Preaching on Deliverance? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
The Giant of Disappointment
In the musical version of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, the character Fantine sings a sorrowful song about disappointment called “I ...
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R-Rated: What Really Happened at Sodom and Gomorrah?
Introduction
What happened at Sodom and Gomorrah? Whether you have been to church one time or 1,000 times you have probably heard something about ...
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Getting Out
Introduction
I want us to look at the account of the crossing of the Red Sea. You might call it the climax or epitome of Exodus. It's hard to overstate ...
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Looking in the Mirror
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Mother's Day is this Sunday (May 10), and should you decide to offer a message for the occasion, you might get a few general ideas from ...
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The Uncomfortable Truth of Easter
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At the 2008 National Pastors Conference in San Diego, Preaching Today got to interview N. T. Wright about his book Surprised by Hope and ...
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Forgiven, Forgotten
Introduction
Guilt runs rampant in the body of Christ. Though you already know you often feel guilty, it's important that we say it, because you would ...
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When Sin Creeps In
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If you remove the first three chapters of Genesis, anything goes. So much foundational theology is packed into those seminal verses. One ...
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Forgiven and Forgotten
Text: Hebrews 10:1-18
Topic: The effectiveness and scope of Christ's forgiveness of our sin
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As Brown points out at the very start of his ...
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In the Father's Arms
Text: Job 36, 38
Topic: How a Christian should respond to suffering
From the editor
As you read Jill Briscoe's sermon, notice how she takes a classic story-story-story ...
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It's No Mistake
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One of the more important things you can do for your listeners—both believers and nonbelievers alike—is to find an appropriate ...
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Herod the Great
Topic: Which king will you choose?
Text: Matthew 2:1–8
Introduction
If we look at facts and figures, "Herod the Great" had a pretty good administration. ...
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Cover Or Be Covered
World War II was over. The Armistice had been signed in Europe and in Japan. Hostilities had ceased. But, under the leadership of General MacArthur, the ...
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Finding God in Desperate Places
Introduction
I'd like to write a book someday called Desperate Places: How God Shines Through Our Weakness. These desperate places are places of weakness, ...
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Why Would a Good God Send People to Hell?
Introduction
I thought long and hard about a clever, lighthearted way to introduce this morning's message. I thought about praying for a really hot day ...
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A Man Like Us and a God Who Lives
Introduction
Elijah is one of the Bible's most dramatic characters, because he experienced the light of God's presence even when everything around him ...
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The Shadow of Jesus
Introduction
Well over a hundred years ago, Robert Robinson wrote a hymn that resonates with many of us. One line reads like this: "Prone to wander, ...
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Prepare for God's Visitation
Introduction
I have a friend named John who is a medical doctor. He was once making a commercial flight across the Atlantic Ocean, when a teenage boy who ...
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Fear of God
Introduction
A few summers ago, my family took a family trip to Toronto. We'd never been there before, so we didn't know what to see. But all the guidebooks ...
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God Remembers
Introduction
In the 1960s Jim "Wrong Way" Marshall was a member of the "Purple People Eaters," the fearsome defensive unit of the Minnesota Vikings football ...
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The Grieving Heart of God
Introduction
On the first day teaching his class for 250 college freshmen, R. C. Sproul carefully explained the assignment of three term papers. Each paper ...
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Singing in the Rain
The psalmist is singing again. It's not exactly like singing in the rain, but it's kind of like singing in the rain, because he's in trouble ...
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What About Sudden Conversion?
I am very intrigued by the new invention that is now being foisted upon some parts of the American people, whereby on closed-circuit television they ...
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Year of Jubilee
When they asked Jesus why he had come, he told them over and over again that he'd come to declare the kingdom of God. All the things that he said were ...
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