Sermons on St Helens:

Hope,waiting, Anticipation And Longing

Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 3, 2002

A sermon for the first Sunday in Advnet Lectinary series B Waiting for Christ to come

First Sunday In Advent Mark 13:24-37 HOPE, WAITING, ANTICIPATION and LONGING. 24 ¶ "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, 25 and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. 26 And then ...read more

Scripture: Mark 13:24-37

Denomination: Lutheran

Murder! Series

Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 10, 2003

A brief sermon on #6 of the Ten Commandments!

Murder- Exodus 20:13 Evening Service for 3/9/2003 WBTU: A. King James did not do justice to this commandment. Thou shalt not kill. PETA likes to use this. However, it refers to a human being taking the life of another human being, murder. A. Started soon after the fall. Cain and Abel B. ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Excited Anticipation Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 7, 2002

Abel and Enoch were unusual choices for the first representatives of God’s parade of faith. Why did God use them and what does this tell us about faith?

OPEN: In college, Ken Davis (a popular youth speaker) was asked to prepare a lesson to teach his speech class. They were to be graded on their creativity and ability to drive home a point in a memorable way. The title of his talk was, "The Law of the Pendulum." He spent 20 minutes carefully ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-6

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Choosing What Is Most Needful

Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Jan 24, 2003

Special Quinceanera Message: Jesus has choosen what is most needful. He gives us the capacity to do the same. Because of this we get the miracle instead of a sermon.

It is truly a joy to be here – privileged to be a part of this wonderful celebration. Paola, we are here with your parents and with your friends and with your church family to thank God. It is through his grace that we can celebrate today. And our prayer today is that God may accompany you ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:38-42, John 11:1-46

Denomination: Lutheran

Spiritual Continuity-2 Series

Contributed by Byron Sherman on Aug 22, 2001

Part 2 of a 2 part sermon. The 5th installment in the 5-sermon series describing God’s Provision for the people of Israel as it applies to His Church today. Dealing with God’s provision for the Spiritual Continuity of His people.

SPIRITUAL CONTINUITY-II —Josh. 21:1-45(13:14, 33; 14:3-4; 18:7) Three guys were pulled out of detective training for special attention, because they were not very bright.Police chief interrogates them to see if they should be on the force. He tests their skills in recognizing a suspect Shows a ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 21:1-45

Denomination: Baptist

Between Two Comings

Contributed by Tim Zingale on Nov 16, 2001

An Advent Sermon

1st Sun. in Advent Mark 13:33-37 "Between two Comings !!" A time of celebration is at hand. Yes, a time of celebration is at hand, a new year begins today!! But wait you say, Pastor, this isn’t January 1st, it is November 25th. Ah, true it is, but just the same, a new year begins today. The new ...read more

Scripture: Mark 13:33-37

Denomination: Lutheran

The Double-Edged Sword

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Sep 18, 2001

The importance of studying the Word of God

Hebrews 4:12-13 “THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD” By: Reverend Kenneth Emerson Sauer, Pastor of Parkview United Methodist Church, Newport News, VA A day or two before I was to leave for college, my pastor came to my door with a gift. It was a small--pocket-sized Bible with a nice leather cover. I was a ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 4:12-13

Denomination: United Methodist

Faith And Doubt

Contributed by Bo Dunford on Dec 22, 2000

A believer’s life is a mixture of faith and doubt

HEB.11:1;6 "FAITH AND DOUBT" * Many Bible stories have mixtures of faith and doubt. * This is true of the simple account given in Matt.8:23-27. * Jesus entered into a ship and His disciples followed Him. * There came a great storm upon the sea. * The boat was covered with the waves, but Jesus ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

Have You Traveled These Roads Bravely?

Contributed by Ronald Fair on May 31, 2002

In the New Testament times and down through the ages men, women, boys and girls have experienced spiritual awakening, have followed the highway of holiness, have served the needs of humanity and shared their faith. Let us go and do likewise.

Have You Traveled These Roads Bravely? II Cor 54 Introduction: The highways of the 1st century were very extensive and widely traveled. Rome was a great builder of roads. Some of these roads that we read about in the Bible are tied up with spiritual experiences that are just as important ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:4

Denomination: Methodist

Seventh Trumpet & The Rapture Of The Church

Contributed by Robert Simmons on Feb 24, 2002

Exploration of the verses dealing with the Rapture and comparing these with the text on the seventh trumpet from the book of Revelation. Good overview of a "pre-wrath" view of end-time events.

SEALS 1ST SEAL-- WHITE HORSE (CONQUERING) 2ND SEAL-- RED HORSE (SWORD) 3RD SEAL-- BLACK HORSE (BALANCES) 4TH SEAL-- PALE HORSE (DEATH) 5TH SEAL-- SOULS SLAIN FOR WORD OF GOD 6TH SEAL-- EARTHQUAKE, SUN BECAME BLACK, MOON BECAME BLOOD, STARS FEEL TO EARTH 7TH SEAL-- SILENCE IN ...read more

Denomination: Church Of God

Mighty Expensive Stew

Contributed by Pat Cook on Jul 22, 2005

Father’s Day sermon about trading important and eternal things for cheap and temporary things.

Genesis 25:19-34 – Mighty Expensive Stew (Got lots of help, including some direct quotes, from other preachers on SermonCentral for this one. Thanx, guys!) In the summer after my 1st year of Bible college, I hung around a lot with 2 girls. One of them I knew from Bethany, Christina, and the ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 25:19-34

Denomination: Baptist

Learning To Trust In Jesus

Contributed by Vernon L Caruthers on May 19, 2006

There are lessons that teach us to place our TRUST and our FAITH in JESUS that can only be taught during the storms of our life.

Subject: Learning to Place Our Faith in Jesus Scripture Reference: Matthew 14: 22-33 ---------------<>< <>< <><<>< <>< -------------------- INTRODUCTION: The very 1st prophecy concerning Jesus’ coming to earth as our "REDEEMER & DELIVERER" from Satan and from Sin, is found in Genesis 3:15. ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 14:22-33

What About Peter? Series

Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 9, 2006

This is a controversial but hopefully delicate sermon about Jesus’ appearance to Peter, and about how some things just aren’t our business to know.

1 Corinthians 15:1-8 – What About Peter? Tonight we are going to start off by reading our scripture, a very early creed of the church. It was like an Apostle’s Creed, a few brief but clear lines of doctrine about what the early believers actually believed. Let’s read 1 Corinthians 15:1-8. ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:1-8

Denomination: Baptist

Testing The Truth

Contributed by Brad Rigney on May 6, 2006

This sermon looks at the call by John to Test the Spirits and how we can do that today. It introduces and challenges people to test the Da Vinci Code book and movie through the what we learn in the passage.

Testing Truth 1John 4:1-6 Intro.: A. Ecclesiastes 1:9, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” That is certainly true of parenthood (as I raise my kids, it is interesting to see and hear some of the same excuses I gave my parents, ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 4:1-6

Denomination: Adventist

Lets Build A Church

Contributed by Mark Aarssen on Sep 29, 2007

As I work here for the Lord and for your church I want to be careful to follow a plan of construction and work from a proven design so that we end up with a happy vibrant, growing Christ centered church.

Lets Build A Church Welcome back everyone hope your summer vacation was enjoyable and a time of rest and fun. Im sure some of you went camping, some went boating and others shopping. Regardless of what you did this summer Im glad youve come back to church to pick up where we left off. Since ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 7:24-28

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed