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Living Your Life For Maximum Impact (Part 2) Series

Contributed by Dan Proctor on Apr 2, 2013

How can you live your life for maximum spiritual impact?

Living Your Life for Maximum Impact (Part 2) Acts 20:17-35 www.crbible.com/sermons Introduction: 1. How many of you have a DVR on your television? People are acting, or players are running around in a game, and you can simply hit “pause” and everything stops. You can also push ...read more

Scripture: Acts 20:17-35

Denomination: Bible Church

Acts 2 - Empowered Series

Contributed by Christian Cheong on May 13, 2013

God is going to reach a lost world through the empowering of the Holy Spirit and His church. We depend on One and devote to building His church through the teaching of His Word, fellowship, communion and prayer.

Reaching the lost world for Christ would necessarily mean the birth of the Church, the body of Christ, the gathering of believers in Christ. • This is a divine institution, not a man-made organisation. Through the Body of Christ the world will come to see Christ. • The Church is the ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:38-47

Denomination: Independent/Bible

The Church Explained In Eight Words

Contributed by Patrick Usifo on Aug 21, 2020

The church is the place where the Holy God meets with sinners washed in the Blood of Jesus. It is the fellowship of a perfect God with a perfect nature with a people imperfect with a dual nature.

The pandemic crisis has drawn the curtain on many things the world and the church have taken for granted for a long time. Not to say that may look like denying the truth. Afterall no saying the coronavirus has affected the church may be a misnomer. Because the most important thing the church needs ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 16:16-18, Ephesians 1:22-23, Ephesians 2:19-22

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Uniqueness Of Jesus Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Aug 21, 2020

Jesus was one of a kind. There has never been anyone like Him in all of history.

THE UNIQUENESS OF JESUS Based on John7:25-46 An advertisement that was originally printed in the Miner's Magazine as a serious add was later published by the Reader's Digest as humor. The ad read, "Wanted: Man to work on nuclear fissionable isotope molecular reactive counter and ...read more

Scripture: John 7:25-46

Talking To Someone Who Gives You Heartburn

Contributed by Maurice Mccarthy on Sep 10, 2018

God is looking for people who will become living burning bushes, that will cause others to turn aside and be changed.

Talking to Someone Who Gives You Heartburn PPT 1 title There are people that just the thought of them can make you feel uncomfortable. We all know people like that. If I were to ask when is the last time you talked to someone who gave you heartburn, I wouldn't be surprised if someone said it ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:32

Denomination: Pentecostal

Herod - How Deniers Find Jesus Series

Contributed by Paul Barreca on Dec 15, 2014

Herod was a wicked man and an evil king. But you don't have to kill baby Jesus to end up in hell. You just have to deny him.

Herod - How Deniers Find Jesus Matthew 2:19-20 Today’s message takes a somber tone. This is our third message on the subject of Finding Jesus. Today, we look at Herod who was seeking Jesus but for the wrong reason. As we know, Herod was seeking Jesus to kill him. He demonstrates for us ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 2:1-20

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Will You Accept A New Heart And A New Mind?

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Dec 17, 2014

There is a God covenant that brings us new hope, a new mind, a new heart? Will we stay the same?

GETTING OVER THE OLD--- ACCEPTING THE NEW? A NEW HEART, NEW MIND --- By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com I. CAN WE EXCUSE SPIRITUAL NEGLECT, CAN WE JUSTIFY OUR NEGLECT OF DUTY? JEREMIAH KNEW MANY OF MAN'S REAL PROBLEMS ARE ISSUES OF THE HEART... THE PROBLEM OF THE HEART IS THE HEART OF ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 31:31-34

Denomination: Assembly Of God

"Being Christ To Our Community: It's About Falling In Love"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Oct 10, 2018

A sermon about giving all to follow Jesus.

“Being Christ in Our Community: It’s About Falling in Love” Luke 18:18-27 In his book, “Don’t Waste Your Life,” John Piper writes: “I will tell you what a tragedy is. Consider a story from Reader’s Digest, which tells about a couple who ‘took early retirement from their jobs in the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 18:18-27

Denomination: United Methodist

What Will We Wear?

Contributed by John Newton on Jan 15, 2022

Paul tells us about the spiritual wardrobe that the Holy Spirit provides for us

“What will we wear?” Back when I was first ordained, that was a question that many people asked themselves on a Sunday morning. In those days, people used to dress up for church. Tie straight, pants pressed, shoes polished… People would talk about putting on their Sunday best. By and large, that ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:11-17

Denomination: Episcopal

The Sofa To The Sanctuary

Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Mar 7, 2021

20-25 % of those who have stayed at home due to Covid will not return. This message speaks to this issue.

“The Sofa and the Sanctuary” Hebrews 10:19-25 19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having an high priest over the house of God; 22 ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 10:19-25

Denomination: Baptist

The Christian's Certitude

Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Mar 19, 2023

Where do we go when we die!

The Christians Certitude 2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:1-9

Denomination: Baptist

Pity Party

Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 16, 2022

How to stop the pity party from Psalm 77; Psalm 77 invites us to look, learn and love Adapted from Eugene Peterson's book, "Where Your Treasure Is"

HoHum: Back in the 60’s there was a singer named Lesley Gore who recorded, “It’s My Party.” The lyrics were written by Seymour Gottlieb, a freelance songwriter. The song lyrically portrays the discomfort of a teenage girl at her birthday party when her boyfriend Johnny disappears, only to return ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 14:30, Psalm 119:71, Psalm 136:12, 1 John 4:10

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Prerequisites For Purposeful Living Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Apr 6, 2021

The Christian, of course, is committed to a life of growing quality. Jesus came that we might have life abundant, and both Old and New Testaments make it clear that the believer is to advance in wisdom and in favor with God and man.

A woman in a contemporary play is complaining about her hollow living, and she says to another, "Don't you get the feeling that this is a broken world, something like a watch? The parts are all there, and it looks all right, but the main spring is broken and it no longer has meaning. ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 2:1-3

Stewardship (3 Of 4)

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 11, 2022

Again we would like to turn our attention to those passages in the Bible that deal with our being stewards of the money God has blessed us with.

I would like to remind you that stewardship is taught in both the OLD and the NEW TESTAMENTS. In Matthew 23, Jesus rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for what they were NOT DOING, while recognizing what THEY WERE DOING. He noted that they were careful to tithe of every plant that produced ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 4:2

Denomination: Baptist

The Faith Way.

Contributed by Howard Strickland on Sep 14, 2022

I Pastored an African-American lady in Cartersville, she was a sweet saint, her name, Ruby B. I would tell her something interesting about God, or maybe the Church, and Ruby would always respond, “It do, it do, it really do.”

The Faith Way. James 2:14-19NKJV The book of James is one of the earliest books of the NT. James points out that true faith believes while serving others. (Real faith do). I Pastored an African-American lady in Cartersville, she was a sweet saint, her name, Ruby B. I would tell her ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-19, Hebrews 11:1-2

Denomination: Pentecostal