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  • How To Deal With Failure

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 14, 2005
    based on 41 ratings
     | 6,900 views

    This sermon considers the all-too frequent reality of failure in our lives. We’ll look at disciples of Jesus who were well versed in it and how they dealt with it. There is hope!

    FAILURE -- the word conjures up a bad mental taste. It is such a predominant reality among us that there is an E-magazine website – www.failure.com with a wide selection of failure paraphernalia – mugs, t-shirts, baseball caps! Who has not tasted the bitter drink of failure – an exam; having to ...read more

  • Hope In A Hope-Less World

    Contributed by Stuart Blount on Aug 10, 2005
    based on 90 ratings
     | 23,926 views

    “We can live forty days without food, eight days without water, four minutes without air, but only a few seconds without hope”....How do we understand and therefore respond to the kind of world we are living in today?

    Our world is experiencing an uncertain time, a defining moment in the history of this planet. That is not an over dramatization of the events of the last month but rather a prophetic perspective of the years ahead. It seems summed up by the lament of a volunteer rescue worker in New York City, ...read more

  • A Fairy-Tale Wedding

    Contributed by Carla Powell on Jan 2, 2002
    based on 108 ratings
     | 8,349 views

    Urges the couple to seek faithfulness and communication in their marriage. Appropriate for an Interfaith wedding.

    You all know the story about fairytale marriages. A beautiful princess goes into a forest and sees a frog. She kisses the frog. He turns into a prince. They get married, and live happily ever after. Or maybe you remember the prince who searches through every house in town and won’t give up until he ...read more

  • Can God Trust You?

    Contributed by Joseph Comage on Nov 8, 2002
    based on 136 ratings
     | 41,663 views

    Can God trust you when you are under attack and all hell is breaking loose?

    CAN GOD TRUST YOU 2 Corinthians 1:8 For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren of our trouble which came to us in Asia; that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even life. CAN GOD TRUST YOU? To be able to trust the ones we love is important to almost all ...read more

  • Advent Ii, Year B

    Contributed by Garth Wehrfritz- Hanson on Nov 29, 2002
    based on 69 ratings
     | 6,840 views

    Listening and responding to the LORD’s voices crying in the wilderness.

    Sermon for Advent II, Yr B Dec 8, 2002 Isa 40:3-5; Mk 1:1-8; 2 Pet 3:9 & 15a Grace Lutheran Church, Medicine Hat By Pastor Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson The Christian playwright and novelist, Henry Scholberg, tells the following story. They were proud of their church. “Proud as punch!” they always ...read more

  • Christ The True Light Series

    Contributed by Garth Wehrfritz- Hanson on Dec 25, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,173 views

    Jesus Christ is The True Light of the world.

    Christmas Eve Yr C, 24/12/2006 Jn 1:1-14 Rev. Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, & Chaplain of The Good Samaritan Society’s South Ridge Village, Medicine Hat, Alberta “Christ the True Light” The Fourth Gospel is very rich in providing a wide range of word pictures of Jesus. ...read more

  • To, Love, Honor & Cherish Part 1

    Contributed by Anthony Smith on Sep 19, 2004
    based on 16 ratings
     | 2,184 views

    3 Part sermon, viewing the paralells of husband and wife to Jesus and His Bride.

    To, Love, Honor & Cherish Part 1. Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; How many remember their wedding vows? Remember the preacher saying to each; To, Love, Honor & Cherish? I would like to ...read more

  • Lasting Love On Mother's Day

    Contributed by Jim Parisi on May 15, 2003
    based on 69 ratings
     | 20,825 views

    What greater Love between two Humans then the love between a mother and her child.

    Lasting Love on Mother’s Day HHM Jim Parisi May 11, 2003 A Mother’s Day Comment by Chuck Swindoll: I remember a Mother’s Day card I saw that was really cute. It was a great big card written in a little child’s printing—little first-grade printing. On the front was a little boy ...read more

  • Not Home Alone

    Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Dec 5, 2003
    based on 89 ratings
     | 3,995 views

    Advent 2: God doesn’t forget us! He sent Jesus to free us from captivity to sin and to prepare us for the trip home.

    [Thoughts presented in Concordia Pulpit Resources, Vol. 14, Part 1 – Sermon helps for Advent 2 - are included in this message] The popular Christmas movie, “Home Alone” builds around a theme of a little boy who is forgotten by the family as they go off on a Christmas trip. Can you imagine ...read more

  • Does It Really Pay To Serve The Lord?

    Contributed by Toby Powers on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 64 ratings
     | 24,797 views

    We have all asked at one time or another whether it is worth the sacrifice to serve God. May I tell you the answer is yes!

    Does It Really Pay To Serve The Lord? Matthew 19:27 Intro: This passage of scripture deals with the time when Jesus had told the rich young ruler to sell out the god of riches in his life and follow Jesus, if he chose to go to heaven. He had told the disciples that it would be extremely difficult ...read more

  • Narnia: There's A Prophecy Series

    Contributed by Chris Hill on Jan 3, 2006
     | 7,567 views

    In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the children meet Mr & Mrs Beaver. They tell the children about prophecies concerning Aslan and sons of Adam and daughters of Eve. This is used to introduce OT prophecies conerning the birth of Christ

    Where it’s Winter But Never Christmas: There’s a Prophesy Matthew 1:22 (NIV) All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: Intro. The happenings in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe are not just happenstance. The arrival of ...read more

  • It's Time To Sing A New Song

    Contributed by John Baker on Jan 12, 2006
    based on 13 ratings
     | 11,574 views

    This sermon was preached as a celebration sermon to celebrate our large outreach activity of a live nativity we present to our community each year.

    Title: It’s Time to Sing a New Song Place: Oakdale Wesleyan Church Date: January 9th, 2005 Subject: Celebration Sunday of Christmas Experience Introduction It’s time to sing a new song. Have you ever gotten an old song just stuck in your head and its not a song that brings joy and gladness to ...read more

  • Healing The Brokenhearted Series

    Contributed by Raymond Perkins on Jun 13, 2001
    based on 37 ratings
     | 15,774 views

    This is the second in this series based on Luke 4:16-21 and using Mark 5:21-34 as the main text.

    THE UNEXPECTED JESUS "Healing the Brokenhearted" Mark 5:21-34 INTRODUCTION: On Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, after having been stabbed repeatedly by a man named Lewis Paine, Secretary of State William Seward, lay in a hospital bed physically crippled and emotionally drained. And to top it all ...read more

  • Deliverance To The Captives Series

    Contributed by Raymond Perkins on Jun 13, 2001
    based on 24 ratings
     | 11,369 views

    This is the third in this series based in Luke 4:16-21 and using Mark 5:1-20 as the main text.

    THE UNEXPECTED JESUS "Healing the Brokenhearted" Mark 5:21-34 INTRODUCTION: On Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, after having been stabbed repeatedly by a man named Lewis Paine, Secretary of State William Seward, lay in a hospital bed physically crippled and emotionally drained. And to top it all ...read more

  • Crumbs Of Faith

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jul 18, 2001
    based on 122 ratings
     | 6,884 views

    This is a call to examine our hearts through a thought provoking and shocking story to determine what type of faith we have.

    Crumbs of Faith by Rev. Andrew Chan Mark 7:24-30 Valentine’s Day, what shall I preach on? Since we have been going through Mark I thought we continue… Tempted not to preach on this. Rather difficult esp. on Valentine’s Day! Seems like not a very convincing love story…or is it? Shocking to hear, ...read more