Sermons on Pleasing And Acceptable:

How Can A Minister Of A State Please God?

Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Oct 31, 2014

To show the following qualities of a political leader that will please GOD.

I. EXORDIUM: Are you planning to vote for your public servant or political leader? Consider this sermon first. II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show the following qualities of a political leader that will please GOD. IV. TEXT: Isaiah 56:4 (Amplified Bible) 56:4 For thus ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 56:4

Denomination: Pentecostal

Will All The Real Men Please Stand Up?

Contributed by Benjamin Mcphaull on Dec 19, 2004

God calls for men to stand up for what’s right.

Will All the Real Men please stand up? Daniel 3:8-12 Prayer (Repeat title) Our world is in desperate need of men who are strong mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Our world needs men who are willing to stand though the heavens may fall. Men who are willing to stand for what’s ...read more

Scripture: Daniel 3:8-12, Daniel 3:16-18

Denomination: Adventist

Please Don't Ask Me To Pray

Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Sep 2, 2005

This sermon deals with why we are reluctant to pray to God in both public and private.

Please Don’ Ask Me To Pray 9/4/2005 Psalms 51:1-13 Hebrews 3:10-15 How many of you have ever been at a meeting and it came time to open in prayer or close in prayer and you were saying on the inside “Please don’t ask me to pray.” One of our members who lived to be about 105 was Mr. ...read more

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

It's Time To Get Saved

Contributed by Dennis Deese on Aug 7, 2003

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

“IT’S TIME TO GET SAVED” By: Dr. Dennis Deese - www.dennisdeese.com JOHN 12:35-50 Some folks think they are good really good people. Let’s suppose that a person only sins 3 times a day. A sin in the morning, a sin during the day and a sin at night. Sounds like a pretty good ...read more

Scripture: John 12:35-50

Culture Blind Series

Contributed by Tom Owen on Jan 14, 2011

verse by verse through Acts

[2] This week we find ourselves back in the book of Acts learning how we can be the church instead of how we can just go to church. As we continue our studies we keep in mind that our main goal as a church it to help people become mature followers of Jesus Christ. But let me ask you this, are ...read more

Scripture: Acts 10:1-48

Denomination: Baptist

A New Family Series

Contributed by Tom Fuller on Oct 24, 2011

Are you happy with the family you grew up with? Chances are you aren't and that even now your vision of family is tainted. But what if you could have the perfect family and perfect relationships? Believe it or not, it is possible, with a family you have b

Today as we venture through the last verses of Chapter 3 and into Chapter 4, Paul reminds us that we have a new family relationship—different than what we came from, and that in this family How you relate to your family of origin can affect how you relate to the family of God that you have ...read more

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

The Truest Meaning Of Christmas

Contributed by Jerry Stephens on Dec 3, 2014

At one time or another, most of us have had the experience of being on the outside looking in. More than anything else, for me Christmas is a celebration of inclusion and acceptance and restoration.

Of all the “true meanings of Christmas,” this is perhaps the truest. When I was a boy, my relatively non-religious family had a Christmas Eve tradition. We’d have a formal, dress-up dinner, and then we’d sit together to talk, tell stories and perhaps read the Christmas ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:12-13

Denomination: Vineyard

Forgiveness - A Stones Throw Away! (Or People In Glass Houses.)

Contributed by John Gullick on Jul 31, 2016

A sermon that looks at Jesus encounter with the woman caught in Adultery - finishes with a remarkable NZ poem

John 8 New International Version (NIV) 8 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made ...read more

Scripture: John 8:1-11

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Living The Life Given Series

Contributed by D Marion Clark on Sep 26, 2012

We like to think about what life would be like if only our conditions changed. What we need to be thinking about is how to live well with the conditions already given.

Introduction What would you change about your condition if you could? You know that if you changed, then you would be able to get closer to God and to serve him better. Would it be your job? Getting out of school? Perhaps you would like to change your very body – be taller or shorter, ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7:17-24

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Choosing To Stand According To The Scriptures

Contributed by Preacher Fo Real on Oct 5, 2012

Through the Holy Spirit of God, what we perceive, we achieve as long as it is within the will of God.

Long before the next growing season, the master gardener carefully selects the desired seeds to be used for the next crop. These ideal seeds are chosen, inspected, and later planted into the prepared soil with the expectation that they will produce. Nevertheless, because of the dangers of disease, ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:1-5

Denomination: *other

So, Who Are You Really? Series

Contributed by Preacher Fo Real on Oct 28, 2012

The only test needed to reveal who we really are is our willingness to do the righteous deed of loving our neighbor as we love ourselves. So, Who Are You Really?

As I wandered through the bible, my eyes fell upon a passage of Scripture in Luke 9. The verses revealed a private conversation between Jesus and his disciples. During this conversation, two very important questions were asked by Jesus. First, he questioned, ‘Who do men say that I am?’ ...read more

Scripture: Luke 9:18-27

Denomination: *other

We Are Forgiven!

Contributed by Tony Russo on May 1, 2014

The Day of Atonement Fulfilled in the New testament

What a blessing for the Body of Christ to share with one voice on a particular day the glorious message of the resurrection. While so much of the world looks for answers to life that coexists on a planet somewhere in the universe, the Church has already found the source of all life in God. As we ...read more

Scripture: Leviticus 16:1-34

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

As Children Of God We Are

Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on Jul 14, 2018

How God has blessed the saved.

AS CHILDREN OF GOD WE ARE John 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again 1. Saved from Condemnation. Romans 8: 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

The Call To Follow Jesus Series

Contributed by David Owens on May 29, 2018

The call to follow Jesus includes acceptance, obedience, and the willingness to become fishers of men and women.

Introduction: A. Let’s begin today’s sermon with a story from the Reader’s Digest. 1. As you know, hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. 2. One student nurse tells the story of arriving at a hospital room to transport a discharged patient. 3. When she arrived, ...read more

Scripture: Luke 5:1-11

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Mary’s Prayer – Handling With Grace The Upheaval Of Your Entire World Series

Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2011

God’s call will effect change, challenge, and will leave us with a choice as to how we’ll respond to it. It certainly did in Mary's world!

Luke 1:38, 46-56 Intro: (audio of Roosevelt’s speech: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”) Last week we remembered the 7th of ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:46-56

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ