Sermons on Shattered Expectations:

The Prodigal Father

Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jun 10, 2008

The love that our heavenly Father has for us is recklessly extravagant, and is able to fill the Father hunger within us.

THE PRODIGAL FATHER [Read Luke 15:11-24] -Maybe you’ve heard another version of this story of the Prodigal Son: The Prodigal Son in "F" Feeling footloose and frisky, a featherbrained fellow forced his fond father to fork over the farthings, and flew far to foreign fields and frittered his ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:11-24

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Digesting The Golden Veal - Golden Calf Series

Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 16, 2008

We today fool ourselves. There is sin in our lives and we may stop the sin, we may see to it that the sin is eliminated from our lives – but that is not the same as being repentant and turning away from our sin.

Mark Twain was a man who became quite hostel towards the Bible and towards the Christian faith. He was so persistent in his attacks upon Christianity, that his wife, who was a devote Christian, became so discouraged, she eventually turned her back on Jesus Christ – something Mark Twain regretted ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 32:17-35

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Enduring Afflicition

Contributed by Melvin Maughmer, Jr. on Jan 20, 2012

Wait - don't be so quick to run a way. Do not allow your soul, which is where your emotions, will, and intellect are housed, to wander about without the supervision of your enduring faith. As you persevere in the faith, endure affliction, don’t give up, k

“Enduring Affliction” By Pastor M.L. Maughmer, Jr. Subtopic :- Wait - don’t be so quick to run-a-way 2nd Timothy 4:5 “But watch thou in all things, ENDURE AFFLICTIONS, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry”. Exodus 14:13 “And Moses said ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:5

Denomination: Apostolic

Pontius Pilate: Stuck In People-Pleasing Series

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Feb 21, 2009

Pilate was a classic people-pleaser, who found that his behavior produced popularity that masked contempt, pessimism, and powerlessness.

The story has it that during creation, as God was sitting up in heaven turning out all these creatures, some of the angels asked if they could help. It looked like fun, making plants and animals, birds and beasts. And so God, who had just finished fashioning something, said, "All right. Come ahead. ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Real Hope For A Hurting World

Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 9, 2009

THE AUTHENTIC RESURRECTION, REAL HOPE FOR A HURTING WORLD. A JOURNEY OF DEVOTION FAITH AND HOPE.

MARK 16 1-8.THE RESURRECTION – REAL HOPE FOR A HURTING WORLD. ON FEBRUARY 6 1958 A CHARTERED PLANE CARRYING MOST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE MANCHESTER UNITED FOOTBALL TEAM KNOWN AS THE BUSBY BABES CRASHED ON TAKE OFF FROM MUNICH IN GERMANY. WITH SO MANY OF THEIR STARS PLAYERS LOST, SOME DESPAIRED ...read more

Scripture: Mark 16:1-8

Denomination: Baptist

Will You Let The Holy Spirit Warm Your Heart? Series

Contributed by Dean Courtier on Aug 8, 2012

Perhaps you have reached a stage in your life where you feel like you are just going through the motions. Sunday comes, and Sunday goes, and you have traveled through it on auto pilot. It’s time to let the Holy Spirit warm your heart

Will you let the Holy Spirit warm your heart? Do you remember what it was like to be a new Christian? Do you still feel the same way? Were you more excited and full of joy than you are now? Did you spend more time reading your Bible than you do now? Did you pray more than you do now? Did ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:1-4

Denomination: Pentecostal

Joseph Of Arimathea The Corageous Coward Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 18, 2021

It took the crisis of the cross to change his cowardice into courage. Sometimes it takes a crisis to bring out a man's true faith.

A fireman who was half dead from exhaustion and smoke inhalation, with face dirty and uniform covered with grime, staggers past the crowd and is almost deafened by their shouts and cheers for him. He has just come from a burning building where, at the risk of his life, he climbed to the third ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:37-47

Mary's Side Of The Story

Contributed by Wayne Lawson on Dec 5, 2017

I wonder, how does Mary’s story speak to you this Advent season? In a few weeks from now, Christmas Sunday would seem rather odd if we did not hear from Mary.

This is not an original sermon, points borrowed from Advent 3/C, December 17, 2006 Lynne M. Dolan (I believe the message was entitled “Nothing Impossible with God”). I have restructured the message, however; want to ensure I give proper credit. TITLE: MARY’S SIDE OF THE STORY SCRIPTURE: ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:26-38

Denomination: Baptist

The Dawn Of A New Day

Contributed by Josh Foster on Feb 20, 2014

The experiences and reactions of the women on Easter Sunday morn, in many ways mirror our reaction to the New Day that has come through Jesus’ resurrection.

Walkin’ with Jesus: The Dawn of a New Day Scripture Text: Mark 16.1-8 INTRODUCTION The Easter story is an amazing and moving-story ~ …but not-just-because it touches us emotionally. But, it’s incredible and powerful because it really did happen; …and-because of ...read more

Scripture: Mark 16:1-8

Denomination: Nazarene

A Celebration Of God's Love Series

Contributed by Scott Maze on May 27, 2021

The 278 words of Psalm 107 give of four different spectacular cases. At the heart of the Psalm are these four scenes. These four accounts of human experience deal with the realities of life in all of its fullness.

The Psalms were sung on board of the ship when the Pilgrims set sail in the Mayflower. The Bay Psalm Book was the third book printed in America. Until the end of the eighteenth century the Psalms were exclusively sung in churches. It was Psalm 127 that Benjamin Franklin quoted in 1787 as he moved ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Psalm 42 - One Of The Psalms Of The Sons Of Korah - Part 2 Series

Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 16, 2022

Psalm 42 is the case of a son of Korah who went through depression and despair. He recounts his experience - his own state and feelings and what he knows to be the faithfulness of God. We continue in Part 2 to follow his experience as he works through his problems.

MESSAGE 2 - PSALMS OF THE SONS OF KORAH. PSALM 42 Part 2 Ron Ferguson ronaldf@aapt.net.au Psa 42 v 5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence. Psa 42:6 O my God, my soul is in despair ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:5-8, Romans 4:18-20

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Satan’s Demand Series

Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jun 1, 2022

Jesus attributes Peter’s coming defection to the direct activity of Satan. Satan comes as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, from the highest leader to the least among us. Why such debilitating attacks?

LUKE 22: 31-38 SATAN’S DEMAND [JESUS’ LAST NIGHT SERIES] [Job 1:6-12 / 1 Peter 4: 12-19 / Romans 8:18-25] Once again we are looking at Jesus’ last night before His crucifixion. Here Jesus tells how Satan had sought to have the disciples in order to sift them (Job 1–2; Dan. 10:13) and lead them ...read more

Scripture: Luke 22:31-38

Denomination: Baptist

The Truth About Loving Your Enemies - Part 1 Series

Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on May 17, 2023

What is the Christian's response when confronted with wrongs and evil?

Dr. Bradford Reaves Crossway Christian Fellowship Hagerstown, MD www.mycrossway.org We have traveled through an incredible section of the Sermon on the Mount, immediately following the paradoxes of the Beatitudes, Jesus gets right to the heart of the issue behind what is wrong with this world and ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:38-42

Denomination: Brethren

Who I Am In Christ

Contributed by Derek Geldart on Oct 11, 2025

Our true identity is not defined by the world’s shifting standards but by the unchanging grace of Jesus Christ, who makes us new, adopts us as His children, sets us apart for His purpose, and secures our citizenship in heaven

Who I am in Christ Do you know who you are? John Newton was born in England in the early 1700s. His mother, a devoted Christian, taught him Scripture and planted seeds of faith in his young heart. But when she died tragically at the age of seven, Newton’s world was shattered. With no ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 43:18-19, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, Ephesians 1:4-6

Denomination: Baptist

What's A Christian Response To War?

Contributed by Andrew Chan on Oct 21, 2001

Begin with central affirmation Christ is Life, wills for us to have life, however wars will be here, until we find Christ who can stop wars.

“What’s a Christian Response to War?” By Andrew Chan, senior pastor, PBC Vancouver Oct.21, 2001 “ The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give life in all its fullness.” John 10:10 (NLT) Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the ...read more

Scripture: John 10:10, John 14:6

Denomination: Evangelical Free