Sermons on The New Rule Of God:

Preparation For The New Year Series

Contributed by Rich Anderson on Jan 12, 2011

What is most important for us this New Year? The answer is found in Solomon’s words in Proverbs.

Each year, over 1 billion eyes from all over the world are focused on the sparkling Waterford Crystal Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball. At 11:59 p.m., the Ball begins its descent as millions of voices unite to count down the final seconds of the year, and celebrate the beginning of a new year full ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 17:24

Denomination: Christian Church

The Whole Good News Series

Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Jan 7, 2016

Jesus heals a man with an unclean spirit, Peter's mother-in-law, and a leper.

Mark 1:21-45 “The Whole Good News” INTRODUCTION What would be some of the greatest headlines that you’d like to read in 2016? • ISIS Defeated! • Surprise Resident Wins Powerball Lottery • War On Poverty Won! For the writer of the gospel of Mark the ...read more

Scripture: Mark 1:21-45

Denomination: Lutheran

The Good News Of Bread Series

Contributed by Mark Adams on Oct 23, 2015

Fourth in a series on Elisha. Often, God invites us to proclaim WHAT he will do, even if we have no idea HOW he will accomplish it. God's intervention in history ultimately causes a ripple of good effects for His people.

> SCENE ONE King and a Woman
 Famine - Not a natural one. Caused by Syrian seige.

 Donkey’s (unclean, undesirable) head for 2 Lbs of silver…who has that?
 “Dove’s Dung” … Ramen Noodles of the ancient world. (Wild Onions? Seed pods?). ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 7:1-2

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Good News - Rejected Series

Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Jan 15, 2013

Jesus' inaugural address is a bold proclamation that TODAY the Lord will move mightily in our lives and in our world.

Luke 4:14-30 “Good News—Rejected” INTRODUCTION On January 21, President Obama will deliver his inaugural address. He will give that address before and expected crowd of 700,000 people gathered around the capitol and millions of viewers watching the television broadcast. In ...read more

Scripture: Luke 4:14-30

Denomination: Lutheran

New Year Resolutions

Contributed by Mark Hall on Feb 9, 2013

Be resolved in your heart to make 2013 the year to be closer to Christ. I give my permission for this sermon to be used and copied as long as it is used to honor and glorify Jesus Christ.

OUR NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS I welcome all of you to our first Sunday of 2013 as we prepare for the New Year. For many, the New Year is a time of reflection on the past year and a time to make resolutions for the coming year. It’s a time to look back at things that worked in your life or perhaps did ...read more

Scripture: Luke 4:16-21

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Crossing Over The New

Contributed by Pablo Catala on Jul 6, 2019

Newness of life

A television program preceding the 1988 Winter Olympics featured blind skiers being trained for slalom skiing, impossible as that sounds. Paired with sighted skiers, the blind skiers were taught on the flats how to make right and left turns. When that was mastered, they were taken to the slalom ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 14:1-4

Denomination: Pentecostal

A New Age For Discovery

Contributed by Monty Newton on Feb 9, 2015

This is a good "time" to live into a New Age of Discovery!

Title: A New Age for Discovery Text: Psalm 111:2-6 Thesis: This is a good “time” to live into a New Age of Discovery. Introduction Last Sunday I mentioned that, from an old Earth perspective, we are living in the geological period that began 542 million years ago: • 542 ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 111:2-6

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

New Lifestyle Series

Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on May 15, 2023

Christ gives new life to everyone who comes to Him. He is the God of Eternal Life. He helps the habitual offenders to come out of their life struggles. He makes to live a habitually a new life. Certainly heavenly blessings are awaited.

TEXT: ROMANS 6:1-14 THEME: NEW LIFESTYLE Greetings: The Lord is good and His love endures forever. Introduction: I would like to deal today with this entire chapter of Roman 6. I want to leave with you three important aspects of our daily lives. We can be habitual offenders, we can habitually ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:1-14

Denomination: Methodist

The Good News, No News, Bad News Prophet Series

Contributed by Victor Yap on Mar 5, 2004

Moses, Pt. 14 of 15

THE GOOD NEWS, NO NEWS, BAD NEWS PROPHET (NUM 22:1-35; 25:6-9; 31:6-8) My sister who returned from Hong Kong in the mid-90s after a few years of work there brought home many VCDs and told about the street vendors in Hong Kong that sold original VCDs as well as pirated VCDs and illegal computer ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

The Good News, Bad News, No News Prophet Series

Contributed by Victor Yap on Dec 19, 2007

Moses, Pt. 14

THE GOOD NEWS, NO NEWS, BAD NEWS PROPHET (NUMBERS 22:1-35; 25:6-9; 31:6-8) My sister who returned from Hong Kong in the mid-90s after a few years of work there brought home many VCDs and told about the street vendors in Hong Kong that sold original VCDs as well as pirated VCDs and illegal computer ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

New Year, New Life, New Wine

Contributed by John Ong on Jan 15, 2018

We should not be drunk and indulging in worldly pleasures, instead we must soak in the Holy Spirit.

As we celebrate a new chapter of our lives, we hope for a lot of fortune and opportunities. Life as we know it is full of things that may lead us to wrong choices. These choices include our hope for meaningless fortune we wish and ungodly opportunities we want just to suffice our human desires. We ...read more

Scripture: John 2:1-11

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

New Clothes, New Name, New Hope

Contributed by Peter Fisher on Jan 6, 2021

the way Jesus changes us, with New Clothes, New Name, New Hope

? Introduction These readings are appropriate for the time of year, not just because they are talking about Jesus’ birth, but because they have lots of new things in them, and we all love getting new things at Christmas. I’m going to talk about new cloths, new names and new or at least ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 62:1-3, Isaiah 61:10-11, Luke 2:15-21

Denomination: Anglican

New Bodies, New Hope, New Resolve

Contributed by Bradley Boydston on Jul 14, 2002

We live now confident of a future in a resurrected body.

- - - - - - - Scripture references are from the New Living Translation. - - - - - - - I saw a noteworthy bumper sticker on a car Thursday afternoon. Actually the car I saw had about six unusual bumper stickers – but the one that grabbed by attention had the words BORN AGAIN in a fairly good size ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Denomination: *other

God's Good News For A Fake News Generation

Contributed by J Bernard Taylor on Jan 20, 2020

Fake news has become common in recent years. The Bible contains good news written to inform people about the goodness of God. How can we detect fake news and discover good news about God.

GOD'S GOOD NEWS FOR A FAKE NEWS GENERATION Introduction Fake news, which has become popular in recent years, is news or stories written especially to misinform or deceive readers. On the other hand, the Bible contains good news written to inform people about the goodness of God. ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 40:9-10

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

New Year! New You!

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Dec 29, 2022

A New Year's Day sermon playing off an idea from Narnia.

New Year! New You! Ephesians 3:20-21 January 1, 2023 One of my favorite Christians authors is C.S. Lewis. In part, because he wrote so many deep and profound books which are challenging, and also because he was able to write Christian fantasy books. One of them is a series of books, called The ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 3:20-21

Denomination: Baptist