Preaching on Human Nature? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
Humanity's Mission Statement
Introduction
If you have your Bible I'm going to read Genesis1:26-31. I want to read the events of the sixth day of creation as it is recorded for us here. ...
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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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Angels: A Song of Peace
Introduction
We've been looking at Christmas songs preserved for us in Scripture. Some, like Zechariah's song last week, are completely foreign to most ...
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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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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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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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Cravings and Conflicts
Text: James 4:1–2
Topic: Identifying and addressing the source of conflict
Introduction
There is a relational conflict in your immediate future. You ...
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The Lord Is My Shepherd
Introduction
I don't know much about sheep. I was born and raised in the suburbs, and we didn't have sheep. In fact, they were probably illegal. ...
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Pledging Love
Introduction
We have been learning how to deal with difficult people from the story of Saul and David. Today we come to the central theme of the whole ...
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Showing Grace
Introduction
We are taking four Sundays to consider the subject of loyalty and what it takes to keep faith in a broken world. Our particular emphasis in ...
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Speaking Truth
Introduction
For the next few weeks, we're following the story of Saul and David in First Samuel. We discovered last week that he is one of these characters ...
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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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Go With the Flow
Introduction
I'm told that the U.S. standard railroad gauge is four feet, eight-and-one-half inches between the rails. Why such an odd number? It's very ...
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What About Sudden Conversion?
I am very intrigued by the new invention that is now being foisted upon some parts of the American people, whereby on closed-circuit television they ...
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New Beginnings
Paul and Barnabas experienced a theological victory at Jerusalem when the Christian church gathered for the first international conference of Christians ...
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Combining Conviction and Compassion
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality? Since I have been at this church, I have had to answer this question as well as a number of related questions ...
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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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