SERMONS ON GRADUATION
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Spiritual Commencement
by Christopher Harbin
Today is a day of celebration. We are celebrating our graduates and their achievements. They have toiled, studied, and completed coursework to arrive at this time of recognition of their efforts and achievements. We pause to celebrate their preparation and beginning a new phase of life. Graduation is not an endpoint. It is a beginning. As much as we look to graduation as the completion of a series of levels and stages, it is a launching pad-commencement into the new stage of life beyond the one just completed. It is a sign of transition to a new phase of life. It was always hard for me to associate my graduations with...
Graduation to Happiness: A Graduation Sermon
by Stan Coffey
Well it's graduation time and today we honor our graduates who have reached a significant milestone in their lives and who now are ready to take the next step in their lives. Many question fills their minds. One of the greatest is, ''will I find happiness?'' Will I find real fulfillment and success in life? Will I realize my greatest hopes and aspirations? Solomon has much to say to us about this subject. He was a man had it all. He had popularity, power, prosperity, possessions and position. Yet he did not find happiness though it was in his grasp all the time. The living Bible gives us this paraphrase, though man lives a thousand years twice over...
A Graduation Challenge
by Rex Yancey
Congratulations! You have come to a time of transition. It is the biggest transition you have faced in your life up to this point. It is reminiscent of the lad who visited the Grand Canyon with his family. His Dad gave him a diary and asked him to make an entry each day of his insights and observations. The lad stood on the edge of a very high cliff and spit as hard as he could. He seemed to get a thrill out of the experience. That night, he made his entry in his journal of the days activities. His father slipped into his room after he had gone to sleep. He saw his journal and could not stand the temptation. He opened the diary and...
How to Survive in a Strange World
by Robert Walker
Dear Abby recorded a powerful story. A young man from a wealthy family was about to graduate from high school. It was a custom in their affluent community for parents to give their graduating children a new car, and the boy and his dad had spent weeks visiting one dealership after another. The week before graduation they found the perfect car. They boy was certain it would be in the driveway on graduation night. One the eve of his graduation, however, his father handed him a small package wrapped in colorful paper. The Father said the package contained the most valuable gift the Father could think of. It was a Bible! The boy was...
Failure: God's Foundation for Success
by David Cawston
Reed Joseph was adopted as an infant in to one of the wealthiest families in America. He went to an exclusive prep school in upstate New York then headed west after graduation to play for Stanford University. Upon graduation from Stanford, Joseph immediately enlisted in the military. He spent the major part of World War II making bombing runs over Germany and returned home a highly decorated military hero. He then picked up a MBA at Harvard and PHD at Yale. Reed Joseph was a success. He was the last guy you would expect to be wanted for manslaughter. But that is exactly the charge that would change his life and end...
Facing the Future (18 of 23)
by Chuck McAlister
James has shown us that our peace is disrupted by conflict - That ultimately all conflict comes from someone's conflict with the Lord! That is why you must give the most attention to growing your relationship with the Lord - your most important relationship - that's where peace begins.That peace is enhanced when you refuse to judge your brothers and sisters in Christ - your 2nd most important relationship. 4- Recite the Church Purpose! James showing us how to have peace as we face the future - If you have no peace about your future -you have no peace. (B) Ever noticed that we are obsessed with the future - we...
What Does the Future Hold? (7 of 7)
by Jeff Schreve
We have been in a series for the last several weeks called: ''Now That's a Tough One.'' We've been answering tough questions about issues of life and things related to the Lord and to salvation. And, tonight, we want to finish that series with a message I've entitled, ''What Does the Future Hold?'' I think people just naturally have a desire to know about the future. That's why you have these folks that go to psychics and people that look at crystal balls, and people that, supposedly, read cards. What are they doing that for? Because they want to know the future, if you want to know the future, you don't look at the horoscope, the astrologer...
Getting Help in Life
by Claude Thomas
Introduction: At every stage of life, we are faced with perplexities and problems The journey of life is waylaid with potential difficulties. In the pilgrimage along the pathway of life, we face many kinds of challenges. The Psalmist of Psalm 121 was on a journey. He was traveling to Jerusalem to worship. This is one of several Psalms the pilgrims sang on their way to Jerusalem. In this particular Psalm, there is the assurance of help along the way. How did he come to this assurance? And of more personal interest to you and me is the question ''How can I get help?'' The answer is found in Psalm 121. If you are going to find help...
Following the Plan
by Jerry Vines
The will of God. Whatever you do, it always helps to have a plan. If you are going to build a business, one of the first things you need to do is to get together a business plan. In this plan you lay out your strategy you intend to follow. You find that plan and then you follow that plan if you want to be a success in that particular business. A coach has a game plan. In fact, they get very intricate with that. They have all of the plays laid out. They know exactly where they are going. They know what the offense is going to do. What the defense is going to do. A large degree of success by an athletic team can be determined by the...
Spiritual Commencement
by Christopher Harbin
Today is a day of celebration. We are celebrating our graduates and their achievements. They have toiled, studied, and completed coursework to arrive at this time of recognition of their efforts and achievements. We pause to celebrate their preparation and beginning a new phase of life. Graduation is not an endpoint. It is a beginning. As much as we look to graduation as the completion of a series of levels and stages, it is a launching pad-commencement into the new stage of life beyond the one just completed. It is a sign of transition to a new phase of life. It was always hard for me to associate my graduations with...
God's Plan for Prosperity
by Adrian Rogers
Take your bibles, and turn to proverbs, chapter 28. Let's look in verse 13. We're preaching through the book of proverbs, under the general heading of ''god's way to health, wealth, and wisdom''. Today, I wanna speak to you on this subject: ''God's plan for prosperity''. Are you interested in being prosperous? I hope you are. God is interested in your being prosperous. Did you know that the bible says that god takes pleasure in the prosperity of his servants? That god is pleased when you're prosperous? God takes pleasure in the prosperity of his servants. As a matter of fact, one of the most unqualified promises in all of the bible is found in...
Graduation - My Needed Tools
by Jerry Watts
This is a day of celebration. We have a large group of people who are celebrating 'graduation.' Most of us seem to have the wrong concept about graduation, I know I did when I graduated. Most people believe graduation to be the 'end.' Certainly, it ends a chapter in your life, you have now completed some level of learning, and perhaps you are proficient in something. But to graduate is not THE END. Education was never intended to teach you ALL you need to know in life, rather it simply equips you with the mental tools you need to live life. However, whether you are graduation from Nursery School, Middle School...
Honor Graduate (5 of 10)
by James Merritt
To be an honor graduate is considered quite an accomplishment. These honors, as you know, are in Latin and they are used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree is earned. There are typically three types of Latin honors in order of increasing level of honor. They are: Cum Laude (with honor), Magna Cum Laude (with great honor) and Summa Cum Laude (with highest honor). One of my goals when I went to college was to be an honor graduate. I didn't want to get an ordinary degree. I wanted a degree that signified I had graduated with a distinction of being a good student. There is another type...
Graduate Studies (2 of 12)
by Thomas Swope
1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure"; but surely, this also was vanity. 2 I said of laughter-"Madness!"; and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?" 3 I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives. 4 I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards. 5 I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made myself water pools from which to water the growing trees of the...
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...
Faith in the Job Place (15 of 17)
by Robert Dawson
Have you ever met someone who cannot stand for the food on their plate to touch? They take extra care and precaution to ensure the peas stay where the peas should stay, the taters where the taters are supposed to stay and the meat where the meat should stay and if they ever meet or mix then I ain't eating them. To those more obsessive compulsive individuals in our midst you would say everything has its place and should stay in its place. There are some people that treat their life and their faith the same way. We have all of these different parts that make up life: family, faith, friends, leisure, work and our finances. They all...
A New Kind of Employee (13 of 15)
by Zach Terry
INTRODUCTION: Well there is no better text for us to look at on Labor Day weekend than the one before us today. CONTEXT: Paul is incarcerated in the city of Rome writing to the Colossian church around 50AD. Claudius was the Emperor of a Roman Empire that despite the Pax Romana (Roman Peace) seemed to be perpetually on the brink of division, rebellion and civil war. No Roman Emperor had a comfortable rule - but were constantly, nervously on the lookout for uprisings. Nothing was more threatening to the Empire than a man who seemed to have sway over the populous (or mob) while proclaiming ideas...
Work as Worship (2 of 3)
by J.D. Greear
Introduction:Big idea behind this series: Most Christians think of worship as something they do inside the church.- And getting really committed to Jesus means getting busy at the church: volunteering at the church nursery, attending small group; going on a mission trip, serving at the soup kitchen... - Three to thrive: too busy to sin. Our jobs (your jobs—secular jobs: Me, I’m a Professional Christian), this kind of thinking believes, are necessities that must be endured to put bread on the table. If God has any interest in our jobs, it’s just that we don’t cheat and tithe off of our salaries. And when we think about people who try to...
Working For Jesus (7 of 9)
by Jeff Strite
OPEN: During the middle 1800's there was a popular set of rules for the office that showed up in one form or another across the nation. They all resembled something like these which were posted in Zachary Geiger's establishment: 1. Office employees will daily sweep the floors, dust the furniture, and showcases. Each day they must fill lamps, clean chimneys, and turn wicks 2. Windows must be washed once a week. 3. Each clerk will bring in a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's business. 4. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle your nibs to your individual taste. 5. This office will open at 7:00 am and close at...
Heart Compass (2 of 5)
by Kerry Shook
‘‘… he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.’‘ 2 Chronicles 31:21 (NIV) - When I live from my divine passion I find divine direction.- When I live from my divine passion I find satisfaction and true success.‘‘Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this.’‘ Psalm 37:4,5 (NIV) 1. DEVELOP A DEEP CONNECTION WITH MY CREATOR ‘‘Take delight in the Lord, ….’‘ Vs. 4a (NIV) ‘‘You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.’‘ Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV) 21 Days of Clarity WC app or WC.org ‘‘Above all else...
