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  • Paul Apple avatar

    Strive For Excellence In Pleasing God

    Contributed by Paul Apple on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 70 ratings
     | 6,634 views

    GROWING DISCIPLES MUST STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN PLEASING GOD A.

    GROWING DISCIPLES MUST STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN PLEASING GOD A. Our Present Level of Obedience Should Be the Foundation For Striving For Excellence in Pleasing God (:1-2) (rather than the excuse for settling for mediocrity or the mountaintop for sliding to the valley) 1. Growing Disciples Need ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Privacy And Priesthood Of All Believers

    Contributed by Frank Gallagher on Dec 8, 2000
    based on 145 ratings
     | 4,054 views

    Every believer is equally a priest in full-time Christian service, and there are no "lay" people. Believers have privacy, and their spiritual life is between them and God.

    PRIVACY & PRIESTHOOD OF BELIEVERS (6-12-01) (1 Thes. 4:11-12; Rev. 1:5-6, 5:9-10) [HTTP formatted version of this outline is located at http://members.aol.com/abidingitw/priests.html] 1. All born-again believers are PRIESTS in full-time Christian service (Rev. 1:5-6, 5:9-10). Rev 1:5 ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Living A Life Successful For God Series

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Nov 11, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 7,379 views

    Last week with looked at what it would take to live a life pleasing to or towards God. What we discovered was that this life was accomplished through sanctification and pursuing God’s desires. The foundation for accomplishing this was to value our worth

    LIVING A LIFE SUCCESSFUL FOR GOD 1 Thess 4:9-12 INTRODUCTION: Last week with looked at what it would take to live a life pleasing to or towards God. What we discovered was that this life was accomplished through sanctification and pursuing God’s desires. The foundation for accomplishing this was ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ed Wood avatar

    How To Please Your Father Series

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Apr 6, 2007
    based on 24 ratings
     | 6,652 views

    5th in series on 1 Thessalonians (5 of 8).

    HOW TO PLEASE YOUR FATHER 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 INTRO: Along with jogging, walking has become a popular exercise and outdoor sport. You can see entire families out enjoying a walk together. The Christian life can be compared to a walk. It begins with a step of faith. But that step leads to a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Colin Coombs avatar

    Responding To Responsibility

    Contributed by Colin Coombs on Mar 19, 2006
    based on 36 ratings
     | 4,119 views

    Encouraging responsibility towards God; Fellow Christians; and the unsaved.

    I Thessalonians 4:1 - 12 I. OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PLEASE GOD I Thessalonians 4:1dear brothers and sisters, we urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live in a way that pleases God, as we have taught you. You are doing this already, and we encourage you to do so more and more. [NLT] a. ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Rick Gillespie- Mobley avatar

    Eulogy Edna White

    Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on May 28, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,066 views

    This is a eulogy for a believer in Christ who loved her family but was not heavily involved in the life of the church.

    Edna White Rick Gillespie-Mobley Edna White 5 While the powers that be had decided that the World was to go to war in 1914, 63 days after the nations declared war on each other, on October 6th, God had decided to send a gift of hope into the world. ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Pleasing God

    Contributed by Ed Wood on May 31, 2007
    based on 9 ratings
     | 7,719 views

    This message attempts to identify who man tries to please, God or man.

    PLEASING GOD 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 INTRO: Man is always striving to please someone. The Christian will either please God or he will please man. There are certain things that man must do if he is going to please God. Likewise, there are certain things he must not do in order to please God. This ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Call To Grow!

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jul 8, 2006
     | 1,999 views

    God calls us to grow in our intimate relationship (if we are married), in our brotherly love, and in our attitude to work.

    We have just read from a portion of the Bible which could be seen as impossible for a ‘Priest’ to relate to. After all (you might think to yourself), what would a ‘Priest’ know about the intimate relationship between a man and a woman! After all (you might think to yourself), what would a ‘Priest’ ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Darrin Fish avatar

    A Life Worth Living Is A Life Worth Working At. Series

    Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 8, 2007
     | 3,313 views

    If the world, can’t see God’s demonstrated in our daily life, Through our behavior, then God hasn’t been seen.

    We are quickly coming to the end of the first of Paul’s Letters to the Thessalonians. • But there is still one message that He wants to make clear. • That message is to make sure that these new converts live a life that pleases God. • So Paul is giving them some final instructions. • Paul is ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Practicing The Blessed Hope

    Contributed by Larry Kettle on Dec 13, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,637 views

    This is a sermon that is meant to make the listener think about their biblical responsibility to actively look for Christ to come.

    “Practicing the Blessed Hope” 1 Thessalonians 4 Introduction A. What is the value of hope? 1. Hope cannot be imprisoned by maximum security. 2. Hope cannot be invalidated by propaganda. 3. Hope is only invigorated by persecution. 4. The value of hope has been measured in the eyes of martyrs, in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Dave McFadden avatar

    Value Industry Series

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Jul 14, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,282 views

    Christian parents need to model and teach a good work ethic.

    The apostle Paul gives us a powerful word here about the value of industry. He says that the people of God should be known as an industrious people. Apparently, some of the folks at Thessalonica did not heed Paul’s instructions given here, because in 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Paul wrote again about ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Entire Sanctification

    Contributed by George Crumbly on Aug 9, 2005
    based on 29 ratings
     | 5,534 views

    God expects His people to be Holy

    “ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION” (I Thessalonians 4: 1-10) Sheridan Church of the Nazarene: Sunday Morning, November 11, 2001 George E. Crumbly TURN TO I THESSALONIANS 4 The meat of the Holiness message is Sanctification. We believe in the doctrine of Entire Sanctification. ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Anthony Smith avatar

    Walking In Dark Places

    Contributed by Anthony Smith on Jul 19, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 2,928 views

    We have a great deal of work to do, a long journey to go; it is time to be stirring.

    Running in Dark Places. Walking in Honesty. 1Th 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. How many today are running in Dark Places, you know, the places that you wouldn’t want the rest of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Jeffery Anselmi avatar

    Live The Life Series

    Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Jul 24, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
     | 4,352 views

    We are called to live in purity not in immorality. This is God’s specific command!

    INTRODUCTION • When we started this series on 1 Thessalonians, I stated that a good theme for the book could be titled the same as a Chuck Colson book, “How Now Shall We live?” • How are we to live out our lives as we await the return of our Lord Jesus? • In have spent the first couple of messages ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Mind Your Own Business

    Contributed by Edwin Hardy on Nov 4, 2004
    based on 21 ratings
     | 128,318 views

    The church needs to remember the work God has left us to do and then get busy doing it.

    Mind your own Business 1 Thessalonians 4:7-11 Wouldn’t it be great if everybody would mind their own business? Wouldn’t it be great if everybody did what he or she was supposed to do? Wouldn’t it be great if there weren’t so many busybodies? People who were more concerned about your affairs than ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist