Sermons on Sitting In Ashes:

Feasting With The Pharisees - An Examination Of Luke 14:1-24

Contributed by Clay Gentry on Aug 21, 2013

Jesus ate with all kinds of sinners, including the Pharisees. One such occasion is recorded in Luke 14:1-14. In this lesson we'll examine the disastrous dinner with a focus of learning who will sit around the Lord's table.

The meal table is the main social center of the home. Think of some of your warmest memories and many of them will be associated with meal-time. In our text, the entire passage is centered around and on a meal table. The great question discussed was who will sit around God’s table in the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 14:1-24

Denomination: *other

Becoming A Carrier Of The Vision

Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 28, 2008

Sermon to cultivate servanthood in the local church. God doesn’t want us just to sit on the sidelines, but He wants us to ’get in the game’ & participate - put our faith in action & contribute to the growth of the Body of Christ.

Becoming a Carrier of the Vision – Build God’s House through Servanthood Leadership = to influence the direction of other people’s lives – we are all called to be leaders. Leadership is not a title, but it’s an action - serving. Everyone is called into an area of leadership Aim: Vision is ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 18:12-26

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

I Can't! You Can"T! We Can't!

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 28, 2016

God has a plan of faith for you! You will never receive your needed change and miracle sitting idle in your misery.t Those saying: IT CAN'T BE DONE! ARE BEING PASSED BY THOSE DOING IT.

I CAN'T! YOU CAN'T! WE CAN'T! By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com TEXT: 2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) CATCH A NEW IDEA... I GET IT... WE SOMEONE WITH VISION TO GRAB AN IDEA AND ADVANCE IT BY FAITH! Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:7

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Eating With Sinners

Contributed by Anthony Zibolski on May 1, 2018

Jesus called His disciples to sit and eat and be a part of everyone's life including sinners and that made the religious people nervous and anxious. Follow me is the two words given to Levi and the same two words given to us.

Eating with sinners Luke 5:27-5:32 Luke 5:27-5:32 Prayer- Introduction- We live in a day and age of un-surety. Un-surety that you may put your shoes on in the morning and the undertaker may take them off at the end of the day. Bad things happen to good people everyday. God never promised ...read more

Scripture: Luke 5:27-32

Denomination: Nazarene

No Restraint To The Lord To Save By Many Or By Few

Contributed by John Gaston on Jan 24, 2024

Outnumbered & outgunned, Israel shrank in fear from the Philistine invasion. But Jonathan, man of faith, decided it’s wasn't time to SIT back, but time to TAKE back the Kingdom, for God was with them.

NO RESTRAINT TO THE LORD TO SAVE BY MANY OR BY FEW 1 Sam. 14:6 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR: FUNNY CHURCH-BULLETIN MISTAKES 1. “Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa will be speaking tonight at First Church in Racine. Come tonight and hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.” 2. "Ladies, ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 14:6

Denomination: Assembly Of God

When Friends Fail Series

Contributed by Travis Markes on Aug 30, 2011

A sermon series on Job

“God is good…All the time!” When Friends Fail Job 2:11-13 A group of friends went deer hunting and paired off in twos for the day. That night one of the hunters returned alone, staggering under an eight-point buck. "Where’s Harry?" he was asked. "Harry had a stroke of some ...read more

Scripture: Job 2:11-13

Denomination: Baptist

"When Friends Fail” Series

Contributed by Gordon Curley on Sep 15, 2019

Job’s three friends talked too much and listened too little. We should resist interpreting God’s will for another person’s disaster. What people really need is compassionate listeners. (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request – email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

SERMON OUTLINE: (1). Good Advice (2). Job's comforters (2:11-13): • Eliphaz will speak from a viewpoint of his experience. • Bildad will speak from the viewpoint of tradition • Zophar will speak from the viewpoint of his own assumptions • Elihu will speak from the viewpoint of an angry ...read more

Scripture: Job 2:11-13

Denomination: Brethren

The Religious Sinner, Nicodemus Series

Contributed by Jimmy Davis on Sep 19, 2001

Picture # 3 in the series: The 14 Candid Snapshots of the Maturing Christian as found in the Gospel of John. Nicodemus, a picture of the religious sinner who sits in the pew week after week but is not saved. John 3:16, preached to a religious sinner.

Picture # 3: The Religious Sinner, Nicodemus John 3:1-21 The Surgeon General teaches us that the key to good health and physical fitness is plenty of exercise, a balanced nutritional diet, and the proper amount of rest. The Surgeon General doesn’t mention that we have a body and a soul. It’s ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-21, John 3:16

Denomination: Baptist

Make A Stand For Jesus

Contributed by Christian Cheong on Apr 23, 2005

The teachers of the law made three errors - they (1) Chose to stick with their self-centred agenda, blinded to that which is obvious; (2) Chose to remain uncommitted, preferring to sit on the fence and take a middle ground; and (3) Chose to believe m

God did not leave us without any evidence that Jesus is indeed the Son of God. • The Gospels are full of recordings of His miraculous deeds and amazing claims. • In the face of evidence, man can still reject Him. We’ve seen that on numerous occasions in the Scriptures • People has seen the ...read more

Scripture: Mark 3:22-30

Denomination: Independent/Bible

The Question Of Balance

Contributed by David Richardson on Mar 2, 2005

Picture youself sitting in a small boat. Lean far to one side by following some foreign doctrine, the boat turns over, lean too far to the other side in not doing anything, the boat turns over. Balance is needed.

Title: The Question of Balance Scripture: Acts 17:1-15 Have you ever wondered just why it is you have a little toe? I mean really, think about it! It doesn’t do anything but just sit there. All the other toes move while we are walking. All the other toes are active and support us just fine. ...read more

Scripture: Acts 17:1-34

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Leaving The Boat To Get Aboard

Contributed by Joshua Bowers on Dec 18, 2005

So often we either sit like a knot on a log and refuse to seek God’s purpose for our lives or we do seek God’s purpose and realize just how difficult it can be to fulfill it.

Leaving the boat to get on board. A. John the Baptist had just been beheaded by King Herod. Because of the rat race that was going on Jesus got his disciples in a boat and headed away for a little R and R. The crowds noticed Jesus and his disciples heading away from town, across the lake, so ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 14:22-33

Denomination: Church Of God

A Servant’s Heart (Hix)

Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Jun 14, 2015

This opportunity to teach one of the most valuable lessons, a lesson that the disciples would struggle with, a lesson they were struggling with (James and John wanted to sit on the right and left hand in His kingdom) and a lesson that you and I struggle with!!

John 13:1-5 (NKJV) 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart ...read more

Scripture: John 13:1-5

Denomination: Baptist

Back To The Future

Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Dec 20, 2009

Although much of Jeremiah prophecy was about impending judgment upon Judah and Jerusalem, they also included a call for national repentance and the promise of possible restoration. It is easy to sit around and talk about the good ole days, especially, whe

Subject: Back to The Future Text: Jeremiah 6:16, 17 “Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ’We will not walk in it. I set watchmen over you, saying, ’Give heed to the ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 6:16-17

Denomination: Methodist

Your Place In Him

Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Jun 20, 2011

Adapted (with permission) from my friend, Rick Ousley, challenging us to determine in which chair of faith we sit. Are Committed, Casual, or Corrupt?...We cannot fool God..It’s HIS terms or Not at all!

Your Place in Him Joshua 24:1-28 * From time to time, I hear a message which needs to be proclaimed. Not long ago I was in a service with my friend, Rick Ousley, and heard him give a call about ‘where we are’ with God. Praying for God’s leadership & asking Rick’s permission, I believe Father’s ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 24:1-28

Denomination: Baptist

Encountering The Holy God Series

Contributed by Reuben Bredenhof on Mar 6, 2022

When all hope is lost, when it looks like nothing is left—when the king is dead and the world is a mess—God is still working. For He is the great and holy king, and He sits on his throne, high and lifted up.

Being a prophet was one of the hardest jobs in the Old Testament. A prophet had to speak unsettling words, confronting sinners with sin and warning of judgment. They were usually unpopular, often persecuted. So a prophet needed a really clear sense that this is what he was called to do, the ...read more

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed