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  • Jerry Cosper avatar

    Come Home For Christmas

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Dec 19, 2023
     | 1,898 views

    Just about everyone wants to go home for Christmas. Come Christmas time, we get this inner yearning to go back home. It’s as though we want to revisit our days of growing up. We want to go back to the place where all of our childhood memories were made.

    Christmas Eve. Can you believe it? Today we come together to celebrate the day before the anticipated arrival of our Savior. Let’s start there with that well known story of the birth of Jesus. PRAYER Luke 2:1-20 – “And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    When God Asks You To Do Something You Do Not Understand Series

    Contributed by Alan Tison on Dec 5, 2006
    based on 8 ratings
     | 14,197 views

    Faith is a difficult subject for beleivers, it becames even more difficult when God asks us to do something we do not understand. We learn several practical lessons from the Joshua’s encounter at Jericho which will help us when God asks us do something we

    Introduction: A man was quiet a bit overweight, he had tried several ways to lose the weight, but had no success. Finally he decided to visit his minister and ask him if he had any solutions to his weight problem. The minister said he had just the solution. The man was to go home and wait for a ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Walking In The Will Of God

    Contributed by Richard Deem on Mar 1, 2001
    based on 538 ratings
     | 57,094 views

    Often the commited Christian finds it difficult to discern the will of God. It may surprise you to know that it is possible to be in the will of God and not really be aware of it!

    TEXT: Acts 16:6-10 INTRO: In 1984 my family attended a Spiritual Retreat (Conference) in Bertchesgaden, West Germany. This was an annual event for those involved in the Ministry to the Military in Europe. These were "high times", indeed. Not only were we "high on a mountain, nestled in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    The Two Witnesses

    Contributed by Larry Cockerham on Jul 2, 2002
    based on 89 ratings
     | 15,309 views

    According to William Barclay, the eleventh chapter of Revelation "is at one and the same time the most difficult and the most important chapter in the Revelation."

    According to William Barclay, the eleventh chapter of Revelation “is at one and the same time the most difficult and the most important chapter in the Revelation” (2:65). This chapter is part of that second interval or parenthesis (10:1-11:13) which concludes with the sounding of the seventh ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Mother's Day - A Mother's Love

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Apr 22, 2001
    based on 4,067 ratings
     | 685,930 views

    I know that many mothers pray. Sometimes they pray out of necessity. Sometimes they pray because motherhood is not easy, but extremely difficult.

    MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGECHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (Revised: 2018) TEXT: Matthew 20:20?23 ILL. Someone wrote, "Mother's Day is traditionally the day when children give something back to their mothers for all the spit they produce to wash dirty faces, all the old gum they held in ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Kelly Benton avatar

    The Buzzard, The Bat, And The Bumble Bee

    Contributed by Kelly Benton on Feb 1, 2006
    based on 44 ratings
     | 14,463 views

    Scripture: 1 John 5: 1-5 Purpose: To share how we can overcome difficult times by focusing on Jesus.

    Scripture: 1 John 5: 1-5 Purpose: To share how we can overcome difficult times by focusing on Jesus. Introduction: Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

  • Ben Thomas avatar

    Hanna - A Woman Of Prayer Series

    Contributed by Ben Thomas on Feb 2, 2007
    based on 29 ratings
     | 21,535 views

    This is a mother’s day message . Hannah who did not giveup in the difficult situaion and continue pray until she receiced the delivernce.

    Hannah – Grace, abundance grace society had become a cesspool, a pit of depravity and corruption, when Samuel was born. His day was a time when people had slipped into an immoral, lawless, abusive, violent, compromising, and permissive lifestyle. The depth of their moral decay was seen in cases ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Recovering From Resentment

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Apr 4, 2005
    based on 24 ratings
     | 9,347 views

    Forgiving those who hurt us and moving on from that hurt is one of the most difficult and challenging tasks Christians are called to do.

    Genesis 45:4-11 “Recovering From Resentment” INTRODUCTION Recently we displayed a message on our marquee that read, “God doesn’t promise us a comfortable journey, just a safe landing.” We live in hope that the last phrase of this sentence will be true. We know from experience that the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Craig Hale avatar

    God's Grace Is Sufficent

    Contributed by Craig Hale on May 14, 2003
    based on 91 ratings
     | 8,962 views

    In times of difficult trials or storms,how are you going to maintain your walk with Him? Job is a good example for us to look at

    Job Chapter 1 God’s Grace Is Sufficient Introduction: The book describes Job as being a blameless and up right man, and one who feared God, he consumed a Considerable fortune. Job had a big family lots of children as well as live stock Job’s reputation was very much respected. One might ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Jochebed Series

    Contributed by Neil Partington on Jul 31, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
     | 15,823 views

    Mom have to make some difficult decisions. Jochebed was one of those women. In the end, it was her faith that helped her through.

    The second grade teacher had been giving a lesson on science. She had explained about magnets and showed how they would pick up nails and other bits of iron. Now it was question time, and she asked, “My name begins with the letter M and I pick up things. What am I? Billy, a little boy on the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The First Will Be Last? Series

    Contributed by Scott Chambers on Sep 27, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,167 views

    This message is the third in a series that deals with some of the difficult sayings of Jesus. This message examines Jesus’ statement about the first being last.

    Many of us have a competitive nature, a drive to do everything we can to come out on top. We have been taught that you compete to win. Our culture teaches us to climb the ladder of success, to outpace our competitors and that the one with the most toys in the end wins. So we work hard to make sure ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Trusting The God Who Will Provide Series

    Contributed by Clinton Smith on Feb 24, 2009
    based on 9 ratings
     | 11,476 views

    God will meet your needs in the midst of the most difficult circumstances of life when you make Him a priority in your life.

    Martyn Lloyd-Jones offers an insightful perspective on how we use God’s name: What unworthy ideas and notions this world has of God! If you test your ideas of God by the teaching of the Scriptures you will see at a glance what I mean. We lack even a due sense of the greatness and the might and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Joseph Smith avatar

    A Loaf Of Bread, A Jug Of Wine, And Laughter

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Mar 3, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,214 views

    Dated 1989. Our faith is not joyless. God uses the simplest of things to bring us support and gladness in the midst of difficult times.

    Says the poet, "A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and Thou beside me singing in the wilderness … Wilderness were paradise enow" The very picture of romantic fulfillment. All I need is a chunk of good fragrant bread, a flask full of the vintner’s art, and you whom I love, and I will be fulfilled. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Nick Wilson avatar

    Love For A Lifetime

    Contributed by Nick Wilson on Jun 4, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,433 views

    Defining love has become difficult in our society. True love must originate with God and reflect through our lives.

    Love For a Lifetime 1 John 2:3-6 Love is a word that has become obscure and ambiguous in our day. It is often talked about but seldom is it clearly defined. Love is what some have called a “weasel-word.” Love may mean anything, or nothing. It has lost its moorings and stands for ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Into The Darkness Series

    Contributed by Rodney V Johnson on Oct 18, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 9,494 views

    This message focuses on how walking in faith during difficult times is the same as walking in the darkness without knowing what is around you.

    Into The Darkness Scriptures: Hebrews 11:1; John 20:24-29 Introduction This morning I want to briefly talk with you about walking in faith. Do you know that in order to walk in faith you must become comfortable with being in the dark? I am not necessarily talking about the physical darkness, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational