Sermons on What Is The Soul:

What Is The Church?

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jul 16, 2023

A town gathering and a few word pictures help us understand what is meant by the word church.

What is the church? A Gathering The early church borrowed a Greek term, ?????s?a (ekklésia), meaning a gathering of citizens. Thus we call the study of the church ecclesiology. Can it describe a local church? To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:2

Denomination: Baptist

What Is Wisdom? Series

Contributed by Maurice Armstrong on Aug 19, 2023

"Wisdom usually comes with age, but age often shows up--alone."

Wisdom is not about a high IQ, and growing older is no guarantee you'll be wiser. Oscar Wilde, the Irish poet, wrote, "Wisdom usually comes with age, but age often shows up alone." While researchers in psychology and philosophy have for several years been debating the empirical and ...read more

Scripture: James 1:22, Deuteronomy 4:5, Proverbs 4:7

Denomination: Apostolic

What Is Sinful?

Contributed by Michael Koplitz on Aug 29, 2023

A question that I get from time to time: How do you determine what is sinful? Jesus' answer is it is sinful if it violates either of the Two Great Commandments

What is Sinful? John 15:18-16:4a Rev. Dr. Michael H. Koplitz John 15:18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19 “If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this ...read more

Denomination: United Methodist

What Is Time?

Contributed by Rolando, Jr Pama on Sep 8, 2023

Time is so important the Bible commands us to “redeem the time.”

What is time? A. Gift from God. Every day of life is a gift. Understanding that God is the giver of life, and that the length of our days are in His hands, we realize that time is a gift from God. James 4.14 “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1

What Are The Odds?

Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 13, 2023

God went against the odds to save us.

What Are the Odds? Christmas is behind us, and the New Year is rapidly approaching. This is a good time for some personal reflection. January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar. Julius Caesar changed the Roman calendar, and January 1, 45 AD, became the year’s beginning in the ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 22:27-28

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

What Is There To Fear?

Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Jan 30, 2024

We all deal with fear from time to time. There is one fear that is not only necessary but can be beneficial: that is the fear of God.

We all deal with fear from time to time. Some people give into fear, and some people do everything they can to avoid those things that make them afraid. As most of you know, I will be retiring on the last day of this year. Several have expressed a concern over that. Having a pastor for over 28 ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 33:6-22

Denomination: Baptist

What Is A Christian?

Contributed by Grant Adams on Feb 2, 2020

I remember hearing a story of a young boy asking his father what is a Christian? After the father explained, the young boy asked, “Dad have I ever seen a Christian?”

The word Christian is a very loose term; at least we use it very loosely, and it has become, in America, a meaningless term. To some, it means anybody living in the United States, and is not Jewish. The term Christian has been so abused and diluted that it has very little meaning to most of us ...read more

Scripture: Acts 26:28, 1 Peter 4:16, Acts 11:26

Denomination: Baptist

What Is A Parable? Series

Contributed by Joseph Marshall on Mar 8, 2020

To be able to understand the parables of the kingdom, we must first know what is a parable?

1. The word “parable” comes from the Greek word “paraballo”, which means “to throw alongside” and “to reach a place.” 2. The dictionary definition, “an allegorical representation of something from real life, from which a moral is drawn for instruction,” does not quite explain the purpose of Jesus’ ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 13:1-3, Matthew 13:10-11

Denomination: Baptist

What Is This?

Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Jan 28, 2021

Are we amazed with the authority of the words of Christ Jesus?

What Is This? Mark 1: 21 - 28 Intro: Out of necessity, I live in a world of words. Every week, I am expected to produce a string of words from other words that I have read in the Bible and other resources. I wonder sometimes, do you really hear the words? For example: A New York columnist set ...read more

Scripture: Mark 1:21-28

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

What Is Love?

Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 16, 2021

Next in Series through John. Begins in 1 John, but goes to John 14. Suitable for Valentine's Day

2021 “What is love, as defined by the online world? Resisting a YouTube video of the 1993 hit song, the first click plunges you into a world of pink carnation- tainted tackiness. The website’s designer no doubt spends all afternoon baking cookies, sending chain emails and sighing at the "Home ...read more

Scripture: John 14:21, 1 John 4:7-21

Denomination: Baptist

What Happened? Series

Contributed by Ed Lu on Feb 19, 2021

A reflection on our part in the church

A: What happened to my church? B: Whose church? You mean, what have we done to God's church? A: Yeah, what are we doing to it? B: To it? You mean to them, the people? A: Yeah, those. B: Those? You mean, us? A: Yeah, what happened to us, you and me? Oh, I see. C: As the Head, I am first. No ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 1:18

Denomination: Baptist

What Is Love? Series

Contributed by Eugene Pansler Jr on Feb 28, 2021

what is love

What is Love? Many think it's a feeling, others think of it as something in a fairy tale, and some see it as a fickle thing that's here today, gone tomorrow. What is love, (first, second,third): 1. It's Having Patience. What is love, it's having patience with each ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4

Denomination: Pentecostal

What Is Not Of Faith

Contributed by Michael Brown on Nov 1, 2020

Romans 14:23 had been unclear to me when I heard it. It says that what is not of faith is a sin. I did a Bible Study on it using the H.E.A.R.T. (Highlight, Explain, Apply, Respond, Thanksgiving) format & this sermon is that study.

Highlight - Highlight the verse that speaks to you Romans 14:23: “But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin.” Explain - Explain what this passage means The word translated as faith in this verse is the ...read more

Scripture: Romans 4:23

Denomination: Baptist

What Is Better?

Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Jul 17, 2019

This sermon addresses the fact that discerning God's will for our life is just as important as serving God.

What Is Better? Luke 10:38 - 42 Intro: Larry was hard of hearing and was having chest pains. He and his wife went to the doctor. The doctor told Janice that the chest pains were likely from stress. Larry asked, “What did he say?” Janice answered, “He said you are sick.” The doctor said ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:38-42

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

What Is Worship

Contributed by David Long on Aug 1, 2019

As we sing, pray, and give, it must be done according to God’s instructions. So, what does that look like? What is the proper way to worship God?

According to the dictionary, Worship is: NOUN: The feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity. VERB: Show reverence and adoration for (particularly a deity); honor with religious rites. There is a lot of confusion in the religious world today concerning worship. There are more ...read more

Scripture: John 4:19-24