Preaching on Purity? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
God Pleasers
Introduction
Eddie Chapman was a British citizen in the early 1900s. He lived a life of low-level crime. During one of his stints in prison, he met two ...
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God's Plan for Your Body
Introduction
I often need to fix and repair things, but I'm not very good with nails. I'm even worse with screws, and there are some things ...
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It's Just Sex!
Introduction
I'm starting a four week series on sex, marriage, and singleness. My text for this series will be 1 Corinthians 6:12-7:40, where Paul addresses ...
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What Your Spouse Wants You to Figure Out
From the editor:
Few preachers make better use of humor than Dave Stone. He's especially gifted at knowing exactly the right point to insert a funny line ...
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How to Stay Pure in an Impure World
Time magazine recently published an article about the largest body of contaminated water anywhere in the United States of America. In that story they ...
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Christian Singles
Introduction
Currently 17 to 20 million unmarried women and several million fewer unmarried men live in the United States. It's estimated that, at ...
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Just Say Yes
Introduction
Back in the 1980's, when drug use became epidemic among young people, and teen pregnancy and AIDS were on the rise, and gangs were turning ...
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Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
Introduction
Through the centuries there have been some people who have wanted to view Jesus' teaching in the Beatitudes as a kind of ladder that can carry ...
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Blessed Are the Merciful
Introduction
Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg entered the diplomatic service and was appointed foreign minister of Austria in November 1848. After the Hungarian ...
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What the Heart Wants
What the heart wants
Back in the 1990's, the comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen was an icon of the movie industry—until his personal life began ...
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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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Expect God's Visitation
Introduction
In Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge lies down on Christmas Eve hoping to enjoy a good night's rest. In the course ...
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Patrol Your Pleasures
Introduction
When I ask you to give me an adjective that describes Jesus of Nazareth, what comes to mind for you? How many of you instantly thought of ...
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The Process of Transformation
Text: 1 John 3:1–10
Topic: How to attain holiness
Introduction
Imagine that you've been asked to write a book on marriage. Your publisher says, "We ...
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What's a Single to Do?
Oneness, the Bible says, is where two people in a miraculous, God designed way, become one. It is a beautiful thing. Dating is designed to prepare you ...
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The Imitation of Christ
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Over six hundred years ago, a boy by the name of Thomas Hammerlein was born in the Prussian town of Kempen on the Rhine, some forty miles ...
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The State of the Heart
Introduction
Have you ever noticed that many people go through life hiding behind a mask? I'm not talking about the ones we wear at costume parties and ...
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Digging Deeper in the Spiritual Life
There is a recurring theme throughout the Gospel of Matthew—there is a difference between being religious and spiritual. We spent 12 weeks in the ...
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What Did Jesus Say About Sex?
Five commitments can lead to sexual righteousness.
Jesus in this section of the Sermon on the Mount talks about what it really means to be righteous or ...
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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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