O.S. Hawkins Sermons

Pastor Helps

Ever wish you had paid more attention in seminary? Struggling with preparing a sermon? GuideStone President O.S. Hawkins wants to help pastors with useful resources to help them as they serve the Lord.

With more than a quarter century of pastoral leadership, Hawkins makes available some of his most popular sermon outlines for pastors, Sunday school teachers and other Bible study leaders. These free resources can help you as you prepare your sermon or lesson each week.

In addition to these sermon outlines, Hawkins offers his video Weekly Staff Meetings with insights on some of the most common issues pastors and ministers face.

Sermon Outlines

Title:	Passage:
Thanksgiving Day: Where are the nine?	Luke 17:11-19
Tracing the Rainbow through the Rain: Improper Self-image	Exodus 3:11
Tracing the Rainbow through the Rain: Depression	I Kings 19: 1- 18
Tracing the Rainbow through the Rain: Worry	Matthew 6:25-34
Tracing the Rainbow through the Rain: Impulsive Behavior	Matthew 6:19-24
Tracing the Rainbow through the Rain: Loneliness	Genesis 28:10-16
Tracing the Rainbow through the Rain: Adverse Circumstances	Revelation 1:9-10
Tracing the Rainbow through the Rain	Habakkuk 1-3
Warts and All	Jonah 4:1-11
What Can One Person Do?	Jonah 3:1-10
You Can't Keep a Good Man Down	Jonah 2:1-10
Jonah: Calming the Storm	Jonah 1:11-17
Jonah: Lessons on Leaving the Lord	Jonah 1:3-10
Jonah: Here am I... Send Someone Else	Jonah 1:1-3
Communion Sunday	1 Corinthians 11:23-28
Deacon Ordination Sunday	Acts 6:1-7
Money Talks - But What Is It Really Saying? For such a time as this	1 Chronicles 29:1-20
Money Talks – But What Is It Really Saying? Modern Money Myths	2 Corinthians 8:1-7
Money Talks - But What Is It Really Saying? Lord, do it again	Ezra 8:21
Money Talks - But What Is It Really Saying? Your money talks... what does it say?	James 5:1-6
Money Talks - But What Is It Really Saying? Robbery Without a Weapon	Malachi 3:7-12
Money Talks - But What Is It Really Saying? Economics 101	John 6
Money Talks - But What Is It Really Saying? A God-honoring offering	John 12
Money Talks - But What Is It Really Saying? Setting the Stewardship Standard	Proverbs 3:9-10
Father's Day	Luke 15:11-32
The question for our time: Who do you say that I am?	Matthew 16:13–16
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Reaching a new generation for Christ - Part 18	Ephesians 1:7
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Quake-proofing - Part 17	Psalm 119
Memorial Day	Daniel 5:1-31
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Little is Much - Part 16	John 6:1-14
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: The God of the second chance - Part 15	Mark 16:1-7
Mother's Day	Matthew 1:5
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: The call to restoration - Part 14	Philippians 2:12
Mother's Day: Modern day motherhood	Genesis 21:14-21
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Rescue efforts - Part 13	Galatians 6:1-2
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Restoring Joy - Part 12	Psalm 51
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Washed Clean - Part 11	Psalm 51
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Transgressions, iniquities and sins - Part 10	Psalm 51
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: And then came conviction - Part 9	2 Samuel 11:1
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Going down - Part 8	Luke 22
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: The high cost of low life - Part 7	2 Kings 5:3
It is Palm Sunday...is Jesus still weeping?	Luke 19:41; John 11:35
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Moral intersections - Part 6	Genesis 39
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Fight and flight - Part 5	1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Gone Fishing	Mark 1:17
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Root, shoot and fruit - Part 4	James 1
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Internal Source and External Force - Part 3	James 1
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Aftershocks - Part 2	Judges 16
Moral Earthquakes & Secret Faults: Living on the fault line - Part 1	Judges 13-14
GuideStones: The Propagation of the Gospel - Part 4	Acts 2:47
GuideStone: The Preservation of the Gospel - Part 3	Acts 2:41-46
GuideStones: The Proclamation of the Gospel - Part 2	Acts 2:14-40
Sanctity of Life Day: Choose life	Deuteronomy 30:19
Approved or Ashamed?	2 Timothy 2:15
GuideStones: The Power of the Gospel - Part 1	Acts 2:1–13
Keeping Life in Focus	Philippians 3:13-14
New Year's Day	Joshua 3:1-17
New Year's Day: Crossing over...into a new year	Deuteronomy 11:10-24
Christmas Day: Let us now go to Bethlehem	Luke 2:15
Christmas Eve	Hebrews 10:5-7
Missions: Moving out of our comfort zones	Matthew 9:35-38
Oh, That Sagging Middle!	Galatians 2:20
The Art of Connecting: Accountability: Don't leave home without it! - Part 6	Philemon 22-25
The Art of Connecting: Crossing the Rubicon of relationships - Part 5	Philemon 17–21
A New Beginning	Ruth 1:16
The Art of Connecting: Burying the hatchet - Part 4	Philemon 12–16
The Art of Connecting: Win-win...the only way to play - Part 3	Philemon 8–11
The Art of Connecting: A pat on the back - Part 2	Philemon 4–7
The Art of Connecting: Part 1	Philemon 1-3
Rebuilding: Rebuilders finish strong - Part 6	Neh. 6
Rebuilding: Rebuilders never cut what they can untie - Part 5	Neh. 5
Rebuilding: Rebuilders understand "YAC" is what really matters - Part 4	Neh. 4
Rebuilding: Rebuilders let go without letting up - Part 3	Neh. 3
Rebuilding: Rebuilders build a team spirit - Part 2	Neh. 2
Rebuilding: Rebuilders get started right - Part 1	Neh. 1
Three Verses for Youth…and the Rest of Us!	1 Thes 5:18; Col 3:17; 1 Cor 10:31
Ultimate Love	Romans 5:8
God's Recipe for Revival	2 Chronicles 7:14
Everyone has a Worldview	Genesis 1:1
The Empty Tomb and the Second Chance	Mark 16:7
You Can't Keep a Good Man Down	Jonah 2:1-10
Lessons on leaving the Lord	Jonah 1:3-10
Here am I... send someone else!	Jonah 1:1-3
The Deacon Ordination	Acts 6:1-7
Graduation Day	Genesis 39:1-23
Never cut what you can untie	Nehemiah 5:1-19
The Lord's Supper	1 Corinthians 11:23-28
A vision for the future	Proverbs 29:18
The power of positive, productive, interpersonal relationships	Philemon 1-25
Put your priorities in order	Philippians 3:13-14
Giving thanks	Psalm 100
The church in touch with a hurting world	James 5:13-18
Modern day motherhood	Genesis 21:14:21
A new year; a new beginning	Deuteronomy 11:10-24
Where are the nine?	Luke 17:11-19
The apostolic preaching model	Acts 2:14-47
The second mile	Matthew 5:41
The proof is in the pudding	Ephesians 5:19-21
Roots of recession: The arrogance of our age	James 4:13-17
For such a time as this	1 Chronicles 29:1-20
Four pillars of a healthy church	Acts 2:1-47
Crossing over into a new year	Deuteronomy 11:10-24
Economics 101	John 6:10-14
The question for our time: Who do YOU say that I am?	Matthew 16:13-16
High Calling - High Anxiety	James 1:1-12
At the Brook Cherith	1 Kings 17:1-7
Coming to Christ	John 1:35-51
The Bible: God’s inspired Word	2 Timothy 3:16-17
Being before doing	Matthew 5:3-10
Independence Day: America, an ecotonic moment in time	Jeremiah 8:5-22
SOS: Solving our setbacks	Joshua 7:1-2
The wonderful walk of victory	Galatians 5:19-26
Father's Day	Luke 15:11-32
Keep yourself in the love of God	Jude 20-21
Recovering the cutting edge	2 Kings 6:1-7
The Call of God	Acts 13:2
Picking up the pieces: the ministry of restoration	Galatians 6:1-2
Counter-culture Christianity	Ephesians 2:8-10
Broken dreams and new beginnings	John 11:1-44
The family secret	Romans 8:28
Setting the stewardship standard	Proverbs 3:9-10
America: some “why” questions	Jeremiah 8:5-22
A God honoring offering	John 12:1-8
World Missions Day	Acts 16:10
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