes to a new vision, to opportunity, to come together as a world and heal divisiveness. After all, 'We are the world, We are 'Thee' children".

Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons conducted an experiment at Harvard University more than a decade ago that became infamous in psychology circles. Their book The Invisible Gorilla popularized it. And you may be one of the millions of viewers who made their Selective Attention Test one of ...read more

Scripture: John 9:1-41, John 8:1-11, Luke 4:18-19, Acts 26:18, Ephesians 6:12, Isaiah 6:9  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Other

Open The Gift Series

Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Aug 2, 2012

"Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? Did you take God into your mind only, or did you also embrace him with your heart? Did he get inside you?" (these are Paul’s words)

Open the Gift? Before we get started, I want to ask everyone a question. How many of you, have any unopened Christmas or birthday gifts lying a around your house. It’s human nature isn’t, to open gifts that we receive? Today I want to conclude our study on the Holy Spirit and ask have you opened ...read more

Scripture: Acts 19:1-7

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

An Open Door

Contributed by Geoffrey Foot on Nov 29, 2018

The door of opportunity is there for the taking and John in Revelation outlines this for the Church in Philadelphia.

An open DOOR Rev.3:7-13 Of all the seven churches in the book of Revelation, Philadelphia was the ideal Church, and the one against which Jesus had no accusations nor did He find any sin there. However, Philadelphia was not a perfect city it was a city of many temples, and was called “the little ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:7-13, Colossians 4:3, 1 Corinthians 1:27-29

An Open Door Series

Contributed by Frank Szatmari on Apr 13, 2019

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Open Door which leads us into the presence of God.

An Open Door Sermon April 7, 2019 at Calvin Presbyterian Church Kitchener, Ontario, Canada “I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut.” Revelation 3:8a The word Philadelphia means “brotherly love.” - The city of Philadelphia in Asia Minor was showing this brotherly love towards ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:8

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Open Arms

Contributed by Paddick Van Zyl on Oct 21, 2014

We are the arms of God on earth....

Sermon by Pr. Paddick Van Zyl Oct 21, 2014 Title: Open Arms Intro: Have you ever watched someone run to a loved one that has their arms wide open? Ever seen a dad beckon to his son or daughter to jump, he will catch them? There is a 'magical' and comforting aspect to arms that are wide open as ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 33:27

Denomination: Pentecostal

Opened Ears Series

Contributed by D Marion Clark on Oct 29, 2012

As spectacular as giving hearing to a deaf man may have been, what that healing signified was by far more wondrous than anything that life on earth has yet to experience.

Introduction We read in our passage what is a common experience for us – the record of yet another healing. That was not common for the man Jesus healed. To him it was the most spectacular event of his life. And yet, as spectacular as it may have been, what that healing signified was by ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:31-37

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed