Preaching on Humility? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
The Hope for the World
Introduction
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year for many reasons. And one of those reasons is that Christmas allows us to take stock of the ...
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Miraculous Births: Jesus
This sermon is part of the “Miraculous Births” sermon series. See the whole series here.
Introduction
Christmas is a depressing time for most ...
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The Man the King Delights to Honor
Introduction
[Read Esther 3:1-6 and 6:1-10]
Esther is a Jewish woman who becomes queen of Persia, and as we have seen and will continue to see, she uses ...
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God's Love Language
Introduction
Why does it take so long to learn how to love the important people in our life? Am I the only slow learner in this crowd? When our kids were ...
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Looking Otherward
Introduction
Many years ago, I had dinner at a place called Windows on the World. The restaurant sat atop a skyscraper so high that the wait staff literally ...
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National Reflections
Introduction
This past week, our elders met to pray and talk about our church and the level of churning in our nation these days around issues of political ...
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It's Not About Me
Introduction
"What is it, Doc? What do I have? What's wrong with me?"
It's a question we all ask ourselves from time to time. When we ...
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Girl Interrupted: The Unmistakable Strength of Mary
Introduction
I never know what to do with Mary. I'm in good company: The archives of history and the echoes of ancient sermons never quite knew what ...
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Pointing Fingers
Introduction
We live in an age of finger-pointing. Some of this finger-pointing is regrettable, I think. One expression of it is inspirational, I believe. ...
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Humble Leadership
Introduction
The goal for this series, "Four Pillars of a Healthy Community," is for us to look at the vision that Jesus was putting on display when he ...
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The Most Shocking Madonna Song Ever
Introduction
Flipping through the radio dial you hear all kinds of Christmas music right now, and one of the songs that seems to be on the loop for most ...
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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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What Kind of Heart Does God Desire?
Introduction
David is often described as "a man after God's own heart." That is how Samuel described him at the point that he was going to be anointed ...
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Broken but Chosen
Introduction
It took Michelangelo four years to craft his statue of David. It is 13-feet tall. He used flawed marble. We know the exact quarry the marble ...
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How to Learn What You Need to Know About God
The story behind the sermon (by Kevin Miller)
This text from Matthew, "Who do you say I am?" is a prophetic text: it challenges; it confronts; it calls ...
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It's God's Party, Not Yours
Introduction
People question my wife and me about where we live and how we choose to spend our money. They basically say, "You know, it's OK with God if ...
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God Is Holy
The story behind the sermon (from Dan Meyer)
The idea for this series grew out of a frank appraisal I did of my preaching curriculum over the past couple ...
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God Is Self-sacrificing
Introduction: Recovering a knowledge of God
As wonderful as life is in so many respects, many of us look at our world today and wonder how we are ever ...
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The Disproportionate Life
Introduction
Last week we started this series on responsibility, and we discovered a few things from the Scripture. Number one: you were created to be ...
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Hezekiah: Healed but Boastful
Introduction
Today we're going to be looking at Isaiah 38 and 39. I was thinking this week as I pondered these passages that the Bible is a lot like an ...
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The Foundation of a Nation
Introduction
This weekend we want to celebrate our nation's independence. We have very much to be grateful for. We pause to say "thank you" for fathers ...
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Jesus Christ: His Human Nature
"The gospel of God … regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendent of David …" (Romans 1:3).
Paul says, "Jesus Christ is ...
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Jesus Christ: His Resurrection from the Dead
"The gospel of God … regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendent of David according to the flesh, and who was declared to be ...
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Looking Up to Heaven
A shattered Colossus
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelly tells of meeting a traveler from an "antique" land who describes the ruins of a great statue in the desert. ...
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Down Lower, Up Higher
Introduction
There was no question he loved her. He was absolutely bedazzled by her. It was surprising, really, because she was quite plain. But ...
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Heart Worm
Over these past weeks we've been looking together at some conditions of the human heart that obviously need help. When we meet somebody whose life is ...
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Love in Spite of Differences
Every sailor could agree on one fact. Had it not been for the captain, they never would have survived. The storm came suddenly, and in a matter of moments ...
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Acting Out Humility
Today I want to teach you a truth from God's word that I think will change your life. If you grasp this truth and if you apply it, it will transform every ...
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Teammates in Christ
Introduction
Paul is in prison. The Philippians have written a letter and sent a young missionary, Epaphroditus, to help him, but he became ill and had ...
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Who's the Boss?
Story behind the sermon (from Lee Eclov)
I wonder if people aren't a little suspicious when we preach about work. When we say that all work is a calling, ...
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Hearing God
Introduction
Up until about ten years ago, the word hotspot meant a political hot zone, a dangerous place—North Korea, Iraq, the Congo. It's a place ...
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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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Love Does Not Boast
From the editor:
Over the next few months, PreachingToday.com is going to run an entire transcript series from Haddon Robinson on 1 Corinthians 13. The ...
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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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Growing Up
Introduction
When I was in kindergarten, we used to play a game based on a hit TV show called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. My teacher, Mrs. Floaten, ...
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The Christmas Plunge
From the editor:
Who doesn't love reflecting on the amazing story of Mary, a teenage girl swept up in something so unexpected, so epic? The Incarnation ...
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The Blessed Limp
Introduction
A blessing is a mysterious thing. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's narrator is an elderly pastor named John ...
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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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You're Fantastic
Introduction
Of all the comic books turned into motion pictures of late, my favorite one is the Fantastic Four. For those not in the know, it is a tale ...
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Trophy Kids
Introduction
When our eldest son was making preparations to start his freshman year of high school, I overheard him telling a classmate that he was planning ...
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Blessed Are the Meek
Introduction
Suppose the company you work for were to write a description of the ideal person to be its new CEO. Do you think meekness would be on the ...
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Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
Introduction
"No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear." That is how C. S. Lewis begins his book A Grief Observed, a compelling account of ...
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Less is More, More or Less
Introduction
A few months ago my two teenage sons came to me and asked if they could go camping for a week … on Lower Wacker Drive in the city of ...
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In God We Trust (Though We'd Rather Pay Cash)
Introduction
Have you ever felt really anxious and stressed? If I don't accept this offer, then …. If my child doesn't get into the right ...
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