Sermons on Polar Express:

How Much Does Worship Cost? Series

Contributed by Pat Cook on Jan 16, 2006

This describes Jesus’ cleansing of the Temple, and why He did it: because the leaders were making worship too hard, and too easy.

John 2:13-25 – How Much Does Worship Cost? We started this passage this morning, but I felt as though I needed another message to give you a better idea of what was happening. This morning dealt with Jesus’ personality and response to injustice. This morning we saw that Jesus was a social ...read more

Scripture: John 2:13-25

Denomination: Baptist

A Startling Essence Series

Contributed by Rick Stacy on Nov 13, 2005

2 of 4 on Love - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. The Nature of love. This message looks at the startling characteristics of love.

A Taste of Love A Bold Flavor – November 6 The Supremacy of Love Words – Love = Noise Knowledge – Love = Nothing Sacrifice – Love = Loss Last week we spoke of the “Supremacy of love”. Without love words are noise, wisdom and knowledge are nothing and sacrifice is loss. It is Love that fills ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

God Doesn't Play Games Series

Contributed by Monte Brown on Feb 10, 2010

God’s Word certainly points out for us what sin is and names it clearly, but God’s Word also helps us to make right decisions about life.

Review Week before last we started our series of messages called “Raising the Standard.” The first message was entitled “What’s Your Standard.” We found out that things like lying, living together, stealing, murder, abortion, hatred, and all sorts of other things ...read more

Scripture: James 2:1-13

Denomination: Baptist

"Fatal Miscalculations"

Contributed by Frankie Melton on May 12, 2017

Many people miscalculate the time they have to live.

“Fatal Miscalculations” James 4:13-16 Introduction: To miscalculate means to misjudge, to make a mistake, to calculate wrongly. History is filled with miscalculations. Some miscalculations can be costly. Some miscalculations can be deadly. Example # 1 The Mars Orbiter was the first ...read more

Scripture: James 4:13-17

Denomination: Baptist

For Brother Ted

Contributed by Bruce Gebbeken on Nov 4, 2006

By understanding that all are not exempt from sin, we can better understand that God does have mercy and grace to help us overcome and walk out our faith.

For Brother Ted Romans 3:23 By now most of you have heard about the great fall of one of the ministers from his position of Senior Pastor of a 14,000 member church and heard of a 30 million member evangelical ministry. Many will ask, “How this can happen to him, and what will become of the ...read more

Scripture: Romans 3:23

Denomination: Independent/Bible

"Ye Shall Know The Truth..."

Contributed by Joe Mack Cherry on Sep 3, 2005

Many Christians do not allow themselves the pleasure of being a Christian and the associated freedoms.

“Ye Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Set You Free” Text: John 8: 31-41 Purpose: The attitudes of the 1st Century Jews are comparable to those of many Christians today. I. Introduction: A look at the text A. Arrogant 1. Them, children of Abraham/We are ...read more

Scripture: John 8:31-41

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Don't Miss Your Mission

Contributed by Johnny Knight on Jan 29, 2010

When it's life-or-death, you do whatever it takes to deliver the life. This is eternal life-or-death for someone you know. And you are life within their reach. Don't miss your mission. Don't let them miss Heaven.

Don't Miss Your Mission Text: Exodus 3:7-8 When you work at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, it's understod there will be no physical link to the outside world for you between February and October. You are 840 miles from the nearest populated site and you're facing average winter ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 3:7-8

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Martyrdom--Its Real Meaning Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 27, 2020

What Matthew records of the prophecy given by Jesus about persecutions has been lived out somewhere in the world in every century since the Resurrection.

Tuesday of the 13th week in Course 2020 The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church Today’s news is troubling, and we fear that tomorrow’s will be even worse. Mobs of misinformed and misled millennials have been rampaging across the urban landscapes, tearing down monuments to long-dead role models ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:31-39, Matthew 24:4-13, Luke 1:38

Denomination: Catholic

Jesus' Name Magnified Series

Contributed by Tom Owen on Jan 14, 2011

verse by verse through Acts

This morning we’re going to be talking about magnifying or lifting up the name of Jesus. [2] But did you know that the name Jesus was actually a very common name in the ancient Jewish world? Jesus was actually pronounced Yeshua by people back then and it’s actually a form of the name ...read more

Scripture: Acts 19:1-17

Denomination: Baptist

A Love Affair With The Faithful Series

Contributed by Steven Dow on Mar 31, 2011

We are called to love all people and to serve all people, but we are especially called to love and serve our brothers and sisters in the Lord. We are to have a love affair with the faithful.

A LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE FAITHFUL A Love Affair – 2 1 John 3:10-17 INTRODUCTION: Today we will be continuing our study titled “A Love Affair.” Last time we looked at loving the Father and today we will be talking about loving the Faithful – the church, our fellow believers. ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:10-17

Pleading Passenger/Purchased Pardon Series

Contributed by Mack Armstrong on May 3, 2008

Jonah makes a plea, Take me up....get me out of here, his solution to the terrible mess he made. This is true for today’s throwaway society. Yet, Jesus prayed similarly, "Take me up,", but He pled for our forgivness as He offered Himself.

JONAH 1:12 PLEADING PASSENGER/PURCHASED PARDON I. PERSONAL PLEA: A. Perceptive. B. Pathetic. C. Plausible. II. PETULANT PLEA: A. Paradoxical. B. Perfidious. C. Polarizing. III. PROTOTYPICAL PLEA: A. Pliable. B. Purchased. C. Progressive. In answer to the sailors’ question as to ...read more

Scripture: Jonah 1:10-12

Denomination: Methodist

The Gift Of Satisfaction Series

Contributed by Jonathan Russell on Oct 13, 2011

This message examines the gift of satisfaction that God gives his children

INTRODUCTION * “Gifts You Won’t Find Under the Tree” series * Rolling Stones hit, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” * Satisfaction is something that all desire, but few really achieve * From a Christianity Today article written by Carolyn Arends (Dec. 2010): ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Denomination: Baptist

The Christian's Reasonable Service

Contributed by Mitch Davis on Jun 22, 2007

Many professing Christians TALK about serving God and some even DO THINGS in service to the Lord, but how many of these Christians GIVE their lives to the Lord, actually sacrificing their will for the Lord’s?

The Christian’s Reasonable Service to God Theme: That Christians understand their lives to be a living sacrifice unto the Lord. INTRODUCTION: A. Because we live in the flesh many strive to understand man’s relationship with God from a fleshly vantage point. 1. Thus, “the mind of man plans his way, ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:1-2

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Run With Endurance

Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Oct 12, 2008

It is a race that is : 1.Set 2.Planned 3.Focused 5. Confident 6.Disciplined 7.Informed 8.Public

Hebrews 12. 1,21 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a great outstanding feature of the Christian is that cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-2

Denomination: Baptist

Enter The Dance Series

Contributed by Mary Erickson on Feb 27, 2020

Ash Wednesday sermon

February 26, 2020; Ash Wednesday Lenten Sermon Series 2020: Discipleship Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 Rev. Mary Erickson Enter the Dance Nicholas Copernicus was a Polish astronomer in the 16th century. He was the first person to propose that the earth is NOT the center of the universe. We are, he said, a ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:1-21

Denomination: Lutheran