Sermons on Sweet Smelling:

How To Let God Incinerate Yesterday's Sin

Contributed by Mike Fogerson on Sep 2, 2010

Beyond the veil is the presence of God, and nothing else is allowed.

How to Let God Incinerate Yesterday’s Sin July 18, 2010 A Review 1 The secret of the Most Holy Place is that God’s presence is accessible to us now. 2 The secret of 1 Corinthians 13, love is the way to the Most Holy Place. B Tonight, the secret of unapproachable light. 1 The sanctuary ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 10:19-22

Denomination: Baptist

Are You Ready To Be Blessed Series

Contributed by Melvin Maughmer, Jr. on Jan 18, 2007

Everyone wants to be blessed, but are they ready to be blessed. Everyone wants to have stuff, but to be blessed is not about stuff but being equipped with power to be victorious.

“Are you ready to be Blessed” “The Jabbok Experience” Gen. 32:22-32 Are you ready to be blessed? This may seem like a rhetorical question because there isn’t anyone that doesn’t want to be blessed. If you don’t believe that just stop for a moment and listen around Christiandom. Everyone is ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:22-32

Denomination: Apostolic

Joyride - Pt. 4 - Check Your Oil!

Contributed by Steve Ely on Aug 24, 2013

We have the right to pursue happiness. However, we soon discover that happiness is fleeting. Joy is better, but how do you find, obtain and keep it?

Joyride - Pt. 4 – Check Your Oil I. Introduction Hold on. Close your eyes. Clinch your teeth and perhaps your cheeks. The roller coaster called life can spin you and turn you inside out. Jesus boards this ride of life and makes us one of the greatest promises next to salvation! We read that ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 1:8-9

Denomination: Pentecostal

"Christmas Gifts That Won't Break: The Gift Of Love"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Dec 3, 2015

A sermon about loving Christ through loving others.

"Christmas Gifts that Won't Break: The Gift of Love" Luke 2:15-20 On any given day in Chattanooga and surrounding areas such as East Ridge there are over 600 people living in tents in the woods or wherever they can set up camp. There are over 60 locations--called "tent cities" across our ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:15-20

Denomination: United Methodist

Gentleness Series

Contributed by Maurice Mccarthy on Nov 3, 2014

I begin with a show and tell on actual fruits that can teach us spiritual truths about the fruits of the Spirit, and then teach on gentleness.

The Fruit of the Spirit is Gentleness PPT 1 Series Title We began this series a few weeks ago and in our first message I talked about how God has chosen us to bear much fruit, and that we ought to bear the most fruit with the people we are around the most. Family, friends, coworkers. If you only ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-23

Denomination: Pentecostal

Living Sacrifice? Series

Contributed by Nickolas Kooi on Aug 30, 2017

Sacrifice can a foreign and strange thing to us. When looking at sacrifice, it is help to look at purpose, place, and presentation. When keeping this in mind, we can apply his point to our lives and see the richness of the imagery and truth.

Sacrifices were important and instrumental to the worship life of believers in the Old Testament. We might be unfamiliar with them, so it can helpful to look at them in detail. When talking about sacrifices, I find it helpful to talk about three things: purpose, place, and presentation. Purpose. ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:1-8

Denomination: Lutheran

We Need Each Other!

Contributed by The Rev Deniray Mueller on Apr 27, 2017

no matter who we feel about others, in the Kingdom of God, we need each other

A person has only one body, but it has many parts. Yes, there are many parts, but all those parts are still just one body. Christ is like that too. Some of us are Jews and some of us are not; some of us are slaves and some of us are free. But we were all baptized to become one body through one ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:22-26

Denomination: Episcopal

Three Things In Hell That Should Be In The Church

Contributed by Luther Sexton on Jun 13, 2018

Foundation aspects of Church found in Hell.

Three Things in Hell that should be in the Church Luke 16: 19-31 Introduction: I have preached a message about people who like to play around with their salvation and cut it close with God. Eventually, there are instances where those types of people cut it too close and don’t make it. The rich ...read more

Scripture: Luke 16:19-31

Denomination: Pentecostal

Emotions And Sensory Spirituality

Contributed by Dr. Craig Nelson on Jan 24, 2017

God never intended emotions or feelings to guide or reveal what is right or wrong. They are constantly changing, and they need to be controlled because they can take control of a person and lead them into serious error and deception.

Human emotions are deeply intertwined with the five basic senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, which human beings use to investigate and perceive the world around them. They are essential for processing, learning, perception, reasoning, problem-solving and adapting to the events of ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 3:14-17, 1 Timothy 8:1-8

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

God, Weather, And Animals Series

Contributed by Paul Clemente on Feb 15, 2021

Can human's knowledge (including Christians) about weather and animals pull them away from God?

As we noted last week, God spoke in Job Chapters 38-41. God challenged Job, and in a way God also challenged all Job’s friends, and in a way God challenges all people (including every person today), by asking questions which only God can truly answer! The point of God’s questioning is: No matter ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

The Precedence Of Excuses...

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 1, 2020

Consider they all with one consent... "THEY" established a pattern of making the offering of excuses as a norm to the Master's invitation. Consider: PRECEDENT.

THE PRECEDENCE OF EXCUSES By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com This is the third installment on the lessons of excuses. 1. The veneer of excuses. 2. Even the best offer excuses. 3. The precedence of excuses. EXCUSES ARE TOOLS OF IMCOMPETENCE USED TO BUILD BRIDGES TO NOWHERE AND ...read more

Scripture: Luke 14:18, Philippians 4:13, Luke 9:59-62

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Jesus Is The Bread Of Life

Contributed by The Rev Deniray Mueller on Aug 3, 2018

Jesus reminds us He is 'the bread of life' forever

“I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty” (John 6:24-35) We just heard Jesus say: “I am the Bread of Life.” (John 6:35) Jesus does not say, “I am the pickled pigs feet of life,” or “the head cheese of life,” or ...read more

Scripture: John 6:25-35, Ephesians 4:1-3

Denomination: Episcopal

Unbind Him

Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 19, 2025

Jesus calls the dead to life; the church removes the grave clothes. Revival begins when love sets the living truly free.

“Unbind Him and Let Him Go” The crowd gasped. What they saw could not be explained, only believed. Lazarus stood there blinking in the daylight of mercy, wrapped head to toe in the fabric of his own funeral. He was alive—but still bound. And Jesus said, “Unbind him, and let him go.” I love ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:4, John 11:43-44, John 5:28-29, Ephesians 1:19-20, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Sermon 1: The Perishable And The Permanent Series

Contributed by Paul Dayao on Nov 1, 2025

This sermon challenges us to stop laboring for temporary, perishable satisfactions and instead seek Jesus for the eternal life that He alone is sealed by God to give.

Introduction: The Morning After the Miracle Good morning. Have you ever experienced the "fade"? The "fade" is that feeling you get a few days, weeks, or months after you get the one thing you were sure would make you happy. * It's the "new car smell" that ...read more

Scripture: John 6:22-27

Denomination: Baptist

Jesus The Bread Of Life Series

Contributed by Revd Dr Ruwan Palapathwala on Jan 6, 2025

When God the Father draws us to Himself by reminding us of Home through the taste of Heaven's food, Jesus, the Bread of Life, we come to know that our Father is with us always

You heard me say last Sunday that our son left the nest in May and moved into his own house. We miss him very much at home. However, because he lives only about twelve minutes away, we do not experience the separation as much as we would have otherwise. About two times each week, he comes home in ...read more

Scripture: John 6:35-51, Psalm 34:1-8

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican