Sermons on Straining Toward What Is Ahead:

What Is Sabbath?

Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 7, 2007

1. Sabbath is a principle. 2. Sabbath means losing control. 3. Sabbath means modeling the life of God.

I’m a fan of the television show "24". It has more fast-moving action packed into an hour than any show I have ever seen. The lead character, special agent Jack Bauer, is on the run practically the entire show. He has no sooner solved one crisis than another rises. The title "24" is taken from ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 4:9-11

Denomination: Methodist

Don't For Your Own Good.

Contributed by Howard Strickland on Mar 11, 2020

Don’t give yourself over to unusual appetites, but live modestly, don’t give yourself over to fleeting success stories, live by what has been proven to you through your scriptural upbringing.

Don’t—For Your Own Good Proverbs 23:1-18NLT “Don’t give yourself over to unusual appetites, but live modestly, don’t give yourself over to fleeting success stories, live by what has been proven to you through your scriptural upbringing.” P.H Proverbs 23:1-3NLT While dining with a ruler, pay ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:16-21, James 1:27

Denomination: Pentecostal

Fruitfulness (Part 3) Series

Contributed by Jefferson Williams on Jul 24, 2020

This fruit is the product of the Spirit’s work inside of us and not an outcome of trying, straining, groaning, or behavior modification on our part.

Dance Lessons: The Fruit of the Spirit (Part 3) Galatians 5:22-26 Pastor Jefferson M. Williams Chenoa Baptist Church 6-07-2020 SHHHHHHH! In the backyard at our house in Pontiac used to be an apple tree. All the neighbors hated it. It was bad enough during the day, but at night several ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26

Denomination: Baptist

What's New?

Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jan 3, 2011

What do you think of when you hear the word, “new”? Fresh, pure, clean? Another new year is upon us. How will we approach it? What will we do with it? Will it be a repeat of last year? Will we be a repeat of last year? Or will we experience newness? How c

WHAT’S NEW? INTRODUCTION: What do you think of when you hear the word, “new”? Fresh, pure, clean? Another new year is upon us. How will we approach it? What will we do with it? Will it be a repeat of last year? Will we be a repeat of last year? Or will we experience newness? How ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:22-24

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Ok Whats Next

Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on Sep 27, 2009

Did you get it? Are did you just come.

WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER A GREAT REVIVAL Luke 22:28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. 29And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; 30That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve ...read more

Scripture: Luke 22:28-34

Denomination: Baptist

New Beginnings PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 29, 2025

Trust God’s wisdom and timing in uncertainty, knowing He lovingly guides and provides what’s best, even when the path ahead is unclear.

Friends, some weeks feel like a maze, don’t they? You stand at the kitchen counter with a calendar in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other, and the questions outnumber the answers. Do I take this job? Should we make that move? Will this relationship heal? The compass spins, the path feels ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 29:11

Topics: Uncertainty, Hope

What’s In Your Cup?

Contributed by Barry O Johnson on Jan 29, 2025

This message looks at the believer and what he/she should be filled with.

Tun with me to 2 Corinthians 1. We are going to read the first part of verse 4. “[God] Who comforteth us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble.” In one of his messages last year, my brother read an illustration from “Barbara O’Neill Health Tricks” that ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:4, Matthew 12:3-35, Romans 2:13-14, Romans 12:1-2

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

A Great Awakening Sermon I - What It Will Take Series

Contributed by Charles Cunningham on Apr 29, 2020

In days of "doom and gloom", when there are two types of responders to the claims of Christ on the lives of those for whom Christ died - "for" and "against" - there must be a change of minds and hearts toward the things of God.

WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR A GREAT AWAKENING TO OCCUR IN “CHRISTIAN” AMERICA? Perhaps you recall a former presidential candidate who went around the country talking about “Two Americas” . . . and in that speech he chanted a litany of contrasts between “these and those”, “us ...read more

Overcoming Failures & Disappointments Series

Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 31, 2007

Where disappointments are concerned, we need to know that failure need not be fatal and success is never final.

References: Compiled by: Herman Abrahams (Pastor), Cornerstone Faith Ministries, P.O. Box 740, Westridge 7802, Rep. of South Africa. E-Mail: Mentorship2003@yahoo.co.uk Note to the reader: If you have been blessed with this sermon compilation, I would be honoured to receive an ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:13-14

Denomination: Charismatic

What Is Sin?

Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jun 15, 2003

The nature and source of sin and its cure.

INTRO.: ILLUS.: I Kings 8:33-39 The prayer of David shows a direct relationship between sin and suffering in Israel’s history. National calamity was the result of national sin. There is also a close relationship between sin and the temple because that was the place Israel was to come to in order to ...read more

Scripture: Romans 3:23

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

7 Hard And Difficult Things You Must Do To Stay Ahead As A Leader Series

Contributed by Dag Heward-Mills on Jan 5, 2011

By choosing hard and difficult things instead of nice and easy things you will make yourself a natural leader. Most people choose nice and easy things. That is why most people are on the broad and easy way that leads to Hell.

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. John 12:27 By choosing hard and difficult things instead of nice and easy things you will make yourself a natural leader. Most people choose nice and easy things. That is why ...read more

Scripture: John 12:27

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Marriage: What It Is And What It Isn't

Contributed by Denn Guptill on Sep 22, 2003

This sermon was written to clarify our view on same sex marriages in light of recent Canadian Court decisions .

If there is one issue that will define the summer of 2003 it will be the issue of same sex marriage. If you’ve been living under a rock on June 10 the Ontario Court of Appeal stated that Canada’s marriage laws are unconstitutionally heterosexist, and redefined it as: “The voluntary union for life ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:15-25

Denomination: Wesleyan

New Beginnings

Contributed by John Gullick on May 9, 2002

A sermon that looks at new beginnings and starting over. Really a new year message

New Year - As we travelled around on holiday we saw these signs here and there = You are now entering Southland district - Lakes district and so on. On the journey there came a point where we had left one district behind and had entered another. January is the month when it is drawn to our ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 1:26-28

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Outside The Comfort Zone

Contributed by Daryl Bahn on Dec 24, 2001

First Sunday after Christmas, Year A -- God had Mary and Joseph take Jesus down to Egypt. When God sometimes takes us out of our comfort zone, it is part of his gracious plan for us in Christ.

Here we are at the end of one year and ready to begin another. The readings for this morning are for the First Sunday after Christmas, and the Gospel tells us about the trip that Mary, Joseph, and Jesus took down to Egypt. It wasn’t a vacation. They weren’t just “going south for the winter.” They ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 2:11-23, Ephesians 5:15-17

Denomination: Lutheran

Our Purpose:14th Anniversary Service

Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Mar 14, 2003

This is the message we preached together as husband and wife pastors for our 14th Anniversary At The Church.

Our Purpose 3/2/2002 Numbers 13:36-14-4 Philippians 3:10-16 Rick Today we celebrate the reality that some fourteen years ago, God intervened in the life of this congregation in a definite manner with a specific purpose in mind. With God, nothing happens simply by chance, for even ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:10-16

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed