Sermons found for the topic Singing
Why We Never Give Up - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
You do the figuring. Which is greater? Your sorrows or the vast and immeasurable promises of God, made in his Word, guaranteed by the Spirit, and purchased for us in the death and resurrection of our Lord? More
Singing Through the Lord’s Prayer - Matthew 6:9-13
Listed below are hymns, gospel songs and choruses that correspond to the various parts of the Lord’s Prayer. I have found it helpful to sing my way through the Lord’s Prayer using these songs to focus my thoughts. More
Lord’s Prayer People - Matthew 6:9-13
The Lord’s Prayer answers the question, “What does Christian prayer look like?” Truly Christian prayer starts with God, moves to our human needs, and rises to God again. More
Singing Your Way to Victory - 2 Chronicles 20
"I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people gay; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I g More
Theology at Midnight - Acts 16:25
Anyone can sing “Shout to the Lord” when life is good, your health is good, your marriage is strong, your kids are doing well, and all is right with the world. If with Paul and Silas you can sing praise to God at midnight in jail, then what you’ve got is real. More
The Midway
If only a few people will be saved, how can there be a vast multitude in heaven? And why do so many people miss the narrow gate while many others find it? Life on the midway helps us answer those questions. More
Inside the Wedding Ring - Romans 15:5-7
I was twenty-five years old and fresh out of seminary when I became the pastor of a small church in Downey, California. I stayed there almost five years and then moved to Garland, Texas to pastor another church for fi More
Martin Luther's Highway to Heaven - Romans 1:16-17
It is a mark of our changing times that many people have only a vague idea who Martin Luther is. Most of us have heard his name but we’re not sure where he’s from or what he did or when he lived. Some of More
Can You Hear the Angels Singing? Christmas and the "Other World" - Luke 2:8-14
"And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with More
The Battle Is On - II Chronicles 20
The date—750 B.C.The place—Jerusalem.The man—Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, a good king, the son of Asa. During his reign there was peace and prosperity because Jehoshaphat was a man of the Book. More t More
Worthy is the Lamb - Revelation 5
The glory of heaven is the Lamb—Jesus Christ, whose victory is celebrated without end. Jesus is the focal point of heaven and the center of all attention. Without Jesus there would be no heaven at all. And without him none of us would ever have a chance to go there. More
Open My Eyes, Lord - Ephesians 1:15-23
God invites us to seek his face. He wants us to know him better. It’s not as if our Heavenly Father is hiding himself from us. But we can only have a close relationship with him if we will seek it in prayer. More
Harambee! - Romans 15:5-7
With this sermon, we are almost to the end of the “Praying with Paul” series. There is one more sermon after this and then we are done. The prayer we are looking at in this sermon is different from any of More
Worship Vision Statement - Various
Re: Contemporary Worship–The VisionA few days ago the Board of Calvary Memorial Church met to consider the possibility of changing our present worship format by adding a contemporary worship service on Sunday m More
The Green-Eyed Monster - I Samuel 18-19
There are two words you need to keep in mind as you read this sermon. They are almost-but-not-quite identical. One is the word jealousy, the other is the word envy. If you look up both words in the dictionary, you wil More
The Second Law: God Doesn't Need Us But We Desperately Need Him
Last Sunday we started a new sermon series called The Seven Laws of the Spiritual Life. In this series we are discovering the basic principles of the Christian life that meet us where we are and take us all the way to More
Why Is Life So Hard? - 2 Corinthians 1:1-11
Don’t waste your pain. Use it to grow closer to the Lord and to his people. Use it as a means to minister to others. Our personal ministry begins as we share with others what God has shared with us. More
Up with Worship!
“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!” More
Why Good People Won't Go to Heaven - Romans 10:1-4
I’d like to talk to you about who goes to heaven. We all know that the Bible teaches the reality of heaven and the reality of hell. Jesus himself spoke of both places many times. All of us, I’m sure, wo More
Forever and Ever, Amen! - Matthew 19:6
Let’s begin with a little quiz. What well-known television actor said the following? “To me the greatest Latin lover in the world was may Dad, who married my mother and was faithful to her until the day More
The First Christmas Miracle - John 15:22; Galatians 4:4
“If I had not come” (John 15:22).“But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law” (Galatians 4:4). In the first verse, which is really just a fragment of a More
The King Has Come! - Matthew 2:1-6
We begin with the words of Flannery O’Connor: “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” Truth is truth whether we like it or not. The fact that I personally may object to th More
Our Mutual Covenant - Acts 2:41-47
Down in Texas they say that football is a religion. But I ran across something the other day that made me think that the same thing might be true in Chicago. It happened while we were browsing through a shopping mal More
Are You Prepared to Suffer for Christ? - 1 Peter 3:13-17
Are you prepared to suffer for Christ? For most of us, the answer is no. For most of the Christians in the world, the answer is yes. “Christianity was born in a world of totalitarianism … it was not stran More
Fear Factor - Acts 20:35
For the past few months I’ve been preaching a series of sermons from I Peter. We’re taking a break from that series for the next two weeks so we can focus on Christian giving. That fact is noteworthy for t More
"The Witch Doctors Are Liars" - Haiti 1993
You might say that we had a Murphy’s Law trip: Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Nothing went as we had planned. Most things weren’t even close to the way we planned. Yet God moved above and More
Music For A Madman - I Samuel 16:14-23
The following story happened quite a few years ago. I was getting my hair cut at one of those places where you generally don’t know in advance who is going to do the cutting. It happened that the girl who cut my More
THE P.U.I.H. - Acts 2
I don’t know what image comes into your mind when you hear the word Pentecostal. When I hear the word, my mind always goes back to the small town in Alabama where I grew up. Back then, there were only four chu More
The Harried Homemaker: Christ Speaks to the Problem of Compulsive Busyness - Luke 10:38-42
Let’s begin with a series of “what-if” questions. Suppose that the folks from Publishers Clearinghouse pulled up in front of your home. Out of the van comes the camera crew and a man with a microphon More
Restoring the Fallen, Helping the Hurting: Two Ways You Can Serve the Lord - Galatians 6:1-5
We begin with a famous story from the early days of the Salvation Army. As the eyes of the nation have focused on the rescue and recovery efforts in New York City, the work of the Salvation Army has been easy to spot. More
We Shall Be Like Him: The Purifying Hope of Christ's Return - I John 3:1-3
Shortly before his recent death, ex-Beatle George Harrison was asked about his spiritual journey. The question was apt since it was Harrison who introduced the Beatles to Eastern religion in the 60s and (after the gro More
The King Has Come! - Matthew 2:1-6
We begin with the words of Flannery O’Connor: “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” Truth is truth whether we like it or not. The fact that I personally may object to th More
Forever Settled in Heaven: Building on the Unshakable Foundation - Psalm 119:89
Our church theme for 2002 is “God’s Word: Our Unshakable Foundation.” Considering the events of the last few months, it seems like a theme perfectly suited for these perilous times. We need a foundat More
More Than Conquerors - Romans 8:31-37
If you’ve ever done any mountain climbing, you know that as you near the summit, you will often reach a peak that is not the ultimate peak. It’s a lower peak that you have to traverse to get up to the ver More
From Adam to Noah: Lessons from a Genealogy - Genesis 5
I begin this sermon with a confession. In my quarter-century as a pastor, I believe this is the first sermon I have ever preached from a genealogy. There is a reason for that, which I’m sure you already understa More
Open My Eyes, Lord - Ephesians 1:15-23
I wonder if we would be happy if our prayers were published so that others could read them. That’s a fascinating thought, isn’t it? What if every prayer you prayed, word for word, somehow ended up on the I More
All One Body We: “The Communion of Saints” - Hebrews 12:1
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us& More
Experiencing God’s Love - Malachi 1:1-5
A man was having a hard time getting out of bed one Sunday morning. “Get up. It’s time to get ready for church!” He just grumbled and replied grumpily, “I don’t want to go to church today More
The First Christmas Miracle - John 15:22; Galatians 4:4
"If I had not come” (John 15:22).“But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law” (Galatians 4:4). In the first verse, which is really just a fragment of a verse, More
Behind The Scenes At Christmastime: Zechariah's Song - Luke 1:67-80
This year the title of our Christmas series is “The Songs of Christmas.” The theme is appropriate because it is a time for music and especially a time for singing. In the next few weeks we’ll be en More
Jesus The Revolutionary: Mary's Song - Luke 1:48-55
When the history of the 20th century is finally written, it may well be that the last forty years will be called the Age of Revolution. First we had the cultural revolution, then we had the sexual revolution, which w More
God's Promise to You - Philippians 4:13-23
With this sermon we come to the end of our series from the book of Philippians. I have mentioned several times that this book is essentially a thank-you note from the Apostle Paul to the church at Philippi. He is writ More
Faithful to Finish His Work in You - Philippians 1:6
The life of a Christian is a series of miracles. So said Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great British preacher of the 19th century. If he is correct, why dont we ever talk about those miracles? When a More
Sense and Nonsense About God's Love - 1 John 4:8
I’d like to begin my message with a simple observation. No attribute of God is so widely believed as the love of God. This observation is quite easily testable. Take a microphone to the streets of Chicago and as More
Five Words on a Tombstone - 1 Thessalonians 2:1-6
Several years ago my older brother took me to visit a cemetery outside Florence, Alabama, near the remains of an ante-bellum mansion called Forks of Cypress. The mansion was built in the 1820s by James Jackson, an ea More
Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned at Christmas
EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW, I LEARNED AT CHRISTMAS by Ray Pritchard Several months ago Lou Diaz of Wheaton Evangelical Free Church suggested to me the idea of preaching on Christmas and the Christian Worldview. Because the coming of Christ changed history–literally, from B.C. to A.D.–we aren't straining thi… More
How to Make a Tough Decision - Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”These two verses are among the most beloved in all the Bible More
Bad Manners at the Dinner Table - Galatians 2:11-14
We need an infusion of God’s love to make us open in our friendships, open in our churches, and open on Sunday morning to new people who love the Lord but don’t fit our particular target group. More
Billy Sunday - As Presented at Forest Home Cemetery
Faded Glory: Why Christ Had to Come - Psalm 8 & Hebrews 2:5-9
On Christmas Eve, 1998, George Will wrote a column called “The Happiest Holiday.” It began this way:A sardonic British skeptic of the late 19th century suggested that three words should be carved in stone More

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