Here are some more sermon seeds from our meeting with brother Jerry Martin.

Prove All Things

• Prove – try, test, examine, scrutinize…

1. Evaluate Present Attributes
2. Emphasize Positive Aspects
3. Expose Problem Areas

The Cause & Cure For Emptiness

1. Empty Preaching
2. Empty Faith
3. Empty Lives
4. Empty Worship
5. Empty Religion

We started our gospel meeting this morning with brother Jerry Martin. Here are the bare bones outlines of the two lessons he delivered this morning.

How To View Life

• Yesterday Is A Teacher
• Today Is A Treasure
• Tomorrow Is A (Tentative) Target

Life With Christ

• With Christ In Omnipresence
• With Christ In Obedience
• With Christ In Assembly
• With Christ In Death

As always, I’ve not included the Scripture references and extended comments because the true value of a sermon seed is being able to take a good thought outlined and make your own through your own study. I hope it helps. I’m sure brother Martin will be giving us several more sermon thoughts through the rest of the week.

Text: John 4:23, 24

Thesis: To encourage faithfulness in Christian living by examining the biblical description of faithful characteristics.

Body: God Wants People Who Are…

1. Introspective (Acts 20:28; 1 Cor. 11:28; Gal. 6:1; Matt. 7:3-5).
2. Involved (Js. 1:22-25).
3. Integrant (Eph. 4:16; Col. 2:19; Rom. 12:4, 5).
4. Invested (Jn. 14:15; 1 Jn. 5:3; Matt. 22:37-39; 1 Thess. 4:9).
5. Intolerant (Rom. 12:9; 1 Thess. 5:22).
6. Indoctrinated (Jn. 6:54-56; Jn. 15:7; 1 Jn. 2:24; 3:24).

Here is what I preached Sunday. Hope you can use it.

Here’s a sermon outline I have preached with good results.

“What It Means To Be Lost”

1. Being lost means having no hope.
2. Being lost means having no avenue of prayer.
3. Being lost means having no spiritual blessings.
4. Being lost means having no redemption.
5. Being lost means having no rest.
6. Being lost means having a second death.
7. Being lost means having a place in hell.

Put a few hundred verses with it and it’ll preach!

Hope you can use it. Let me know what you think.

Here’s just a really short sermon seed I found while reorganizing my sermon folders. I have no clue where it came from. It found its way into my folder somehow. I wonder what else I might find as I get my folders in order?

Hope you can use it.

Here’s a Sermon Seed I picked up at a Gospel Meeting recently.

Things Tied To The Blood Of Christ:

• The Body (church).
• The Lord’s Supper.
• Baptism.

Preached by Bob Swain at the Central church of Christ in Bastrop, LA.

When I listen to another preacher I usually just write down their main points and any particularly attention getting quotes. The reason I don’t take detailed notes is because I don’t want what they said to overly affect my own development of the points. There’s nothing wrong with getting sermons from other preachers but that doesn’t mean letting them do your work for you. Take the points and develop them yourself. Make it your sermon (but if you do use their words at all be sure to give them credit when you do). I’m not even going to give you the thesis of the sermon! You develop the points and make application the way you need to preach it to your audience. Then it will be your sermon.

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In our family reading tonight we finished the book of Acts. As we read through chapter 24 I jotted down a few things that came to mind. After we were done reading I put my daughter to bed and went to my mind map. I thought you might like to see what I came up with. Take it, use it, make it yours. Send me your comments. Here’s your sermon seed for today.