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  • Daren Mitchell avatar

    Who Are Your Friends?

    Contributed by Daren Mitchell on Dec 10, 2013
     | 15,571 views

    Everyone needs friends. The reason the Toy Story franchise is so popular is because everyone can relate to the idea of having friends who stick with you no matter what. But for followers of Jesus this definition doesn't go far enough.

    Randy Newman wrote a song called, "You Got a Friend in Me". Most folks recognize this song as the theme to the popular Toy Story franchise. According to Randy a real friend is someone who loves you and sticks with you even through your worst troubles. This is a great definition of what a friend ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Friend Who Intercedes

    Contributed by Rick Boyne on Aug 8, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,603 views

    Jesus constantly intercedes to God on our behalf.

    The Friend Who Intercedes August 7, 2011 Evening Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: Jesus constantly intercedes to God on our behalf. Focus Passage: I Samuel 19:1-7 Supplemental Passage: “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • L Lee avatar

    Parable Of The Friend At Midnight Series

    Contributed by L Lee on Sep 15, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,782 views

    Importance of persevering in prayer.

    Parable of the friend at midnight (Luke 11:5-13) And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; {6} for a friend of mine has arrived, and I have nothing to set before him.' {7} And he answers from ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Best Friends With God

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Sep 19, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,093 views

    Great up-lifting teaching for everyone.

    3 Ways to Become Best Friends with God Romans 5:6-11 6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Dr. Ronald Shultz avatar

    Choosing Friends Outline

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on May 12, 2020
     | 4,723 views

    Your friends will make you or break you so choose wisely!

    Sometimes, it is good to do without friends. There was fella back in the 19th century by the name of Lorenzo Dow, whom folks called Crazy Lorenzo Dow. With a nickname like that, he and I would have been close friends. It seems that when Brother Dow was only four or five, he asked a playmate if he ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    4 Determined Friends Series

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Apr 22, 2016
     | 11,385 views

    A message on friend day about God's healing and salvation.

    Title: Four Determined Friends Theme: What happens when friends bring a man to Jesus. Text: Luke 5:17 - 26 Offering: Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Jesus The Friend Of Sinners Series

    Contributed by Rev. Samuel Arimoro on Nov 10, 2025
     | 108 views

    Jesus demonstrates divine compassion by reaching out to the marginalized, the guilty, and the lost, showing that His love is inclusive and transformative.

    JESUS THE FRIEND OF SINNERS By Rev. Samuel Arimoro Main Text: Luke 7:34 Key Verse: “The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.” – Luke 7:34 Supporting Texts: Matthew 9:10-13; Mark 2:15-17; John 3:17; ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    The Be-Attitudes Series

    Contributed by Kelly Dufour on Jan 29, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 12,950 views

    This message will cover the first four be-attitudes: poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, and those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.

    The Jesus Code: Part 1 “Be-Attitudes” Sunday, September 7, 2008 Pastor Kelly Dufour Text: Matthew 5:1-12 Introduction: Today we begin a new sermon series that I have titled, “The Jesus Code.” No, this is not some new conspiracy fashioned after a fairly famous fictional novel and Hollywood ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Ian Lyall avatar

    True Conversion

    Contributed by Ian Lyall on Oct 20, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,066 views

    Many people claim to have ’made a decision for Christ’. But are they truly converted. Their perseverance will be the test

    I’m no carpenter. That’s the understatement of the year! But I understand that in carpentry there’s a term "clinching the nail". If I have it right: In rough work, a nail is driven through several boards so that the point of the nail sticks through the back. Then the workman gives a blow of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

  • Jeffery Anselmi avatar

    True Worship Series

    Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Sep 8, 2023
     | 3,220 views

    Worship is not about the moment; it’s about the lifetime.

    INTRODUCTION • I'm sure you've heard the saying, "God is good all the time, and all the time, God is good!" • Many times, we hear someone say something like: • "I got the promotion; God is good!" • "The cancer is gone; God is good!" • "My child came back ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Matt Zurowski avatar

    To Be...or Not To Be

    Contributed by Matt Zurowski on Jun 27, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,544 views

    A short devotional that was written for our Father/Son cookout.

    INTRODUCTION: Some men in a pickup truck drove into a lumberyard. One of the men walked in the office and said, ’We need some four-by-twos. ’The clerk said, ’You mean two-by-fours, don’t you?’ The man said, ’I’ll go check,’ and went back to the truck. He returned in a minute and said, ’Yeah, I ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    True Love Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Jul 12, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,848 views

    True love trusts God enough to obey Him in all your relationships.

    What is “true love”? It’s a difficult question that many people have tried to answer over the years, but no one answer seems adequate. Here are a few of them: Erich Segal writes, “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” Ann Landers ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

  • Douglas Vincent avatar

    Being Adopted Series

    Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Jan 27, 2004
    based on 29 ratings
     | 5,955 views

    God is seeking take us out of our slavery to fear and adopt us as his children.

    In April 1998, a series of tornadoes ripped through the southern part of the United States. A day after one of the Storms had hit the NPR program All Things Considered aired a story about a congregation called the Church of the Open Door. Their church had been destroyed the day previous. ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Ben Peak avatar

    Being A Disciple

    Contributed by Ben Peak on Jan 3, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 7,294 views

    What discipleship really means.

    When I was in college I thought that an area of ministry that I would enjoy doing, and that perhaps God was leading me to, was to be a chaplain in the armed forces. I spent time talking with a pastor who had been a chaplain. I read some material about being a chaplain. Eventually, I actually ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Jeremy Houck avatar

    Being Satisfied Series

    Contributed by Jeremy Houck on May 13, 2005
    based on 47 ratings
     | 13,938 views

    Contentment is something that we all strive for, the problem is that the world tells us to all look in the wrong place, so we either become apathetic where we don’t feel anything or we spend our lives thinking you know if I only

    Being Satisfied Philippians 4:10-13 If you have your Bibles with you this morning please hold it up high where we can all see it. Now that you have held it up I want you to open it up and read with me today one of the hardest passages in the whole Bible. It not difficult because it is filled with ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ