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  • James May avatar

    Get Your Buckets Ready Because The Rain Is Coming!

    Contributed by James May on Oct 26, 2003
    based on 74 ratings
     | 32,670 views

    God is pouring out the Holy Ghost upon those whose "buckets" are ready to receive him. Is your bucket ready?

    GET YOUR BUCKETS READY BECAUSE THE RAIN IS COMING! Joel 2:23-32, "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And the ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Pat Cook avatar

    Receiving Mercy For Making Messes

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Nov 2, 2003
    based on 77 ratings
     | 18,460 views

    God’s justice brings punishment, but God’s mercy brings forgiveness, to the point of repaying our sins for blessings. What a God!

    Joel 2:18-27 – Receiving Mercy for Making Messes Once there was a pastor who was such a golf addict that one Sunday he called in sick and went golfing instead. Two angels were above him on the golf course, discussing the situation. One angel said, “You just wait. I’m gonna punish him good for ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet

    Contributed by Pastor/Author: Terry Sisney on Mar 25, 2005
    based on 84 ratings
     | 43,089 views

    Whatever the devil is doing, God has something bigger planned that will make him sorry, he ever messed with us.

    Joe 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month]. Hag 2:9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Jyoti Banerjee avatar

    Soul-Quake Tsunami

    Contributed by Jyoti Banerjee on Jan 1, 2005
    based on 144 ratings
     | 5,589 views

    The Asian tsunami requires a response from Christians. This message seeks an answer from Joel.

    While many in this land were still celebrating at Christmas parties in the early hours of Boxing Day 2004, the Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates in the earth’s crust moved violently against each other. The impact of the crash was so massive that scientists tell us that the earth wobbled on ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • R. David Reynolds avatar

    What The Locusts Have Eaten

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Jan 7, 2005
    based on 81 ratings
     | 25,959 views

    This is a sermon for the beginning of a New Year based on the thesis that God is able to renew for each one of us the years "the locusts have eaten."

    What the Locusts Have Eaten --Joel 2:18-27 (Verse 25, “I will repay you for the years the Locust have eaten— The great locust and the young Locust, The other locusts and the locust Swarm— My great army that I sent among You.”—NIV) They are destroyers and a delicacy. God sent them as the ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Wade Martin Hughes, Sr avatar

    How Is Your Vision?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 19, 2005
    based on 38 ratings
     | 8,995 views

    Let us study some vision problems. God’s people need to grow a productive vision. Don’t allow the enemy to steal your vision!

    HOW IS YOUR VISIOIN? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com Vision: revelation, manifestation of unseen, the power of imagination, foresight, discernment, Visual problems: We have in the church today spiritual blindness. Today one is considered legally blind if they have 1/10 of normal ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • John Williams III avatar

    The Need To Rend Our Hearts

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Feb 4, 2005
    based on 54 ratings
     | 10,602 views

    How many of us examine our lives that closely on a daily basis? (This sermon can be used for Ash Wednesday or in general).

    THE NEED TO REND OUR HEARTS Text: Joel 2:1-2, 2 12-18 In his biography, Benjamin Franklin, reveals a lot about the kind of person he was. He would often look at his individual progress of each day. Someone (Raymond McHenry?) has observed Ben Franklin’s method specifically. ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • Barry Edmondson avatar

    "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"

    Contributed by Barry Edmondson on Sep 17, 2005
    based on 64 ratings
     | 18,779 views

    We may think We have seen it all, but we Ain’t seeen nothing yet. I t may look like the devil is winning, but God is just getting wound up The best is yet to come.

    “You Ain’t seen nothing Yet!! Joel 2:23, Hag 2:9. Intro: Everything about God is progressive. He is always moving forward, He is always building, He is always outdoing Himself. Jesus’ Miracle ministry starts with something seemingly insignificant . It was not a life or death situation. , it ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Lucy Vavosa avatar

    Rend Your Hearts Not Your Garments

    Contributed by Lucy Vavosa on Mar 5, 2003
    based on 24 ratings
     | 5,644 views

    This is a sermon about Ash Wednesday and how it is a day of new beginnings.

    ASH WEDNESDAY REFLECTION 2003 “Blessed be the longing that brought you here and that quickens your soul with wonder.” This line is from a poem titled “A Blessing” by a man named John O’Donohue. I came across it quite by accident (or by God) As I was getting ready for work this morning and ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Locusts

    Contributed by Tom Rhodes on May 24, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 13,979 views

    Recent invasion of Cicadas reminds us of locusts of the Bible

    Exodus 10 1And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show these my signs before him: 2And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Mike Wilkins avatar

    You Were Shaped For Serving God Series

    Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Feb 17, 2004
    based on 28 ratings
     | 6,343 views

    This sermon gives instruction and teaching on our up coming Solemn Assembly (week of repentance)

    You were Shaped For Serving God February 15, 2004 Ephesians 2 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Peter Schmidt avatar

    Ash Wednesday Is A Time For Housecleaning

    Contributed by Peter Schmidt on Feb 29, 2004
    based on 111 ratings
     | 33,979 views

    This is a 2-part sermon for Ash Wednesay based on Joel. This was used in a service with the imposition of ashes, a worship service which stressed repentance. The 2 parts are: The Sinner Repents, The Lord Relents.

    Ash Wednesday Joel 2:12-19 Let’s suppose that after we left church this evening, we locked up the doors, and none of us came back until 5 years later. Not a single person set foot on this very property until Ash Wednesday, 2009. When we do come back, what would our church look like after 5 years ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Changing The Spiritual Climate Of Indifference Series

    Contributed by Robert Massey on Jun 5, 2002
    based on 299 ratings
     | 40,854 views

    God gives a somber condemnation of indiffernce and speaks to the people of Joel’s day of what they must do to overcome it.

    CHANGING THE SPIRITUAL CLIMATE: INDIFFERENCE Joel 2:1, 12-28 (1:1-5, 13-16) Joel is listed as one of the minor prophets, in contrast to the major prophets such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, or Daniel. They are called the minor prophets simply because the short length of their works. The title, ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Michael Blankenship avatar

    Redeeming The Years

    Contributed by Michael Blankenship on May 22, 2002
    based on 37 ratings
     | 6,904 views

    How is Your prayer life?

    First Baptist Church Jellico, Tennessee. Sunday Morning January 27, 2002 Bro. Michael Blankenship: Pastor Joel 2:18-27 “Redeeming The Lost Years” In most lives there are periods, which, as far as productive labor, happiness in our hearts, or worth to the kingdom of God are lost years. Joel cries ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rhonda Feurtado avatar

    A God Who Restores

    Contributed by Rhonda Feurtado on Feb 25, 2005
    based on 54 ratings
     | 25,614 views

    Our god is a God who restores. Even at those times when we feel all is lost, God is there and he promises to restore us, but it may not be in the ways we expect.

    A GOD WHO RESTORES Restoration. What a powerful word. What do you think of when you hear that word (pause). Perhaps you imagine your health or marriage restored. Perhaps you imagine your youth or your family restored. Perhaps you imagine you career that is failing or your self-esteem restored. ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist