Sermons on Turn Around:

Turning The Tables Series

Contributed by Brian Williams on Mar 18, 2025

What do you do when you witness this type of scheming and manipulation in the workplace and even in the family? As many here have testified, it is better to walk in godly integrity and let God vindicate you!

In these trying times in our lives, will our desperation drive our decisions or will we grow in our faith and be guided by God? We saw that because of God’s goodness and grace, even though Leah and Rachel were the battling brides, God accomplished what He set out to do in fulfilling His promises ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 30:25-43

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Turn On The Light Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Apr 5, 2021

The famous saying, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness, applies to our subject. There is only one way to overcome and defeat the darkness of sin and ignorance, and that is by turning on the light of the lamp of God. The Bible alone can give us the light we need for guidance.

Almost everyone knows of Lazarus, the man whose name has become immortal because of his experience of being raised from the bondage and darkness of death to the liberty and light of life. Few people are conscious, however, of the Jewish woman by the name of Lazarus. Her poem is engraved on the ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 119:105

Turning Toward PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Feb 16, 2024

This sermon encourages us to live a Kingdom life, focusing on Christ as our faith, doctrine, law, and hope, and recommitting to Kingdom values.

Good morning, beloved family in Christ. It is once again a joy and a privilege to stand before you today, not because of any merit of my own, but because of the grace that has been so lavishly poured out upon us by our loving Heavenly Father. It's a grace that calls us together, not as strangers or ...read more

Scripture: Mark 1:9-15

Topics: Kingdom, Turning

Our Turning Point

Contributed by Jason Jones on Jun 10, 2024

We must determine what our commitment will be financially in a time of scarcity in view of the ministry we seek to have.

Background to passage: The Corinthian church had been corrected for disunity, pride, immorality, suing each other, their understanding of marriage, their understanding of love, their understanding of spiritual gifts, and their understanding of the resurrection. There was also a “severe letter” that ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 9:13

Denomination: Baptist

Acceptance And Rejection

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Dec 25, 2007

We know what both acceptance and rejection feel like. What must God feel at our rejection of Him? In Jesus He turns around our rejection into His acceptance of us. We can accept our acceptance.

“He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.” Do you have experience with both acceptance and rejection? I imagine you do. No one is so fortunate as to have had everything he wants, and so we have all experienced rejection. And no one is so hard-up that she has been ...read more

Scripture: John 1:1-18

Denomination: Baptist

Turning Resolutions, Into "Realities"

Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Jan 2, 2013

Its not our circumstances that need to change, but our mindset, our way of thinking, Because when it does, changed circumstances will be the result of it! God is not moved, nor will He ever be affected by our circumstances,

Turning resolutions, into realities We’ll here we are again, 363 days since the last time we were looking forward to going into the new year, A lot has changed on the worlds stage this year, hurricanes-record drought-foreign leaders, even our own country continues to change on a daily ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 5:6-7

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Fool Around And Find Out

Contributed by Wayne Lawson on Feb 24, 2025

Pharaoh had been warned ten times already to let God’s people go, yet by sending his army after Israel, Pharaoh revealed that he still had not learned.

TITLE: FOOL AROUND AND FIND OUT SCRIPTURE: EXODUS 5:2 / EXODUS 15:1 I want to lift as a thought this morning from this text – FOOL AROUND AND FIND OUT. We hear the words from EXODUS and whether we like it or not, fragments of clips begin to play in our imagination. For some of us the scenes ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 5:2, Exodus 15:1

Denomination: Baptist

The Second Time Around-2

Contributed by Byron Sherman on Dec 14, 2001

2 of 2. Jonah was given a second chance to bring about God’s desire in Nineveh. God can use rescued servants to achieve His will among mankind. But what can be achieved thru a second chance? Extensions are granted to wayward servant’s for...

THE SECOND TIME AROUND—Part II—Jonah 3:1-10 Jonah was given a second chance to bring about God’s desire in Nineveh. God can use rescued servants to achieve His will among mankind. What can be achieved thru a second chance? 5 reasons God grants extensions to wayward servants are... 1. ...read more

Scripture: Jonah 3:1-10

Denomination: Baptist

Turning Weeping To Joy

Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Apr 26, 2011

Reasons why our weeping can always be turned to joy.

A young couple began attending a midwest church. They had been saved only about 8 months when they announced that they needed prayer; they had experienced several miscarriages and had just discovered they were with child again. The congregation responded. And the young couple had the most ...read more

Scripture: John 20:11-18

Denomination: Lutheran

He Looked Around At Everything

Contributed by Stephen Robinson on Apr 4, 2009

The events of Holy Week and Easter were no accident.

Intro – The triumphal entry Jesus comes into town, riding on the back of donkey. There are two distinct groups who make his presence felt. There are the Northerners who have travelled with Jesus. The Galileans, including his disciples, with their provincial accents. This group have had exposure ...read more

Scripture: Mark 11:1-11

Hanging Around With Dogs And Pigs

Contributed by Keith Tankersley on Jul 3, 2009

We judge too quickly in today’s society. This message looks at that great message Jesus preached.

“Hanging around with Dogs & Pigs” Matthew 7:1-6 Theme; underlying concept that of “Judgment”. Jesus proceeds with the teaching, and then puts it in different ways throughout the rest of the chapter. Look @ connection between Cp. 6&7 Lets review what Jesus has taught thus ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 7:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

Ring Around The Myrtle Bush Series

Contributed by Thomas Swope on Apr 30, 2010

A study of chapter 1 verses 1 through 20

Zechariah 1: 1 – 20 Ring around the Myrtle Bush 1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, 2 “The LORD has been very angry with your fathers. 3 Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of ...read more

Scripture: Zechariah 1:1-20

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Standing Around Looking Cool Series

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jul 26, 2003

When we feel insecure, we back off from situations. But when the Holy Spirit comes, there is passion, there is witness.

Is everybody cool? Is everybody cool? I am not referring to the temperature in the building, but to the climate in your soul! Are you cool? “Cool” is an all-purpose word, used to describe a certain attitude. Instead of defining it, let me illustrate it. I was attending a repast at a family ...read more

Scripture: Acts 1:6-11

Denomination: Baptist

Just Around The Corner – Is Victory!

Contributed by John Gaston on May 28, 2018

You’re PREDESTINED TO GLORY! You have a future so bright, so awesome, so wonderful that your mind can’t even conceive it! God has put his overcoming nature within us; we are going to win!

JUST AROUND THE CORNER – IS VICTORY! 1 John 5:4-5 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR 1. One day a big Hulk of a guy got onto a bus. Standing 6'8" tall and built like a wrestler, with arms hanging down to the ground, he glared at the driver and said, "Big John doesn’t pay!" 2. Naturally, the bus ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 5:4-5

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Life Around The Crystal Sea

Contributed by Troy Borst on Mar 31, 2016

Funeral Sermon for a Believer who loved fishing

**** FUNERAL SCRIPTURE READINGS Job 1:21 and Job said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised." Psalm 90:1-5 Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. 2 Before the ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 4:5-6

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ