Sermons on spiritual endurance:

How To Improve Your Serve In Community! Series

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 18, 2021

To improve our serve in our community means we have to learn to become good neighbors. Being a good neighbor means knowing your neighbors name and some of their current story!

Series: How to improve your serve? Thesis: As Christians we are called to be servants! Yes, I said the “s” word “servants” – for many this term seems to imply to some – a slave, a person lacking self-esteem, someone of lower class, a person crushed in spirit, a person with low self-worth. But ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 22:36-40, Luke 10:25-37

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

That All Will Acknowledge Yahweh (Exodus 6:28-7:7) Series

Contributed by Garrett Tyson on Dec 11, 2021

God's end goal for Egypt, and the world, is that all will acknowledge and revere Him. And our calling, is like Moses' calling. God does this through us. Bonus discussion of Exodus 7:1, a key passage for Mormons and Word of Faith movement.

Let's start this morning by rereading Exodus 6:1-13. This will help us get sucked back into the story, and I'll teach you a cool little thing about how biblical narratives work. (1) and Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, because with a strong hand ...read more

Hosting Jesus, The Vip (Luke 7:36-50) Series

Contributed by Garrett Tyson on Mar 28, 2024

One host fails, but another rises up, and gives Jesus the welcome he deserves. The passage is an illustration of how and why people tripped on Jesus (Luke 7:31-35).

One of the things we've talked about several times in the gospel of Luke, is the idea of God "visiting" his people. That's a big part of today's message, so let's read Luke 1:68, to get us off on the right foot: I'll read from the RSV (and here, the translation ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:68, Luke 7:36-50, Luke 7:31-35

Let Me Introduce You To God Series

Contributed by Scott Turansky on Dec 25, 2022

He wants to have confidence that He's the one we can put our confidence in. That we can have our identity in Him so our ladder is leaning against the right wall in our lives.

There's a quote I like. I want to share with you this quote, first of all. I think it's a significant one. It says, “People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success, only to find once they reach the top that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.” I've heard ...read more

Scripture: John 8:39-59

Denomination: Independent/Bible

He...is...risen!!!

Contributed by Jeff Taylor on Apr 11, 2023

The resurrection story is capture in three words, "He Is Risen". The best news the world has ever heard came out of a cemetery, "He is risen!!! He is alive"!!!

Turn in your Bibles to Luke 24. The resurrection story is capture in three words, "He Is Risen". Christianity rises or falls on the resurrection story. If Christ did not rise from the dead, our faith is a colossal hoax, an absolute fraud. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, our songs and ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:1-9

Denomination: Pentecostal

Wisdom, Knowledge And Understanding

Contributed by Dr. Jerry Hulse on Aug 21, 2022

Beloved, to miss our purpose in life, is to miss everything because our purpose is what drives our vision and without the proper wisdom to use the knowledge we have learned, we will miss our assignment causing our life and ministry to end-up shipwrecked on the rocks of doom and despair.

SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES (Proverbs 4:5-6) (5) “Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.” (6) “Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.” (Proverbs ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 4:7, Proverbs 4:23, Matthew 15:18, Matthew 12:24, John 1:4, Proverbs 6:16-19, Ephesians 4:11-13, Hebrews 13:5, Romans 8:16-17  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Pentecostal

Lydia Series

Contributed by Chuck Gohn on Aug 6, 2022

In this sermon we explore the story of Lydia's conversion along with how God continues to open the hearts of business people today, allowing believers unlimited opportunities to share the Gospel with them.

Good Morning. If you have your Bibles with you today, we will be looking at Acts 16:6. We have been going through the series called Extraordinary People. People in the Bible who, because of their faith, because of their obedience, God used in extraordinary and amazing ways. The last few weeks ...read more

Scripture: Acts 16:6-15

Denomination: Christian Church

Should You Give Your Last 2 Pennies? - Mark 12:41-13:2 Series

Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on Apr 7, 2024

Is the widow who gave everything an example we should follow? If so, why are we not all giving everything in the offering?

Mark 12:41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. 42 But one poor widow came and put in two leptas, worth only a quadrans. 43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus ...read more

Scripture: Luke 21:1-6

John The Baptizer Series

Contributed by Mark Driscoll on Oct 12, 2011

John the Baptizer had courage to confront the darkness in people's lives and to speak into their lives that he loved with tears in his eyes and compassion about their sin.

So now we’re gonna talk about John the Baptizer. It’s not John the Baptist. John wasn’t a Baptist. He’s a baptizer. Story starts. He had a dad. He had a mom. Most kids, that’s where the story starts. John’s dad, Zechariah, was a priest, served the temple, ...read more

Scripture: John 1:19-34

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Chapter 20: Gideon’s Present Consumed By Fire Series

Contributed by John Lowe on Nov 3, 2018

Here in the passage before us, we see how the flesh is the enemy of God’s calling.

Chapter 20: Gideon’s Present Consumed by Fire Judges 6:17-32 17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me. 18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present (or, meat offering), and set it before ...read more

Scripture: Judges 6:17-32

Denomination: Baptist

He Walked Not Uprightly (Full) Series

Contributed by Ron Freeman, Evangelist on Jul 2, 2020

To establish that Paul rebuked Peter for walking not uprightly before the church. When men from James came to Antioch, Peter withdrew and separated himself from eating with the Gentiles, for fear of the circumcision. This same fear exists today, among believers and leaders in the Lord’s church.

INTRODUCTION Outline. 1. Paul’s Rebuke 2. Paul’s Reason 3. Paul’s Resolve Remarks. 1. In our lesson today, we will discuss the theme: “He walked not uprightly.” This sermon deals with an important truth to be heard again by the church, and maybe for the first time the religious world. There may ...read more

Scripture: Acts 15:1-5, Galatians 2:11-21, Acts 15:24

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Other Side

Contributed by Kelvin Parks on Jun 23, 2004

“Why does God allow storms in our life?”

The Other Side Luke 8:22-23 By Reverend Kelvin Lebron Parks Associate Minister, Monument of Love Baptist Church Superintendent of Sunday Morning Bible Study Prison Ministry Coordinator 27 July 2003 The Gospel According to Luke, Chapter 8 22. Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went ...read more

Scripture: Luke 8:22-23

Denomination: Baptist

Dismantling Our Doubt Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on Jul 9, 2004

Jesus walked through a wall, and the disciples went from fear to freaked out to faith.

Drowning in Doubt It was a hot, humid Mississippi night nearly ten years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I was sitting on the third step of the swimming pool at my apartment complex. I was twenty-six years and had just completed a very difficult seminary program. For nearly three ...read more

Scripture: Luke 20:24-31

Denomination: Baptist

The Church: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 23, 2003

The Lord Jesus Christ laid down his life for the church knowing completely that it would have the good, the bad and the ugly connected to it.

The Church: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Thesis: The Lord Jesus Christ laid down his life for the church knowing completely that it would have the good, the bad and the ugly connected to it. Texts: Ephesians 5:25-27; Acts 2:42-47; 1 Cor. 1:10-17 Video Illustration: The end of the movie The ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:42-47, Galatians 5:25-27

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Paul's Use Of The Word "Our"

Contributed by John Kohler on Jan 16, 2003

This message examines the Apostle Paul’s use of the word "our."

The Apostle Paul’s Use of the Plural Possessive Pronoun OUR I Corinthians 15:3 Arminian Bible commentators teach that the plural possessive pronoun "our" is used in I Corinthians 15:3 in a universal, general, unlimited, unrestricted sense. They paraphrase the middle part of this verse in ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:3

Denomination: Baptist