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  • Ken Sauer avatar

    "It's Time To Dance"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Jul 14, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 12,116 views

    Is your life a dance before the Lord?

    2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 Mark 6:14-29 “It’s Time to Dance!” By Ken Sauer, Parkview United Methodist Church, Newport News, VA www.parkview-umc.org A friend of mine told me that he was recently talking to a group of Christians when he suddenly blurted out: “Isn’t your life a dance before the ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    Late, Yet On Time

    Contributed by Wann Fanwar on Jul 19, 2006
    based on 66 ratings
     | 42,353 views

    This sermon deals with a simple biblical truth: God’s ways and his sense of timing are not the same as ours. Many times God does not seem to fit our schedule. However, his ways and his time are best.

    Late, Yet On Time! Have you noticed that God is frequently late? As I’ve grown older in faith, I’ve become more aware that God follows a different time, almost as if he runs by a different clock. He is frequently late. For the sceptical among you, allow me to elaborate. Some people are ...read more

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    Denomination: Adventist

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    The Time Of Thy Visitation

    Contributed by Jeremy Morford on Jul 27, 2006
    based on 45 ratings
     | 9,760 views

    A Palm Sunday message intended to cause us to search our hearts.

    The Time of Thy Visitation Text: Luke 19:41-44 Intro: One time Napoleon and his army were moving through Switzerland. And everywhere they went, Napoleon was greeted with thunderous applause: "Long live the King! Viva la France! Hail to the Emperor Napoleon!" But Napoleon didn’t seem too ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    Faith Disturbing Times

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Aug 26, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,350 views

    A warning to our youth and a charge to our parents: the liar is speaking! Do not listen to him. Hear the Word of the Lord!

    Can you think of some faith disturbing experiences you have had since becoming a Christian? Some things that shake faith are sudden. But by far the most common faith destroyer is a long term acid that dissolves faith away a layer at a time until finally faith is so weak it becomes useless and ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Best And Worst Of Times

    Contributed by David Parks on Feb 25, 2005
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,909 views

    For the unfaithful it is the worst of times. For the faitfhul it is the best of tiems.

    LIVING IN THE BEST AND WORST OF TIMES INTRODUCTION: One of the most powerful paragraphs in all of literature is found in the Dickens masterpiece, A Tale of Two Cities. Surely, you’ve heard it before, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Long Time Coming

    Contributed by Chanon Mullens on Feb 28, 2005
    based on 26 ratings
     | 5,260 views

    Patience

    1. THE MIRACLE AT BETHESDA • Also known as the pool of Siloam • The man whose infirmity had been around thirty-eight years • Thirty-eight years is a spiritual picture of the wandering of the Old Testament • The pool of Bethesda is where the social “outcast’s” laid in hopes of being healed • The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Rushing God's Timing

    Contributed by Chip Monck on Mar 9, 2005
    based on 19 ratings
     | 11,300 views

    A look at the challenge of patiently waiting on God’s perfect timing, and some of the consequences if we fail to do so.

    I Samuel 10:1-8, 13:1-14 I don’t know if you have this same phenomenon in the Wesleyan church, but in the Nazarene churches where I grew up, you were pretty safe if you saved yourself some energy and simply carried a New Testament to church. There are places where the Old Testament is hardly ever ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    "A Time To Mourn"

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Mar 10, 2005
    based on 46 ratings
     | 7,537 views

    We were all there. A sermon for Good Friday

    “And all the multitudes who came together for this spectacle, when they observed what had happened began to return, beating their breasts.” “A time to mourn and a time to dance” – Eccl 3:4b On July 5th, 1893, Mary and Ruby, the sixteen and twelve year old daughters of John Ray of Bardwell, ...read more

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    Denomination: Orthodox

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    "This Is No Time To Quit"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Mar 31, 2005
    based on 39 ratings
     | 7,834 views

    A sermon with an emphasis on the Wesleyan understanding of Holy Communion.

    “This Is No Time to Quit” John 20:19-31 1 Kings 19:1-9 By: Rev. Kenneth Emerson Sauer, Pastor of Parkview United Methodist Church, Newport News, VA www.parkview-umc.org We sure had a big crowd here for Easter last Sunday! It was, by far, the biggest crowd we’ve had since I’ve been here. And, ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    One Day At A Time

    Contributed by Scott Carmer on Apr 17, 2005
    based on 27 ratings
     | 14,292 views

    In the Scripture lesson, Jesus tells the people not to worry about tomorrow. Seek God’s kingdom first, he says, and all the other stuff will take care of itself.

    One Day at a Time Matthew 6:25-34 April 17, 2005 I don’t know if you know anything about the Jesus Seminar or not. We actually haven’t heard from them for several years now. I’m not sure that they are meeting any more or not. The Jesus Seminar was a group of biblical scholars who met over a ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Time Of Our Lives

    Contributed by Jared Schroeder on Feb 7, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,342 views

    Stewardship of Time. Is it about using a daytimer, or refocusing our purpose in life and why we are here on planet earth?

    The Time of our Lives Stewardship of Time Introduction “Consider a story from the February 1998 edition of Readers Digest, which tells about a couple who “took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite

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    "It's Time For A Change"

    Contributed by Ray Scott on Mar 7, 2006
    based on 41 ratings
     | 23,205 views

    Salvation was only the beginning! Now, God wants us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice. This is an act of surrender, commitment, and dedication. Paul tells us HOW to do it.

    “It’s Time For A Change!” Romans 12:1-2 Life is full of CHANGES! HAS your life CHANGED in last YEAR … 5 Yr. … 10 … 20? IF IT HASN’T … then must have been living on a deserted island somewhere! There are 2 BASIC KINDS of “change” … INTERNAL & EXTERNAL. We usually LIKE … EXTERNAL ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Surviving Critical Times

    Contributed by Laren Whaley on Mar 12, 2006
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,976 views

    These verses focus on some vital issues for Christians who live in critical days. A person’s faith is not affected usually by a single catastrophic event. It’s more like a grinding-away. A constant dripping of water will wear away steel. The events of o

    Sunday, March 12, 2006 Surviving Critical Times (Heb 10:22-25 NIV) let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. {23} Let us hold unswervingly to the hope ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Timothy Brown avatar

    It's Time To Clock In

    Contributed by Timothy Brown on Jun 22, 2007
    based on 77 ratings
     | 24,106 views

    The sermons discusses the urgency of service.

    John 9:1-4 It’s Time to Clock In Introduction: When I attended seminary I use to have a job as a front desk clerk at a hotel called The Colony Parke Hotel. At this job we had a time clock, and when it was time for my shift to start I would I always say to myself, it’s time to clock in. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Time To Get Training

    Contributed by Robert Bravo on Jun 23, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,670 views

    As christians we need to train for godliness.

    Time to get training 1 Timothy 4:1-10 (NIV) 1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene