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  • David Owens avatar

    Be Wise About Your Tongue Series

    Contributed by David Owens on Jun 3, 2024
     | 1,981 views

    One of the primary issues addressed in Proverbs is the use of our tongues. In this sermon, we explore the wrong and right uses of the tongue, and discuss how to control the tongue.

    Introduction: A. The story is told about an ancient philosopher named Xanthus who told his servant to go to the market and find the very best thing available to cook for a special dinner for his friends. 1. The philosopher and his guests sat down for the dinner and were treated to four courses of ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Let Them PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 27, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 136 views

    Trusting God with opposition frees us from control and revenge, inviting us to pray honestly and rest in His faithful care amid conflict and criticism.

    Some weeks feel like a parade of prickly people and pricklier problems. A stray comment stings. A coworker corners you with criticism. The group text lights up with misunderstandings, and your heart feels like a drumline—pounding, pounding, pounding. Have you ever replayed a conversation until your ...read more

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    Be Still And Know PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 19, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 106 views

    The sermon invites us to slow down, release control, and find peace by trusting God’s presence and sovereignty amid life’s noise and anxiety.

    Friends, some weeks feel like living in a wind tunnel. The headlines howl. The phone hums. The calendar crowds. Even our prayers can sound like hurried headlines—fast, faint, fragmented. And yet, in the middle of the noise, God offers a chair in a quiet corner, a deep breath for a weary chest, a ...read more

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    The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Mar 3, 2024
    based on 3 ratings
     | 770 views

    This sermon explores Revelation 6:1-8, emphasizing God's sovereignty and control even amidst chaos, encouraging faith and trust in His divine plan.

    Good morning, beloved family in Christ. We are gathered here today, not as strangers, but as brothers and sisters, bound by love, faith, and the shared promise of salvation. We are not merely congregants in a church; we are a community, a family, bound by the blood of Jesus Christ, our Savior. We ...read more

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    Live Out Thy Life Within Me Series

    Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 17, 2025
     | 140 views

    Dying daily is surrendering control so Christ’s life may flow freely—trusting His Spirit, not our feelings, to guide every moment.

    1. When the Pilot Lets Go Faith is learning to fly with someone else’s hands on the controls. You can’t see everything. You can’t always feel what’s happening. And the day comes when the Spirit says, “You’ve got it,” and suddenly you realize He’s teaching you to trust—not to steer. The apostle ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

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    Dethroning Witchcraft Manipulation In The Church

    Contributed by Rev. Samuel Arimoro on Oct 21, 2025
     | 212 views

    Witchcraft manipulation seeks to control, intimidate, or dominate people and systems within the body of Christ, but the power of the Holy Spirit exposes and dethrones every satanic influence.

    DETHRONING WITCHCRAFT MANIPULATION IN THE CHURCH By Rev. Samuel Arimoro Main Text: Galatians 3:1-3 Key Verse: “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?” — Galatians 3:1 ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Beauty From Ashes PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 25, 2023
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,273 views

    Encourage faith and trust in God's goodness and control, even in the midst of tragedy, with the assurance that He can bring good out of our most painful circumstances.

    Good morning, family. Today, we gather here not just as a congregation, but as a community, seeking comfort, hope, and joy in the midst of life's storms. It's in such moments we need a word of assurance, a whisper of hope, something to hold onto. When it feels like the world is falling apart around ...read more

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    Samson Series

    Contributed by Chuck Gohn on Aug 6, 2022
     | 8,745 views

    This sermon focuses on the extraordinary but sad life of Samson. A man who had the potential to be a great spiritual leader, but his disobedience and lack of self-control prevented him from becoming the person God had intended him to be.

    If you have your Bibles with you today and you want to try to follow along, we are actually going to be looking at a number of chapters starting with Judges 13:1. As many of you know, we have been going through a series called Extraordinary People of the Bible. The lesser known people of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    How To Help People Trust In The Scriptures

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,925 views

    HOW TO HELP PEOPLE TURN THEIR TRUST FROM A STRONG LEADER TO THE SCRIPTURES Some Christians have a hard time letting go of the controls over their church members.

    HOW TO HELP PEOPLE TURN THEIR TRUST FROM A STRONG LEADER TO THE SCRIPTURES Some Christians have a hard time letting go of the controls over their church members. Instead of helping their members learn how to trust God, some leaders try to foster a dependency in their members. As a result many ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    "I Will Be With You”

    Contributed by Mark Haines on Nov 11, 2000
    based on 101 ratings
     | 6,104 views

    A pastoral care intervention sermon challenging God’s people in my care to exchange their desire to have control & comfort for faith in God’s promise to be with them.

    WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Danny Cox, a former jet pilot turned business leader, tells his readers in Seize the Day that when jet fighters were first invented, they "flew much faster than their propeller predecessors. So pilot ejection became a more sophisticated process. ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Anger: It Wants You For Christmas

    Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Jan 23, 2004
    based on 35 ratings
     | 4,805 views

    This is a Christmas message dealing with the destructive power of anger. It can ruin what God wants to do in our lives during the holidays if we do not control it.

    Anger—It Wants You For Christmas GNLCC 12/21/2003 Genesis 4:1-12 Matthew 2:1-12 Text Matthew 2:16-18 We are now in the middle of the Christmas season. We are told "tis the season to be jolly" and "it will be a time of peace and good will to all." But if we would actually look into ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Jumping In The Midst Of Storms Series

    Contributed by Jake Kircher on Oct 10, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,422 views

    Jesus wants us to cry out to him our deepest thoughts and feelings about what is going on in the world. He will always answer because He is in control.

    There are a lot of people in this world who wake up everyday with thoughts of fear in their minds because of the storms that surround us. The more and more news that floods our lives just builds this constant anxiety and stress; another school shooting, another terrorist attack, another threat. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Spiritual Hypnosis

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 21, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,471 views

    There is a battle today for your MIND. There are tens-of-thousands if not millions of things that influence everything about you. They can be so powerful that the control they have is like hypnosis.

    Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 (The Message) Text: 5We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. 2Don‘t become so ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Meek Does Not Mean Weak Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Mar 24, 2004
    based on 44 ratings
     | 11,072 views

    I was struck with how “in control” Jesus was, even when events were transpiring around him and people were doing disturbing things to Him.

    Meek Does Not Mean Weak This past Tuesday Pastor Jeff and I had had the opportunity to view a screening of the film called, “The Passion of the Christ” with about 4,000 other pastors. We should have known we were in for an unforgettable experience when we saw boxes of Kleenex arrayed on tables ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Killer Instinct (Anger) Series

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Nov 7, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
     | 5,363 views

    Anger is a powerful sin that destroys relationships and adversely affects our relationshipo with God. God invites us not only to control our anger, but to be transformed by the Holy Spirit.

    Proverbs 29:11, James 1:19-21 “Killer Instinct” (Anger) INTRODUCTION Many of the seven deadly sins appear to be harmless at first glance. Pride can be downgraded to simply having an “attitude.” Envy is such a common “sin,” that can’t be all that bad, besides it is what fuels our economy. ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran