Sermons on Opressing The Poor:

Can You Still Love And Worship God Through Disappointments? Series

Contributed by Alis Cerrahyan on Jun 28, 2019

Some of the saddest moments of our lives are when we're going through a serious challenge; or the loss of a job; or even the loss of a loved one. But the saddest of all is when God stops correcting us.

God calls children a blessing and a gift! Jesus actually tells us to be like children and to come to him full of faith and trust. Mark 10:15 reads, "Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” The most important ingredients a ...read more

Scripture: Mark 10:15, Psalm 8:2, Matthew 18:2-6

A Basket Of Ripe Summer Fruit

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Jul 7, 2019

Seek God, do justice - before it is too late.

A BASKET OF RIPE SUMMER FRUIT. Amos 8:1-12. This vision and its interpretation is based in a pun: the Hebrew word for “Summer fruit” sounds almost identical with the word translated “the end” (Amos 8:1-2). Read Amos 4:6-11 for a litany of the temporal judgments which the LORD laid upon ...read more

Scripture: Amos 8:1-12

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Dishonest Wealth And Eternal Dwellings

Contributed by Paul Andrew on Sep 4, 2019

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 25th Sunday Cycle C

The dishonest steward or manager probably said, “my commission checks are getting so big I had to hire an accountant.” Some say the steward or manager was simply giving away his commission since back then it was embedded into the invoice or else the manager was helping the poor by cutting out the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 16:1-13

Denomination: Catholic

Last Judgment

Contributed by Paul Andrew on Nov 3, 2017

The road of human life divides into two, one half splitting off toward a punishment that never ceases and the other toward an undying life with the Lord in his Kingdom.

The Last Judgment One morning, 4-year-old Kevin and his grandpa went out to buy donuts. On the way, Grandpa turned to Kevin and asked, “Which way is heaven?” Kevin pointed to the sky. “Which way is hell?” Kevin pointed towards the floor of the truck. Grandpa continued, “And where are you ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 25:31-46

Denomination: Catholic

Third Sunday Of Lent Year B- Cleansing The Temple

Contributed by Paul Andrew on Mar 5, 2021

Jesus is doing disruptive even violent actions here, shocking me out of my consumerist mentality. No wonder my Savior hangs on a Cross.

Whipping us into shape? “He made a whip out of cords.” John 2:15 Jesus made a whip. Making something with your hands can be therapeutic. Making a whip shows his anger did not impair his judgement. Writing an angry letter is a good way of bringing our feelings out so that we can see them. ...read more

Scripture: John 2:13-25

Denomination: Catholic

The Divided Highway Series

Contributed by Grant Adams on Dec 9, 2019

How many of us can remember the day of 55 mph. It seemed like forever to get to our destination. With the age of the Superhighway, all of us desire to get on it and go, but when it comes to the spiritual road, we need to stay on the narrow way.

In this modern age of rapid travel and wide high-speed highways, it is possible to travel across counties and even states without the inconvenience of two-way traffic, speed zones or stop signs. It is not like the narrow often rough, roads that we traveled a few short years ago. Speed was limited, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 7:13-14

Denomination: Baptist

Love Your Neighbour

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on May 18, 2020

Agape love as the fulfillment of the law.

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR. Romans 13:8-10. The imperative, “To no one nothing owe you (all), but to love one another” (Romans 13:8a) follows on from the discussion of being subject to ‘the powers that be’ who - whether we voted for them or not - are ‘ordained of God’ (cf. Romans 13:1). This ...read more

Scripture: Romans 13:8-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Seinsible Birth Laws (Leviticus 12)

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Oct 7, 2024

Were the laws around birth millenia ahead of their time? Let's look at Leviticus 12.

Were God’s laws millenia ahead of modern science? Various sources state that the blood clotting agents, vitamin K and prothrombin, are at optimum levels on the 8th day after birth. Circumcision provided health benefits for a future wife, drastically reducing incidences of cervical cancer. Let’s ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

A Camel That Passed Through The Eye Of A Needle. Abridged.

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Apr 3, 2023

Jesus seeks and saves the lost.

A CAMEL THAT PASSED THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE. Abridged. Luke 19:1-10. We were reading recently about a certain ruler who, perhaps recognizing that money is not everything, asked Jesus what he must ‘do’ to inherit eternal life. The young man had an extremely high view of his own heart, but ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:1-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Rich Man And Lazarus

Contributed by Bala Samson on Jul 10, 2022

Many may go to church but alas only a few, very few, who strive hard to follow Jesus and His commandments would make it to heaven!

Rich man and Lazarus Luke 16:19 "Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day. 20 "And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores..” This morning God reminded me of the parable of the rich man ...read more

Scripture: Luke 16:19

Denomination: Pentecostal

Make Amends Now

Contributed by Bala Samson on Nov 6, 2021

Have you watched some people say sorry reluctantly, never ready to accept their faults, but here we have a lesson to learn from a king who does not know the true God, anybody listening?

Make amends now…. Genesis 20:14”Abimelech then took sheep and oxen and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored his wife Sarah to him.” The response of pagan king Abimelech is praise-worthy and deserves our claps, when reprimanded him for taking Sarah, wife of Abraham, he ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 20:14

Denomination: Pentecostal

Attaining Full Dignity In Life Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 2, 2021

In the life of Jesus, from start to finish, we find a kind of dialectic between the fragility and uncertainty of human life and the affirmation of that life’s value.

Gospel of Life Monday of 27th Sunday in Course The letter Paul wrote to the Galatians is arguably the most intense book of the New Testament. Jews who were not quite Christianized, who thought that the Way of Christ was simply some Jewish sect, had insinuated themselves into Paul’s communities ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 1:6-12, Luke 10:25-37

Denomination: Catholic

No Room For Hypocrisy

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 13, 2025

At the Last Judgement, all of us will need to admit to our shortcomings. No whispered secrets, no dark meetings.

Friday of the 28th Week Integral 2025 One thing we can say about the Gospel writers’ style: they were working on expensive media like parchment or papyrus, so they did not waste words. Today Luke gives us what looks like a throw-away line at first: “So many people were crowding together that they ...read more

Scripture: Romans 4:1-8, Psalm 32:1-2, Psalm 32:5, Psalm 32:11, Luke 12:1-7  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Catholic

Threads In The Palace Series

Contributed by Charles Payne on Oct 15, 2025

Walk through a royal palace and you’ll find polished marble, priceless art, golden thrones — and in the corner, if the light is just right, the shimmer of a web.

THREADS IN THE PALACE SEEING THE BIG PICTURE TEXT (Proverbs 30:28; 1 Corinthians 1:27; Matthew 19:30) “The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.” “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and the weak things of the world to confound the ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 30:28, Matthew 5:3, 1 Corinthians 1:27, Matthew 19:30

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Fervent Prayer In Trying Times Series

Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Mar 15, 2024

Fervent Prayer in Trying Times

Psalm 74 Fervent Prayer in Trying Times Their Problem - The Dissolution of God’s People - 1-3 They Were - Dejected - 1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Despised - why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture Deserted - 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou ...read more

Denomination: Holiness