Preaching on Understanding? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
A Word to Husbands
Introduction
I am surprised Peter includes this word to husbands. Not that husbands don’t need a word like this. God knows we do! Peter ...
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The Unbelieving Heart
Introduction
The Book of Hebrews is written as an extended exhortation to Jewish believers not to go back into the law, not to fall into the air ...
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Get into Jail Free
Introduction
A couple of hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn’t seem to be breathing; his eyes are rolled ...
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Introduction
It's amazing the places where people think they see Jesus. I found all these pictures on the internet of Jesus sightings: on a banana peel, ...
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Divine Revelation
Introduction
We've been in a series called "Can Smart People Believe in God?" Last week we had Dallas Willard with us to answer some tough questions, and ...
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From Exclusion to Embrace
The Story Behind the Sermon
This year (2009) we have been preaching through the Gospel of Luke. As the preaching schedule was being put together, it just ...
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Solomon's Wish
Introduction
If you could wish for anything in the world, what would it be? Some people wish they had different abilities. Others wish for a change in ...
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Knowing the Bible Comes Easier Than Living the Bible
Introduction
When you get a love letter or Valentine's card, what do you do with it? (Besides hide it from the kids.) Usually you read it over and over ...
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A Message For Imperfect People
Introduction:
In a magazine for pastors, Pulpit Helps, August, 1997, someone had written in with one of those "you know you're in trouble when …" type ...
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Diamonds in the Rough
Introduction
The hardest and most valuable substance in the world is diamonds. Diamonds are thought to be formed by intense heat at the Earth's core and ...
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"Trinity": The Christian Name for God
Sermon One
Introduction
Over the next few Sundays we'll explore a concept of God unique to Christian spirituality called the Trinity. It's ...
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The Art of "Hanging Out"
Introduction
One of my favorite movie scenes occurs in City Slickers, when Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner have a heart-to-heart conversation. Reiner tells ...
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Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?
Text: John 1:1–18
Topic: The commonalities and irreducible differences between Christianity and Islam
In 1995 there was a book published by Professor ...
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Losing Our Minds
Sermon One
Introduction
How do you put together the pieces of the puzzle of life? When a terrible storm sweeps over your life and blows your careful constructions ...
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Reality Shows
Sermon Two
Introduction
Imagine a report comes on the television that a terrible tragedy has just befallen a group of people beyond your town. Person "A" ...
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Quantum Communion
Sermon Three
Introduction
For more than 1600 years, Christianity occupied the head seat at the vast communion table that came to be called Western Civilization. ...
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Image is Everything
Sermon Four
Introduction
One of our church members recently recounted to me the story of a woman named Lorena, who directs the Onessimu Brother's Home in ...
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Choosing Sides
Sermon Five
Introduction
The year was 536 B.C., the third year after the great Persian king, Cyrus, had overthrown the vast kingdom of Babylon, and a new ...
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Payback Time
Sermon Six
Introduction
Almost everyone I know wants to believe what the Bible says in the first verse of Psalm 73—that "surely God is good to … ...
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Bad to the Bone
Sermon Seven
Introduction
On all sides today we are reminded that something in this world has gone wrong. Women are abducted in increasing numbers. Precious ...
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A Contrast of Thanksgiving
Introduction
It seems to me that appreciation is often related to contrasts. We are told the beauty of art is not just in color, but it's in contrast. ...
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The Message of Ecclesiastes
As I look back in my life over the last several years there was a period in which I lived in the dark night of the soul. I spent several months of my ...
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The Contrast of Thanksgiving
Introduction
It seems to me that appreciation is often related to contrasts. We are told the beauty of art is not just in color, but it's in contrast. ...
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