Preaching on Friendship? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
The Heart of a Pastor
The Story Behind the Sermon
This message represents an unusual approach to sermon prep and delivery. Jim Singleton and Matthew Kim, both professors at ...
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The Family Silver
Introduction
When I was twenty-six, a package arrived at my home accompanied by a note from my grandmother that simply read, "Take good care of this. It's ...
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A Tale of Two Women
Introduction
In the days when the judges ruled over the land of Judah there came a famine to the land. So a man from Bethlehem together with his wife and ...
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Drafting Buddies
Introduction
Sam and Frodo find themselves on the final leg of their journey on the slopes of Mordor, but Frodo is losing heart. He's just about out of ...
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Testing the Limits
Introduction
For the past couple of weeks we've been talking about friendship. And what we're learning is that our friendships play an important role in ...
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Beyond Friends
Introduction
Where are you on your spiritual journey? And what would help you take the next step?
A couple of years ago we joined hundreds of churches across ...
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True Friends
Introduction
Last week I tossed out a question and invited you to respond: is it possible to be spiritual friends with a non-believer? For the past six ...
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You Were Created to Connect
Introduction
I have been the senior pastor at Christ Church for nearly eight years, and the theme I hope you've heard over and over in my preaching is ...
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The Eyes of a Doctor
From the editor:
Here's a sermon from Donald Sunukjian on what we ought to do when we encounter someone who has yet to know God. We've mentioned before ...
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Who Can We Trust?
From the editor:
Here is another sermon from one of our featured preachers, David Anderson. Anderson uses the story of Samson and Delilah to explore issues ...
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Life Together
Introduction
The first week we moved into the small town where I served as pastor, my wife Jane and I decided to take a walk down Main Street. We immediately ...
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The Discipline of Communal Examination
From the editor
Next week we start to roll out all of our new Easter sermons, but seeing as many congregations have just begun observing the Lenten season, ...
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Learning from Tiger Woods
From the editor
In late November 2009, a series of events led to a bevy of stories about infidelities on the part of golf's greatest player, Tiger ...
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Driven to Community
Introduction
In his book Bowling Alone, Robert D. Putnam writes
Before October 29, 1997, John Lambert and Andy Boschma knew each other only through their ...
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Gentleness
Introduction
This is the seventh week we've been growing through our study of the fruit of the Spirit. This week we're going to look at gentleness. You ...
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
About the Book
The Brothers Karamazov is the story of a father, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, and his three ...
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Till We Have Faces
Till We Have Faces
By C. S. Lewis
About the Book
Lewis's Till We Have Faces is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of ...
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Relationships
Relationships: An Open and Honest Guide to Making Bad Relationships Better and Good Relationships Great By Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott Zondervan (1998); ...
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Boundaries
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, To Take Control of Your life
By Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
Zondervan (1992); 296 pages
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Sacred Marriage
Sacred Marriage
By Gary Thomas
Zondervan (2000); 268 pages
About the Book
In Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas steers us away from the goal of marital improvement, ...
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Understanding Who You Are
Understanding Who You Are: What Your Relationships Tell You About Yourself
By Dr. Larry Crabb
NavPress (1997); 78 pages
About the Book
Crabb's aim in ...
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The Four Loves
The Four Loves
By C. S. Lewis
Harcourt Brace & Company (1960); 141 pages
About the Book
C. S. Lewis seamlessly couples the analytical and spiritual in ...
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Relationships: An Annotated Bibliography
It has only been recently, and in part due to my gleanings from this project, that I've felt the sheer weight of the love Jesus calls us to: to set aside ...
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Life Together
Life Together
By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Harper & Row (1954); 122 pages
About the Book
Rather than delving into why we operate the way we do or examining ...
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When Life Crowds You Out
Introduction
On the wall of a subway in New York City was an advertising poster that depicted a dignified older gentleman recommending a particular product. ...
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Choosing What Is Best
Introduction
There were about 20 of us: the engaged couple, their parents, the bridesmaids and groomsmen who were going to be in the wedding the next day, ...
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Call Me at Midnight
Introduction
Whether our "family" is a group of close friends, a bunch of kids running around the house, or a husband and wife alone, I think it is fair ...
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Encouraging to the End
Introduction
This past week, my dad was in a serious car wreck. He was t-boned by a small car, and his pickup rolled over three times and landed in a deep ...
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Managing Your Relationships
Introduction:
When Jerry Seinfeld began his comedy show (you may have heard of it; it was called Seinfeld), he paid one of his New York buddies what he ...
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Believers
In the first chapter of Peter's second epistle, he makes a bold promise, an astonishing guarantee. He says, in effect, "If you make an effort ...
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Choose Friends
I was at a weeklong Christian youth camp about six or seven years ago. The theme of the week had something to do with friendship. Each night the band ...
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Friendship
In this passage our Lord calls us his friends and gives us four tests or proofs, or signs of the friendship. Two signs or proofs are on his side and ...
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