sermons

Can you imagine a very timid and soft-spoken preacher delivering a "hellfire and damnation" sermon from the pulpit? Instead of a very invigorating and moving experience, he may very well risk putting his parishioners to sleep and his career to bed. The very same thing could happen if a preacher hadn't adequately prepared his sermon outlines, and just stumbled awkwardly through his presentations.


Sermons are meant to be a call to action. "Else, what therefore then, Brethren, shall ye think to accomplish without a firm resolve this day (slam fist)!" Well, not all fists are slammed, and not all sermons are moving. Nor are all hypnotic and angelic. But, at times they can light a fire of "repentance" and betterment, and get people moving in the right direction.

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• Breathe Deeply

  
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• 5 Ways to Break the Ice with Your Neighbors

  
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  This practical post on getting to know your neighbors is by Sam Riviera. Sam is a frequent contributor to this blog. See the bottom of this post for more articles in this series about getting to know your neighbors. As I mentioned in the a previous post, most of us do not know many of our neighbors . We assume ...
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• Pentecost, the Sequel

  
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  Its quite striking to compare Peters Pentecost sermon with the one he preaches a few days later in Acts 3. Theres a lot of common features: - Peter deals with misconeptions: this time of the beggar. He is clear about what he can offer, and what he cant. What he can offer is healing in the name of Jesus. The apostles ...
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• I Wish Luther Preached on John 3:16. All the UOJ Stormbrownies Would Be Angry.But They Would Finally Repent

  
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  Norma Boeckler Luthers Sermon for Pentecost Monday. John 3:16-21. This sermon, which does not appear in edition e., appeared in eight pamphlet editions during 1522 and 1523. The title of the first edition was as follows: “A sermon on Pentecost Monday, the Gospel of John 3, ‘God so loved the world’ etc. ...
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• Luthers Sermons for Trinity Sunday. John 3:1-15

  
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  SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST, OR TRINITY SUNDAY. John 3:1-15 This sermon, which is not found in edition c., appeared in two pamphlet editions in 1522 and 1523. The title of the first was, “A sermon of Dr. Martin Luther, Preached on the Day of the Holy Trinity on the Gospel, John 3. Wittenberg (1522).” German text: ...
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• Joy and peace in believing

  
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  ‘Joy and peace in believing.’ Romans 15:13 Suggested Further Reading: Ezekiel 13:1–16 You must take care, while valuing joy and peace, that you do not overestimate them; for, remember that joy and peace are, though eminently desirable, not infallible evidences of safety. There are many persons who ...
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• The hope of future bliss

  
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  “As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.” Psalm 17:15 Suggested Further Reading: Revelation 7:13-17 He will be satisfied, the Psalmist says, when he wakes up in God’s likeness. Satisfaction! This is another joy for the Christian when ...
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• Sermon: Ezekiel 37: 1-14 The Valley of Dry Bones

  
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  It sounds like a scene from a horror movie. The prophet Ezekiel is airlifted by the Lord into a valley - but it is no ordinary valley. It’s a place of death and destruction. The scene of a heavy defeat, full of confusion and disorder. Ezekiel is in the valley of dry bones. In fact, they’re not just dry, but, as ...
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• 111 Charts on the Apostle Paul

  
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  I have a love/hate relationship with the Apostle Paul. On the one hand, I love the guy. He is probably the greatest missionary the world has ever seen, he wrote a large percentage of the Christian Scriptures, he was a champion of God’s grace and of the Gospel for the Gentiles, and he had a theological mind and ...
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• A Pentecost Sermon

  
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  This is my sermon from today, Pentecost 2013, preached at Dunfermline United Reformed Church.  The readings the sermon is based on are Acts2:1-21 and John 14:8-17 . As always, your comments and thoughts are very welcome.
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• Sermon: 1 Peter 2:4-10 Living Stones

  
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  Now, I wonder if anyone can tell me why we’re meeting in the church hall today? Why is it we’re here and not across the road? We’ve got a bit of a building project going on. There was a problem with the paint and plaster peeling off the walls, so while we’re getting that fixed, we’re here in the church hall. ...
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• The church—conservative and aggressive

  
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  ‘The church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.’ 1 Timothy 3:15 Suggested Further Reading: 1 Corinthians 5:9–6:11 I remember a somewhat ludicrous incident which occurred to a church in which there were great quarrellings and bickerings. The minister and the deacons, and the people, ...
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• Forgiveness

  
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  “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” Isaiah 43:25 Suggested Further Reading: Acts 8:26-40 There are some passages of scripture which have been more abundantly blessed to the conversion of souls than others. They may be called ...
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• Go Ask Your Mother

  
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  Make sure you thank your mother today for everything she has done for you throughout the years. All the meals she has cooked, the clothes she has washed, the floors she has cleaned… And thank her as well for having more knowledge and expertise about life than anybody else you will ever meet. That is why as ...
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• Exaudi - The Sunday after the Ascension. 2013. John 15:24-16:4

  
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  Exaudi, The Sunday after the Ascension, 2013 Pastor Gregory L. Jackson http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bethany-lutheran-worship Bethany Lutheran Church, 10 AM Central Time The Hymn # 9            O Day of Rest                        1:89 The ...
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• Audio sermon: Deliverance by the finger of God

  
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  Exodus 8 vs. 19  – Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.       The finger of God confounds the wisdom of the wise.        The finger of God disgraces sorceries, cancel enchantments ...
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• Trust in God—true wisdom

  
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  ‘He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.’ Proverbs 16:20 Suggested Further Reading: Proverbs 3:1–7 I am persuaded that faith is as much the rule of temporal as of spiritual life, and that we ought to have faith in God for our shops as well as for ...
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• A caution to the presumptuous

  
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  “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” 1 Corinthians 10:12 Suggested Further Reading: Hebrews 10:19-25 These strong men sometimes will not use the means of grace, and therefore they fall. There are some persons here, who rarely attend a place of worship; they do not profess to be ...
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• The Wilderness State

  
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  "Ye now have sorrow: But I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you." John 16:22. 1. After God had wrought a great deliverance for Israel, by bringing them out of the house of bondage, they did not immediately enter into the land which he had [...]
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• The New Birth

  
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  "Ye must be born again." John 3:7. 1. If any doctrines within the whole compass of Christianity may be properly termed fundamental, they are doubtless these two, — the doctrine of justification, and that of the new birth: The former relating to that great work which God does for us, in forgiving our sins; the [...]
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