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  • DJ Thomsen avatar

    Secret Of Life

    Contributed by Dj Thomsen on Jul 28, 2016
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     | 6,121 views

    In Matthew 22 Jesus actually gives us the secret of life that so many search for.

    What is the secret of life? Have you ever been asked that question? Or maybe you have asked that question yourself in one of those kind of quiet, contemplative moments in your life. Maybe one crystal clear summer night you were lying on your back on the grass looking up at the millions of stars ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    David's Great Sin Series

    Contributed by Dan Proctor on Jan 16, 2013
     | 10,217 views

    From this story I believe we can learn how to avoid prideful rebellion against God and His Word.

    David’s Great Sin 2 Samuel 24, 1 Chronicles 21 Introduction: 1. What if I were to ask you, “What was David’s great sin”, what would you say? Your answer would probably have something to do with his adultery with Bathsheba or his murder of Urriah. Actually it was neither ...read more

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    Denomination: Bible Church

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    Spiritual Ammunition

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jan 5, 2014
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    When we pray, we are tapping into divine power and there is nothing to fear.

    During Desert Storm, I received letters from friends and family assuring me of their prayers. I knew we had sufficient air cover—every night I could see our planes headed north to inflict serious damage upon the Iraqi Republican Guard. But my confidence was in knowing that we also had ...read more

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    Denomination: Congregational

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    Let Silence Speak.....

    Contributed by Samuel Chandar on Sep 14, 2014
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    God speaks; more so in His Silence.....

    LET SILENCE SPEAK….. In 1 Kings 18 we find Israel in its pits. The people have broken their covenant with the Lord. The altars have been torn down. The Lord’s prophets decimated and Baal elevated as God of Israel by Ahab and Jezebel. It is at this juncture that a prophet of God, a ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    When Foolishness Becomes Creative Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 10, 2014
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    Foolishness is not just a general concept, it shows itself in concrete situations, like the three we will examine this morning.

    When Foolishness Becomes Creative (Proverbs 22:13-14, 16) 1. Sometimes you wonder how some creative people could have such little sense. 2. A New York fugitive that jumped bail and fled from one of upstate New York’s biggest pot busts in history has been caught in Oregon after 20 ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    The Perils Of Contentment

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 14, 2014
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    Contentment is a trap, because it keeps us from growing in ability and interior commitment.

    Recently we were viewing one of the original episodes of the Twilight Zone. A successful but elderly actor was ruminating over his long career, and his multiple marriages, and told his butler a secret. He said that in his whole life, he had only one length of time in which he had felt true ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Purpose And Design Of Marriage

    Contributed by Rev. Dr. Leslie Verghese on Sep 5, 2018
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    Purpose and Design of Christian Marriage

    Family is the primary Building Block of Society. From the beginning of times, the primary purposes of Marriage are Companionship (Genesis 2:18), Procreation or Establishment of a Home (Genesis 1:28), and Sexual Fulfillment (the two shall become one). These purposes have and will not change until ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Watch Your Tongue!

    Contributed by Thomas Clawser on Sep 17, 2018
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    Do the words you speak build-up or burn-down?

    In the summer of 2000, more than a thousand firefighters battled a wildfire for two weeks in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The fire started on August 24, and continued until September 8. When it was over more than eighty thousand acres of federal forest was burnt. Forty-six-year-old Janice ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

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    A Different Kind Of Feast, A Different Kind Of Lake

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Nov 27, 2018
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     | 2,492 views

    The Destiny of the Righteous (a forever feast) is a blessed contrast with the destruction of the wicked in the Lake of Fire.

    Revelation 19 v. 17 and I saw and angel standing in the sun, and he cried with a big voice, saying to all the birds flying in the middle of the sky “Come! Gather to the mega-dinner of God, v. 18 in order that you might feast on the flesh of kings, and the flesh of leaders of thousands, and the ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    God So Loved Series

    Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on Jan 8, 2019
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    God so loved the world doesn’t refer to the whole mass as one entity but as individual persons by persons, God’s love is for me, for you as individuals not as one world. Every one, every individual is so important and so precious in the sight of God.

    Text: John 3:16-21 Theme: God’s Love and the World “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life” God willing, we will be contemplating into the theology of Methodism throughout this year 2019. Our founder John ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    More Of Him And Less Of Me

    Contributed by Dr. Craig Nelson on Sep 9, 2017
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,150 views

    A personal testimony of God's faithful trustworthiness

    More of Him and Less of Me When God blessed me with the person I married she had been diagnosed with a serious illness and given the prognosis of a living a short life of just seven years. I was counseled by numerous ‘spiritual’ advisers to end the engagement because of how this would affect ‘my’ ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    A Voice From The Beach

    Contributed by Martin Ellgar on Dec 29, 2014
     | 6,827 views

    A perspective on John 21: 1-14. Like the disciples in the boat who listened to the voice of a ‘stranger’ from the beach, somehow you too will know at the right time where to ‘cast the net.’ At that time, you too will say with joy, “It is the Lord.”

    John 21: 1-14 A Voice From The Beach The Gospel according to John closes with one more miracle given by Jesus. Although it is the final miracle recorded in the Gospel, it is the first of his resurrected life. It happened this way: Some of the disciples of Jesus were sitting about on the shore by ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    The Celebration Of The Wedding Of The Lamb Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 6, 2011
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    The New Mass gives us an opportunity to show to the world the earthly celebration of the heavenly banquet--the wedding of the Lamb and His Bride.

    33rd Sunday in Course 13 November 2011 Spirit of the Liturgy Stewart the Steward was patting himself on the back. His boss, a hard man without an ounce of patience or forgiveness, was returning today from a long business trip, during which he had bought and sold several companies. In the course ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    A Beauty Greater Than Our Fears, Part 1: Beauty Has A Name Series

    Contributed by Jeph Guinan on Jul 10, 2011
     | 5,802 views

    The beauty of God is greater than the ugliness of our fear.

    Psalm 27:4 “A Beauty Greater Than Our Fears, Part 1: Beauty Has a Name.” - Set context for the Psalm – 2 Sam 15 I. Intro – Mole, Dr. called, tornado, Child not home yet; these are the times when fear grips our hearts and cripples us with thoughts of the worst ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    The Power Of Rosary Prayer Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 7, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,414 views

    Like Christians of old, we can pray the Scriptural prayer, the Rosary, to enter more directly into the mysteries of Jesus and His Mother.

    28th Sunday in Course (in the Octave of Holy Rosary) 9 October 2011 “Behold how good and how pleasant it is for siblings to live together as one!” The words and chant are the Church’s gift to us on this Sunday. They are prescribed as the Gradual chant sung after the first ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic