Sermons on Preaching Rut:

Preach The Word: Faithful Disciples In A Faithless Age - 2 Timothy 4:2 Series

Contributed by Dean Courtier on Feb 26, 2026

We live in a noisy world. Opinions are endless, truth feels negotiable, and people are searching for voices that confirm what they already believe rather than challenge them toward holiness. Yet into that confusion comes a command from the Apostle Paul .

Preach the Word: Faithful Disciples in a Faithless Age - 2 Timothy 4:2 (NLT) Introduction: A Charge That Echoes Through the Ages We live in a noisy world. Opinions are endless, truth feels negotiable, and people are searching for voices that confirm what they already believe rather than challenge ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:2, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, 1 Peter 3:15, Ephesians 4:15, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, Romans 12:2, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Pentecostal

Funeral Service

Contributed by Michael Bolin on Jun 25, 2017

This is the sermon I preached for my Dad's funeral

Opening Prayer: Heavenly Father – As we gather here, this afternoon, we ask that Your Holy Spirit help us to and guide us in worship. Replace our sorrow with Your joy. Let the words from our mouth, and the feelings of our hearts, offer praise and thanksgiving unto You for having the privilege and ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:33-37

Denomination: United Methodist

Wake Up And Get Dressed! Series

Contributed by David Dykes on Oct 30, 2014

Sometimes people are so content they get into a spiritual rut where nothing ever changes. Part of the problem is with us preachers. There is so much Sermonic Sominex dispensed in churches today, it lulls people to sleep.

INTRODUCTION Open your Bibles, please, to Romans 13, verse 11. Today I want to talk to you about “Wake Up and Get Dressed!” So you won’t have to keep looking at your watch, I’m putting a clock up here for you. I know for some of you, when you come to church and the ...read more

Scripture: Romans 13:11-14

Denomination: Baptist

A Time For Personal Spiritual Renewal

Contributed by Ray Ellis on Feb 19, 2008

The natural drift in our Christian life is toward spiritual dryness, apathy and indifference. When we get into a spiritual rut – a grace with the ends knocked out - we are ready for a time of renewal.

A Time For Personal Spiritual Renewal Matthew 4:1-4 The natural drift in our Christian life is toward spiritual dryness, apathy and indifference. When we get into a spiritual rut – a grace with the ends knocked out - we are ready for a time of renewal. Out natural tendency is to drift from ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 4:1-4

Denomination: Free Methodist

The Radical Gospel

Contributed by Ian Lyall on Oct 11, 2008

Is the Gospel we preach, and the God we preach the same as Paul had preached to the Thessalonians in AD 49?

The first epistle to the Thessalonian, of which we just heard the first chapter, is the earliest of Paul’s writings. We read in Acts chapter 17 of his visit to Thessalonica (modern-day Salonika) in the year 49; of how he preached in the synagogue for two Sabbaths, but was then driven from the city ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Nuestras Madres: Instrumentos De La Gracia De Dios

Contributed by Andrew Schroer on May 15, 2001

Por la historia de Rut y Noemí vemos un muy buen ejemplo de la relación que Dios quiere que exista entre madre e hijos.

Hoy es el día de las madres, un día en que dejamos por un momento la rutina y los quehaceres diarios para agradecer a nuestras mamás por criarnos, por amarnos... por aguantarnos. La “madre” del día de las madres se llama Anna Jarvis. Dos años después de la muerte de su mamá, ella convenció a su ...read more

Denomination: Lutheran

A Love Letter Written In The Sand

Contributed by Rodney Fry on Feb 14, 2007

I preached this on Valentine’s Day but this could be preached at anytime

Love Letters Written in the Sand John 8:3ff Introduction The title of a once popular song also fits a story in the New Testament. I. She Didn’t Understand the Difference Between Love and Lust. A. Many in our time do not understand the difference. B. We even speak of “making love” ...read more

Scripture: John 8:3

Denomination: Baptist

Gospel Without Charge

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Apr 15, 2020

If you could not be paid to preach would you pay to preach?

1Co 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. From ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:17-18, 2 Corinthians 11:7, 2 Corinthians 11:20

Denomination: Baptist

Word And Eucharist Are One Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 13, 2009

The Gospel proclaims the divine reversal--the weak become strong by grace; thus also Word and Sacrament are the means by which weakness is strengthened.

June 15, 2009 Sacramentum Caritatis Here in the penumbra of the Feast of Corpus Christi, it is particularly helpful to reflect on what many have called “the great reversal.” The Gospel is one frequently quoted to show the power of nonviolent resistence. Go two miles when forced to go one. St. ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10

Denomination: Catholic

Choosing The Path Of Most Resistance Series

Contributed by David Smith on Jun 18, 2009

When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never bee

I’m sure we all know the joke about how many social workers it takes to change a light bulb. It only takes one, of course, but the light bulb has got to want to change. I think it was social workers that were the target of that joke, but it could equally well have been psychotherapists, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 11:1-11

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Call No Man Father! Series

Contributed by David Smith on Jun 19, 2009

You must not be called ’Teacher,’ because you are all equal and have only one Teacher. And you must not call anyone here on earth ’Father,’ because you have only the one Father in heaven. Nor should you be called ’Leader,’ because your one and only leader

“Call no man ‘Father’” says Jesus. That’s part of our reading today from Matthew 23. Jesus says, “call no man ‘Father’”. What’s that doing here? And I don’t just mean what’s it doing here as this week’s reading. I mean, what’s it doing in the Bible? Since the (not so recent) publication of “The ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 23:8-11

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Where And When Is The Gospel To Be Proclaimed? Series

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Jul 5, 2009

Is the gospel only for those who do not believe?

Dakota Community Church June 28, 2009 Where and When is the Gospel to be Proclaimed? The Field & the Force 2 John 4:34-36 "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, ’Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and ...read more

Scripture: John 4:34-36

Denomination: Mennonite

"When It's All Been Said And Done"

Contributed by Andy Grossman on Jul 23, 2008

Paul knows he will soon go to be with the Lord. He shares three things Christians need to do.

“When it’s All Been Said and Done” July 27, 2008 ”In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-8

Denomination: Holiness

So You Call Yourself A Pastor 2 Series

Contributed by Jason Jones on Feb 16, 2009

Exposition of Acts 20:25-28 about the first two of four charges to the Ephesian elders about how to pastor

Text: Acts 20:25-31, Title: So You Call Yourself a Pastor 2, Date/Place: NRBC, 2/15/09, AM A. Opening illustration: the greatest pastor ever, and maybe the church job descriptions B. Background to passage: the setting is Miletus where Paul has decided to stay, not going to Ephesus because there ...read more

Scripture: Acts 20:25-28

Denomination: Baptist

How To Pray For Revival In Your Church

Contributed by David Cook on May 11, 2010

4 keys for knowing how to pray for revival in your church.

The Church of Jesus Christ is in need of revival. The fastest growing religion in our country is Islam. God’s Word and prayer are no longer desired in schools and government. Christian values such as family, prayer, believing the Word of God is now a rarity. God’s people are no longer bothered with ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:9-14

Denomination: Baptist