Sermons

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Jesus Christ: The Focal Point of Faith

This Little Light of Mine (an object lesson using a candle)

Our lives are a little like candles. We're ready to shine brightly, but we need to have someone light us up with power and strength. And that's what Jesus does when He comes into our lives. This children's sermon uses a candle to encourage children to shine brightly for Jesus.

Four Ways To Improve Your Prayer Life

Jim Henry

I think that everyone who walks with the Lord wants to know how to better communicate with Him -- how to pray. In fact, I have found no Christian, maturing in the faith, who does not want a better prayer life and to improve that communication.

Christian Life: The Virtue of Hypocrisy (Text: Ephesians 4:31-5:2)

Craig M. Watts

The philosopher Hannah Arendt represents the thinking of many people when she claims that "hyprocrisy is the vice of vices" and that hypocrites are "rotten to the core."

Family: Remodeling Your Home

Gary C. Redding

We are much more apt to remodel the place where we live than we are to change the ways we live.

“Christmas News” (an object lesson using a newspaper)

Christmas is good news, but that news only means something when we open our hearts and let Jesus come inside. This Christmas children's sermon invites kids to do just that. "And then we have news that we can share with everyone else!"

Prayer Starts With God (Isaiah 65:24; 1 John 5:12-15; Romans 8:26-30)

Lloyd John Ogilvie

I want to share a revolutionary thought. As a result, my prayers and praying have become more exciting than ever.

Christmas: Emmanuel Text: Matthew 1:23

Frederick Buechner

Emmanuel. God is with us. We must decide for ourselves if it is true. The grounds on which to dismiss it are not hard to find. Christmas is commercialism. It is a pain in the neck. It is sentimentality. It is wishful thinking. With its account of the shepherds, the star, the three wise men...

Advent: The Return to Paradise Text: Isaiah 11:1-10

Harold C. Perdue

According to this sermon, there is something about the past that attracts each one of us, a deep longing to return to a better time. No wonder that Christmas and Advent seem so marvelous to us. We are getting ready for the One who brings a new world. We are preparing for the One who recreates the old Paradise for all of us. When He is finished, when He is done with us, He has created in us a new innocence, a new peace, a new harmony.