Sermons on Wonderfully Made:

The Legacy Of Christ Series

Contributed by Robert Higgins on Apr 17, 2008

If I were a historian I could probably take you back through the last 2000 years to demonstrate the difference Christ and his followers have made in the world. I could talk about how world poverty has been stemmed because of non-profit organizations begun

I’m guessing most of you have seen the classic Christmas movie, It’s a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart. In the movie, Stewart plays George Bailey who has inherited the Bailey Building and Loan, and survives Black Tuesday in October 1929. Later his absentminded uncle misplaces $8000 and George ...read more

Scripture: John 1:4

Denomination: Baptist

Value Of Oil

Contributed by Toby Powers on Nov 20, 2006

Throughout the Bible people have learned of the value of oil. Just a little pot of oil filled a multitude of vessels (II Kings 4). Just a cruse of oil made a multitude of loaves (I Kings 17). Just a lamp of oil kept 5 virgins from the wedding (Matt 25).

From the Desk of Pastor Toby Powers Truth Baptist Church Bremen, GA www.trumpetoftruthonline.org Value Of Oil II Kings 4:1-7 Intro: The central theme of this story is the value of the oil. Throughout the Bible we see people learning the lesson of the value of oil. This account and one more come ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 4:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

The 12 Apostles: Bartholomew

Contributed by John Gaston on Feb 26, 2015

This 4th apostle, of royal blood, was a scholar. Jesus had 2 Words of Knowledge about him, and a God-moment together. Jesus pronounced the Jacob dream over him and he made the 1st great confession. He had a fig-tree experience. Check him out!

THE 12 APOSTLES: BARTHOLOMEW Jn. 1:43-51 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR: CHRISTMAS PRESENT 1. Louis (‘Loo-ee’) Boudreaux asked his little daughter, Louise, what she wanted for Christmas. 2. Louise said what she wanted the most was a baby brother. So the next winter, a baby brother was born! ...read more

Scripture: John 1:43-51

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Take Time To Be Holy - Part 3

Contributed by William Akehurst on Aug 14, 2023

Be Holy, for I AM HOLY. When we experience the HOLY GOD, we see our shortcomings. It is only the HOLY LORD GOD that can make us to be HOLY. One Touch and we are made Whole, and Holy, and Ready for HIS Service. But it starts with us, being willing to surrender to HIM.

2023.08.13. SERMON NOTES. Take Time to Be Holy. Pt 3 William Akehurst, HSWC BIG IDEA: Be Holy, for I AM HOLY. When we experience the HOLY GOD, we see our shortcomings. It is only the HOLY LORD GOD that can make us to be HOLY. One Touch and we are made Whole, and Holy, and Ready for HIS Service. ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-9, Colossians 3:1-17, Titus 3:5-7, 1 Peter 1:13-16, Romans 12:1-2, 1 John 2:6, 2 Peter 3:18, Mark 16:15, Matthew 28:19-20, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 1 Peter 3:15, 2 Peter 3:14-15  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Sunday - A Triumphal Entry With Tender Tears Series

Contributed by David Owens on Feb 28, 2022

This sermon begins a series on the final week of Jesus' life. This sermon covers the events of the first Sunday of that final week, when Jesus made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem. In this sermon we learn some eternal lessons about Jesus being our king and about His love.

A. Including today, we are eight Sundays away from Resurrection Sunday. 1. God has put it on my heart to do something I haven’t done in my 35 years here at Wetzel Road, and that is to preach a sermon series on the final week of Jesus’ earthly life and ministry. a. I have preached through three of ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 21:1-9, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:28-44, John 12:12-19

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

True Identity Part 2 Series

Contributed by Vicki Williamson on Feb 28, 2022

As we discovered last week God defines His identity in who He is. It is because of who He is that He does what He does.God has made known to us His heart, that no one should perish. His mission is to reconcile and renew all things to Himself.

Yet in perfect love He gives everyone free choice to receive Him ?or reject Him. Ephesians 1:9-10 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 1:9-10, Ephesians 1:3-4

John Series 26 The Astounding Authority: Equality With God, John 5:17–30 Series

Contributed by Rodney Fry on May 29, 2022

All men have to face this earth-shaking, shattering claim of Christ. He made the astounding claim that all authority belonged to Him. How could He make such an astounding claim? Because He proclaimed that He possessed equality with God and then He proceeded to give proof after proof

Sermon 26 JOHN SERIES Astounding Authority Equality with God John 5:17–30 The Astounding Authority: Equality with God, 5:17–30 (5:17–30) Jesus Christ, Claims—Deity: all men have to face this earth-shaking, shattering claim of Christ. He made the astounding claim that all authority belonged to ...read more

Scripture: John 5:17-30

Denomination: Baptist

A New Start Series

Contributed by Brad Beaman on Jun 2, 2022

We are going to look at a New Start of humanity for Noah and has family in Genesis 9:7-11. The rainbow is a fitting sign. Light must be shinning through the clouds. There can’t be a flood, light is breaking through a rainbow is formed. God has made this a sign he will not flood the world.

Speed skater Cathy Turner prepared and waited years for her chance to win an Olympic gold medal. She won all her preliminary races, and she was in the final medal race. When the gun sounded Cathy had a fall just after the start. That was it. Her Olympic medal dreams were over. One of the other ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 9:7-11

Denomination: Baptist

The Dangers Of Anger Series

Contributed by John Lowe on Jul 9, 2022

The Pharisees claimed they carried out every nuance of practice demanded by the Mosaic Law, but they had departed from that long before Jesus became a man. The Pharisees had made out long lists of "do's and don'ts" by which they sought to live righteously.

Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5:21-26 (Anger) Jesus advises us on how to deal with anger. The Dangers of Anger Matthew 5:21-26 Introduction Many years ago, a member of the Missouri State Legislature accepted a $25,000 bribe for his vote regarding a specific bill. Sometime later, he received a ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:21-26

Denomination: Baptist

Thanks For The Memories Series

Contributed by Gordon Pike on Dec 15, 2020

Without God’s Light, without the promise of God’s love, Scrooge was doomed … and so are we! It is God’s love and judgment that are bringing Scrooge into the light so that he can repent and get on track to a better life … the life that God intended for him and not the one that he made for himself.

Ah … remember good Ol’ Jacob Marley from last week? How he appeared in his pigtails, usual waist-coat, tights, and boots? He also sported a huge chain “clasped about his middle … and wound about him like a tail … made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 4:4, Philippians 4:13, Psalm 3:5-6, John 1:41-42, John 3:19-21  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: United Methodist

23 The Obedient Prophet Series

Contributed by Michael Collins on Dec 24, 2020

This devotion is about Jonah's obedience to God's 2nd call to him to go and preach against the people of Ninveveh. This is the 23rd of 31 devotions on the book of Jonah, where a comparison is made between Jonah and The Church-at-large, in the light of the present global pandemic.

Jonah 3:3-4 - 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent. 4 And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be ...read more

Scripture: Jonah 3:3-4, John 3:18

Denomination: Independent/Bible

The Power Of God

Contributed by Randy Shepard on Jul 9, 2018

A sermon that is part of my story interwoven with some theology of disability. I have Cerebral Palsy. The doctors told my parents that I would never walk or talk. God made me a preacher who walks just fine. Feel free to use my story for God's glory.

42 years ago today on July 1, 1976 there was a baby fighting for his life in the PICU at Saint Frances Hospital in Peoria. The baby had begun to breathe while still in the womb, and his lungs coated with fluid cutting off oxygen to the brain. The truth is that the doctors should have done a ...read more

Denomination: United Methodist

Being In The Inside Group Series

Contributed by Ken Henson on Sep 28, 2016

Jesus took that group that had no citizenship in Israel & made them fellow-heirs (not exactly shared citizenship-we'll talk about that next time). So the outside group is now inside the inside group. Then He brought both together as super-insiders. We are all in Christ.

Ephesians 2:14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:14-17

Denomination: *other

The Gospel: God’s Irrevocable Promise Series

Contributed by Brad Beaman on Nov 17, 2015

This passage tells us about God’s promise to Abraham. God made an unconditional promise with great significance for us today. When Paul writes this he is referring to Genesis 12:2-3. It is God’s promise to Abraham and as we will see for all who believe.

Be careful not to make a commitment to someone you don’t keep. You might say to someone you will send them a copy of a picture you took and then you forget to do it. We have to be cautious we do not carelessly make a promise we fail to keep. We are prone to forget what we promise. It is part ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 3:15-25

Denomination: Baptist

'oops!' Is Not In God's Vocabulary

Contributed by John Gaston on Jan 21, 2016

When Christians experience troubles, they sometimes wonder whether God either didn’t have the power to stop it, or wasn’t loving enough to stop it, or God slipped up – He somehow made a mistake. God doesn't make mistakes!

‘OOPS!’ IS NOT IN GOD’S VOCABULARY INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR: BIG ARCHEOLOGICAL FIND IN TEXAS 1. After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 40:27-31

Denomination: Assembly Of God