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  • Rodney Buchanan avatar

    The Central Call Series

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 4, 2004
    based on 36 ratings
     | 3,340 views

    Repentance: 1. involves a genuine sorrow for sin. 2. includes a genuine turning from sin. 3. results in a genuine love for God.

    Recent research is confirming that the moral condition of the United States is in serious decline. An article released by the Barna Research Group, which surveyed people on what they considered morally acceptable behavior, states: “Of the ten moral behaviors evaluated, a majority of Americans ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Overcoming Pornography

    Contributed by Joe Fornear on Sep 2, 2004
    based on 120 ratings
     | 16,774 views

    How to overcome the secret sin of pornography or any secret sin.

    Irene Pepperberg, a visiting professor of animal behavior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is teaching a parrot how to surf the Internet. "Parrots are very social creatures," she says, but people who own them "leave them alone eight or nine hours a day." She says that leads to boredom ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Can We Be Alienated From God? Series

    Contributed by Glenn Newton on Feb 7, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,503 views

    Paul was fighting against false teachers, the same as we do today about the Truth of Jesus Christ and what He has accomplished on the Cross.

    Can we be Alienated from God? Pastor Glenn Newton February 7th, 2010 Text: Colossians 1:21-29 (NIV) COL 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    The Finer Points Of Love (Part 4) Series

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Feb 23, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,967 views

    The sermon examines the fifteen qualities of love found in I Cor. 13:4-7.

    Today we look at the last four qualities of love found in I Cor. 13:4-7. Instead of examining these four individually I want to make three connecting statements about love. These three statements connect the four and give clarity since they are all interrelated. The first statement is: Love has ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Godly View Of Women

    Contributed by Ian Drucker on Dec 12, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 6,392 views

    Unlearning what we have learned from the world, and learning what we need to know from God.

    Developing a Godly View of Women Rules for Holy Living Colossians 3 : 1-17 1. Today we are going to be examining having healthy relationships, but especially healthy relationships with women. 2. It is important to understand what “Healthy” means. a. Healthy – means to work or function as ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Drew Mills avatar

    Band Of Brothers Series

    Contributed by Drew Mills on Mar 16, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,497 views

    On the Narrow Road of Jesus, we need one another.

    Theme: Narrow Road Series Purpose: We need each other Strike while the iron is hot. Did you ever wonder what that means? The blacksmith heats his iron red-hot in the fiery forge. It requires time to heat the iron up and time for it to cool down once it is plunged into the cooling water. But, in ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Michael Luke avatar

    Waiting, Dating, And Mating Series

    Contributed by Michael Luke on Jan 24, 2006
    based on 30 ratings
     | 12,548 views

    A biblical discussion of sexuality and marriage

    SERIES: “OVERCOMING OBSTACLES THAT OBSTRUCT OBEDIENCE” TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 7 TITLE: “WAITING, DATING, AND MATING” INTRODUCTION: A. The preacher of a congregation made it a habit to visit all the Sunday school classes. One particular Sunday, he ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Emile Wolfaardt avatar

    The Anger And Joy Of God

    Contributed by Emile Wolfaardt on May 7, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,370 views

    (PowerPoint Slides and Cell Study Notes freely available by emailing Emile@Wolfaardt.com) Is God judging America - and how should we live?...

    The Anger and Joy of God Psalm 37:1-6 This morning I want to speak with you from the Word of God on something rather unusual - The Anger and Joy of God. I dare say that as I have prepared for this morning, I have come to realize that God is angry, and we tend to misunderstand how angry He really ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Removing The Frogs Of Addiction

    Contributed by Matthew Morine on Aug 8, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 8,684 views

    Tomorrow is always better than today. Many times the pain is easier than the change. Why did Pharaoh wait until tomorrow for Moses to remove the Frogs? Maybe because of the same reasons we wait before removing sinful habits from our lives.

    REMOVING THE FROGS THEME: REMOVING SINFUL HABITS TODAY NOT TOMORROW. There was a merciful dullness in her mind now, a dullness that she knew from long experience would soon give way to sharp pain, even as severed tissues, shocked by the surgeon’s knife, have a brief instant of insensibility ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Transformation And Grace

    Contributed by Robert Bravo on Jun 29, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,566 views

    It was the power of Paul’s testimony that demonstrated grace in his life. He was transformed by God. That’s same power can do the same for us.

    Transformation and Grace Galatians 1:10-24 (NIV) 10 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. 11 I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    Lent A Time For Repentance

    Contributed by Dennis Bliss on Feb 15, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 9,162 views

    A lenten homily on humility, and repentance

    Lent a season of Repentance. We disciples of Jesus are celebrating our communal Lenten pilgrimage, a 40 day spiritual journey that will hopefully enable us to better appreciate and celebrate the life giving death and eternal resurrection of our Lord and Savior, the very feast of ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Matthew Stoll avatar

    Building An Expressway To God

    Contributed by Matthew Stoll on Jun 15, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,830 views

    There is good news for those how feel far away from God right now. Preparing for the coming of Christ through repentance. Second Sunday in Advent, year B.

    [Preview the Isaiah reading with a description of what Isaiah is writing to. Isaiah wrote hundreds of years before Jesus at a time when his people, God’s people, were threatened by destruction from a foreign nation. God saved them, but the warning from Isaiah and other prophets of that time was ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Ron Hietsch avatar

    Our Struggles With Sin Show That We Belong To Jesus

    Contributed by Ron Hietsch on Jul 22, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,390 views

    Our struggles can be brutal, we slip, we confess, we are forgiven. We do not cave in and submit to sin but we surrender to Christ.

    13th Sunday after Pentecost -- Aug 30, 2009 Text Ephesians 6:10-20 Grace mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Let us pray: May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14) ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Mike Fogerson avatar

    Tongues 9 Series

    Contributed by Mike Fogerson on Mar 26, 2013
     | 2,644 views

    In 2006, Benedict Carey wrote on research done at the University of Pennsylvania on speaking tongues. The article, available on the New York Times website, relates of “the passionate, sometimes rhythmic language-like pattern that pours forth from those wh

    Tongues Series 9 of 10 Oct. 10, 2012 A In 2006, Benedict Carey wrote on research done at the University of Pennsylvania on speaking tongues. 1 The article, available on the New York Times website, relates of “the passionate, sometimes rhythmic language-like pattern that pours forth from ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Billy Ricks avatar

    The Fatherhood Of God Displayed In Earthly Daddies

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Jun 12, 2014
    based on 3 ratings
     | 11,559 views

    God commands us to train our children. We see in this command a blueprint and recipe for changing our families and our city. The Spirit empowers us to love and discipline our children as a loving Father like God.

    Intro: A four-year-old boy was eating an apple in the back seat of the car, when he asked, "Daddy, why is my apple turning brown?" "Because," his dad explained, "after you ate the skin off, the meat of the apple came into contact with the air, which caused it to oxidize, thus ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist