Sermon Resources on Human History

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In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

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Has Religion been a Force for Evil in Human History

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Francis S. Collins

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Exodus 3:7-10, Isaiah 58:6-10, Micah 6:6-8, Matthew 23:27-28 , James 1:26-27, Psalm 146:7-9

A major stumbling block for many earnest seekers is the compelling evidence throughout history that terrible things have been done in the name of religion. This applies to virtually all faiths at some...

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Victor Hugo

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“This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the sam...

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Vernon Grounds

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Genesis 2:24-25, Genesis 39:6-12, Proverbs 7:6-27 , 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, Hebrews 13:4, Psalm 51:1-12

A source of the intensest pleasure earthlings can experience, sex has also been a source of vexatious trouble for the human family since the beginning of history.

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Total Depravity Explained: Humanity's Devolution

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T.C. Hammond

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Isaiah 64:6, Romans 3:9-18, Hebrews 11:6, Matthew 19:25-26, Ephesians 2:5

Some skeptics today speak about “evolving” from a primitive condition, but the Bible (Romans 1:18-32) sadly portrays a descent rather than an ascent. The result has been given the theological term “...

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Atheism from a Historical Perspective

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Os Guinness

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Isaiah 55:8-9, Colossians 1:16-17, Acts 17:24-25, 2 Corinthians 4:6

From a historical perspective it is atheism that was old and the Christian faith and its good news that burst on the world as new. Once commonly called “atomism,” the genealogy of atheism can be trace...

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Bit Actors in a Drama Produced by Another

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Ashley Hales

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One of the most fascinating features of the Bible is that it tells what is ahead for our world. Both Old and New Testaments contend that history is moving to a climax and that the sovereign God is in ...

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The Cross is the Pivot of History

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Samuel M. Zwemer

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If the Cross of Christ is anything to the mind, it is surely everything – the most profound reality and the sublimest mystery. One comes to realize that literally all the wealth and glory of the gospe...

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G. K. Chesterton

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John 19:38-42, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 6:4, Acts 2:24, Colossians 2:12, Isaiah 53:9, Luke 24:6-7

They took the body down from the cross and one of the few rich men among the first Christians obtained permission to bury it in a rock tomb in his garden the Romans setting a military guard lest there...

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C. S. Lewis

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And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find som...

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Humbled and a Bit Awkward in Churchill’s Presence

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Joshua 1:9, 1 Samuel 18:12-14, Colossians 2:2-3, Ephesians 3:17-19, Psalm 147:4-5

In the summer of 1941, Sergeant James Allen Ward was awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary bravery. While flying at 13,000 feet above the Zuider Zee in his Wellington bomber, he climbed out...

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Reinhold Niebuhr

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One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentious, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for...

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The End of Human History

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G. K. Chesterton

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Matthew 27:57-60, John 19:41-42, Luke 23:50-56, Romans 6:4, Colossians 2:14-15, Isaiah 53:9-11, 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

They took the body down from the cross and one of the few rich men among the first Christians obtained permission to bury it in a rock tomb in his garden the Romans setting a military guard lest there...

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M. Scott Peck

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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good an...

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The Greatest Subject in Human History

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Matthew 22:36-38, Deuteronomy 6:4-5

Have you ever heard of the Greatest Books of the Western World collection? Published by Encyclopedia Britannica in 1954, this comprehensive series was edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer J. A...

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Max Lucado

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Genesis 3:1-7, Exodus 14:10-31, Jeremiah 29:11, Psalm 23:1-6 , John 10:10-11 , Romans 8:31-39

The most insidious deception in human history is the lie that says, “God is against you.”

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Defining What it Means to be Human

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Jon Tyson

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On August 20 and September 5, 1977, two spacecraft named Voyager were launched. Eventually leaving the solar system and heading into deep space, they represented a revolutionary and promising breakthr...

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Mason Cooley

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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

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Frederick Buechner

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[T]here are only two stories that make any difference—God’s story and the human story. We all are living out different versions of those two stories with an infinite number of variations. God’s story,...

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Human Nature: Fighting Our Neighbors

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Malcolm Gladwell

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In the sixteenth century, there were close to seventy wars involving the nations and states of Europe. The Danes fought the Swedes. The Poles fought the Teutonic Knights. The Ottomans fought the Venet...

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Dying for His Subjects

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Charles Colson

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John 15:13, Isaiah 53:5, Philippians 2:8-11, Romans 5:8, Hebrews 12:28, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 19:16

When I was in Moscow in 1990 preaching at the Moscow Baptist Church, just blocks from the Kremlin, I told a packed crowd of worshipers that all through human history, as far back as recorded time and ...

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Matthew 21:21, Romans 10:17, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 9:24

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are to subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

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Two New Year Prayers for Church Services: A Collect and Prayers of the People

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Are you thinking of adding New Year prayers in your church services? Below you'll find two complete, ready-to-use prayers: a collect for the New Year and responsive prayers of the people looking b...

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Scripture Guide, Romans 13:11-14

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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.

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Romans 13:11-14

Introduction This text is used in the first week of Advent, but preparing for Jesus' return isn't something for just one time of the year. For a treatment that is more focused on Advent, see ...

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Scripture Guide, Luke 21:5-19

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Eunice McGarrahan

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Luke 21:5-19

General Context If you have ever been to visit magnificent architecture – St. Peter’s in Rome, the U. S. Capitol Building, the Hagia Sophia or the Taj Mahal, you can almost hear the chatter of camera...

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Mental Health Today

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Alan Noble

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1 Kings 19:1-18, Job 3:6-7, Lamentations 3:17-26, Matthew 26:36-46, 2 Corinthians 1:3-11, Psalm 42:5-11

We don’t know what we are doing, and I think this is especially true about the way our society deals with mental health. In just the past fifteen years, I have witnessed a massive shift in how evangel...

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Jesus Discerned Between Invitations

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Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

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1 Kings 19:11-13, Exodus 33:12-14, Isaiah 30:15-21, Mark 5:25-34, Mark 1:35-38, Psalm 46:10

Jesus knew his spiritual journey depended on responsiveness to God’s invitations. Although his job was the most crucial in human history, Jesus did not get compulsive, preoccupied or unable to practic...

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Scripture Guide, Isaiah 58:1-12

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Rachel Clark

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Isaiah 58:1-12, Isaiah 29:null, Luke 4:18-19, Isaiah 61:null, Luke 4:21, Matthew 6:4

Ancient lens What's the historical context? Aren’t we doing what you’re asking of us? The people of God are wondering why their fasts and rituals have not accomplished what they hoped. “Why h...

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23rd Sunday after Pentecost

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Eunice McGarrahan

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Luke 21:5-19

General Context If you have ever been to visit magnificent architecture – St. Peter’s in Rome, the U. S. Capitol Building, the Hagia Sophia or the Taj Mahal, you can almost hear the chatter of camera...

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Prayers of the People for Thanksgiving

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Psalm 136:

Pastor: Almighty God, we raise our voices in thanksgiving for Your blessings. Like the Israelites in the wilderness, we too have known Your love, and experienced Your care and provision. You give us ...

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