Sermons on Spiritual Forces:

Built Up A Spiritual House

Contributed by Alan Smith on Aug 16, 2002

The church is compared to a house, and we are the individual building blocks.

Introduction: This morning, I want to talk about a church building. Not the physical building that surrounds us here which is composed of wood and stone, but the building of God, the church of our Lord that is composed of living stones. The New Testament uses a number of different descriptive ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 2:4-10, 1 Peter 2:8-22

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Resolving Your Spiritual Fatigue

Contributed by David Dewitt on Aug 18, 2002

There are times in everyone’s walk with god that they need a spiritual refill

Resolving Your Spiritual Fatigue Selected Passages August 18, 2002 Introduction I read about a woman who telephoned a friend and asked how she was feeling, "Terrible," came the reply over the wire, "my head’s splitting and my back and legs are killing me. The house is a mess, and the kids are ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Matthew 11:28-30

Denomination: Church Of God

Increasing Your Spiritual Assets

Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 1, 2002

Learn to increase the worth of your relationship with God

I received an email this week asking the question, "What’s the difference between people who pray in church and those who pray in casinos?" The answer, "The ones in the casinos are serious." There may be more truth to that email than we want to believe. The prayer to increase one’s wealth ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 1:15-23

Denomination: *other

How To Maintain Spiritual Purity Series

Contributed by Larry Sarver on Sep 12, 2002

A teaching message on Genesis 33:18-34:31.

Genesis Series #58 September 08, 2002 Title: How to Maintain Spiritual Purity Email: pastorsarver@yahoo.com <mailto:pastorsarver@yahoo.com> Website: www.newlifeinchrist.info Welcome to New Life in Christ. Today we continue with message #58 in our verse-by-verse study of the Book of ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Improving Our Spiritual Senses

Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 10, 2002

How much do you want God in your life?

Focus 1: The Father Focus Tell the story about my conversion experience. (Make it grab the audience) “I knew why I was there!” “I have not always lived out that commitment to Christ faithfully, I have failed many times. But I thank God for his saving grace and power and transforming touch on my ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 29:4-14

Denomination: Church Of God

Developing A Vision For Spiritual Growth Series

Contributed by Tom Shepard on Nov 17, 2006

This is the third sermon from Ruth. It shows how Naomi had a vision and developed a plan which affected her future. Our Purpose Driven Vision is included.

Developing a Vision for Spiritual Growth Ruth 3:1-3, 18 Review: Chapter one shows Naomi is in a bad situation. She has left her own country, lost her husband, lost her two sons and one of her daughters-in-law left her too. In chapter two we find that Naomi and Ruth had returned to Naomi’s ...read more

Scripture: Ruth 3:1-18

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Moving To Another Spiritual Level

Contributed by Ralph Coleman on Nov 20, 2006

Spiritual Growth

Moving to Another Spiritual Level John 3.1-7 Nicodemus: A ruler of the Jews, a master ("teacher") of Israel, and a Pharisee, was a wealthy, educated and powerful man-well respected by his people and a descendant of the patriarch Abraham. Yet in V-7, Jesus said to him, "You must be born again" The ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

Eagerly Desire Spiritual Gifts Series

Contributed by Dennis Cummins on Oct 18, 2006

Print Graphics of this series are available free upone request. This can be viewed on Itunes podcast or Video cast under ExperienceChurch.tv or viewed online at www.experiencechurch.tv.

Signs and Wonders – 3 Eagerly Desire Signs and Wonders are Demonstrations of the spirit that can’t be explained designed to bring Glory honor to God. 1 Corinthians 12:1-3 (New King James Version) 1Now concerning[a] spiritual gifts,[b] brothers,[c] I do not want you to be uninformed. 2You know ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:1-3

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Becoming A More Spiritual Person

Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Oct 23, 2006

Training in godilness is a effective way to deal with false teaching

Becoming a more spiritual person for many of us means nothing mroe than being more tolerant of others. Of letting others be who they are and we will be who we are. Pluralism is the new spirituality. Pluralists contend that no one religion can know the fullness of spiritual truth, and therefore ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:10

Denomination: Baptist

God's Plan For Spiritual Misfits Series

Contributed by David Selleck on Oct 26, 2006

Second in a series of messages from Michael Yaconelli’s book "Messy Spirituality" God’s Annoying Love for Imperfect People.

Template Oct 8, 2006 Messy Spirituality Series 2 Felt Need: What is God’s plan for my life, why is this so difficult to figure out? Desired Results: Persons would hear the Good News of God’s grace and know that they are loved and empowered by the Holy Spirit. Message: God’s plan for Spiritual ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-3

Denomination: Methodist

Spiritual Worldview: Room With A View

Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 27, 2006

How we view the spiritual reality around us has a lot to do with whether we can see God in action or not.

Our Assumptions Create Our Spiritual Reality In our Scripture this morning we see an incident where we find this truth: My spiritual worldview, will interpret how I see spiritual things. My spiritual worldview, will interpret how I see spiritual things. Today we read about the same spiritual ...read more

Scripture: Acts 14:8-20

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Spiritual Gifts: Body Works

Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006

Focuses not on details of each spiritual gift, but how we don’t use our gifts, we simply live life as we always did.

Air Conditioner. The first house we owned was quite old and a lot of things didn’t work quite right.Our air conditioner broke every year. It would cool down the house then, become a heater heat it up, then cool it down. Not how an air conditioner should work. First year called the company who had ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Spiritual Leadership Of Pastor In Missions

Contributed by Jose Cabajar on Oct 29, 2006

Spiritual leadership of pastor in missions is a relevant subject to be considered and to be applied appropriately by all mission-minded Pastors and Missionaries so they could fulfill the Great Commission and meet the contemporary needs of their World Miss

Spiritual leadership of pastor in missions is a relevant subject to be considered and to be applied appropriately by all mission-minded Pastors and Missionaries so they could fulfill the Great Commission and meet the contemporary needs of their World Missions Program. Having a good knowledge of ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 5:1-4

Denomination: Baptist

Spiritual Blessings Part 2 Series

Contributed by Larry Brincefield on Jun 9, 2005

Sermon Series on the Book of Ephesians. This one happened to go along with the Thanksgiving Theme.

Sermon preached by Rev. Larry C. Brincefield on November 24, 2004 Title: Ephesians #4 Text: Ephesians 1:11-14 Introduction 1. On the island of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands there are two Thanksgiving days. • In addition to the usual one celebrated by Americans, • they have a Hurricane ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 1:11-14

Denomination: Nazarene

Six Marks Of A Spiritual Mentor

Contributed by Jim Butcher on Sep 2, 2005

Paul here explains what it meant that he was a spiritual father to the Cornithians and therein gives us insight into how we can impact others.

The Heart Of The Passage: “Paul is a spiritual father to the Corinthians.” - v. 15. - There are two ways to become a spiritual father. One is to be part of birthing someone to new life. The second is to raise a spiritual child into a spiritual adult (an adoption type of situation). - In both ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 4:14-21

Denomination: Baptist