Sermons on Without Hope:

The Troubled Waters – Hope For Sinners

Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Apr 27, 2003

I am astonished by this place. Bethesda pool was a kind of hospital packed with people: the blinde, the lame, the paralyzed. And rumor was that the chief doctor was an angel! Bethesda - reflecting, refracting and diffracting everything and everybody arou

I am astonished as I visit this place - Bethesda Pool. It’s like an hospital packed with sick people: the blinde, the lame, the paralyzed. And rumor was that the chief doctor was an angel! The Bible states here the popular belief. An angel encouraging competition? The fastest, the strongest ...read more

Scripture: John 5:2-8, John 5:1-15

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

America's Great Heritage And Hope

Contributed by Rick Crandall on May 30, 2015

How to find the hope we need: 1. Remember God's rescues (vs. 1-3). 2. Cry out for God's compassion (vs. 4-9). 3. Trust in God's truth (vs. 8-13).

America's Great Heritage and Hope Psalm 85:1-13 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - July 2, 2014 *On July 4th, 1776, King George III of England wrote about the day in his diary, and this is what he wrote: "July 4, 1776: Nothing happened today." (1) *He couldn't have been farther ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 85:1-13

Denomination: Baptist

Be Ready To Give An Answer . . . Of The Hope

Contributed by Edward Hardee on Nov 14, 2007

Sermon on why we have hope and what it means.

Disclaimer: I don’t know where I picked up all these accrostices. I know they are not orginal but I thought they were great. Title: Be ready to give an answer . . . of the hope Theme: Text: 1 Peter 3:15 Stewardship Verse: “"Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 3:15

Denomination: Church Of God

Peace, Faith, Love And Hope

Contributed by Rodney V Johnson on Aug 25, 2007

The relationship between peace, faith, love and hope.

Peace, Faith, Love and Hope Scripture: Phil. 4:7; Heb. 11:6; Rom. 10:17; Matt. 24. 10, 12-13; 1 Cor. 13 Heb. 6:17-19 Introduction This is the last day of 2006 and we will never see this year again. This year will be history as of midnight tonight. Although we may face ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 4:7

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Hope And Your Spiritual Fitness Series

Contributed by Samuel Stone on Oct 31, 2007

Paul says the hope that is laid up for us in heaven enable us to have faith and love. In other words, hope is the foundation of faith and love.

Scripture Lesson: Colossians 1:1-14 A little boy wanted $100 very badly. He prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. So, he decided to write a letter to God requesting $100. When the postal authorities received the letter to "God, USA", they decided to send it to the President. The President was ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 1:1-14

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Hope Floats In The Compassionate Life Series

Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 25, 2008

This morning we are going to examine the compassionate life. For it is in the compassionate life that hope is often lifted up. It is in this stream or tradition that hope floats and rises to the top of our live. This compassionate life is the tradition al

Streams of Living Water Hope Floats in the Compassionate Life Amos 5:21-24 November 7, 2004 Mark Eberly This morning we are going to examine the compassionate life. For it is in the compassionate life that hope is often lifted up. It is in this stream or tradition that hope floats and rises to the ...read more

Scripture: Amos 5:21-24

Denomination: Church Of God

#1 Light The Lamp Of Hope! Series

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jun 22, 2007

I HAVE A KEROSENE LAMP, I PRETEND THE ELECTRICITY IS OFF, I NEED LIGHT. I HAVE A KEROSENE LAMP FULL OF KEROSENE --- BUT I NEED A MATCH TO LIGHT THE WICK. I STRIKE THE MATCH, LIGHT THE LAMP, AND SEE WE HAVE LIGHT. THE DARKER THE NIGHT --- THE GREATER THE

#1 LIGHT THE LAMP OF HOPE! Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com This is part one of two parts. Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. I. I HAVE A KEROSENE LAMP, I PRETEND THE ELECTRICITY IS OFF, I NEED LIGHT. I HAVE A KEROSENE LAMP FULL OF KEROSENE --- BUT ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 119:105

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Hope Of Repentance Advent A #2 Series

Contributed by Ernie Arnold on Nov 8, 2016

This is a message about Repentance. John's Message of Repentance is a Message of Hope. It's a message of Hope because it reminds us that: 1. God is For Us 2. God wants to Work in Us 3. God wants to Work through Us

Scripture: Matthew 3:1-12; Isaiah 11:1-10 and Psalm 72:1-7 Title: The Hope of Repentance John's Message of Repentance is a Message of Hope. It's a message of Hope because it reminds us that: 1. God is For Us 2. God wants to Work in Us 3. God wants to Work through Us Also - Advent #2 - ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 3:1-12

Denomination: Nazarene

Hope Had A Name, Jesus Series

Contributed by Dr John Singarayar Svd on Oct 7, 2025

Where are we when the miracle happens? Do we recognise the hand of God in our healing? Do we turn back?

Title: Hope had a name, Jesus Intro: Where are we when the miracle happens? Do we recognise the hand of God in our healing? Do we turn back? Scripture: Luke 17: 11-19 Reflection Dear Friends, There is something about the number ten that stays with you. Ten fingers we count on as children. ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:11-19

Denomination: Other

God's Hope In Troubled Times

Contributed by Matthew Stoll on Dec 12, 2006

Through the birth of the Christ child and the visitation of the angels to the shepherds we see a God who cares and comes to us at our worst times to deliver us.

When we read the Christmas story of the birth of Christ I think we have a tendency to gloss over and glamorize what really happened. We sing our Christmas songs and envision this postcard picture of Jesus in a pristine creche as he lies in a manger on a bed of hay or straw. It’s beautiful, ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-20

Denomination: Methodist

Pictures Of Hope- Advent 2

Contributed by Andrew Warriner on Apr 9, 2013

If the patriarchs can be pointers of promise, then the words of the prophets such as Isaiah can paint pictures of hope.

Pictures of hope Text Isaiah 9: 2- 7 (NIV) Introduction Last week in our first Sunday of Advent, we looked at Noah and Abraham, two of the Patriarchs of whom the first candle of the advent wreath is said by some to signify. We looked at the promises God made to them and how those promises, in ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7

Denomination: Salvation Army

Four Voices Of Christmas - Hope

Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 1, 2006

This sermon focuses on four characters in the Christmas narrative and what their "voice" says to us. It uses the acrostic H-O-P-E to illustrate that in the end all the "voices" proclaim HOPE to a lost and dying world!

Four Voices of Christmas – Voices of Hope Sermon – December 25th 2005 In Fridays Boston Herald I read a story about a school in the eastern part of the state where the children were informed, at the ire of many parents, that they could not sing songs with and religious references in them. They ...read more

Denomination: Assembly Of God

There Is Hope In Faith Full Living Series

Contributed by Clinton Smith on Mar 4, 2008

The believers of the Old Testament teach us to anticipate heaven while evaluating earth. In other words, keep heaven in view while living in here on earth.

Philip Yancey in his book, Disappointment with God, tells of a letter he received from a woman who was struggling with life and her faith in God. He says, “A young mother wrote that her joy had turned to bitterness and grief when she delivered a daughter with spina bifida, a birth defect that ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:13-16

Denomination: Baptist

The Confident Hope Of A Called Community Series

Contributed by Dean Courtier on May 20, 2017

We are not strangers or foreigners, we are His house, His church, His body and God has called us together as a community with a purpose. Before God created you in your mother’s womb, He had a plan and a purpose for you.

The Confident Hope of a Called Community We continue in our series on Discovering Your Destiny. Recently we have been focusing on Discovering our calling, this morning we are going to consider what it means to be 'A Called Community'. Dictionary.com defines the word Called as: to command or ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 3:3-23, Galatians 3:26-28, Ephesians 2:19-21, Jeremiah 29:11, Ephesians 2:10, Matthew 28:18-20, Romans 10:11-15, Joel 2:32, Acts 2:38, John 14:6, Acts 2:16-17, Ephesians 1:18-20  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Pentecostal

Hope In Christ Not Your Circumstances Series

Contributed by Leonard Cook on Mar 13, 2013

Hope In Christ Not Your Circumstances1 Peter sermon one!

Hope In Christ Not Your Circumstances (1 Peter 1:3-13) Key Center: 1:13, “13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled, set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. Hope in Christ for New Birth (1:3-4) 3 Praise be to the God and Father ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:2-13

Denomination: Holiness