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Faithful to the Finish
Peter's final call to a young and growing church
Grace and Glory
A short series through the highlights of 1 Peter
Entrusted
Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
I preached this message the Sunday before the 2008 elections on 11/4/2008
LEST WE FORGET GOD by George Crumbly Humphrey UMC 11/02/2008AM Psalm 9: 17 (This message was preached on the Sunday before the elections on 11/04/2008) Tuesday is a very important day. I had challenged each of you several months ago that you needed to do 3 things before the elections, 1.) ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 9:17
Denomination: Methodist
How are we who are Christians to walk in this world. Let us review what God’s word tells us in light of this today...
How then should We Walk? Eli Black was a brilliant businessman best know for two events in his life: He masterminded the multimillion dollar takeover of the United Fruit conglomerate, and he jumped to his death from the 42nd floor of the Pan Am building in New York City. In the book An American ...read more
Scripture: Romans 12:9-13
Denomination: Baptist
Part of series "Miracles in Matthew." Answers the the question, "why don’t we see miracles today?"
Every preacher has heard many varieties of this same question: “Why don’t we see miracles today like they saw in the Bible?” It’s a good question, especially since Jesus promised in John 14:12 that we could do greater things than those which He had done. Well, low and behold, the disciples ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 17:14-21
Denomination: Assembly Of God
Instruction on the handling of suffering falls short because it leaves us with the resounding question of why, and it is in this sermon we see four reasons that Paul gave on why we suffer.
CBS News anchor Dan Rather admits he was always fascinated by the sport of boxing, even though he was never good at it. “In boxing you’re on your own; there’s no place to hide,” he says. “At the end of the match only one boxer has his hand up. That’s it. He has no one to credit or to blame except ...read more
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:3-11
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
We Can Do This! 1) We have God’s promises 2) We are God’s people
In our voters’ meeting last Sunday we passed a motion which, Lord willing, should speed up the pace of our building program considerably. Now instead of saving little by little for the next ten or fifteen years before being able to build the grand plan you’ve seen leaning against the ...read more
Scripture: 1 Kings 17:7-16
Denomination: Lutheran
the church has been conflicted for centuries whether we should make oaths or not. What does this passage teach us about oaths?
Should We Make Oaths? Matthew 5:33-37 This passage is another demonstration of the problem with the teaching of the Scribes and Pharisees. As we have noticed throughout the study, the failure of the Pharisees was more than a failure to practice what they preached. The problem is that they were ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 5:33-37
Denomination: Independent/Bible
The first in a 4-part stewardship series. This week explores the stewardship of our worship
September 29, 2024 Rev. Mary Erickson Hope Lutheran Church Deut. 5:12-15; Psalm 84; Luke 11:1-13 We Lift Our Voices Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. The theme for our fall stewardship emphasis comes from the hymn “We Are an ...read more
Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:12-15, Luke 11:1-13
Message discusses what this practice is about and who is invited to the Lord’s Table, particularly from a Weslyean perspective.
(Thanks to Bob Hostetler for ideas for this message. I’ve added a Methodist twist to the message. Powerpoint and audience outline available). A little girl asked her mother, “Mommy, why do you cut the ends off the meat before you cook it?” The girl’s mother told her that she thought it added ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-29, 1 Corinthians 11:1-52
Imagine if a governing authority told you, you must travel on January 1 – no exceptions. Let’s say you were given a one-way plane ticket where you can travel first class. Immediately you are excited but in the midst of your packing you pause to ask, “Where am I going?”
Imagine if a governing authority told you, you must travel on January 1 – no exceptions. Let’s say you were given a one-way plane ticket where you can travel first class. Immediately you are excited but in the midst of your packing you pause to ask, “Where am I going?” If your free ticket entitles ...read more
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10
True gratitude is not dependent on circumstances but is a daily response to God’s faithfulness, shaping our hearts and sustaining us through every season.
Friends, some weeks feel like a kaleidoscope of errands and emotions—school drop-offs and late invoices, texts we forgot to answer, headlines we wish we hadn’t read. Yet right in the middle of muddy shoes by the door, burnt toast on the counter, and the ache we can’t name, there is a whisper from ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:18
Topics: Thankfulness, Gratitude
Only personal, significant contact with our risen Lord brings about true faith and obedience. All else is only ritual, and religious rhetoric. We MUST see Jesus!
Although it seems in my own experience that the account of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus is primarily used when preaching during the Easter season, I am sure that through the years it has been a favorite passage for many preachers, as well as lay students of the scriptures. This ...read more
Scripture: Luke 24:13-35
Denomination: Orthodox
God’s supernatural work is more wonderful than we would dare imagine.
Introduction For all who have ached to serve God and see his kingdom advance, we must surely appreciate Oswald Smith, standing before an examining board in 1920. One dream dominated his heart – to be a missionary for Jesus. Over and over he had prayed, “Lord, I want to go and tell people of you. ...read more
Scripture: John 1:19-34
Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed
Did you know that you have a ministry calling? Paul is not writing to a group of pastors but to a church. Do you know what your ministry calling is as a member of the Body of Christ? Do you know what to expect as you go out to minister?
4:1 Therefore, since we have this ministry, Bernard L. Brown, Jr., president of the Kennestone Regional Health Care System in the state of Georgia once worked in a hospital where a patient knocked over a cup of water, which spilled on the floor beside the patient’s bed. The patient was ...read more
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
If our perspective was focused more on “We” instead of “Me”, this world would be a better place.
I hope that everyone’s year has started off in the right direction. One of the best pathways to take into the New Year is looking at everything through the eyes of God. It would certainly change our attitudes and our perspective on life. If our perspective was focused more on “We” instead of ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:23-33, 2 Corinthians 5:20
Jesus said we can say to the mountain "Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea" if we don’t doubt but believe those things which we say shall come to pass. It’s time to start believing those things that we say.
Believing Those Things That We Say INTRO - We are still talking about becoming the church. We learned that it is time to stop playing church and start being the church. As the church we are Mount Sion. We are that spiritual place and that holy place in which God dwells because the Spirit of ...read more
Scripture: Mark 11:22-26
Denomination: Charismatic
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