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  • Wayne Searls avatar

    God Wants To Do A New Thing In Your Life

    Contributed by Wayne Searls on Aug 24, 2003
    based on 1,418 ratings
     | 650,076 views

    To motivate the hearer to seek a new vision and a new in-terest in the things of God.

    GOD WANTS TO DO A NEW THING IN YOUR LIFE Isaiah 43:18,19 TEXT: Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. PROPOSITION: To motivate the hearer to seek a ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Bob Soulliere avatar

    A Closer Look Series

    Contributed by Bob Soulliere on Nov 27, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,358 views

    The birth of John the Baptist puts a different spin on the birth of Jesus. We get to see the birth and life of Jesus through the eyes of relatives who were going through the same odd happenings

    Falling in love with Jesus Luke 1:68-80 A closer look Based on the book with the same name by Rubel Shelly Part II-B ILL: History tells us that early in the nineteenth century the whole world was watching with bated breath the campaigns of Napoleon. There was talk everywhere of marches, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Charles Wilkerson avatar

    Cutting Out The Dead Wood. Series

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Nov 14, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,141 views

    Those who are more than survivors stay alert to self-dimishint compromises

    In the back of our lot is an old tree. I’ve been told by more than one person here how it was a playground for them as they grew up in these neighborhoods. For a couple of years I wasn’t sure what type of tree it was. In fact, it wasn’t we built a tree house, of sorts, that I found out it was in ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    Where The Spirit Of The Lord Is, There Is Freedom - 2 Cor. 3:17

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 11, 2002
    based on 109 ratings
     | 34,580 views

    Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom - 2 Cor. 3:17 - Praise God for the liberty given to you by the Spirit, but utilize the freedoms for serving Jesus and others in love

    Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom - 2 Cor. 3:17 - Praise God for the liberty given to you by the Spirit, but utilize the freedoms for serving Jesus and others in love Illustration:Americans love their liberty Prayer Lord Jesus, thou who art the way, the truth, and the life; hear ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Joseph Rodgers avatar

    The Sufficency Of Christ (Part 1) Series

    Contributed by Joseph Rodgers on Jun 14, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,557 views

    The 7th message of 13 in an expository series on the book of Colossians.

    The Sufficiency of Christ – Part 1 Colossians 2:8-10 8See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. 9For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    His Workman

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Jul 19, 2006
    based on 24 ratings
     | 11,315 views

    While it is true that we are saved by faith alone and not by works; it is true that God has saved us for the purpose of perform acceptable works or service to God. Ephesians reveals the mandate, the method, and the means of serving the Lord.

    Disclaimer: Source material for this sermon has been gleaned from many different sources. I have attempted to acknowledge these sources whenever possible. His Workmen Ephesians 2:8-10; 4 Introduction: The very minute that a person attempts to add works or self effort in any form to the salvation ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Free, Full & Fruitful

    Contributed by Kevin Burden on Nov 2, 2007
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     | 5,531 views

    Happiness is defined as a condition of supreme well-being and good spirits, joy, cheerfulness, gladness, blessedness. Happiness is conditional. We know that happiness is not the result of accumulation of things because some of the most miserable people in

    FREE, FULL & FRUITFUL 1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them. 3 The LORD hath done great things for us; ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Kenneth Roberts avatar

    God's Final Word To Sin And Death

    Contributed by Kenneth Roberts on Mar 20, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,225 views

    The last word Jesus spoke from the cross, as John records it in his Gospel, was the word: "Tetelestai", "It is finished." At the time of his death, the place where he spoke that word was not a pretty sight. But through the centuries the beauty and power

    It was not a pretty sight. Made of roughly hewn wood and splattered with human blood after having served its gory purpose, the cross was anything but beautiful. It symbolized worldly secular power brutishly exercised over any perceived foreign evil that might threaten Rome. It was a place of ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Beauty For Ashes

    Contributed by Joe Rowland on Nov 24, 2008
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     | 12,601 views

    We need to remember what the old time Saints taught from the Word of God and not let these truths be forgotten. People like Lester Sumrall and Billy Graham and the old time saints that we personally have known and looked up to.

    Beauty for Ashes Isaiah 61:1-4 1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Billy Ricks avatar

    Identity Alive In Christ

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Jan 31, 2009
     | 2,933 views

    Paul has just finished his fit of praise for God’s wonderful heavenly blessings. We find that our identity is sealed in Christ. We also find that we are rich and God His power to work in us. In Chapter two we find the solution to mans situation -- sin.

    Intro: I logged onto the internet on my wife’s computer Friday to find the threes company star Suzanne Somers was on the Oprah Winfrey show. She was talking to Oprah and her audience about how hormone replacement therapy had helped here defeat the monster of menopause. If I remember correctly ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Shine Thomas avatar

    The Year Of The Lord’s Favour Series

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Jan 1, 2010
    based on 24 ratings
     | 24,586 views

    Four promises for a New Beginning. 1. The Kingdom will grow. 2. Bind Broken Hearts. 3. CHANGE. 4. Double Blessings. All this can happen only by the creation power of the Holy Spirit.

    For more sermons visit our: Website: https://cityharvestag.com/sermons/?sermon_topics=goodfriday Podcast : https://city-harvest-sermons.simplecast.com/episodes/why-are-you-downcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CityHarvestA... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cityharvestag/ YouTube: ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Freddy Fritz avatar

    To Become A Ransom For Many Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Apr 1, 2010
    based on 5 ratings
     | 11,767 views

    In this sermon we see that the reason Christ suffered and died was to become a ransom for many.

    Scripture The Gospels contain a large body of material of the teaching of Jesus. Jesus taught about all kinds of things such as God, the kingdom, sin, righteousness, and judgment. Scholars and students have spent vast numbers of hours seeking to understand the person and work of Jesus. One of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • David Edward Ray avatar

    The Four Dreams Of Maewyn Succat - St. Patrick's Day Sermon

    Contributed by David Edward Ray on Nov 15, 2016
    based on 3 ratings
     | 10,032 views

    The life story of Maewyn Succat (St Patrick) takes us through the life of a young man who was captured and sold as a slave in Ireland. After escaping and returning to his homeland, God called him back to the land of his Captors to preach the gospel.

    The four dreams of Maewyn Succat • Maewyn Succat was born in 387 AD in Roman Britain • His father was a deacon and his grandfather was a Presbyter, Maewyn himself was not a Christian • At the age of 16, Maewyn along with others was captured and taken prisoner by a band of Irish ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Rodney Barlow avatar

    A Little Space For Grace

    Contributed by Rodney Barlow on Feb 5, 2015
    based on 3 ratings
     | 12,293 views

    Message about how people need a little bit of grace to be able to see how God can bring out the best in them.

    A Little Space of Grace Ezra 9:6-8 Sermon In One Sentence: The Grace that God has allowed us to have is a wonderful thing. This book describes the time period in which God was showing his grace to his people by allowing them to make their way back to there proper place and position on earth. God ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Edward Hardee avatar

    Learning To Fight Series

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on May 4, 2015
    based on 3 ratings
     | 13,285 views

    Showing the importance of fighting through Prayer.

    Title: Learning how to fight Theme: Understanding the importance of fighting for the kingdom and how to fight. Text: 1 Samuel 30:1 - 8 Prayer Time: Matthew_12:34 For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Hebrews_12:2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God