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Seek Ye First At Thanksgiving

Contributed by Carla Powell on Jan 2, 2002

Where do your priorities lie? Originally written as a Thanksgiving sermon, most of this sermon would be appropriate to challenge people to examine their priorities (e.g. beginning of the year, Lent, etc).

<P>Thanksgiving Eve Service - November 22, 2000 A Money magazine article several years ago told of the life of a woman who saved 80% of everything she earned, investing it all in the stock market and turned it into a $22 million fortune within 50 years. It sounds like an incredible success story, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:25-33

Denomination: Lutheran

Help!

Contributed by Shawn Drake on Nov 12, 2001

This sermon was preached concerning the direction of our church. It is a plea for workers to get busy for the Lord.

Sunday Evening November 11, 2001 Bel Aire Baptist Church HELP! Matthew 9:35-38 Introduction: 1. 10 months ago, the Personnel Committee, and I came to the church and said that it was time to bring on a full-time Youth Minister/Associate Pastor. I also remember saying a couple of times that ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 9:35-38

Denomination: Baptist

God Wants You Any Way You Are

Contributed by Richard Gardner on Jul 19, 2001

We can know the Bible front to back and still not personally know Jesus as Lord.It’s a personal relationship that binds us to Christ.

God wants you any way you are A few years ago we were studying the Book of Revelation in a church where I was pastoring. I have studied it before and taught it before, but now it has an all new impact and meaning. For a reason I will ...read more

Scripture: Romans 10:9-10

Denomination: Pentecostal

A New Set Of Clothes Series

Contributed by Donald Minshew on Jul 17, 2007

Describes the new attributes we begin to put on as believers in Christ

Counseling and leadership materials tell us that we need to sandwich negative information with positive reinforcement. Holy Spirit inspires Paul to do this same thing: foundational statement 3: 1-4(positive); areas of sinfulness that will cripple Christian living 3:5-9 (negative); now moves us ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:10-11

Denomination: Baptist

Dauntless Courage

Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Mar 15, 2007

Courage is required to combat our war on fear

PowerPoint Transitions + New Slide > Dissolve In _______________________________________________________ What is WAR - WAR - a conflict carried on by force of arms - WAR - a struggle - to carry on active hostility - Longest War - The Hundred Years War was a series of battles between England and ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 27:1-3

Denomination: Baptist

Holy Desperation

Contributed by Joe Burke on Jan 16, 2007

Power from on high!

Holy Desperation! "When you call me, when you go to pray to me, I will listen to you. When you look for me, you will find me. Yes, when you seek me with all your heart, you will find me with you, says the LORD, and I will change your lot. Jeremiah 29:12-14 At the present time in Afghanistan we ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 29:12-14

Denomination: Catholic

Principles For Investing In Eternity.

Contributed by Keith Peters on Jul 9, 2011

Discusses how to wisely invest during time for eternity.

PRINCIPLES FOR INVESTING YOUR LIFE MATT. 25:14-30 REFLECTION: I’ve spent a lot of time in Dr. Offices over these last few weeks. No matter which office I’m in (I’ve been in 6 or so) there are magazines that announce on their cover “Investment Strategies.” ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30

Denomination: Baptist

What Can God Do Through Me?

Contributed by Jim Butcher on Dec 6, 2011

A look at the calling God places on each of us as well as some of the excuses we use to try to avoid that calling.

GOD ONLY CALLS PREACHERS, RIGHT? We all have a calling from God. - Jeremiah 1:5. - NT references to call/jobs: Matthew 21:28; Mark 13:34; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Corinthians 16:15-16; Philippians 4:3. - Does God call only preachers? - There can be a call for someone to be a preacher, but a ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 1:4-10

Denomination: Baptist

Steps To Christian Maturity By Growing Through The Word!

Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 8, 2011

n this sermon outline we list the reasons and ways that we can be fruitful and receive the blessings of the Lord and some of the ways we can and will grow to be more like HIM.

STEPS TO CHRISTIAN MATURITY BY GROWING THROUGH THE WORD! In this sermon outline we list the reasons and ways that we can be fruitful and receive the blessings of the Lord and some of the ways we can and will grow to be more like HIM. 1 Pet 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 2:1-10

Assimilation: Making Insiders Out Of Outsiders Student Copy Series

Contributed by John Putty on Apr 7, 2011

A Lesson on Assimilation for the inner-core or leadership team. Also, you could share this lesson with the hospitality or greeting core. Please keep in mind that many parts of this lesson were taken from books, tapes, seminars. I quoted where possible

ASSIMILATION Rev. J. Kevin Putty, Presenter Matthew 28:19-20 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:19-20

Denomination: Assembly Of God

What Changed Zaccheus?

Contributed by Sajeev Painunkal, Sj on Oct 30, 2010

Jesus doesn't preach to Zaccheus. No moralising, no ridiculing. Just unconditional acceptance. That's all it took change him radically.

A popular story recounts a meeting that may have taken place at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago in 1923. There is debate whether the meeting in fact occurred, but what is not in question is the actual rise and fall of the men featured in the story, who were nine of the richest men in the world ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:1-10

Denomination: Catholic

Lessons In Apologetics #2: Rationalism & Fideism

Contributed by Frederick Meekins on Jul 8, 2010

Lessons In Apologetics #2: Rationalism & Fideism

The next epistemological methodology is rationalism. Of rationalism, Geisler writes, "Rationalism is characterized by its stress on the innate a priori ability of human reason to know truth. Basically, rationalists hold that what is knowable or demonstrable by human reason is true (29)." To the ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:5

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Advancement Of The Gospel

Contributed by Don Baggett on Sep 27, 2008

The Holy Spirit came and empowered the believers, who were praying in the upper room, and then things really started happening. The people who had become believers in Christ decided not to go back home, but to stay right there in Jerusalem where the acti

The book of Acts may be listed in your Bible as the “Acts of the Apostles,” but these titles are not part of the inspired text. These titles have been added a long time after the text was given to men by the inspiration of God. The same thing is true about chapter divisions, verse numbers, and ...read more

Scripture: Acts 8:1-40

Denomination: Baptist

Tips From The Truth Thru Testimony Series

Contributed by Larry Wolfe on Jul 25, 2009

Principles of testimony

Tips from the Truth for Testimony [Part II] When the Lord Jesus Christ made his special trip across the Lake of Galilee into Gentile territory, He was making one of the most significant moves of His three and one half year ministry, because, as soon as He accomplished this one thing, the ...read more

Scripture: Mark 5:1-20

Denomination: Independent/Bible

This Could Be The Start Of Something Big: Gifts Of Grace Series

Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Mar 24, 2010

What is a Grace Giver? A Grace-Giver is someone who owes you nothing, yet steps in, and gives you everything! Are you one?

This Could Be the Start of Something Big: Gifts of Grace 1 Peter 4:10 Romans 12:4-6 4 Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 4:10

Denomination: Church Of God