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  • Kevin Ruffcorn avatar

    A Model To Follow Series

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Dec 9, 2008
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    John shows us the model of preparing the way for the coming Savior, but preaching the good news in the wilderness--good news of love, forgiveness, new life and a relationship with God.

    Mark 1:1-8 “A Model to Follow” INTRODUCTION The greeting, “Merry Christmas” rings a little hollow this year. Try as we might to joyfully prepare for Christmas and the celebration of Jesus’ birth, we fall short of our goal. Anxiety, fear, depression, and grief describe the mood of the season ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Maundy Thursday Service Of Darkness (The Upper Room)

    Contributed by Spencer Homan on Dec 15, 2008
    based on 10 ratings
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    This is a special service of darkness, written to recreate the "upper room" feel.

    MAUNDY THURSDAY The Upper Room Welcome Welcome to the upper room this fateful night… you are gathered at table with the rest of the 12. Jesus is your host… you come to celebrate the Passover meal… a meal which should be a celebration… however the atmosphere around you strange… you know ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Who Lost His Head?

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Dec 18, 2008
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    When we lose our ways emotionally or spiritually, we hurt ourselves and others. Herod, Herodias and Salome demonstrate the ways we can be seduced into losing our heads. John only lost his physical head but not his integrity.

    Do you know the poem, "If’, by Rudyard Kipling? I’m sure you’ve heard it a hundred times. But let me quote just a part of "If’. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you; if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Nathan Johnson avatar

    Following Jesus

    Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Dec 19, 2008
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    To follow Jesus means a lot more than reading about Him. It means living in the shadow of His teaching and becoming like Him through change.

    Following Jesus Griffith Baptist Church – 12/28/08 A.M. Service Text: Mark 1:16-18 Key verse: Mark 1:18 - And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him. Premise: To follow Jesus means a lot more than reading about Him. It means living in the shadow of His teaching and becoming like ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Would Jesus Celebrate Christmas Series

    Contributed by Andy Barnard on Dec 20, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,086 views

    Celebrate Christmas like Jesus would. viz. without the religious trappings.

    Would Jesus celebrate Christmas? Christmas is possibly the most religious time of year. It is a time when people who don’t usually think much of Jesus, find themselves humming Carols and they even go to church. Christmas is classified as a religious holiday. holiday noun 1 an extended period of ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Always Open!

    Contributed by Lew Slade on Dec 22, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,232 views

    What does it mean for us that the "Stone was rolled away"?

    Always Open Have you ever set out on a journey not knowing what was in store? I remember when I was very young our family would catch a bus each year for our summer holiday. I had no idea where we were going or what it would be like when we got there. I suspect that some of the younger ones here ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    Oh! Hell No!

    Contributed by Phillip Frye on Jun 3, 2012
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    Do Miss This One!

    Mark 9:43-50 How many times have we heard some one say "Oh hell no"? Their response is one that will make any born again Christian cringe at the very sound of those words. Just the mention of Hell will bring us to the remberance of that place not one person wants to go to when they die. Hell is a ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    What Is Most Precious To You? Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 3, 2012
     | 4,267 views

    How can we believer that the bread and wine become truly the Body and Blood of Christ? How can we not, because of the power of the Holy Spirit acting through the Word of God?

    Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ 10 June 2012 Spirit of the Liturgy What is valuable to you? What is most precious? I propose that the most valuable object in my life and yours is fairly easy to find. It is the object we keep closest to us. It is what we will risk our life to run into ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Trotting In To Save The Day Series

    Contributed by Tom Fuller on Jun 4, 2012
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    What image comes to mind when you think about a hero riding in to save the day? Jesus, our ultimate action hero, rides into Jerusalem to save the day for humanity, but not in the way you would imagine, not this time anyway.

    When you picture the hero coming in to save the day you probably think of a tall guy in a tall hat riding in on tall white horse with a couple of shotguns off of his saddle and two in his hands. Well, our ultimate action hero, Jesus, rides into Jerusalem all right—but on a tall white horse? ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

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    Three Items For The Baptism Checklist Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 5, 2012
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    Your child is beginning a journey that will end in the arms of the Father: here's what you must do as mission controllers to help ensure a good ending.

    Homily for Infant Baptism Today is a very special time in your families’ lives. Today is the day in which I, acting as a minister of Jesus Christ, and by the grace of the Holy Spirit, launch your child into a trajectory that, many years from now, should land him/her in the arms of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    A Man Passing Through The Crowd Series

    Contributed by John Lowe on Jun 5, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 18,272 views

    “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” Simon of Cyrene was. He carried the cross to Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified.

    Title: A Man Passing Through the Crowd Text: “Then they compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he was coming out of the country and passing by, to bear His cross” (Mark 15:21). Scripture Reading: Mark 15:16-32 Introduction Let me begin our lesson by ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Blaspheming The Holy Spirit

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Jun 9, 2012
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     | 27,764 views

    This act reveals a heart so hard that repentance is impossible (Hebrews 3:7--19). Ultimately, as Augustine says, "It is un-repentance that is a blasphemy against the Spirit" Updated June 2018.

    For those not familiar with an Anglican Service; there are four Scripture Readings before the Sermon. The Scripture Readings for this day were: 1 Samuel 8:4 - 20; Psalm 138 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 and Mark 3:20-35. A Little Boy desperately wanted $100.00 ...to buy some toys ...and prayed to God ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Joel Preston avatar

    Clean Hands Or Clean Heart? Series

    Contributed by Joel Preston on Jun 10, 2012
     | 12,677 views

    In this passage, Jesus is dealing with very religious people who allowed their traditions replace the authority of God’s Word. Jesus is not impressed with religious ritual or tradition, rather He is concerned with the condition of our hearts.

    The Gospel of Mark #18 – “Clean Hands or Clean Heart?” Mark 7:1-23 Intro – 1. ILL – A man was watching the news one night when it was reported that a car was going the wrong direction on the freeway. The man knew his wife was on that freeway and became very concerned ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    When Jesus Looks Around When He See A Christ Like Attitude In You?

    Contributed by Randy Stephenson on Jun 10, 2012
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     | 6,342 views

    our attitudes describe our individual nature. Is our attitude Christ like?

    In 1928 Eduard Spranger wrote about his studies in human attitudes. Attitudes are described as representing the individual’s way of viewing the world we know in connection with an individual’s preference to participate in it. Spranger described six major attitudes as noted in the ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    The Face Of Failure-Simon Peter Series

    Contributed by John Lowe on Jun 12, 2012
     | 10,337 views

    We have all heard the story of when Peter denied that he knew Jesus. It happened when Jesus was arrested and taken to the high priest to face charges of blasphemy against God. Peter followed Jesus “from afar.” He feared that Jesus was going to be put t

    The Face of Failure: Simon Peter Text: Mark 14:53-72 We have all heard the story of when Peter denied that he knew Jesus. It happened when Jesus was arrested and taken to the high priest to face charges of blasphemy against God. Peter followed Jesus “from afar.” He feared that ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist