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50 Steps To Exchanging Your Discouragement For His Encouragement

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 21, 2009

Exchange your discouragement for His encouragement

Overcoming Discouragement Through the Exchanged Life More people are defeated by discouragement than by any other thing. C.S. Lewis in his famous "Screwtape Letters" writes about wormwood’s (the devil)most effective tool to derail Christians is the wedge of discouragement. Let us exchange our ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:1-5

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Part 4 - Matthew 12:1-14 - Ancient Clues Uncover The Mystery! Series

Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Sep 24, 2010

Talk about SUSPENSE AND INTRIGUE! Subatomic anti-matter threatens the existence of Vatican city in Rome. Key Cardinals from the Roman Catholic church vanish. And it all points to the ILLUMINATI, a secret society that has re-emerged from history.

Part 4 - Matthew 12:1-14 - ANCIENT CLUES UNCOVER THE MYSTERY! Talk about SUSPENSE AND INTRIGUE! Subatomic anti-matter threatens the existence of Vatican city in Rome. Key Cardinals from the Roman Catholic church vanish. And it all points to the ILLUMINATI, a secret society that has re-emerged from ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 12:1-14

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

An Enemy Has Done This!

Contributed by Johnny Carver on Jul 15, 2006

This message dipicts the nature of Satan as he intertwines his efforts into the Church to hinder its growth.

Scripture: Matthew 13:24 – 30 Title: “An Enemy Has Done This” Introduction: We find Jesus comparing the “Kingdom of Heaven” to a farmer who had sowed good seed in his field only to find that when the plants came up someone had sowed “Tares” among the wheat. The ‘bad deed’ occurred while ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30

Denomination: Pentecostal

Not Fit To Love

Contributed by Larry Finley on Aug 11, 2008

God loved us when we were unloveable.

NOT FIT TO LOVE 8/10/08 Romans 5:6-11 S__L__R__ Two little brothers had finished supper and were playing. One hit the other and soon hot tears and hard words followed. They were still being exchanged when Mom put them in bed and led them in saying their prayers. Now I lay me down to sleep, I ...read more

Scripture: Romans 5:6-11

Denomination: Baptist

The Perilous Times

Contributed by Bishop Prof. Julius Soyinka on Aug 11, 2014

There is a prophecy concerning the end time that evil will be on the increase. We can see the fulfillment in our generation today indicating that the end has come.

THE PERILOUS TIMES STUDY TEXTS: 2, TIMOTHY 3:1-15, JUDE 3-5 MEMORY VERSE: 2 TIM 3:1 INTRODUCTION: The greatest threat to the kingdom of God and the church of Jesus Christ today is the carnal, compromising and worldly Christianity the devil is generating to destroy the faith that was once delivered ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:1-15

Denomination: Pentecostal

He Still Came Part 4

Contributed by Greg Nance on Dec 23, 2012

Jesus coming has impacted everything! May we keep Christ as our central focus of life.

Video: flash mob Christmas in the mall (Google youtube Christmas Flash mob) This world would certainly be a different place if Jesus had not come, would it not? Can you even imagine? First of all, this church would not exist. The New Testament would not exist. Christmas and Easter would not ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Useless Or Useful? Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 8, 2014

Mercy is the greatest of the virtues in the external manifestation.

Thursday of the 32nd Week in Course Joy of the Gospel St. Paul had a dilemma. One of his converts in Asia, Philemon, lived in Colossae. Philemon’s slave, Onesimus, had escaped and probably stolen property in the process. Escaped slaves were dealt with according to their owner’s whim ...read more

Scripture: Philemon 1:7-20

Denomination: Catholic

An Illogical Question: Carest Thou Not?

Contributed by Kevin Williams on Jul 13, 2017

The things we say in the midst of the storm! Like the disciples fearful of dying at sea while Jesus lies asleep, we cry out, "Carest Thou Not"? Answer the question now and find strength later in the storm. Feed faith, now!

An Illogical Question: "Carest Thou Not" (Some things make "no" sense) [ Maaan, The Stuff I Say In A Storm] Mark 4: 35-41 And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. And when they had sent away the ...read more

Scripture: Mark 4:35-41

Denomination: Congregational

Did You Wash Your Hands?

Contributed by Howard Gunter on Sep 2, 2018

Understanding Traditions in the Church

Weekend Message/Devotion Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 September 2, 2018 How many times have you heard: “Okay everyone, wash your hands and get to the table, dinner is served!”? Those instructions had nothing to do with religion or religious practice, did they? Washing our hands before eating is a ...read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-8, Mark 7:14-15, Mark 7:21-23, Isaiah 29:13

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

3 Immediate Spiritual Actions Responses In Times Of Crisis

Contributed by Jan Oosthuizen on Oct 15, 2018

What to do when facing a crisis? How to deliberately fight to keep your peace.

Scripture reading: Exo 14:12 The former quick-tempered Moses patiently answered the people's hasty accusation with three directives to meet this emergency: (1) "Do not be afraid" The word to the patriarchs, Gen 15:1; 26:24; and to Israel as they possessed the land, Josh 1:9; 8:1) (2) "Stand firm" ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 14:12-16, Hebrews 4:1-12

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Ninth Commandment Lesson 9 Series

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Oct 18, 2018

Ninth Commandment

NINTH COMMANDMENT “You shall not lie to your neighbor” (Ex. 20:16, ELT). “I speak what My Father tells Me to say, but you speak what you father tells you . . . your father is the devil . . . a murderer from the beginning and does not have the truth in him. I tell you the truth” (John 8:38, 44). ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:16

Denomination: Baptist

Emotions In Prayer

Contributed by Paul Andrew on Oct 23, 2017

There may be souls of spiritual depth who presume in themselves a meager capacity for prayer because they find interior silence unachievable.

“Clearly, then, the idea we have of God can make prayer difficult, if not impossible. We block our way to God by every wrong notion of God. That can happen if we dwell too much on God’s transcendent mystery, if we look upon him as distant and remote, as a God without eyes. A God unavailable to our ...read more

Denomination: Catholic

True Inculturation And The Liturgy Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 16, 2011

Authentic inculturation means that we Christianize the culture in which we live.

18 July 2011 The Spirit of the Liturgy I recall from grade school days when some particularly hard-hearted kid wanted to get under my skin, he would say “Prove it!” to anything I might advance. We see this in the Hebrews fleeing from Egypt. They trusted Moses until they got into a ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 12:38-42

Denomination: Catholic

Part 5 - Matthew 12:10-21 - Heal Me Or Kill Me But Not This! Series

Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Sep 29, 2010

As I talked with Nancy that day she said "Why didn’t He take me too, instead of leaving me like this? It is so unfair. Why is God so unfair?" Where is the JUSTICE of God when you end up with a stroke instead of dying in the process? How am I supposed to a

Part 5 - Matthew 12:10-21 - HEAL ME OR KILL ME BUT NOT THIS! As I talked with Nancy that day she said,"I pray to God every night and ask Him why He has been so unfair to me. Why did He leave me alive?" She is an elderly woman suffering the results of a stroke. She said "My Mother died of a stroke. ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 12:10-21

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Needing God Every Moment Series

Contributed by Alvin Hathaway, Sr. on May 20, 2011

You remember the steps: admit you are a sinner, know that God is greater than sin, give yourself to God, become addicted to Jesus, count the costs, create yourself anew, understand that a lion is on the loose, and then realize that you need God every mome

Sunday, August 24, 2008 “Needing God every Moment” Text: Philippians 4:19 Our summer therapeutic session continues with the expressed intent to breaks one’s addiction to sin in the nine weeks of summer. You remember the steps: admit you are a sinner, know that God is ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 4:19

Denomination: Baptist