Sermons on Spiritual Giants:

12 Steps To God's Way Of Living – Part 3

Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 29, 2006

Part 3 of a 6 part series on the 12 Steps as a Spiritual Discipline

(Slide 1)30 years ago this month, I had my first car wreck. With my mom’s car. It was the first Friday of January 1976 after Christmas vacation and I was coming home from basketball practice (I was manager of the team) even through school was cancelled because of the weather. I was not going too ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 32:1-5

Denomination: Church Of God

12 Steps To God's Way Of Living – Part 4

Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 29, 2006

Part 4 of a 6 part series on the 12 Steps as a Spiritual Discipline

It was either the spring of 1968 or 1969 because at the time my mom was teaching kindergarten at a church about a half-mile from our home for two years before it went into our public school system in 1970. But it was spring because it was also baseball season. Now normally we would play either in ...read more

Scripture: Luke 18:9-13

Denomination: Church Of God

Being With It

Contributed by Paul Cull on Feb 6, 2006

The necessity of proclaiming the gospel, the necessity of cultural relevance and the necessity of spiritual integrity

Being with it - the necessity and challenges of cultural relevance There have been remarkable changes in rural communities over the last fifty years or even the last twenty years. When many of us were children, we grew up with a good understanding of the agricultural world. Many of the children ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:16-23

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

12 Steps To God's Way Of Living – Part 5

Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2006

Part 5 of a 6 part series on the 12 Steps as a Spiritual Discipline

(Slide 1) Last week was the Super Bowl and those who love the color of black and gold are rejoicing because their beloved Steelers are the champions! The half-time show was tame, (at least by Rolling Stones standards,) and I never thought I would see 60-year-old men rumble up and down a stage as ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:18

Denomination: Church Of God

12 Steps To God's Way Of Living – Part 6

Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2006

Part 6 of a 6 part series on the 12 Steps as a Spiritual Discipline

(1)In the book, Living Your Strengths, we read, ‘One of the most common mistakes people make in their spiritual lives is to focus on the steps to spiritual growth rather than on the outcomes of spiritual growth.’ (2)Then in his book Ancient-Future Time, Robert Webber wrote, ‘As far back as I can ...read more

Scripture: Luke 8:26-39

Denomination: Church Of God

Every Believer Is Born Again

Contributed by Timm Meyer on May 23, 2005

PENTECOST 1(B) - Every believer is born again, not naturally but spiritually.

EVERY BELIEVER IS BORN AGAIN (Outline) JOHN 3:1-17 - May 22, 2005 - PENTECOST 1 INTRO: Everyone is happy at the birth of a baby. They are just so cute and cuddly. But the reality is that everyone is born into this world of sin as a sinner. Our first birth pales in comparison to being born ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-17

Denomination: Lutheran

Producing Good Fruit

Contributed by David Dewitt on Sep 19, 2005

We are meant to produce spiritual fruit that brings glory to the name of Jesus!

Producing Good Fruit Galatians 5:16-26 July 3, 2005 Evening Service Introduction A friend of mine from seminary worked for an orchard while he was in high school and during his summers home from college. He worked in several different aspects of the orchard, from picking fruit to basic tree ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:16-26

Denomination: Church Of God

The Loveliest Place

Contributed by Ken Gehrels on Nov 14, 2001

Worship as a Christian, in the context of fellow believers, is critical to spiritual well-being.

Let Us Worship And Bow Down (I): The Loveliest Place Bible Reading: Psalm 84 PREPARED BY KEN GEHRELS PASTOR CALVIN CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH NEPEAN, ONTARIO Let Us Worship And Bow Down (I): The Loveliest Place p.1 "What on earth was I thinking?" It was a dark February evening when this thought kept ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 84:1-12

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

True Fellowship

Contributed by Andrew Chan on Nov 30, 2001

True fellowship is defined not by cake and coffee but by being spiritually tied together.

True Fellowship I John 1:3-2:2 SIGNS YOU LIVE IN THE YEAR 2001... 1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave. 2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three. 3. You call your son’s beeper to let him know it’s time to eat. He emails you back from his ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical Free

The Blind Man Christ Couldn't Heal

Contributed by Patrick Doherty on Jan 10, 2002

Healing our spiritual blindess is learning what can cause it.

The blind man Christ couldn’t heal Of all my senses I imagine my sight would be the worst to lose. Much of our learning comes from the positive example of others. However there are many more examples of what we shouldn’t do that we can learn from as well. I wan’t to talk about the situation of ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:14, John 12:1-8

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

"Preaching Peace" Series

Contributed by Clark Tanner on Dec 16, 2002

Three kinds of preachers of peace. (#22 in the Every Spiritual Blessing series)

“And He came and preached peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near,” Never in history, since the day Cain murdered his brother, has there been a time when men couldn’t look around them and ask, ‘where is peace?’ For the world has no peace and despite it’s relentless ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:17

Denomination: Orthodox

Redemption - Part I (The Forgiveness Of Sins) Series

Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jun 19, 2002

The first necessary step in redemption (#4 in the ’Every Spiritual Blessing’ series)

As we continue in this study in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, we must be careful not to skip merrily along, flitting from one verse or phrase to the next and on to the next, touching the surface of each, like a bee gathering pollen, and never looking back at previous verses, or even stopping to ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 1:7

Denomination: Orthodox

Encouragement Works

Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jun 24, 2002

exhortation to encourage others will help in spiritual battle against the tide of discouragement

Encouragement works Eph.6:21-24 21Tychicus, the dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell you everything, so that you also may know how I am and what I am doing. 22I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage you. 23Peace to ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:21-24

Denomination: Evangelical Free

By Their Fruit You Shall Know Them Series

Contributed by Guy Caley on Jul 7, 2002

Every life bears spiritual fruit. The question is, which kind?

In the Melanesian islands of the South Pacific during WWII, the natives watched closely as the American and British engineers came in and built airstrips. The islanders were amazed to see that when the airstrips were completed, planes began to arrive filled with cargo: food, building materials, ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:16-26

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Velvet Rope

Contributed by Chanon Mullens on Jul 5, 2006

Spiritual and Physical Barriers Can’t Prohibit our Salvation or Service

The ‘Velvet Rope:’ a signal of separation and division between those who can and those who cannot. When we see this barrier we know that it is a threshold that one cannot cross unless invited to do so. 1. THE DIVINE ‘ROPE’ • There were two veils to the tabernacle. The one which is described in Ex ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 24:51

Denomination: Baptist