Sermons on Shame At Failure:

The Journey Of Faith

Contributed by David Dunn on Nov 1, 2025

Faith’s journey moves through surrender and grace — where Jesus meets us at the wall, restores our love, and sends us forward.

There’s something quietly deceptive about the word arrival. We love the sound of it — the sense that the journey’s over, the destination reached, the work done. “I’ve arrived,” we say. The culture trains us to think in terms of achievements and milestones, success stories and finish lines. But ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 16:24-27, Luke 22:61-62, Galatians 2:20, 2 Timothy 4:7, John 21:15-19  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

The God Who Restores Lost Opportunities Series

Contributed by Rev. Samuel Arimoro on Aug 20, 2025

God is able to recover wasted years and bring back missed opportunities in a greater and more glorious measure.

THE GOD WHO RESTORES LOST OPPORTUNITIES By Rev. Samuel Arimoro Main Text: Joel 2:25-26 Key Verse: “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.” (Joel 2:25) Supporting Texts: Job ...read more

Scripture: Joel 2:25-26

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Deep Mercy Of God

Contributed by Thomas Andrufski on Oct 4, 2025

The sermon explores the profound and eternal nature of God’s mercy, emphasizing its depth, purpose, and transformative power for believers. It highlights the contrast between human deserving of judgment and the mercy extended by God.

The Deep Mercy of God Text: Psalm 103:17–18 (KJV) "But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them." Introduction: ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 103:17-18, Romans 6:23, John 3:18

Denomination: Church Of God

Invoking The God Of The Eleventh (11th) Hour!

Contributed by Aderemi Ojikutu on Oct 20, 2009

Spiritual significance of November, the eleventh (11th) month of a year in the affairs of men.

Anchor Scripture: Matthew Chapter 20: Verse 6: “And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith to them, ‘Why stand ye here all the day idle?’” Every year, my family celebrates the eleventh month as the month of mercy and favour, based on the scriptures quoted ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

God's Choosing Series

Contributed by Don Baggett on Mar 8, 2008

God doesn’t have to answer to us, yet in His mercy He does answer many of our questions that we could never figure out on our own.

When you read the earlier chapters of Romans, you might think that Paul was really down on the Jewish people, but you would be wrong. He didn’t pull any punches with them, and he told them the truth about what God had shown him, and they rejected both him and his message. In verses 1-5, the ...read more

Scripture: Romans 9:1-33

Denomination: Baptist

Rising From The Fall: The Restoration Of A Broken Heart

Contributed by Antonio Manaytay on Jun 20, 2025

This sermon revolves around the theme, No one is too fallen for God's mercy.

Text: Psalm 51; 2 Samuel 11–12 Theme: No one is too fallen for God's mercy. Picture a palace roof under the quiet of night. The air is still, the stars hang low, and all of Israel sleeps—except one man. King David, the shepherd turned sovereign, walks in solitude. But this night will change ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Beginning Of… Fear Series

Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 17, 2010

God heals fear through faith in his promises.

Scripture Introduction Bill Watterson, the creator of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, describes well the feelings of guilt and fear which overtake Calvin after he breaks his dad’s very expensive binoculars. His dad does not yet know about the incident, but Calvin’s anxiety causes him to sweat ...read more

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

The Journey Of Hope Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 26, 2017

What was it about the message of Gabriel about the Christ child that changed the world?

OPEN: (This sermon began with a clip from the Sony movie “The Star” – a cartoon rendition of the nativity as seen through the eyes of the animals that might have been there. Today’s movie clip showed Mary being told by the angel of her impending pregnancy) The video clip we saw retold the scene in ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:26-35

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

"The Crippled Boy And The King"

Contributed by Jerry Depoy on Mar 8, 2003

Simple three point outline. Dropped, Picked up, and Restored. Main thought, "No one at the table can see your crippled feet!"

Text: 2 Samuel 9:1-12 Title: “The Cripple Boy and the King” Introduction: Read 2 Samuel 4:4 Mephibosheth was only five years of age when word came that his family’s throne was now in retreat. His Grandfather, King Saul, and his Father, Jonathan, had died on the battle field. A new ...read more

Scripture: 2 Samuel 9:1-12, 2 Samuel 4:4

Denomination: Baptist

Justified By Jesus Series

Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 16, 2007

This sermon attempts to point out that in justification Jesus pardons all your sins, provides for your righteousness and puts you in a fully pleasing position with the Heavenly Father.

Much of the time, many people feel like God must not love them. Especially if they have trouble or tribulation; if they’re going through tough times or trials are on every hand. Then they cry out to God, “Why me?” Then there are those who on the inside feel ashamed of everything they do or don’t ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Hosea-The Hurt Of God- Series Series

Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Mar 1, 2005

Exposition and Application of the Book of Hosea

By Pastor Bob Marcaurelle Hosea-The Hurt of God Sermon 1 Hosea 1:1-2 THE TIMES AND TEARS OF HOSEA Picture ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

How To Take Refuge In God - Psalm 25 Pt.1 Series

Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on May 16, 2025

What does it mean to lift up your soul to God? We all lift our soul to something—the thing our soul things is its best refuge. This message will help you learn how to lift your soul to God alone and find peace and joy in the process.

{This psalm is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.} Of David. To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul; 2 in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. 3 No one who waits for you will ever be put ...read more

These Three Things Part One Series

Contributed by Steve Malone on Jan 24, 2019

In these sermon we will unpack a very familiar passage in Philippians 3 and discover 2 things that if we embrace and keep striving to live out, this year can be different... forgetting what is behind and pressing on to what is ahead.

These Three Things #ThisYearCouldBeDifferent 700 years before Jesus put on flesh and invaded our planet, GOD breathed the following words through the prophet Isaiah… to a people who… • Had seen better days • Experienced great suffering • Lost hope • In many ways had no one to blame for their ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:3-15

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

It's Better To Get Ripped Off (1 Corinthians 6:1-11) Series

Contributed by Garrett Tyson on Feb 6, 2022

If your brother in Christ rips you off, eat the money. If you can't, or aren't willing, go to the elders, not the legal system. Also, a warning: the unrighteous don't inherit God's kingdom

I'd like to begin today by reading something from John G. Lake, somewhere in The Collected Writings of John G. Lake: "Beloved, there is a deep, passionate yearning in my soul that above all else this congregation may set forth, to the praise of God, such a character of righteousness in ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

What Is Our Hope? Series

Contributed by Andrew Gamblin on Feb 12, 2013

What is our universal story of hope? It is the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For the entire month of January, we are going to focus on this thing called evangelism. Now to me that word is sometime scary and evokes many different emotions. For those of you with the spiritual gift of evangelism, you may get a little excited because this is right up your ally and you’re ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 3:13-17

Denomination: United Methodist