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 101 to 125 of 1131 results

101. A Visionary Moment

Mark 9:2-13

Illustration

Edward F. Markquart

... on a wave crest, bearing from land. For one moment, I saw…." I love those words, "From that moment, I saw the sail in the sun storm, I saw." And he continued, "From that moment, when I said Yes to Someone, I knew for sure that my life, in self surrender, had meaning and had a goal." That may be true for you as well. Where you had a moment when you said yes to Someone [point up when you say Someone], a visionary moment in your life, maybe you cannot pinpoint the exactness of the time of that moment, but ...

102. What Does God Really Want?

2 Corinthians 8:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... phrase tells us what God really wants. God does not want anything you have; God wants all that you are. It is easy to give part of what you have when you have surrendered all that you are. A great Bible teacher once said, "God is willing to take full responsibility for the life that is totally surrendered to Him." When you surrender yourself totally to God, and give everything you are to Him, God will take full responsibility for the rest of your life. I have learned that when you commit yourself to meet ...

103. Here I Am To Worship

John 4:24

Sermon

James Merritt

... love for you and a relationship where He sees your love for Him. That is why the greatest way to demonstrate you affection to God is by giving your life to Him and by surrendering all that you have to Him. Shakespeare once said, "They do not love who do not show their love." I wear a wedding band on my hand to show that I am totally surrendered as a man and as a husband to my wife, Teresa. That is the essence of my love knowing that I give myself to her and to her alone. On a daily basis ...

104. Minority Report

Matthew 13:1-9; 18-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... about; a heart that was strangled by the prosperities and the pleasures of this world, and the spiritual life was choked out. IV. Surrendered Hearts Reproduce The Word "But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty." (v.8 ... , the Bible is the word of God and Jesus is the Son of God, but you will only believe this and receive this with a surrendered heart. There is not a greater joy in a pastor's life than to see when that very thing happens. Last week I got a ...

105. Facing Our Fears with Faith

Matthew 10: 27-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... in amazement and awe. Sometimes we sing it: Our God is an awesome God. He reigns from Heaven above, With wisdom, power and love. Our God is an awesome God. Have you rediscovered the awesome nature of your Lord? Faith helps us SORT our fears. III. Faith will help us SURRENDER our Fears. V. 29 “Are there not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet, not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. Even the hairs on your head are counted, so do not be afraid. You are of so much more value than many ...

106. The Voice-activated Life

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... reveals rather than repeats. App faith is pharisaaic religion. A Jesus faith is trusting the Spirit by leaning into the Silence. Jesus’ disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration rushed to speak and said some things out-of-turn. There is a time to just be quiet and surrender to the mysterious. In fact, being silent is the heart of listening. The letters that spell “l-i-s-t-e-n” also spell “silent.” Silence is the heart of listening. And that’s our problem: to be silent requires trust, patience ...

107. Ignite: Fire and Water

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

James Merritt

... , we have been in a series of messages on the Book of Acts called “Ignite.” We have simply been taking a look at the early church and what it was like to be set on fire by the Holy Spirit of God. When a person decides to become a surrendered follower of Jesus Christ, God sends the person and the power of the Holy Spirit into that believer’s life to enable him to live the Christian life. One major symbol of the Holy Spirit is fire. Interestingly enough when you study the Book of Acts every time someone ...

108. First Thing

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

James Merritt

... one day at a time.”[1] I want to ask you to do something. You still have weeks left in this year. Go home today, sit down at a desk and take out a sheet of paper. Write down the top 3-5 things you are worried about. Then, surrender every one of them to Jesus. Shift your focus, change your priorities and be obsessed with His kingdom and His righteousness and let Him worry about everything else. This is the ultimate question. I don’t know who wrote these words, but they are well worth hearing. “What ...

109. Up Close & Personal: Seeing Clearly

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... can ease-drop in on a conference call that is taking place between the Trinity. It is obvious the Lord wasn’t just talking to Himself. He said, “Who will go for us?” (Isaiah 6:8, ESV) Once you see God for who He really is you will want to surrender everything you are to everything He is. Isaiah responds the way we all should, “Here am I! Send me.” (Isaiah 6:8, ESV) That is so refreshing because most people when God says, “Whom should I send? Who will go for Us?” They don’t say, “Here am I ...

110. Can One Become Two?

Matthew 19:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... would not even be contemplated he would order that the “colors” be nailed to the mast. Having the flags nailed up high, there was no possibility of lowering them in the heat of the battle in order to surrender. When you go into a battle knowing surrender is not an option, then your only motivation is to fix your mind on how you can best win that battle. I am asking every couple today that is married to do something that may be difficult but I know is possible –nail the flag of your marriage to ...

111. The Fall of Jerusalem

Jeremiah 39:1-18

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

... in the city, those who had earlier gone over to the Babylonians, and the rest of the people. The middle category, those who had gone over to the Babylonians, refers to those who saw the end in sight and had abandoned the city and surrendered to the Babylonians before the end of the siege. This move assured their survival, but not their continued presence in the land. Even so, the text acknowledges that the land was not totally depopulated. There were some whom the Babylonians purposefully left behind (in ...

112. God’s Love for Israel

Hosea 11:1-11

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the day. It is with the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ that this message of love breaks out of Israel’s particularity to encompass all people on the earth. Human sin does the Son of God to death, but this God of the Bible will not surrender his world to the effects of sin and death. Instead, his sovereign love raises Christ from the grave and wins its triumph over all wrong, offering to all persons everywhere a new life in his blessed future. Unmerited grace rules human history. The love of the ...

113. Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Obedience

Num 15:1-41

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... of Scripture and, specially, of Our Lord’s own words; it has always been held by Christendom; and it has the support of reason. If a game is played, it must be possible to lose it. If the happiness of a creature lies in self-surrender, no one can make that surrender but himself . . . and he may refuse. I would pay any price to be able to say truthfully “All will be saved.” But my reason retorts, “Without their will, or with it?” If I say “Without their will” I at once perceive a contradiction ...

114. “Their Violence Comes Down on Their Own Heads”

Psalm 7:1-17

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... , by running from the field and finding refuge. As word of the masacre spread to the Americans, it led to American retaliation against German prisoners.[14] One of the amazing truths of the Bible is that the Lord receives, with joy, the rebellious sinner who surrenders to him. Even though we were at war with God, rebelling against his righteous decrees, he still loved us and received us without punishment (although, as we see in the NT, Jesus paid the price for our rebellion). This is a powerful picture, to ...

115. “Zeal for Your House Consumes Me”

Psalm 69:1-36

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... New. God’s kingdom is both now and not yet. The conflict that is carried on to bring about the kingdom is like a civil war, where certain regions have fallen into kingdom hands, yet the battle still goes on until all enemy forces have surrendered unconditionally. It may be helpful to distinguish briefly between the church and the kingdom—they are not exactly synonymous. The church is the institution that Christ has established in the world to bring about the kingdom of God, or the loyalist force that is ...

116. Mary: The Handmaiden of the Lord

Luke 1:38-45

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... to remember and you will forget what you are supposed to forget.” Wow! Imagine having the faith to live that way in all aspects of life. To simply let the flow of God have its way in our lives. Many of us are just one moment of surrender away from the blessing we crave from God. Believing brings blessing. I know some of you will say, “Charley, isn’t this an excuse not to work, to be lazy.” Well, the only thing worse than laziness, is futility – using up your energy for something worthless, with ...

117. Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold

Isaiah 37:1-13

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... Sennacherib captured all the fortified cities of Judah; when Hezekiah acknowledged that he had done wrong in rebelling and asked him to withdraw, Sennacherib imposed a tribute of three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. Paying this involved the surrender of all the silver in palace and temple and in stripping the gold overlay from the temple doors and doorposts. Comparing Sennacherib’s account with those in Kings and Isaiah reveals that he omits the fact that he did not actually conquer ...

118. Awesome Obedience

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... wall and watched in shocked silence as, one by one, Alexander’s soldiers marched without hesitation right off the cliff to their deaths! After ten soldiers died, Alexander ordered the rest of the men to return to his side. The townspeople and the king immediately surrendered to Alexander the Great. They realized that if a few men were actually willing to commit suicide at the command of this dynamic leader, then nothing could stop his eventual victory. Are you willing to be as obedient to the ruler of the ...

119. Free From What? For What?

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... include news from the outside. The Germans never caught on to what they were doing. One day, news of the German surrender came over the radio. The war was over, but the German guards didn’t realize it for three days. During the ... chains can’t bind us if we remember that the war is over; the victory is secured. When Christ died and rose again, the enemy was forced to surrender. It’s only a matter of time until the gates will be left open and we can walk out. Of course, there’s still hardship, but we ...

120. “Until An Opportune Time…”

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... fasting. Political power is laid it before him, and the enticing power of his own “equality with God” (Philippians 2:6) is dangled in front of him. Here is our strength and consolation in the struggles we face hourly with temptation. In him there is no surrender or accommodation. In him the devil is given no quarter. In him there is no interior struggle with the tyranny of his desires (paraphrase from 1 Peter 2:9f). In him is a clear, simple refusal to give in to temptation. This does not imply that ...

121. The Ear of the Heart

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... back to God Fifth: Jesus is exalted with God The hymn moves from Jesus being sovereign over creation to being enslaved within creation. Jesus in the “form” of God was preexistent and equal with God. But Jesus would not “grasp” this as he voluntarily surrendered himself to being in the form of a man. Jesus exchanged the divine mode of existence for a “slave” mode of existence. The significance of this is that Jesus experienced life as we do each day. After voluntarily humbling himself, Jesus was ...

122.

Psalm 139:1-24

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... sudden wish that God would slay the wicked may not be as abrupt as interpreters have imagined. 139:23–24 We now realize that the speaker’s invitation for God to search him at the psalm’s close is not a spontaneous response of piety but a reasoned surrender to God’s inescapable, all-searching presence. Earlier the speaker’s initial response was to escape; now he chooses to draw near to the God who pursues him. But why does the speaker petition God to do the very things he would do or has done in ...

123. The Kings of the South and the North

Daniel 11:2-35

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... meaning of “the vision” is that recorded in Daniel 10–12.10 11:15–16 the king of the North . . . will do as he pleases. After his defeat at Paneas, Egypt’s general Scopas retreated to Sidon. In turn, Antiochus III besieged the city, forcing the surrender of troops who had no “strength to stand” due to famine. In his well-established rule, Antiochus did as he pleased (cf. 4:35; 11:3, 36). Judea is “the Beautiful Land” (8:9; 11:16, 41), which Antiochus now controlled. 11:17 He . . . will ...

124. Proper 18

Psalm 139:1-24, Philemon 1:8-25, Philemon 1:1-7, Jeremiah 18:1--19:15, Luke 14:25-35

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... be transformed into his likeness. That does not mean being a male, a Semitic type, even an itinerant preacher. Entering into discipleship means an abandoning of self completely to his kind of life wherever that leads and whatever that may require. It is the kind of self-surrender that is the loss of all things an ego holds as supreme for the meaning of life. It usually means a radical change of lifestyle. It is not something to which one commits on the basis of an emotional high or an impulse of the moment ...

125. Following God's Lead

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... lives. Confidence becomes obedience, obedience becomes trust, trust becomes faith, faith becomes hope and hope becomes submission. Perhaps during this season of Lent, you are asking God to direct your desires, your thoughts, your life. It all begins when we surrender our will to the will of God. How do we surrender our will to the will of God? A simple prayer begins our journey. "Loving God, teach me your ways, direct my paths, guide me in my daily routines of life. Help me grow in my trust of you so that ...

Showing results