Sermons on True Reform:

A Worshipping Community. Series

Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 18, 2006

Another in the purpose driven series: Worship @ the center.

John 4: 1-26. The act of Worship can take many forms from the numerous religions aound the world - Satan worship, pagan and new age worship of nature - the secular worshippers of money, power, sport, fashion and show biz and the many world religions. As we look around the globe we see that human ...read more

Scripture: John 4:1-26

Denomination: Baptist

Whose Kid Are You? Series

Contributed by David Welch on May 13, 2015

Message 14 from 1 John focusing on the identifying marks of God's children.

Whose Kid Are You? 1John 3:4-10 Intimate relationship with the God of light and love is the overriding subject of the Apostle John’s letter to Christians of all ages in all ages at all levels of spiritual maturity. He used words like “fellowship”, “abide in”, ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:4-10

Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

Love And Unity In The Community

Contributed by Mark Engler on Jan 2, 2015

The first century Christians at Rome struggled with unity in their Christian community, the church of today does too. If are to accomplish the mission of Christ, Christians must work together in unity as one mind, one heart.

Love and Unity in the Community Romans 14:1-15:13 INTRO: A man said: I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. I immediately ran over and said, “Stop! Don’t jump!” “Why shouldn’t I?” he said. I said, ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Potter's House

Contributed by Edward Mccrary on Apr 30, 2009

God the creator of all things provided Jeremiah this illustration of what He would do to the nation Israel and we can extract from it great truths of how God deals with us today.

The Potter’s House Jeremiah 18:1-6 God the creator of all things provided Jeremiah this illustration of what He would do to the nation Israel and we can extract from it great truths of how God deals with us today. As Jeremiah peers through a window into the potter’s house, he sees what the ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 18:1-6

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Pure And Unadulterated

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 21, 2011

It doesn't matter how active you are in ministry if you are teaching a distorted Gospel.

Some of you may remember my telling of an incident that took place in our Presbytery last fall. A woman pastor from the Netherlands was received into membership in our Presbytery even though she does not believe that Jesus is God, or in the atonement - that is, that the death of Jesus on the cross ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 2:18-29

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Flesh

Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 22, 2004

. Paul has already made it clear that there must be an inward change of heart and obedience to the law, and that mere external observances can never save a lost sinner. Now Paul proceeds to show how Abraham was pronounced righteous before he was circumc

THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PASSAGE: The flesh is a built-in law of failure, making it impossible for the natural man to please or serve God. It is a compulsive inner force inherited from man’s fall, which expresses itself in general and specific rebellion against God and His righteousness. The flesh can ...read more

Scripture: Romans 4:9-25

Denomination: Baptist

Corruption Occurs Everywhere Even In Church

Contributed by Michael Koplitz on Jun 1, 2021

The church is not invulnerable to the possibility of corruption. The church human leaders therefore corruption will exist. Learn to recognize it because then you can stop it.

The Pharisees started as a sect with a noble and perhaps a divine purpose. They were organized to resist the Hellenization of the Holy Land. The Seleucids wanted to change Galilee and Judah into a paradise of Greek Hellenism. The Pharisee sect was formed in 168 B.C.E. to combat this infringement on ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:14-21

Denomination: United Methodist

The Parable Of The New Cloth And New Wine Series

Contributed by Claude Alexander on Nov 17, 2019

Traditions and the word of God. Can traditions justify us before God.

The parable of the new cloth and new wine Matthew 9:14-17; Mark 2:18-22; Luke 5:33-39 A tradition is a long-established custom or belief passed on from one generation to another (Oxford). Because of that, many traditions are good and necessary. Paul speaks several times of some traditions in ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 9:14-17, Luke 5:33-39

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Why Women In Ministry

Contributed by Denn Guptill on Jul 28, 2019

This was in response to a question about 1 Timothy 2 and the Wesleyan Churches stand on women in ministry

Her name was Antoinette Brown and she would become a part of history. Antoinette was a committed abolitionist, a campaigner for temperance, and an advocate for women’s rights. Miss Brown was a popular lecturer at reform conventions nationwide and she also pastored a Congregational church in ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:8-14, Galatians 3:23-29

Denomination: Wesleyan

How To Experience A Turnaround

Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Mar 11, 2021

A Turnaround always begins with an individual. It begins with someone who looks at the familiar landscape but sees something different. Josiah led the nation into restoration.

Introduction: How to experience a turnaround in your life during a pandemic? How do you turn around a nation or a people bound for destruction? Israel, God’s chosen people had a greater prospect for success than any nation in history. Although the nation was small in size; weak in strength; and ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 34:20-33

Denomination: Methodist

No Longer A Slave Series

Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 25, 2017

1) The Position (Romans 6:17–22), 2) Practice (Romans 6:19), and 3) Promise (Romans 6:20-22) to those who are either slave to sin or to God.

It has been distressing being in the United States this past week and seeing reports of various public skirmishes. Officials in several states are calling for the removal of public monuments that have become controversial symbols of the Confederacy, driven by the national outcry over the violence ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:17-22

Denomination: Other

Does The Bible Tell Me So?

Contributed by Jerry La Pere on Oct 5, 2002

Practical Exegesis of 2 Timoth 3:16,17. Special emphasis on how the truthfulness of the Bible is under attack in Christian chuurches.

Does The Bible Tell Me So? First Preached at Broad Run Baptist Church 10/6/2002 Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16,17 KJV All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Denomination: Baptist

Live By Faith

Contributed by Scott Spencer on Jan 15, 2012

The Bible, however, teaches that faith is the key to everything for the Christian. By faith we come to Christ. By faith we live our Christian lives successfully. Without faith it is impossible to please God. In other words, faith is central for Christian

Romans 1:17 January 15, 2012 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: ''The righteous will live by faith." (Romans 1:17 NIV) It never ceases to amaze me just how gullible people are. Listen to some of the ...read more

Scripture: Romans 1:17

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Why Apostasy? Series

Contributed by C Vincent on Sep 22, 2009

Revealing some clues to apostates and the condition of the church in the end times

Why Apostasy? 20.09.09 am 2 Thessalonians 2 Key verse 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions, which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle. Today we will look at apostasy and how it will increase in the last days First of all, what is apostasy? Falling away, ...read more

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Freedom From Oppression

Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jun 7, 2011

If we yield to temptations, the devil will continually follow us; but if we put on the whole armor of God, and stand out against him, he will leave us. Let sinners then submit to God, and seek his grace and favor; resisting the devil. Our nearness to God

Opening illustration: In the annals of US advertising history, one of the most efficient slogans ever is the California milk producers’ two-word question, “Got milk?” With that phrase, the group captured almost everyone’s attention. In surveys, the slogan was recognized by ...read more

Scripture: James 4:7-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational