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  • Jerry DePoy avatar

    "Choose The River!"

    Contributed by Jerry Depoy on Jun 27, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,973 views

    You are either living on the River, or being tossed in the Sea. The purpose of this message is to encourage the people of your Church to stay in the middle of the River! (The will of God.)

    Title: “What I like about a River?” Introduction: You are either living on the River, or being tossed in the Sea! This Chapter outline the future events of human history. It speaks of both the time of the great tribulation, and also that of the Millennial Kingdom of Christ. It divides people ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Nest Egg That Hatched

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jul 1, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
     | 3,027 views

    The story of Ananias and Sapphira teaches a lesson on the righteousness of God’s people, the reality of God’s Presence, and the reassurance of God’s power.

    The Nest Egg that Hatched Acts 5:1-11 INTRO.: My Grandmother kept chickens and she would put a plaster egg in the nests of her hens. She claimed it encouraged the hens to lay their eggs in the proper place. She also had an incubator, but she never put a nest egg in the incubator because she never ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Show Me Your Glory!

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jan 2, 2005
    based on 34 ratings
     | 6,395 views

    To encourage the congregation to have the same kind of hunger and thirst for God that Moses had

    Showmeyourglory For 12/5/04 pm service SBC Philippi Show Me Your Glory! Exodus 33:7-23 Primary Purpose: To encourage the congregation to have that same kind of hunger and thirst for more of God like Moses did. Our passage begins at a very difficult time in the history of Israel. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Nimrod

    Contributed by David Parsons on Jan 5, 2005
    based on 15 ratings
     | 7,106 views

    A character who made a great temporary impact but no lasting impression.

    Sermon. HRB. 6:30pm. 09:01:05. Nimrod. Reading: Genesis 10:7-12. Introduction / illustration. *** John Logie Baird / not too many people would recognise the name of the man whose work has had as much impact on the world as anyone in the last eighty years. John ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Treasure And The Pearl Series

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jan 31, 2005
    based on 26 ratings
     | 7,290 views

    Sermon on the parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great price.

    The Treasure and the Pearl Matt. 13:44-46 INTRO.: You will notice as we continue to meditate on the stories Jesus told that many of the stories come from Matthew 13 and Luke 14. That’s because these chapters record so many parables Jesus used. In parables, an everyday event is used to teach ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Living In The Now But Not Yet Series

    Contributed by Stephen Todd on Apr 1, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 6,184 views

    How do we live with the tension that we have the promises of GOd yet they have not yet been completely fulfilled in us?

    Philippians 3:12-16 Sunday, June 6, 2002 Tension - we don’t like to live with tension - we seek to resolve that which gives us tension. The problem is that sometimes our attempts to resolve the tension get us into more trouble. Now but not yet. Eschatology: there is a tension between what part ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    "Rich Man Poor Man"

    Contributed by Jerry Depoy on May 12, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,384 views

    This is a good Mother’s Day message. Compare the rich man and the poor man. Seven points on "How to Treat a Lady." A rich man’s trophy or a poor man’s treasure, which would you rather be?

    Title: “Rich Man Poor Man” (A Mother’s Day Message) Which man was rich… a comparison. Introduction: David had failed. Chapter eleven is a sad chapter in the life of David. He had committed both adultery and murder. God sends his preacher to rebuke David with this parable. It very well ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Christ Is The Saviour Of All Who Confess And Believe Series

    Contributed by Neil Richardson on Mar 17, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,284 views

    Christ is the Word whom only God can send and apply

    Christ is the Word whom only God can send and apply (6-8) Read Deuteronomy 30:1-14 (focusing on last four verses), the passage Paul is citing. The point of both passages is that the word of God is not difficult to grasp, or arcane or obscure in some mystical way. God has graciously made it ‘near’ ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Matthew 5 - Part 2 - What Do You Mean Bankruptsy Is Ok? Series

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 20, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,802 views

    Who are the "poor in spirit"? Are they rich people with a poverty mentality? Are they poor people who are discouraged? Are they people who don’t have the strength of mind to make it in the world and Jesus wants to take them out?

    Matthew 5 - Part 2 - So all of a sudden Bankruptsy is OK? When we lived in the Ukraine for a month, we witnessed incredible poverty. The beautifully ornate Churches over there have domes which are actually covered in gold leaf, but under them are the beggars. Such a contrast. I noticed at one ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Repent Series

    Contributed by Daniel Villa on Jun 30, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,935 views

    This is the first message in a series meant to call Christians to obey everything Jesus commanded - on repentance.

    OBEYING EVERYTHING JESUS DEMANDED "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”" (Matthew ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Bound To Be Set Free

    Contributed by Gregory Thomas on Dec 14, 2009
     | 5,274 views

    This message gives a clear and concise position that will open our eyes that we may realize that to be beaten and bound is only for the purpose of pushing us foreward into our place of purpose. Purpose Got You In It but Praise Will Get You Out.

    6 Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of hGalatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in 1Asia. 7 After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the 2Spirit ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Liturgy And Our Learning Obedience Through Suffering Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 19, 2013
     | 3,811 views

    Just as Jesus learned obedience through suffering, so St. Agnes and all the saints; we celebrate this in every Mass.

    Monday of 2nd Week in Course 21 Jan 2013: St. Agnes Sacrosanctum Concilium Jesus offered up prayers and supplications during his mortal life, with loud cries and tears, to the one who could save Him from death–His eternal Father, and He was heard. And He learned obedience through suffering. ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Skirmish With The Status Quo Series

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Feb 2, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,115 views

    Jesus begins his ministry and immediately clashes with the understanding of the people and the forces of evil. Jesus confronts the status quo of our live seeking to free us from the chains that bind us and to enable us to experience true freedom.

    Mark 1:21-28 “Skirmish with the Status Quo” INTRODUCTION The beginning of Mark’s gospel is in stark contrast to those of the other gospel writers. You do not find a boring list of Jesus’ ancestors, as you do in Matthew, nor the heartwarming story of Jesus’ birth ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    The Doctor Is In Series

    Contributed by Thomas Swope on Oct 25, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,493 views

    A study of the Gospel of Matthew 9: 27 – 31

    Matthew 9: 27 – 31 The Doctor Is In 27 When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, “Son of David, have mercy on us!” 28 And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

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    Seeds That Survive Pt 5 - The Seed That Remains Series

    Contributed by Dan Cale on Nov 5, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,528 views

    In an age when the church is becoming increasingly irrelevant to the daily life of people, when the message of the church seems to increasingly fall on deaf ears, and when the truth is mocked as meaningless and unattainable, Jesus speaks to us these words

    Seed That Remains Pt 5 - The Seed that Remains Luke 8:4-15 As we have looked more closely at this parable of the sower and the seed we have looked at 3 of the 4 soils. Wayside hearts hardened by the forces of a broken world that does not allow the seed to penetrate and needs the plow and rain to ...read more

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