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Joshua Blackmon
Contributing sermons since Nov 20, 2017
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Praying Like Elijah
Contributed on Feb 10, 2024
Elijah was human but transcended his finitude and frailty through prayer. So can we.
James 5:17-18 (KJV) Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. Elias was a man ...read more
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Backseat Driver
Contributed on Feb 3, 2024
Letting God lead is easy when things are going the way we think they should. When God takes us down paths we don't like, we want to take the wheel of the proverbial car of life.
Backseat Driver Both our daughters have recently started a driver's education course. I can remember the very first time I was behind the wheel of a car. My dad decided to let me drive. He regretted it immediately. As he sat in the passenger seat directing me, I put my foot on the gas and ...read more
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The Resurrection: The Gospel
Contributed on Jan 6, 2024
Unfinished notes on the doctrine of the resurrection for a Bible study that I am teaching on Wednesday evenings.
Background and context from my passage: Some of the Corinthian believers had concluded that there was no future resurrection of the dead and this was influencing the faith of the rest of the church. As Paul said earlier about the acceptance of the members of the church who were practicing ...read more
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The Seven Keys To Spiritual Buoyancy: Total Dependence (Key Two)
Contributed on Sep 17, 2023
Learning to totally depend on the Lord is the second key to spiritual buoyancy.
The Seven Keys to Spiritual Buoyancy: Total Dependence (Key Two) Introduction Last week we began our journey into discovering the secrets of the apostle Paul's resilient spiritual life. We are calling them keys to spiritual buoyancy. Buoyancy is "the ability or tendency to float in water ...read more
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The Seven Keys To Spiritual Buoyancy: The Ministry Of Consolation (Key One)
Contributed on Sep 10, 2023
This series looks at seven principles from 2 Corinthians that Paul characterizes the life of Paul the Apostle and shows how he was able to stay afloat despite the difficulties he faced in life.
The Seven Keys to Spiritual Buoyancy: The Ministry of Consolation (Key One) Introduction The Scriptures use chaotic waters as a theme for the dangerous yet glorious place of unformed potential. The creation hymn of Genesis 1 begins with God's Spirit hovering in the darkness over the face of ...read more
Newest Sermon Series
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The Resurrection
Contributed on Jan 6, 2024
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Seven Keys To Spiritual Buoyancy
Contributed on Sep 17, 2023
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The True Tabernacle
Contributed on Jan 9, 2023
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Through Colossians
Contributed on May 12, 2022
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The Power Of His Name
Contributed on Sep 15, 2021
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When It Was Dark
Contributed on Apr 15, 2022
When It Was Dark I’m not quite sure how to say this. We have always said in the church that our faith was based upon facts. It was a faith built upon evidence that led us to the facts. My friends, something has come to light just this past week that is out now in the professional journals and ...read more
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Make Room For The Tide!
Contributed on Mar 12, 2022
"Years ago, a wealthy businessman from London chartered a bus to carry a busload of urban children to the coast. There, the children spent a wonderful day at the ocean. Many of the children had never left the city. Most had never seen the ocean. For one blissful day, they ran unfettered over ...read more
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Bring A Bigger Basket!
Contributed on Mar 12, 2022
"A missionary in Africa had a farm some miles from the mission station. The season had been very favorable, and he had a large crop of corn on the mission farm. When the crop was ready to harvest, he made a public appeal to the Africans, asking them to help him carry his corn from the farm to ...read more