Sermons on Shrines:

Acaba La Obra: En Mi Vida

Contributed by Lauro C Hernandez on Jan 17, 2007

Tenemos que terminar lo que hemos empezado

ACABA LA OBRA: EN MI VIDA Jn 4:34 “Jesús les dijo: Mi comida es que haga la voluntad del que me envió, y que acabe su obra.” INTRO: I. CARACTERES CARNALES A. Isa. 3:9 “9 La apariencia de sus rostros testifica contra ellos; porque como Sodoma publican su pecado, no lo disimulan. ¡Ay del alma de ...read more

Scripture: John 4:34

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Just Open Ears

Contributed by John Mccormack on Sep 15, 2011

FOCAL POINT: GOD SPEAKS TO OPEN EARS!

JUST OPEN EARS 1 SAMUEL 3: 1-10 KEY VERSE: 1 SAMUEL 3: 10 FOCAL POINT: GOD SPEAKS TO OPEN EARS! INTRODUCTION: SAMUEL WAS THE SON OF ELKANAH AND HANNAH WHO WERE BARREN FOR YEARS. GOD TOUCHED HANNAH A SAMUEL WAS BORN. HANNAH DEDICATED HIM TO THE LORD AS A CHILD AND BROUGHT HIM TO ELI A TEMPLE ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 3:10

Denomination: Baptist

An Answer To Agnosticism

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Feb 11, 2017

Paul's proclamation of 'Jesus and the resurrection'.

AN ANSWER TO AGNOSTICISM. Acts 17:22-31. While Paul was waiting for Silas and Timothy to catch up with him in Athens, he might have been excused if he took some leisure to do a little sightseeing. However, seeing a city full of idols provoked Paul into a painful state of agitation: quite ...read more

Scripture: Acts 17:22-31

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Come To A Lonely Place

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 30, 2024

We tend in our enthusiasm to forget that WE are not the saviors of the world. The world already has one of those, and He is unmatchable.

Saturday of the Fourth Week in Course 2024 Today St. Mark’s Gospel interjects a short story about Jesus counseling His disciples how to be effective missionaries. ‘And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a lonely place, and rest a while."’ The great saints advise similar rest ...read more

Scripture: 1 Kings 3:4-13, Psalm 119:9-14, Mark 6:30-34

Denomination: Catholic

God's Goal

Contributed by David Yarbrough on Jun 5, 2001

God’s goal is not to make us happy, it’s to make us His, not to get us what we want, but to get us what we need.

“God’s Goal” John 4:4-29 God’s goal is not to make us happy, it’s to make us His, not to get us what we want, but to get us what we need. Intro: Early in his career, Thomas Edison invented a vote-recording machine for use in legislative chambers. By moving a switch to the right or left, an ...read more

Scripture: John 4:4-29

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Spiritual Enlightenment

Contributed by Norris Harris I on May 8, 2004

First in a series of Lectures on the Gifts of the Spirit. This lectures treats that Main Thing in Spiritual Matters.

The Church must maintain its Distinctiveness amid a Corinthianizing Culture! A distinction God-made, not man-made. That was the fundamental failure of the Church at Corinth. It had failed to maintain its distinctiveness amid the corrosive culture of Corinth. The Maintenance of Distinctiveness is ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:1-3

Denomination: Baptist

Watch Out For Idols Series

Contributed by Keith Walker on May 19, 2004

Idols come in a variety of forms and will keep us from being delighted by God, delivered by God and being developed by God.

INTRODUCTION I want to conduct a little quiz this morning. I want you to raise your hand if you know the 4 following people: Reuben Studdard (winner of American Idol contest) Kenny Chesney (local boy, winner of his first Country Music award) Annika Sorenstam (Best lady golfer, just competed with ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:4-6

Denomination: Baptist

What Does The Resurrection Mean?

Contributed by Carl Kolb on Mar 24, 2008

A resurrection Sunday message.

1 Corinthians 15:12-20 "What Does the Resurrection Mean?" • Every year thousands of people climb a mountain in the Italian Alps, passing the "stations of the cross" to stand at an outdoor crucifix. One tourist noticed a little trail that led beyond the cross. He fought through the rough ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:12-20

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Idol Thoughts

Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Apr 23, 2015

Let us determine to know God and to worship him, not as some idol devised by our own natural preferences, not as many people configure him to be, but as “the book of nature” and the Holy Book together reveal him to be.

The two passages before us today [Acts 17:22-31 and John 14:15-21] could not be more different from one another. And yet, in some ways, they could not be more similar. In the first one, the one from Acts, we have the Apostle Paul speaking to a group of Gentile skeptics who know nothing of the ...read more

Scripture: John 14:15-21

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Sermon On The Mount: Treasure Series

Contributed by Edward Hardee on Oct 20, 2011

Studies in the Sermon on the Mount about our treasure

Title: Treasure and the Heart Theme: Text: Matthew 6:19-24 Open: John 3:30 “He must increase, I must decrease” “He must become greater, I must become lesser” NIV Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:19-24

Denomination: Church Of God

Rehoboam And Jeroboam Series

Contributed by Roshelle Brenneise on Jan 27, 2023

As the leader goes, so goes the nation...............

January 28, 2023 Solomon reigned over Israel for 40 years. He was successful in many areas of his life, but he also made choices that led to catastrophic failures and consequences that would lead to the division of the nation. Jeroboam worked for Solomon. A prophet of God told him that, ...read more

Scripture: 1 Kings 12:20-21

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

O Altar, O Altar

Contributed by Samuel M on Jul 10, 2023

In this passage, we see a man of God who had received a word from the Lord. He came from Judah, a day’s journey from Israel, bearing the word from the Lord. God had given the man of God the now word or the word for this season.

Then he cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, “O altar, altar! Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s bones shall be burned on ...read more

Scripture: 1 Kings 13:2

The Call Of Abraham

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Oct 10, 2013

Staking a claim in the land of Canaan.

THE CALL OF ABRAHAM. Genesis 12:1-9. Our history begins in Ur of the Chaldees, in what is now Southern Iraq, a predominantly pagan city of about 250,000 people, with a central temple to the moon god Sin. Here Abram’s father Terah was thought to have been a craftsman within the moon cult. At a ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 12:1-9

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Reflection B.10 / Does God Have A Purpose In Coronavirus? Jeremiah 16:10-11, Forsaking God, Going After Idols

Contributed by Simon Bartlett on May 11, 2020

Why did God judge the Israelites? Forsaking him, following idols

In 2008 we went to China to watch the Olympics. Our two children were 10 and 8 and it really was a once-in-a-lifetime family holiday. When we first visited the main stadium – the ‘Bird’s Nest’ – I remember thinking, ‘It’s like a temple!’ At the Olympics, the flame, the oath, the hymn, the ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 16:10-11

Denomination: Baptist

Jesus’ Day Of Atonement Service Series

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 11, 2017

After all the background we have been given, the writer to the Hebrews brings it together to a conclusion: Jesus atoned for our sins in a greater way than even the high priest could on the Day of Atonement.

Jesus’ Day of Atonement Service (Hebrews 9:1-10:18) 1. Al Jolson was the first super-star singer/entertainer. 2. He was the first person to sell a million records, and start rising to fame in 1913. 3. When the Warner Brothers decided to produce a movie with a little bit of dialog in it — The ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible