Sermons on Tombs Opened:

We Want Our Eyes To Be Open

Contributed by Mike Fogerson on May 20, 2014

When your eyes are hurting it seems like your whole body hurts.You don’t know how much you need, use a body part until you’re unable to use it. In the ancient world, blindness was a very common malady.

“We Want Our Eyes to Be Open” Matthew 20.29-34 February 16, 2014 Chester FBC Chester, IL * Dr. Mike Fogerson, Speaker Introduction: A This week, the American voice of the Olympics, Bob Costas, was absent from the airwaves due to a double eye infection. 1 He said, “"Bear ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 20:29-34

Denomination: Baptist

Break Open The Jar / Receive The Anointing

Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on May 25, 2013

We need to let (Point at Chest) this clay jar, this outer shell. this fleshly nature. our will to be broken. And when you do your life will be filled to overflowing with the sweet perfume of the Holy Spirit.

Are you waiting on God...? Or is God .... waiting on you? We have all heard Christians say: .... I'm just waiting on God ... I'm just waiting ... for my breakthrough. And Others...I don't know what God wants me to do. I haven't heard anything from him.... for the last six years. Well ... did ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 26:6-13, Luke 7:36-50, Mark 14:3-9, John 12:1-8

Denomination: Anglican

Which Door Do I Open? Series

Contributed by Stu Hodges on Jun 11, 2013

We only want to go through doors that God’s hand is opening.

Well we’re in this series called doors and we’re discovering that in many ways, life is all about the doors. It’s about the doors you go in and the doors you come out. It’s about the open doors and closed doors and sometimes its even all about the slammed doors. And ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:17

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Your Place To Give With Open Hands Series

Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Aug 21, 2016

God has a place for the unlikely, places where the Lord will direct us to GIVE. Let’s look quickly at seven unlikely and perhaps unexpected ways we can give: Unlikely places to give because your sins are forgiven.

UNLIKELY - Your Place to Give with Open Hands John 3:7-8 MsgB “So don’t be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be ‘born from above’—out of this world, so to speak. You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:1-10

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Open Letter To A Dear Friend And Pastor

Contributed by Howard Gunter on Jan 11, 2020

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Message/Devotion January 12, 2020 Hebrews 8:12 Open Letter to A DEAR FRIEND and PASTOR The Reading “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” Heb.8:12 Dear Pastor – Yes I said pastor! From where I sit, you have abandoned ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:11, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Hebrews 6:6, Romans 3:23

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

"doors Wide Open"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Jun 13, 2019

A sermon about the radical inclusive love of God.

“Doors Wide-Open” Acts 8:26-40 Last Sunday was Pentecost and we are told that 3,000 people joined the brand-new Church that day, and the numbers kept growing and growing and growing. And the Book of Acts is the story of the early Church and how it evolved from there. It’s an amazingly exciting ...read more

Scripture: Acts 8:26-40

Denomination: United Methodist

Tear Open The Heavens And Come Down

Contributed by Stephen Aram on Jul 1, 2019

Do you realize how much we need God to intervene in our world? The prophet Isaiah modeled for us a heart longing for God.

This morning we are going to look at a deeply heart-felt prayer from the Old Testament prophet, Isaiah. As I read it for you perhaps you’ll recognize that his longing for God to come and stir up God’s people of his day is a longing that many of us are also feeling deep down inside. And perhaps ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 64:1-12

Open My Eyes Oh Lord

Contributed by Lola Olanrewaju on Sep 1, 2018

If God can open our spiritual eyes to see from the inside out the beginning and the end of our situation we will know the right step to take and we will have more confident in Him and won’t have to worry much.

Am sure some of us will be wondering why we need God to open our eyes when we haven’t close them or when we are not blind. I believe as Christians God has given us physical eye to see in the physical realm and He can give us spiritual eyes to see in the spiritual realm . Ephesians 1:18 says “The ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 119:18, Ephesians 1:18

Denomination: Pentecostal

O Lord, Open My Lips

Contributed by Joel Hoyer on Nov 8, 2018

15th in a Lenten Series on Psalm 51

Psalm 51:15-17 4/1/18 (Easter) (Create in Me a Clean Heart #15) O Lord, Open My Lips Well, we started this series on Ash Wednesday, and oddly, Ash Wednesday this year fell on Valentine’s Day. And instead of taking your date to a restaurant, many of you came here and were blessed to hear once ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 51:15-17

Denomination: Lutheran

Let My Love Open The Door Series

Contributed by Pat Cook on Dec 5, 2011

The disciples were afraid. Sometimes we are too. Let Jesus in.

John 20:19-23 – Let My Love Open the Door So I’m told of a man who had been visiting a therapist because he had had a fear of monsters living under his bed. The man had been seeing this doctor for months, and every time he would come in, the doctor would ask, "Have you made any ...read more

Scripture: John 20:19-23

Denomination: Baptist

Man's Eyes Opened (Part I)

Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Feb 28, 2012

Jesus takes a man’s physical blindness and demonstrates the stages of spiritual insight and sight.

Tonight we cover part one of our study in John 9 concerning the opening of man’s eyes. Chapters 8 & 9 of John are still under the title, The Revelation of Jesus, The Light of Life. Man is spiritually blind, and our eyes need to be opened. The mission of Jesus is to open the eyes of ...read more

Scripture: John 9:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

Seven Ways To Open A Spiritual Door

Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Mar 6, 2012

Spiritual doors can be opened trough spiritual ways. SOmetimes prayer is not enough...

Acts 14:27 NKJV "They reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles." I. Preparation They ministered to the Lord and fasted" (Acts 13:2). Spiritual doors don't just open on their own accord. There is a spiritual element that must be recognized ...read more

Scripture: Acts 13:3-16

Denomination: Baptist

An Open Door, But Only A Little Strength Series

Contributed by Maurice Mccarthy on Mar 13, 2013

Continuing our series on doors this message is about open doors we face in life that require more strength than we seemingly have.

An Open Door, But Only a Little Strength Last week we began our series on open doors with the message entitled: "the door your grandpa opened." We talked about how God said he would judge some sins to the third and fourth generation, and we looked at several people where that happened: David, and ...read more

Scripture: Romans 3:8, Revelation 3:8

Denomination: Pentecostal

Peter Claver--Open To Black Suffering Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 3, 2011

Like Peter Claver, we can be means of helping others to escape the slavery of sin.

September 5, 2011 Testimony of the Saints Labor Day I sometimes ask my students what occupation God would put on his tax return, if He had to file one. That usually brings puzzled looks until I say 45-2093, farming. God’s original occupation on earth is planting a garden. In it he put a ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:4-15

Denomination: Catholic

Revelation- The Book Opened Pt2

Contributed by Howard Strickland on Sep 28, 2011

The second of a verse upon verse teaching from the book of Revelation. Make it relate with your own illustrations.

Revelation- the Book Opened Pt2 Revelation 1:12-20 12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 1:12-20

Denomination: Pentecostal