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  • Building Towers

    Contributed by Timothy Archer on Jan 29, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,629 views

    We learn from the story of the Tower of Babel the futility of trying to make a name for ourselves.

    I. Making a name We see in the first chapters of Genesis that people basically chose one of two paths. A few of them humbled themselves and followed God, trusting in him and his protection. Such were the descendents of Seth. The other group was principally the descendents of Cain. These ...read more

  • Repentance Time Series

    Contributed by Garth Wehrfritz- Hanson on Feb 29, 2004
    based on 74 ratings
     | 5,504 views

    Jesus laments over Jerusalem and the failure of people to pay heed to his message.

    Sermon for 2nd Sunday In Lent Yr C 7/03/2004 Based on Lk 13:31-35 By Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson, Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, & Chaplain of the Good Samaritan Society’s South Ridge Village, Medicine Hat, Alberta One of the authentic trademarks of a prophet is that they live very dangerously! They ...read more

  • No Room In The Inn, But What About In Our Hearts? Series

    Contributed by Dustin T Parker on May 1, 2007
    based on 59 ratings
     | 19,944 views

    Are we so different than the people in Bethlehem

    No room in the Inn, but what about in our hearts? Christmas Eve Sermon 12/24/2005 † IN HIS NAME † ON this holy night, may you see anew the gift of grace and peace, that God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ has given you. Is there room? It wasn’t a Marriott, or a Hilton. It wasn’t even a ...read more

  • Redefining Significance (How To Surprise Your Biggest Critics) Acts Part 7 Series

    Contributed by Jeff Christopherson on Jan 15, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,480 views

    contrasting God’s and the world’s understanding of a significant life...

    Redefining significance: how to surprise your biggest critics Acts Series: ¡§Completely Irreligious, Yet Radically Christian¡¨ Part 7 Pastor Jeff Christopherson - February 23, 2003 Acts 4:1-22 I. HOW OUR WORLD DEFINES SIGNIFICANCE: 1. Success. (People speak of my ...read more

  • A Second Look At Jesus' Birth

    Contributed by Alex Perednia on Feb 25, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,950 views

    A second look at an all-too-familiar story.

    I) The Circumstances of Jesus’ Birth Christmas “cards stress sunny words like love, goodwill, cheer, happiness, and warmth…we honor a sacred holiday with such homey sentiments…. In contrast to what the cards would have us believe, Christmas did not sentimentally simplify life on planet earth. ...read more

  • From Bitter And Better Iii Series

    Contributed by Jeremy Poling on Apr 21, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,632 views

    Your problems will make you better if you do not allow them to make you bitter.

    Genesis 50:20 he would put it this way, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good.” • Even as his dreams are being fulfilled, as his brothers are bowing before him, as his beloved father is being preserved by him, he finally sees the hand of God in it all. • ...read more

  • "Yet" Faith

    Contributed by Bryan Beverly on Sep 24, 2014
    based on 6 ratings
     | 22,216 views

    This text encourages us to trust God in spite of circumstances that suggest that He has abandoned us.

    17Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines; though the produce of the olive fails and the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold and there is no herd in the stalls, 18yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will exult in the God of my salvation. 19God, ...read more

  • I Thirst

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Apr 17, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,435 views

    Water is a thematic element in the Gospel of John. Jesus baptised in it, turned it to wine, used it as a metaphor of life, used it to heal, walked on it, and washed His disciples feet with water. Yet on the cross He needed water, and He got none.

    I Thirst In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. The first order of creation, even before God proclaimed, “let there be light”, there ...read more

  • A Nation's Delusion Series

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Jun 30, 2019
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,783 views

    This is the 1st sermon in "The Rise Or Fall Of A Nation" series. This series is from the Book of Obadiah and is a message to the Nations.

    Series: The Rise Or Fall Of A Nation [#1] A NATION’S DELUSION Obadiah 1:1-9 Introduction: Last week, as we finished up our series in Ephesians; I said that 1 of the ways that God speaks to us is through dreams. I know that for many in our Denomination, this statement makes them a bit nervous; ...read more

  • "Keep The Saw Sharpe"

    Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Aug 27, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,307 views

    Our spiritual life's need to be kept Sharpe to in order to get through thirsty times, for we live in thirsty lands, we are a thirsty people, are souls are thirsty, and our spiritual cisterns need to be kept in good shape.

    • We live in a thirsty Land, We are thirsty People, we are thirsty Souls, we also need Spiritual repairs So, what's the solution to our spiritual problem, as God's people? The answer ought to be perfectly obvious: Keep the cistern in good repair! Faithful disciples must maintain a reserve of ...read more

  • God's Judgment And Grace

    Contributed by Mark Gil Petallar on Oct 9, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,125 views

    This message focus on the intended meaning of the revelation of God's judgment and grace to David after committing adultery and murder. It focus also on the intended response to all audience including all of us after God's revelation of judgment and grace

    God's Judgment and Grace for David 2 Samuel 12 Introduction: The last sentence of chapter 11 tells us that God is displeased with what David had done. On the other hand chapter 12 reveals God's action towards the sin of David. If we can observe the text starts by telling us that God sends ...read more

  • Jerusalem Council Sermons Series

    Contributed by Brad Beaman on Jan 24, 2022
     | 1,416 views

    We need to live by the wisdom of the Jerusalem council. Never make if difficult for anyone turning to the Lord. The death burial and resurrection of Jesus is available as a free gift to all who put their faith in Christ.

    The background to the sermons preached at the Jerusalem council. We read in acts chapter 6 verse 7 that the word of God was spreading and the number of disciples increased rapidly and that a large number of priests became obedient to the faith. So we realize as we move on through the book of Acts ...read more

  • I Have Overcome The World.

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Feb 1, 2023
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,296 views

    These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace.

    I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD. John 16:25-33. JOHN 16:25a. “These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs.” Hitherto the Lord had spoken in “proverbs” or, as it is translated in John 10:6, ‘parables.’ Most recently He had used the parable of the woman in travail to demonstrate how the disciples’ ...read more

  • Truth Or Theology

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Apr 8, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 598 views

    Are we really seeking God's truth or defending our theologies and traditions?

    The irony is that the most avid defenders of His sovereignty deny Him the right to create a plan of salvation that allows man free will to accept or reject His plan thus opposing His sovereignty. The most avid defenders of free will deny God the right to keep that which He saved until the end ...read more

  • The Dark Night Of The Soul Series

    Contributed by Chris Appleby on Feb 18, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 3,487 views

    All people’s efforts to be right with God have failed, because people chose to exchange the truth about God for a lie. Their only hope is the Gospel of God’s grace.

    You’d have to say that there’s nothing pretty about the picture of the world that we find in this passage from Romans ch1. Here we take off the rose coloured glasses and look, with a degree of reality, at the world we live in. I was talking to someone the other day about watching television and ...read more

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