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  • Pat Damiani avatar

    Malachi – Pursuing The God Who Pursues Me Series

    Contributed by Pat Damiani on Sep 16, 2013
     | 13,547 views

    God loves us so much that He continues to pursue us even when we rebel against Him. So He desires that we pursue Him with that same fervor.

    As most of you know, I met Mary the summer after my freshman year at the University of Arizona when we were both working as Student Hosts for the orientation of incoming freshmen. Although I was immediately attracted to her, I was pretty shy around attractive girls back then, so it usually took me ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Living By Faith When Life Doesn't Make Sense - Habakkuk Series

    Contributed by Scott Kircher on Sep 22, 2013
    based on 44 ratings
     | 77,443 views

    When we look around and see so much evil and apparent injustice, how does a person live by faith?

    Habakkuk – Living by faith when Life doesn’t make sense Habakkuk 1:1-3:19 Intro Slide 1 Good evening/Morning Have you ever looked around and seen the problems, the injustice, the evil in this world and wondered what God is doing! We can look at the world in general. We have ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    What Are The Consequences Of Me Doing Nothing?

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Jan 28, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,959 views

    A look at the third servant's complaint that the master is a harsh man.

    A Tense Moment: Standing before the master with empty hands. - Luke 19:20 - After handing back to his master what he was given, the servant stands with empty hands. He has nothing more to give. He has done nothing productive with the mina entrusted to him. It is a tense moment, worthy of our ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Strange Bedfellows Series

    Contributed by David Flowers on Feb 2, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,987 views

    Part 18 in the series Love Never Dies, this message looks at God, guns and wealth.

    Strange Bedfellows Love Never Dies, prt. 18 Wildwind Community Church David Flowers August 22, 2010 Well, I’ll just tell you right up front this morning that we’re skipping a chapter! I’ll be gone again next week and when I called to ask Dr. Joe to preach for me a few weeks back I told him we’d ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

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    Healthy Vision Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Feb 13, 2011
     | 6,438 views

    This is week five our our health check series and looks at health vision, both for individuals and churches.

    Healthy Vision This is week six of our health check series and for me it represents the most frightening topic that I’ve spoken about since the New Year, and that is optical health. Being very honest this morning the thought of losing my sight is frightening. I tend to be a procrastinator ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    A Messiah's View Of Divorce Series

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Mar 11, 2011
     | 4,755 views

    Jesus can bless marriages and heal divorces.

    A Messiah's Look At Divorce Text: Matthew 19:1-12 Introduction 1. Illustration: "Saying you believe something or merely belonging to a church, unsurprisingly, does little for marriage; but the more you are involved in the actual practice of your faith in real ways -- through submitting yourself to ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    For The Best Of Baptists-3

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on Mar 16, 2011
     | 1,884 views

    3 of 3. The writer to the Hebrews described what was available in Christ Jesus to the religiously comfortable. A higher plane is available to the religiously comfortable. But what heights are available? 7 Higher planes exist even for the Best of Baptists

    For The BEST of BAPTISTS-III—Hebrews 7:1-10 Need: The writer to the Hebrews described what was available in Christ Jesus to the religiously comfortable. A higher plane is available to the religiously comfortable. What heights are available to the religiously comfortable or the Best of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Your Glory Shines So Bright Series

    Contributed by Pat Damiani on Mar 21, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,530 views

    God's glory will be the defining feature of the new heaven and new earth. Therefore we need to make His glory the supreme passion of our life right now.

    Right now, if you go outside, there are innumerable stars in the sky. But you can only see one of them – our sun. That is because the light from the sun is so bright that none of those other stars in the sky can be seen during the daytime. But if we wait until the sun sets tonight, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Spiritual Refugees Series

    Contributed by Thomas H on Oct 4, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,483 views

    In this passage, Paul talks about how we used to be refugees - aliens, without citizenship and cut off from the promises of God. Then through Christ, God destroyed the barrier of sin that made us refugees and those who follow Jesus now have citizenship a

    Ephesians 2:11-18 Last year, we travelled back to Australia via the USA. We had a couple of days in southern California, so we decided that we would hop down to the Mexican border and pop over into Mexico for a few hours to see what it was like. I found a town on the map called Tecate a city of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Time Is Ticking Away Series

    Contributed by Thomas H on Oct 4, 2010
     | 12,133 views

    Our time on this earth is short. Are you making the best use of your limited time on this earth for the Lord’s work?

    Ephesians 5:15-17 Making the best us of our time. Youve all heard the scenario: if you knew you only had a certain amount of time to live, what would you do with it? Say you had one year left. For some reason, you knew you had exactly one year left to live. You had until the 25th July 2011 and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Slaves And Masters In 2010 Series

    Contributed by Thomas H on Oct 5, 2010
     | 5,693 views

    This sermon addresses slaves and their masters - something we don’t have in 21st century western society. How do we apply this sermon to today’s situation?

    Ephesians 6:5-9 Slaves and masters in 2010 Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at a number of relationships. We looked at the husband and wife relationship. We looked at the parent child relationship. These relationships are interesting and are marked by two features. Firstly – they are ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Controlling Anger Series

    Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Oct 18, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,522 views

    Learning how to control our anger through the Bible.

    CONTROLLING ANGER Sermon Number 3 January 10, 2010 John Hunter was an 18th century British surgeon, who suffered from angina. He realized most of his attacks were brought on by anger. Hunter lamented, “My life is at the mercy of any scoundrel who chooses to put me in a passion.” ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Prayer Principles Series

    Contributed by Roy Newton on Nov 2, 2010
     | 4,114 views

    When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, in giving them a pattern for prayer He gave them some valuable prayer principles. This sermon explores some of these principles.

    A PATTERN FOR PRAYER PRAYER PRINCIPLES "When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth, which is all the reward they will ever get. But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Choosing The Contentment Of A Canine

    Contributed by Joseph Stapleton on Nov 3, 2010
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,903 views

    There is a major difference between cats and dogs, dogs are so much more content with their lives. This sermon shows us that we must rejoie in our trials, fears and persecution.

    CHOOSING THE CONTENTMENT OF A CANINE (All my sermons use illustration found at www.sermoncentral.com and all scripture is NIV unless otherwise stated.) The introduction for this sermon is from Max Lucado’s “Everyday Deserves a Chance” pg. 23-24 “Excerpts from the diary of a ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Storms In Our Lives Series

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Nov 4, 2010
    based on 22 ratings
     | 32,489 views

    Why would God allow bad things in our lives? So we can develop a strong faith; one which could actually save our eternal lives during a stronger storm later

    LUKE 8:22-25 ‘One day, Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He told them, ‘Let’s cross the lake.’ They started out, and while they were sailing across, Jesus went to sleep. Suddenly a violent windstorm struck the lake, and the boat started taking on water and began to sink. They were in ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal