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  • Joseph Smith avatar

    The Bald Eagle Series

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jul 6, 2008
    based on 20 ratings
     | 14,666 views

    Micah’s symbol of the bald eagle, a sign of grief, applies to America. We are abandoning justice, kindness, and the humble walk with God. Our collapse is from within rather than from without. Yet God has sent a different kind of conqueror to redeem us.

    What we see is more powerful than what we hear. The visual always trumps the audible. I learned a long time ago that what people see is more powerful than what they hear. I learned it when I sat through an education professor’s hour-long lecture about why lecturing was the least effective way to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Foundation Of Faith

    Contributed by Michael Adams on Jul 7, 2008
    based on 9 ratings
     | 12,049 views

    Subject: Refocusing on the basics. Proposition: "Faith is the Foundation of our relationship with God."

    Suggested Reading: Heb 11:1-6 Sermon Text: Romans 5:1 This morning I am wrestling with the concept of building our faith! One thing I do know - our family, our friends, our world needs us to have as much faith as we can possibly attain! Let me pose a situation for you... If someone, a ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    Start Walking In Purity

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 13, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,339 views

    5 principles that will help all of us to live up to God’s high standards for our lives.

    Start Walking in Purity Psalm 51:1-15 Sermon by Rick Crandall McClendon Baptist Church - April 6, 2008 *Let me start tonight by saying that sex is a good thing. I think we can say that can’t we? -Sex is a good thing! One way we know this is because none of us would be here without it. But even ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Some Of Life's Difficulties

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Jul 24, 2008
    based on 28 ratings
     | 10,203 views

    Preaching the truth seems to always cause trouble because some people don’t want to listen to it or believe it. Paul experienced two difficulties in this text. 1- The difficulty of being misunderstood 2- The difficulty of being hassled

    INTRO.- Job 14:1 "Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble." Eccl. 2:22-23 "What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun? All his days his work is pain and grief; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless." WHAT ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Mark Schaeufele avatar

    Living In Christ Part 1: Off With The Old And On With The New Series

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Jul 28, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 13,478 views

    If we are in Christ, we need to leave our old life behind us and embrace new life.

    Living in Christ Part 1: Off With the Old and On With the New Text: Eph. 4:17-24 Introduction 1. Illustration: A good set of clothes make all the difference. A Methodist church tried to get a man to attend, but he never did. "Why don’t you come?" the minister asked, and the man finally admitted ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    First And Last Things Series

    Contributed by Chris Appleby on Aug 7, 2008
     | 4,389 views

    We live in a world that is often difficult to understand, where sometimes we just have to trust that God is in control, even if it seems that things are upside down, even if we find we can’t straighten out the things that are crooked in this world. But we

    How did a book like Ecclesiastes get in the Bible? Did someone make a mistake, do you think? I don’t know about you but I find the beginning of the book a bit depressing. Some people find it quite disturbing as it reinforces the doubts that they may have already about God’s place in the scheme of ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    The Destroyer, The Army, And The Rebel Or The Bad, The Worse, & The Ugly Series

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 27, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,499 views

    This week we’ll discuss exegetical issues and the context of the last sentence (vv. 20-21), then next week we’ll observe this very disturbing response of the world to the suffering torment created as God’s judgment is poured out on the earth-unrepentance.

    Revelation 9 The Destroyer, the Army, and the Rebel: (The Bad, the Worse, and the Ugly) This morning I wanted to focus on the last sentence of this chapter: The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    A Leper's Thanks Series

    Contributed by Richard Mc Quinn on Nov 27, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,319 views

    EVEN WHEN OTHERS WHO GET BLESSED, DO NOT STOP TO PRAISE AND THANK THE LORD, WE DO-----RIGHT?

    A LEPER’S THANKS 11-27-11 New Liberty Christian Church, Veedersburg, IN with Rich McQuinn, Minister TEXT: LUKE 17:11-17 INTRODUCTION: Most folks never ask or wonder where their preacher gets his sermons or just how he gets his message from THE LORD! Here is a simple illustration on ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Be Afraid!

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Mar 15, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,842 views

    Paul calls on us to fear, using the terrifying picture of an olive tree.

    March 17, 2013 Romans 11:16-21 If the root is holy, so are the branches. If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not boast over those branches. If you ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Meet Me At The Tomb

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Mar 30, 2013
     | 6,899 views

    The empty tomb on resurrection Sunday morning is a sacred place, a holy place, a place where deepest sorrow is turned to joy, where mourning is replaced with dancing.

    Easter Sunday Dakota Community Church March 31, 2013 Meet Me at the Tomb Everything about the life of Christ is filled with fascination and wonder to the Christian mind. As we read the gospels we cannot help but be filled with a sense of awe, ordinary things like a grain of wheat, a mustard ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite

  • Steve Shepherd avatar

    I Am Always With You God Series

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Dec 20, 2012
    based on 134 ratings
     | 49,988 views

    The Psalmist tells us what it means to always be with God. 1- We are held by God’s hand 2- We are guided by God’s counsel 3- We are taken into God’s glory

    INTRO.- Always in his presence, always in God’s presence. Does this remind you of anyone? Genesis 5:21-24 “When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Mission - #3 Series

    Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Aug 13, 2012
     | 6,131 views

    This culture is longing for an authentic view of Christianity and God demands it. This series paints a picture of the Authentic Christian.

    Mission Authentic Christianity - #3 of 7 John 20:19-22 * In 1965 lyricist Hal David and music composer Burt Bacharach teamed up to write a song which was recorded and released by Jackie DeShannon and climbed to #7 on the US charts. The title of that song was “What the world needs now is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jerry Shirley avatar

    It's Not Time

    Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Jun 1, 2013
    based on 24 ratings
     | 20,925 views

    We look at time from a mathematical perspective. We divide time into measurements of seconds, minutes, hours, and days. But there's another way of looking at time. Link inc. to formatted text, audio, PowerPoint

    It's Not Time John 7:1-8, 30 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/NotTime.html We look at time from a mathematical perspective. We divide time into measurements of seconds, minutes, hours, and days. But there's another way of looking at time. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Time is like a river made ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Wise Word To The Worried Series

    Contributed by Dr. David L. Lane on May 14, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 20,746 views

    Sermon describes what worry does to a believer by reminding us.that when we worry we Destroy God's Temple, Distrust God's Word and Delay God's Peace.

    A WISE WORD TO THE WORRIED Dr. David L. Lane TEXT: Phil. 4:6,7 I N T R O D U C T I O N The biography of multitudes of people today is hurry, worry and bury. Therefore, the ulcer and the heart attack seem to have become the status symbols of our time as people live desperately without peace. ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    A Beautiful Body Series

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on May 22, 2014
     | 4,212 views

    How do we remain stable in the midst of instability of life?

    “Faith That Works: A Beautiful Body” James 5:13-20 Life is certainly not lived on an even plain. The path is never level for very long. We’re constantly in a state of flux. We fall from the peaks to the pits; we slide from the heights to the depths; we shift from the sunshine ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed