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  • Tony Cansler avatar

    Do You Know God?

    Contributed by Tony Cansler on Sep 3, 2008
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     | 4,961 views

    Paul on Mars hill preaching about the "Unknown God"

    God knows a lot of people, as a matter of fact God knows everyone. But how many KNOW GOD? The Setting – Acts 17:16-21 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. • The Whole city was given to Idolatry • Some say ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Repentance: The Forgotten Word In Posititve Preaching

    Contributed by Dr. Franklin Kirksey on Feb 5, 2008
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    Repentance: The Forgotten Word in Positive Preaching by Dr. Franklin L. Kirksey encourages pastors to preach the whole counsel of God.

    <B>REPENTANCE: The Forgotten Word in Positive Preaching</B> Acts 17:30-31 By Dr. Franklin L. Kirksey INTRODUCTION “Repentance has been called the forgotten word in positive preaching. Dr. Don M. Boone, pastor of First Baptist Church, [Vancleave], Mississippi, has written a helpful book ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Tom Fuller avatar

    How Do You Hear The Word? Part 1 Series

    Contributed by Tom Fuller on Sep 29, 2008
     | 3,365 views

    When God’s Word is communicated, the state of your mind can greatly affect how your heart receives what God is saying. We have the first part in a discussion from Acts 17 on the ways the Bible is communicated and received.

    Chapter 17 gives us three glimpses at how people process the Word of God. Isn’t contrast great? Medical science uses contrast to find anomalies in the body, and here we use contrast to see the different approaches people take to the Word of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. We’ll look at the ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

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    No Life On Mars

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,745 views

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    “There’s No Life On Mars” I. Introduction The idea that life can or even does exist on Mars has a long history. In 1877 the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed to have seen a planet wide system of channels. A fascination with this planet began and scientists from around the world ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    How Do You Receive The Word Part 2 Series

    Contributed by Tom Fuller on Oct 5, 2008
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    The philosophers of Paul’s day are not really that much different from what we see in the world around us in a post-Christian society. How Paul addressed them can help us in dealing with people who collect thoughts like Matchbox cars.

    What did you collect as a child? I collected a number of things, pennies, model trains, marbles, and Matchbox® cars. I would wait anxiously until my mother would drive me down to the toy store so I could drool over the latest and greatest tiny little car or truck. I used to show off my more ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

  • Jason Jones avatar

    Turning The World Upside Down Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Oct 15, 2008
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     | 7,274 views

    Exposition of Acts 17:1-15 regarding the second missionary journey in Thessalonica and Berea

    Text: Acts 17:1-15, Title: Turning the World Upside Down, Date/Place: NRBC, 10/12/08, AM A. Opening illustration: our baseball team turns the world upside down every time we play B. Background to passage: Having been freed with some dignity after being so spitefully treated (1 Thess 2:2) our ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jason Jones avatar

    Musings Of A Seed Picker 1 Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Oct 15, 2008
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     | 3,002 views

    Exposition of Acts 17:16-23 regarding the setting and methodology and introduction of Paul’s speech at Mars Hill

    Text: Acts 17:16-23, Title: Musings of a Seed-Picker 1, Date/Place: NRBC, 10/19/08, AM A. Opening illustration: talk about my visit to Cairo, Egypt, the “city of 1000 mosques” B. Background to passage: Missionary journey #2. Spitefully treated in Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea, however planting ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Musings Of A Seed Picker 2 Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Oct 20, 2008
     | 2,184 views

    Exposition of Acts 17:24-25 about Paul’s first five characteristics of the Unknown God

    Text: Acts 17:24-25, Title: Musings of a Seed-Picker 2, Date/Place: NRBC, 10/19/08, PM A. Opening illustration: August 12th, 2000, I was getting my tux all ready to go, like 14 hours before the wedding for some unexplained reason, so I could hurry up and wait. Then the wedding director came in our ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Musings Of A Seed Picker 3 Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Oct 24, 2008
     | 3,442 views

    Exposition of Acts 17:26-28 about how God has dealt with man in general from a big picture perspective

    Text: Acts 17:26-28, Title: Musings of a Seed-Picker 3, Date/Place: NRBC, 10/26/08, AM A. Opening illustration: maybe the quote from What is a Healthy Church Member re: knowing major biblical themes and storylines of redemption B. Background to passage: Again this is the continuation of Paul’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Musings Of A Seed Picker 4 (Aka: Hellfire And Brimstone) Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Oct 28, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,757 views

    Exposition of Acts 17:29-34, regarding the conclusion of Paul’s Mars Hill sermon regarding repentance, belief, and judgment

    Text: Acts 17:29-34, Title: Seed Picker 4 (AKA: Hellfire and Brimstone), Date/Place: NRBC, 11/2/08, AM Opening illustration: The whole thing gets to be a terrible riddle for most of us. My working idea of God is that there’s something very significant, beyond my capacity to measure, that existed ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • William D. Brown avatar

    The Unknown God

    Contributed by William D. Brown on Apr 14, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,578 views

    THERE ARE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT DON’T REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE "ONE TRUE GOD"

    The Unknown God Acts 17:16-31 There are people here in our country today that are just as ignorant about the ONE true GOD AS THEY WERE WHEN THE APOSTLE PAUL SPOKE THESE WORDS HERE IN OUR TEXT TODAY, yonder in Athens Greece, listen as I read our text found in, acts.17: ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Introducing God To Our World

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Apr 27, 2008
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     | 3,252 views

    Learning from Paul’s encounter with the citizens of Athens this sermon helps us to see how we can introduce God to the people we interact with in lives

    One of the foundational messages of Christianity is around the focus of love. As we flip through the pages of scripture love is dominant. God’s love for us, our love for God and our love for others. Our parish mission statement even reflects this; Because of God’s amazing grace we live to love the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    A Message From Mars (Hill)

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Apr 29, 2008
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     | 4,559 views

    A Message from Mars (Hill)1) Non-Christians, God is near you! 2) Christians, God is revealed through you!

    Eight million dollars. That’s how much is to be spent this year to operate one radio telescope, that big one in Puerto Rico. One purpose of this gigantic electronic ear is to catch the faintest whisper of extra terrestrial life…if it exists. There are thousands of radio telescopes around the world. ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Clark Tanner avatar

    "Does God's Patience Wane?"

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jul 8, 2007
     | 2,959 views

    As the pages of God’s ’calendar’ turn, for each one there is day fixed for the end of patience and the beginning of eternity.

    “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the ...read more

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    Denomination: Orthodox

  • Charles Salmon avatar

    The God We Worship - An Introduction Series

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jan 19, 2006
     | 4,029 views

    The concept of the Trinity and the names of God.

    The God We Worship - Introduction Acts 17:22-25 INTRO.: The concept of theology is one we often avoid because it sounds scholarly. Yet, it is a subject touching each of our lives. The word simply means "knowledge of God." We all have a theology. Some are carefully thought out. Others are ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ