Preaching on Waiting on God? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
Miraculous Births: John the Baptist
This sermon is part of the “Miraculous Births” sermon series. See the whole series here.
Introduction
It's Christmas Eve 1945 in Bedford ...
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God Uses Suffering for Our Good
Introduction
I remember standing next to the late Joan Rivers. It was May 2006, and I had been in Sydney, Australia, preaching in some Anglican churches ...
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Simeon's Song
Introduction
I've been reading a gift somebody got for me. It's a fascinating book called Medieval Views of the Cosmos. When I say it's fascinating, ...
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Praying While Running
Editor's Note: Throughout this document Dr. Jeffrey Arthurs has provided a running commentary on his sermon. It's an invaluable guide for how ...
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Blessed Are Those Who Do Not Stumble over Jesus
Introduction
If you pay close attention to the Advent wreath, you'll notice that it contains three purple candles. We talked last week about how the purple ...
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Prayer: A Journey of Desire
One of the toughest things in life is living with unfulfilled desire. To experience desire is a normal part of life. It's as natural as an infant ...
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Waiting for the Fullness of Time
Introduction
Last Saturday I wrote these words:
I'm at the airport—waiting. I arrived at 7:15 A.M. It's now 9:40. My 8:38 flight was canceled and ...
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Speed Dial
Introduction
Jesus had some very specific things to say about prayer, and often they're different than some of the things we've been raised thinking about ...
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Doubters Anyonymous
Introduction
"He is risen": it's the heartbeat of the message of the Christian church. These three English words are translated from one Greek word, egeirō, ...
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A Christian's Happiness
Introduction
If you're a Christian, you know that Christianity is supposed to be about joy. You probably also know that you're supposed to experience ...
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What to Do with Trouble
The continuing dilemma of the Christian life is how to cope with recurring instances of trouble and travail in our lives. There is a prevailing notion ...
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Yet Will I Praise Thee
Introduction
Have you ever asked God questions and felt you haven't received a good answer? I heard about a little boy once who said to his father, "How ...
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Regaining Lost Joy
Introduction
I remember talking to a girl here in this church two or three years ago. She said, "Jill, I've lost my joy, I've lost my peace, ...
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The Wise Men Cry Glory
From the editor:
Here's a great sermon from one of our featured preachers—Mark Buchanan—that explores the story of the Magi and Herod through ...
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More Better
Introduction
On my way to work this week, I had this peaceful time to think as I drove. Actually, I had even more time than usual, because I was kindly ...
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I'll Stand by You
Introduction
So far in our series we've talked about three big ideas—love, joy, and peace. These Christ-like qualities offer a grand vision for our ...
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When You Really Want to Quit
From the editor
We all struggle with the reality that sometimes bad things happen to good people. Adding to our inner turmoil is the reality that sometimes ...
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Simeon: A Song of Hope
Introduction
In the 1960s, psychologist Walter Mischel conducted a famous experiment that has come to be known as "The Marshmallow Test." Groups of 4-years ...
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Mary: A Song of Trust
Introduction
A lot of people travel at Christmas. During this time of the year, many of us would like to be with family to celebrate, so we load up the ...
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Zechariah: A Song of Faith
Introduction
As familiar as we are with the songs of Christmas, there are four songs recorded in the Bible sung by people surrounding the birth of Jesus ...
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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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In the Father's Arms
Text: Job 36, 38
Topic: How a Christian should respond to suffering
From the editor
As you read Jill Briscoe's sermon, notice how she takes a classic story-story-story ...
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Asleep at the Wheel
From the editor
Chances are, you've probably preached the story of Jesus calming the storm. The account is recorded in three of the four Gospels (Matthew, ...
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The Christian's Happiness
Text: Romans 8:28–30
Topic: Our joy can be constant no matter our life circumstances.
From the editor
Romans 8 is such a beloved, oft-quoted section ...
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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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Doubters Anonymous
Text: John 20:19–29
Topic: Dealing with doubt
Introduction
"He is risen": it's the heartbeat of the message of the Christian church. These three English ...
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What Have We Done?
Introduction
After the Chicago Cubs lost their 96th baseball game in 2006, manager Dusty Baker, was called in to meet with the general manager. We all ...
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Prepare for God's Visitation
Introduction
I have a friend named John who is a medical doctor. He was once making a commercial flight across the Atlantic Ocean, when a teenage boy who ...
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Secrets of Financial Contentment
Introduction
When I was a kid, my dad told me two stories all the time.
In the first one, a couple goes to Harvard University and asks to see the president, ...
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Beyond Comfort
Introduction
Where do you turn for comfort when you encounter loss, pain, or disappointment? Some people turn to food. For some reason, certain foods—like ...
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Unbreakable?
Introduction
M. Night Shyamalan's film Unbreakable begins with a train wreck. Everyone on board is killed—over a hundred people—except for ...
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Sense Out of Nonsense
Text: Luke 24:1–11
Topic: How to make sense of chaos and suffering
Introduction
Ancient sailors puzzled over why some of their colleagues who sailed ...
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It's All About You, Lord
Introduction
A poet once complained to a friend, "Life's not fair. A banker can write a bad poem, and nobody says anything about it. But if a poet writes ...
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Between Despair and Hope
Introduction
This is our final sermon in our series on Deuteronomy. We have been in between the wilderness and the Promised Land, waiting and listening. ...
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Between Memory and Imagination
Introduction
Last week we learned that Deuteronomy is a book about transition. The people of Israel are standing on the banks of the Jordan River with ...
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The Hardest Part of the Journey
Introduction
Today marks the beginning of a four-week series on the one book of the Bible that perhaps is read less often than any other. If we took a ...
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Understanding Providence
Introduction
A loyal person understands providence. In order to understand this, by way of contrast, consider our culture today. If there's one word that ...
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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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The Bad News About Jesus ...
Introduction
Charles Swindoll has written a rather telling poem about what many feel on the day after Christmas:
'Twas the day after Christmas, When all ...
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Long Past Prime
Introduction
One of the happiest memories I have from this past Easter was the chance to see Judy and Ralph's daughter, Katie, coming into her prime. I ...
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Praying Through God's Silence
Introduction
Hear these words from the Word in Matthew 15:21–28:
Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman ...
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Preparing for Adversity
In Matthew 17 there's a story about Jesus that also appears in the Gospels of Mark and Luke, so clearly it is an important story in the life of Jesus. ...
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Yet I Will Praise Thee
Have you ever asked God questions and felt you haven't received a good answer? I heard about a little boy once who said to his father, "How many people ...
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God's Marshmallow Test
Back in the 1970s a research team of psychologists from Stanford University performed on a group of 4 an experiment they called the "marshmallow test." ...
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