Sermons on Jesus
Why Jesus? Jesus, Our King
Introduction: On the game show Family Feud, hosted by Steve Harvey, contestants are asked to guess how 100 people responded to various survey questions. On a 2012 episode, a contestant had to provide the top answers to the following survey question: “When someone mentions ‘the King,’ to whom might he or she be referring?” What were the four top…
Why Jesus? Jesus, Our Life and Hope
Text: 1 Peter 3:8-12 — Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his…
Why Jesus? Jesus, Our Defender
Text: John 8:2-11 — Early in the morning Jesus came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. (3) The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst (4) they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. (5) Now in the Law Moses…
Why Jesus? Jesus, Our Friend
Text: John 15:12-16 Introduction: B.J. Miller was a sophomore at Princeton when, one cold Monday night in November 1990, he and two friends slipped out to have some fun and then decided to climb a commuter train parked at the adjacent rail station. When Miller got to the top, electrical current arced out of a piece of equipment into the watch on his wrist.…
Why Jesus? Jesus, Our Teacher
Text: Matthew 7:24-27 Introduction: If this is your first time visiting with us here at River Ridge Church, we’re now in our 6th message in a preaching series called “Why Jesus?” This is our attempt to provide some insight into the popularity and prominence of Jesus and His message. To put it another way: Why would an obscure carpenter from a…
Why Jesus? Jesus, Our Deliverer
Text: Mark 5:1-20 Introduction: For the past month we’ve been addressing the question “Why Jesus?” The longer version of it goes something like this: Why in the world would billions of people over the last two thousand years determine to follow Jesus as Savior and Lord, often at great personal cost to themselves? It doesn’t make a lot of sense…
Why Jesus? Jesus, Our Shepherd
Text: John 10:1-18 Introduction: Several years ago a 33-year-old truck driver named Larry Walters made national news. Larry had a habit of spending his weekends in his Los Angeles backyard, just south of L.A. International Airport, drinking Pepsi and eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He would sit in his favorite lawn chair staring at the houses around him in his…
Why Jesus? Jesus Our Healer
Text: Mark 2:1-12 Introduction: Two weeks ago we started a new preaching series called Why Jesus? We’ve been looking at what makes the carpenter from Nazareth so appealing that His followers at the time of His ascension to heaven, a tiny of group of 120 people (See Acts 1:15), would feel compelled to tell His story throughout Israel and the Middle East. It…
Why Jesus? Why Did Jesus Become a Man?
Text: Hebrews 2:14-18 Introduction: Had you picked up a daily newspaper in 1809, you would have read the big news that Napoleon I, emperor of France, had conquered Austria at Wagram, annexed the Illyrian Provinces, and abolished the Papal States. However, in that same year, in France … Louis Braille, who devised a way for the blind to read, was born. And in Germany…
Why Jesus? Who Is This Man?
Text: John 1:1-18 Introduction: Jesus walked the earth two thousand years ago. Yet never before or since has a person had a broader or more powerful impact upon mankind. His influence has reached to virtually every corner of the earth. Still for all that He has accomplished in the hearts and minds of well over two billion men, women, boys and girls, people are still…
What Is Jesus Doing Now?
Today’s sermon was taken from Acts 9:1-19