Sermons on Pascal Baylon:

A Broken Crutch Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Apr 2, 2021

You can't ask for a stronger statement on faith than this. Faith, when it is true faith, is identical with trust. Faith that stops short of trust is neither saving nor sanctifying faith.

A BROKEN CRUTCH Based on Prov. 3:5-6 A social science teacher once told my sister that faith in God was only a crutch. My sister asked me how to answer that, and my immediate response was to deny it and tell her she doesn't know what she is talking about. As I reflected more, however, I ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-6

What Is A Spiritual Journey: Have You Been To Cloud City? The Great Leap Series

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 5, 2021

Though his warrior father had carved out a kingdom for the crown prince, it was not big enough. This prince had a voracious appetite that could never be satisfied.

"Though his warrior father had carved out a kingdom for the crown prince, it was not big enough. This prince had a voracious appetite that could never be satisfied. That craving for more would send him to the ends of the earth in a never-ending quest that still astounds the world some 2,500 ...read more

Denomination: Salvation Army

I Want To Know About Eternal Life Series

Contributed by Jon Daniels on Aug 28, 2023

Based on 1 John 5:13 - Challenges hearers to know for sure that they are saved.

“I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT ETERNAL LIFE” 1 John 5:13 FBCF – 8/27/23 Jon Daniels INTRO – Don Wilton was my preaching prof at NOBTS – recently retired as pastor at FBC, Spartanburg, SC – Tremendous preacher/evangelist. Question I remember him frequently asking when he preached: “Do you know that you know ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 5:13

Denomination: Baptist

Salvation Is Death Series

Contributed by Colin Mcgeer on Jun 7, 2023

Hear it, and know for yourself. God will deliver you. In His presence, you can be secure. God's goal for our lives is His fullness. The Father draws us to Himself. Death is the doorway into a new life. You cannot miss it.

Job 5:15-27 15 But He saves the needy from the sword, From the mouth of the mighty, And from their hand. 16 So the poor have hope, And injustice shuts her mouth. 17 “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. 18 For He bruises, but He binds ...read more

Scripture: Job 5:15-27, Psalm 91:1-4, Galatians 6:7-8, Matthew 1:21, 1 John 3:4, Romans 6:23, James 3:1, John 10:10  (view more)  (view less)

Christmas: Three Types Of Peace That Jesus Brings To Us

Contributed by Benjamin Utomo on Dec 18, 2024

Many people yearn for peace in their lives but in reality, they do not experience or have peace. Sadly some look for peace at a wrong place. Jesus came to bring true peace that the world cannot give!

Many people yearn for peace in their lives. If you search on Amazon, you will find that more than 10,000 books about peace have been printed. But in reality, many people do not experience or have peace. The skit after the sermon this evening will show several situations where humans do not ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 53:6, Romans 5:10, John 14:27, Philippians 4:6-7, 2 Thessalonians 3:16  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Counterfeit Christianity: The Cult Connection

Contributed by Dave Kinney on Feb 12, 2005

With every ounce of religious freedom comes great weighty responsibility to defend religious truth. I firmly believe that we can know religious truth! Just as we know that there is truth in science and math, there is spiritual truth found only in Jesus

Counterfeit Christianity: The Cult Connection Jude 3,4 The year was 1783, when America officially recognized its independence from England. A fiery pastor named Ezra Stiles steps into his pulpit with a sermon entitled, “The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor”. In it he predicts that in due ...read more

Scripture: Jude 1:3-4

Denomination: Baptist

Taking A Closer Look In The Manger

Contributed by Billy Ricks on Dec 3, 2007

There are so many things we look in this year, hidy holes for presents, stores for deals, wallets for money. Have we forgotten the most important place to look. If we are careful to take a closer look in the manger we find 3 truths. We find, life, libe

Intro: This is the time of the year that people look in things. You know who you are. There are secret packages everywhere. There are Children looking in closets, under beds, in cars, every possible place to find a present. People look in store windows, in store adds, just about every place ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:15

Denomination: Baptist

Be Still And Know

Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Feb 20, 2009

Even as Christians, we can find ourselves struggling against God at times. We need to stop and consider. It is far better to travel with the current than against it.

Be Still and Know Griffith Baptist Church – 2/22/09 P.M. Service Text: Psalm 46 Key verse: Psalms 46:10 - Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Premise: Even as Christians, we can find ourselves struggling against God at times. ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 46:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Beyond The Turkey

Contributed by Jonathan Mcleod on Oct 13, 2009

"Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!"

GIVING THANKS A few days before Thanksgiving, a man in Florida called his son in Toronto. “I hate to ruin your day, Son, but I have some bad news for you. Your mother and I are getting a divorce. Forty-five years of misery is enough.” Frantic, the son called his sister in Vancouver to tell her the ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 9:15

Denomination: Baptist

Technology And The Soul Of Man

Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Mar 4, 2017

How should the Christian view technology?

Technology and the Soul of Man Genesis 4:16-24 We live in a blizzard of new technology today. We even wonder how we could live without it. I can remember the surprise snowstorm which hit the South in March of 1993 when the power was out in some places here for a week. It was interesting to see how ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 4:16-24

Denomination: Independent/Bible

No Water

Contributed by John Gaston on May 9, 2018

David's spirit-man declared there is NO WATER in this world. Only in Christ can spiritual water be found. 8 characteristics of Living water and how you can obtain it.

NO WATER Ps. 63:1 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR 1. The minister gave his Sunday morning service, as usual, but this particular Sunday, it was considerably longer than normal. 2. Later, at the door, shaking hands with parishioners as they moved out, one man said, "Your sermon, Pastor, was simply ...read more

Denomination: Assembly Of God

I Am The Way, The Truth, And The Life

Contributed by Rick Burdette on Jun 27, 2018

Finding the Way of Life, Living It's Truth, Jesus

I AM - I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life July 1, 2018 John 14:1-6 (p. 752) Introduction: I had a long distance truck driver named Roy who called me from out of the blue one day…He’d been passing through Louisville and he’d heard one of my Ministry Minutes on WJIE, the ...read more

Scripture: John 14:1-6

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Savior Of Souls

Contributed by Clarence Clough on Apr 14, 2014

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is able to save all to the uttermost. He saves from sin, condemnation, and death. We are saved to live with God eternally. Through His salvation believers will be citizens of the New Heaven and the New Earth.

THE SAVIOR OF SOULS Hebrews 7:25, "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." Job in chapter 42 and verse two said that he knew that the LORD could do everything. (Illustration) "In 1981, a Minnesota ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 7:25

Denomination: Church Of God

Growing Faith Series

Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 21, 2013

Our faith grows. If you don't have much, don't worry. It will come with time.

We owe a debt of gratitude to God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 We “owe a debt of gratitude to God for you, brothers . . .” What are people usually ...read more

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 1:3

Denomination: *other

It's A Wonderful Life Series

Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Jan 5, 2015

The premise of the movie was for George to find out what would have happened… how life would be different, if he had never lived. What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?

Ephesians 2: 1-3, 11-12 It’s a Wonderful Life Movie Plot: Jimmy Stewart plays George Bailey, a local good guy with a beautiful family, lots of friends and a good job at the family bank. One day, his Uncle Billy loses an $8,000 deposit and George fears the worst. He gets drunk in a bar, ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-3

Denomination: Baptist