Preaching on Depravity? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
The Power of Spiritual Deception
Introduction
Jim Jones was the founder of the People's Temple. More than 900 of Jim Jones' followers died in a cult murder/suicide in 1978 in Jonestown, ...
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Community: The Context for Change
Story behind the sermon (from John Ortberg)
I am a huge N. T. Wright fan, and I think some of his material on the role and destiny of human beings is a ...
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How Did the World Get So Messed Up?
Introduction
Not everything in the world is good. Not everything in the world is happy. Not everything in the world is beautiful. In fact, real evil does ...
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When To Flee
In Focus on the Family we have a crisis number for pastors and Christian leaders. About 60 percent of the calls come from the pastors; about 40 percent ...
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A Ministry of Reconciliation
From the editor:
In this week's featured sermon, John MacArthur says, "Never has the world seen a God who by nature is a lover. Never has the world seen ...
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When Sin Creeps In
From the editor
If you remove the first three chapters of Genesis, anything goes. So much foundational theology is packed into those seminal verses. One ...
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Image Management
Introduction
In her wonderful book Breathe, author Keri Wyatt Kent names four crucial commitments necessary to finding our way into a saner kind of life ...
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Is There Any Hope When God's People Fail?
From the editor
As a part of our Getting the Gospel Right theme in the Skills section, we are currently featuring an article by Steven Mathewson, entitled ...
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The Heartbreak Gospel
Introduction
Last week we began our study of the Beatitudes: Jesus' intriguing list of people who are blessed and well-off. Suppose we were to come ...
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Annihilate the Amalekites
From the editor:
One of the chief hang-ups people have with God is the wrath he pours out in the Old Testament. How can a loving God call for the slaying ...
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Why Is the World So Messed Up?
Text: Romans 5:12–17
Topic: How the world is broken and what that means for us
Introduction
Not everything in the world is good. Not everything in the ...
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A Man Like Us and a God Who Lives
Introduction
Elijah is one of the Bible's most dramatic characters, because he experienced the light of God's presence even when everything around him ...
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Taming the Beast
Text: Genesis 4:1–16
Topic: How to battle envy
Introduction
A few years ago, two high school girls in California—well liked, talented and ambitious—attended ...
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Redneck Christmas
Editor's note: The following monologue is delivered in character by a shepherd named Larry. There was a live nativity scene on stage for the Children's ...
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The Grieving Heart of God
Introduction
On the first day teaching his class for 250 college freshmen, R. C. Sproul carefully explained the assignment of three term papers. Each paper ...
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I Have a Dark Side I Must Understand
Introduction
Mark Twain once said, "We're all like the moon—we have a dark side." I think his analysis of human nature was right on ...
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A Calvinist Talks About His Friend, John Wesley
Introduction
If you had been a student at Oxford University in the early part of the eighteenth century, you probably would have been a swinger. The bars ...
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The Way We Were
Introduction
When I was about 11 years old, I almost drowned. I was swimming in the pool at summer camp with my friends from church. I had graduated ...
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When a Culture Is Demonized
Illustration: Jones Very's poem Enoch ends with a depiction of mankind's universal and tragic custom of building temples to God while making no room in ...
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