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  • Instructions For Life Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on May 2, 2005
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,102 views

    When do we run and when do we stand firm and fight, Paul offers some insight to Timothy.

    If you had to write to a young pastor giving him instructions for pastoring his church and for keeping his spiritual life intact what would you say to him? What spiritual and theological truths would you try to impart in order that he would be able to do his job effectively. Would your ...read more

  • The Crown Of Life

    Contributed by David Moore on Aug 27, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,305 views

    To show how the crown of life is awarded to believers who endure hardship for the cause of Christ.

    The Crown of Life Text: James 1:12 Introduction: Last Sunday evening we considered together the matter of faithfulness and the possibility of winning the incorruptible crown. But there is one aspect of faithfulness, that we did not touch on last week, which I want to consider tonight, and that is ...read more

  • The Life Of Excuses

    Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Mar 16, 2022
     | 1,329 views

    In all areas of our life, we can not help but notice that some folks are better at doing some things than others are.

    For example, this is certainly true, when it comes to: • Sports • Academics • Cooking • Building • Teaching • Saving money Sad to say, but this is also true when it comes to lying. Some are much better at telling lies than others are. Some people lie so much, that you know they are lying if their ...read more

  • Life Is Not Fair Series

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on May 29, 2003
    based on 124 ratings
     | 14,316 views

    Life seems unfair to the disappointed, the cheated, the cynical. It was unfair to compel Simon to carry the cross -- injustice piled on. But God uses injustice to stir His people to action, to help us get beyond mere survival, to give us to one another.

    Life is not fair. It just isn’t. The playwright MacLeish has his character “J.B.” scream out something we are all afraid to say, but it might be true: “If God is God, He is not good; if God is good, He is not God.” What an awesome thing to think, let alone speak! “If God is God, He is not ...read more

  • The Abundent Life Series

    Contributed by Larry Bussard on Feb 23, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,897 views

    A series of 9 messages on the Abundent Life

    1. The Starting Point is Relationship with God The Abundant Life Series How would you like to: 1. Hear when God is speaking to you 2. Be able to identify what God is doing in and around you 3. Have an ever growing relationship and knowledge of God as He works in and through you I. ...read more

  • Enjoy Life! Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Nov 7, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 19,902 views

    In today's lesson we are urged, in view of the certainty of death and the unpredictability of life, to enjoy life to the fullest.

    Scripture In his quest to find out how to live a meaningful life the writer of Ecclesiastes urges his readers, in view of the certainty of death and the unpredictability of life, to enjoy life to the fullest. Let us read Ecclesiastes 9:1-12: 1 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how ...read more

  • A Life That Matters Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Feb 4, 2010
    based on 16 ratings
     | 17,374 views

    If we want to live a life that matters, we must sacrifice, suffer, submit and serve. We don’t like those words, because they seem to be steps down to obscurity, but in Christ’s Kingdom they are steps to true greatness.

    The movie, Pearl Harbor, tells the story of two friends, Rafe and Danny, who survive the attack on Pearl Harbor and enter World War II as fighter pilots. In training before the war, Rafe McCawley is one of America’s top fighter pilots. When America initially holds back from entering the war, ...read more

  • Life Is A Journey. Series

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 12, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 17,335 views

    The Abrahamic Treaty.

    Intro: 1. Vance Havner, "The hardest part of the journey is neither the start nor the finish but the middle mile. There is the enthusiasm of a new undertaking that buoys you at the beginning and there is the thrill of reaching the goal that carries you down the home stretch; but the middle ...read more

  • Speak Life Series

    Contributed by David Owens on Sep 26, 2016
     | 25,419 views

    In this first sermon in the series, we focus on the power of words to heal or to hurt.

    Introduction: A. Today, we are beginning a new sermon series that I am calling: “Speak Life – Speaking Words that Heal, Not Hurt.” 1. If your tongue has ever gotten you into trouble, then please raise your hand. 2. Now turn to the person next to you and say, “I’m not ...read more

  • Love Life Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on May 26, 2021
     | 3,871 views

    If you want to love life, love people.

    Evangelist, Larry Moyer, tells the story of a warden, who asked a prisoner on death row what he would like to eat for his last meal. The prisoner replied, “I would like to have a huge piece of watermelon.” The warden said, “You must be kidding? This is December. Watermelons have not been ...read more

  • Life Lessons Series

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Jun 28, 2019
     | 5,989 views

    Sermon on the Mount Message on the Be Attitudes. Sacrifice and Reward

    The Be Attitudes Theme: To show the true attitude of a Christian Text: Matthew 5:1-12 Introduction Mat 5:17-20 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. (18) For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or ...read more

  • Radical Reliance

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on May 15, 2011
     | 2,424 views

    Challenging the congregation to live a life of radical reliance, in the model of the Acts 242-47 church

    INTRO I am a typical Westernized American. I am the third of three children, the baby in the family so to speak in a typical, American middle-class family. From my earliest memory my parents spoiled me – not rotten to the core (at least I would like to believe), but I never went ...read more

  • Godly Living In An Ungodly World

    Contributed by Howard Gwartney on Jul 14, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 20,126 views

    A sermon preached after youth camp to our congregation on godly living.

    GODLY LIVING IN AN UNGODLY WORLD 1 Peter 4:1-19 1 Peter 4:1 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of ...read more

  • Life Outside

    Contributed by Mike Hays on Aug 29, 2002
    based on 19 ratings
     | 7,378 views

    Christ calls us to come outside of the norm of everyday life and take our stand with Him...alone.

    Life Outside Hebrews 13:10-16 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born into a family where faith was not much of a concern or topic of conversation, but as a 14 year old, Dietrich Bonhoeffer announced that he was going to be a pastor and theologian. His family was stunned and his older brother tried to ...read more

  • Get A Life

    Contributed by Antonio Torrence on Nov 18, 2000
    based on 84 ratings
     | 6,226 views

    Jesus would have us to receive and live a life of abundance for which he came to give humanity.

    "Get A Life": John 1:1-14 - Rev. Antonio L. Torrence, Pastor of Cross of Life Lutheran Church The philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, once said that most of us 'lead lives of quiet desperation." It would seem that Thoreau is right. Many of us are in the land of the living but our lives are not ...read more