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  • James Groce avatar

    An Overview Of The Seven Churches Of Revelation

    Contributed by James Groce on Aug 19, 2002
    based on 71 ratings
     | 13,929 views

    These letters deal with the good, bad, and the ugly.

    -------------------------------------- Bible Study: An Overview of The Seven Churches of Revelation -------------------------------------- In chapters two and three of Revelation we have an address from the Lord to the seven churches of Asia. These letters deal with the good, bad, and the ugly. ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    God's Vision For His Church Series

    Contributed by Ryan Johnson on Aug 20, 2002
    based on 44 ratings
     | 20,551 views

    Sermon to cast vision around the 5 fold purpose of the church. Rediscover your purpose!

    God’s Vision for His Church Intro: Write down what you think the purpose of the church is Doctors fix Bodies Mechanic fix cars What do churches fix?… Lives and souls God is asking us one question church… How’s Business??? We say Glen Elder Chrisitan Church his a place where God is seen.. Love is ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Watchful Church-Part 1

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on Jan 14, 2003
    based on 22 ratings
     | 4,318 views

    Part 1 of a 3-part sermon. Jesus rebuked the church in Sardis for maintaining a mere semblance of life in Christ. The church of God must exhibit a vitality inherent to life in Christ. What does a watchful church exhibit? The Watchful church exhibits..

    THE WATCHFUL CHURCH-I—Revelation 3:1-6 Jesus rebuked the church in Sardis for maintaining a mere semblance of life in Christ. The church of God must exhibit the vitality inherent to life in Christ. The church of God must exhibit more than a semblance of life in Christ. How does a church exhibit ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Watchful Church-Part 2

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on Jan 14, 2003
    based on 23 ratings
     | 2,061 views

    Part 2 of a 3-part sermon. Jesus rebuked the church in Sardis for maintaining a mere semblance of life in Christ. The church of God must exhibit a vitality inherent to life in Christ. What does a watchful church exhibit? The Watchful church exhibits...

    THE WATCHFUL CHURCH-II—Revelation 3:1-6 Jesus rebuked the church in Sardis for maintaining a mere semblance of life in Christ. The church of God must exhibit the vitality inherent to life in Christ. The church of God must exhibit more than a semblance of life in Christ. How does a church exhibit ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    We Still Need The Church

    Contributed by Raymond Dix Jr. on Mar 26, 2002
    based on 217 ratings
     | 20,197 views

    This message examines the need for a proactive family of God. The church (Christians) is presented as the only solution to society’s ills.

    (Elab) = Elaborate Matthew 16:18-19 18 "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Church Was Born In A Prayer Meeting

    Contributed by Phil Morgan on Apr 2, 2002
    based on 418 ratings
     | 64,973 views

    Pentecost, the birth of the church, came while the disciples were gathered in a prayer meeting.

    READ: Acts 1:12-14 The disciples returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, where they had just witnessed the most phenomenal event; right before their very eyes Jesus ascended into Heaven, to sit again at God the Father’s right hand in glory. But before He was taken up, He gave them ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Rightly Dividing Church And State

    Contributed by David Anderson on Apr 21, 2001
    based on 91 ratings
     | 7,834 views

    America was founded upon the Christian understanding of life.

    Sermon ~ “Rightly Dividing Church & State” Matthew 22:15-21 There are those things that are more or less political, and those that our eternal. Our Lord says it like this within Matthew’s gospel: “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    7 Reasons To Go To Church

    Contributed by Tony Cansler on May 1, 2001
    based on 110 ratings
     | 4,996 views

    A message to all

    7 Reasons to go to Church Divine Commandment – De 12:5 “But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:” You will get Blessed – Ps 84:4 “Blessed are they that dwell in thy ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Speak Well Of God's Church

    Contributed by Mike Richardson on May 16, 2001
    based on 109 ratings
     | 5,333 views

    We must speak well of God’s church, God’s people, and God’s servants to promote a positive and healthy atmosphere within and without the church.

    Proverbs 16:24 “Speak Well Of God’s Church!” Intro: The tongue is a small flappy piece of meat…… (This message is not for your neighbor…..) ***A little boy just got saved and sat on a bench next to old man who looked upset. The little boy said to the man, "Sir, do you need to get ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    What Every Church Needs

    Contributed by Scott Cox on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 547 ratings
     | 29,624 views

    A description of, definition of, and a directive for real church revival.

    Intro. I’ve entitled this message, "What Every Church Needs". A little boy went to church with his father one morning. That night before he went to bed he knelt down and said his prayers. He said, "God, we had a great time at church today. Wish you would have been there. All to often this is the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Tale Of Seven Churches: Sardis Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Mar 31, 2003
    based on 39 ratings
     | 8,023 views

    This is part six of an eight part message on the seven churches of Asia.

    So, where were we? Oh yeah, Sardis. We’ve looked at Ephesus, Pergamum, Smyrna and Thyatira and now we are on Sardis, which is the fifth of the seven churches that the letter in the Revelation was addressed to. If we pull up our trusty map we discover that Sardis was located in what we know as ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    A Tale Of Seven Churches: Philadelphia Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Apr 7, 2003
    based on 32 ratings
     | 9,152 views

    This is number seven in an eight part series looking at the seven churches of Asia

    And so here we stand, almost but not quite at the end of our journey. The scripture that Bonnie read earlier was the letter written by Christ to the Christians in the city of Philadelphia, which was the sixth of seven letters written to the churches in the area known then as the Province of Asia. ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    A Tale Of Seven Churches: Laodicea Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Apr 14, 2003
    based on 28 ratings
     | 7,754 views

    This is the last in a series of eight sermons looking at the seven churches of Asia

    And so he had come to the end of his journey. It seemed like a life time ago that he read the first letter to the church that was situated in the city of Ephesus. Since then he had travelled to five other cities and read to them the words of the risen Christ. Words of commendation and words of ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    The Church - More Than A Building

    Contributed by Troy Harkey on Apr 16, 2003
    based on 24 ratings
     | 11,170 views

    THE CHURCH IS MORE THAN JUST A BUILDING.

    CHURCH – MORE THAN A BUILDING When we began this series of messages about the church, we used this verse as a springboard. (Eph 5:25 NKJV) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, The church is the most important thing on earth. The Greek word ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Is There Any Babel In Your Church?

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Apr 30, 2003
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,026 views

    Babel is revisited when people are led more by fear than by faith. God caused confusion to people who thought they could provide a man made monument of their own religion that would provide them what they desired. They made a religion according to their o

    How to Avoid Re-visiting the Attitudes of Babel Illustration:Illustration:Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil," it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil. Sidney J. Harris. Read Genesis 11:1- 9 Now the whole world had one language ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational