Preaching on Family? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
Global Thing Locally
Introduction
The gospel of Jesus’ grace leads us into mission. It leads us out into others’ lives and into the world. To begin there, ...
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Zion’s Birth Story
Introduction
Since shops are already putting up Christmas lights and radio stations are playing Christmas music, I thought it would be appropriate to consider ...
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Duct Tape Dads
Introduction
Have you ever noticed how hard people work to get men to buy into the crisis management process? Think about the two biggest crises ...
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Be Strong and Courageous
Introduction
Can one person make a difference? Can one person change the direction of an entire family tree? Can one person stand up in the face of fear, ...
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Fake Faith
Introduction
In a now famous experiment, two social psychologists at Princeton University in 1973 wanted to examine whether thinking religious thoughts ...
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Spirit of Adoption—Found
Introduction
So it’s 11 in the morning, and a little boy is called to the head teacher’s office. Sadly, this little boy knows the way very ...
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A Father's Words
Introduction
In June 1992, Jim Davidson and Mike Price climbed Mt. Rainier. On the way down, the two climbers fell 80 feet through a snow bridge into a ...
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Average Asher
Introduction
Hidden away in the some of the most tedious books of the Bible, among a myriad of unpronounceable names, lies one of the most remarkable stories ...
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The Glory of Fathers Who Stink
Introduction
As I come to talk about fathers, I'm mindful that it's a very difficult day for some people. For some people, whose every thought about their ...
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R-Rated: Sacrificing Our Children to the Gods of this World
Introduction
We see in Romans 13 that the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: "Love your neighbor as yourself." The reason it says ...
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Divorce and the Seeds of Resurrection
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Loss, Loyalty, & Lament
Introduction
I've never been one to read romance novels, but lately I've been reading one. It's been a good one, too. Believe it or not, it's a book I ...
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Beautiful Music
This past Thursday, I had lunch with an old friend. We enjoyed the lunch hour reminiscing about old times, about the time he took me fishing, about the ...
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Christian Singles
Introduction
Currently 17 to 20 million unmarried women and several million fewer unmarried men live in the United States. It's estimated that, at ...
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Starting Over
Introduction
Years ago, when my 2-year-old car needed a new battery, my son said, "Dad, we need to buy a new car. This one is getting old." When ...
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A Lesson Wise Moms and Other Influential People Can Teach the Next Generation
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Mother's Day is just around the corner (May 9), and should you decide to offer a message for the occasion, Steve Mathewson's look ...
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Our Fathers Who Are on Earth
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Father's Day is just around the corner (June 21), and should you decide to offer a message for the occasion, Mark Mitchell's look at a ...
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What It Takes to Be a Mother
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Mother's Day is just around the corner (May 9), and should you decide to offer a message for the occasion, Mark Mitchell's look ...
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What Child Is This Who Came Not to Bring Peace?
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One of the more popular texts in the Advent and Christmas season is Isaiah 9:1–7. Preachers love to explore the beauty of our having ...
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Jesus Uncensored
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Here's a sermon Michael Quicke preached at Wheaton College that tenders the meek and mild Jesus with the mean and wild Jesus. Few passages ...
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Loss, Loyalty, and Lament
Text: Ruth 1:1–22
Topic: Learning to make the right choices in difficult times
From the editor:
Perhaps you're looking for a unique way to approach ...
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
About the Book
The Brothers Karamazov is the story of a father, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, and his three ...
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Till We Have Faces
Till We Have Faces
By C. S. Lewis
About the Book
Lewis's Till We Have Faces is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of ...
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Relationships
Relationships: An Open and Honest Guide to Making Bad Relationships Better and Good Relationships Great By Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott Zondervan (1998); ...
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Boundaries
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, To Take Control of Your life
By Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
Zondervan (1992); 296 pages
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Sacred Marriage
Sacred Marriage
By Gary Thomas
Zondervan (2000); 268 pages
About the Book
In Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas steers us away from the goal of marital improvement, ...
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Understanding Who You Are
Understanding Who You Are: What Your Relationships Tell You About Yourself
By Dr. Larry Crabb
NavPress (1997); 78 pages
About the Book
Crabb's aim in ...
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The Four Loves
The Four Loves
By C. S. Lewis
Harcourt Brace & Company (1960); 141 pages
About the Book
C. S. Lewis seamlessly couples the analytical and spiritual in ...
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Relationships: An Annotated Bibliography
It has only been recently, and in part due to my gleanings from this project, that I've felt the sheer weight of the love Jesus calls us to: to set aside ...
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Life Together
Life Together
By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Harper & Row (1954); 122 pages
About the Book
Rather than delving into why we operate the way we do or examining ...
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Remember Who You Are
Introduction
The Woodley family has a number of family picture albums. Each picture album contains an assortment of photos of people that matter to our ...
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Drop Your Agenda
Introduction
By the end of Luke's narrative of Jesus' life, opposition from the religious leaders is mounting, and Jesus' popularity among the people is ...
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Letters from Dad
Introduction
I'd like to talk on this Father's Day to the men. There will be obvious relevance to women as well, but my express purpose today is to speak ...
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For Better, but Worse
Introduction
When the great Chicago Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this past summer, he began a speech as ...
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Call Me at Midnight
Introduction
Whether our "family" is a group of close friends, a bunch of kids running around the house, or a husband and wife alone, I think it is fair ...
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The Incredibles
Introduction
As we saw last week, every great family is founded first and foremost on the Covenant Principle—on a radical commitment to one ...
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People of the Table
Introduction
On this Mother's Day, it seems very appropriate that we continue to reflect together on what it takes to grow a great family. Whether our ...
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Don't You Believe It: The Myth of Self-Importance
There's an old Jewish story: A rabbi was sitting next to an atheist on an airplane. The rabbi's family was also on the plane. Every few minutes, one of ...
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Whatever Happened to Zebedee?
Text: Mark 1:19–20
Topic: The importance of a father's spiritual leadership
Whatever happened to Zebedee?
I doubt that this is a question begging for ...
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What Are You Preaching This Week?
The church began on the day of Pentecost, just a few weeks after the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. Jesus had said to his followers:
"Do not ...
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Is There Hope for the Family
Today we're ending a series entitled "Surviving the Brave New World." Since it's Father's Day, we're going to talk about building a strong ...
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A Woman's Worth Is Never Done
Introduction:
A woman of keen mind and understanding heart gazed at Whistler's portrait of his mother. "It is a remarkable painting of a very lovely ...
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How to Develop a Tight-Knit Family
It is obvious that in John 10:22-30 Jesus is not talking specifically about the nuclear family. But he is saying something here that all families need ...
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How to Influence Your Family
Imagine for a minute that a man is hired to manage a professional baseball team—the New York Yankees, let's say. But he doesn't go to all the games. ...
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Put Your Husband In His Place
This week and next we will look at a passage of Scripture that rarely fails to elicit a strong reaction, mainly because it is often misrepresented (or ...
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A Twinge of Nostalgia
One wintry day the children put a top hat on their snowman, and, in a spell of Christmas magic, he came to life.
Frosty the Snowman showed those children ...
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