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  • Grow Up PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Jan 19, 2024
    based on 3 ratings
     | 713 views

    This sermon encourages embracing humility, focusing on Christ for spiritual nourishment, and striving for continual growth in faith, guided by God's grace.

    Good morning, beloved brothers and sisters in Christ. It's a joy to be standing here with you today, basking under the light of God's grace, and sharing a word that He has laid on my heart. We gather here not by chance but by divine appointment, each one of us drawn together by the golden thread of ...read more

  • What Counts In Your Life

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 9, 2025
     | 77 views

    Jesus tells us that we should strive to enter by the narrow gate in answer to the question Lord are there few who are saved?

    I would like to focus on one verse today 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. I wonder what counts most in our lives? Story: The son of a wealthy man expected to receive a sports car for his graduation. Instead his Dad ...read more

  • Anniversary PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Nov 16, 2023
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,752 views

    Encourages Christians to embrace their past, live in the present, and strive for their future, guided by God's Word and His promised heavenly reward.

    Good morning, beloved family of God. I am thrilled to be standing before you today. We gather here, not as strangers, but as a family united by our faith. We are here to share in the love of our Heavenly Father and to seek His wisdom. Our Scripture passage today comes from the book of Philippians, ...read more

  • Chameleon - Imitate Christ Premium Sermon

    Contributed by PRO Premium on Oct 9, 2023
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,107 views

    This sermon emphasizes the importance of striving to imitate Jesus' unconditional and self-sacrificial love towards others in our actions and speech.

    As we draw this series to a close, we’re going to be talking about one of the most powerful forces, if not the most powerful force in the universe; Love. As believers and followers of Christ we are called to imitate Christ...and this includes learning to love like Christ loved. Oscar Wilde said, ...read more

  • Ambitious To Please God Series

    Contributed by Rod Macarthur on Mar 22, 2002
    based on 35 ratings
     | 4,747 views

    This lesson draws our attention to the focus and passion with which we strive to please God. 2nd in "Pleasing God" series.

    Ambitiously Pleasing Him Text: 2 Cor. 5:9 “…have as our ambition…” Theme: To emulate Jesus and Paul in pleasing God. Introduction: What do you think of an “ambitious man”? 1) one with an agenda to promote himself? 2) one who is eager to get on with it? 3) one who undertakes monumental ...read more

  • Partners In Pulling Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 15, 2002
    based on 101 ratings
     | 19,203 views

    Priscilla and Aquila had the most magical of marriages. It was a rare quality that all Christians couples should strive for. What was it?

    OPEN: A traveler was driving along one day and had an accident. He drove his car into a ditch in a desolate area. Luckily, a local farmer came by to help with his horse named Buddy. Well, the farmer hitched Buddy up to the car and yelled, "Pull, Nellie, pull!" Buddy didn’t move. Once more the ...read more

  • How Jesus Provides The Perfect Example For Every Husband

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 19 ratings
     | 4,244 views

    The bride of Christ is the church and He is the perfect example of what every husband should be, should do and should strive to accomplish.

    The bride of Christ is the church and He is the perfect example of what every husband should be, should do and should strive to accomplish. Paul writes, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water ...read more

  • No Sneezing For This Blessing

    Contributed by Daniel Johnson on Mar 18, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,622 views

    This sermon uses the story of Jacob fighting the angel of Yahweh to show how we as Christians should strive for God’s blessing.

    This morning we are going to look at the life of a man who was nothing more than a deceiver. We are going to examine his life, to learn how his life changed for the better. We are going to find out how Jacob received a blessing from God that completely changed his life. This morning I pray that ...read more

  • Finance In An Ethical Way Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 10, 2010
     | 3,003 views

    We must manifest our conversion by managing our financial systems so as to protect the most vulnerable and strive for the general good.

    Monday of Second Week in Easter April 12, 2010 The call to be born from above is a call to a repentance and revolution internal to the person. Once we accept the invitation to be one with the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit begins to transform us. Maybe this church won’t experience an ...read more

  • One Breath, One Flesh

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on May 4, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,091 views

    Pentecost 1986: We crave intimacy, and cannot live without it. It is not found in ceaseless work and striving, but in simply receiving grace.

    The peculiar thing about our times is that while we seem to be so free and easy, so relaxed about what used to be thought of as intimate, yet at the same time we are hung up, truly hung up, about intimacy. I say the strange thing about us in this last half of the 20th century is that on the one ...read more

  • What Did Jesus Do?

    Contributed by Daniel Austin on Feb 27, 2010
     | 3,340 views

    If we are to be conformed to the likeness of Christ then we must strive to follow His example in word and deed and do what Jesus did.

    What Did Jesus Do? Reading: Luke 4:14-30 Introduction The Gospel makes it clear that as followers of Christ we are “walking in newness of life”; we are raised up from the waters of baptism a new person, the old sinful being having been put to death. Paul writes in his letter to the Romans (Romans ...read more

  • Life Under The Sun

    Contributed by Paul Hammons on Mar 13, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 7,015 views

    Striving for the meaning in life can be frustrating. Often leading people to give in to many temptations in hopes of bringing some type of satisfaction.

    Life Under the Sun Vs Life In the Son; Ecclesiastes 1:12-2:11, I John 5:11,12 Do you remember the old Wendy’s commercial when the elderly women opens the hamburger bun and says, “Where’s the beef?” Many people feel that way about life. They find themselves sandwiched between birth and death, and, ...read more

  • The Perfect Example For Every Husband

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Oct 30, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,540 views

    The bride of Christ is the church and He is the perfect example of what every husband should be, should do, and should strive to accomplish.

    The Perfect Example for Every Husband: Ephesians 5:25-28 Introduction: The bride of Christ is the church and He is the perfect example of what every husband should be, should do, and should strive to accomplish. Paul writes, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave ...read more

  • Good For Something Series

    Contributed by John Raulerson on Dec 13, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,349 views

    Many Christians and churches today have become good for nothing as they have lost their influence. We should strive to be good for something.

    Series: Being the Body Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. I. THE SHAMEFUL STATE OF BEING GOOD FOR NOTHING A. No Longer ...read more

  • Giving Reasons For Hope, Not As An Enemy Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 2, 2017
     | 2,474 views

    "we will know the missionary joy of sharing life with God’s faithful people as we strive to light a fire in the heart of the world."

    Thursday of Thirteenth Week in Course Joy of the Gospel This incident on the Mount of Moriah, which Jewish tradition holds to later be the Temple Mount, is one of the critical Old Testament passages that looks forward to the New. Remember that St. John and St. Paul later would see the cross of ...read more