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  • Ed Vasicek avatar

    Our Subjective Spiritual Struggles: They Matter Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 18, 2019
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    Although many of our struggles as followers of Jesus are with the world, the flesh, and the devil, sometimes they are about monitoring our inner affections and deep seated thoughts.

    Our Subjective Spiritual Struggles: They Matter (I John 3:19-24, 4:7-21) 1. Today I begin my message with some comments about modern art. It’s easy to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall, it’s a painting. If you can walk around it, it’s a sculpture. How many surrealists does it take to ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Mark Schaeufele avatar

    Finding Confidence Series

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Mar 27, 2019
     | 4,568 views

    If we obey the great commandment we have confidence before God.

    Finding Confidence 1 John 3:19-24 Introduction 1. Illustration: "Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time" (Oswald Chambers). 2. Most of you know that Tina and I love to go on cruises, but what you may not know is that it took ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    The Benefits Of Love Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Jun 20, 2019
     | 9,991 views

    Choose to love and receive God's assurance to your heart, God's answer to your prayer, and God's abiding presence in your life.

    A young bride to be was very nervous on the day before her wedding, so she went to speak with her pastor. “I'm afraid I might not make it through the ceremony properly,” she confessed. The pastor assured her that everything would be fine: “When you enter the church tomorrow and the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    Dealing With Doubt

    Contributed by Derek Geldart on May 29, 2021
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    I am going to review 1 John 3:19-24 and suggest doubt can be removed by: 1) seeking the truth, 2) seeking God’s wisdom, 3) receiving what we ask for in prayer, 4) being able to obey God’s commands, and 5) in commune with the Holy Spirit living inside of us!

    Dealing with Doubt 1 John 3:19-24 Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567 The Great Divide What would it have been like to be part of one of the churches found by the Beloved Disciple John? While certainly his witness, teaching and miraculous signs would have been truly ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Christopher Holdsworth avatar

    4th Sunday Of Easter, Year B. Series

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Apr 18, 2021
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    APRIL 21st, 2024.

    Acts 4:5-12, Psalm 23:1-6, 1 John 3:16-24, John 10:11-18. (A) HEALING, RESURRECTION, AND SALVATION. Acts 4:5-12. There is a parallel between the persecution of Jesus upon the healing of a man ‘blind from birth’ (John 9:1), and the persecution of Peter and John upon the healing of a man ‘lame ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Love Is A Verb (Lectionary, Year B, Fourth Sunday After Easter)

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Apr 21, 2021
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    We are called to live out God’s love and truth through our deeds by keeping God’s commandment to love one another in the name of Jesus Christ (I John 3:23)! Love is a verb because the kind of love that today’s text is talking about requires us to go beyond words and put love into action.

    LOVE IS A VERB Text: I John 3:16- 24 1 John 3:16-24  We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.  (17)  How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    Tithemi

    Contributed by Charles Mallory on Apr 23, 2021
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    We are commanded to follow the example of Jesus Christ by laying aside ourselves in sacrificial love of others.

    JESUS SAID IN JOHN 15:12-14, “MY COMMAND IS THIS: LOVE EACH OTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU. GREATER LOVE HAS NO ONE THAN THIS: TO LAY DOWN ONE’S LIFE FOR ONE’S FRIENDS. YOU ARE MY FRIENDS IF YOU DO WHAT I COMMAND.” JESUS IS NOT ASKING US TO DIE FOR HIM! HE IS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE. HE ISN’T ASKING ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

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    One Flock, One Shepherd

    Contributed by Mary Erickson on Apr 26, 2021
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    A sermon for the fourth Sunday of Easter, Year B

    April 25, 2021 Hope Lutheran Church John 10:11-18; 1 John 3:16-24 One Flock, One Shepherd Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. Once every year we celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday. We hear a passage from John chapter 10 where Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    Love, Fear, Forgiveness And Forgetting Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 28, 2021
     | 1,996 views

    God fills you with love, and as you mature in Christ, that drives out the fear of eternal damnation, the only real fear worth mentioning.

    5th Sunday of Easter We’ve grown so accustomed to seeing St. Paul as one of the good guys of history, especially of Catholic or Christian history that we might be shocked by today’s reading from the Acts. Paul comes to Jerusalem after a three-year retreat in the Arabian desert. He comes full of ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

  • Anthony Zibolski avatar

    Love One Another

    Contributed by Anthony Zibolski on Jul 7, 2020
     | 4,256 views

    We are called to love one another. we do not always have to agree to love like Christ.

    Love one another 1 John 3:11-24 Introduction- Good Morning, As we begin the service this morning, listen to the lyrics to the song “Do it again” from Elevation worship. Walking around these walls, I thought by now they’d fall But you have never failed me yet. Waiting for change to come Knowing ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Roberta Karchner avatar

    3 Sticks And Stones Series

    Contributed by Roberta Karchner on Mar 4, 2020
     | 4,965 views

    A woman is caught in adultery. Stones are gathered that she might be killed as punishment. But Jesus has a different perspective

    John 8:1-11 (NRSV) Then everyone went home, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early the next morning he went back to the Temple. All the people gathered around him, and he sat down and began to teach them. 3 The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees brought in a woman who had been caught ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Roy Fowler avatar

    Is The Word Christian A Noun Or Verb?

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Jul 27, 2020
     | 2,852 views

    We aren't called to be observers but to be doers.

    1 John 3:16-19 (NLT) 16 We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.  This isn't necessarily dying physically for someone but we should be willing to give a part of ourselves for others ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Jesus Lives For Us

    Contributed by Pastor Duncan Shabane on Feb 27, 2021
     | 1,484 views

    Jesus was full of love, He was the defination of what love is, reflecting the glory of His Father.

    evidence of life is love  (1 John 3) ___(V 14-15) ** the evidence of love is Christ ___(Romans 5:8) ___(John 15:13) ** the practice of love is..... (V.17-18) ___two things 1) Sacrificial ___the love of Jesus was sacrificial. He laid His life for us. We had a debt we could not pay and He ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

  • Jack Perkins, D.Min., LADC, CSAC, CCLC avatar

    Love, The Infallible Test Of Salvation Series

    Contributed by Jack Perkins, D.min., Ladc, Csac, Cclc on Aug 5, 2021
     | 1,834 views

    The church has a different goal–we are to model for the world the authentic way to love. The spiritual quest we must follow is that Jesus calls us to be different. John suggest the failure to love extravagantly, as God first loved us, is perhaps one of the greatest sins.

    How do you explain the hatred and evilness in our society? How do you comprehend the hatred between the Jews and Palestinians? How can we support the evilness we see on the political scene? How we process the anarchy in our society? How do you explain Columbine? Families wounded by divorce? ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Dealing With Doubt Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Aug 13, 2021
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,436 views

    First John 3:19-24 shows us what to do when we doubt our salvation.

    Scripture After completing high school in South Africa, I spent two years in the South African Air Force doing my compulsory military service. Early during my second year in the South African Air Force, I was converted to Jesus Christ. For much of the rest of my second year, I was in the war in ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed