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  • The Sixth Church Of The Apocalypse - The Church Of Philadelphia Series

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jun 19, 2020
     | 5,126 views

    This is one of the two churches that Christ has no reproof for - other other being Smyrna. And it together with Smyrna are the only cities that still have a Christian church. The key is their perserverance. The catchword is " Be strong and faithful"

    The letter to the Church in Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7-13) This is the sixth letter to the seven churches in Asia that we find in Revelation Chapters 2 and 3. It is written to the Church at Philadelphia. It is one of the two Churches (the other being the letter to the Church in Smyrna) for ...read more

  • God's Church PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Feb 29, 2024
    based on 3 ratings
     | 783 views

    This sermon emphasizes our Christian calling to actively contribute to God's church, welcoming the weary, healing the broken-hearted, and providing rest for the troubled.

    Good morning, dear brothers and sisters. It's a blessing to be with you all today in this sacred space, where we gather as a family in Christ, united in our pursuit of understanding and living out His truths. Today, we stand on the precipice of a profound understanding, a realization that will ...read more

  • The Compromising Church PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 26, 2023
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,792 views

    This sermon encourages believers to stand firm in their convictions, resist worldly pressures, and choose the path of righteousness over compromise, guided by God's Word.

    Dear brothers and sisters, I stand before you today with a message that is as old as the hills yet as relevant as the morning headlines. It is a message that has been whispered by the wind, etched in the stones, and written in the stars. It is a message that speaks to our deepest longings, our ...read more

  • Submit Yourself To God

    Contributed by Steven Cannon on Jul 27, 2007
    based on 9 ratings
     | 22,066 views

    Why is there so much fighting and quarreling in the church; war in the heart.

    SUBMIT YOURSELVES TO GOD Jas 4:1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? Jas 4:2 You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask ...read more

  • Saved By Grace, Kept By Grace And Grow In Grace

    Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on May 17, 2024
     | 2,799 views

    The apostle Paul recognized that there are two kinds of Christians within the church:

    • SPIRITUAL • UN-SPIRITUAL Every Christian fall into one of these two categories. HOW DO WE KNOW THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF CHRISTIANS IN THE CHURCH? Paul makes that distinction when he writes to the church in Galatia. Look at Galatians 6:1, we read, “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ...read more

  • Church Success Strategies

    Contributed by Dr. Craig Nelson on Jun 5, 2001
    based on 66 ratings
     | 5,306 views

    Proven Success Strategies For New Church Plants

    Planting a new church is proving to be the most effective and cost efficient way of reaching the unchurched and fulfilling the Great Commission. Between 2000-2020 an estimated 600,000 churches will be planted. Yet there are fewer churches per person in the US than there were in 1906. According to a ...read more

  • Saul's Conversion Experience Series

    Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on Jan 25, 2021
     | 2,560 views

    The Church had murderous threats from Saul. Then how Saul became a great missionary in the early church has been unfolded in this chapter as the conversion experience of Saul. Read further to the development.

    Acts 9:1-31 Saul’s Conversion Experience 9:01-02 Saul threats the Church 9:03-09 Saul repents through Vision 9:10-19 Ananias Misunderstanding and understandings on Saul 9:20-31 Barnabas Disciples Saul Acts 9:1-2 Saul threatens the Church. After narrating the ...read more

  • The Purpose Of The Church- Discipleship Series

    Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Jul 25, 2003
    based on 108 ratings
     | 30,675 views

    The church is not to stop once we get a person in the door and on the church roll. Our work just begins at that point

    INTRODUCTION • Talk about the goal of a baseball team. Get people across home plate. Don’t push the details of the analogy. • Does a team cheer and quit when it gets a person to 1st base or 3rd base? They will cheer because they expect to bring that person around the bases to score. • At the ...read more

  • The Vanguard Church

    Contributed by Pastor/Author: Terry Sisney on Dec 29, 2014
    based on 11 ratings
     | 26,002 views

    This is not a sermon but a Prophetic word with a prophetic assignment to the church of Jesus Christ (it won't fit everyone) He that hath ears to hear let him hear.

    1sa 22:2 The Vanguard Church Lu 19:13 Eze 37:10 1 Sa 22:2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; ...read more

  • Church Union Series

    Contributed by D Marion Clark on Oct 11, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,378 views

    The focus here is the union with Christ that produces the communion with one another as his body.

    Introduction In the previous passage Paul has taught that everyone in the church has spiritual gifts, that they all come from the same source, viz, God, and that they are to be used for the common good. With these gifts in mind, he now impresses upon them the profound truth of their union in ...read more

  • It's For Your Own Good

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on May 2, 2021
     | 4,136 views

    Last Sunday I used a phrase that you may have heard growing up: do as I say, not as I do. Today I have another that would be just as bothersome: this is for your own good. God will do things we won't like but will be for our own good.

    IT'S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD Last Sunday I used a phrase that you may have heard growing up: do as I say, not as I do. That's a phrase we wouldn't have wanted to hear. Today I have another one that would be equally as bothersome: this is for your own good. We didn't like to hear that ...read more

  • What’s In It For Me Series

    Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Jun 13, 2010
     | 4,599 views

    Taking this popular mantra and applying it to James 1:12, the message brings to light how thin and shallow this approach to life really is.

    How to Do Life What’s In It for ME? James 1:12 * (Show the title on the screen.) Please read this phrase with me (read). Last week I Googled this phrase and returned 414,000,000 hits. We live in a “What’s in it for me (WIIFM)” culture. It begins with people’s approach to government which only ...read more

  • God’s Perspective "V-I-E-W"

    Contributed by Herbert Armstrong Bosantog on Nov 6, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,705 views

    God’s V – Vision God’s I – Instruction God’s E – Enduring Love God’s W – Witness The KINGDOM of God was Administered by the Arch Angel Lucifer (It was in PERFECT ORDER, until in him that iniquity was found). Ezekiel 28:12-15. Lucifer allowed

    God’s V – Vision God’s I – Instruction God’s E – Enduring Love God’s W – Witness SCRIPTURE: Mark 4:21-25, Jesus asked them, “Would anyone LIGHT a lamp & then put it under a basket or under a bed to shut out the light? Of course not! A lamp is placed on a stand, where its LIGHT will ...read more

  • Preachers And Churches

    Contributed by Roddy Chestnut on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 104 ratings
     | 5,347 views

    Thesis: Good preacher-church relations begin with the preacher.

    Thesis: Good preacher-church relations begin with the preacher. Intro.: 1. Opening remarks. 2. Illust. A preacher's wife in a large church once asked a new member how he liked his new church home. "Great! The church is friendly, I love the building, the singing is excellent, and the teaching ...read more

  • Crippled Church

    Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Jun 13, 2009
    based on 46 ratings
     | 12,789 views

    Sardis is the dying or dead church. It could be our church. The problem and the prescription to fix it and make it once again the Lord’s Church. Link inc. to formatted text, audio/video, PowerPoint.

    READING SOMEONE ELSE’S MAIL Sardis: The Crippled Church Rev. 3:1-6 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/Sardis.html Take your next vacation in London, and you could visit the Metropolitan Tabernacle. The tour guide would tell you that this is the place that the great Charles Haddon Spurgeon used to ...read more