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  • This Or That PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 23, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 73 views

    Following Jesus means courageous obedience and joyful endurance, even when it brings suffering or opposition, because God’s presence empowers and sustains His people.

    There are weeks when life feels like a locked door. You show up with a key that used to work—prayer you’ve prayed, habits you’ve honored—and the tumblers don’t budge. Bills stack up. Sleep slips away. A hard conversation waits across the breakfast table. Your calendar looks like a crowded hallway ...read more

  • Did The Catholic Church Give Us The Bible + Doctrine? - Part 2 Series

    Contributed by Dr. Craig Nelson on Mar 23, 2024
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,467 views

    Peter the Little Rock, Royal Priesthood, Binding and Loosing, Paradise Vs Purgatory, Veneration, Prayer to the Saints, Salvation by Grace Vs Works, Justification, Infant Baptism, Age of Reason/Accountability, Communion, Transubstantiation

    PART 2 NAME CHANGES There are many times in the Bible when a person's name is changed or a nickname is given. Peter was one of them, and so was Lucifer, whose name was changed to satan (= Adversary). Not all these names came from God, but all name changes marked a transformation in the ...read more

  • Driven To Give

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on Jan 3, 2012
     | 4,014 views

    Paul urged his audience to honor God with/in their giving. Believers are driven to honor God thru their giving. What drives a believer’s giving? Believers are driven by...

    DRIVEN TO GIVE—Romans 13:7-14 Attention: As in many homes on New Year's Day, my wife & I faced the annual conflict of which was more important - the football games on television, or the dinner itself. To keep peace, I ate dinner with the rest of the family, & even lingered for some pleasant ...read more

  • Csot Bd-101 Basic Doctrine - Obey Series

    Contributed by Skip Moran on Sep 13, 2012
     | 4,952 views

    OBEY- God has provided every element required for Obeying Him in The Scripture. From Scripture we learn Who God Is, Who we become without Him. From Scripture we learn there is a disciplined process of study one must use to gain Godliness. God identifies

    Cebu School of Theology- FIRST YEAR Basic Doctrine 101 Class 2 Last: TRUST God is the only source of Wisdom, Knowledge, Truth, and Love… Therefore we must turn first to God as our source of Wisdom, Knowledge, Truth, and Love The Christian Life is one of seeking, gaining and keeping ...read more

  • Beautiful Repentance

    Contributed by Brady Boyd on Apr 28, 2011
     | 6,101 views

    Repentance opens the door for God Himself to enter into the messy places of our hearts.

    Okay, let’s open up our Bibles this morning to Luke chapter three. If you know we started the series on Luke back in December. We spent the first three or four weeks of December talking about the arrival of Jesus; the Advent, the Birth of Jesus, the Grand Invasion; what that meant to all of ...read more

  • The Church's New Four-Letter Word

    Contributed by Brady Boyd on Apr 29, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 12,598 views

    A message from 1 Peter 3 reminding listeners to submit to authority.

    Let's turn your Bible, by the way, to I Peter Chapter three. I Peter Chapter three, we’re in a sermon series right now where we’re looking through this book, this powerful letter, written by one of the pillars of church. Peter, when he wrote this letter, was an older man. He was ...read more

  • How Can I Know God’s Guidance? Series

    Contributed by Bobby Stults on Jul 26, 2010
     | 5,501 views

    Seeking and receiving God's guidance into our lives requires that we TRUST God and believe that He does have our best in mind with His plan and purpose. How can we know God's guidance? How can we test it to make sure it is God's plan and not our own desir

    SERMON BRIEF Date Written: July 21, 2010 Date Preached: July 25, 2010 Church: OPBC (AM) FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS Series: Finding God’s Guidance in this World Title: How Can I know God’s Guidance? Date Written: July 21, 2010 Date ...read more

  • "Role-Model Saints" Rms Pt 15 Series

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 14, 2007
     | 3,033 views

    Paul in chapter 12 tells us that we must be role models saints for this world and not act worldly but instead act like living sacrifices to Jesus. This in turn will make us a hero in the eyes of Kingdom of God.

    “Role – Model Saints” Romans part 15 Opening Illustration: From Blue Fish TV – Mother Teresa a Hero for the faith! Thesis: Paul in chapter 12 tells us that we must be role models saints for this world and not act worldly but instead act like living sacrifices to Jesus. This in turn will make us a ...read more

  • Passing Through The Pieces Series

    Contributed by Ron Freeman, Evangelist on May 10, 2017
    based on 6 ratings
     | 16,534 views

    To establish Christ – that the promised seed passed through the pieces to confirm Jehovah's covenant agreement with Abram. This lesson dispels the notion that Christ's body was stolen, rather than raised, by pervading through the cerecloth left within the tomb.

    INTRODUCTION Outline. 1. The Covenant (with Abram) of Promise 2. The Continuing (Unchangeable) Priesthood 3. The Cerecloth (Linen Wrap) Pervaded Introductory Remarks. 1. In this lesson, we will discuss the theme: “Passing through the pieces.” The hope of our salvation and the assurance of our faith ...read more

  • Facing Forward Series

    Contributed by Andy Stanley on Sep 18, 2009
    based on 31 ratings
     | 38,452 views

    The third in a series of messages on the topic of an invisible "unseen" world that impacts our visible world. This sermon focuses on the bondage of our human bodies to decay and suffering, and that God remains present and active through it all.

    The irony of pain and suffering, or one of the ironies, is that it’s really the shortest route to God. When the bottom drops out and things suddenly, overnight, or in a moment, or in a phone call, go wrong, everybody--believers, unbelievers, agnostics, atheists--everybody, suddenly, there’s a ...read more

  • A Nation's True Happiness

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on Jul 2, 2013
     | 5,661 views

    The psalmist encouraged his readers toward a focused attention upon the inherent happiness found in their having been chosen of God. Without seeking God, any nation experiences distance & dissidence. When is national happiness experienced?

    IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, & to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate & ...read more

  • Marks Of The People Of God (1 Peter 2:9-12) Series

    Contributed by Greg Brown on Aug 2, 2014
     | 20,417 views

    Exposition of 1 Peter 2:9-12

    Marks of the People of God But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not ...read more

  • "The Sad Part About Christmas"

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Nov 13, 2001
    based on 330 ratings
     | 13,728 views

    Today as we study Matthew 2:1-12 we will see the 3 paths that men will take when they are confronted with Jesus and his truth.

    "THE SAD, SAD, PART ABOUT CHRISTMAS" TEXT: MATTHEW 2:1-12 INTRODUCTION In 3 days it will be Christmas day. All over the world people are fighting the crowds at malls, wrapping presents, putting bikes and swing sets together, sitting on Santa’s lap, decorating Christmas trees, putting lights ...read more

  • "The Gift Of Joy" Series

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 1, 2001
    based on 270 ratings
     | 40,886 views

    In this message we will look at the gift of joy and how to keep joy in our Christmas (The Gifts of Christmas part 1 of 4)

    “The Gift Of Joy” The Gifts Of Christmas – part one SHOW – The Grinch Video Clip….(when he thinks they will be sad on mountain about to push over toys – new Grinch) “maybe Christmas means more…” As your pastor – I felt the need as Christmas 2001 shifts into high gear – to talk about, to remind ...read more

  • To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice

    Contributed by Rich Hadley on Dec 17, 2001
    based on 55 ratings
     | 10,874 views

    A sermon for pastors and church leaders. It is a message on leadership illustrated from the interactions between Samuel and Saul.

    I Samuel 14:47: After Saul had assumed rule over Israel, he fought against their enemies on every side: Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment on them. Saul was a fighting King. He was a great general. He dealt all kinds ...read more