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  • Mike Flack avatar

    Who's Pulling The Strings?

    Contributed by Mike Flack on Mar 5, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,742 views

    What it really means for Jesus Christ to control the life of a believer - the presentation of our bodies, the process of the renewing of our minds, and the performance of the Will Of God.

    Who’s Pulling The Strings? (Have ready made a giant marionette frame (4’x6’ or larger) with rope through the control arms. As you begin, start to attach the ropes to your legs and arms making you a human marionette.) I remember that when I was seven, our WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD would all congregate ...read more

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    Denomination: Friends

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    The Things God Hates

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Mar 9, 2002
    based on 264 ratings
     | 43,966 views

    Seven Sins that top the list of God’s displeasure.

    “The Things That God Hates” Proverbs 6:16-19 "These six things does the Lord hate. Yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19A false witness ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Bo Dunford avatar

    The God Who Makes Us Again

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Mar 14, 2002
    based on 131 ratings
     | 14,423 views

    God is the potter and we are the clay. Thank God that He doesn’t throw the clay away!

    JER.18:1-6 "THE GOD WHO MAKES US AGAIN" * God is revealed to us in the Bible in many different figures. * Supremely of course, God is the loving Heavenly Father. * He is also Creator of the worlds, * The Lord Of Hosts who leads the armies of Heaven, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords! A) ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Why We Observe Christmas

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Mar 15, 2002
    based on 39 ratings
     | 8,404 views

    A Christmas Sermon.

    ROM.14:5-6 "WHY WE OBSERVE CHRISTMAS" * Some Christians are touchy, sensitive, and full of objections about Christmas. A) To you I say (in the Words of Scripture), if you regard the day, regard it unto the Lord! * If you do not regard the day, then be sure you are Christian about it! * Do not ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Being An Example For Jesus

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Dec 21, 2000
    based on 196 ratings
     | 46,231 views

    To show how believers are suppose to live in front of other people as examples for Christ

    1 TIMOTHY 4:12 "BEING AN EXAMPLE FOR JESUS" INTRO: Timothy was a young man, therefore there was the possibility that some in the church would have difficulty in accepting his ministry. How could he overcome the opposition to his being so young? There was only one way: he had to prove that he was ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Refreshing Others

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 29, 2000
    based on 144 ratings
     | 10,555 views

    To cause one to breathe more easily; to encourage, cheer up, and relieve by the force of one’s godly personality.

    JACKIE ROBINSON was the first African American to play baseball in the major leagues. Breaking baseball’s color barrier, he faced hostile crowds in every stadium. While playing one day in his home stadium of Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, he committed an error. The fans began to jeer him. He stood ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Donovan Myers avatar

    God Hears Even When You Are In Deep Series

    Contributed by Donovan Myers on May 4, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 6,608 views

    The "deep end" is not necessarily the worst place to find yourself

    God Hears in Even When You are in Deep! JONAH 2:1-10 Donovan W. Myers Rosemount Missionary In Jamaica there is a popular idiom that says “When trouble tek yu, pickney shut fit yu.” [when you are in trouble, even a child’s shirt will fit]. An addict can only get help and begin to recover when he ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    What God Likes

    Contributed by Jay Patton on May 15, 2002
    based on 27 ratings
     | 6,326 views

    This is a message about living a life that is pleasing to God.

    Introduction: A Catholic Bishop recently asked a Yoga group to leave there facility believing the teacings involved in yoga to be contrary to the Catholic churches teaching. The pastor of the church was outraged and proclaimed to the Bishop that Catholic teaching was mere dogma whereas yoga is a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Joel W. Lohr avatar

    Declaration Of Dependence

    Contributed by Joel W. Lohr on Nov 3, 2001
    based on 85 ratings
     | 6,998 views

    Learning to seek first the Kingdom of God and trusting God to meet our needs as he has promised.

    A young woman brought her fiancee to meet her parents. After dinner, her father asked the young man into his study for a chat. "So, what are your plans?" he began. "I’m a theology scholar," the young man replied. "Admirable!" the father said, "But what will you do to provide a nice home for ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    Why Jesus Did Teach His Disciples To Not Find The Will Of God Through Consensus

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 53 ratings
     | 3,741 views

    There is a treasure you can own That’s greater than a crown or throne; This treasure is a conscience clear That brings the sweetest peace and cheer

    Why Jesus Did Teach His Disciples to Not Find the Will of God Through Consensus (Mark 8:33-37) Illustration: The much-loved children’s story Pinocchio is about a wooden puppet whose nose grows long when he tells a lie. His friend Jiminy Cricket chirps, "Let your conscience be your guide." ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Lessons From The Master Angler

    Contributed by R. Darrel Davis on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 58 ratings
     | 5,828 views

    Main Interrogative: What lessons can we learn from Jesus that will help us to win souls for the kingdom? Introduction: Jesus says: Launch-out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

    Main Interrogative: What lessons can we learn from Jesus that will help us to win souls for the kingdom? Introduction: Jesus says: Launch-out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” I never did get to go fishing much when I was a kid. I was what’s called a Jonah! (Or joner as my dad ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • R. Darrel Davis avatar

    No Need To Whisper

    Contributed by R. Darrel Davis on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 94 ratings
     | 7,490 views

    Introduction: How many in this room have ever said something that you were embarrassed about after you said it? If you are like me, you have stuck your foot in your mouth plenty of times.

    Introduction: How many in this room have ever said something that you were embarrassed about after you said it? If you are like me, you have stuck your foot in your mouth plenty of times. Right after my wife and I got married, I committed one of the worst sins against my wife that any new husband ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    1 Advent B

    Contributed by Roger Haugen on Dec 3, 2002
    based on 67 ratings
     | 7,182 views

    Jesus invites us to "Watch, stay awake". As we watch, we are invited to see through the eyes of Jesus. Watching helps us to see the hope in the midst of terror.

    1 Advent B Mark 13:24-37 1 December 2002 Rev. Roger Haugen Elie Wiesel is a Jewish writer whose novels prod the depths of the Holocaust, asking difficult questions of humanity and of God. In Night, a child hangs from a S.S. gallows and the question goes up, “Where is God?” Wiesel writes: “And I ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Bo Dunford avatar

    Why We Observe Christmas

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Dec 19, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,834 views

    What Christmas is all about!

    ROM.14:5-6 "WHY WE OBSERVE CHRISTMAS" * Some Christians are touchy, sensitive, and full of objections about Christmas. A) To you I say (in the Words of Scripture), if you regard the day, regard it unto the Lord! * If you do not regard the day, then be sure you are Christian about it! * Do not ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Charles Holt avatar

    Christ's Dove

    Contributed by Charles Holt on Jan 27, 2003
    based on 66 ratings
     | 13,632 views

    Using the beautiful allegorical language of the Song of Solomon this lesson provides insight into one facet of the Christian’s relationship with Christ.

    INTRODUCTION In it’s Preface to the Song of Solomon (also known as the Song of Songs) the New King James Version gives these details. "The Song of Solomon is a love song written by Solomon and abounding in metaphors and oriental imagery. Historically, it depicts the wooing and wedding of a ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God