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A Second Chance

Contributed by Alfred Beck on Sep 10, 2015

God gives us second chances

A Second Chance Psalm 18:6, 16-17 John 8:11b Luke 13:1-9 If someone had asked you…before you just saw that clip, “What do Noah, Moses, Rahab, David, Solomon, Jonah, Peter & Paul all have in common?”….what would you have said? My guess is that many ...read more

Scripture: Luke 13:1-9

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

I Choose To Forgive - Part 4 Series

Contributed by Bo Dunford on Jan 11, 2020

Life's Choices

MATTHEW 6:14-15 “I CHOOSE TO FORGIVE – PART 4” A) We are the followers of Christ, and our Lord has commanded us to stay busy in this matter of forgiveness. * Look at a quick review of Jesus’ teaching on the subject – Jesus on Forgiveness ....... * Mark 11:25 ....... Luke 6:37 ....... ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:14-15

Denomination: Baptist

Watchman, What Is Left Of The Night?

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Dec 10, 2019

Isaiah warns Dumah of the pending judgment. He speaks in a mysterious oracle. What does it mean as we wait for Jesus to come?

12.11.19 Isaiah 21:11-12 11 An oracle concerning Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?” 12 The watchman replies, “Morning is coming, but also the night. ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 21:11-12

Denomination: Lutheran

The Mystery Of (Un)answered Prayer

Contributed by Vic Folkert on Aug 23, 2021

Two stories from Mark 7 illustrate the mystery of answered prayer: God adapts his glorious plan to the requests of ordinary people, even when granting the requests is greater than people can imagine.

THE MYSTERY OF (UN)ANSWERED PRAYER—Mark 7:24-37 Many people have had the experience of praying—passionately, even desperately—and not receiving the answer they were seeking. That can be confusing, even troubling, and we naturally ask, “Why?” Was God not listening? Is he not able to do what we ask? ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:24-37, Matthew 15:21-28, Isaiah 35:5-6

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

What’s In Your Clay? (September 4, 2022)

Contributed by John Williams Iii on Sep 1, 2022

How many times have you seen a Capitol One commercial where you always hear the question, “What’s in your wallet?” As we hear today’s text a better question to ask is “What’s in your clay?” What’s in our clay that makes us resistant to how God is trying to mold us and shape us?

WHAT’S IN YOUR CLAY? Text: Jeremiah 18:1 -11 Jeremiah 18:1-11 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: (2) "Come, go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words." (3) So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 18:1-11

Denomination: United Methodist

Christ Receives All

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Feb 24, 2022

A young lady was telling another woman that when she got married she was going to marry a man who had:

• The Looks • The Money • The Intelligence • The Courage • The Personality • And was a perfect gentleman in every way She said, "The man I marry will have everything!" The lady she was talking to said, "If you are going to wait to marry a man that has all of that, you will never ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

Lost And Found Series

Contributed by John Dobbs on Mar 20, 2025

Getting lost is easy, coming to your senses is hard, finding your way home is worth it. 

Lost and Found   Luke 15 Introduction: Getting lost is not as easy as it used to be! Global Positioning System (GPS) on most of our phones will direct us anywhere we want to go. Have you ever been using GPS and driving through a cow pasture wondering if you’re doing it right? ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Pray Graciously Series

Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 7, 2024

In what ways are we to forgive? (Material adapted from Bob Hostetler's book, the Red Letter Prayer Life; chapter 11 of the same title)

HoHum: It sounds like something out of a horror movie, but it’s real. In recent years, scientists have discovered a kind of bacterial infection called necrotizing fasciitis, more commonly called flesh eating bacteria. Once this bacterium enters a human body, it can multiply rapidly. Within 24 ...read more

Scripture: Luke 11:4, Matthew 6:12, Matthew 6:14-15, Matthew 18:23-35

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Planting, Cultivating, And Harvesting

Contributed by Phillip Smith on Feb 28, 2024

Spring is the time we plan our gardens and prepare our seeds to plant. After a period of growing, we harvest. God planted His garden, Earth. God placed mankind in it to cultivate the ground. Soon, God shall send out the angels to harvest the earth. But something interferes with the seeds planted.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30, Revelation 6:1-4, 1 Peter 4:17, Revelation 14:14-20

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Talents And Gifts SermonCentral

Contributed by SermonCentral on Oct 28, 2023

No one is converted into God's house just for nothing

Good morning, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ. As we gather together in the house of the Lord, let us take a moment to pause, to breathe, to center ourselves in the presence of our Creator. We are here, not by accident, not by chance, but by divine appointment. Each one of us, uniquely ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:12

Topics: Five Thousand Fed

If Christ Had Not Come

Contributed by Dewayne Bolton on Feb 13, 2001

To better understand and appreicate the life and work of Christ

LUKE 15:18-25 IF CHRIST HAD NOT COME INTRO. A. In these verses Jesus is endavouring to comfort His desciples for He had told them previously He was going to leave them. a. He does this by assuring them His departure is only in the human and that only temporary. b. He tells them the Holy Spirit ...read more

Scripture: John 15:18-25

Denomination: Holiness

The Prodigal Son

Contributed by Leslie Trombly on May 15, 2001

The Prodigal Son and how one lost soul is so important to The Lord

BIBLICAL REFERENCE: LUKE 15: 11-32;1-10 I would like to teach you the meaning of the parable of the "Prodigal Son". It is found in Luke 15. In this parable it shows you the Great Love that God has for all His children...and yes..even the ones who are Lost! In the story of the Prodigal Son we see ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:1-10, Luke 15:11-32

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

What's A Neighbor?

Contributed by Greg Nance on Mar 12, 2002

Who do I not have to love? This seems to be the question behind "who is my neighbor?" Jesus demonstrates that inheriting eternal life and loving your neighbor go hand in hand.

Jesus defines a Neighbor. Luke 10:25-37 Kitty Genovese Story At about 3:20 a.m. on March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old manager of a bar in Queens, New York, drove home to her neighborhood, parked her car in a lot adjacent to her apartment building, and began to walk the 30 yards through ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:25-37

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Follies Of A Fool Series

Contributed by Tom Evans on Apr 1, 2002

THE RICH FOOL FAILED TO: RECOGNIZE GOD’S BLESSINGS, LIVE A LIFE OF GENEROSITY AND FOCUS HIS RESOURCES TOWARD HEAVEN. Jesus challenges us to avoid his foolish ways.

FOLLIES OF A FOOL HE DIDN’T EVEN HEAR THE WORDS JESUS WAS SPEAKING TO THE LARGE GATHERING, “I TELL YOU, WHOEVER ACKNOWLEDGES ME BEFORE MEN, THE SON OF MAN WILL ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE HIM BEFORE THE ANGELS OF GOD…” NO, HE HAD COME FOR ANOTHER REASON. CERTAINLY JESUS WOULD HELP HIM. HE PRESSED TOWARD ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:13-21, Deuteronomy 8:17

Denomination: Adventist

Grace That Makes You Say Wow!

Contributed by Jeremy Herr on Oct 16, 2003

Exploring and applying the amazing grace of God.

Grace that makes you say, “WOW!” Illustration- Christian Conference in Britain, “oh that’s easy, its grace.”- C.S. Lewis What do you think of when you hear the word grace? In the Christian community we are surrounded by the word. I mean I go to a school named Grace Bible College, this church ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:8-9, Ephesians 2:8-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational