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Barnabas: Being A Better Buddy

Contributed by Guy Caley on Nov 3, 2002

based on 271 ratings

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This sermon was used for friends Sunday, we asked members to invite their friends. Uses Barnabas as an example of friendship, and invites people to make Jesus their friend.

Video Clip of Anne of Green Gables "Will you promise to be my secret bosom friend?" I think all of us have a desire to have a bosom friend, one who sticks with you through thick and thin. But my dad always told me that if you want friends you’ve got to be friendly, that’s what I’d like to talk ...read more

Scripture: Acts 4:36-37, Acts 11:22-26

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Surprising Answers To Prayer

Contributed by Mark Haines on Jul 23, 2001

based on 67 ratings

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An inductive message using biblical narrative to encourage Christians to turn to God in prayer because he will answer them.

Purpose: to be the Holy Spirit’s second witness calling God’s people in my care to cooperate with God in order to receive answers to their prayers. Response: Individuals will ponder Jesus’ question to the man by the pool of Bethesda – "Do you want to get well?" If they do they can come to the ...read more

Scripture: John 5:1-8, Acts 12:1-19

Denomination: Wesleyan

What's This Baptism Thing All About?

Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 4, 2001

based on 239 ratings

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To draw attention to the importance of water baptism in the life of a believer.

What’s This Baptism Thing All About? Acts 2:22-41 22 "Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. 23 This man was handed over to you by God’s set purpose and ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:22-41

Denomination: Wesleyan

When God Lends A Hand Series

Contributed by Brian Atwood on Aug 7, 2001

based on 209 ratings

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This is the first sermon in the series, "Becoming A Contagious Congregation, A Study of the Church at Antioch".

Notice Acts 11:21 from our scripture reading - "And THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS WITH THEM and a great number believed, and turned to the Lord." The church at Antioch was a CONTAGIOUS CONGREGATION. The fact that "a great number believed, and turned to the Lord", gets our attention. I want to ...read more

Scripture: Acts 11:19-30

Denomination: Baptist

Opposition To Godly Things

Contributed by Scott Hippler on Aug 8, 2001

based on 18 ratings

| 3,635 views

Acts 4:1-4 What opposition have you encountered in your walk with with God? What was your response? God will bless your efforts!!!!

Satan’s #1 tool to oppose us and to defeat us is the various forms of opposition that come at us in everyday life and especially when we are attempting something great for God. In those times of ministry, outreach and evangelism - Satan will pull out all of the stops to knock us off course, to ...read more

Scripture: Acts 4:1-4

Denomination: Baptist

The Church God Favors Series

Contributed by Brian Atwood on Aug 9, 2001

based on 99 ratings

| 7,664 views

This is the second sermon in the series "Becoming A Contagious Congregation, A Study of the Church at Antioch".

There was something special about the church at Antioch. We’ve already seen (in the first sermon in this series) that God’s hand was on them because they were a praying, Spirit-filled congregation. Notice what Luke says about the way Barnabas perceived the church at Antioch. In Acts 11:23 it ...read more

Scripture: Acts 11:19-30

Denomination: Baptist

Double Cross

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Aug 10, 2001

based on 34 ratings

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You can only get the right perspective on the cross if you look at it from two angles: from the angle of suffering and sacrifice, and the angle of resurrection and victory.

DOUBLE CROSS Did you know that some people are right-eyed and some people are left-eyed? It’s true. Point at something 10 or 20 feet away - that’s right, hold out your finger. Then close your left eye. If you don’t have to move your finger, you’re right-eyed. If you have to move your finger ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:22-24, John 11:25-27

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Using Legends To Evangelize Across Cultures

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 11, 2001

based on 14 ratings

| 2,903 views

USING LEGENDS TO EVANGELIZE ACROSS CULTURES

USING LEGENDS TO EVANGELIZE ACROSS CULTURES Introduction - Every society is proud of its traditions, culture, and historical discoveries. When I first came to Africa it amazed me at what reverence the people gave to the stories of past. Parents told legends about Joseph and his brothers to ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:1-47

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Principles Of Identification In Cross-Cultural

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 13, 2001

based on 11 ratings

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Principles of Identification in Cross-Cultural Church Planting and Evangelism

Principles of Identification in Cross-Cultural Church Planting and Evangelism Learning Objectives 1. The students will explain how one identifies with someone from another culture in evangelism. 2. The students will write a short paper discussing some of the limits of identifying with a ...read more

Scripture: Acts 4:12-16

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Getting Ahead Of God Series

Contributed by John Hamby on Aug 13, 2001

based on 68 ratings

| 17,093 views

The example of Moses in getting ahead of God’s plan for your life.

A Study of the Life of Moses Sermon # 2 “Getting Ahead of God!” Exodus 2:11-15 Acts 7: 20-29 Dr. John R. Hamby Last week in our first in the series on the life of Moses we examined ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 2:11-15, Acts 7:20-29

Denomination: Baptist

How To Contextualize Your Preaching And Teaching

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 14, 2001

based on 28 ratings

| 7,880 views

How to Contextualize Your Preaching and Teaching

How to Contextualize Your Preaching and Teaching CONTEXTUALIZATION OF PREACHING- Preaching with contextualization requires one to understand his audiences’ world view. Preachers cannot expect people to adopt their world view automatically. Most people move from what they know to what they need ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:14-36

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

In My Whole Life Nobody ... Part 2 Series

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Aug 14, 2001

based on 104 ratings

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"I guess I was a kind of an unruly girl or something, so maybe they didn’t want me. I attended a church college, too. But nobody ever said a word to me about becoming a Christian. So I never did."

MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (REVISED: 2016) TEXT: Acts 8:34-39; Matthew 10:32 ILL. Last week I began Part 1 of this 3-part sermon series by telling about a young lady I had never met before who asked if she could talk with me about a problem concerning ...read more

Scripture: Acts 17:30, Acts 8:34-39

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

In My Whole Life Nobody ... Part 3 Series

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Aug 14, 2001

based on 128 ratings

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Two weeks ago I began Part 1 of this 3-part sermon series by telling you about a conversation I had with a young lady. She had attended a particular church all her life but had never become a Christian.

MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (REVISED - 2016) TEXT: Acts 2:36-41; Acts 22:7-16; Romans 6:3-5 ILL. Two weeks ago I began this 3-part sermon series by telling about a conver-sation with a young lady I had never met before. To make a ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:36-41, Acts 22:7-16, Romans 6:3-5

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Crippling Spirit

Contributed by J. Richard Lord, Jr. on Aug 16, 2001

based on 308 ratings

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When we allow them, there are spirits that can cripple us.

THE CRIPPLING SPIRIT Luke 13:10-17 For eighteen years this woman came to church bent over. Crippled. She had been faithful, loved the Lord, a “daughter of Abraham.” I guess you could say she was “saved.” Eighteen years is a long time. Everybody had accepted her condition. I suppose in a ...read more

Scripture: Luke 13:10-17, John 5:5-16, Romans 8:26, Acts 3:1-11

Denomination: Holiness

From The Community To The Courthouse (Part 1) Series

Contributed by Adam Cruse on Aug 19, 2001

based on 111 ratings

| 10,171 views

God has given us in this text, three characteristics of what it takes to be an effective evangelistic church.

This week we are returning to our study in the book of Acts. The title of this series has been, “What a Church Should Look Like.” By now I hope we are beginning to see the structure of how Luke is writing. It seems as if he is flipping back and forth between two perspectives. One perspective is ...read more

Scripture: Acts 5:12-16

Denomination: Baptist

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