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  • David Dunn avatar

    The Best Is Yet To Come

    Contributed by David Dunn on Sep 24, 2025
     | 117 views

    Jesus delays out of mercy, calling His church to repent, unite, and trust His righteousness as we stand at eternity’s border.

    INTRODUCTION — A SIGNAL FROM FAR AWAY Forty-five years ago, NASA launched a space probe the size of a small table—Pioneer 10. Its mission was modest: fly past Jupiter, take a few photographs, and send them home. At the time, nothing built by human hands had ever gone beyond Mars. The plan sounded ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

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    Three Parables, One Heart: The Father's Love

    Contributed by Rev. Matthew Parker on Jun 16, 2025
     | 609 views

    This exposition of Luke chapter 15 begins with a very personal story, highlighting how God even uses human frailty as a means to His grace.

    Once upon a time, in the summertime, there was a 16-year-old young man struggling to find his way. His father held a particular secular and materialistic philosophy about life and making meaning in the world—something the young man had tried to embrace, but it ultimately left him feeling empty. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Praising In The Pit Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Jun 23, 2025
     | 1,821 views

    When you hit rock bottom, you’ll find that the Rock at the bottom is God Himself.

    Praising in the Pit Psalm 34 Rev. Brian Bill June 21-22, 2025 I met an unforgettable man about 20 years ago when I was pastoring in central Illinois. The first time he came into our church sanctuary, he raised his arms over his head, looked up to the ceiling and said he was waiting for the roof ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Deceived Church (Church Of Laodicea)

    Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Jul 25, 2025
     | 391 views

    Some good Bible teachers have spiritualized these letters to the seven churches and made each local congregation represent a particular era of church history.

    But I strongly disagree with some of these good Bible teachers that I have a high respect for and I will explain in a few minutes why I disagree. For example, according to their view… • The first church on the list is the Ephesian church would represent the time when the apostles were alive and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Bible Study On Prayer - Part 5 Series

    Contributed by Barry O Johnson on Jul 30, 2024
     | 845 views

    This is the final part of a series that looks at prayer. This lesson focuses on the power that is in prayer.

    This lesson focuses on praying God's Word and believing that God will answer when we pray. NOTE: New Light Faith Ministries and Barry Johnson Ministries, founded by Rodney V. Johnson and Barry O. Johnson, respectively, are partnering to offer Bible studies for Christians seeking to grow in ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    To Judge Or Not To Judge Series

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Aug 7, 2024
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     | 3,054 views

    In this text Jesus is like "when it comes to judging others the world and the religious do it this way, but I say to you do it my way"

    “To Judge Or Not To Judge, Now That’s A Really Good Question” Matthew 7:1-6 OKAY - I want to start off our time together this morning by reading 2 passages of Scripture, and then I will pray us into our time of study. The first passage is in Luke 18 beginning at verse 9... To some who were ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Make Me A Blessing (2 Of 3)

    Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Aug 15, 2024
     | 1,052 views

    This is the second sermon in this series on MAKE ME A BLESSING. When the apostle Paul writes to young Timothy and us to be a blessing we have to a “Man or Woman God.”

    But he does not leave him guessing what it takes to be a MAN OF GOD. In verse 11 he tells him and us as we saw in last week’s sermon… 1) We must FLEE from sin. 2) And today in this sermon he instructs us there are somethings we must FOLLOW after. Look at 1 Timothy 6:11 But thou, O man of God, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Training Vs Trying Series

    Contributed by Chuck Gohn on Jun 28, 2022
     | 1,973 views

    This sermon focuses on the importance of training to be like Christ rather than simply trying to be a Christ, and what it looks like in practical terms.

    Good morning. We are continuing to look at this theme of discipleship. Discipleship at Bellevue Christian Church has been defined as ordinary people learning to live everyday life like Jesus. We decided that there are three ways that we become a disciple at Bellevue Christian Church. We gather, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    A New Way Of Responding Series

    Contributed by Chuck Gohn on Jul 12, 2022
     | 1,614 views

    The focus of this sermon is on Jesus' teaching on what the normal auto-response is to various situations in life, and contrasting it with what a Kingdom response would look like.

    We are continuing our series called The Story; God’s story as told through the people, places, and events of the Bible. As you may be aware, the last few weeks we have been focusing on the New Testament portion of the story. Specifically the story of Jesus. The ministry and the miracles of ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    The Baptism Of Jesus Series

    Contributed by Chuck Gohn on Jul 14, 2022
     | 2,387 views

    This sermon takes an in-depth look at Jesus' baptism and possible ways it relates to a believer's baptism today.

    We are continuing on with the series we call The Story. The Story is God’s story as told through the people, places, and events of the Bible. For the last six months, we have been looking at the story as told through the Old Testament. Hopefully, you gained a better understanding of the Old ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Change Clothes Series

    Contributed by Jefferson Williams on Jul 18, 2022
     | 3,423 views

    Paul writes to the Colossians to put to death the deeds of the earthly nature

    Above All: A Study in Colossians Colossians 3:5-11 Pastor Jefferson M. Williams Chenoa Baptist Church 07-17-2022 Mud Bowl One of my favorite student ministry outreaches we ever did was what we called Mud Bowl. We will till up about half an acre in the back of the church. Someone had access to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    7th Sunday After Pentecost. July 27th, 2025. Series

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Jul 18, 2022
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,834 views

    Year C, Proper 12.

    Hosea 1:2-10, Psalm 85, Genesis 18:20-32, Psalm 138, Colossians 2:6-19, Luke 11:1-13. A). GRACE AMID JUDGMENT. Hosea 1:2-10. This is ‘the word of the LORD that came to Hosea, son of Beeri’ (Hosea 1:1). The name Hosea, like Hoshea, Joshua, Jeshua and Jesus is derived from the verb ‘to ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Eagle's Wing Series

    Contributed by Gordon Pike on Aug 7, 2022
     | 3,086 views

    God, grant me the courage to change the things I can.

    [This the second sermon that is based on Reinhold Niebuhr's prayer/poem "The Serenity Prayer." This sermon is about asking God to grant us the courage to change the things that we can.] Once upon a time, a caterpillar crawled inside a hare’s house when the hare was away and set ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    Above All: Colossians 3:18-21

    Contributed by Jefferson Williams on Aug 7, 2022
     | 2,376 views

    Paul gives direction to wives, husbands, children, and fathers to walk out their faith in their homes.

    Above All: Colossians 3:18-4:1 It Starts in the Home Pastor Jefferson M. Williams Chenoa Baptist Church 7-31-2022 Cinderella A little girl watched the Disney classic, “Cinderella” for the first time and was excited to tell her Grandmother about it the next day. She told her all about the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    On Trial (2023 Sermon) Series

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 1, 2023
     | 1,655 views

    The apostle Payl on trial at Caesarea - Acts chapter 24 verses 1-27 - sermon by Gordon Curley (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request – email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

    On Trial (2023 Sermon) SERMON OUTLINE: (A). Tertullus: False Accusations (vs 1-9) (B). Paul: Faithful Answers (vs 10-21) (C). Felix: Fo0lish Attitude (vs 22-27) SERMON BODY: Ill: • In one of Charles Schultz’s Peanuts comic strip, • He shows a conversation between Lucy and Charlie ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren