Preaching on Oppression? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
Later On, We'll Conspire
Introduction
There's something subversive about Christmas. To subvert something is to overthrow it, usually by indirect means. Subversion isn't a frontal ...
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Modern-day Slavery and Our True Liberator
The story behind the sermon (By R. York Moore)
Why preach on Human Trafficking I believe the Church has a moral obligation to press into the growing tragedy ...
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The Peace Jesus Brings
Introduction
In this Advent season, we are looking at the theme of God's promise of better days for our lives. That is the hope of Advent and Christmas, ...
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Finding God in Desperate Places
Introduction
I'd like to write a book someday called Desperate Places: How God Shines Through Our Weakness. These desperate places are places of weakness, ...
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The Promise of Better Days
Introduction
As a 5th grader at Cornelia Elementary School in Edina, Minnesota, I always felt sorry for a fellow student named Gary. With his high squeaky ...
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Battered into Submission
Introduction
Not long ago, someone said to me, "I've never heard a sermon about violence in the home. I've never heard the preacher pray about it. I've ...
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The Second Extreme: Contempt for the Lost
Introduction
I've got good news, bad news, and hard news.
The good news: The best argument for God is the church. Everyday, God becomes accessible to a ...
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Those Who Rise
Introduction
The story is told of a farmer's donkey who stumbled into an old, dry well. For hours the animal cried piteously as the farmer tried to sort ...
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Getting In the Last Word
Introduction:
When we began this series, I mentioned that First Peter deals with some topics that Americans don't always immediately relate to. Peter ...
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When Trouble Strikes
Growing up in the sixties and seventies I heard a prediction made several times by a variety of preachers and evangelists speaking on the subject of ...
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God and the Hebrew Midwives
Many of you perhaps were shaped the way I was in terms of where I really learned my first Bible pictures of the Exodus story. I didn't get mine in Sunday ...
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Blood in Bethlehem
Two weeks ago NPR carried a story about plans to spruce up Bethlehem, the dusty little Palestinian town of Jesus' Nativity. Tourists take the bus from ...
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