Sermon and Worship Resources

Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on

Showing 3001 to 3025 of 5000 results

3001. The S & L That Didn't Fail!

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

A Peanuts cartoon strip shows Charlie Brown and Linus as they summarize their team's baseball season. They report that in 12 games they almost scored a run. In right field Lucy almost caught three balls, and once she almost made the right play. They decided between them that they led the league in "almosts." We Christians do not have an "almost" Savior. We have a Lord who saves to the uttermost. He did not and he cannot fail. At this writing, according to the experts, losses from savings and loans (S & Ls ...

3002. The Secret of Wally Wheelbarrow

Philippians 2:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A wheelbarrow. Good morning, boys and girls. I brought along one of our friends today that I thought you would enjoy seeing. Do you remember Wally Wheelbarrow? (Let them answer.) Wally is a fine fellow. How many of you have ever worked with Wally? (Let them answer.) What did you do with Wally? (Let them answer.) You hauled dirt in Wally. Some of you picked up rocks and a few of you have even carried some wood in Wally. Wally Wheelbarrow has been a lot of places and has done a lot of things. A lot ...

3003. The Treasure Inside

2 Corinthians 4:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A cigar box with jewelry and money. Good morning, boys and girls. Today we want to talk a little bit about the way God shares all his wonderful blessings with us. I have always thought that it was pretty nice of God to share his world with me. He could have chosen the animals or the plants to share his story with but he chose people. The Bible talks about it in another way. Let me show you what I mean. Let's suppose that you and I are really cigar boxes. Has anyone ever called you a cigar box? (Let ...

3004. Jesus Was a Pioneer

Hebrews 2:10

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: An antique that would be representative of the pioneer period of our country such as a butter churn, coonskin cap, a musket or any other item that is easily obtained. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you like to see movies about old days? (Let them answer.) What do you think about when I say the word "pioneer"? (Let them answer.) You think of people like Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett. Do you think about hunting in the woods and living in log cabins? (Let them answer.) The people had to ...

3005. A Great Partnership

Philippians 1:5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Salt and pepper. Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to talk about some really good friends. They have been partners for a long time. I am sure that many of you have seen them together, as a matter of fact, you have probably never seen one without the other. In case you have not met them, I want to be the first to introduce the great partnership of salt and pepper. Day after day they do a job on my food. In the morning I eat eggs, and the first thing I do is put a little salt and some ...

3006. And Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Matthew 6:13a

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: box of chocolates, potato chips, popcorn, etc. Do you ever think that someday you will be on a diet? You know what a diet is, don't you? (Let them answer.) That's right, a diet is when you can't eat the things that you like the most, and you can eat as much as you want of things that you don't like. How many of you like hamburgers with lots of things on them, potatoes with gravy, chocolate candy, potato chips, ice cream, soda pop, and things like that? You can't have any of that on your diet but ...

3007. HUMILITY - A POTATO FOILED!

1 Peter 5:6

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: Paper foil and a potato. Good morning, boys and girls. I want to teach you a lesson this morning that every Christian must learn if he is ever going to be called a follower of Jesus. This lesson is so important that Jesus taught the disciples about it not once or twice, but many times. The lesson is called humility. Humility means being humble. Now how many here this morning know what I am talking about? Some of you do. Tell me what you think being humble means. [Wait for some answers.] Those are ...

3008. Living in the Dark

Ephesians 4:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A big box (if possible it should be big enough that they can sit or stand inside it). Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to have a lot of fun and prove a point while we are doing it. I brought along a tremendous friend that is used in lots of ways, but I think that this is one of the ways that he likes to be used best. His name is Bronco Box, and we call him Bronco because he is so big. Now I need a volunteer to live inside Bronco for a while so we can prove our point. (Select a ...

3009. An Eraser Means Forgiving

Hebrews 9:13-14

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: A piece of paper with a coated finish, a piece of onion skin paper, a pencil, and a good eraser. Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to do an experiment that will show you the difference between what Christ can do with your sin and what you or a friend can do with your sin. How many of you like to experiment? A lot of you. How many of you like to sin? (Wait for a reply.) Not many of you like to sin, but all of you do sin. A few. Well, let's try our experiment. First, we must take a ...

3010. Preaching the Miracles of Jesus

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

Despite our scientific and technological generation, we live in an age of miracles. They are so many, and they occur so often, that we tend to take miracles for granted. When one gets well from a serious illness, we say, "His recovery was a miracle!" When we see pictures of a car wreck, we say, "It was a miracle all were not killed." A wife sent a friendship card to her husband with the message, "You love me! Will miracles never cease?" Every day we experience miracles. They are miracles because we cannot ...

3011. Ascension

Acts 1:1-11, Mark 16:1-20, Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

It is a great day when a hero returns to his people. We Americans put on a gala reception with a ticker tape parade usually in Manhattan. Hundreds of thousands gather to see the procession of victory. They cheer. The bands play. Banners wave in the wind. Spontaneous shouts are heard blocks away. The hero may be a Charles Lindbergh, a Dwight Eisenhower, a Neil Armstrong, a Pope or a Nelson Mandela. It is a great day of welcome, festivity and victory. But, the greatest day of all occurred not on earth but in ...

3012. Preaching The Miracles

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

Discipline (v. 7) - Who is "the disciple whom Jesus loved?" In John's gospel, John never mentions his name, but describes himself as "the disciple whom Jesus loved." It was not that John only was loved by Jesus, but apparently there was an exceptional closeness to their relationship, akin to David and Jonathon. In this instance, John was the only disciple who recognized that it was Jesus standing on the beach. Love has the power of vision and insight into the nature of people. Love lets you see who a ...

3013. Star Miracle

Matthew 2:1-12, Isaiah 60:1-22, Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

Today's society is a star-saturated society, or should we say star-crazy society? Since we seem to know all about our Earth and face no more earthly frontiers, we have turned our attention to extra-terrestrial bodies. We are interested in the stars: their size, temperature, and whether life exists on them. In 1989 Time magazine had a feature article on the sun, an "ordinary" star 96 million miles from Earth, 865,000 miles in diameter, with a temperature of 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. For 3-and-a-half ...

3014. Baptism of the Lord

Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 61:1-11, Luke 3:21-38, Acts 8:9-25

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

It was an extraordinary event on an ordinary Sunday amidst very ordinary surroundings. At the annual Bible conference on a Sunday afternoon in July, 1989, at Lake Findley, New York, a group met on the shore of the lake for a baptismal service. The people stood on the shore overlooking the lake. Now and then a boat pulling a skier roared by. Several jet skis made thundering noise and waves. In the distance one could see a small sailboat or two. A brief service of Scripture and prayer preceded the baptism. A ...

3015. Fish Miracle

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13, Luke 5:1-11

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. 2 And he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3 Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. 4 And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." 5 And Simon answered, "Master, we ...

3016. God's Descending Spirit

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

Even in the room's darkness Rachel's face was seen streaked with tears. She wiped her cheeks with the back of her hand. Rachel had been an un-named disciple since Jesus had first visited her village. They had already celebrated two passovers. It had been that long ago. She was not important in the way that Simon and his brothers were important. She could not speak eloquently, nor command evil spirits to disappear. Nor could she carry her side of debate about the religious law. Also, she was a woman. But ...

3017. Our Own Mountaintop Walk

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

Matthias was the 13th of the 12 disciples! He had been chosen by lot to fill the 12th spot when Judas had removed himself from the close circle of Jesus' followers. Matthias had followed the crowds down from the Galilee and had been close to all the disciples through much of the teaching years. And so, with the casting of the lots that picked him, Matthias joined the inner circle of disciples. He was a serious man, trained in the religious law, and certain that Jesus was the expected Messiah. So certain ...

3018. When You Can't See The Rainbow for the Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

James Weekley

Following the battle of Guadalcanal, Barney Ross recalls himself petitioning a Jewish God. Adkins, in the next foxhole, was praying to a Baptist God. A kid with a hole in his side was praying to a Catholic God. It hit him that there was no difference between himself and his friends beneath a hell of gunfire. He confessed, "I couldn't help but wonder if people have to come that close to death to realize that we are all on the same side and trying to get to the same place." The face of death has bad breath. ...

3019. The Song in Search of a Voice

John 20:19-23

Sermon

James Weekley

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive ...

3020. Are Half-Painted Rainbows Enough?

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

James Weekley

"What is God up to now?" he wondered. "Are you serious, Lord? Did I hear you correctly? You say you want me to withdraw my money from the bank, stop my newspaper, pull up stakes, leave the friends I have grown up with, and move to a somewhere land which has no name?" God did not even give Abraham an Exxon road atlas and a U-Haul trailer. All that he had to go with was faith. "Now I want to see those inner potentials flex their muscles," God reminded the wandering Aramean. Even more remarkable for Abraham ...

3021. Faith To The Finish

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8, Isaiah 14:24-27

Sermon

Erskine White

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:7) In our first text for this morning, Jesus asks, "For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether [you] have enough to complete it?" Incredibly enough, we saw this parable being acted out not too long ago right before our eyes in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by none other than Oral Roberts! You see, Oral announced one day that Jesus came to him as a vision 600 feet tall and ...

3022. How To Become What You Are

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Erskine White

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. (Luke 21:28) What are you? If I asked you that question right now, you might come up with many different answers. You might say, "I am a wife," or a husband, a mother or a father, a grandmother or grandfather. You might say, "I am someone's son," or daughter, or a brother or sister to so-and-so. In other words, you might define yourself in terms of your family relationships or other relationships which are important to you. You might say, "I am Italian- ...

3023. Jesus, The Mad Man

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

Erskine White

... they went out to seize Him, for they said, "He is beside Himself." (Mark 3:21) I'm not a big movie-goer and I hardly ever watch the same movie more than once, but there is one film I have seen five or six times, and I'd see it again if I could find it. Evidently, a lot of other people felt the same way about this film, because it ran in one big city movie theater every day for twelve years. The film is called "The King of Hearts," and it has to do with an insane asylum caught up in the middle of World ...

3024. What Have You Got To Lose?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Erskine White

Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. (John 12:25) Years ago, when the Betty Crocker company first began selling their cake mixes, they offered a product which only needed water. All you had to do was add water to the mix which came in the box, and you would get a perfect, delicious cake every time. It bombed. No one bought it and the company couldn’t understand why, so they commissioned a study which brought back a surprising answer. ...

3025. The Strength To Wait

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Erskine White

Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. (Isaiah 40:33a) At the height of the Christmas shopping season, a young boy was standing at the bottom of a department store escalator, staring intently at the handrail as it moved along and refusing to take his eyes away. A saleswoman asked, "Are you lost?" "Nope," the boy said, "I'm waiting for my chewing gum to come back." That boy displayed an admirable patience, but most children find it hard to wait for the things they want. And at Christmas ...

Showing results