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Kill Your Giant

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Apr 16, 2004

What is the Goliath of your life? What enemy stands before you and defies your faith. Gambling? Addiction? Gluttony? Lust? These giants must fall - Here’s How!

11, January 2004 Dakota Community Church Kill Your Giant I began by sharing the toughest struggle of my life and the events which transpired leading me to repentence and victory. Share your own story. 1Samuel 17 Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at Socoh in Judah. ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:1, 1 Samuel 17:1-52

Denomination: Mennonite

Construction Of Kingdom 7

Contributed by J. Ritter Jr on Oct 18, 2000

Introduction You are the man! It's what Tiger Woods hears from his father after sinking an 18-foot putt to secure another PGA tournament championship.

Introduction You are the man! It's what Tiger Woods hears from his father after sinking an 18-foot putt to secure another PGA tournament championship. If Michael Jordan achieves a 6th NBA Championship, sports analysts and fans will say it, You are the man! Ladies, forgive me if I have lost you ...read more

Scripture: 2 Samuel 11:1

Stuck In Bed Series

Contributed by Chip Monck on Jan 16, 2007

This is the third in a series exploring keys to living a life of freedom and spiritual victory in 2007. This message explores a spirit of passivity that can keep us from the battle.

(Extensive inspiration and quotation for this sermon taken from "This Day We Fight" by Francis Frangipane.) All right. . .here we go. We have been building block upon block over the past three weeks. Taking steps towards a declaration that this year we win! Week #1 – We followed up Christmas by ...read more

Scripture: 2 Samuel 11:1-2

Denomination: Wesleyan

"The Preacher's Call To Maturity" Series

Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jan 10, 2009

Sermon 14 in a study in HEBREWS

“Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid ...read more

Denomination: Orthodox

Don't Worry, Turn To God Series

Contributed by Bruce Landry on May 23, 2005

Worry kills us, it destroys our joy and takes many things from our lives. Let’s study today what God’s word has to tell us in light of this.

So what does God’s word tell us about this preoccupation many of us have with worrying? Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:25

Denomination: Baptist

Voice Vision Passion Power

Contributed by Pastor/Author: Terry Sisney on Aug 2, 2002

Jesus said: My sheep know my voice, Everything depends on not just hearing his words but knowing his voice.

1Ki 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. How long halt ye between two opinions? There is no power in Neutral Isa 28:6 For strength to them ...read more

Scripture: 1 Kings 18:21

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Need Of Patience

Contributed by Pastor Yolito De Gracia on Sep 17, 2006

One of the christian virtues that God wants to be developed in the lives of the saints is Patience. We need patience because there is in us a great tendency to complain and quit during tough times; Man by nature is liable to sink under sufferings. Patien

Title: THE NEED OF PATIENCE Text : Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. Apostle Paul was encouraging the Hebrew Christians who experienced intense sufferings and persecutions because of their Faith in Christ ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 10:32-36

Denomination: Baptist

Camping At The Foot Of The Mountain

Contributed by Greg Newton on Feb 25, 2004

Talking about going deeper in our relationship with Christ. Not being satisfied at the foot of the mountain, but moving up the mountain where God’s glory dwells.

“Camping at the foot of the mountain” Intro: Have you ever just sit back and read what the Bible says about the two different kinds of people in the Church today. There are those that talks about seeing the kingdom of God but there are those that I believe that God is showing us that desire and ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 32:1-4, Exodus 24:9-17

Denomination: Pentecostal

We're All Slaves Of Something Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 15, 2017

Once we give ourselves over to Our Lord, we compose new melodies with our members.

Seventh Sunday After Pentecost 2017 Extraordinary Form A few weeks ago I was driving in the Bandera Road area and I passed a little building that advertised itself as an “Acts 2:38 church.” I have a good friend who grew up in a church like that so I understood pretty much what they were ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:19-23

Denomination: Catholic

Studies In Ephesians: Why Gifts? Series

Contributed by Edward Hardee on Oct 18, 2011

This is study in Ephesians about the importance of the spiritual gifts.

Note: This is a study through the book of Ephesians as done in 1995. One of the main sources I used at the time was Beacon Bible Commentary vol. 9. Title: Why gifts? Theme: To show the importance of the gifts in the church. Text: Eph 4:7-17 7 But unto every one of us is given grace God ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:7-17

Denomination: Church Of God

Five Smooth Stones (Hix)

Contributed by Jimmy Haile on May 27, 2012

Focus on giants, you stumble Focus on God, and your giants tumble

1 Samuel 17:40-Then he took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine. Gaints that we face inside of ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:40

Denomination: Baptist

Suddenly Like A Thief Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 8, 2020

If we can’t show the fruits of God’s investment at the end of our lives, just what good have we done ourselves, our God or our neighbor?

Thirty-third Sunday in Course 2020 “Suddenly, Like a Thief in the Night” Most of us have probably noticed over the last two or three decades that TV comedies, and even some dramas, most often have a brilliant and comely female lead and a bumbling, even stupid male co-star. That’s not a new idea. ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6, Proverbs 31:10-31, Matthew 28:16-20

Denomination: Catholic

Is Church Attendance Important? There Is A Pandemic!

Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Mar 16, 2021

The results of the pandemic have affected so much around us. Many are living in fear instead of faith. The temptation to forsake public worship or assembling together is stronger today than I have experienced before.

Is Church Attendance Important? There is a Pandemic! Hebrew 10:23-25 “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 10:23-25

Denomination: Methodist

Reconciliation, And Grace To Follow.

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Feb 3, 2022

Our reconciliation with God is made possible by the grace of God through the work of Christ. Having been reconciled, we are made the righteousness of God in Him. We are enabled, by the same grace of God, to follow God in the way of righteousness.

RECONCILIATION, AND GRACE TO FOLLOW. 2 Corinthians 5:20-21; 2 Corinthians 6:1-10. As an ambassador for Christ, Paul was pleading with the Corinthians - on behalf of Christ - that they go on being reconciled to God (2 Corinthians 5:20). We may feel that this is unnecessary: if we are ‘called ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:20-21, 2 Corinthians 6:1-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave Series

Contributed by Mark Connelly on Jul 31, 2003

When we take pleasure in sinful things we weave the very web that ensnares us

Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave! Mark 6:14-29 In our undergraduate years at the University of Maryland I was taking classes like business law and statistics, while my wife Kay was a philosophy major. It got to the point that we spoke two different languages. Kay just sounded a lot smarter than ...read more

Scripture: Mark 6:14-29, Ephesians 1:3-14

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational