Sermons on Total Despair:

"The Entire Creation Groans"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Nov 23, 2009

A sermon for Advent.

Romans 8:18-25 “The Entire Creation Groans” By: Rev. Ken Sauer, Pastor of East Ridge United Methodist Church, Chattanooga, TN Several weeks ago, I went hiking along the Chickamauga Creek in Soddy Daisy. It’s an awesome trail, and it was a beautiful day! The sun was shining, there was just a ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:18-25

Denomination: United Methodist

Get Back On Your Feet...the Fight Is Not Over Yet

Contributed by Rainer Reddy on Dec 26, 2015

We are never defeated because Jesus is in our corner.

Text: 2 Corinthians 4: 8 – 9 : ” We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” Theme: Get back on your feet…the fight is not over yet! Introduction: - On the night of ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:8-9

Denomination: Charismatic

"a Message Of Hope"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Mar 25, 2020

A sermon about finding hope in God during the Corona Virus.

“A Message of Hope” Ezekiel 37:1-14 Are you on pins and needles with everything that is going on in this world? If so, you are not alone, and in many respects, this is a good thing. This pandemic is new to all of us and not something that we have ever experienced before. There is no ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 37:1-14

Denomination: United Methodist

Cinderella - And The King

Contributed by Eric Sellgren on Apr 2, 2001

Jesus became a Servant so that we might be transformed into His likeness. A SERMON FOR PALM SUNDAY.

Here`s a story you may have heard before! It`s about a young girl in rags, slaving away to keep thehouse clean for her step-mother and her two daughters. She cleans the grates, scrubs the floors, cleans the windows, makes up the fires, and never a word of thanks from anyone. One day the postman ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:37-40

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

The Tomb Speaks Of Death

Contributed by David Anderson on Apr 21, 2001

There are two types of Dying to God’s will

Good Friday Sermon “The Tomb Speaks of Death” Mark 14:32-36, 15:34 For the body of Jesus, Good Friday ends in a tomb. The lips of the tomb, the mouth through which the cold body of Jesus was passed, speaks to us. The tomb has two messages. One is of death, the other is of life beyond ...read more

Scripture: Luke 22:39-46, Mark 14:32-36

Denomination: Lutheran

Influence Series

Contributed by Russ Barksdale on Jul 22, 2015

A life surrendered to Jesus is a life that influences for Jesus

August 25 Influence Acts 3:1-10 A life that is surrendered to Jesus is a life that makes an impact for Jesus. Making an impakt for Jesus is: 1. As you go v.1 “where I live, work, and play.” 2. As you look for needs. vv.2-4 Most people are filled with fear and despair. 3. ...read more

Scripture: Acts 3:1-10

Denomination: Baptist

Father Into Thy Hands I Commend My Spirit`

Contributed by Melvin Maughmer, Jr. on Mar 20, 2008

The last 7 sayings of Christ. The 7th saying Jesus show us how we not only are to live but how we are to die - like a child falling asleep in his father’s arms.

The 7 Last saying of Christ “Father into Thy Hands I Commend My Spirit.” by District Elder M.L. Maughmer, Jr. Luke 23:44-47 -- "And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 23:46

Denomination: Apostolic

Hope Of The Resurrection Series

Contributed by Tim Smith on Sep 25, 2016

Hope. It’s absolutely essential to life.The hope the world offers is based on our wants, desires and conjectures, but the hope Scripture talks about is different. This hope is as an expectation based on the truth and promises of God.

The Power of the Resurrection: Hope 1 Peter 1:3-9 The school system in a large city had a program to help children keep up with their schoolwork during stays in the city's hospitals. One day, a teacher who was assigned to the program received a call asking her to visit a child. She took the child's ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-9

Denomination: Methodist

God Will Redeem Your Broken Situation

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Oct 10, 2024

When we fail in our eyes, in the eyes of others even, God doesn’t see failure. He sees redemption.

I spent the last week at camp with my wife. We were tasked to serve as cabin counselors during the week, Monday through Friday. Let’s just say we had a very interesting week. The experience was so brutal and difficult that we both left feeling defeated and upset. Chelsey and I aren’t parents, we ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:8-10, 2 Corinthians 1:18-22

Denomination: Salvation Army

The Willow Tree

Contributed by Richard Deem on Nov 2, 2006

All hope was gone. They went from their precious promised land to the heathen land of Babylon (modern day Iraq). They had been warned repeatedly by God through His prophets, yet they had turned a deaf ear!

"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 137:1-4

Denomination: Church Of God

The Simple Gifts Of Life Series

Contributed by Pat Damiani on Feb 9, 2009

6th in a series from Ecclesiastes. when viewed from God’s perpsective, even the simple gifts in life can give us joy.

I can still remember when we had a birthday party for Pam. Mary and I had bought her a small plastic slide, which we just knew that she and all her friends were going to love. So imagine our surprise when after we had taken the slide out of the box, all the kids had more fun playing with the empty ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 2:17-26

Denomination: Baptist

A Message In Names Series

Contributed by Thomas Swope on Aug 19, 2016

A study of the list of the descendants from Cain in chapter 4 and from Seth in chapter 5

Genesis 4: 16- 24 Genesis 5: 1 - 32 A Message In Names 16 Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his ...read more

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Spiritual Drainers

Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Apr 5, 2006

things that kill spiritual life

Intro: years ago in Tallassee Alabama I went with the men of the church to the train tracks to unload a box car of lumber for the new church building. When I got home I was physically drained, I fell into bed that night. We all have known times of physical exhaustion. In the spiritual realm there ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 42:5-11

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Unanswered Question

Contributed by Garry Lewis on Oct 10, 2001

commitment to your self worth

The unanswered question Jeremiah 8:6 What is a question? It is an expression of inquiry that invites or calls for a reply. 2. A subject or point open to controversy; an issue. 3. A difficult matter; a problem: a question of ethics. 4. A point or subject under discussion or consideration. 6. ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 8:6

Denomination: Baptist

Introduction To Book Of Lamentations - Jerusalem In Agony

Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Mar 26, 2010

Sin is not worth the priced tag!

Intro: 1. Swindoll, “At one time or another, all of us have enjoyed the fleeting pleasures of sin…Because, we are sinners by nature, we are prone to shove aside, the anguishing reality of the effects of compromise, so that, we can more thoroughly embrace the thrills of evil. Realizing ...read more

Scripture: Lamentations 1:1

Denomination: Baptist