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How To Respond To God Series

Contributed by Bobby Stults on Feb 26, 2010

When we experience suffering and pain our first reaction is usually one of striking out, but Job teaches us how we are to respond to God during the trying times of our lives...

Sermon Brief Date Written: January 22, 2010 Date Preached: January 31, 2010 Where Preached: Oak Park (AM) Sermon Details: Sermon Series: A Series on Job Sermon Title: How To Respond to God Sermon Text: Job 42:1-6 [HCSB] 1 Then Job replied to the LORD: 2 I know ...read more

Scripture: Job 42:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

It Just Don’t Make Sense!

Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Jun 9, 2013

Trying to understand the things that happen in this world

Ecclesiastes 8:9-All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt. 10-Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were forgotten in the city where ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 8:9-17

Denomination: Baptist

The Construction Series

Contributed by Sean Harder on Aug 5, 2011

Today we finish our series on building our spiritual house and my hope is that next week we can celebrate our journey through this church year and go forward with a new commitment to living as true disciples of Jesus. Today we talk about the hardest part,

Today we finish our series on building our spiritual house and my hope is that next week we can celebrate our journey through this church year and go forward with a new commitment to living as true disciples of Jesus. Today we talk about the hardest part, the actual work and perseverance of ...read more

Scripture: Luke 14:26-30

Why Doesn’t God Heal Everybody? Series

Contributed by Paul Clemente on Sep 26, 2011

There here are many reasons why a loving God allow His children to be sick.

Anybody knows how many diseases are out there in our world?? According to the World Health Organization, there are over 20000 diagnoses of diseases. Have you ever heard this statement? If God exists and He is a loving God, why allow all these diseases? A Christian’s response is the answer to this ...read more

Scripture: Luke 4:28-44

Denomination: Independent/Bible

When Pain Gets Tough Series

Contributed by David Dewitt on Oct 7, 2011

Pain creates difficulties and problems for people on a continual basis

When Pain Gets Tough Isaiah 53:3-5 July 10, 2011 Morning Service Introduction There are a number of different names or titles that Jesus is known by. Many of these relate some nature of His character or some type of strength. Here are a few examples: Lion of Judah, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 53:3-5

Denomination: Church Of God

Growing And Maturing

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Jan 23, 2013

God calls us to grow and mature in our faith. How can we move through adversity and grow closer to Him.

Growing and Maturing October 28, 2012 James 1:2-5 Chippie the parakeet never saw it coming. One second he was peacefully perched in his cage. The next, well, let me tell you his story . . . The problems began when Chippie’s owner decided to clean his cage with a vacuum cleaner. She ...read more

Scripture: James 1:2-5

Denomination: Baptist

I Cried Out To God Series

Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Jan 30, 2013

What should we do when we find ourselves in a distressing or desperate situation in life? 1- We cry out to God 2- We look to scripture 3- We offer our praise

INTRO.- Life is full difficulties and sometimes it’s more of a disaster than a difficulty. Like Hurricane Sandy hitting New York and New Jersey. That was one of the worst, at least, for them. Or like that tornado that hit Joplin, MO, a year ago last May. ILL.- Thomas Edison invented the ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 77:1-9

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

El Rescate Del Descarriado

Contributed by Craig Benner on Feb 16, 2013

Gomer es un tipo de la iglesia o el creyente que ha apartado de Dios. No quiere cumplir con sus votos, pero Dios anda comprometido de hacer todo posible de redimirle de nuevo.

EL RESCATE DEL DESCARRIADO Compromiso de Nivel Alto Oseas 2:16,17 16 Y será que en aquel tiempo, dice Jehová, me llamarás Ishi, y nunca más me llamarás Baali. 17 Porque quitaré de su boca los nombres de los Baales, y nunca más serán mencionados por sus nombres. Ishi = esposo amado Baali = ...read more

Scripture: Hosea 3:1-5

Denomination: Pentecostal

Valiant, Vicious, Victorious

Contributed by Craig Benner on Apr 12, 2013

It doesn't matter so much about your past, though it may help or hinder someone else. Today is a matter in itself. But I need to be victorious from this point onward.

Valiant, Vicious, and Victorious Romans 8:35-37 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (KJV) 35 ¿Quién nos separará del amor de Cristo? ¿Tribulación, o angustia, o persecución, o hambre, o ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:35-37

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Devil Is In The Details

Contributed by Spencer Miller on May 6, 2013

God is all powerful. Yet He allows Satan to carry out his deceitful and destructive activities—within certain limits—for a purpose.

We live in a world full of trouble and problems; there are problems after problems. Pollution, natural resources running out, population growth outstripping resources worldwide, etcetera. And then there are individual problems to contend with such as pain, suffering, and death, just to name a few. ...read more

Scripture: Job 1:1-20

Denomination: Baptist

Christmas Through The Eyes Of A Child Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on Dec 19, 2010

Christ came at Christmas to clean up our mess.

Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child Mark 10:13-16 Rev. Brian Bill 12/19/10 One Christmas morning, the Reverend Jones announced to his congregation, “My good people, I have here in my hand three sermons...A $50 sermon that lasts five minutes, a $20 sermon that lasts thirty minutes, and a $5 ...read more

Scripture: Mark 10:13-16

Denomination: Baptist

When A Day Turns Dark

Contributed by Ricky Maye on Dec 19, 2010

The word night has interesting implications in the hebrew, defining the night depper than just a time of the day leads us into a new study of what it means to be the light of the world.

“life is a road where sightseeing is encouraged, where shortcuts aren’t a timesaber but a lesson learned.” I want to share with you one of the most amazing things I have been able to show people. This is from the chapter entitled “A Simple understanding of your ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 119:62-63

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Touching On Jesus

Contributed by Mark Aarssen on Jun 23, 2011

Do you need Jesus to pay a house call to someone you love? Or do you yourself find a need to reach out to Jesus and quietly almost secretly put out your hand in the hope that you can just catch the hem of His garments to be healed?

Touching on Jesus Matthew 9:9 - 9:26 Today’s scripture passage shows us the need we all share – to be touched by God in our time of crisis and also to reach out to Jesus in faith trusting that by touching Him we can be made whole. Jesus sets up this entire chain of events by letting ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 9:9-26

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Sheep Among Wolves

Contributed by David Mcnally on Jun 26, 2011

Jesus did not call us to an easy, comfortable life, but one of challenge and opposition, and possibly even suffering and death. He gives us forgiveness of sin and eternal life, but requires us to take up our cross as we follow him.

Jesus would have fallen foul of the Health and Safety laws if he had been around today, and I imagine it would have been hard for him to advertise on TV. Just imagine someone saying today: ‘Come and follow me, and the chances are you will be spat upon, thumped, sworn at, and maybe ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 10:16

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Beautiful Scars

Contributed by Jb Hall on Jun 28, 2011

This sermon teaches us that our scars are simply reminders that a wounding has occurred; but that a healing has taken place; a healing that lifts us higher than we ever could have risen without the wounding.

Beautiful Scars Proverbs 27:6a By: JB Hall Introduction: Scars are usually not considered to be a beauty mark. People often try to hide their scars with clothing or make-up. And yet scars have a story to tell. Scars serve as a demarcation line between the past and the present; between what ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 27:6

Denomination: Baptist