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  • Craig Hamlin avatar

    Five Things We Must Do To Reach People With The Gospel

    Contributed by Craig Hamlin on Jan 5, 2004
    based on 417 ratings
     | 24,117 views

    Jesus exemplified His passion for seeking the lost through His experience with Zacchaeus and gave us five things we must do to reach lost people.

    "Five Things We Must Do to Reach People with the Gospel" Luke 19:1-10 Intro. Howard Hendricks said, “In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.” Bill Bright, Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, said, "Millions of surveys which we have helped to take around the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dean Courtier avatar

    The Lostness Of The Lost Series

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Sep 4, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,386 views

    The New Testament clearly teaches that God so loved a lost and needy world that He gave His Son to die on the cross so that the world might be saved.

    The Lostness of the Lost Opening Prayer: Father God, we pray today that you will open our eyes and help us to see more completely the evidence of your grace to us. Help us to recognize that every day is a gift from you. Help us to accept this time of worship as a divine appointment. Give us the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Brad Beaman avatar

    The Curse Of Complacency Series

    Contributed by Brad Beaman on Jan 22, 2022
     | 2,224 views

    Jesus moves from directing the lukewarm church to the individual. To the lost. Jesus seeks the lost, open your heart. It starts with a commitment. Unless Jesus comes into your heart you are lost.

    Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale story the Emperors new clothes teaches us a great lesson. In the story swindlers are working with so called invisible cloth sixteen hours a day. They say if you don’t see it you are stupid or unfit for office. The emperor is deceived himself, and wears the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Zacchaeus Meets Jesus And Is Saved

    Contributed by Chris Blackshaw on Oct 31, 2010
    based on 5 ratings
     | 9,684 views

    No one is beyond being saved. Our task is the same as Jesus' task - to seek the lost and save them and to be proactive in doing it.

    Jesus was passing through Jericho from the area of Jordan to Bethany near Jerusalem. He was on his way to raise Lazarus back to life. It was an important journey that he was undertaking but as he was going to perform this great miracle he still found time to deal with other people and their ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Boomer Phillips avatar

    Seeking The World

    Contributed by Boomer Phillips on Jan 30, 2022
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,284 views

    Some of us are lost in a sea of material things, and bills, and debt, feeling like we’re drowning and that the very life is being sucked right out of us. In order to have abundant life, we must seek life in Jesus instead of life in the world.

    Eddie Rickenbacker was America’s most famous army aviator during World War I. During World War II he was appointed special consultant to Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson; and it was Rickenbacker’s task to inspect the various aspects of war. During one tour in 1942, Eddie and seven companions ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Gary Smith avatar

    Saving The Lost

    Contributed by Gary Smith on Nov 23, 2013
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,798 views

    Jesus' mission on earth was to seek and to save the lost. His mission has not changed. He has commissioned the Church to carry on His work. We must not fail.

    Saving the Lost TEXT: Luke 19:1-10 Luke 19:1-11 (KJV) 1 And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. 2 And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. 3 And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Andrew Moffatt avatar

    Being The Broom! Series

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jun 11, 2013
    based on 6 ratings
     | 19,162 views

    The parable of ther lost coin. Of the features of the parable have you considered your part, have you considered what it takes to be the broom? A very short illustrative sermon.

    Being the broom. Luke 15:8-10 Jesus tells us this little wee parable about lost people being found; in it he compares those people to a silver coin a lost silver coin. Now in our day and age with rampant inflation a silver coin is for most of us not a big deal. Back in the day this coin a ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Seek And Find

    Contributed by Odon Bulamba on Dec 30, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,158 views

    Today we are talking about seeking something and find it. How often do you search for something? If you seek something, you must know what you are looking for. I remember one time I was just a child and used to do scouts and the master said, bring a

    Seek and Find By Odon Bulamba Luke 19:10, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost”. Today is the 21st April 2013 and this day reminds me of the day my father past away, at 10am. Yesterday I started to think, if someone like my father could die, what about me? My ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Ian Johnson avatar

    Seeking Heaven

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on May 11, 2005
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,119 views

    God wants us to have an eternal view, A vision of Heaven, Satan on the other hand wants us to remain blind and uninformed. Because he knows that if we get a vision of Heaven and all its glory, we will be unstoppable in our quest to get all our friends and

    1 Corinthians 2:9-16 That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”* Most people leave this scripture right here but in fact we need to read down to the end of verse 16. 10 But we ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    I Once Was Lost

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Apr 9, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,915 views

    The Father invites us to join Him in seeking and caring for the lost.

    Introduction: (The lights go out…so does the preacher and worship leader, for a minute, until people begin to look around uncomfortably. Then, the worship leader welcomes the crowd and asks them to turn to Lk 15:1. Then, he begins to read…in Spanish…something that isn’t Lk 15. After a minute, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Keith Butler avatar

    The "Lost' Parables

    Contributed by Keith Butler on Aug 24, 2005
    based on 36 ratings
     | 4,337 views

    Why did the Pharisees receive these parables from Jesus? Because they did not rejoice over the lost being found.

    THE “LOST” PARABLES Luke 15:1-32 Key Verse and Theme: “But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.” (Luke 15:32) 1. Who was Jesus addressing? A. The tax collectors and “sinners” were all gathering around to hear ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Don Jaques avatar

    9. The Lost Sheep, The Lost Coin, And The Lost Son Series

    Contributed by Don Jaques on May 29, 2007
    based on 26 ratings
     | 36,238 views

    Lost people matter to God - and they should matter to us as well. 1. Something valuable is missing. 2. God performs an all-out search for lost people. 3. When lost people are found its time to party!

    This sermon is an adaptation of Bill Hybels’ introduction to the video curriculum “Becoming a Contagious Christian”. MAIN IDEA: Lost people matter to God - and they should matter to us as well. 1. Something valuable is missing. 2. God performs an all-out search for lost people. 3. When lost ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Scott Bradford avatar

    The Lost Mission

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Jun 2, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,513 views

    This sermon is about recovering the lost mission of reaching the lost!

    Ever notice how things, especially meanings of words, change?: Just look at the computer age/and internet (1)… A “cursor was a person with foul language” A “mouse was a rodent you trapped”. “Logging on was the job of a lumberjack”; “a monitor was the guy who asked you what you were doing roaming ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • Simon Bartlett avatar

    A Passion For The Lost

    Contributed by Simon Bartlett on Feb 8, 2021
     | 2,582 views

    Jesus welcomed those who others rejected. The Pharisees and scribes pushed them away. The crowd just watched. Who will we be like?

    We’re continuing our journey with Jesus and his disciples from Galilee to Jerusalem. This week we’re taking a big hop from Luke 12 to Luke 15. As Jesus and his disciples travelled, Jesus has been teaching [picture on slide]. He and his disciples have been healing and casting out demons. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Seeking

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Jan 2, 2009
     | 2,271 views

    How can we use the example of the "wise men" who sought to worship the Christ child as a guide to our own searching?

    Matthew 2: 1 – 12 / Seeking Intro: Have you even misplaced something in your house? You know it is there; but, you can’t find it. One day this week, I lost my car keys. Barbara and I searched all over the house for those keys. They were nowhere to be found. I borrowed Barbara’s keys, got in ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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