Preaching on Sin? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
Ignoring Clear Directions
Introduction
I'm known among my family and friends for having a terrible sense of direction. It doesn't matter whether I am driving or walking. It doesn't ...
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Liberation
Introduction
Richard Stearns, the president of World Vision, has a book called The Hole in Our Gospel. In this book he tells a remarkable story about a ...
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Lost and Found
Introduction
Some of you may have heard of Anthony Bourdain. He has a reality show on The Travel Channel called "No Reservations." He's a chef who travels ...
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God Is Present and Powerful
Introduction: Our struggle with sin
We've been trying to renew together our vision of who God really is. Everything good in life flows from the person ...
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Defiled and Cleansed
Introduction
Today we're going to look at Numbers 5:1-10. This chapter is easy to outline because of the phrase that is repeated three times, in verses ...
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The Price of Pride
Introduction
You've probably heard the expression, "Into every life, a little rain must fall." I was reading an article about a movie star who was having ...
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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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Danger! Worship in Progress
My hometown, Britton, South Dakota, celebrated its 125th anniversary last weekend on the 4th of July. The population sign on the edge of town says 1,328, ...
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Deep Clean
Whatever became of sin?
Some years ago a Harvard psychiatrist wrote a provocative book entitled Whatever Became of Sin? In it he expressed his fear that ...
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Community: The Context for Change
Story behind the sermon (from John Ortberg)
I am a huge N. T. Wright fan, and I think some of his material on the role and destiny of human beings is a ...
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Jesus Christ: His Human Nature
"The gospel of God … regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendent of David …" (Romans 1:3).
Paul says, "Jesus Christ is ...
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Looking Up to Heaven
A shattered Colossus
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelly tells of meeting a traveler from an "antique" land who describes the ruins of a great statue in the desert. ...
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The Judgment of Grace
Chapter five of Daniel addresses the question of what would happen if you gave a party, and God crashed it. Nebuchadnezzar was no longer on the throne. ...
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The One That Got Me
Introduction
Let me begin this final sermon in our series with our Scripture text:
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, ...
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The Deep Truth
Introduction
Back in 1899, four reporters from four different Denver newspapers didn't have a story for the morning paper. They decided to make up a story—to ...
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I'll Take What You Have
Introduction
We're continuing our series on the Ten Commandments, and this morning we come to the eighth one: "You shall not steal." It's amazing how creative ...
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The Scarlet Letter
Introduction
Today we're continuing to look at the Ten Commandments. We've seen that this isn't easy material. These commands are anything but sugarcoated. ...
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Making Parents Weighty
Introduction
We've been working through the Ten Commandments and today we come to the fifth one: "Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God ...
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Murderers and the Murdered One
Introduction
We're in our sixth week in our series on the Ten Commandments and today we're talking about the sixth commandment, Deuteronomy 5:17: "You ...
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The Right God, the Wrong Way
Introduction
Last week we began a series on the Ten Commandments. We saw that the Ten Commandments weren't given as a requirement for salvation, but rather ...
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Rediscovering the Sabbath
Introduction
While I was leading some pastor training in the Philippines, I broke the pastors up into small groups and had them share various things ...
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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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Right Smack in the Middle of Sin
Introduction
Every single one of us has had those times when we have not looked forward to seeing particular people: a disappointed mother or disgusted ...
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A Heartbeat from Disaster
Introduction
In this particular passage of Scripture, the nation of Israel, to the north, has fallen so far from God's desire and purpose that he has ...
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It Doesn't Sting Anymore
Introduction
Tony Campolo, at the end of a sermon titled, "The Year of Jubilee," tells this story:
I went to my first black funeral when I was 16 years ...
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Not in Vain
Introduction
I was talking to a friend the other day. "I know you aren't much of a churchgoer," I said, "but I'd like to invite you to church this Sunday ...
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Learning from Tiger Woods
From the editor
In late November 2009, a series of events led to a bevy of stories about infidelities on the part of golf's greatest player, Tiger ...
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Raw Ugliness
Introduction
On one level, this is a brilliant story handed down to us by a brilliant storyteller. This is a gripping, plot-twisting, edge-of-your seat ...
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Radical Intimacy
Introduction
In this series, we're going to wrestle with very difficult story—the story of David. But I promise that as we allow this story to tell ...
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Why Are You Angry?
Text: Genesis 4:1-12
Topic: How to overcome anger.
From the editor:
Here's a great sermon from one of our featured preachers, David Anderson, that is sure ...
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When Sin Creeps In
From the editor
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
From the editor
As Brown points out at the very start of his ...
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The Lostness of Humankind
Text: Romans 1:18-25Topic: A look at mankind's journey through rejection, separation, domination, and condemnation—and his opportunity for redemption ...
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Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
Introduction
"No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear." That is how C. S. Lewis begins his book A Grief Observed, a compelling account of ...
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A Brand New You
Introduction
I've got hundreds of things around the house that I would like to see made new—sofa cushions that have begun to sag, kitchen cabinets ...
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Jesus Face to Face
Introduction
If you had the opportunity, who would you like to meet face to face? Is it someone living? Someone who has already died? A celebrity? Nobility? ...
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What if it's true?
Introduction
Several friends were talking in a restaurant when the conversation came around to dying. They asked each other what they would like to have ...
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On the Cross
Introduction
A.D. abbreviates the Latin words "Anno Domini," which means "Year of Our Lord." Our calendars are all dated by the birth ...
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Crown of thorns for the King of Kings
Introduction
It's almost Easter, but do you remember Christmas? We heard the joyous story that starts on the first page of the New Testament. Matthew ...
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The Greatest Trial Ever Held
Introduction
It was a long and difficult night. Jesus' best friends abandoned him. One of his closest colleagues committed suicide. Police arrested ...
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Moving Towards Reconciliation
Introduction
Victor Hugo's novel, Les Miserables, is a story about Jean Valjean, who was sentenced to a nineteen-year prison term for stealing a loaf of ...
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Angels: A Song of Peace
Introduction
We've been looking at Christmas songs preserved for us in Scripture. Some, like Zechariah's song last week, are completely foreign to most ...
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A Bleeding Hearts Club?
Introduction
Suppose someone were to describe you as "a bleeding heart?" How would you feel about that? That expression is often attached to ...
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The Heartbreak Gospel
Introduction
Last week we began our study of the Beatitudes: Jesus' intriguing list of people who are blessed and well-off. Suppose we were to come ...
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It's No Mistake
From the editor:
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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Wait for the Morning
Introduction
Right after the Virginia Tech University massacre, the worship leader at a community worship service turned to this text. On behalf of those ...
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