Sermons on Shrug Your Shoulders:

Bite Your Tongue!

Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 10, 2007

The ability to speak is a wonderful thing, But how we use that ability can often make a tremendous difference in both our own life and the lives of others.

I don’t know how many of you have heard about this this week • Don Imus made a comment that has stirred up the media, and everyone from Hillary Clinton to Oprah Winfrey . • What was happening was the Rutgers women’s basketball team had just lost the NCAA championship game. • And Imus was saying ...read more

Scripture: James 3:1-12

Denomination: Christian Church

Sharing Your Faith Series

Contributed by Jim Erwin on Dec 12, 2007

We can all sense the opportunity to share Jesus

Sharing Your Faith John 4:27-42 When someone wants to introduce their faith to someone, there are generally two different approaches. The first approach is the “invitation” approach. This is the type of approach that someone uses when they invite someone to see Billy Graham. There is a ministry ...read more

Scripture: John 4:27-42

Denomination: Baptist

Struggling For Your Breakthrough

Contributed by Jess Bousa on Sep 3, 2006

Getting your breakthrough will move you from where you are, to where God wants you to be on your spiritual journey because God is always thinking two steps ahead!

Struggling for a Breakthrough! Do you want a breakthrough? Many of you may be thinking obviously, how stupid can he be? But in all seriousness, do you want a breakthrough? I have one disclaimer I want to make clear. When I say breakthrough, I am not talking about the Lord in all his glory with ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:22-28

Denomination: Pentecostal

Speak To Your Valley

Contributed by Dean Morgan on Sep 6, 2006

I want to focus on the thought that you and I can prophesy or speak to the valley of bones in our lives and God will put everything back the way it should be.

There are so many messages and lessons found in this passage of Scripture. We will not explore all of them tonight. I do want to focus on something I haven’t focused on before. I want to focus on the thought that you and I can prophesy or speak to the valley of bones in our lives and God will ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 37:1-14

Denomination: Pentecostal

Guard Your Heart

Contributed by Wayne Searls on Sep 15, 2006

PROPOSITION: To motivate the hearer to be proactive in what they allow to enter their heart through their eyes and ears.

TEXT: (NKJV) Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. INTRODUCTION: To help us better understand what the writer is tell us, let us look at the definitions of some of the key words in this passage. KEEP [HB naòtsar naw-tsar’] A primitive root; to ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 4:23

Denomination: Nazarene

How Is Your Heart? Series

Contributed by Robert Higgins on Sep 16, 2006

How is your heart? Is it resolute or does it surrender to your flesh when the flesh gets tired? Hebrews 12:1-4 gives us principles for allowing Jesus to make our hearts strong!

Flesh & Spirit – Part V: How is Your Heart? 1. Overview a. This week is the last sermon in our series of the “flesh and the spirit.” b. I hope that you learned more than head knowledge but also learned and are practicing some of the tools for walking in the Spirit and not in the flesh. i. Even ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-4

Denomination: Baptist

Recharging Your Batteries

Contributed by Mark Suter on Sep 16, 2006

How to reenergize our souls, minds, and bodies

Someone has said, “The thing about life is that it’s so daily.” There are times when we are just drained, when it’s hard to put one foot in front of the other, when we look down and wonder what’s making our shoes so heavy. Day to day, week to week, month to month, life has a way of wearing you ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 3:14-21

Denomination: Methodist

Your Condemn Yourself Series

Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 18, 2006

Looking at the list of sins in chapter 1, we feel pretty good about ourselves, don’t we? We’re not at all like that, are we? Those are bad people, aren’t they? But what is this we read in Romans 2?

Romans 2:1-11 Looking at the list of sins in chapter 1, we feel pretty good about ourselves, don’t we? We’re not at all like that, are we? Those are bad people, aren’t they? But what is this we read in Romans 2? 1) When you judge another, you condemn yourself. • The judgement of God rightly falls ...read more

Scripture: Romans 2:1-11

Sitting On Your Grace.

Contributed by Scott Terrell on Sep 19, 2006

Are we fishing or just looking at the water.

Don’t Sit on Your Grace Mark 1:14-22, Galatians 2:17-21 Story has it that Mark Twain loved to go fishing, but he hated to catch fish. The problem was he went fishing to relax. In turn catching any fish would ruin his relaxation. He would have to take off the fish and bait the hook. When ...read more

Scripture: Mark 1:14-22

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

What Is Your "Shibboleth”?

Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Sep 19, 2006

If the Ephraimites had known in advance what the password was, they would have rehearsed it until they could pronounce it correctly.

WHAT IS YOUR “SHIBBOLETH”? “The Gileadites seized the fords of the Jordan before the Ephraimites arrived. And when any Ephraimite who escaped said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead would say to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No," then they would say to him, "Then say, ...read more

Scripture: Judges 12:5-6

Denomination: Baptist

Your View Of God

Contributed by Danny Rogers on Sep 23, 2006

Your view of God is the most important view you have, and to the extent your view of God is distorted… to that extent your life is out of focus.

Intro: Before Beth and I married, I had to do my own laundry. My technique of washing clothes was just like almost every other single male in the history of the U.S. – Everything in one load if possible. Blue jeans were washed with dress shirts, white socks, underwear, and everything else. In fact, ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Making Your Move Series

Contributed by John Braland on Sep 27, 2006

Risk is always easier to walk through when you feel like the deck is stacked in your favor. It’s easy to gamble a few bucks when you have a few hundred more in your back pocket. It’s easier to risk speaking the truth to a complete stranger than risk tel

Today is part three in my World Poker Tour series and today I need to ask you this question: When is the right time to take a risk? When is it time to move ahead, to step up to the plate, to throw in your cards and go all in? In the first week of this series we talked about going all in. Last ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 1:1-4

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Guard Your Heart

Contributed by Jerry Flury on Sep 28, 2006

Guard your heart above all else for it impacts everything you do

GUARD YOUR HEART PROVERBS 4:20-27 I used to watch Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter on TV whenever I got a chance. So many times I thought for sure he would be fatally bitten by a snake, crushed and killed by a crocodile, or mauled to death by some wild beast. It was a shock and surprise to learn ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 4:20-27, Proverbs 4:1

Denomination: Baptist

Acecpting Your Calling

Contributed by Larry Breeden on Oct 2, 2006

When God calls you to service, Go!

Accepting Your Calling Rom 11:13 INTRO: A. Paul’s Hebrew background 1. Native Hebrew Ro 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin. 2Co 11:22 Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so [am] ...read more

Scripture: Romans 11:13

Denomination: Baptist

Obey Your Thirst

Contributed by Mike Fogerson on Oct 2, 2006

We can only quench our spiritual thirst by drinking of the living water that is Christ Jesus.

Obey Your Thirst John 4:7-15 February 12, 2006 Dr. Mike Fogerson * Chester’s First Baptist Church, Chester, Illinois Introduction: A D L Moody was once asked why he urged Christians to be filled constantly with the Holy Spirit. 1 "Well," he said, "I need a continual infilling because I leak!" He ...read more

Scripture: John 4:7-15

Denomination: Baptist