Sermons on Smoldering Wick:

Avoiding Temple Desecration Series

Contributed by Ely Lambert on Jun 2, 2003

It is a sin to desecrate the Lord’s temple, and we must learn to everything possible to avoid desecrating his holy shrine.

Lessons in Temple Building Lesson #5 - Avoiding Temple Desecration Duct tape is an amazing creation of man. The armed forces created it, used for the waterproofing of equipment. They quickly learned the enormous amount of uses. Even today, a few people have created television shows to create ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:21-22

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Emmaus Road Series

Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 21, 2002

Part 2 of 4 of the series, Roads of Passion. The Emmaus Road: a road that reveals Jesus’ companionship, conversation, challenge to believe, and renewal of hope to all those who follow Him.

THE EMMAUS ROAD Luke 24:13-35 Read at beginning of service: Luke 24:13-35 (NIV) 13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:13-35

Denomination: Pentecostal

Killing Our Hatred With A Life Of Love Series

Contributed by Wes Humble on Nov 11, 2006

Sermon on the Sixth Commandment

“Do not murder.” Exodus 20:13 One American is shot, stabbed, beaten, or strangled to death every minute. It seems that no matter where you turn in our society, or even our world, there are murders. It’s on the television and movies as fiction. It’s on the streets and next door as a brutal ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:13

Denomination: *other

The Life Of A Fool

Contributed by Bo Dunford on Apr 15, 2005

Some people are fools according to God’s Word.

LUKE 12:16-21 “THE LIFE OF A FOOL” A) Some people are fools ... There is no doubt at all in my mind! * I’m certain that I have met a few! * However, I don’t go around calling everybody I meet a fool! * I don’t know enough about them! * The only person I know who has the knowledge and ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:16-21

Denomination: Baptist

Be Holy As I Am Holy

Contributed by Steven Cannon on Jan 29, 2006

God calls us to be holy as he is holy and calls us to a holy life.

BE HOLY BECAUSE I AM HOLY We serve a holy God. He tells us in Lev 11:44 that he is holy. Lev 11:44 I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves about on the ground. Lev 11:45 I am the LORD who brought ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

How To Be Angry Series

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Oct 18, 2010

Looking at Paul's words to help us understand anger.

Ephesians 4:26-5:2 Anger - Part 2 January 10, 2010 Last week we began talking about anger and my plan was to talk about anger in more practical terms this week . . . how do we recognize anger and how to deal with anger . . . and more. But I want to move in a different, but practical direction ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:26-32

Denomination: Baptist

Our National Shame: A Pastor’s Call To Boldness

Contributed by Pastor Sam Guido on Feb 12, 2011

A call to todays pastors for boldness

Our Nation’s Shame: A Call To Pastors For Boldness! Pastor Sam Guido "If, to please people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hands of God". George Washington spoke ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 33:12

Denomination: Lutheran

Book Of Jonah - The God Of The Second Chance

Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Mar 15, 2019

We have seen the Choice and now we proceed with the wrong choice.

THE WRONG CHOICE Intro: 1. CBS News reports that, since its inception in the 1970s, the Human Intervention Motivation Study has given second chances to thousands of men and women in danger of losing their families, careers, and even their lives. Eighty percent of HIMS participants never relapse ...read more

Scripture: Jonah 1:1-3

Denomination: Baptist

Give Grace Series

Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 23, 2009

We are to Give Grace in 1) Truth 2) Anger 3) Possessions 4) Words and 5) Virtue

Should there be a limit to the kindness that we show to others? A big debate is brewing after a recent superior court decision that the government not always demand that immigration sponsors repay government assistance to immigrants who fail to live up to immigration pledges. This is in essence a ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:25-32

Denomination: Other

Why Does A Loving God Send People To Hell? Series

Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 28, 2003

Hell was never meant for us, in fact, God desires nothing more than to prepare a place for us to be with Him forever.

Two guys from Prince George die and wake up in hell. The next day the devil stops in to check on them and sees them dressed in parkas, mittens and toques warming themselves around the fire. The devil asks them, "What are you doing? Isn’t it hot enough for you?" The two guys reply, "Well, you ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 25:31-46

Denomination: Evangelical Free

The Rejected Stone Series

Contributed by David Dykes on Aug 20, 2012

Uncovering four foundational truths about the character of God in Jesus' Parable of the Tenants and a corresponding personal lesson we can apply to our lives.

INTRODUCTION The title of this message carries a double meaning. We’re going to learn that Jesus was not only the rejected SON; He was also the rejected STONE. A guy who was crossing the street to visit his neighbor. As he started to cross the street, a car was bearing down on him, so he ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 21:33-46

Denomination: Baptist

Body And Blood

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 27, 2002

A message about the importance of taking Communion togeather.

2, June 2002 Dakota Community Church Body and Blood Introduction: Communion Sunday Again – What’s it really all about? One of the most misunderstood of the Christian Traditions - The Corinthians abused it. - The Romans misunderstood it. Persecuting Christians as cannibals. - Roman Catholics ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-27

Denomination: Mennonite

Led By Fire

Contributed by Randall Lavere Ii on Oct 24, 2006

a message of how our God is a consuming fire

Led by fire Ex. 3:1-10 There had arisen a new Pharoah, who did not know who Joseph was. He realized that the children of Israel were a fast growing people within the nation, and that there were actually more Isrealites, then there were Egyptians. So Pharoah appointed taskmasters over them, to ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 3:1-10

Denomination: Charismatic

Watch Your Tongue!

Contributed by Thomas Clawser on Sep 17, 2018

Do the words you speak build-up or burn-down?

In the summer of 2000, more than a thousand firefighters battled a wildfire for two weeks in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The fire started on August 24, and continued until September 8. When it was over more than eighty thousand acres of federal forest was burnt. Forty-six-year-old Janice ...read more

Scripture: James 3:1-12

Denomination: Other

And He Shall Reign Series

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 5, 2022

Utopia on earth awaits the return of Jesus, because He will be the perfect absolute Monarch.

And He Shall Reign (Isaiah 11:1-16) 1. During a service at an old synagogue in Eastern Europe, when the Shema prayer was said, half the congregants stood up and half remained sitting. The half that was seated started yelling at those standing to sit down, and the ones standing yelled at the ones ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 11:1-16

Denomination: Independent/Bible