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  • Grady Henley avatar

    The Shadow Of Death

    Contributed by Grady Henley on Aug 29, 2025
     | 114 views

    Whether lost or saved, death fascinates mankind.

    INTRODUCTION: Whether lost or saved, death fascinates mankind. One wreck on the highway will cause traffic to come to a halt for miles because people creep by peering at the occupants to see if anyone was killed. For a while, it gives those passing by (Rubberneckers is the slang for people who ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    An Admirable Scheme?

    Contributed by Thomas Swope on Nov 7, 2018
     | 6,631 views

    A study in the book of 2 Kings 19: 1 – 37

    2 Kings 19: 1 – 37 When all looks hopeless - pray 19 And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

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    End Generation

    Contributed by Nathan Foy on Aug 31, 2005
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,974 views

    The Bible describes the generation of the last days to be wicked, are we that generation?

    End Generation This Wicked Generation, Proof We Are In The Last Days One of the most obvious prophecies that are being fulfilled today is the description of the last days generation. Let’s take a look at 2 Timothy 3:1-9 which says, "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Timothy Smith avatar

    The Walls: Disciplining Your Child Series

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 3, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,230 views

    #3 in a six week series on marriage and parenting. This message discusses the Biblical concept of instructing and correcting your child.

    Home Improvement - Week 3 "THE WALLS: DISCIPLINING YOUR CHILD" EPHESIANS 6:1-4 / HEBREWS 12:4-13 INTRODUCTION: A loaded mini-van pulled up to the only remaining campsite. Four youngsters leaped from the vehicle & feverishly began unloading the gear and setting up the tent. The boys rushed ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • Dennis King avatar

    Is Baptism By Immersion Required For Salvation?

    Contributed by Dennis King on Jul 29, 2018
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    Though the New Testament contains no explicit instructions on how to administer Baptism, the Greek word baptizo means "to immerse. Herein is a brief history of baptism before and after "sprinkling" became acceptable by many Churches.

    Baptism is the public acceptance of Jesus and adoption into His fold, both by action of the Holy Spirit and by man's symbolic use of water. All too often Baptism is a stated requirement to join into a particular church denomination as opposed a public showing of a bond between a new believer and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Soap Opera Of Emptiness Series

    Contributed by Robert Dyson on Dec 5, 2002
    based on 77 ratings
     | 14,324 views

    This sermon is designed to challenge believers to confront the areas of emptiness in there lives.

    Solutions To The Soap Opera of Emptiness John 2: 1-3 Series Introduction: Over the next two months we will be looking at the seven signs or miracles that are found in the gospel according to John the beloved. Pregnant within the womb of each of these signs is a message about our master. Each of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Wade Martin Hughes, Sr avatar

    I Am Not What I Wanted To Be?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 8, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,064 views

    Sometimes our plans and hopes are dashed on the rocks, but God can develop us even when we think we have failed miserably.

    I AM NOT WHAT I WANTED TO BE? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. I do this in two parts, I do points I through V in the morning, and reveiw and patys VI through X in the night service. I, GUARD AGAINST THE ENEMY OF APATHY AND LAZINESS! 2 Timothy 1:6 Wherefore I put thee to rememberance that thou STIR ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Dennis Davidson avatar

    Bondage Verses Freedom Series

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Aug 12, 2009
    based on 40 ratings
     | 28,279 views

    The proposition that only those who by faith accept God’s promise are children of God is given its last defense with an appeal to Scripture interpretation. It appeals to Scripture to again prove that Christians are not under law.

    GALATIANS 4:21-31 BONDAGE VERSES FREEDOM [Genesis 16:1- 4; 21:8-12] How you interpret the facts is important. A worldly young Southern Baptist went to the racetrack for the very first time. He saw a priest in the paddock give a horse a blessing. The boy took the horse’s number, placed a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Until The Harvest

    Contributed by Frank Edwards on Jan 27, 2010
     | 11,711 views

    A man had a field and that man was industrious /and production conscious.//He sowed good seed in his field./When sowing time was ended /he took leave from his fIeld to wait for the harvest.//But one night while men slept, the good field sown in good seed

    "Until the Harvest' "Let both grow together until the harvest... " MATTHEW 13:30 A man had a field and that man was industrious /and production conscious.//He sowed good seed in his field./When sowing time was ended /he took leave from his field to wait for the harvest.//But one night while men ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    The Real Hunger Games

    Contributed by Larry Turner on Mar 26, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,069 views

    Esau hungered for stew but we are commanded to hunger for justice. This sermon takes a look at the results of hungering for the right thing.

    John and his friend George went golfing together one Sunday morning, as they had for many years, while their family was at church. This particular Sunday was Palm Sunday, the Sunday that celebrates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. This led to a very empty golf course with only John and George ...read more

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    Denomination: Foursquare

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    Homosexuality And The Christian

    Contributed by Sam Mccormick on Aug 4, 2017
    based on 3 ratings
     | 9,890 views

    Same-sex attraction and homosexual lifestyles - hardly mentioned in public a few years ago - are mentioned daily in news, entertainment, and other venues. Public acceptance is on the rise. How is the Christian to respond to this development?

    Homosexuality and the Christian I. Introducton Read the story of Lot in Sodom (Genesis 19:1-11) God destroyed Sodom because of its utter sinfulness. Clearly, theirs was homosexual sin. When I was coming of age in the 1950’s, I was barely aware such a thing as homosexuality existed. I naively ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Be Wise And Filled With The Spirit Series

    Contributed by Rev. Matthew Parker on Apr 1, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,483 views

    You can't help but be filled with something. Be filled with the Spirit of God.

    March 18, 2018 Sermon - Be Wise and Filled with the Spirit - Ephesians 5:15-20 You have got to be filled with something. Aristotle, an ancient thinker, said “Nature abhors a vacuum.” He based that on noticing that nature requires every space to be filled with something, even if that something ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Pentecost Sunday 2012

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Jun 5, 2012
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     | 13,359 views

    The God of the Universe has befriended us, promised to walk every step right beside us, and calls us to obedience.

    Pentecost Sunday 2012 Ezekiel 37 What does God have to do to get your attention? Sometimes, the Bible is just plain weird. We are used to it. We’ve heard Ezekiel 37 and Acts 2, which were read earlier in our service, before. They are familiar stories, so we miss how weird they actually ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Sam McCormick avatar

    Sermon On The Mount - Part 7 Series

    Contributed by Sam Mccormick on Jun 21, 2019
     | 4,577 views

    Part 7 in a 14-part series of studies I call “The Christian Character” as described by Jesus to a crowd of people on a Galilean hillside as he delivered what is more familiarly known as the “Sermon on the Mount.” This part considers blessedness in persecution and insults.

    Part 7 - Beatitudes – The Persecuted and Insulted Sermon on the Mount The Christian Character Matthew 5:3 - 7:27 (Cf. Luke 6:20-49) This is Part 7 in a 14-part series of studies I call “The Christian Character” as described by Jesus to a crowd of people on a Galilean hillside as he delivered what ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Faithful Series

    Contributed by John Newton on Feb 13, 2022
     | 2,069 views

    Jesus is faithful to us—and calls us to be faithful to him

    For six weeks we have been looking at the Letter to the Hebrews. If you hadn’t noticed before, you are probably aware by now that it is far from the easiest book of the New Testament to understand, with its frequent quotations from what often seem obscure passages from the Old Testament, and with ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal