Sermons on The Cross In The Ot:

Don't Sell Yourself Short

Contributed by Edward Frey on Feb 5, 2004

It is God’s grace that makes us what we are -- not the other way around.

Super bowl XXXVIII will kick off in just a few hours. One team will win. One team will lose. Somebody will come up short. And the focus will be on the winners. We live in a world of winners and losers. Effectiveness, results, and success are part of the playbook to the game of life. Even ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 1:4-10

Denomination: Lutheran

Hitting The Nail On The Head

Contributed by Keith Foskey on Mar 18, 2005

Apply an obscure OT story to today, using the various events in a parallel form.

“Hitting the Nail on the Head” Judges 4:4-9 OBJECTIVE: To apply this obscure OT story to today, using the various events in a parallel to today. INTRODUCTION: Illustration “The Story of Deborah, Barak and Jael” Constantly throughout the OT we find that Israel would fall out of favor with GOD and ...read more

Scripture: Judges 4:4-9

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

"Heeding God's Word”

Contributed by Keith Foskey on Mar 24, 2005

God is looking for people today who will put their trust in Him – and He will grant eternal life to all who place their trust in Him

“Heeding God’s Word” Jeremiah 39:18 INTRODUCTION: I believe that no ordinary man has ever had a more difficult commission than Jeremiah. In the day when the army of Babylon was at the gates of Jerusalem, it was his unpopular duty to counsel submission, declaring that the king of Babylon would ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 39:18

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Lessons From The Pit Series

Contributed by Denn Guptill on Jun 21, 2004

We’ve all been at the bottom of the Pit, here are lessons we can learn while we are there.

He looked up and all he could see was a circle of blue. He looked down and watched the mud squish between his toes. And he wondered how he had ended up at the bottom of a pit hated by the very people he wanted to save. His name was Jeremiah and he was not a bullfrog, no, he was a prophet. Not a ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 38:1-10

Denomination: Wesleyan

Elisha Series

Contributed by Billy Kryger on Jun 22, 2004

Series on Bible Characters

I. INTRODUCTION: A. Elijah at the end of the trail 1. A mighty prophet of God neared the close of his ministry. a. He challenged wicked King Ahab. b. He prayed with such power that he stopped the rain for six months! c. He became the second man in space—after Enoch. d. He was so important that he ...read more

Scripture: 1 Kings 19:19-21

Denomination: Baptist

Job- My Redeemer Series

Contributed by Alan Mccann on Jun 28, 2004

Job’s hope in the resurrection to come

JOB: MY REDEEMER JOB 19 VERSES 23-29 When the Berlin wall came down and when communism fell one of the amazing things that happened was that people had access to the files that the secret police had kept on them. For many people it made uncomfortable reading. People whom they trusted had betrayed ...read more

Scripture: Job 19:23-29

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

God Encounters: Isaiah Series

Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Jul 10, 2004

This is about Isaiah’s God encounter.

What comes to mind when I say, “In the year 2001”? 2001 was a year that changed the way we look at security. The WTC attack rocked our world. It had been 60 years. OKC was domestic. WTC ’93 failed. We were hit at home. Life is not the same. Threat level codes. Air marshals. Dep. of ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-8

Denomination: Wesleyan

Clothes Don't Make The Prophet

Contributed by Joe Mack Cherry on Jul 12, 2004

God has worked in unconventional ways and through unconventional people throughout history. Here’s a look at one and a modern application.

Clothes Don’t Make The Prophet I. Introduction A. God rarely works His will in a conventional way. (Isa. 55: 8) 1. O.T. examples a. He destroyed mankind with something they’d never seen, rain. b. Deut. 7: 7-8 c. The crumbling of the Walls of Jericho 2. N.T. ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

God Encounters: Jeremiah Series

Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Jul 17, 2004

This is about Jeremiah’s God encounter.

Too Young the Hero is a movie about 12 year old Calvin Graham who managed to enlist in the Navy during WWII. Read Jeremiah 1:4-10. Jeremiah was young. How young? We don’t know. The word translated “youth, child, boy” could mean an infant to a young man. I. God’s CALL. We typically think of ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 1:4-10

Denomination: Wesleyan

What If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

Contributed by Jimmy Giffin on Jul 19, 2004

If you knew you were going to die, could you plead your case before God just as Hezekiah did?

WHAT IF TOMORROW DOESN’T COME? Text: 2 Kings 20:1-5 King Hezekiah has just received some disturbing news. He was sick, and is told by the man of God he was going to die. These are words that none of us want to hear. Hezekiah had been boasting about how powerful he was, and then Israel was attacked ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 20:1-5

Denomination: Church Of God

God Encounters: Ezekiel (Religious Experience Vs. Religious Action) Series

Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Jul 24, 2004

This is about Ezekiel’s God encounter. It explores the difference between religious experience and religious action. Religious EXPERIENCE means nothing without ACTION.

Read Ezekiel 1:4-3:15. This is a bizarre vision. Not all God encounters are alike. We see here two things: Religious Experience (ch. 1) and Religious Action (chs. 2 & 3). What is the difference between the two? * Religious Experience is… In chapter 1, we see Ezekiel’s strange religious ...read more

Denomination: Wesleyan

A Look At Balaam

Contributed by Guy Glass on Aug 3, 2004

A Character Study on Balamm, the disobedient prophet.

UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS A look at Balaam INTRODUCTION: Balaam is a character who exhibits a purely human trait that some of us may very well have had, and even now struggle with, the willingness to do wrong if the price is right! Balaam was overcome with greed, and greed makes us do some ...read more

Scripture: Numbers 22:1-35

Denomination: Baptist

A Look At King Josiah

Contributed by Guy Glass on Aug 8, 2004

This is a short character study on King Josiah. What we will find out about him is that as good as a king as he was, he meddled later on, and as a result of one SINGULAR case of meddling, tragedy followed. We can NEVER be sure what the consequences of o

A LOOK AT KING JOSIAH A man who meddled with God Josiah began ruling over Judah when he was just eight years old. He came from a wicked line of men, but sought the Lord himself. Josiah was instrumental in bring the nation of Judah back from idolatry and to the Lord. He was also successful in ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Building For Your Own Demise -- A Look At Hamam

Contributed by Guy Glass on Aug 12, 2004

A look at the life of Haman and how this man was used to reveal a truth about God’s faithfulness.

Building for Your Own Demise A Look At Haman The book of Esther is a strange book to be included in the Scriptures. Most visible when one reads this book is the absence of the name of God from the entire writing. With this in mind , a few things come to mind: 1. At the time of the writing there ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Intiimacy With God Series

Contributed by Alan Mccann on Aug 18, 2004

How Job’s desire for intimacy with God remained even in times of suffering.

INTIMACY WITH GOD I read recently in a book the following: ‘Look at any Sunday morning congregation and what do you see? Tired women and bored men.’ There is, I believe, some truth in both of those descriptions. It is all too easy to become exhausted in the Christian life. The comment ‘my ...read more

Scripture: Job 29:1-6

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican