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  • Charles Salmon avatar

    Jesus In Genesis: The Sacrifice Of Isaac Series

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Dec 10, 2007
    based on 10 ratings
     | 9,292 views

    A look at Isaac as a type of the Christ and some lessons we can learn.

    Jesus In Genesis: the Sacrifice of Isaac Heb 11:17-19 INTRO.: Tell the story from Genesis 22. This is a very mysterious story. How could God order a man to offer his son as a sacrifice, and why? What terrible emotional stresses were involved? How could Abraham even think of carrying out God’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Seeing With Our Eyes; Touching With Our Hands Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 23, 2010
     | 3,171 views

    John's sacramental vision was translated into a church building with two centers--a center of the Word and a center of Eucharistic celebration

    Feast of St. John Dec 27 2010 Spirit of the Liturgy It is very appropriate to be preaching on the Spirit of the Liturgy on the Feast of St. John, because both the letters and the Gospel of John are so sacramental. One useful definition of sacrament is Christ touching us through sacred signs. Our ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    The Devil's Sunday

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Feb 3, 2008
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    A sermon for the First Sunday of Lent about the temptation of Jesus and the implications for your life.

    INTRODUCTION: WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS THE DEVIL’S SUNDAY? • The first Sunday of Lent for 19 centuries on the church calendar has focused on the temptation by the devil of Jesus. • Much of the symbolism of Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness comes from the Hebrew Scripture story of the Exodus (vv. 1 ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Five Principles Of Art And Architecture Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 26, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,209 views

    From the iconoclast controversy we can derive the five principles that should inform our church art

    Monday of 3rd Week in Lent 28 March 2011 Spirit of the Liturgy The onset of a dreaded disease is one of the most stressful events of any life. Today, cancer is the most dreaded, but in the time of the prophets, when no one knew about viruses and few people lived to an advanced age, it was a ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Tragedy's Call To Repentance

    Contributed by Dr. C. David White on Mar 25, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,345 views

    True repentance is one of the few indespensibles of the Christian faith!

    National tragedy has awakened a sense of need in millions of Americans. (9/11/01) Jesus used dillema of tragedy to teach those who listened to Him a very important lesson. Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    God's Creative Word

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Jan 5, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,530 views

    As God created light from darkness, that same God can take the darkness of my life and turn it into daybreak.

    God’s Creative Word – Genesis 1: 1 - 5 Intro: What is it about the dark that makes us uneasy? All sort of negative things are associated with the dark. All the “bad guys” in the Star Wars movies are on the “dark side.” The bad cowboys always wear the dark hats and ride the dark horses. And ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    A Christian Approach To Technology

    Contributed by Frederick Meekins on Jul 28, 2014
     | 4,480 views

    A Christian Approach To Technology

    In Jurassic Park, the chaos theorist played by Jeff Goldblum quipped that scientists were in such a hurry to find out if they could that they never took the time to consider whether they should when it came to resurrecting extinct dinosaurs through genetic cloning technology. The comment was quite ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Jesus Is Near Our Lips And Heart

    Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Jul 27, 2016
     | 2,349 views

    To show that GOD, the LORD JESUS CHRIST is near our lips and heart, the Very Person of our faith that we profess.

    I. EXORDIUM: Are you a self-made man? No. I'm made by grace. Romans 3:24 (Amplified Bible) [All] are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus, II. ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Introduction To Judges Series

    Contributed by John Lowe on Feb 5, 2018
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    The rulership of some of the judges overlap because not all of them ruled over the entire land. Judges describes cycles of apostasy, oppression, and deliverance.

    INTRODUCTION The book bears the fitting name Judges, which refers to unique leaders God gave to His people for their preservation against their enemies. “16Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. 17And yet they would not hearken unto ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Joyous Prospect

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Dec 22, 2018
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,145 views

    This is not just about a City, but about the whole People of God.

    A JOYOUS PROSPECT. Isaiah 62:1-5. Isaiah’s so-called ‘Song of the Vineyard’ (Isaiah 5:1-7), spoke of a time when judgment and desolation loomed large upon the horizon of his contemporaries. There the husbandman (cf. John 15:1) looked for a fruitful harvest, but the vineyard yielded only bad ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Injustice And Scandal

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 17, 2019
     | 3,180 views

    We must always turn our backs on injustice. When we support it, we encourage innocent people to become guilty.

    Injustice and Scandal When we read the story of Elijah, the prophet, we come across two really disgusting people, rulers of the breakaway kingdom of Israel. They are Ahab the king and Jezebel his wife. The history tells us that “Ahab ben Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more than all that ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    The Struggle Never Ends Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 16, 2019
     | 3,280 views

    We humans think that we can be happiest when there is no struggle, when we can just coast. . .But that is not the state of society when there are still many who have not accepted and begun to live the call of Christ.

    Thursday of the 6th Week in Course 2019 St. Peter Damian Life after original sin came into the human family is a continual struggle. The story of a great flood is found in more than one culture. Here in our first reading we see God establishing a covenant after the flood between Himself, Noah and ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Christmas Is For Helping The Poor Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 17, 2016
     | 4,283 views

    After all, what is important about Christmas?

    Thursday of Fourth Week in Advent 2016 Joy of the Gospel The prayer we just heard in the Gospel is one of the most beloved in Catholic history. It is likely that it was part of the public and private prayer of Christians from the very beginning of the Church. We still pray it every day at Vespers. ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    A Hard Calling

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on May 12, 2018
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,041 views

    It is hard preaching to hard heads and hard hearts.

    A HARD CALLING. Ezekiel 2:1-5. In times gone by, and in certain places and professions still, it was taken for granted that children would follow in the trade of their fathers. James and John, the sons of Zebedee, would have known from an early age that they were going to be fishermen. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    St. Michael And The Way Of Beauty Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 24, 2016
     | 4,224 views

    the way of beauty is insidious, and effective

    Thursday of the 25th Week in Course 2016 Joy of the Gospel This is one of my favorite festivals, the one the Anglicans call “St. Michael and All Angels.” Not exactly right, because we have another feast in just a couple of days for our guardian angels. If you would like a focal point ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic