Sermons on self life: showing 436-450 of 195,885

Sabotage Self Vs Until You Bless Me...

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 3, 2020

Often our words, attitudes and thinking patterns sabotage God's plan. We must wrestle not in the flesh and blood. We must wrestle until our change comes. Jacob's life seemed sabotaged until he had an encounter with God. Come let us seek God's presence.

SABOTAGE SELF VS UNTIL YOU BLESS ME By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com SABOTAGE: the act of destroying or damaging something deliberately so it will not work correctly, destruction, obstruction, hinder, hamper or hurt. THIS IS WAR… WE ARE IN A HOT AND HEAVY BATTLE… OUR ATTITUDES AND ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:12, Genesis 32:26-27, Philippians 4:13

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Giving And Taking Honor Series

Contributed by Tom Fuller on Oct 3, 2006

Honor: comprises the reputation, self-perception or moral identity of an individual or of a group. Webster’s says it has three parts: reputation, recognition, and privilege. Reputation is the opinion of other people have of you. Recognition is what they s

Honor: comprises the reputation, self-perception or moral identity of an individual or of a group. Webster’s says it has three parts: reputation, recognition, and privilege. Reputation is the opinion of other people have of you. Recognition is what they say about you because of that opinion, and ...read more

Scripture: Luke 14:1-35

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Sometimes We Think We Know Better Than The Lord

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Mar 18, 2009

A sermon on the Cross-centered life.

Mark 8:31-38 “Sometimes We Think WE Know Better Than The Lord” by: Rev. Ken Sauer, Pastor of Grace UMC, Soddy Daisy, TN www.graceumcsd.org History is filled with examples of women and men who, by throwing away their lives, gained life eternal. Late in the 4th Century there was a certain monk ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:31-38

Denomination: United Methodist

What To Do With Life's Burdens

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jul 4, 2017

Sooner or later every home, every person, every one of us, finds our self with burdens that seem too heavy to bear.

MELVIN NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK TEXT: Galatians 6:5,2; Psalm 55:22 ILL. After hearing & reading all the health warnings in the media, someone wrote the following:. Brace yourself. Somewhere, they’re plotting the scare of the week. Air is polluted; water is too. Fish ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 6:2, Galatians 6:5, Psalm 55:22

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Struggling To Know Who We Are Series

Contributed by Joseph Smith on May 14, 2010

Like Hosea's children, we name our selves by our sad history, by our isolation, and by our alienation. But in Christ our Brother all these defects are remedied.

A good many of us, I would guess, are less than happy with our names. What Mom and Dad decided to call us before we had a voice in the matter. Well, I suspect a good many of us would like to change. Some of us just refuse to use our real names. We go by Butch or Bud or Sissie or some such ...read more

Scripture: Hosea 1:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Break The Cycle Of Spiritual Osmosis

Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Feb 16, 2012

The fact is that is possible to purify water using a reverse osmosis system (RO) has very little or no minerals present in the water, thus the water will not conduct electricity and the precipitation will not result. So normal tap water with minerals in i

Show slides about Osmosis - Egg Osmosis Osmosis is the process by which water enters our tissues. All of our cells are surrounded by a membrane that selectively allows in anything the cell needs but prevents unwanted molecules from entering. Weigh the uncooked eggs and carefully place them into a ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:33

Denomination: Baptist

Little Children, Love One Another Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 23, 2014

John believed, and spent the rest of his life preaching agape love.

St John’s Day Mass 2014 (December 27) Thirteen Days of Christmas Tradition tells us that of the three first witnesses to the empty tomb, St. John lived the longest. That is not surprising, since Tradition also holds that he was the youngest, perhaps a teenager during Jesus’s ministry. ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-8

Denomination: Catholic

How To Not Over React To People Or Problems

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000

James wrote, "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires." (James 1:19) Only when our mind, will and emotions are under the control of the Spirit of

How Not to Over-React We all have a tendency to over react when provoked. One day a Midwestern Lawyer became so discouraged with his productivity that he despaired of everything in life. He wrote in his diary, "I do not know if my life is worth anything to anyone. I often wonder if my life will ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 21:5

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Marked For Life Series

Contributed by Mike Hullah on Jan 25, 2003

Find out the importance of Gilgal in the life of the believer. The place of pruning, promise and presence.

MARKED FOR LIFE (From Grace to Victory) Joshua Chapter 5 From all appearances now was the time to attack the enemy. The people of Israel were filled with the excitement and motivation of having miraculously crossed the Jordan. They apparently knew the enemy was in disarray from the standpoint of ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 5:1-15

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Life That Really Is Life

Contributed by Mary Erickson on Sep 30, 2019

Genuine and joyful life cannot be found in the pursuit of wealth and possessions. It can only be found within the true source of life: God and the kingdom of eternal light.

September 29, 2019 Hope Lutheran Church Rev. Mary Erickson Lk. 16:19-31; I Tim. 6:6-19 The Life that Really Is Life Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. You can’t take it with you. There was a rich Texas oil man, and he wanted ...read more

Scripture: Luke 16:19-31, 1 Timothy 6:6-19

Denomination: Lutheran

Approval Or Achievement Series

Contributed by Ken Ritz on Mar 1, 2016

Part 3 of a series on the life of Jacob

Approval or Achievement? Dying To Self, Part 3 If you have your bible turn to Genesis 29 We’ve been looking for the last couple weeks at the life of Jacob, and one of the things we saw is that God uses conflicted, complicated people, which is a good thing because all of us are ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Restore Unto Me The Joy Of Thy Salvation

Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jul 27, 2005

Overcoming the self-centered life

Sun. Jan. 31/93 II Chron. 33:1-17 RESTORE UNTO ME THE JOY OF THY SALVATION A.W. TOZER Saying over enthusiasm is a problem of the church Is like sending a police squad to a cemetery at midnight in case of a demonstration by the residents. Where is the fire for holiness & ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 33:1-17

Denomination: Baptist

For The Sake Of Others

Contributed by John Pingel on Mar 1, 2021

Christ offers his life for us, the undeserving; now we are to offer our lives as "living sacrifices" for him.

Text: Romans 5: 6-8 This morning I want to talk to you about SACRIFICE. Not like some of the sacrifices we are from time to time asked to make…perhaps financial sacrifice, or sacrifice of some of our time. ….But the kind of sacrifice wherein one person lays down their life for the sake of ...read more

Scripture: Romans 5:6-11

Denomination: Lutheran

The Center Of Life Series

Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Mar 30, 2021

Jesus is the center of the universe and is meant to be the center of the church and the center of our lives.

As a child I was an avid reader and one of the first novels I ever read was by Jules Verne –“Journey to the Center of the Earth.” It was amazing as this crew boarded a rocket that drilled itself into the core of the earth and discovered it was hollow. There was a whole new world they didn’t know ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 1:15-20, John 1:18, Exodus 4:22, Romans 8:20-24, Hebrews 1:3, 1 John 3:2, John 3:3  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Lutheran

Resurrected Living

Contributed by David Scudder on Apr 12, 2009

The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is much more than just an important event in human history. Those are two-thousand year old facts of history that we celebrate on Easter Sunday. But what do they mean to us today? Paul answers that question in to

Purpose: To explain the transformation that life in Christ brings. Aim: I want the listener to surrender to Christ’s forgiveness. INTRODUCTION: "The day after Easter, the newspaper headline read: ’Entire World Celebrates the Risen Christ.’ On the same page under smaller headings ran stories ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:1-11

Denomination: Independent/Bible