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  • How The Holy Spirit Helps Us Love Our Enemies

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 105 ratings
     | 5,236 views

    1. The Holy Spirit helps us love our enemies by giving us a supernatural compassion for them despite their opposition to us.

    1. The Holy Spirit helps us love our enemies by giving us a supernatural compassion for them despite their opposition to us. Jesus said, "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." (Luke 6:27,28) Ask the Lord to fill you up with an ...read more

  • What To Do When You Are Placed In A Position Of Contention 

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 37 ratings
     | 4,146 views

    Occasionally we all find ourselves in a position where we face a prickly difference of opinions with our peers. When Peter returned from visiting the house of the Gentile Cornelius, his Jewish friends cried out in anger, "You went to the uncircumcised men

    Illustration:No great advance has been made in science, politics or religion without controversy. Lyman Beecher 1. Occasionally we all find ourselves in a position where we face a prickly difference of opinions with our peers. When Peter returned from visiting the house of the Gentile ...read more

  • Christmas Eve/Day, Year B

    Contributed by Garth Wehrfritz- Hanson on Dec 12, 2002
    based on 109 ratings
     | 13,075 views

    Christmas is a time to celebrate the meaning and mystery of the Word becoming flesh and living among us.

    Sermon for Christmas Eve, Yr B 2002 Based on Jn 1:14 Grace Lutheran Church, Medicine Hat By Pastor Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson On this Holy Night, we gather together to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Christmas is, among many things, an occasion to focus on the meaning and the mystery of Jesus being ...read more

  • Winning The War Within

    Contributed by Dr. Phillip Paschal on Sep 27, 2002
    based on 69 ratings
     | 17,334 views

    SPIRITUAL WARFARE

    THE WAR WITHIN ROM 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. INTRODUCTION: THE YEAR WAS 1914 WHEN ARCHDUKE FRANCIS FERDINAND ...read more

  • As The Twig Is Bent ...

    Contributed by David Hirschfeld on Dec 22, 2001
    based on 74 ratings
     | 7,273 views

    Proverbs 22:6 and the proper interpretation of the promise therein. Christian parenting.

    “AS THE TWIG IS BENT …” I. Examples: a. Children will either turn-out to be followers of Christ or will reject Him (bear in mind that those who simply pay lip service to Jesus yet refuse to surrender their lives to Him have, in fact, rejected Him – Matt. 7:21) b. That being the case, what is it ...read more

  • Lesson 11: What We Believe About Eschatology

    Contributed by Elmer Towns on Feb 3, 2003
    based on 38 ratings
     | 2,900 views

    Series: Foundational Doctrines of the Faith

    A. INTRODUCTION 1. Eschatology literally means “the study of last things. 2. Two doctrineal sections of Eschatology. a. The study of God’s final judgments and the eternal state, Heaven and Hell. b. Future events on earth (Rev. 1:19). 3. Abuses in Eschatology. a. Date-setting. b. Making ...read more

  • Study5 - Revelation Series

    Contributed by Stephen Schwartz on Dec 18, 2001
    based on 27 ratings
     | 3,252 views

    Study five of the Book of Revelation.

    To Elevate” Pergamos – The Indulged Church which was married to the world. Pergamos represents the Church Age between AD 314 – 590. The church has become a state church and it began to move away from the person of Jesus Christ. October 28, AD 312, Constantine heavily outnumbered charged the ...read more

  • What The Entry Of The King Reminds Us Of

    Contributed by Jose Gomez Sr. on Mar 19, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 5,071 views

    Palm sunday sermon.

    *John 12:12-19 12 The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out:?Hosanna!?Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!? The King of Israel!?Then Jesus, when ...read more

  • Blindness Of The Mind

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jan 2, 2005
    based on 27 ratings
     | 7,476 views

    Sermon on the mental and spiritual blindness of the unbeliever

    Blindness of the Mind II Cor. 4:4 INTRO.:I have met people spiritually blind who have no vision of what God can do for them or what they can do for God. I pity them. Blindness of the mind is more crippling than physical blindness. Most people who are mentally blind don’t know it. We often wonder, ...read more

  • The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit

    Contributed by Shane Brooks on Feb 7, 2005
    based on 24 ratings
     | 6,716 views

    The only thing that died with the last apostle, is belief in the entire word of GOD.

    Being baptized with the Holy Spirit Very controversial- We’ve heard so many different opinion Most of us grew up in groups where it got a lot of bad press Most of the stuff you’ve heard isn’t even in the bible Traditions and opinions have trump the word of God – We’re believing lies Believing ...read more

  • An Open Heaven Thru Prayer Series

    Contributed by Jose Gomez Sr. on Feb 21, 2005
    based on 19 ratings
     | 6,471 views

    This is part one of a three part series on praying in the spirit and tongues. A church that experiences miracles signs and wonders is a praying church. It?s a spiritual church that is sensitive to spiritual things. You want to see miracles in your life

    "They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles? teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. 44 And all those who had believed were together and had all ...read more

  • Which Jesus Do You Want?

    Contributed by Jeremy James on Nov 21, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,037 views

    A message about choosing Jesus Christ who is there for us and not choosing those things that seek to destroy us.

    It would seem as if our lives were all about choices. Coke or Pepsi, Ford or Chevy, Nike or Reebok, McDonalds or Burger King. Today we demand choices it is as if choosing were our national past-time. 2000 years ago there was a choice to be made as well. Matt 27:15 You may notice a difference ...read more

  • Proper Etiquette For Using The Utensils Of Truth Series

    Contributed by Paul Apple on Jul 7, 2001
    based on 27 ratings
     | 3,775 views

    THE FAITHFUL MINISTER OF GOD’S WORD PROMOTES TRUTH AND PURSUES GODLINESS AS A DILIGENT WORKMAN, A VESSEL PURIFIED FOR HONOR, AND A GENTLE BONDSERVANT

    BIG IDEA: THE FAITHFUL MINISTER OF GOD’S WORD PROMOTES TRUTH AND PURSUES GODLINESS AS A DILIGENT WORKMAN, A VESSEL PURIFIED FOR HONOR, AND A GENTLE BONDSERVANT (IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ERROR – AS OPPOSED TO FALSE TEACHERS) INTRODUCTION: I. (:14-19) STAND FOR THE SHARP KNIFE OF THE WORD OF ...read more

  • Hosea And The Covenant

    Contributed by Douglas Phillips on Aug 28, 2001
    based on 34 ratings
     | 9,296 views

    There is encouragement in a covenant relationship.

    Hosea And The Covenant Hosea 2:1 - 3:5 An Outline Review: Last week we began a series on the minor prophets, starting with the book of Hosea. We found that God used Hosea’s marriage to Gomer as an object lesson for the people of Israel. It was a lesson that taught the people they had ...read more

  • Christmas For Frodo Baggins, Harry Potter, And Jaws

    Contributed by Benjamin Doolittle on Mar 29, 2002
    based on 33 ratings
     | 2,215 views

    The weaker defeats the stronger. The pure in heart defeats the corrupt. These popular stories all share this theme. Yet,they also suggest that "we can do it alone." "We don’t need anybody else." The story of our faith is very, very different fro

    Loving, Wonderful, Holy God, In your Son was life, and His life was the light for all people. May His light be our light. This Christmas, may we rediscover anew the light of your Son, by these words and our meditations. In Christ’s name we pray, Amen. I want to talk about Christmas. But ...read more