Sermons & Devotionals by Richard E. Bieber

Mary Magdalene was a changed woman after Jesus delivered her from those seven devils. So changed, that she began to follow him. She couldn’t thank him enough for her healing. But the change that made the eternal difference in Mary’s life was not when Jesus delivered her from those demons. The change... Read More

There was once a man who considered it his vocation in life to stand up on top of a hill, dressed in a clean white suit, with a shiny stainless steel shovel tossing muddy slime on the people who walked down below. One day an old lady cried out, "Why are you doing this?" as she wiped the mud out of h... Read More

A man once gave a great banquet, and invited many; and at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, "Come, for all is now ready." Luke 14 The man who gives the banquet is God the Father, and the servant who goes out and brings people to the banquet is the Son... Read More

I had a phone call the other day from a woman who ex­pressed very clearly what many of us can relate to. "You keep talking about shaking the city. But I'm spending most of my time caring for my children. Two days a week I clean people's houses and scrub their toilets to help meet expenses. What does... Read More

READ: Jeremiah 50:1-5 Matthew 6:24-34 Galatians 6:7-5 In scripture there are two cities which were the centers of an unseen war raging between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Satan: Jerusalem and Babylon. From the time Melchizedek, king of Jerusalem, came out to receive tithes of Abraham and g... Read More

When Helen Morrow was a little girl, she would crouch in a corner and shake with fear as her drunken stepfather would beat her mother and cover her mother with curses. There would be months of peace in the house, and then it would start again. This went on all through Helen's childhood and youth. Wh... Read More

"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28 What beautiful words! What a wonderful invitation! "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, 'If we had lived in th... Read More

"Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was... Read More

Wherefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared first to those at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and perform deeds worthy of repentance. Before Jesus calls us... Read More

Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the world set themselves, and the rulers of the earth take council together, against the Lord and against his anointed saying, "Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us." …Let's break loose from God.... Read More

Turn on your TV, pick up your newspaper, open any magazine, and you can see at a glance what drives the economy and makes the world go round: money and sex. You see it all the time out there in the real world---money and sex. But in our churches these two powerful human drivers are hardly ever dealt... Read More

Our gatherings each week in Jesus' name are truly a Kingdom homecoming. We were out in the world all week, living our lives, exercising our ministries, and now we gather in the assembly to be refreshed for the battles that lie ahead. The power of this weekly homecoming hinges to a large degree on wh... Read More

I’d like to begin by reading Isaiah 1 verses 2 through 3 and Isaiah 2 verse 5. And what we’re talking about is making decisions that bring us from the old nature to the new nature. And for most of us, if not all of us, at some point in our life when we make decisions that bring us from the old natur... Read More

For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up… Ecclesiasties 3:1-3 A time for every purpose under h... Read More

There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, full of sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. If we seek power for the sake of being able to say, "Look at us! We bear ... Read More

Jesus says that the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light. This is certainly true when it comes to knowing how to ask for help from God. Again and again we see the children of this world lifting up their voices without shame, crying out to God for help, whit... Read More

Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations......" M... Read More

The events of recent days have focused our attention on the fact that the nations of this world deal with each other in terms of power. When the power is in balance, we have peace. And when the balance is disturbed, we have war. Sooner or later the balance is always disturbed. It’s like a giant poke... Read More

Years ago, there was a man in Philadelphia who called himself Father Divine. (I think he spelled it "Devine" rather than "Divine," but I'm sure he wouldn't mind spelling his name in accordance with his real intentions.) Father Divine was in touch with Sweet Daddy Grace, and Prophet Jones over there ... Read More

It's easy enough to say to a person, "Jesus is the light of the world!" But for that person to know what you're talking about, they have to see the evidence. They have to see light. If you say, "Behold! Jesus is the light!" "Look unto him and be saved!", and the person still sits there in the darkne... Read More