Sermons on Take Home:

Don't Take It It's Not Yours

Contributed by Melvin Maughmer, Jr. on Sep 2, 2003

The Devil wants you to be weighed down with a bunch of problems that don’t belong to you. Don’t take it it’s not yours.

Don’t Take It, It’s Not Yours Joshua 6: 18 & Chapter 7: 19 – 27 Focus Verse 7:21 Don’t take it its not yours! My mind began to go back to a game that we use to play back in B.V.G., that’s before video games called Hot Potato. Hot Potato was a game that you would sit in a circle or stand ...read more

Denomination: Apostolic

Taking The Resurrection Outside The Church Walls

Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 30, 2006

Easter message designed to help the church take the Good News of the resurrection to others.

Taking the Resurrection Outside the Church Walls. Various Scriptures April 16, 2006 Introduction Well, what do you know? It’s Easter. A Sunday School teacher was attempting to teach her young students the true meaning of Easter. "Why do we celebrate Easter?" she asked. When the children ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:3-8

Denomination: Wesleyan

Shove That Job - I'll Take It

Contributed by Mike Fogerson on Sep 29, 2011

You cannot watch a news program without hearing about record unemployment and job plans. Johnny Paycheck, “Take this job and shove it” is now “Shov that job - I’ll take it.” Your job is a big deal to God!

Introduction A You cannot watch a news program without hearing about record unemployment and job plans. 1 People want to work but can’t any jobs. a My dad telling me he could quit one job and go across the street to work the following day. b Johnny Paycheck, “Take this job and shove ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:18

Denomination: Baptist

What Will It Take To Bring You To Jesus?

Contributed by William D. Brown on Mar 7, 2008

Some time it takes a real wake up call to bring people to Jesus.

“What Will It Take to Bring You To Jesus?” 3/7/08 Sometimes it takes a real wake up call to get a persons attention, listen as I read today’s text as we read God talking to Israel. Deuteronomy 30: 15-18 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 30:15-18

Denomination: Baptist

Why Do We Take Communion?

Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 10, 2007

Many times we end up doing things for the wrong reasons I thought it would be a good time to explain why we take communion every week

A church had an unusual ritual every Sunday morning. • Before the church sang the Doxology, they would stand up, • everyone would turn to the right and face a blank white wall, • and they would sang. • Every Sunday they did this • Finally a visitor to the church was confused and asked, • “Why ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:20-33

Denomination: Christian Church

You Have To Take The First Step

Contributed by Peter Sapp on Jan 16, 2013

Just like the Israelite priests carrying the ark into the Jordan river, Christians must take the first step in faith to move forward with God's plan.

Joshua 3:1-17 Pray Did you ever notice that as people, we’re kind of obsessed with weight? We are always talking about how people in Hollywood are too skinny. She's so skinny she must have to jump around in the shower just to get wet. And even more than being obsessed with being skinny, ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 3:1-17

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

What It Takes To Be A Soldier (Veterans Day)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 6, 2022

Many folks are ignorant about the national holidays this country has set aside for us to observe. Veterans day is one of them.

If you ask some why we observe this day as a national holiday, they know it has something to do with the military, but they do not understand the significance of it. Illus: They remind me of a young man that took his girl friend to her first football game. They arrived at the game when the two ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

Take Up Your Cross Daily Series

Contributed by Pat Damiani on Aug 28, 2015

Being a disciple of Jesus is a matter of giving up that which is of little value in order to gain that which is of great value

In the movie, “A Knight’s Tale”, the main character, a commoner named William Thatcher, travels to Paris to a cathedral to attempt to prove his love for a noblewoman named Jocelyn. But Jocelyn turns the tables on him by asking William to do something to prove his love for her that ...read more

Scripture: Luke 9:23

Denomination: Baptist

Presenting Hands: Taking, Working, Giving Series

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jul 15, 2001

Follow the hands of Jacob, as they are involved in taking (because of his insecurity), in working for that which does not satisfy, but finally, in giving, as a result of their having wrestled with God. An appeal to struggle with God’s will.

Last week I began by giving you an eye test and an ear test. I wanted to help you discover that sometimes we don’t see what there is to see and we don’t hear what there is to hear. But God provides us vision and offers His word to help us with the “too much” in our world. Today I want to examine ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

You've Got What It Takes

Contributed by Kevin Higgins on Mar 19, 2006

Three steps to joining Christ on the adventure of a life.

Luke 3:21-38 You’ve Got What It Takes Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church March 19, 2006 Introduction What do you want to be when you grow up? Do you remember being asked that question when you were growing up? Some of you still ask me that question. A few weeks ago Mrs. Coffin asked me how tall I ...read more

Scripture: Luke 3:21-38

Denomination: Baptist

What It Takes To Hear From God Series

Contributed by Brian Atwood on Dec 21, 2005

The example of the shepherds who heard about the birth of Christ leads us on hearing from God.

What It Takes to Hear From God Part 4 of 4 in the series, "Christmas Calms Our Fears" Luke 2:1-20 (NLT) 1At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. 2(This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3All ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-20

Denomination: Baptist

God Takes Care Of His Own Series

Contributed by Troy Borst on May 2, 2020

God provides for those of us who are believers in Jesus Christ. God provides deliverance for us in this life and in the next. We who are believers in Jesus have everything that God promised in the last part of Obadiah.

MESSAGES FROM THE PROPHETS: God Takes Care of His Own OBADIAH 1-21 #6weeksintheprophets INTRODUCTION… Good Things Come in Small Packages (p) There is a phrase that we use that is mostly true I think, “Good things come in small packages.” The phrase means that something does not need to be big ...read more

Scripture: Obadiah 1:1-21

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Take Your Finger Off The Scale Series

Contributed by Thomas Swope on Mar 31, 2014

A study of the book of Romans chapter 3 verses 9 through 20

Romans 3: 9 – 20 Take Your Finger Off The Scale 9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. 10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is ...read more

Scripture: Romans 3:9-20

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Taking Life & God Seriously

Contributed by Thomas Bartlett on Jan 2, 2021

The nation of Israel watched God provide care for them and release from slavery yet God has to exhort them not to forget Him. How could they forget God after all He'd done? Well, in the same ways we forget Him too.

Taking Life & God Seriously Steele Creek Church Eastfield Dr. Tom Bartlett, 1-03-21 OUTLINE Deuteronomy 6:12 (NIV) “Be careful that you do not forget the LORD…” IN WHAT WAYS DID ISRAEL FORGET THE LORD? THEY FORGOT WHAT HE HAD ALREADY DONE Often, we fail to remember what God has already ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:12, Nehemiah 9:16-17, Jeremiah 23:27

Denomination: Other

What Does It Take To Be A Man Of God?

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Nov 10, 2023

A businessman read a little book entitled “Men of God.”

He was so moved that he was determined to secure copies for all of his employees. • He wired the publisher in Chicago: “Send 125 copies of ‘Men of God.’” • The publisher wired back, “Chicago is out of ‘Men of God” they are hard to find. Try Memphis they might have some.” We desperately need ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:1-12

Denomination: Baptist