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  • Rich Young avatar

    Handles For The Hard Times (Part 5) Series

    Contributed by Rich Young on Jan 18, 2001
    based on 107 ratings
     | 4,513 views

    Fifth, and last sermon in a series of sermons on dealing with difficult times.

    Handles for the Hard Times (Part 5) TEXT: Heb 12:4-11 INTRODUCTION · This is last in a series of 5 sermons on “Handling the Hard Times” · Have provided 7 handles to hold on to when the difficulties come & many of those handles have to do with the perspective we have, or the way we look at the ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Ernest Canell avatar

    To Have Endurance For This Life You Have To Keep Your Eyes Focused On Jesus

    Contributed by Ernest Canell on Jan 23, 2001
    based on 145 ratings
     | 7,088 views

    runinng the race with endurance

    Intro- prayer – open your bibles with me to; Hebrews 12: 1-3 “ Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Jimmy Chapman avatar

    Run With The Winners

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Jan 26, 2001
    based on 124 ratings
     | 10,523 views

    exposition of Hebrews 12:1-3

    Run with the Winners Hebrews 12:1-3 Outline I. The witnesses that comfort us - "cloud of witnesses" II. The weights that confine us - "let us lay aside every weight" A. Call to discern what handicaps us - "weight" B. Courage to discard what handicaps us - "lay aside" III. The wickedness ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rob McQueary avatar

    Consider This

    Contributed by Rob Mcqueary on Mar 18, 2001
    based on 107 ratings
     | 7,076 views

    Times of loss are wonderful opportunities to consider how we stand before Almighty God.

    Consider This Introduction Why do we do this? It is certainly not exclusive to our American culture. Funeral services will take place all over the world today… hundreds upon thousands of them. A thread of similarity will run through each one. Among the many things we do at funerals, perhaps the ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • John Beehler avatar

    Journey To The Cross

    Contributed by John Beehler on Mar 20, 2001
    based on 80 ratings
     | 4,320 views

    Jesus’ journey to the cross began long before even his birth.

    Journey to the Cross It’s become fashionable these days to wear crosses, not necessarily as a sign of faith, but as a trendy accessory. Crosses are hip now. An encounter at a department store jewelry counter. Customer is interested in buying a cross, to which the sales clerk replies ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Steve Steve avatar

    Have You Ever Been Lost?

    Contributed by Steve Steve on Mar 13, 2002
    based on 40 ratings
     | 4,385 views

    Sermon calling us to throw off the old, and run the race with everyone else.

    Following Jesus? Have you ever been lost? I have. I’ve been told the story of when I was 3 or 4 and my mom couldn’t find me. She called my dad at work. He simply told her to find lonesome and she would find me. Let me explain who lonesome is. Being a only child until I was nine, Lonesome was ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Bo Dunford avatar

    A Cloud Of Witnesses

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Mar 14, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 7,199 views

    Do our loved ones in heaven know what goes on here on earth?

    HEB.12:1 "A CLOUD OF WITNESSES" * A question that has been asked me so many times, and probably is in the hearts of millions of other people is: Do our loved ones in heaven know what goes on here on this earth? * I can say with assurance and show you in the bible that they do know. * And I can ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dr. C. David White avatar

    The Contest

    Contributed by Dr. C. David White on Mar 25, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,261 views

    The Christian life is not a sprint it is a marathon.

    Running Life’s Race – To Win The boy had many questions. Most of the questions had to do with these Saints. “Why are they called Saints?” “How do you get to be a Saint?” As it is for many children, the answers to the questions were just not enough. Soon the questions ended, and they boy just sat ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Consider Him

    Contributed by Bud Martenn on Mar 25, 2002
    based on 74 ratings
     | 5,339 views

    The highest thoughts a man can have is when he considers Jesus Christ

    CONSIDER HIM Heb.12:1-3 1. The word “consider” > analogizomai > ana = up, upon + logos word, logic 2. Literally to - analyse, think upon, study, contemplate, meditate, concentrate 3. The entire book of Hebrews is a consideration of Jesus Christ (3:1)(7:4)(12:3) 4. We (like the Hebrews) so ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Wade Martin Hughes, Sr avatar

    Splatting

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 3, 2002
    based on 25 ratings
     | 2,907 views

    Long distance runners reach a point in every race which is called SPLATTING, to continue in the race takes discipline.

    Gal. 5:7 YE DID RUN WELL, WHO DID HINDER YOU THAT YE SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH? SPLATTING (or falling towers and dashed dreams) 1. JESUS WAS A PEOPLE PERSON, NOT A PAPER PERSON. Problems are great opportunities. Peace is not the absence of problems, but rather the presence of the Almighty God. 2. ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Mike Hays avatar

    "Running With Endurance"

    Contributed by Mike Hays on Apr 6, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 14,155 views

    Like disciplined athletes we are called to cast off everything that would prevent us from running with endurance the race set before us.

    “Running With Endurance” Hebrews 12:1-3 On Monday of this past week I went to Bishop McGuinness High School where Nate was running in a track meet. There were 7th-9th grade boys and girls from all over the state who left their homes early in the morning to make their way to the track. I sat ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Joseph Smith avatar

    Enron, Easter, And Eternity

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Apr 8, 2002
    based on 90 ratings
     | 3,277 views

    Our church uses the Sunday after Easter for Remembrance, honoring those of our church deceased in the previous year. This sermon mines eternal values from each of their lives.

    We are ready to fight for security. The one thing we all want, whether we be aggressive and hostile and always ready to strike out, or whether we be quiet and retiring and always ready to run – the one thing we all are ready to fight for is security. We need to know that our futures are ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Mike Hays avatar

    The Encouragement Of Discipline

    Contributed by Mike Hays on Apr 21, 2002
    based on 101 ratings
     | 17,220 views

    The training, correcting, and molding of our character by the Lord is one of His greatest blessings in life.

    The Encouragement of Discipline Hebrews 12:4-11 For the past two weeks we have been studying the twelfth chapter of Hebrews and learning how we can run the race of faith. The writer of Hebrews has used the illustration of a runner to teach us that we should cast aside everything that would ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Wade Martin Hughes, Sr avatar

    Weighed And Wanting

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 24, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 5,883 views

    God has a scale and He will hold us accountable.

    WEIGHED AND WANTING By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com TEXT: Daniel 5:25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE,MENE,TEKEL,UPHARSIN. 26 This is the interpetation of the thing, MENE -- God hath numbered thy kingdom, and FINISHED it. 27 TEKEL -- THOU ART WEIGHED IN THE BALANACES, ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Jonathan Lucas avatar

    Gaza, Gath And Ashdod

    Contributed by Jonathan Lucas on Jun 13, 2001
    based on 107 ratings
     | 16,207 views

    This sermon deals with the consequences of allowing "little" sins to remain alive within the life of the believer.

    Gaza, Gath and Ashdod Text: Joshua 13:1-3; Hebrews 12:1 Joshua 13:1-3 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal