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  • How Teachable Are You?

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 15, 2004
    based on 41 ratings
     | 18,970 views

    When you are through learning from others you are through! God wants us all to have a teachable spirit!

    How Teachable Are You? Opening Illustration: One child wrote a letter to God. Dear God, I read your book and I like it. Did you write any others? I would like to write a book someday with the same kind of stories. Where did you get your ideas? Best Wishes, Sarah Thesis: When you are through ...read more

  • The Grinch Who Tried To Steal Christ

    Contributed by Chris Talton on Jan 28, 2002
    based on 179 ratings
     | 14,989 views

    5 signs that will enable you to identify the grinches in your life

    Dec. 17, 2000 Matthew 2:1-18 “The Grinch who tried to steal Christ” INTRODUCTION One of the best known Christmas stories of all time is the story written by Dr. Seuss – “How the Grinch stole Christmas”. This popular Christmas allegory has become the most popular Christmas movie of this ...read more

  • Numero Uno

    Contributed by Chris Talton on Jan 28, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,756 views

    Our most important task is to keep God as number one in our lives. Abraham was an example of one who accomplished this.

    May 28, 2000 Exodus 20:1-3 ¡§Numero Uno¡¨ INTRODUCTION Exodus 20:3 ¡V ¡§You must not have any other gods before or besides me.¡¨ Who would you say of all the persons spoken of in the Bible other than Jesus best lived out this commandment? Who kept God as the Number One ¡V the numero ...read more

  • "Learn The Lesson – Be Wise!” Ecc. Pt 13 Series

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 8, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,028 views

    Solomon tells us to remember God now, understand that study can weary the body and then comprehend that it is the duty of everyone to fear God, keep His Commandments and live our life knowing that every deed we do in life will be evaluated at the Judgment

    “Learn the lesson – be wise!” Ecc. Part 13 Opening Illustration: From Blue fish TV “Wake” The lesson from the timer: What happens in 30 minutes? Have a timer with on the pulpit – set it for 30 minutes in front of everyone. The lesson from the timer is what motivated Solomon to write the book of ...read more

  • Faith That Fails

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Mar 23, 2009
     | 5,163 views

    A message that seeks to encourage believers to have faith in Christ, and not faith in faith or faith in themselves.

    JOHN 5:39-47 FAITH THAT FAILS “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. I do not receive glory from people. But I know that you do not have the love of God ...read more

  • Only God: Breakthrough Faith

    Contributed by John Bishop on Mar 25, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,069 views

    Sometimes telling people about Christ seems like the most dangerous risk we can take. Pastor John Bishop challenges you to allow God to interrupt your life for the cause of Christ.

    You know, when I see statistics about the number of people that die everyday; when I see those numbers I just wonder; what would God do if we would just see the reality of people that we know right now, that maybe next week, or maybe next month, or maybe next year, that we may not ever have the ...read more

  • The Fourth Commandment Series

    Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Apr 3, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,169 views

    Keeping the Sabbath

    When I went to the Word of Life Bible Institute in New York, I volunteered to work in the kitchen at the Inn and they had an interesting chef there, who later became the head of all food services and his name was Glen. Glen was not only a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America where some of ...read more

  • Are You Joy Full? Series

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 19, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,998 views

    The joy of Christmas and the rest of the year is discovered in Jesus. He is the only source that can produce lasting joy in our lives. Joy is a choice and it centers on our willingness to choose to surrender ourselves to Jesus or not.

    Are You Joy full? Opening Illustration: How to be joyful at work and make your co-workers wonder: 1. Page yourself over the intercom but don’t disguise your voice. 2. Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Then where the outfits the day after they do. 3. Send an e-mail ...read more

  • Heroes In Unlikely Places

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Nov 11, 2007
     | 6,523 views

    A Remembrance Day message asking us to recall that love is the motive for sacrifice.

    JOHN 15:13 HEROES IN UNLIKELY PLACES “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.” September 11, 2001 shocked a complacent world from its lethargy into enforced wakefulness. Before that day, police and fire fighters were often thought of as necessary ...read more

  • Investement Tips For Divorce

    Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Nov 21, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,569 views

    This sermon provides a historical and biblical framework for understanding divorce. I am indebted to Dr. John Ortberg for some of the research.

    Investment Tips For Divorce GNLCC 11/18/2007 Hosea 2:16-20 Matthew 19:1-10 (Much of this message comes from me listening to Dr. John Ortberg Of Menlo Presbyterian Church in Menlo CA. You may go to their website and see the message as it was originally done. It is available in print, ...read more

  • Divorce & Remarriage

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,941 views

    1) Guidelines for Christians Married to Other Christians (1 Corinthians 7:10-11), 2) Christians Married to Unbelievers Who Want to Stay Married (1 Corinthians 7:12-14), and finally for 3) Christians Married to Unbelievers Who Want to Leave (1 Corinthians 7:15-16).

    If you do any of the shopping, probably the strangest part is at the checkout. The magazine section there is perhaps the strangest collection in print. One of the strangest periodicals is the Hollywood marriage and divorce scene. The tragic life is so common in this area that it has become a ...read more

  • Spiritual Schizophrenia Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Jul 20, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,992 views

    It is impossible to live a life characterized by blessing God while simultaneously cursing other believers. To attempt to so live is to demonstrate that one is suffering spiritual schizophrenia.

    JAMES 3:7-12 SPIRITUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA “Every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who ...read more

  • Our God Is Great Series

    Contributed by Thomas Swope on Sep 9, 2011
     | 12,394 views

    A study of chapter 29 verses 1 through 24

    Isaiah 29 : 1 – 24 Our God Is Great! 1 “Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! Add year to year; Let feasts come around. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel; There shall be heaviness and sorrow, and it shall be to Me as Ariel. 3 I will encamp against you all around, I will lay siege against ...read more

  • Our Tawdry Little Secret

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Jan 24, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,128 views

    As we fulfil the Great Commission, we will reach out to women who have had abortions. How shall we treat them? Within our congregations are women who have aborted. How will we minister to them? The message is a plea to deal boldly with sin.

    “Uriah said to David, ‘The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.’ Then David ...read more

  • Psalm 119 - The Word Of God

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 30, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,916 views

    Psalm 119 (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request - email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

    Reading: Psalm chapter 119 verses 1-176. Some say that this Psalm was written in a similar time as we live today. • It was a time of religious scepticism. • Many people doubted whether there was a God. • Other people were jumping from one religious fad to another. ...read more