Sermons on The Ten Commandments:

It's His Day Series

Contributed by Bob Joyce on Nov 24, 2010

The third commandment tells us how to love God.

The Ten Commandments are principles for keeping free. In Exodus 20, these people have become free for the first time in 400 years, and God is telling them, "I gave you freedom. I made you free. Now let Me tell you how to keep it." So these are ten principles for individual, collective, and ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:8-11

Denomination: Baptist

What's In A Name? Series

Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Feb 7, 2003

Is there more to taking the Lord’s name in vain than with our speech?

INTRODUCTION • What’s in a name? How many of you when you were kids were told about how important it was for you not to tarnish the family name by doing something really stupid? • A Chinese friend of ours who we met in Macomb told us that in China when young people would get out of line with ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:7

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

No Other Gods Before Me! Series

Contributed by Eric Bain on Oct 14, 2007

This sermon looks very practically at what it means to have no other gods BEFORE God. It may just surprise you!

No Other gods Before Me! Exodus 20:1-3 © 2007 Eric Bain NOTE: This sermon is available in audio format @ www.sanctuary-church.com HOOK – You know over in West Sac there’s a new Wal-Mart Super Center… • And I know that some of you may be very much against Wal-Mart… you want to rage against the ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:1-3

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

God's Good Gift Of Sex (The Seventh Commandment) Series

Contributed by Timothy Peck on Jan 4, 2001

Our sexuality is a good gift from God, to be treasured, protected and enjoyed in the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman.

Most people in our culture today don’t often associate the word "God" with the word "sex". In fact, for most people, the only thing they think they know about God and sex is that God is against it. Often Christians are thought to be hung up about sex, accused of viewing the human body as dirty and ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:18, Matthew 5:27-30

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

10 Ways America Is Under Attack - Supreme Court - Commandments - Pledge

Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Jun 29, 2005

Our courts are slowly banning the 10 Commandments. Do they know they are breaking the first one, and stomping on our Christian heritage? Link included to Formatted Text version, handout, and PowerPoint Presentation.

10 Ways America Is Under Attack Exodus 20:1-17 America was again attacked this week, and in grander scale than on 9/11. Our brave soldiers in the Middle East are attacked daily, and we need to hold them up in prayer, but this week, it happened again…on our own soil…and this time, it was not by ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:1-17

Denomination: Baptist

What's In A Name (Pp) Series

Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Oct 19, 2007

There is more to taking the Lord’s name in vain that cursing

INTRODUCTION • SLIDE #1 • What’s in a name? How many of you when you were kids were told about how important it was for you not to tarnish the family name by doing something really stupid? • A Chinese friend of ours who we met in Macomb told us that in China when young people would get out of line ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:7

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Sabbath And The Environment Series

Contributed by Mike Wilkins on May 1, 2007

The Sabbath has an impact on our relationship with creation.

Sabbath and the Environment Earth Day, April 22, 2007 Genesis 1:1-2:3 Introduction – the Goodness of Sabbath keeping – poem Wendell Berry p.5 Sabbath is founded in God’s Creation Out of all Ten Commandments, the Sabbath is the only one that is connected to creation – we are to rest and keep ...read more

Denomination: *other

Radical Love: Prompts Radical Changes PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 2, 2023

To explore the concept of Radical Love, emphasizing its transformative power and its importance as the foundation of all commandments, urging us to love God, our neighbors, and even our enemies with a selfless, sacrificial love.

Good morning, church family! Today, we'll be taking a deep dive into a topic that is central to our faith, yet so challenging in practice - Radical Love. In her book, 'The Greatest Thing in the World', respected Christian author Amy Carmichael wrote, “You can give without loving, but you cannot ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 22:37-39

Topics: Great Commandment

The Faces Of Deception (The Ninth Commandment) Series

Contributed by Timothy Peck on Jan 4, 2001

Since truth exists we ought to seek the truth, tell the truth, live the truth, and share the truth with others.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." That’s what Sir Walter Scott said almost 200 years ago, and it’s just as true today as it was then. Yet that doesn’t stop most of us from lying, does it? The 1992 book The Day America Told the Truth found that 91% of us lie ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:20, Exodus 20:16

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Law Of God’s Land

Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Mar 15, 2011

Taking a look at God’s original laws - the laws from which all human laws have developed.

Have you ever heard of the U.S. Supremacy Clause? I’m sure most of you have, but if you’re anything like me, you may not know what it says -- or, its implications. The US Supremacy clause states: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States… (dot, dot, ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:1-22

Denomination: Lutheran

Honor To Whom Honor Is Due (The Fifth Commandment) Series

Contributed by Timothy Peck on Jan 4, 2001

God has established relationships of authority in our lives and we honor God by respecting these relationships of authority.

Our generation is more cynical about authority figures than any other generation in our nation’s history. There was a time in American life when we thought we could trust the major social institutions, but those times are long gone. At one time confidence in our federal government soared, but then ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:15, Exodus 20:12

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Celebrating God's Gift Of Life (The Sixth Commandment) Series

Contributed by Timothy Peck on Jan 4, 2001

Both physical and spiritual life are precious gifts from God, to be received joyfully, protected lawfully, and shared generously.

On April 20 of last year, Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold committed the worst act of school violence in American history. When the smoke had cleared and the last gunshot echoed, 14 people were dead, and 23 others were wounded. People have scrambled to explain what could ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

If You Know Better, Why Don't You Do Better?

Contributed by Raymond Watson on Oct 20, 2006

This sermon is to help people to understand that one of our purposes in life is to live in a way that shows that God is in the center of their lives.

If You Know Better, Why Don’t You Do Better? Luke 10:25-28 As we have been blessed to come to this first Sunday of the New Year we must remember that it has not been by our goodness that has brought us here, but it has been by the goodness of God that has brought us thus far. God brought us this ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:25-28

Denomination: Baptist

How To Handle Your Neighbor's Reputation Series

Contributed by Carl Allen on Nov 4, 2009

God says that we must never be guilty of lying on our neighbor thereby causing him to suffer. We are exhorted to always be truthful and absolutely honest when dealing with another person.

How to Handle Your Neighbor’s Reputation Exodus 20:16 Introduction As we continue to go through the Ten Commandments, we find ourselves at the 9th Commandment which has to do with controlling One’s tongue. A very important, but extremely difficult task. James tells us that the tongue cannot be ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:16

Denomination: Baptist

Revelation's Eternal Sign Series

Contributed by Normand Cote on Aug 24, 2001

To show how God’s Sabbath day applied in the beginning of time to the end of time and how the Sabbath centers around creation & worship.

Revelation’s Eternal Sign In early 1991, the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite sent back information to Earth that caused a sensation in scientific circles. This satellite had been hurled into space to peer into the depths of the universe. But what it eventually produced was far more ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:2-3, Exodus 20:8-10

Denomination: Adventist