Sermons on Peters Easter:

The Palms Of Hope

Contributed by Robert Leroe on Mar 20, 2005

This is an original story sermon, inspired by the "news from Lake Wobegon", with some serious reflection about what Palm Sunday meant for Jesus and for us.

The Palms of Hope…Pastor Bob Leroe, Cliftondale Congregational Church, Saugus, Massachusetts Michael Harris was the long-time pastor of Hope Community Church, a modest congregation in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the small town of Paradise. It hadn’t looked much like Paradise for a very ...read more

Scripture: John 12:12-16

Denomination: Congregational

Fading Glory

Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 20, 2005

If your are going to withstand the pressure to conform to the world it is necessary to understand: 1. Who you are 2. Life 3. What is important

In 1964, Gene Smith published his book entitled When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson. It is the story of President Wilson and the events which led up to and followed WWI. Wilson was an international hero at the end of the war, and both in the United States and abroad there ...read more

Scripture: John 12:9-16

Denomination: Methodist

Jesus Paid It All

Contributed by Christopher Nerreau on Mar 20, 2005

We hear people often describe Jesus death upon the cross as an attonment for our sins but what does that mean exactly. We will explore in this sermon "Jesus Paid It All"

Jesus Paid It All Matthew 27: 35-46 INTRODUCTION: • Tonight we are going to continue reflecting upon the cross of Jesus Christ and His suffering in particular. • It’s in the darkness of the suffering of Jesus that we understand the truth of God’s wonderful Grace! ILLUSTRATION: • I can remember ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:35-46

Denomination: Orthodox

Dry Bones And Singing Stones

Contributed by Scott Carmer on Mar 21, 2005

The truth of the day is that Ezekiel’s bones will live and the rocks will sing because there is nothing at all anyone can do to prevent the Word of God from being spoken.

Dry Bones and Singing Stones Ezekiel 37:1-14 Luke 19:29-40 Palm Sunday March 20, 2005 Jeb was one of the leading citizens of Ottumwa, Iowa. He was the kind of guy that you could count on, no matter what. He was a deacon in his church. Every time the doors were open, he was there. He had served ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:29-40

Denomination: Methodist

Rejoice, Your King Comes To You!

Contributed by Timm Meyer on Mar 21, 2005

PALM SUNDAY(B) - Rejoice, your King comes to you with humility as a righteous King and with salvation as a powerful King.

REJOICE, YOUR KING COMES TO YOU! (Outline) ZECHARIAH 9:9-10 - March 20, 2005 - PALM SUNDAY INTRO: There is a certain degree of excitement as one prepares for guests. Depending on the impor-tance or number of expected guests the preparations can consume much energy and time. When that guest ...read more

Scripture: Zechariah 9:9-10

Denomination: Lutheran

The Blood Sets Us Free

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Mar 21, 2005

A sermon showing how the blood given to us in the Lord’s Supper is a way in which the Lord helps us to escape from this sinful world and our sinful selves.

March 24, 2005 Zechariah 9:11-12 As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, O prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you. Almost every Disney classic presents ...read more

Scripture: Zephaniah 9:11-12

Denomination: Lutheran

The Political Execution Of The Nazarine

Contributed by Dennis Bliss on Mar 22, 2005

A reflection on the intensity of the suffereing of the Savior and the need to imitate the repentant sinner and accept Jesus today.

Good Friday, new 2005 We who are parents know that there is nothing more excruciating; nothing that makes us feels so powerless as the cries of a child in pain. Many years ago when I was doing a pastoral residency in Cincinnati Ohio, I was visiting a patient on the pediatric unit. ...read more

Scripture: Luke 23:29-43

Denomination: Independent/Bible

The Ultimate Service Of Darkness Series

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Mar 22, 2005

How the Lord used the darkness of Good Friday as a witness to our salvation.

March 24, 2005 Matthew 27:45 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. Tonight’s service is called a service of darkness. It is a somber reminder of what happened to Jesus. As the service progresses, the lights eventually are dimmed until it becomes almost ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:45

Denomination: Lutheran

Preparing The Way

Contributed by Billy Ricks on Mar 23, 2005

It is in the Triumphal entry we see our preparation to move from sinner to saint, from overcome by sin to overcommer of sin, from beaten to blessed!!!! We can proclaim today these things because our redeemer prepared the way, and because he finalized the

All history (His Story of saving us from our sin) will hinge on the cross. In His triumphal entry (scholars have called it a-triumphal) we see the foreshadowing of His purchasing our pardon from sin and preparing for us the way called straight. His plan was prepared before the foundations of the ...read more

Scripture: John 12:12-31

Denomination: Baptist

The Irreducible Cross

Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Mar 23, 2005

As much as our culture, or we, might try, to remove it as a barrier...as much as the world might like to make it into only a symbol, and rob it of its eternal meaning, the cross is irreducible. It’s irreducible in time. It’s irreducible in eternity.

The Irreducible Cross TCF Good Friday sermon March 25, 2005 I found this quote a few weeks ago in an article on a very popular TV preacher. This guy sells tickets to his national tour, and fills 15-20,000-seat arenas with his positive message. In this quote, he describes his own church, ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:2-4

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Arrival Of The King Series

Contributed by Keith Crouch on Mar 23, 2005

This is the first in a series of four messages leading up to the resurrection.

The Arrival of the King Matthew 21:1-17 I. His Arrival Was Marked With Humility (v. 1-7) A. In Humility He Demonstrated His Unity With the Father 1. Unified in purpose 2. Unified in love B. In Humility He fulfilled Prophecy (v. 4-5; Zechariah 9:9) 1. In doing this He demonstrated His Person 2. In ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 21:1-17

Denomination: Baptist

"It Is Finished"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Mar 24, 2005

A sermon for Good Friday.

“It Is Finished” John 19:17-30 By: Rev. Kenneth Sauer, Pastor of Parkview United Methodist Church, Newport News, VA www.parkview-umc.org More than anyone Who ever walked this earth—Jesus did what He said… …He lived what He taught. “You have heard it said,” Jesus declares in Matthew Chapter ...read more

Scripture: John 19:17-30

Denomination: United Methodist

The Passion

Contributed by Terry Cavanaugh on Mar 25, 2005

A message of the passion for the view point of a roman officer

The Passion Matthew 27:27-31 Then he (who was Pilate the Roman governor) released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified. 27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. 28 They stripped ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:27-31

Denomination: Methodist

Applaud Or Plod?

Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 26, 2005

A sermon for Palm Sunday based on Matthew’s account. (Adapted from an outline by Ross Fransico and John Scotford)

Sermon for 3/20/2005 Palm Sunday Applaud or Plod? Introduction: Some years ago a book was written by a noted American historian entitled “When the Cheering Stopped.” It was the story of President Woodrow Wilson and the events leading up to and following WW1. When that war was over Wilson was an ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 21:1-11

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Punishment, Peace Passion

Contributed by James Gallop on Mar 27, 2005

“The punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.”

PUNISHMENT, PEACE PASSION Isaiah 52:13-53:6 “The punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.” A defendant was on trial for murder in Oklahoma. There was strong evidence indicating guilt, but there was no corpse. In the defense’s closing statement the lawyer, ...read more

Denomination: Methodist