Preaching on Salvation? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
Running Through the Cemetery
Have you noticed how much running there is in this text? This is a breathless text. It's got sweat all over it. Everybody in this text is running. You ...
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Making More Disciples
The abbot of the monastery called the novice into his office and instructed him to give the homily at the next morning's chapel. Well, the novice ...
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Martin Luther's Christmas Sermon
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Are There Many Paths to God?
Introduction
Jesus often surprised people with teachings that cut across the grain of human nature. "Lose your life to save it." "The first will be last." ...
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Exclusive Territory
In my economics class, we finished studying agreements. At first glance, my students thought an agreement would limit consumer choice. They're surprised ...
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When Was God at His Best?
When was God at his best? When can we point and say that's God at the top of the ladder?
God created the heavens.
All of us would probably turn to Genesis ...
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Hide and Seek
Illustration: A pastor phoned the home of some recent visitors to his church, and a voice on the other end of the phone answered with a whispered "Hello." ...
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A Wonderful Night
W. Would you look at those stars! There's Orion and the Pleiades, a shooting star ... and another one! Aah, I will never get tired of looking at the night ...
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What Difference Does Easter Make?
Illustration: One of my favorite magazines is U.S. News & World Report. I like it because there's a section in there called "News You Can Use." I ...
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Eight at the Cross
Today we're going to take a look at a cluttered picture with Jesus in the midst. Some of you are going to look carefully at this picture, and you're going ...
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The Most Miserable People in the World
Introduction
I have two groups of people standing here with me. The people on my right are not perfect, but they are all convinced Jesus Christ rose from ...
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Four Ironies of the Cross
We all know what irony is. Some of it is bitter. Some of it is vicious. Some of it is funny. But at its best, irony has the capacity to clarify an incident ...
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Sin 101: Why Sin Matters
I'd like to read you a quote from an interview with someone named Brian Warner:
Initially I was drawn into the darker side of life. But it's really just ...
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The Rocky Soil
Luke 8:4—15 contains one of the most remarkable, unforgettable, and important parables our Lord ever taught: the parable of the soils.
The good news ...
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God's Marshmallow Test
Back in the 1970s a research team of psychologists from Stanford University performed on a group of 4 an experiment they called the "marshmallow test." ...
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Baptism: A Public Declaration of Dependence
I was driving into church and I put in a cassette tape of the song "Mercy Came Running." I arrived at the worship center and went up to my office, did ...
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