Sermons on Spiritual Maintenance:

Spiritual Gifts - What Are Yours?

Contributed by Roshelle Brenneise on Aug 4, 2023

Spiritual Gifts are a biblical concept and a Fundamental Belief of our church, and yet most of us don’t know what our Spiritual Gifts are – to the peril of the body.

August 05, 2023 Today we are talking about Spiritual Gifts. Clear back in the book of Exodus, God told Moses that He was going to gift certain men in Israel with the gift of craftsmanship for the construction of the Tabernacle: • Exodus 31:1-5 - Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 "See, I ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:11-16, Exodus 31:1-5, 1 Corinthians 12:4-7, Romans 12:4-6

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

The Cost Of Weak Spiritual Leadership Series

Contributed by Ellick Wu on Aug 14, 2023

From Exodus 32:1-6, we will uncover invaluable lessons about the consequences of weak spiritual leadership. We will glean insights that pierce through the complexities of our present church condition and trends, shedding light on both the pitfalls we must avoid and the pathways we should pursue.

THE COST OF WEAK SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP EXODUS 32:1-6 Scripture reading prior to sermon Ex 33:11-16, 34:6-10 Introduction When I was young, I was taught honesty is the key character for life being a great person and we should model after young George Washington the first President of the United ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 32:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

There Are Five Proofs Of A Spiritual Resurrections

Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on Mar 7, 2023

Christ gave us proof life after death .

THERE ARE FIVE PROOFS OF A SPIRITUAL RESURRECTIONS 1st Corinthians 15:51Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:51

Denomination: Baptist

Spiritual Amnesia Leads To Apostasy

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Mar 10, 2023

The title of this sermon may not make a bit of sense…but it is my sincere prayer before I complete this sermon it will make sense and you will understand the seriousness of SPIRITUAL AMNESIA THAT LEADS TO APOSTASY.

I want to show you two things about AMNESIA AND APOSTASY. First, let us look at… I. AMNESIA WHAT IS AMNESIA? When a person has amnesia they forget some very important things in their life, such as… • They forget who their loved ones are...ISN’T THAT SAD! • Where they live… ISN’T THAT SAD! ...read more

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:5-11

Denomination: Baptist

"Spiritual Thirst, Quenched By Jesus ”

Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on May 24, 2023

A message for Pentecost based on the words of Jesus in John 7 at the Feast of Tabernacles in October as He identifies Himself as the "Rock" from which water quenched the thirst of the Israelites on their journey. Seven months later Jesus was dead.

In Jesus Holy Name May 28, 2023 Text: John 7:37-39 Pentecost Redeemer “Spiritual Thirst, Quenched by Jesus ” We rightly celebrate Easter as the day that changed history, the ...read more

Scripture: John 7:37-39, John 10:22-33, Acts 2:1-35

Denomination: Lutheran

Solidify Your Spiritual Gains Series

Contributed by Scott Turansky on Jun 16, 2022

God has done some things in our own hearts. We need to solidify those things before we move to the next thing.

One of the things I like about GraceWay is that there's real openness to single people. I don't know, we maybe take that for granted here. But in some churches single people have a hard time breaking in. You know, finding places to serve or participate or grow or connect. GraceWay has a lot ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

What Is Spirituality (7 Of 7)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 1, 2022

In this series, “What is Spirituality”, we want to look at what constitutes being spiritual.

In this passage of scripture, Peter tells us a number of things we need to add to our faith, such as: VIRTUE, KNOWLEDGE, TEMPERANCE, and he tells us we also need to add PATIENCE. Patience give us a difficult time. After all, we are the society that invented: • Fast food • Microwaves • The ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:5-9

Denomination: Baptist

What Is Spirituality (6 Of 7)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 1, 2022

We have discovered from Peter that to become like Christ, there are some things we need to add to our faith

We have seen that we need to add to our faith : • VIRTUE - We need virtue because virtue is what sets the boundaries of what WE DO and DO NOT DO! • KNOWLEDGE - We need knowledge of WHO HE IS and WHAT HE IS LIKE if we are going to become like Him. After he tells us to add virtue and knowledge, he ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:5-9

Denomination: Baptist

What Is Spirituality? (5 Of 7)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 1, 2022

We want to look again at this passage of scripture that tells us we should ADD certain things TO OUR FAITH.

In this sermon, we want to see that we should ADD TO OUR FAITH PATIENCE! Illus: Patience gives us a fit in this life! A man noticed a woman in the grocery store with a very hyper three year old girl in her cart. As the mother and her child passed the cookie section, the little girl asked for ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:5-9

Denomination: Baptist

What Is Spirituality? (4 Of 7)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 1, 2022

A man was watching a wood carver carve a six foot bear out of a large chunk of wood. The man was fascinated as he watched him and he finally asked him, “HOW DO YOU DO THAT?”

The wood carver said, “It really isn’t as hard as it looks. What I do is get a huge piece of wood, and I carve out everything that does not look like a bear!” This is what God is trying to do with our lives. He wants to cut everything that does not look like Christ out of our lives. Peter shows ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:5-9

Denomination: Baptist

What Is Spirituality? (3 Of 7)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 1, 2022

Most of us at times have looked at someone we thought was attractive physically, and thought we certainly would like to look like them if we could.

Sometimes this is the motivation for some to: (1) DIET EACH DAY Illus: Much has been said about diets, such as: • It's something most of us do religiously: We eat what we want to eat, drink a diet coke and pray we don't gain weight • Someone else said that the problem with curbing our ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

What Is Spirituality? (2 Of 7)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 1, 2022

In our text, Paul explains some of the things that motivated him.

If we are going to be the SPIRITUAL INDIVIDUALS God wants us to be, we are going to have to have the same motives he had. WHAT IS A MOTIVE? The dictionary describes it as “A conscious or unconscious need or drive that incites a person to some action or behavior.” Illus: Someone has said, “The ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:9-13

Denomination: Baptist

What Is Spirituality? (1 Of 7)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 1, 2022

One of the best ways you can determine that a person is a SPIRITUAL PERSON is by the way they spend their TIME and MONEY.

We are fooling ourselves when we think we are SPIRITUAL yet our TIME and MONEY reveals we are like the carnal people of this world who only care about cars, boats, campers, houses and clothes. The way we spend our time tells a great deal about us. Because time is important to us, most of us ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:37-38

Denomination: Baptist

Now About Spiritual Gifts

Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Oct 2, 2023

a message about the function of Spiritual gifts in the life of the church

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. {2} You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. {3} Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Spiritual Paralysis And Literary Sandwiches

Contributed by Michael Blitz on Oct 21, 2023

This Morning, we take a special look at Jesus Healing the Paralytic , and how the story reveals to us what is MOST IMPORTANT, the Forgiveness of Sins.

We have two types of paralytics in our lesson this morning, physical and Spiritual. Unfortunately, we will see how the spiritual paralytics actually want to remain how they are, rather than see the Great physician. The healing we read occurs in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and what is really ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 9:1-8

Denomination: Anglican