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  • What Makes Us Become A White-Washed Christian?

    Contributed by Chris Swanson on Jun 22, 2025
     | 49 views

    Is thy heart right with God?

    What Makes Us Become a White-Washed Christian? Luke 18:9-14 This is the story of two men who went to the temple pray. Undoubtedly many have read or at least heard of this story. So why did I title this sermon What Makes Us Become a White-washed Christian? Well first, let me ask this, what is a ...read more

  • Focus On The Good Youth Sermon

    Contributed by Youth Sermons on Sep 5, 2023
    based on 4 ratings
     | 638 views

    Our thoughts can either bring us down or lift us up. Focusing on the negatives makes it hard to see the positives. We need to focus on what is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and praiseworthy.

    Today we're going to talk about focus. You know, like when your teacher tells you to stop daydreaming and pay attention in class. But we're not talking about algebra or history, we're talking about life and our relationship with God. Let's be real, there's a lot of stuff out there trying to grab ...read more

  • Healthy And Unhealthy Fear Youth Sermon

    Contributed by Youth Sermons on Sep 5, 2023
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,591 views

    God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-discipline. We can overcome unhealthy fear by relying on the Holy Spirit's power, focusing on God's love, and developing self-discipline.

    Ever been scared out of your wits? Like, heart-pounding, palms-sweating scared? Did you know the phrase 'fear not' pops up 365 times in the Bible? That's one for every day of the year! God doesn't want us living in fear, so let's figure out how to kick it to the curb. Let's start with this: In 2 ...read more

  • Ashes To Ashes: Dust To Dust Youth Sermon

    Contributed by Youth Sermons on Feb 5, 2024
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,089 views

    Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance, when Christians confess their sins and promise to follow God. It is a time to reflect, repent, and pray as we look ahead to Easter Sunday.

    Hey guys, have you ever thought about what you're made of? No, not your muscles or bones, but what you're really made of. According to the Bible, we're made of dust. Yeah, you heard it right, dust! And one day, we'll return to dust. That's what Ash Wednesday is all about. It's a day when we ...read more

  • Deny Yourself Premium Sermon

    Contributed by PRO Premium on Oct 9, 2023
    based on 3 ratings
     | 763 views

    This sermon explores Jesus's command to deny oneself, encouraging believers to abandon their old ways and embrace the abundant life offered by Christ.

    Good morning friends! I am excited to be with you today as we begin a brand new sermon series called “All In”! Now, maybe you have used these two words before to describe something in your life that you were doing. In my life, I’ve used them to describe a sport I played growing up. This principle ...read more

  • Chameleon - Imitate Christ Premium Sermon

    Contributed by PRO Premium on Oct 9, 2023
    based on 3 ratings
     | 975 views

    This sermon emphasizes the importance of striving to imitate Jesus' unconditional and self-sacrificial love towards others in our actions and speech.

    As we draw this series to a close, we’re going to be talking about one of the most powerful forces, if not the most powerful force in the universe; Love. As believers and followers of Christ we are called to imitate Christ...and this includes learning to love like Christ loved. Oscar Wilde said, ...read more

  • How Can I Follow Christ Series

    Contributed by Ken Sowers on Nov 26, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,092 views

    God uses Philip to reach into new territory

    New testament evangelists were not the sAC 8:26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Go south to the road-- the desert road --that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of ...read more

  • Happiness With Small Children

    Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2002
    based on 33 ratings
     | 3,093 views

    Today I would like to focus on the need to instill happiness in our children by giving them a sense of self esteem or self worth.

    HAPPINESS WITH SMALL CHILDREN: SELF ESTEEM TEXT: Mal. 4:5?6 INTRODUCTION: 1. In his book The Relational Revolution, Bruce Larson tells of a rather unusual experience from a past vacation. 2. Quote from page 131?132 of book. 3. Give a guided tour of Joe Christian’s house on a Sunday ...read more

  • You Have Been Raised With Christ

    Contributed by Timm Meyer on Nov 13, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,924 views

    Pentecost 11 (C) - Believers have been raised with Christ in order to put on the new self and in order to put off the old self.

    “YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED WITH CHRIST” (Outline) August 16, 2009 -- PENTECOST 11 -- Colossians 3:1-11 INTRO: Today’s scripture text are words specifically pointed at believers. By grace God calls the believer out of darkness into his marvelous light! The life a believer lives after being ...read more

  • Put Off... Put On.... Series

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Dec 8, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,826 views

    Christians are to put off the old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires and put on the new self created to be like God!

    Sometime this morning, you decided you were going to go to church. And so, you decided what to wear to church and you put on the clothes you are wearing now. We do this daily don’t we? We decide what clothes to put on for the day! Of course, some of you took a little longer than others to decide ...read more

  • The Gracious Giving Of Jesus Christ Series

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Feb 5, 2015
    based on 8 ratings
     | 15,347 views

    Here is the supreme argument for Christian giving. Grace giving flows out of the self-giving and self-impoverishing of the Son of God on man's behalf.

    2 CORINTHIANS 8: 9-15 [GAINING PERSPECTIVE Series] THE GRACIOUS GIVING OF JESUS CHRIST [Philippians 2: 1-13 / Mark 12:41–44] Paul has been using the Macedonians as an example but they were an example only because they followed Christ Jesus' example. So at this point is introduced the ...read more

  • Brought To Life; Brought Together Walking Worthy: How Can We Be Angry Yet Not Sin?

    Contributed by David Taylor on Dec 10, 2024
     | 137 views

    Last week we saw that walking worthy means putting off the old self and putting on the new self, applied to lying and truthfulness.

    Brought to Life; Brought Together Walking Worthy: How Can we Be Angry Yet not Sin? Ephesians 4:26-27 May 10, 2020 David Taylor We are continuing our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together. As I have said, Ephesians can be divided into two sections, chapters one through three ...read more

  • The Bible (The Movie) Series

    Contributed by Bob Hostetler on Jun 6, 2002
    based on 35 ratings
     | 2,908 views

    The first of a series that presents "what the Bible teaches, how Hollywood treats it, and how you can learn from it to improve your life."

    The Gospel According to . . . Hollywood? The Bible Scripture: Genesis 3:1-24 Today is Father’s Day, and as a way of honoring our fathers, I thought we should all just take a few moments to reflect on all the things we’ve learned from our dads. Okay? I think that was plenty of time, don’t ...read more

  • Parenting: A Call To Real Youth Ministry Series

    Contributed by Mark Magee on Aug 16, 2004
    based on 35 ratings
     | 8,992 views

    Today, as we continue our Home Improvement sermon series, I want to focus on the topic of Parenting and I want to help raise the bar.

    Stormie Omartian has written books called, The Power of a Praying Parent, The Power of a Praying Wife & The Power of a Praying Husband. In the Power of a Praying Parent she opens the book sounding like Dickens — "It’s the best of jobs. It’s the most difficult of jobs. It can bring you the greatest ...read more

  • 6. What's New With You? Series

    Contributed by Don Jaques on May 29, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 7,179 views

    Jesus came to initiate a New Covenant, not to improve the Old Covenant. Jesus comes to give us new life, not to change our old life.

    INTRO: The first summer we were here (which was 2002) we were driving a 1987 Subaru wagon with about 175,000 miles on it. It started having some problems, and we realized that it needed more money to repair it than the car was worth – so we started to talking to a car dealer friend in Oregon about ...read more