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    What The Love Of God Looks Like Series

    Contributed by Billy Noel on Aug 18, 2009
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    There is a distinct difference between the way God loves and the way we love, His love is unconditional and full of grace and forgiveness.

    We have over the last 5-6 weeks tried to illustrate what love is, and our need to display it through our daily living I have attempted to challenge us to love as God has prescribed Created to love. What love does. Loves evidence. What love looks like. I believe sincerely that we choose whether or ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Stewardship Of The Body Are You Building Or Breaking Series

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on May 22, 2009
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    Paul is chastizing the Corinthians for thinking they are spiritually mature when in fact they are still in need of the milk or basics of God’s word. The question this should cause us to ask ourselves is are we building or breaking!

    Intro: Why did Paul write this letter? He wrote it because the conduct of the Corinthians did not match their confession of Christ. Division, strife, incest it sounds like a soap opera gone bad. We have to remember many of the Christians that Paul minister came out of a corrupt and selfish ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    What Does It Mean To Be A Christian

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Jun 10, 2009
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    What does it really mean to be a Christian? Is it fancy buildings and great music? Or is there something more, deeper, better? Here is 3 of the most basic truths of what it means to be a Christ follower.

    Intro: Vince Lombardi Head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959-1967. What was it that Lombardi did to spur his team on to greatness? He got back to basics. What is the famous quote from Vince Lombardi? “This is a football.” From the condition of churches around the United States and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Spiritual Warfare: Shoes And Shield

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Jun 10, 2009
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    What helps us to stand and face our enemy in spiritual warfare? Shoes of peace and a shield of faith. Shoes for stability and shield for security.

    Intro: What is the secret to winning at spiritual warfare? Does success in spiritual warfare come from knowing the enemy? Do we merely need to know what types of tactics we need to use? We must of course realize the reality of spiritual warfare. That life from beginning to end is a battle. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Spiritual Warfare: Belt And Breastplate

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Jun 10, 2009
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    Paul has clearly communicated the great riches we have in Christ. That is our identity. Then he communicated the walk we should have in Christ that is activity. Now he speaks of the spiritual reality of war with an enternal enemy Satan. Realize the rea

    Intro: Ephesians is a book of identity. It is a book that can be split into two parts believe and behavior. You can say that in many ways. Identity who we are in Christ, activity how we act as Christ followers. Watchman Nee breaks Paul’s letter into three parts, sit, walk, stand. Paul has ...read more

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    How To Hear From God

    Contributed by Billy Noel on Jun 12, 2009
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    If we intend to hear from God there mst be repentance and real comitment

    How to hear from God? I Samuel 7:1-13 The life of the believer is full of mystery. Each day brings new surprises We don’t know what to expect or where it will lead us But what we do know for sure is the enemy is still the enemy And our need to hear from God remains unchanged But there are times ...read more

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    Created For Intimacy With God

    Contributed by Billy Noel on Jun 12, 2009
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    Humanity is created for intimacy with God there is a void that only He can fill

    Created for intimacy with the God Psalm 42:1-2 To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. Psa 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? Psalm 42:1-2 (The Message) A ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    The Prayers Of The Righteous

    Contributed by Billy Noel on Jun 12, 2009
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    The of the righteous are effective

    Prayers of the Righteous James 5: Over the last few weeks I have spent a great deal of time on the matter of prayer Two weeks ago we talked about divine healing but the emphasis was on prayer Sunday we talked about the simple matter of asking But greater that the position or posture for ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Spiritual Warfare: Helm And Hilt

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Jun 12, 2009
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    It is in the kiln of spiritual battle and adversity that the character of Christ is hardened in us. Our enemy is effective so we must be completely prepared with the whole, holy armor of God.

    Intro: "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock" It is ...read more

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    Repentance: The Forgotten Fruit Of God's Grace

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Oct 31, 2008
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    People look at the church and cry superficial. Why is that? I believe because it is we have forgotten that saving faith leads to repentant lives. One fruit that has fallen off the faith tree is repentance.

    Intro: There are people that look at the church today and cry hypocrites. One reason is they don’t understand we are sinners that are saved by grace. It is the grace of God that makes us saints not the acts of men. Another reason is that the church has become superficial! Paul told timothy ...read more

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    Grace Grants Gratefulness

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Nov 18, 2008
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    Ephesians is a letter from Paul that tells about all we have as part of the Family of God. In it seven times he talks about our walk. As God’s children our life should be charactirized by a walk of gratefullness/thanksgiving. Grace is what grants a gra

    Intro: Ephesians is a wonderful letter written by Paul that talks about us being part of the family of God. One of the main themes of the letter is the Lordship or headship of Christ. The only way the body will ever be truly united in missions, evangelism, praise, and thanksgiving is to be under ...read more

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    Gods Christmas List

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Dec 3, 2008
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    Here in what is called the Gospel in a verse we find that God also has a Christmas list. This list was purchased with the precious blood of Jesus the perfect gift.

    Intro: Everyone has a list for Christmas. Here in John 3.16 we see Jesus tell Nicodemus that he must be born again in order to see the Kingdom of God. In this wonderful verse called the Little Gospel we see God’s shopping list for all those who would receive the gift of His Son Jesus. Why did ...read more

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    A Witness In Times Like These

    Contributed by Billy Noel on Dec 4, 2008
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    These are times that try men’s souls and God needs His children to be witnesses

    I Peter 4-11 The climate of our culture is becoming increasingly more secular All you need to do is turn on CNN It’s not just in the United States it is all over the world Dafar , Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Russia, Venezuela, and on and on the list goes. There is hate everywhere; there are ...read more

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    Strong Words For A Worldy Church Series

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Jan 8, 2010
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    There is probably no more appropriate book in the Bible to the western church than 1 Corinthians. The early church was by no means perfect. However that is no excuse for not living a life surrendered to the sanctifying work of Christ.

    ntro: While we were in Myrtle Beach SC my wife of course wanted to go shopping. So I could spend time with here I went and actually found something that would be useful for us to think about as we begin the New Year. A little sign said cherish yesterday, dream for tomorrow, but live for today. ...read more

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    How Evangelism Should Work Series

    Contributed by Billy Noel on Jan 11, 2010
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    many times the mistake we make is to present the gospel so that it turns people away, Philip presented the truth simply and trusted Jesus with the result.

    How Evangelism Works John 1:43-49 US Census Bureau 2000 There are about 5000 households in this zip code alone with about 2000 families with children, do the math and there at least 7-12000 people who could be reached in this zip code Now multiply that by the number of zip codes represented in ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church