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  • Fifteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year C: The Good Samaritan On "Uh-Oh” Street

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jul 8, 2025
     | 446 views

    The word I’ll use is faith, faith over fear

    Dan Dailey, writing in the New York Daily News, tells about overhearing a woman in New York discussing her neighborhood. New Yorkers often divide Manhattan based on the location of Houston Street. If you live south of Houston Street, you live in SoHo; if you live north of Houston Street, you ...read more

  • Narnia: The Joys Of Turkish Delight Series

    Contributed by David Selleck on Nov 17, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,824 views

    Turkish Delight creates addiction and represents temptation and sin from which we need redemption.

    Narnia II Dec 4, 2005 Template for worship planning David Selleck Lakeside United Methodist, Muskegon, Michign Felt Need: How is sin similar or different in Narnia, than what we deal with in our daily lives. Hoped for Results: Each person would receive the awareness that, anything that ...read more

  • Joy In The Mist Of Your Mess

    Contributed by Russell Darby on Jan 23, 2005
    based on 31 ratings
     | 12,716 views

    When you are going through all of those painful, tearful, sleepless, heartbreaking, agonizing life altering, and life destroying trials, troubles and tribulations count it all joy.

    Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Trials, Troubles and tribulations, sometimes seems to be a way of life and it seems that sometimes we as Christians feel that life just should not be ...read more

  • Idolatry 101 Series

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Nov 14, 2006
    based on 18 ratings
     | 13,933 views

    Find out the ’what’ and ’why’ of this terrible sin that plagued the church at Corinth and still plagues us today.

    “Idolatry 101” I Corinthians 10:14-22 INTRO: Last week we understood clearly from the Israelites story that we ought always, at every crossroads, follow the Lord at all costs! How could we miss it, right? Well, right on the heels of his positive admonition is a stern warning, and that’s where I’d ...read more

  • The Battle Within Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Jun 7, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,940 views

    Exposition of Galatians 5:16-18 about walking in under the control of the Spirit of God

    Text: Galatians 5:16-18, Title: The Battle Within, Date/Place: NRBC, 6/10/07, AM A. Opening illustration: Tell about the woman who was an impulsive shopper. Husband confronts. She repents and is really trying to make a change. He tells her to tell Satan to get behind me. She buys another dress ...read more

  • You've Got Mail: Laodicea Series

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Dec 22, 2009
    based on 16 ratings
     | 12,400 views

    The last in a series of seven. This is an expository, alliterated sermon with practical application based on the letter to Laodicea in Revelation. PowerPoint is avialable if you e-mail me.

    YOU’VE GOT MAIL: LAODICEA Scott Bayles, preacher First Christian Church, Rosiclare, IL Finally, at the end of a long route, about forty-five miles southeast of Philadelphia, was the city of Laodicea. Laodicea was the wealthiest and the worst of the seven cities to whom Jesus wrote. Forget ...read more

  • The Master's Desire Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Feb 8, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,887 views

    Exposition of Luke 14:15-24 regarding our duty as servants to be heralds of the gospel and compel people into the kingdom of God

    Text: Luke 14:15-24, Title: The Master’s Desire, Date/Place: NRBC, 2/7/10, AM A. Opening illustration: Unless there is a transformation of contemporary church life so that once again the task of evangelism is something which is seen as incumbent on every baptized Christian, and is backed up ...read more

  • Look We For Another?

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Nov 29, 2013
    based on 8 ratings
     | 9,982 views

    "There is none greater than John the Baptist," says Jesus. "Notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he" (Matthew 11:11).

    LOOK WE FOR ANOTHER? Matthew 11:2-15. 1. “Are You He that should come, or look we for another?” (Matthew 11:3). We do not know for sure why John the Baptist sent two of his disciples to speak with Jesus. Perhaps prison had knocked the wind out of his sails, and he wanted some reassurance that ...read more

  • What's Wrong With Gambling?

    Contributed by Mike Richardson on May 16, 2001
    based on 306 ratings
     | 7,942 views

    Isaiah gives us a glimpse of the forces behind gambling and why it becomes so addictive and destructive.

    Intro: ***A preacher saw a man who looked homeless sitting on a park bench and seemed to be in deep distress so he passed by him, handed him a $20 bill and whispered to him, “Never Despair”. The next day the preacher saw the man coming toward him hurriedly and gave him $60. The preacher asked ...read more

  • "In The Shelter Of His Wings"

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Feb 5, 2002
    based on 74 ratings
     | 15,708 views

    Let’s talk about what message the Holy Spirit had for us, today, when he inspired the psalmist.

    The theme statement that my Bible gives for this psalm, right there under the title, is ‘security of the one who trusts in the Lord’. I propose to you this morning, that the entire script of the Bible, whether specifically or by implication, addresses the security of the one who trusts in the ...read more

  • The Testimony Of Jesus About John.

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Jun 6, 2023
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,072 views

    The true Wisdom is revealed to - and in - the children of God.

    THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS ABOUT JOHN. Matthew 11:1-19. MATTHEW 11:1. In this verse we discover the whole purpose of Christian witness and mission. The places to which - and more importantly the people to whom - the Lord was sending His disciples were the very same places and people that Jesus had ...read more

  • Driving Under The Influence

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jan 11, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,064 views

    Energy and passion in worship are fine, but they must push us toward authentic living and toward dedicated mission, else they will be destructive.

    I could not help noticing this car that morning. It was a tiny little car, one of those that looks like a sardine can on wheels. The rust spots and the dents suggested that it had survived more than its share of bumps and bruises. But that was not all that made me notice this little puddle ...read more

  • A Day Of Destiny

    Contributed by Brian Credille on Mar 5, 2001
    based on 274 ratings
     | 5,562 views

    In all of the thousands of days since creation, two days stand above all the rest. Let us look at a day of destiny--the day that Jesus died.

    "A Day of Destiny" Matthew 27:27-54 INTRODUCTION Think of the thousands of days since creation. Is it possible that any day stands above the rest? During this time of year we celebrate two momentous days. One is the day that Jesus died. There were three major phases to this day that changed ...read more

  • He Restoreth My Soul

    Contributed by Ricky Tuttle Thd on Jan 22, 2005
    based on 67 ratings
     | 14,660 views

    A look at Psalms 23:3a

    “He Restoreth My Soul” Psalms 23:1-6 1-16-2005 AM Psalms 23:3 “He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. “ Most know the meaning of restoration even if you do not know the definition: “to bring back, refresh, repair” Once you were sick but the sickness ...read more

  • Fire On The Mountain Series

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 8, 2015
     | 5,292 views

    We are confronted with choices daily. The BIG choice is what to do with God when we see his presence. This becomes a choice about Relationship; Repentance; Rulership; and Renewal.

    1. Ski Lift Choice A woman getting onto a ski lift was given instructions that the moment the lift's chair touched her backside she was to sit down and lift her feet from off the ground. Instead when the chair came against her she sat down but was nervous about the height of the lift. Her ...read more