Gospel Sermon Ideas
Gospel means "good news" and refers to the message of life and salvation through Jesus Christ as proclaimed in the New Testament. The gospel is central to the church's sermons, homilies, prayers, liturgies, and pastoral care.
What does the Bible say about the gospel?
Use these prefiltered searches to craft sermons and prayers, offer pastoral care, or plan worship services around the theme of the gospel.
- Matthew 26:13, the gospel is preached
- Mark 8:35, those who lose their life for Jesus and his gospel will save it
- Acts 8:25, Peter and John preach the gospel throughout Samaria
- Romans 1:1, set apart for the gospel
- Romans 1:16, power of the gospel
- 1 Corinthians 9:18, the gospel is God's free gift
- Galatians 1:6–8, false gospel
Sermon ideas about the gospel
The English word gospel derives from a Middle English riff (godspell) on a Latin derivative of the Greek evangelium, which means "good news." Godspell was the combination of god (good) and spell (tale).
The New Testament contains four individual gospel books: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Together, they narrate the one gospel story of Jesus of Nazareth and how through his ministry, teaching, preaching, miracles, death, and resurrection he brought about forgiveness of sin and the end of death.
The gospel proclaims the coming of the kingdom of God, and it announces that entrance into this kingdom is by grace alone through faith alone when in baptism we receive union with Christ and so eternal life through him.
Already in the book of Acts, in the earliest preaching of the church, and then on into the epistles of Paul and others, "the gospel" was shorthand for the whole content of the sermons presented by the apostles. Probably no single verse captures this better than what Paul wrote in Romans 1:16: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek."
