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  • Jim Kane avatar

    A Return To Eden

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2003
    based on 44 ratings
     | 8,016 views

    God will bring our lives back to perfection!

    MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (REVISED: 2015) (Powerpoints used with this message are available at no charge. Just email me at mnewland@sstelco.com and request #332.) Years ago, when our children were small, I learned a lot about being a parent. But ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    A Faith For Life's Fires

    Contributed by William Wyne on Sep 8, 2003
    based on 44 ratings
     | 15,467 views

    A lesson on handling the fires of life as faithful believers.

    Someone has so rightly said, "Life is ten percent of what happens to us and ninety percent how we respond to it". During my year residency in CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) at Children’s Hospital in Detroit, I learned as an eyewitness and a Pastoral Care Giver, the contrasting responses of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Why Do I Need To Go To Church Anyway Series

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Oct 19, 2003
    based on 87 ratings
     | 49,355 views

    This sermon is the fourth of the series. This message looks at five reasons why we need to go to church; Christ established the church, promised its birth, works through the church, established the church as a shelter, and loves the church.

    ANSWERING THE TOUGH QUESTIONS OF SCRIPTURE Why Do I Need To Go To Church Anyway? Hebrews 10:25 OPENING ILLUSTRATION: This story deals with a rather old fashioned lady, who was planning a couple of weeks vacation in Florida. She also was quite delicate and elegant with her language. She wrote a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Before Series

    Contributed by Peter Langerman on Oct 21, 2003
    based on 49 ratings
     | 10,954 views

    Before you wre interested in God he had already called and appointed you!

    1 Before Knowing that the fully developed, passionate humanity of Jeremiah necessarily had a complex and intricate background, we prepare to examine it. But we are brought up short. We are told next to nothing: three bare, unadorned background items — his father’s name, Hilkiah; his father’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Ed Taylor avatar

    "Writing On The Wall” Series

    Contributed by Ed Taylor on Aug 8, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,572 views

    There is a last night for everyone, a last breath, a last statement. All of us are weighed in God’s balances - every day.

    OPEN BIBLES TO Daniel 5 & 1 Corinthians 1.26 1. Leaders come and go. a. Even though they are confident that their reign will last forever, it doesn’t. EVER. NEVER. Leaders, they come & go. Psalm 75.7 But God is the Judge: He puts down one, And exalts another. FOR SURE: Nebuchadnezzar was that ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Live As God's Children Series

    Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Sep 15, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 9,643 views

    If we are God’s children, we should live as such. This message lifts suggestions to help the believer live as God’s child

    LIVE AS GOD’S CHILDREN Romans 8:12-17 * “We are all God’s children!” Have you ever heard this statement? It sounds good, it seems right, it feels good, but there is absolutely no Biblical truth to it. Today across this nation there is a widely held view that everyone is in the family of God and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Balaam And His Talking Donkey

    Contributed by William D. Brown on Mar 10, 2008
    based on 24 ratings
     | 46,388 views

    BALAAM AND HIS TALKING DONKEY

    BALAAM AND HIS TALKING DONKEY: 3/10/08 NUMBERS 22: 1-35 Today we’ll take a look at a man, named Balaam, who was all tied up in the occult, Balaam was not an Israelite, he was a native of Pethor a city in Mesopotamia, and he would sell his satanic power to the highest dollar, as we get into ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Reason To Hope Series

    Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Jul 17, 2008
    based on 16 ratings
     | 10,385 views

    It seems the more we go on in our walk, the more we seem to drag down and not remain energized in the Christian life. Hope fixes this.

    Reason to Hope Griffith Baptist Church – 7/20/08 A.M. Service Text: Romans 8:23-25 Key verse: Romans 8:23 - And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?

    Contributed by Barry Edmondson on Oct 27, 2007
    based on 34 ratings
     | 11,543 views

    A message on why We as Christians should not celebrate Halloween

    Halloween is an annual celebration, but just what is it actually a celebration of? And how did this peculiar custom originate? Is it, as some claim, a kind of demon worship? Or is it just a harmless vestige of some ancient pagan ritual? In North America, the yearly observance of Halloween amounts ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Filled With The Fragrance

    Contributed by David Green on Nov 1, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,514 views

    Like Isaiah in the temple - the home at Bethany is filled with the fragrance of Mary’s anointing

    FILLED WITH THE FRAGRANCE JOHN 12 12 Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honour. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. 3 Then Mary took about ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Advent I: Hope Is Coming Series

    Contributed by Rev. Matthew Parker on Nov 29, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,564 views

    The Old and the New Testaments confirm that God’s love knows no boundaries as proven by the Incarnation we celebrate this Advent season.

    November 29, 2008 – Advent 1 – “Hope is Coming” Isaiah 9:6-7; Luke 1:26-38 Christmas holds a place in each of our hearts. In our culture it’s a time when family, or family and faith converge. Even those for whom the season we’re approaching holds mixed feelings or painful feelings, it’s rare that ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    To Fear, Or Not To Fear?

    Contributed by Monty Newton on Dec 9, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 25,232 views

    Christians may be at peace despite the cataclysmic events and judgment that will accompany the Day of the Lord.

    Title: To Fear, Or Not to Fear? Text: II Peter 3:8-15 The Big Idea: Christians may be at peace despite the cataclysmic events and judgment that will accompany the Day of the Lord. Introduction There is a 2008 remake in the works that debuts this month. However the original, based on the short ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Andy Payne avatar

    To Boldly Go!

    Contributed by Andy Payne on May 4, 2009
     | 5,441 views

    Jesus’ disciples struggled to understand what he was talking about. Through Scriptire, see how we need to look at the bigger picture in how God works.

    Space the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise; its five year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. I was never really a Star Trek fan growing up as a kid. I always wanted to be a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • William Akehurst avatar

    Who Knew? He Knew, And Now Do You?

    Contributed by William Akehurst on May 5, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,810 views

    WHO KNEW??? HE KNEW! And NOW...DO YOU? An invitation to Christ WHO KNEW? JESUS KNEW... An account and compilation of events in the life of Christ

    2009.4.12.Easter Son-Shine Service Who Knew? He Did...He Knew! By William Akehurst, BA HSWC WHO KNEW??? HE KNEW! And NOW...DO YOU? An invitation to Christ WHO KNEW? JESUS KNEW... AN ACCOUNT AND COMPILATION OF EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST KEY VERSES LUKE 24:44-45 A message for Easter and ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Christ-Likeness Remains Our Presdestined Purpose

    Contributed by Virgil Hurley on Mar 10, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,145 views

    The goal of all discipleship is to create Christ-likeness in believers.

    CHRIST-LIKENESS REMAINS OUR PREDESTINED PURPOSE Romans 8:28-39 By late Spring, 1864, the American Civil War reached a military impasse that compromised President Lincoln’s re-election. He wrote a note to that effect, then filed it. General Sheridan’s victories in the Shenandoah Valley and ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ