Dr. Dave M. Hartson's Sermons

Sermons for Real People with Real Struggles Moving Forward with God

The Gospels

Matthew, Mark, Luke & John

Matthew 6:5-8 Do You Pray Like the Hypocries Pray?

Four Reasons that God will not Answer Certain Prayers http://www.dave-hartson.com/Do You Pray Like the Hypocrites Pray.doc

Matthew 13:44 Restoring the Excitement for God

If your Christian life is uninteresting, this sermons provides five things that might renew your excitement for God. http://www.dave-hartson.com/Restoring the Excitement for God back into our Lives.doc

Matthew 13:45-46 Have You Found What You Are Seeking?

This sermon help us to identify ways to find the important things of life that we are missing. http://www.dave-hartson.com/Have You Found What You are Seeking.doc

Matthew 14:22-33 My Faith maybe more than Others but it still may be less than what I actually Need

Four lessons about my faith from Peter's walk on the water. http://www.dave-hartson.com/My Faith maybe more than Others.doc

Matthew 21:12-13 We are moved by the things that break God's heart if...

Four things that break the heart of God that should also break our heart. http://www.dave-hartson.com/Find Out What Makes A Person Mad.doc

Matthew 23:13 What is a Chrisian to Do?

Draw Lines, Build Bridges and know when to do the right one. http://www.dave-hartson.com/What is a Christian to do.doc

Matthew 25: 1-13 Are You Ready

Matthew 25:14-30 Where's the Beef of Responsibility?

We examine what Jesus teaches about responsibility. http://www.dave-hartson.com/Where is the beef of responsibility.doc

Matthew 26:33-35 Even When I Fail, I Can Still Succeed If…

Matthew 26:36-46Why is it that Obedience to God is so difficult?

Four reasons that obedience to God is so difficult. http://www.dave-hartson.com/Why is it that Obedience to God is so Dfficult.doc

Matthew 27:57- 28:7 Lessons Learned about Easter from a Stone

Mark 1:35-39 Is Your Life Under Control?

If Your Life is not Under Control, This Sermon Identifies Five Steps to Bring Your Life Back Under Control. http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Is Your Life Out of Control.doc

Mark 1:9-13 Our Defining Moment

Five Ways to Know if You Are Experiencing a Defining Moment in Your Life http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Our Defining Moment.doc

Mark 2:13-17 What Can Be Done to Overcome my Dissatisfaction With my Life?

Five Reasons that We Might Be Dissatisfied with Our Life and the Solution for Each Dissatisfaction http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Is There Something You Would Change About Your Life.doc

Mark 2:18-22 Missed Opportunities

Five Reasons We Have Missed Opportunities with God and What Can Be Done About It http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Missed Opportunities.doc 

Mark 3:1-6 Jesus Will Not Back Down from a Good Fight

Five Things We can Do to Enlist Jesus in our Fight and the Tradegy if We Don't http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Jesus Will Not Back Down From a Good Fight.doc

Mark 5: 1-20 I Can't Have This Happen to Me Again

Four Ways to Keep the Same Bad Thing From Happening to Me Again http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/I Cannot let it happen to me again.doc

Mark 5:21-43 The Doctor Still Makes House Calls

Discover What Can be Learnt When the Great Physician Makes a House Call  http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/The Doctor Still Makes House Calls.doc

Mark 5:24-34 What Do I DO When I Can't Fix What's Wrong

Five Things We are to Do When We Can't Solve Our Own Problem http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/What Do I Do When I Can.doc

Mark 6:1-6 How Does Jesus Prove His Love for Us

Four Ways that Jesus Proves His Love for Us and Two Ways that We Reject It   http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/How Does Jesus Prove His Love to Us.doc

Mark 6:38-44 Lessons Learned from a Broken Loaf of Bread

Five Lessons We might  Learm about God's Blessings from Five Loaves of Broken Bread http://www.dave-hartson.com/Lessons Learned from a Broken Loaf of Bread.doc

Mark 9:30-37 What Difference Does It Make?

If We Are Sitting at the Feet of Jesus, Five Things that He Would Teach Us http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Lessons Learned While with the Master Teacher1.doc

Mark 10:13-16 Confusing

Four Reasons Why There is Sometimes Confusion Between God and Me http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Lessons Learned While with the Master Teacher3.doc

Mark 10:17-23 Three Rights Should Not Make A Wrong

Five Reasons We Give the Wrong Response Even if We Ask God the Right Question http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Does Three Rights Make a Wrong in Your Life.doc

Luke 5:27-32 What Bothers Me about God?

Four things that I discovered about myself that bothers me about God. http://www.dave-hartson.com/What Bothers Me About God.doc

Luke 6:37-38 Keep It Between the Lines

Five Things We Must Do to Keep Our Christianity Between the Lines. http://www.dave-hartson.com/Keep It between the Lines.doc

Luke 7:36-48 When A Sinners Crashes the Dinner Party

 Five Lessons we learn from the sinner who crashed the Pharisees Dinner Party. http://www.dave-hartson.com/When a Sinner Crashes the Dinner Party.doc

Luke 8:22-26 You Might Have Faculty Spiritual Wiring if...

This Passge Explores Six Ways that We might Exhibit Faulty Spiritual Wiring. http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Lessons Learned From the Master Teacher Part 6.doc

Luke 9:1-14 Our Faith has Some Shallow Spots

Is you Faith Deep or is your Faith Shallow? We explore Characteristics of Both Ends of the Faith Pool. http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Lessons Learned from the Master Teacher Part 7.doc

Luke 9: 51-56 Out of Control

Five signs that you might be out of control. http://www.dave-hartson.com/Out of Control.doc

Luke 10:30-37 Sometimes We Need A Little Help Along the Way

Luke 11:39-52 We Strive for Honesty in a Dishonest World

Luke 13:6-9 Will You Get it Right the Second Time

Six lessons about Second Chances Learned by Looking at a Fig Tree http://www.dave-hartson.com/Will You Get It Right the Second Time.doc

Luke 13:10-17 An Odd Response

Look at Six Ways Christians Have Odd Thinking about Church  http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/An Odd Response.doc

Luke 15:11-17 Are You Running from the Father?

Five signs that you are running from the Father and what you are to do about it.http://www.dave-hartson.com/ARE YOU RUNNING FROM THE FATHER.doc

Luke 16:19-31 What Can Hell Teach Today's Church?

Five Things that today's church needs to learn from Hell. http://www.dave-hartson.com/Lessons that Hell Can Teach the Church.doc

Luke 16:19-31 Lessons the Church Can Learn from Hell

Luke 17:11-19 The Unlike One Gave Thanks

Four things God shows us when the Samaritan comes back to give thanks. http://www.dave-hartson.com/The Unlikely One Gave Thanks.doc

Luke 18:9-14 In What Spiritual Condition Are You Leaving Church Today?

Let Me Share with You Five Reasons Why People Don't Get What They Need When They Come to Church  http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/In What Kind of Spiritual Condition Are You Leaving Church Today.doc 

Luke 18:31-34 Some Lessons I Don't Learn Easily

Luke 22:54-62 From A Distance is a Dangerous Place to Be

Three Reasons Why Serving God from a Distance is a Dangerouus Things and What Should We Do About it. http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/From A Distance is a Dangerous Place to Be.doc

Luke 23:33-34 Christians that make a difference show love in all the wrong places

Four things that must be present in my life to show love in all the wrong places. http://www.dave-hartson.com/As I read the Gospels of Matthew.doc

John 1:35-39 What do you want with Me?

We examine five possible motives for our relationship with Jesus. http://www.dave-hartson.com/What Do You Want with Me.doc

John 3:16 You are Known by the Comapny You Keep

Four things I learn about God from His friendships http://www.dave-hartson.com/You are known by the company you keep.doc

John 4:4-26 Something is Following Me

How to Know if your Past is Following You! http://www.dave-hartson.com/Something Is Following Me.doc

John 6:1-14 The Math Doesn't Add Up

Two Loaves and Five Fish are Two Loaves and Five Fish unless Jesus is around http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Lessons Learned While with the Master Teacher2.doc

John 6: 5-13 Can You See the Solution?

Four things you should see if you are to see your Solution http://www.dave-hartson.com/Can you see the solution.doc

John 7:37-39 What are the signs that we are spiritually thirsty?

John 8:1-11 A Plan for a New Beginning

Discover Five Ways that God is a God of New Beginnings http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/A Plan for a New Beginning.doc

John 11:7-8 It is Hard to Repair a Damaged Reputation

Three things that will damage our reputation and God's challenge to us. http://www.dave-hartson.com/It is Hard to Repair a Damaged Reputation.doc

John 12:12-19 Palm Sunday: Jesus Steps into the Spotlight

Lessons that We can  Learn from Palm Sunday. http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Palm Sunday.doc

John 14:1-3 The Greatest Event of the Bible

John 15:16 Why Does God Call Man?

John 16:16-20 Don't Get Stuck on the Insignificant

Five Lessons that We Can Learn when the Disciples Got Stuck on the Insignificant http://webzoom.freewebs.com/4drdave/Lessons Learned From the Master Teacher Part 5.doc