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  • Ken Mowery avatar

    Perscription For Spiritual Success

    Contributed by Ken Mowery on Dec 19, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,725 views

    How to be what you want to be and where you need to be spiritually.

    Prescription For Spiritual Success Philippians 3: 12-14 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 13Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    New Beginning

    Contributed by Bob Soulliere on Dec 30, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,235 views

    As Christians we still experience difficult seasons… …trials and hardships. There is winter as well as spring. But God causes even those times to have purpose. We soon learn that “in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have bee

    A NEW Beginning Genesis 1:1&2 1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. The original term tohu and bohu , which we translate without form and ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Come And Be A Godly Father Series

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Jan 15, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,545 views

    As Men of Christ, we are called to be "Godly Fathers", to bring up our Children in the way they should go so that when they grow old they shall not depart from it. Let’s review how God’s word leads us in this light.

    Called to be Godly Father’s Do not Exasperate Do nurture Do discipline Do Train Seoul -- At his father’s funeral, American Carl Lewis placed his 100-meter gold medal from the 1984 Olympics in his father’s hands. "Don’t worry," he told his surprised mother. "I’ll get another one." A year ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Sacrificial Investments

    Contributed by Charles Mallory on Aug 10, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,980 views

    To be a Christian, it takes a life-time of effort, obedience, and sacrifice.

    IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT “THERE IS POWER IN THE PRESENCE OF A RISEN SAVIOR TO SOLVE OUR DIFFICULTIES, REMOVE OUR PERPLEXITIES, CALM OUR FEARS, EASE OUR BURDENS, DRY OUR TEARS, MEET OUR EVERY NEED, TRANQUILIZE OUR MINDS AND SATISFY EVERY CRAVING OF OUR HEARTS.” THE POWER THAT RAISED OUR SAVIOR FROM ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

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    Vision

    Contributed by Kevin Litchfield on Oct 11, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 12,785 views

    This sermon focuses on Nehemiah.

    Last evening I began a new series that will weave in and out of both our morning and evening messages for the next few weeks.. A series that will focus on the life and ministry of Nehemiah. With that in mind would you turn in your Bibles to Nehemiah chapter 1 beginning in verse one. In verse ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Wisdom Marred By Obsession Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 3, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 8,188 views

    Should we do as much as we can as well as we can for as long as we can? Should we seek to reach our full potential? Or, instead, should we be thinking of the long term consequences of what we do?

    Wisdom Marred by Obsession (I Kings 4) Reception Grade (how it went over: interest, compliments, etc.): A Intro 1. Once the Devil was walking along with one of his cohorts. They saw a man ahead of them pick up something shiny. "What did he find?" asked the cohort. "A piece of the truth," the ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Power Through Memorization

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jan 30, 2006
    based on 40 ratings
     | 3,957 views

    The Why & How to Memorization

    Power Through Memorization Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the famous 19th-century poet and artist, was once approached by an elderlyman. The old fellow had some sketches and drawings that he wanted Rossetti to look at and tell him if they were any good, or if they at least showed potential talent. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Faith To Win

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Feb 14, 2003
    based on 84 ratings
     | 14,859 views

    A message of the Christian’s responsibility in living a Christ honoring life

    THE FAITH TO WIN 1 Corinthians 15:57-58 INTRO: The 26th Olympic games are in Atlanta this summer, and excitement over this event runs from Miami, Florida to Anchorage, Alaska. Who will win the gold? Who will come home with the medals? Whose childhood desire to be an Olympian will become a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Get Into Trouble

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 15, 2001
    based on 44 ratings
     | 5,224 views

    STEPS TO TROUBLE

    HOW TO GET IN TROUBLE Acts 27:1-44 Any Christian who studies the Bible and applies what he learns from the Bible will avoid many pitfalls in this world. In Acts 27 we find Paul, a prisoner, on his voyage to Rome. This experience in Acts 27 of Paul is not written in Scripture so that we can just ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    2 Advent A

    Contributed by Roger Haugen on Dec 6, 2001
    based on 420 ratings
     | 20,401 views

    John the Baptist calls us to repentance which calls us to live differently, as the body of Christ

    2 Advent A Matthew 3:1-12 9 December 2001 Rev. Roger Haugen Once there was a man who was a bit of a bum. Talented and successful, he neglected his wife and his children, his work and his friends, his community and his colleagues. He drank too much, lost his temper too often, was cruel too many ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    If Life Is A Game, Then Here Are The Rules...

    Contributed by Eric Shrewsberry on Jan 9, 2001
    based on 134 ratings
     | 5,579 views

    In the media and the marketplace, our philosophy of life has been reduced to a bunch of slogans, cliches, trite phrases that we use to describe our lives...

    If Life is a Game, Then Here are the Rules... Matthew 6:25-34 1. In the media and the marketplace, our philosophy of life has been reduced to a bunch of slogans. Slogans, cliches, trite phrases that we use to describe our lives. Our television commercials are the biggest culprits of these ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Raymond Perkins avatar

    The Prayer Of Jabez: Ask For His Protection Series

    Contributed by Raymond Perkins on Aug 24, 2001
    based on 128 ratings
     | 8,230 views

    This is the fifth and final lesson in my series based in I Chronicles 4:10.

    ASK FOR PROTECTION I Chronicles 4:10d INTRODUCTION: Paul Harvey told about a 3-year-old boy who went to the grocery store with his mother. Before they entered the grocery store she said to him, "Now you’re not going to get any chocolate chip cookies, so don’t even ask." She put him up in the cart ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Gold In The Furnace

    Contributed by Michael Buckingham on Jun 20, 2011
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,416 views

    Are you going through trials and tribulations? God is putting you through hard times to purify you!

    Gold in the Furnace The hymn is beautiful: Gold in the Furnace Tried Ne’er loses aught but dross, So is the Christian purified, And bettered by the cross. My past few days have been about testing and trials. Yesterday, I had an examination for a course I am doing for my career in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ed Vasicek avatar

    The Rough Way To Maturity Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 15, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,302 views

    God leads us through stages; for some, the stages are smooth, for others, rough. It depends upon our disposition.

    The Rough Way to Maturity (Hosea 11) 1. You know you are getting old when: • You hear your favorite song on an elevator. • You watch the Weather Channel. • You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore. • You try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Revelation, Part 36 Series

    Contributed by T.j. Conwell on May 25, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,467 views

    Study of the Book of Revelation

    Revelation, Part 36 Revelation 19:1-8 Introduction Last week, we witnessed the preparation for the return of Jesus Christ as He descends on this world, and tonight we begin Chapter 19 which concludes the tribulation period and leads us to the final battle between the armies of Satan and ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational