Sermons on Progressive:

The Light Of The Body Is The Eye

Contributed by Greg Livingston on Jul 12, 2014

A lamp is lit so that we can see. Jesus is the light of the world. Man is responsible for the light he receives. The true light is available.

Luke – The Light of the Body is the Eye Prayer Introduction The use of light and dark to describe good and bad throughout scripture and in our culture is pretty universal. If you think good thoughts you are in the light. If you think bad thoughts you are in darkness. This picture is common to ...read more

Scripture: Luke 11:33-36

Denomination: Baptist

Letter To The Sardis Congregation Series

Contributed by Scott Coltrain on May 24, 2015

Congregational leaders need to keep themselves and their members alive and zealously active by invoking and cooperating with the life-reviving Holy Spirit.

Verse 1 - In each of the seven letters, Jesus introduces Himself differently to each church congregation. He does this because, in each case, the way He introduces Himself is relevant to the situations of each church congregation and the message they need to heed. Jesus introduces Himself to ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:1-5

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Discipleship Series

Contributed by Tim Smith on May 28, 2015

This message focuses on the profile of what a disciple looks like.

Discipleship Luke 5:1-11 We are in the summer series, “CSI: Church,” and asking why we do what we do. The next two weeks we’re going to focus on our commitment to discipleship. One of the frustrations with the institutional church is that it forgets the mission that Jesus has ...read more

Scripture: Luke 5:1-11

Denomination: Methodist

Keep The Change Series

Contributed by David Henderson on Jun 8, 2015

When we talk about real change, we are talking about transformation. Like an artist who takes a blank palette and paints a beautiful picture—the end product in no way resembles the original.

“Keep the Change” Matthew 5:9 and Romans 12:1-2 I think we call all agree today that the Bible is an amazing book. 66 books, not written by one man, but 39 written over a period of 1500 years. And there is a thread that runs through the scripture from Genesis to Revelation that ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:9

Denomination: Baptist

108? --- What Is The Enemy Of Better?

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jun 10, 2015

108? Stats say 108 people die a minute. One day you will tie your shoes and the undertaker will un-tie them. What opportunities are we missing? God grant us open doors!

108 --- YES 108 ... WHAT IS THE ENEMY OF BETTER? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com I. EVER CONSIDER WHY SOME DOORS OPEN AND SOME DOORS CLOSE? LET US WEIGH IN ON THE SUBJECT OF OPPORTUNITIES... Revelation 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:8

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Anointing For Greater Glory

Contributed by Lekan Adesanya on Oct 10, 2015

There is an anointing that God gave man but sin took it from him. The focus of the sermon is to receive a restoration of a Greater Glory through a renewal of anointing.

Acts 2 Verse 4: Ac:2:4: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Introduction The anointing of God flows from the Holy Spirit and, from creation man was anointed by God when he breathed his spirit into man, Ge:2:7: ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

“the Fear That Grips!” Series

Contributed by Douglas Sherwood on Oct 10, 2015

APPLICATION: We need to SERVE the Lord like we have ALREADY BEEN DELIVERED! SERVING the Lord at the very ESSENCE of our BEING!

Two gas company service men, a senior training Supervisor and a young trainee were out checking meters and parked their truck at the end of the alley and worked there way to the other end. At the last house a woman looking out her kitchen window watched the two men as they checked her gas meter. ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:67-75

Denomination: Nazarene

Encouragement: Making Others Strong

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 12, 2015

As long as the church of Jesus Christ has the potential to improve, we need to be serious about encouraging others.

Encouragement: Making Others Strong (2015 Revision of an earlier sermon already posted) 1. We are often discuouraged. 2. There is an old story about a pastor leaving a church. At his farewell dinner, he tried to encourage one of the pillar members, “Don’t be so sad. The next pastor ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 1:38

Denomination: Independent/Bible

“kingdom Discipleship” Series

Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Oct 15, 2015

Christ-followers are called to be more than good church-goers; we're to be kingdom disciples.

Today, we’re starting of series on kingdom living. Our goal is to stimulate a kingdom vision that will enable us, as a church, to dream, think, and move beyond the church-box paradigm. Christ calls us to be more than good church-goers; He calls us to be kingdom disciples. In the four ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 13:51-52

Denomination: Baptist

Caleb

Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Nov 3, 2015

Caleb

Numbers 14:20 - 24 The Promise, Joshua 14 The Fulfillment 40 years later Churchill. “Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization…Hitler knows that he will have to break us on this island or lose the war. If we stand up to him, all Europe may be free. ...read more

Denomination: Holiness

Arise And Build

Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Nov 4, 2015

ARISE AND BUILD

ARISE AND BUILD Nehemiah 2:11-20 I. HE FIXED HIS FOCUS v.12 "And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon." Nehemiah had a mandate from God. He ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 2:11-20

Denomination: Holiness

Ridicule

Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Nov 4, 2015

RIDICULE

NEHEMIAH CH 4 1. THE REALITY OF RIDICULE Note :- 1) The Certainty of Opposition v.1 "But it came to pass" 2) The Characteristics of Opposition (a) The Source of their Opposition? People.. Sanballat ...The governor of Samaria, Tobiah...Sanballat's hired hand, Geshem...Sanballat's hired gun ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 4:1-15

Denomination: Holiness

Nehemiah

Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Nov 4, 2015

Nehemiah

Nehemiah ch 6 v 1 - 14 1. Nehemiah's Walk 1 ¶ Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 6:1-14

Denomination: Holiness

Joy, Even With No Pleasure

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 1, 2013

St. Paul gives us the clue to living in joy even if we are afflicted with pain and suffering.

Third Sunday of Advent 2013 Extraordinary Form From the epistle of Blessed Paul the Apostle to the Philippians: Brethren: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. 6 Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 4:4-7

Denomination: Catholic

The 21st Century Christmas Star Series

Contributed by Bradley Berglund on Dec 23, 2013

The lights that lead people to the Savior today are called CHRISTIANS

The 21st Century Christmas Star! Daniel 12:3 & Matt 2:1-12 When I was a youth, the planetarium had an annual program that explained the “Star of Bethlehem” Johannes Kepler, a Reformation era astronomer and mathematician, calculated that Jupiter and Saturn aligned in 7 b.c. This rare ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 2:1-10

Denomination: Baptist