Sermons about Straining Forward

Shift, Part 4: Shift Your Priorities Series

Contributed by James Jackson on Oct 28, 2020

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A look at five "one thing" statements in Scripture, and what they can teach us about what really matters

Good morning. Please turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 10. This morning will be a little different though, because instead of diving deep into one passage, we are actually going to be turning to several different passages of Scripture. So you might want to flex your fingers to get them limbered ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:38-42, Luke 18:18-23, Philippians 3:10-14

Denomination: Baptist

A Biblical Strategy For Success In The New Year

Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Jan 10, 2022

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Paul recognizing that the believers were facing great difficulties and knowing the problems created by a pandemic of persecution and present trials, he wanted to be an encouraging example for the church at Philippi. Here is His biblical strategy for success.

Subject: A Biblical Strategy For Success in the New Year Text: Philippians 3:7-14 Php 3:4 “Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:4-14, 1 Peter 5:8, 1 Corinthians 15:8-10, 2 Corinthians 11:5

Denomination: Methodist

Journey Up And Down The Mountain With Jesus

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Feb 27, 2003

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what Jesus transfiguration meant to him and his disciples - straight forward stuff so don’t expect anything flashy

March 2, 2003 Mark 9:2_9 After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. And there appeared before ...read more

Scripture: Mark 9:2-9

Denomination: Lutheran

Turning Your Pain Into Gain

Contributed by Bob Briggs on Apr 10, 2001

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The Prayer of Jabez gives us insight into how we don’t have to hang onto the past but press forward into the future.

Turning Your Pain into Gain Ballard Assembly Pastor Bob Briggs April 22, 2001 The top selling Christian book recently is “The Prayer of Jabez”. How many of you have read the book? It is written from the perspective of an obscure prayer found in 1 Chronicles 4. Everything written in ...read more

Scripture: James 4:2, 1 Chronicles 4:9-10

Denomination: Pentecostal

Preach The Word! Series

Contributed by Ray Pritchard on Sep 5, 2003

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This is no time for fear, no time for cowardice, and no time to quit. Instead, it’s a time to take a deep breath and march forward into battle.

Preach the Word! II Timothy 4:1-5 I’d like to begin by calling your attention to verses 3-4 of this passage. They describe a scene that seems amazingly contemporary: “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-5

Denomination: Independent/Bible

When God Stands Between You And Your Circumstances

Contributed by Elizabeth Mccaskill on Jul 23, 2003

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sometime in life we find ourselves hemmed into situations where we can not go forward and we cannot go backward.

God stands between us and our circumstances Sometimes in our life, God will allow us to be hemmed into situations where it is humanly impossible for us to get ourselves out of. In other words, sometime in life we find ourselves in situations where we cannot go forward and we cannot go backward. ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 14:14-21

Denomination: Methodist

What Must I Do To Be Saved

Contributed by John Baggett on Jul 25, 2003

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Straight Forward Salvation- Shows the greatness of Jesus and the simpleness of salvation. Simple enough for the unchurched and powerful enough for the long time Christian

What Must I Do To Be Saved Acts 16:27-34 Turn if you will to Acts 16 With all the religions from Buddhism to Islam to Christianity our world is seemingly covered in a cloud of confusion. When one finds the truth of Christianity... knowing that it is Christ... and Christ alone in which ...read more

Scripture: Acts 16:27-34, John 4:13-14

Denomination: Baptist

Healing Prayer

Contributed by Mark Haines on Nov 3, 2001

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A deductive exposition of the text leading individuals prompted by the Holy Spirit to accept an invitation to come forward to the altar rail and pray for healing.

Introduction: I’d like you to join me on a journey into a topic that’s filled with controversy and confusion. Today we will consider the idea of “Healing Prayer.” 1. What is “healing”? According to the words used in the New testament:  Healing means to MEND something that’s ...read more

Scripture: James 5:13-18

Denomination: Wesleyan

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Contributed by Tommy Hames on Oct 18, 2000

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Stop fretting over the prosperity of the wicked and look forward to what the Lord has in store for those who are called his children.

Psalm 37:1,2 - Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they soon shall be cut down like the grass, and wither as the herb. The word fret refers to the point just after a fire has been ignited when the flame is the hottest. Think about ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 37:1-9

Denomination: Baptist

Believers Look To The New Jerusalem Series

Contributed by Timm Meyer on Jun 4, 2003

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EASTER 6(C) - Believers look forward to the New Jerusalem because the gates are open and God’s glory shines in it.

BELIEVERS LOOK TO THE NEW JERUSALEM REVELATION 21:10—14, 22, 23 MAY 25, 2003 REVELATION 21:10-14, 22,23 10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11It shone with the glory of God, and ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 21:10-22

Denomination: Lutheran

Straight Talk About Sex Series

Contributed by Robert Marsh on Mar 18, 2005

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A straight forward sermon on sex, faithfulness, purity, masturbation, emotional affairs, and God’s desire to redeem our sex lives!

Straight Talk About Real Life Straight Talk About Sex For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. ~ I Thess. 4:3&7 We’ve been engaged in a series of discussions that we’ve entitled, ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7

Denomination: Baptist

Faith, Freedom, And The Future

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Aug 13, 2009

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God is always giving the gift of freedom. In revolutionary times, value the past, know that the present is incomplete, step forward in faith for the future.

God is always ready to give the gift of freedom. The one thing you can be sure that God is always about is freedom, freeing His people from the things which hold them back. In every time and place, our God is working to give the gift of freedom. When He does that, we call it a revolution. We see ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Transfiguration, An Apocalyptic Experience Series

Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 31, 2007

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The Transfiguration is apocalyptic in nature revealing not only the divinity of Jesus, but also looks forward to the time when all is in complete submission to him.

I hope this sermon is helpful to you in your studies. I have found William Lane’s commentary on Mark (new international commentary) very helpful and highly recommend it. There was a magician who was hired to do his act on a cruise ship. He had been there for several years and did the same act over ...read more

Scripture: Mark 9:1-13

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Sword Of The Spirit Series

Contributed by Robert Leroe on Nov 23, 2014

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The Sword of the Spirit is an offensive weapon for the forward progress of the Kingdom of God. We use it to convey the Good News and poke holes in the darkness.

“Take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,” Ephesians 6:17 Let’s talk a bit about swords…Today’s military bayonet is a multi-purpose knife affixed to the muzzle of one’s rifle, a last-resort weapon in close quarter combat. The only swords in ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:17

Denomination: Congregational

Kindred United Series

Contributed by Pastor Jeff Hughes on Dec 31, 2013

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A look backward at our church at failure, but a look forward to what our church can be with the first church in Acts 2 as a model

I have been pastoring this church, as either Resurrection Bible Church or as Victory Bible Church in its early form, since January 2, 2000. I have to say that it has been an interesting ride, with highs and lows and a lot of in between. Those of us that pastor rural churches pretty much have a ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:41-45

Denomination: Bible Church

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