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  • Lies In Disguise—battling Temptation

    Contributed by Mark Roper on Nov 20, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,941 views

    Temptations may be bold, or subtle. Temptations may be good things to stand in the way of Devotion Temptations are for one purpose to destroy us

    Lies In Disguise—Battling Temptation Matthew 4:1-4:8 I think that we all understand what temptation is. There is a story told about a little boy in a grocery store that I think illustrates the nature of temptation. The boy was standing near an open box of peanut butter cookies. “Now then, ...read more

  • Padding Your Resume

    Contributed by Rusty Wright on Jun 14, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,723 views

    You don’t have to pretend to be something you’re not in order to share your faith.

    Padding Your Résumé 6-9-07 Galatians 1:11-24 When I was with La-Z-Boy, one of my duties was to hire the staff for my store— salespeople, office staff, warehouse workers and drivers. Now, most of the time, people would just come in to the store and fill out an application and I ...read more

  • Are We There Yet: Hope And The Curious People Of God Series

    Contributed by Philip Gill on Jun 21, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,584 views

    In Luke 21.25-28, Jesus turns the curiosity about the end times into living in the present with hope for God’s purposes.

    Sermon for the first Sunday in Advent 2006 Like a similar passage in Mark, today’s Gospel forms part of Jesus’ response to discussions about the end times. For some people curiosity about the end has continued unabated down through the centuries despite Jesus’ encouragement to concentrate on ...read more

  • Jesus, I've Gotta Have More

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Mar 4, 2007
    based on 86 ratings
     | 14,526 views

    Only Jesus satisfies the Soul. Looking at people who realized that nothing else matters but you Lord.

    Intro: my Mom’s motto was never leave the table hungry and we never did. But sometimes when I went to friends homes they gave out enough to feed a bird. So many times I would come home and raid the refrigerator because I was starving. In life there are times that you just gotta have more. Today, we ...read more

  • Habakkuk's Powerful Prayer

    Contributed by Jon Daniels on Aug 28, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
     | 38,212 views

    This message deals with Habakkuk’s prayer and how we can look to God to strengthen our faith in difficult times.

    "HABAKKUK’S POWERFUL PRAYER" Habakkuk 3 INTRO – Life is full of questions, isn’t it? Some questions are unimportant. Others have life-changing, life-altering implications. And then there are those questions that sound relatively unimportant, but definitely have life-changing implications. ...read more

  • This Old House Series

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Jan 17, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,911 views

    This is the third sermon on the Methodist General Rules "By attending on the ordinances of God.

    On shows like PBS’s "This Old House", or "Trading Spaces" and with someone like Bob Vela as the host, we often see the renovation of old houses. Houses that are in need of repair; houses that are in need of being modernized; houses that just over time haven’t been given the attention that they ...read more

  • Walking In Absolute Hope

    Contributed by Danny Anderson on Oct 28, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 9,687 views

    As we take a look around our world today, we can easily surmise that there simply is not much hope for people out there. As we consider the ongoing wars and battles being fought, the increase in violent crime, the proliferation of outright sin acted out r

    Walking in Absolute Hope Text: 1 Corinthians 15:58 Introduction: The Corinthian church was filled with problems. There were divisions; sin was being tolerated; false doctrine abounded and even strange, fleshly practices were being openly practiced during their worship. Paul wrote this letter to ...read more

  • Investing Your Life

    Contributed by Dan Brown on Dec 4, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,248 views

    Are you investing your life in things that are temporary and will be gone when you die or are you investing your life in things that will last.

    Sermon-7/25/04-Investing Your Life Open your Bibles to Mt. 28 Hook: What will My Reward be? One day a fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach, with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line cast out into the sparkling blue surf. He was enjoying the warmth of the afternoon ...read more

  • Away In A Manger Series

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Dec 4, 2006
    based on 7 ratings
     | 18,627 views

    What are the Biblical truths taught by this favorite Christmas carol?

    Today, we are going to think on the Biblical message found in the .words of that wonderful Christmas carol, "Away In A Manger." A great deal of mystery has surrounded this familiar song of Christmas. One tradition has it that it was written by Martin Luther as a song to be sung to his children. ...read more

  • Parable Of The Wheat And The Tares Series

    Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Jan 10, 2007
    based on 196 ratings
     | 80,248 views

    ’Holy Tares’ we could call them...for they are in the church, but not in the body of Christ. The SOWING, the GROWING, and the MOWING [reaping]. Link included to formatted text, audio, and PowerPoint Template.

    Parable of the Wheat and the Tares Matthew 13:24-30 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/WheatAndTares.html Will everyone who goes to church go to heaven? Will every member of GBC make it? I would like to think that if the rapture occurred on a Sunday morning during our main service, that the room ...read more

  • Our Purpose: Fellowship Series

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Jun 8, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,117 views

    Fellowship is a commitment to Christ and to one another.

    Our Purpose: Fellowship Text: Acts 2:42; Phil. 1:5; Eph. 4:2-3 Introduction 1. Read Acts 2:42 2. Illustration: When Pliny was governor of Bithynia, he wrote a most interesting letter to the Roman Emperor Trajan, asking why Christians were being exterminated, and added: "I have been trying to ...read more

  • Times Of Refreshing

    Contributed by Derrick Strickland on Feb 25, 2002
    based on 138 ratings
     | 24,472 views

    When Hagar runs away from her problems, she runs into God and a transforming time of refreshing

    “TIMES OF REFRESHING” Genesis 16:1-14 INTRO:1.Hagar is often presented as the conniving, heartless, blindly ambitious, threat to God’s plan. a)When she ran away from Sarah she went alone, maybe because she had no real friends in the camp. b)Had it been up to Sarah or even up to us, we may have ...read more

  • Shallow Spirituality

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Mar 11, 2002
    based on 54 ratings
     | 9,642 views

    Attitudes to avoid because they promote shallow spirituality.

    Last week we looked at "surface spirituality", the soil that did not receive the seed because it had been "walked on" and was hardened. We learned that we can develop a hardened heart when others hurt us if we’re not careful. If we let our hearts become bitter and unforgiving the Word of God ...read more

  • The Game's Not Over Yet

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Apr 10, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,138 views

    Christmas 1985: In our tumultuous world and in our troubled lives, those negatives are not the last word, for God has sent Immanuel to work a work that is not yet finished, but will be eventually.

    The morning sports pages brought forth a pearl of wisdom from one Ron Jaworski, quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles. Mr. Jaworski, as it turned out, is something of a prophet. He referred to his team's irritating habit of getting off to a good start in their games, leading right up to the last ...read more

  • Building A Strong Christian Family

    Contributed by Randy Bataanon on Feb 22, 2011
    based on 253 ratings
     | 191,306 views

    Talking to an expatriate worker in the Middle East, one reporter asks the question: What motivate you to endure all the hardships, discriminations, injustices and loneliness? The expatriate answered, “The thought that I’m doing all these for my family!"

    BUILDING A STRONG CHRISTIAN FAMILY Psalms 27:1-5 Talking to an expatriate worker in the Middle East, one reporter asks the question: What motivate you to endure all the hardships, discriminations, injustices and loneliness while working in other country? The expatriate answered, “I’m doing all ...read more