Sermons on Possessing The Land: showing 496-510 of 84,736

Promised Land Doesn't Mean Problem Free Series

Contributed by Andrew Drummond on Aug 26, 2009

Often we have a crazy notion that somewhere along the Christian journey things should become really easy and we equate that with our lives being blessed. When we adopt this thinking we add societal truths to biblical truths, which leads to disappointment

Often we have a crazy notion that somewhere along the Christian journey things should become really easy and we equate that with our lives being blessed. When we adopt this thinking we add societal wants to biblical truths, which leads to disappointment and disenchantment. Nowhere in all of the ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 1:1-9, Joshua 1:8

The Middle East Crisis: Land For Peace? (Part 2) Series

Contributed by Amy Bickel on Jun 9, 2007

Look at the promises that God made to the Arab peoples. Continuation of the Middle East Crisis series.

Today we are going to continue our study on the Mideast with part 2 of “The Middle East Crisis: Land for Peace?”. I’m constantly surprised and even disgusted by the news reports I see from major news networks presenting heavily biased, anti-Israeli accounts of what is occurring between Israel and ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 16:10-12

Denomination: Baptist

There Are Still Very Large Areas Of Land To Be Taken Over

Contributed by Ewen Huffman on Jul 19, 2005

No matter how we feel... how old we feel... or whether we feel we can ’rest on our laurels’- God still has a job for us! Land for us to take! And- He can renew our youth to make it possible!

"There are still very large areas of land to be taken over" Joshua 11:16-12:1, 13:1 WBC 17 July 05am The Secret of longevity: (show picture in Pictures folder) A passer-by noticed an old lady sitting on her front step: "I couldn’t help noticing how happy you look! What is the secret for such a ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Finding God In Narnia: In A Land Far-Far Away Series

Contributed by Marty Boller on Nov 3, 2005

#2 of 8 Narnia teachings. Geared to help you draw out and apply the powerful scriptural truths found in C.S. Lewis’ classic: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.

This sermon uses a “tour guide” to take your listeners through the Land of Narnia. My wife, Sandy, dressed as a typical tour guide with a winter coat & hat. I began the teaching with a review of the 3 major points shared in our first week’s teachings…only to be ‘interrupted’ by the Narnia tour ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 18:3-4

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Don't Leave My Body In A Strange Land

Contributed by Eric Smith on Dec 8, 2014

Faith...to be embalmed and put in a coffin for 359 years, stored possibly in someone's living room (what a conversation piece when friends come over), all because of a promise. Will you have enough faith so you will not be left behind?

Gen 50:24-26 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 50:24-26

Denomination: Apostolic

In The Land Of The Blind, The Open-Eyed Get Beaten Up Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 23, 2023

Our Western world is suffused with moral and intellectual darkness; it’s like nearly everyone is blind, or walks around with an eyepatch over both eyes.

Friday of the 11th Week in Course 2023 I had for about nine years the privilege of leading a Christian secondary school. One of the skills we taught in our writing classes was, as in many schools, how to write a resume for college applications. And, as principal, I got to read very many resumes ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:19-23, Psalm 34:2-7, 2 Corinthians 11:18-30

Denomination: Catholic

Will Your Choice Be The Lord Or The "gods Of The Land"?

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 14, 2022

We must choose our master, and make the right decision.

Saturday of 11th week in course Today’s story from the Book of Chronicles relates the history of the chosen people, the Jews, in the wake of the dictatorship of Queen Athaliah, who had tried to exterminate the House of David. But the priest Jehoiada saved the life of one of the king’s sons, and ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:24-34, Psalm 89:4-5, Psalm 89:29-34, 2 Chronicles 24:17-25

Denomination: Catholic

Almighty God Redeem Our Land, We Pray

Contributed by Howard Gunter on Dec 15, 2019

God's redemption of Zion gives us HOPE

Message/Devotion December 15, 2019 Isaiah 35:1-10 Almighty God Redeem Our Land, We Pray The reading The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 35:1-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Choice: Life, Or Death

Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Mar 15, 2011

Choose life in the Promised Land, and discover what waits for you on the other side of joyful reality

INTRO A number of weeks ago, I jokingly said that everyone in my family had a license for something in life. The one license my folks said was solely mine was the complaining license. Dad would say: “Stop your fussing;” and if I didn’t, he’d pick on me and saying: ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Denomination: Lutheran

A Fighting Senior Citizen Series

Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Jul 30, 2002

At 85 years old, Caleb takes on the giants of the promised land.

A Fighting Senior Citizen – Joshua 14:6-15 Intro: 20 Signs That You’re Getting Old 1. You’re asleep, but others worry that you’re dead. 2. Your back goes out more often than you do. 3. You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room. 4. You buy a compass for the dash ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 14:6-15, Joshua 14:6-14

Denomination: Baptist

Crossing Over Into Victory Series

Contributed by David Welch on Jun 25, 2018

Message 6 in our journey with Joshua into the Promised Land. This message explores the elements involved in getting ready for victory.

Joshua Series #6 The Amazing Race to Rest & Reward “Crossing Over” Review / Introduction The promise to Abraham concerning Land, Seed, and blessing was made hundreds of years before and recorded in Genesis 12. The Bible tracks Abraham from Ur to the territory we know as Israel. Abraham passed ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 2:15-17, 1 Peter 5:9-11

Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

Doubting

Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 10, 2004

The ten spies doubted God’s ability to deliver the land of Canaan into Israel’s hands because their eyes were focused on their own abilities instead of God’s.

THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PASSAGE: Carl Rogers, a psychologist, was 22 years old when he entered Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1924. While there, he participated in a seminar organized to explore religious doubts. Rogers later said of the group, “The majority of members...in thinking their ...read more

Scripture: Numbers 13:1-33

Denomination: Baptist

The Cost Of Victory Series

Contributed by Gerald Van Horn on Jan 5, 2006

Itrust that by now we have come to learn that according to the book of Joshua that Canaan corresponds to the land of full blessing and victory

The Victory Side of Life#3 The Cost of Victory by Gerald Van Horn Joshua 2:1-24 I trust that by now we have come to learn that according to the book of Joshua that Canaan of the Old Testament corresponds to the land of full ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 2:1-24

Denomination: Assembly Of God

God Uses Ordinary People: Caleb Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on Aug 24, 2008

Our problem is not that there are giants in the land; our problem is that there are giants like fear and unbelief in our hearts.

God Uses Ordinary People: Caleb Numbers 13-14 Rev. Brian Bill 8/24/08 There are some things that just stick with us over the years. I remember a jingle called “Conjunction Junction” from Schoolhouse Rock that I can’t get out of my head. Some of you could sing it with me. The song goes like ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Taking This Mountain

Contributed by Joe Rowland on Jun 15, 2009

The record proclaims that Caleb, because of his faith in God, took possession of his mountain, and he expelled some of the greatest of the giants. It is time we take back our mountains.

Taking This Mountain Joshua 14:6-15 6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea. 7 Forty years old was I when Moses the ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 14:6-15

Denomination: Assembly Of God