Sermons on Our Mortality:

Faithfully Facing Our Future

Contributed by Mark Roper on Dec 29, 2007

God assures us of a future that is better than all our past.

Faithfully Facing our Future New Year’s Customs Not all countries celebrate the New Year at the same time or in the same way because of different calendars and customs. In Ancient Egypt, the holiday was celebrated when the Nile flooded, usually near the end of September. This flooding made it ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 16:1-3

Denomination: Church Of God

Burn Our Hearts Again

Contributed by Matthew Morine on Jan 2, 2008

We need to feel that fire again. We need to feel it in the heart again. Like days of old, where people were cut to the heart, and when Jesus up out the scriptures to the disciples and their hearts burned. Let us see the fire from heaven again.

BURN OUR HEARTS AGAIN TEXT: 1 KINGS 18:1-46 THEME: LORD MAKE OUR HEARTS BURN FOR YOU I remember 1 Kings 18 preached at Heritage Christian University during lectureship one year. It was being preached by Steven Guy. During this sermon I made a choice in my life. It was a choice that ...read more

Scripture: 1 Kings 18:1-46

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Our Great High Priest

Contributed by Ben Peak on Jan 3, 2008

Jesus Christ has become our eternal High Priest. And I think there are three things that these verses tell us about our High Priest that should come as an encouragement to us.

From the time of the fall of Adam man has needed a mediator… someone who would span the gap that now separated him from God. Man is sinful. God is holy. And because of His holiness God will have no fellowship or connection with sin. Before the fall God and man had close fellowship with each ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 4:14-16

Denomination: Holiness

Our Attitude Towards God

Contributed by Aarron Ellerman on Jan 3, 2008

How we approach God in our worship reflects how we really feel about who God is in our lives.

Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 “Our Attitude Towards God” • The Preacher Solomon has been looking at the empty pursuit of wealth, position and power, however now he turns to the vanity of empty worship of God. • Specifically Solomon deals with our attitude towards God before, during and after public ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

The Grace Of God And Our Salvation

Contributed by Carl Allen on Jan 4, 2008

Our newspapers are filled with bad news. As we listen to news reporters on television relating the tragic events happening around the world, we can easily become fatigued with the tragedy of what is taking place. Our text contains some good news for th

The Grace of God and Our Salvation Titus 2:11-14 Intro Our newspapers are filled with bad news. As we listen to news reporters on television relating the tragic events happening around the world, we can easily become fatigued with the tragedy of what is taking place. Our text contains some good ...read more

Scripture: Titus 2:11-14

Denomination: Baptist

Living Out Our Salvation

Contributed by Aarron Ellerman on Jan 5, 2008

What does it mean to really be saved? How should it look like?

Ephesians 2:10 “Living Out Our Salvation” Vv. 8-9 • This is the fundamental truth of our faith: salvation is by grace alone through faith alone. • “Not of yourselves” o Nothing we can do to earn it, add to it, or take away from it; it truly is a gift from God. • “Lest any man should ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:10

Denomination: Baptist

The Joy Of The Lord Is Our Strength

Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Jan 8, 2008

Happiness depends on circumstances; joy is an attitude rooted in the Person of Jesus Christ and our daily relationship with Him.

The Joy of the Lord Is Our Strength --Nehemiah 8:1-10 An epiphany is a sudden flash of understanding or a moment of a sudden and great realization. Epiphany in this sense may also be called a serendipity. The two are similar terms although serendipity usually refers to a pleasant discovery we ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 8:1-10

Denomination: Methodist

Changing Our "Why's" Into "How's"

Contributed by John Petty on Jan 11, 2008

Much of our time and energy is spent on trying to figure out "why" things happen, when we need to focus on "how" to make it through it.

2 Chronicles 20:1 (NKJV) 1 It happened after this that the people of Moab with the people of Ammon, and others with them besides the Ammonites, came to battle against Jehoshaphat. 2 Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 20:1-12

Denomination: Church Of God

Our Spiritual Checklist For 2008

Contributed by Jonathan Falwell on Jan 14, 2008

Today, as we bring this year to a close and we begin to think about 2008 and where this new year will take us, I thought it would be wise for us to take a look back at where we’ve been as a springboard for where we are going.

Our Spiritual Checklist for 2008 On July 1, 2007, as we celebrated our 51st anniversary of Thomas Road Baptist Church, we shared an important vision for the next five years of our church. We talked about some of the goals that we want to see accomplished and why we should try to accomplish them. ...read more

Scripture: James 1:19-25

Denomination: Baptist

Our Spiritual Great Divide

Contributed by Jeremy Poling on Jan 15, 2008

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Our Spiritual Great Divide Mat 26:36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. Mat 26:37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Mat 26:38 Then ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 26:36-52

Denomination: Pentecostal

Go Into The City! Our City!

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Jan 15, 2008

We must follow Jesus’ call to go into our community and make disciples.

Acts 1:1-11 August 12, 2007 ACTS 1:1-9 1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he showed himself to ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

"Living With Love In Our Hearts"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Jan 17, 2008

To really live is to love God, others and ourselves.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Psalm 40:1-11 “Living with Love in Our Hearts” By: Rev. Ken Sauer, Pastor of Grace United Methodist Church, Soddy Daisy, TN www.graceumcsd.org What is “it”? In any language, “it” is the most powerful expression of the most powerful emotion and experience in the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Denomination: United Methodist

His Resurrection—our Salvation

Contributed by Andrew Papson Iii on Jan 18, 2008

Our Salvation is dependent on His resurrection

His Resurrection—Our Salvation 1 peter 1:3-4 I Christ died and rose again for our justification. Rom. 4:29 II On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene discovered that the Tomb was empty. John 20:1 III Thomas believed in the resurrected Christ after seeing the nail prints and feeling His spear ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-4

Denomination: Baptist

Faith To Endure Our Blessings Series

Contributed by Michael Hollinger on Jan 26, 2008

Sometimes it requires faith to endure our blessings

Title: Faith to Endure Our Blessings Text: Luke 1:26 – 38, 48 – 56 MP: It takes faith to endure our blessings FCF: Sometimes it requires faith to endure our blessings. If that sounds odd, maybe it is because we do not fully appreciate what it means to truly be blessed. It is easy to assume ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:26-38, Luke 12:49-56

Denomination: Baptist

Our Great Need Of Patience Series

Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 30, 2008

James encourages us to follow in the footsteps of patience laid by those godly ones who have gone before us.

A man was walking through a supermarket with a screaming baby in the shopping cart. A woman nearby noticed that time and again the man would calmly say: “Keep calm, Albert. Keep calm, Albert.” Finally, in admiration for the man’s patience as the child continued to wail, the woman walked up to him ...read more

Scripture: James 5:7-12