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  • Mike Hays avatar

    Who's Your Daddy?

    Contributed by Mike Hays on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 64 ratings
     | 6,097 views

    God has adopted us into His family. He is a Father who will never fail us.

    Who's Your Daddy? 1 John 3:4-10 The last rain soaked, numbed-out fan sloshed out of Max Yasgur's muddy pasture more than 30 years ago. That was the day the Woodstock Music and Art Festival came to a close. What was billed as "three days of peace and music" turned into something altogether ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Imitation Of Love

    Contributed by Mike Hays on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 58 ratings
     | 6,276 views

    God has shown His love for us in His Son Jesus who has given His life so that we might know true love as well as salvation.

    The Imitation of Love 1 John 3:11-24 "Pray that my love will be without limits." --Saint Maximilian Kolbe in his last letter to his mother. Father Maximilian Kolbe was forty-five years old in the early autumn of 1939 when the Nazis invaded his homeland. He was a Polish monk who founded the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Sin, Theology Of

    Contributed by Noah Balcombe on Jun 4, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 2,941 views

    A theological study of Sin adapted from Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem

    What is Sin? Sin is LAWLESSNESS 1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. Law? God’s moral law ∑ Written ∑ Unwritten - Romans 2:15 They show that God’s law is not something alien, imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of our ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Expectations

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jun 6, 2005
    based on 25 ratings
     | 8,413 views

    Just as we have certain goals and dreams for our children, so also does God for His adopted children. Four words describe His expectations.

    Expectations! I Jn 3:1-3 1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Sin And The Effect That It Has On Our Lives?

    Contributed by Ed Pruitt on Jun 17, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 9,014 views

    There are people out there that seem to think that if they are born again and commit sin they will be automatically forgiven if they commit sin. Then on the other hand there are people out there that feel that if they are born again and commit a sin th

    Sin and the effect that it has on our lives? Sunday February 25, 2001 I want to use as a text this morning 1st John 3:6 1 John 3:6 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. Now I want to read that same verse in the New Living Translation. 1 ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Love Is More Than A Four-Letter Word

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jul 8, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 9,471 views

    "What you do defines you" - a line borrowed from movie "Batman Begins" summarizes this message.

    Love is more than a four-letter word 1 John 3:11-16 "Batman Begins" movie has a scene in it that I like – Bruce Wayne aka Batman puts on the playboy act—meant to keep people from connecting him with the crusading hero Batman— Wayne’s girlfriend from his past and now a zealous district attorney, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    Loving Others Series

    Contributed by Carl Willis on Jul 15, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,618 views

    The importance of loving others

    Loving Others 1 John 3:11-24 May 2, 2004 1 John 3:11-12 This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    What Are You Doing? Anything?

    Contributed by Charles Whatley on May 20, 2004
    based on 54 ratings
     | 7,187 views

    We know the goal, but we keep running off down "rabbit trails." We keep letting ourselves be distracted away from the important things.

    Bill Bright tells the story of a farmer who told his wife he was going out to plow the "south forty." He got off to an early start so he could oil the tractor. He needed more oil, so he went to the shop to get it. On the way to the shop he noticed the pigs weren’t fed. So he proceeded to the corn ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    We Know We Have Passed From Death To Life

    Contributed by Glen Lawhun on May 23, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,725 views

    We know we have passed from death to life if we love the brethern.

    We know we have passed from death to life because… I John 3:7-15 1. Read I John 3:7-15 2. I John 3:7 Little children, let know one deceive you…. a. (do not let the devil trick you into thinking you love someone by saying, “I love him but I don’t like him!”) (I John 3:18) b. Col. 2:8 Beware ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Using What You've Got Series

    Contributed by Tim Bond on May 27, 2004
    based on 44 ratings
     | 16,848 views

    The Holy Spirit not only give us spiritual gifts to use in our service to God, He also gives us the power, love and self-discipline to utilize them effectively.

    Last week we began a series of 3 messages on the nature and responsibility of having Spiritual Gifts. If you were here you might remember that we read from Romans 12 and 1 Peter 4. And we learned that every believer has at least one spiritual gift. These are God given abilities distributed among ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Michael Stover avatar

    God Loves Us With A Great Love Series

    Contributed by Michael Stover on Mar 22, 2001
    based on 46 ratings
     | 5,534 views

    God loves us infinitely more than we can understand. Because of this, we should live pure lives, as He is pure.

    I. Parentage of the Believer (1 John 3:1) A. Manifestation of His love 1. John 1:12-13, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Those Who Know God Must Abide In Love Series

    Contributed by Michael Stover on Mar 22, 2001
    based on 70 ratings
     | 4,749 views

    For those who know God, love will be the evident characteristic of their lives.

    I. Love is a Persistent Theme (verses 10-11) A. John 13:34-35, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” B. John 15:12, “This is my ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Those Who Know God Must Remain Pure Series

    Contributed by Michael Stover on Mar 22, 2001
    based on 47 ratings
     | 3,565 views

    Those who know God must remain pure, as He is pure.

    I. Definition of Sin (3:4) A. Lawlessness – without or against the law B. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 “the man of lawlessness (Antichrist) will oppose God” (paraphrase) II. Manifestation for Sin (3:5) A. Jesus became the sacrifice for our sin B. Only He could deal with our sin, because He has no sin of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dennis Lawrence avatar

    God To The Rescue Series

    Contributed by Dennis Lawrence on Apr 6, 2001
    based on 169 ratings
     | 7,797 views

    One story began at Christmas and goes to the cross and Easter!

    God to the Rescue April 7, 2001 We’ve celebrated the meal that Jesus left us to remind us of Him and His work on earth, as well as the work that followed from His ascension to heaven. We celebrated Jesus, and each time we do, we celebrate some different facet of our Saviour. We’ve just seen the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Living Out Righteousness

    Contributed by Jeff Hughes on Apr 8, 2003
    based on 71 ratings
     | 10,115 views

    The importance of rightoeusness in our lives.

    Living Out Righteousness 1st John 3:4 – 3:12 Jeff Hughes I. Introduction a. Turn with me in your Bibles to 1st John, Chapter 3, and verse 4. b. Tonight we are going to look at eight verses in the Book of First John, chapter three, that shed some light as to how we as believers are to live out ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational