Sermons on Pilates Sentence:

When We’re Scared To Go Against What Everyone Else Is Saying

Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 29, 2013

A look at Pilate's desire to please the people and the ways that we often behave in the same way.

AN EASY TEMPTATION: We want to satisfy the crowd. - Mark 15:15. - Most of us like being liked. We want people to approve of us. - And it is nice when everyone is backing what we’re saying or what we’re doing. - This is probably the most important phrase in our passage for ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:6-15

Denomination: Baptist

The Silence Of The Lamb Series

Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Mar 24, 2014

Jesus bore our sin and remained silent as THE Lamb of God.

Mark 15:1-15 The Silence of THE Lamb The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:1-15

Denomination: Baptist

Suffered, Dead, And Buried Series

Contributed by Anne Robertson on Sep 4, 2004

The fourth phrase of the Creed: "Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried"

SUFFERED, DEAD, AND BURIED TEXT: Matthew 27:27-31; Isaiah 53:1-9 So far in our look at the Apostle’s Creed, we have hit a lot of controversial lines. We have waded into the debates about God as “Father,” about the divinity of Jesus, and the Virgin Birth. This week, however, the phrase we are ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:27-31

Denomination: Methodist

My Kingdom Is Not Of This World

Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Mar 24, 2022

What is the significance of Maundy Thursday?

My Kingdom is not of This World John 18:36-38 We come to this Maundy Thursday in a very troubled world. There are wars in Ukraine, Yemen, South Sudan, and other places. We have suffered lockdowns and other restrictions from a “pandemic.” The global financial situation is perilous, and inflation is ...read more

Scripture: John 18:36-38

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Truth

Contributed by Peter Fisher on Nov 28, 2021

Pilate asked, "What is truth?" Here are some thoughts on the subject relating to Good Friday.

?Introduction Well, that was a couple of looong readings! But it’s appropriate on Good Friday that we get the whole story, and we pretty much have. I probably have less time than those readings took, so I can just concentrate on one small aspect of them. As you listened to them, I wonder what ...read more

Denomination: Anglican

The Importance Of Making A Decision Series

Contributed by John Hamby on Jul 14, 2003

This account of the decision that Pilate made concerning Jesus has much to that it may be saying to us about decision making.

A Study of the Book of Luke Sermon # 64 “The Importance of Making a Decision” Luke 23:1-25 Jesus had just emerged at dawn from his religious trial before the Sanhedrin in which his admission that he was the Son of God had enraged the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 23:1-25

Denomination: Baptist

The Palace: A Place Of Injustice Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on Jul 9, 2004

This morning our focus is on how Pilate kept trying to slam the door shut but was unable to do so.

A couple weeks ago I stopped at a gas station on my way to make a hospital visit. As usual my mind was focused on a number of things, and I wasn’t paying attention to the howling hurricane whipping through the flat lands of Illinois. As I got out of the car, the wind pulled the door out of my hand ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:11-31

Denomination: Baptist

Daddy Series

Contributed by Jonathan Campbell on Jun 9, 2008

This sermon examines the opening sentence of The Lord’s Prayer - "Our Father which art in heaven".

INTRODUCTION Jesus introduces The Lord’s Prayer with the words “After this manner therefore pray ye”. It is “houtôs oun” in the Greek, meaning “along these lines”. Jesus is not telling us that we must recite this prayer. He is simply giving us a model to follow. TEXT “Our Father which art in ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:9

Contagious

Contributed by R. Joseph Owles on Jun 22, 2011

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: We are much more motivated to alleviate suffering when we share in it.

“A leper came to him (and kneeling down) begged him and said, "If you wish, you can make me clean." Moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, "I do will it. Be made clean." The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean. Then, warning him ...read more

Scripture: Mark 1:40-45

Denomination: Catholic

No One Likes A Pyromaniac God Series

Contributed by Troy Luttrell on Sep 22, 2014

This sermon will answer the question of why there is a hell and why a loving God will sentence people to this horrible place.

Background: Ill: Most awful of deaths is to be burned up or to find someone who has died this way. There is no peace found on a corpse that has been found burned. • Read Revelation 20:11-15. The difficulty of the subject of hell is trying to harmonize the concept of a loving gracious God ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 20:11-15

Denomination: Baptist

Sermon On The Palindromes Of Life

Contributed by William Meakin on Aug 7, 2025

A palindrome is defined as a word, name, sentence, verse, or even number that reads the same backwards or forward.

Yayoi Kusama, a female Japanese artist once remarked: “With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, Galatians 6:7, Matthew 6:34, Philippians 4:11-13

Walk With Your Substitue Series

Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Apr 13, 2003

Like Barabbas we are worhty of God’s death sentence; but we, the rebels, are released, and Jesus is suffers our hell on the cross in our place as our Substitute.

Walk with our Substitute Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God through which the Holy Spirit touches our hearts is record in Mark 15: Now, at every festival Pilate used to free a prisoner whom the people asked for. There was a man by the name of ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:6-15

Denomination: Lutheran

The Crowd Doesn't Count When It Comes To Christ

Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 3, 2007

Discussion of the two crowds at Jerusalem - the one at the Triumphal Entry and the one at the trial before Pilate.

The Crowd Doesn’t Count When it Comes to Christ Matthew 21:6-11; 27:15-26 April 1, 2007 I’ve mentioned before that when I was younger, I made a number of foolish decisions, some of which could have cost me my life or at least land me in jail. As I was working on this message, it occurred to me ...read more

Denomination: Wesleyan

Bits And Pieces Of Truth

Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 2, 2015

Pilate asked, "What is Truth?" It is our Biblical command to offer that truth all of mankind.

Title: Bits and Pieces of Truth What is Truth Your Ideology, True or False, Part One Jesus said, For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.” Pilate said to Him, ...read more

Scripture: John 18:37-38

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Who Killed Jesus?

Contributed by Jason Cole on May 9, 2008

Whois to blame for the death of Jesus? Was it the Jews, the Romans or Pilate? The answer may shock you.

Who Killed Jesus Introduction: In the early hours of the morning in Chicago, Illinois, way back in 1910 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hiller were lying in bed when Mrs. Hiller sensed something was wrong. She awoke to see that the gas light outside their bedroom door was out. She woke her husband and asked ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ