Sermons on Pleasing Our Lord:

More Righteousness Needed, Please Series

Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Jun 28, 2014

How can we be more righteous than the Pharisees and the Scribes were?

More Righteousness Needed Please Matthew 5:20-26 This verse has certainly raised its concerns in the church over the centuries. But understanding this verse is key to understanding the Sermon on the Mount as a whole. What is Jesus saying when He says that “your righteousness must exceed that ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:20-26

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Strive For Excellence In Pleasing God

Contributed by Paul Apple on Oct 18, 2000

GROWING DISCIPLES MUST STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN PLEASING GOD A.

GROWING DISCIPLES MUST STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN PLEASING GOD A. Our Present Level of Obedience Should Be the Foundation For Striving For Excellence in Pleasing God (:1-2) (rather than the excuse for settling for mediocrity or the mountaintop for sliding to the valley) 1. Growing Disciples Need ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Receiving The Lord’s Chastening

Contributed by D. Dewaine Phillips on Feb 8, 2022

God chastens us for our own good. However, usually, when we are going through His chastening we resist the Lord with all of our might. But this passage shows how it would be beneficial to receive the Lord’s chastening.

I have entitled our message this evening, “Receiving the Lord’s Chastening,” and I wish to begin by sharing an illustration entitled, “God’s Loving Kick”: A Norfolk-Southern train was rolling down the rails of Indiana at 24 miles per hour. Suddenly the conductor, Robert Mohr, spotted an object ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:3-15

Denomination: Baptist

Lord Of All Series

Contributed by Rodney Coe on Feb 12, 2015

Is Jesus our Lord?

Lord of All Colossians 1:13-20 Hudson Taylor was a man who made Jesus his Lord. The son of a preacher, saved at the age of 15 Hudson Taylor as a youth fully surrendered to the Lordship of Christ. His pastor father had prayed for years that his son would go to China as a missionary and as a ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 1:13-20

Denomination: Baptist

Confession Of Our Sin Series

Contributed by Anthony Seel on Jun 26, 2005

Fifth sermon in a series on the Lord’s Prayer based on a booklet by Partners in Ministry.

THE SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST June 26, 2005 St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church The Rev. M. Anthony Seel, Jr. Matthew 6:12 "Confession of our Sin" Hazel Motes was ten when he talked his way into a carnival sideshow tent and saw a naked woman slithering around “in a box lined with black cloth.” ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:12

Denomination: Lutheran

The Lord That Covers

Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Nov 27, 2015

To show that JESUS our ALEPH-TAV, is the One that covers us. The LORD is our MercySeat.

I. EXORDIUM: Who is the One that covers us from dangers and from destruction because of our sins? The LORD JESUS. Exodus 26:34 (Amplified Bible) And you shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place. Hebrews 9:5 (Amplified Bible) Above [the ark] and overshadowing ...read more

Scripture: Leviticus 3:14

Denomination: Pentecostal

Our Stimulus Package

Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Feb 23, 2009

1. Consider the Lord’s Coming 2. Confession 3. Confident Trust 4. Consecrate Our Lives to the Lord 5. Continue Progress

Faith To Be Strong — Andrew Peterson - Stimulus - Something that incites or rouses to action; an incentive - There has never been a spending plan this large in the history of man. - $787 billion, what does that mean? - The stimulus bill gives a tax cut that amounts, on average, to about $13 more ...read more

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

Denomination: Baptist

The Dimensions Of The Lord’s Table

Contributed by James Snyder on Jun 24, 2017

To understand the dimensions of the Lord’s Table is to fully grasp the character and nature of our Christian experience.

1 Corinthians 10:14-33, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 The Lord’s Table is a continuing memorial of the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the one thing Christians have celebrated from the very beginning. Jesus said to the early Christians concerning this, “This do in ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:14-33

Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

Whom Do You Please

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jul 9, 2021

Be careful of who is applauding your efforts. If it is not God the final review will not be favorable.

Gal 1:9-10 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men ? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. KJV I am a people ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 1:9-10

Denomination: Baptist

Sing To The Lord! Series

Contributed by Jefferson Williams on Aug 8, 2021

Psalm 96 - Our worship to God, our witness to the nations, our waiting for the coming Kinmg.

Summer in the Psalms Psalm 96 - Proclaim the Greatness of God Pastor Jefferson M. Williams Chenoa Baptist Church 08-08-2021 [Missa reading Psalm 96 in Spanish] Background of Psalm 96 This morning we continue our Summer in the Psalms series by looking at what commentators call a “missionary ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Enoch's Translation Series

Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Aug 20, 2014

To show that our faith can overcome and northing's impossible with GOD if we use our faith.

I. EXORDIUM: Do you want to be translated? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show that our faith can overcome and northing's impossible with GOD if we use our faith. IV. TEXT: Hebrews 11:5 (Amplified Bible) 11:5 Because of faith Enoch was caught up and transferred to ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:5

Denomination: Pentecostal

Our New Birthright

Contributed by Mary Erickson on Jan 9, 2023

A sermon for the Baptism of Our Lord, Year A

January 15, 2023 Hope Lutheran Church Rev. Mary Erickson Matthew 3:13-17 Our New Birthright Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco in 1873. His parents were from China but had permanently ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 3:13-17

Denomination: Lutheran

How God Sees Our Prayers Series

Contributed by Paul Clemente on Jul 2, 2012

God will certainly answer our prayer requests, but we need to consider the 3 ways God answers prayers.

Please open your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke, Chap. 11… In the beginning of Luke 11Jesus taught His disciples how to pray. This prayer is also in Matthew 6 and is popularly known as the Lord’s Prayer. It really should be called The Disciple’s Prayer; maybe this is one reason why many people just ...read more

Scripture: Luke 11:5-13

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Spiritual Truth The Lord Wants Us To See Series

Contributed by Rick Crandall on Dec 16, 2019

The Lord wants us to see: 1. The darkness of disbelief (vs. 34-41). 2. The infinite goodness of praise from God (vs. 42-43). 3. The blessings of believing in Jesus (vs. 44-47).

Spiritual Truth the Lord Wants Us to See The Gospel of John John 12:34-47 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - June 14, 2017 (Revised December 16, 2019) BACKGROUND: *Please open your Bibles to John 12:20. In tonight's Scripture, the Lord was still in the Temple in Jerusalem. It ...read more

Scripture: John 12:34-47

Denomination: Baptist

Our Blessings In Christ Jesuss

Contributed by William D. Brown on Mar 11, 2008

BECAUSE WE’RE IN CHRIST JESUS

The Many Blessings Of God because we’re in Christ Jesus: Eph. 1:1-6 3-15-08 Today we’ll try and point out a few of the many blessings we have because of our being in Christ Jesus. 1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 1:1-6

Denomination: Baptist