Sermons on Purpose Of The Gifts:

Gifts To Serve The Church Series

Contributed by Ken Henson on Sep 30, 2016

Evangelists, Prophets, Apostles, and Pastor/Teachers are not exactly authority figures. They are trainers. Good trainers have to be able to set an example. And these trainers are trainers in service.

Ephesians 4:11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:11-13

Denomination: *other

Gifts In Unexpected Boxes

Contributed by Jack Russell on Feb 9, 2019

Forrest Gump's mother said: "life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get." Sometimes you don't even get what the box says is in it.

Great Gifts in Unexpected Boxes A Christmas Meditation I like to buy my wife extravagant gifts for Christmas…like socks. You might laugh, but I’m not talking just any socks. I’m talking heavy winter socks, thick socks. You know, the kind where a single sock can block a dryer vent. Besides ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:11-12

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Gifted (Part Six) Series

Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jun 25, 2018

We've looked at six of the seven motivational gifts listed in Romans 12:6-8. Today we'll focus on the last one-mercy.

GIFTED (part six) We've looked at six of the spiritual gifts listed in Rom. 12:6-8. Today we'll focus on mercy. 1) The gift of mercy. The ability to minister cheerfully and appropriately to those who are suffering or undeserving; to spare them from their deserved punishment or consequences. ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 78:38-39, 1 Timothy 1:13-16, Luke 10:30-37

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Gift That Keeps On Giving Series

Contributed by John Bright on Jan 16, 2021

Working through the book of Philippians using consecutive expository preaching. Philippians 4:14-19

Series: Philippians Sermon: “The Gift that Keeps on Giving” Philippians 4:14-19 Pastor John Bright Philippians 4 “14 Nevertheless you have done well that you shared in my distress. 15 Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 4:14-19, Exodus 29:41, Isaiah 56:7

Denomination: Methodist

Lifted, Sifted, Gifted

Contributed by John Gaston on Sep 8, 2019

Gideon had lost sight of God and that God can do great things through the least people. He had to go through three stages of preparation before he was ready to storm the enemies’ camp: he had to be LIFTED, SIFTED, and then GIFTED!

LIFTED, SIFTED, GIFTED Judges 6:11-16,25-34; 7:2,7,19-21 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR: GIVING IN THE OFFERING 1. Timmy didn’t want to put his money in the offering plate on Sunday morning. The plate passed down the pew and at last came to Timmy. He held his $5 bill over the plate but couldn’t let go. ...read more

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Gifts Fit For The King

Contributed by Chuck Brooks on Oct 15, 2020

If you ever wanted to know what the first birthday party for Jesus was like, it included worship. If you call yourself celebrating Christmas and not worshipping Him, you are not celebrating Christmas.

Mat 2:1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, Mat 2:2 saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him." The Greek term ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 2:11

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Gifts Of Christmas: Joy

Contributed by Troy Borst on Dec 9, 2020

We receive joy because of the birth of Jesus Christ.

GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS: JOY Luke 2:10 #giftsofChristmas INTRODUCTION… Joy to the World (p) Today we are going to talk about something that is complicated and also wonderful. Wonderful and complicated. Complicated and wonderful. Doesn’t that sound like fun? We are going to talk about “joy” which ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:10

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Gifts Of Christmas: Salvation

Contributed by Troy Borst on Dec 16, 2020

THREAD: What if Jesus had never been born? #1) No salvation from sin. #2) No victory over death. #3) No relationship with God.

GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS: SALVATION Matthew 1:18-25 #giftsofChristmas INTRODUCTION… It’s A Wonderful Life (from wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life) On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, 38-year-old George Bailey contemplates suicide. The prayers of his family and friends reach ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Christmas - A Gift Of Love

Contributed by Rodney V Johnson on Dec 17, 2020

This message explains that the gift God gave us was based on His love for us and therefore the best gifts that we can give and/or receive in this life is love.

Christmas: A Gift of Love Scripture: John 3:16; First Corinthians 13 John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” On Friday we will celebrate Christmas, that day of the year when ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Jesus Is The Greatest Gift

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Dec 18, 2020

we reflect on Gabriel's announcement to Mary, what a great gift Jesus is, and how we respond.

12.20.20 Luke 1:26–38 26 In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:26-38

Denomination: Lutheran

Exchanging Gifts With God Series

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 21, 2020

We can never pay God back for the gift of His Son, but we can gift ourselves to Him out of love and appreciation.

Exchanging Gifts with God (2 Corinthians 9:15, Romans 12:1-2) 1. A little five year old girl took a sheet of brown construction paper and cut out the letter “E” with her safety scissors. She wrapped it and gave it to her dad for Christmas. When dad opened the present, he looked at it with a smile ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:15, Romans 12:1-2

Denomination: Independent/Bible

The Greatest Gift Is Jesus

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Dec 23, 2020

We look at gift giving - the difficulties of it - and how the gift of Jesus gives us all.

12.24.20 Romans 8:32 32 Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also graciously give us all things along with him? There was once a little girl in child care who had spent about an hour meticulously coloring a card to give to her mother. When ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:32

Denomination: Lutheran

Three Gifts For Christmas

Contributed by David Radcliff on Apr 2, 2016

Each Christmas we give and exchange gifts and cards. Today I wish to offer to you the original and only genuine Christmas gifts in the world. There are three of them but they are not...gold, frankincense, and myhrr.

THREE GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS Luke 1:68 Each Christmas we give and exchange gifts and cards. Today I wish to offer to you the original and only genuine Christmas gifts in the world. There are three of them but they are not...gold, frankincense, and myhrr. I. I PRAY THAT YOU WILL KNOW THE GLADNESS OF ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:68

Denomination: Baptist

A Gift For The New Year

Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 13, 2017

Use the principles of John the Baptist preparing the way for Jesus in Christmas to prepare the way for the new year.

1. I am not a big fan of Christmas – there are theological issues in which a pagan story of Mithras became the basis for the date of the celebration of the birth of Jesus. [Similar for Easter] a. Jesus’ birth is mentioned but not specifically when b. Jewish people tend not to celebrate ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:8-17

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Greatest Gift Of All

Contributed by Geoffrey Foot on Dec 14, 2017

Christmas is a time of sharing presents and each other's company, a time when rifts between family members should be healed. During the WW1 on Christmas Eve the British and Germans stopped killing each other as Christ's message of PEACE prevailed.

THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL. JOHN 1:1-18. The 1914 secret truce between the German and British soldiers has been told many times but it’s certainly worth repeating. In many ways it is surely the miracle of Christmas and its meaning was made manifest in the action of the soldiers who brought to light ...read more

Scripture: John 1:1-18