SERMONS ON BACK TO SCHOOL
Our sermon ideas on Back to School will help you preach a powerful message during this exciting time of year. Prepare your messages on going back to school with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
Back to School Advice for Families: Beware of Envy (2 of 7)
by Scott Maze
Fights between brothers and sisters are common and often can be humorous. I collected a few stories that highlight just how funny sibling rivalry can be. One young girl with two brothers who were around ten years older than her, taught her the alphabet in this order, ''A,B,C,D,R,F,K.'' It wasn't until she arrived in kindergarten that she realized how her brothers had purposefully misled her. Another sister reflecting on her childhood, remembered she used to bite her own arm and then start crying. All this was done in order to blame her brother. She recalled the whole experience by saying, ''Sweet...
Back to School Advice for Students
by Stan Coffey
If you have your Bibles this morning, I want you to turn to Proverbs, chapter 3. The wisest man in all the Old Testament wrote the book of Proverbs, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit is Solomon. We are in that season once again where students are going back to school and I wanted to preach a special message especially for our students. Our students are going back to school and they will face tight schedules, new teachers, new friends, and a lot of peer pressure. They will be faced with what is right and what is wrong. What kind of advice would the Bible give to you as you go back to school? There are all kinds...
Bringing Christ to School
by Doug Tegner
Have you ever wondered how God may want to use you in your day-to-day life...right where He planted you? Wherever we find our selves each day. . .God is already there, and already at work! He is seeking a people called out to be His worshippers, to see people ''from every nation, tongue and tribe,'' become His followers (Revelation 7:9-10). His heart and desire is that none should perish. (2 Peter 3:9, 10) He is active in reaching people who face a Christ-less eternity, with the good news of the gospel of Christ. We have the privilege and calling to join Him in His rescue mission. Students and youth workers across America are...
Wisdom For The New School Year (10 of 12)
by Ernest Easley
Tonight as we continue our summer series of messages under the heading of GOT WISDOM.... we find ourselves in Proverbs 3 thinking about Wisdom for the New School Year. Believe it or not... school starts in two days! School is the mouse race that equips you for the rat race! Listen folks... school days can the happiest days of your life... if your kids are old enough to attend! Have you seen that commercial on Television that in the background somebody is singing, ''It's the most wonderful time of the year?'' A father is prancing up and down the isles of a store placing school supplies in the shopping cart. In front of him stand...
Friends
by James Merritt
I saw a cartoon in a newspaper once, and the first frame showed a thief that was wearing a mask, and his gun was pointed toward a frightened victim. The next scene the robber is holding out a sack and saying, ''Give me all of your valuables!'' In the next scene the victim begins stuffing into the sack all of his friends. I don't believe there is hardly anything in life, outside of salvation, that is more valuable than a true friend. With few exceptions, people everywhere hunger to have friends; I mean real friends, true friends. You'll learn in life that you may think you count many friends, but there aren't many friends that you can...
Friends Are Friends Forever (36 of 36)
by Jerry Vines
We're going to look at the last four verses of the entire book of Ephesians. We've had in our study of the book of Ephesians, maybe 34-38 messages. Now, we come to these closing words. Do you have a friend? Maybe you have a number of acquaintances, but do you have a friend? You may have several casual friends-a number of people you would put into the category of your casual friends. But do you really have one or two or three, true-blue friends? Do some names come to your mind right now? I wonder if there are some individuals you could call off and they are indeed true friends. They are friends to you like...
Making Friends for Eternity
by Jesse Hendley
In Luke chapter 16, verse 9, we have a wonderful word, the word ''ETERNAL,'' aionios in the Greek. ''And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye fail, they may receive you into EVERLASTING habitations.'' This word aionios means literally, ''age-long,'' or ''eternal.'' It is used several different ways in the New Testament. First, it is used of that which is WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END, that which continues on and on and on. Then it is used of that which is WITHOUT BEGINNING in time past. It is also used of that which is WITHOUT END. These thoughts...
How to Pray for Unsaved Friends
by Rex Yancey
Someone has said ''More is wrought by prayer than this world ever dreamed of.'' I do not believe in prayer. However, I do believe in a God who answers prayer. There is a difference. Prayer is the privilege of small children and the work of strong men and women. It is one of the greatest privileges we have as Christians. I believe we experience many failures because we fail to pray. As Baptists, we believe in the priesthood of the believer. To state this in non-catholic terms, we believe every man is his own priest. We do not have to confess to man. We can go to our mediator Jesus Christ, who intercedes for us before the...
A Friend Loveth at All Times
by Daniel Rodgers
Have you ever thought about how many friends you really have? I mean true friends, not ''fair weather friends,'' not the ''here today and gone tomorrow'' kind of friends. I'm talking about friends who stick with you through thick and thin, friends you can trust, friends who will be there when you need them. QUOTE: Someone once defined a true friend as ''someone who walks in when the whole world walks out.'' Do you have a friend like that? QUOTE: Someone else has said that ''A friend is one who helps in time of need, he listens when we need to talk, he rejoices when we are honored and he is sad when we are...
The Foundation of Discipline
by David Cawston
The word discipline comes out of the word disciple DISCIPLINE To train by instruction and control The disciplines of the spiritual life call us to move beyond surface living and into the depths. We must not be deceived into believing that these Spiritual disciplines are for spiritual giants only. They are for ordinary people that desire God. These disciplines are best exercised in the midst of normal daily activities. All of us are slaves to ingrained habits that are destroying and working against our life with God. We are accustomed to thinking of sin as individual acts of disobedience to God. That is true as far as it goes! But in Romans...
Why the School Strike
by Richard Laue
The Word of God is not of much value unless it can be applied. The passage we face today applies to a contemporary situation in our city, the teachers' strike. One time in an average size city, the public school teachers and the administration (the school board) could not get together on a contract. The outgrowth of the situation was the teachers left the classrooms and refused to teach. Substitute teachers were brought in, and there were daily confrontations on the picket line which the striking teachers maintained around the schools. One morning as a substitute arrived, there was a confrontation and words were...
Old School (4 of 12)
by Thomas Swope
As I mentioned in our last study, verses 16 through 22 of chapter 3 goes along with chapter 4. In his study of life Solomon now comes to a point where he reflects on six issues that seem out of place in God's control over everything. The number 6, as you are aware of has been designated for mankind, which always falls short of God's perfection [ # 7]. Remember Solomon is viewing life from under the 'sun' or from a worldly perspective so interestingly enough he comes up with six problems. However, what I find neat is that when you look closely and make sure to add El Shaddai to the formula you come up with seven points. These...
School's in Session (4 of 4)
by Jeff Schreve
Well as we've mentioned tomorrow is a big day for so many people for so many kids going to school and many kids are going to school for the very first time. Now I want us to see how many hands, you're going to school, to all day school for the very first time, can I see your hand? I guess they're little hands I can't see any. (Laughter) I know we have one over here and one over there, how about going to high school for the very first time, who's doing that? Going to middle school for the very first time, who's doing that? I don't know where, we used to have kids in our church, I don't know what happened. No they're scattered...
That's What Friends Do
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: On the surface, this is a story of healing. Like many such incidents in the Gospels, Jesus meets a man with a problem. Jesus applies his love and power to the point of need and a life is forever changed. In this case, Jesus heals a paralyzed man. In other cases, he makes the blind to see, the deaf to hear, and lifeless to live again. He healed Jews and Romans, young and old, rich and poor. Jesus still meets people at the point of their need. He still changes lives. This story, however, contains another ingredient. We might look right past it if we are not paying attention. I suspect the same factor...
Spiritual Graduate School (7 of 14)
by Rick White
Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who...
The School of Hard Knocks (21 of 31)
by Ernest Easley
Take God's Word and turn please to Genesis 29. We're learning these days from the book of Genesis about foundations, foundations for life! There's no life on earth like the life that's built on a strong and sturdy foundation! And that's what the book of Genesis is all about! Foundations! And praise the Lord that God tells us how to build a life that will withstand any storm! One day a scouting coach for a football team came to see the head football coach and asked him what he was looking for in a football player. The Coach said to the scout, "Well, there's the kind of guy that when you hit him he just stays down." The Scout...
The True Friend (4 o f 4)
by Jason Dees
It's funny, and it can be sad when you stop and think about what we center our lives around...what we find as ultimately important. I was reading the David Sedaris essay recently called ''Friends''. He was recounting a memory from his Middle School swimming pool one summer where he grew up in Raleigh. He begins like this. ''I was in the snack bar listening to a group of sixth graders who lived in another part of town and sat discussing significant changes in their upcoming school year. According to the girl named Janet, neither Pam Dobbins nor JJ Jackson had been invited to the Fourth of July party hosted...
Best of Friends (5 of 17)
by Eric McQuitty
The famous children's book Charlotte's Web tells the story of how a spider named Charlotte saved the bacon of a pig named Wilbur by spinning messages in her web that made Wilbur famous. She wrote some pig and the terrific and then humble and then radiant. As a result, the media caught wind of it, made Wilbur a celebrity, and he avoided becoming a rump roast! At the end of the story, Wilbur is saying his thank-yous to Charlotte. I'm not good at making speeches. I haven't got your gift for words. But you saved me, Charlotte, and I would gladly give my life for you--I really would! This quaint little story touches...
The Friendship Which Makes the Difference
by Jerry Watts
In almost 30 years of preaching, this has been one of those passages which I have preached from literally dozens of times. Normally, I couple it with verses 13 and 14 which speaks of the narrow road and the wide road lifting out five truths which every person needs to face in this life. (If you keep inviting me back, you may hear that message one day.) But not long ago I was listening to one of our pastors use these 3 verses as the basis for his message. Now, his message on 'The Wise Builder' which tied these verses to the last part of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount'. But just like God does from time to time, He literally made something...
