Sermons on Supreme Sacrifice:

Of Offerings And Relationships Series

Contributed by Greg Nance on Feb 12, 2012

Cain and Abel’s story demonstrates the power of offerings to reveal relationships and invite or reject God’s greatest blessings.

(Thanks to Dr. Roger Thomas for ideas for this lesson from his sermon on Genesis 4: "I Did it My Way") We began a series on offerings, sacrifices and God’s blessings last week. This morning we will look at the first offerings mentioned in scripture and how things turned out with that. Genesis 4 ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 4:1-17

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Offerings: Laying Down Our Lives

Contributed by Greg Nance on Feb 25, 2012

Jesus is the ultimate offering. Do we receive and accept God's offering to us? Just imagine, God who requires spotless offerings gave us the very best.

Offerings: Laying Down Our Lives (From illustrations) On Wednesday, January 13, 1982, an Air Florida Boeing 737 jet left the National Airport in Washington, D.C., during severely cold weather. Moments later it hit the 14th Street Bridge and crashed into the icy waters of the Potomac River. This ...read more

Scripture: Romans 5:6-11

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

What Is Church? The Essential Business Series

Contributed by Daren Mitchell on Nov 29, 2012

Listen to the words of Jesus. “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. “ Our Savior defines for u

Last week we introduced the question, “What is church?” and the answer last week was, “the church is a people group.” This week we are continuing to ask the same question, “What is church?” but this week we add to the answer, “it’s a people group ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:9-13

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

A Simple, Difficult And Necessary Question; A Christmas Reflection

Contributed by Daren Mitchell on Dec 26, 2012

It’s Spiritually necessary for us to contemplate our journey with God and ask one simple question with huge implications. “Have I sold out my life for Jesus?”

I enjoy a Christmas Eve service. I find it ironic though that most of us perceive this service as being a quiet and reflective time. Of course Christmas is the celebration of Jesus’ birthday, so it’s great we have candles, but, don’t you find it kind of odd that we celebrate his ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Generous Savior Series

Contributed by Ryan Akers on Apr 6, 2012

Most people might like to consider themselves generous people, but the reality is we are only generous some of the time and selfish most of the time. If we want to learn what true generosity looks like then we need to look to the God who not only created

Generous Part 1: Savior I want to begin this message with a question. What is the most generous thing you have ever done for someone? I mean what is one thing that you did that was so big that it made you sit back and think, man I’m a good generous person? THAT was generous. For each of us ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:6-8

Denomination: Wesleyan

One Cry Series

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 15, 2012

Jesus cry, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me!” is a desperate cry of loneliness. I believe this was the worst and the most horrible moment of the crucifixion for Jesus. When sin invaded His life and the Father walked away! He felt totally alone! H

Series: One Thing Illustration: Years ago the movie “City Slickers” came out and there is a scene in the movie where one old cowboy and a city slicker are discussing, what is the main focus of life. In other words “What is the meaning of life?” and the old cowboy holds his finger up and says, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:33-39

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Becoming A New Testament Believer

Contributed by Howard Strickland on Sep 19, 2010

What does it mean to be a New Testament believer? Most, sit in Church every week with their mouths closed, maybe, maintaining a facade of respectability. Moreover, that might be our problem, most think and act as though praise and worship is about coming

Text: Psalm 150:1-6 Becoming a New Testament Believer Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary;praise him in his mighty heaven! 2 Praise him for his mighty works; praise his unequaled greatness! 3 Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn; praise him with the lyre and harp! 4 Praise him ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 150:1-6

Denomination: Pentecostal

Loving The Church When It Hurts

Contributed by David Scudder on Sep 27, 2010

The command to love each other tends to bring up images of church members smiling and having fun together. We may think of joyful worship, relaxing picnics, or even exciting Bible studies, but what about conflicts and misunderstandings? What about persecu

Purpose: To show that loving believers requires determination and hard work. Aim: I want the listener to decide to love the body of Christ no matter what. INTRODUCTION: The Bible talks a lot about loving other believers in Christ’s body, the church. Here is a sample: Listen to Jesus: John ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Outward Appearances Series

Contributed by Bobby Stults on Oct 30, 2010

Outward appearances were the focus of the religious leaders, but Jesus taught a different teaching...

Luke 21:1-4 Outward Appearances October 27, 2010  Set the stage: To fully understand what is being taught in v.1-4 of chapter 21 we must remember what we learned in Chapter 20. So let’s do a bit of a review of sorts to reacclimate ourselves with what Jesus is teaching in Chapter ...read more

Scripture: Luke 21:1-4

Denomination: Baptist

The Plan To Betray Jesus Series

Contributed by Bobby Stults on Nov 17, 2010

The plan to kill Jesus was hatched by Judas and the religious leaders, but they were not the true enemy...

Luke 21:37 – 22:6 Plan to betray Jesus November 10, 2010  Set the stage: Since He entered the city in chapter 19 to the cheers and praise of thousands, Jesus has been doing 2 things constantly. Over these final few days of His public ministry, Jesus has constantly taught the people in ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Remembering 9/11

Contributed by Jerry Flury on Sep 11, 2011

Today Across America, America remembers the attack against her on September 11, 2001. It is good for us to remember the events of 911. We should never forget what took place on 911. And we should never forget the lessons learned by these events.

REMEMBER 9/11 Joshua 4:1-7 INTRODUCTION: Today Across America, America remembers. America remembers the events of September 11, 2001 when our seemingly inviolable security was shattered as nearly 3000 people from 90 countries perished from terrorist attacks upon our soil. It is good for us to ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 4:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

A Mother’s Honor

Contributed by Byron Sherman on May 9, 2010

The 5th commandment instructed the children of Israel of the importance of honoring their mothers. God’s people are to honor their mothers. But Why? 4 reasons our mothers should be honored....Not just today, but every day!

A MOTHER’s HONOR—Exodus 20:12 Attention: Bob a Tight-wad/Developer-Landlord whose Mother worked for years cleaning office buildings/ Bob tells Jerry—‘I’ve lived 35yrs. seeing those people making my mother slave away from dusk till dawn—3rd shift. I got tired of it, so I bought the ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:12

Denomination: Baptist

All For The Love Of Jesus

Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 14, 2010

This message investigates the act of Mary's washing of Jesus' feet to show what an awesome act of worship it was, and the significance of it.

All For The Love Of Jesus By Rev. Donnie L. Martin Text: John 12:1-9 I. AN ACT OF SACRIFICE A. Mary Expended Great Cost. B. Mary Experienced Grievous Criticism. II. AN ACT OF SUBMISSIVENESS A. Mary Demonstrated Great Humility. B. Mary Deemed Jesus Worthy Of Great Honor. III. AN ACT OF ...read more

Scripture: John 12:1-9

Denomination: Baptist

A Tree For The Healing Of The Nations

Contributed by Herman E. Wesley Iii on Sep 15, 2010

This section of scripture assigned to me tonight describes what could be called the “new Eden.” What the first Garden of Eden was supposed to be is fulfilled here. What Adam and Eve would have had if they had not fallen is what is, here, given to God’s pe

MAGIC CITY LECTURESHIP Evangelist Herman E. Wesley III A Tree for the Healing of the Nations Revelation 22:1-2 / Acts 10:34-40 PRELIMINARIES In the wonderful, redemptive and powerful name of Jesus, I am glad to be here in Birmingham, Alabama tonight, and I am glad to have been invited, after all ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 22:1-2

The Celebration Of The Wedding Of The Lamb Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 6, 2011

The New Mass gives us an opportunity to show to the world the earthly celebration of the heavenly banquet--the wedding of the Lamb and His Bride.

33rd Sunday in Course 13 November 2011 Spirit of the Liturgy Stewart the Steward was patting himself on the back. His boss, a hard man without an ounce of patience or forgiveness, was returning today from a long business trip, during which he had bought and sold several companies. In the course ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30

Denomination: Catholic