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  • Kevin Ruffcorn avatar

    How Can I Be Happy

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Mar 25, 2005
    based on 29 ratings
     | 4,505 views

    Happiness is an illusive quality, unless our search is based on what Christ offers us on his cross.

    THE SEVEN SERVICE JUNE 16, 2002 John 10:10 “How Can I Be Happy?” INTRODUCTION We were just recovering from the shock of Black Friday, at the same time we were deep in the “Me” syndrome of the late twentieth century. What do you do when you are self absorbed, but also surprised by the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    How Do I Face The Future

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Mar 25, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,569 views

    The future and its possibilities can be scary. Evil appears to be hiding around every corner. Our faith in God, though, gives us hope for the future and enables us to face the future with confidence and power.

    Matthew 28:19-20 “How Do I Face the Future?” INTRODUCTION Times have changed. A few years ago, the future, which we faced, was filled with potential and possibilities. Nothing seemed impossible. The stock market was marking double and triple digit gains. The economy was expanding, and ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    When Jesus Incounters The Occult

    Contributed by Ronald Hughes on Apr 18, 2002
    based on 68 ratings
     | 4,485 views

    When Jesus comes face to face with the effects of the occult what is His process?

    WHEN JESUS ENCOUNTERS THE OCCULT Mark 5:1-20 Rev. Ron Hughes INTRODUCTION - In light of the time of year ... “Halloween”. · They arrive in the boat ... crossing the sea. With Jesus in your boat, you always arrive. We will see three forces at ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    A Time Of Refreshing-Praying For Revival

    Contributed by Tim Byrd on Sep 19, 2002
    based on 40 ratings
     | 6,959 views

    A message preparing our church for it’s first revival in 9 years

    “A TIME OF REFRESHING- PRAYING FOR REVIVAL” Date: March 24, 2002 A.M. Service Place: Allendale Baptist Text: Acts 3:11-19 Introduction Over the next few weeks, I will be speaking and preparing us for our Spring Revival, which will be on April 28, 29 &30. But before I get too far ahead of myself, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Richard White avatar

    They Who Mourn Series

    Contributed by Richard White on Sep 25, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,124 views

    They mourn not just because of personal sin, but because of sin in the world.

    They who Mourn Matt. 5:4 When bad news or calamity came it was customary to tear clothes and cover the head with ashes or dust. Being dressed in sackcloth and ashes showed a time of grief and mourning.. Jeremiah, also known as the weeping prophet has been said to have trained ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Blessings In Being A Servant

    Contributed by Lauro C Hernandez on Sep 26, 2002
    based on 99 ratings
     | 13,799 views

    Knowing what is expected of us as servants of God and the blessing we have in Him.

    THE BLESSINGS IN BEING A SERVANT 1 Peter 5:2 INTRO: In our relationship with God to be able to maintain these encounter with Him, we have to realize what He expects. There is nothing more great and sublime than Him. Separated from Him, there isn’t nobody that deserves our worship and surrender. ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How God Gives Us Courage At Just The Right Time

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 10, 2001
    based on 36 ratings
     | 11,647 views

    How the Lord gives us courage and strength in just the right time and in the right amount

    How God Sends Courage to Us In Our Weakest Times (Acts 23:10-12) Illustration:Author Leo Buscaglia tells this story about his mother and their "misery dinner." It was the night after his father came home and said it looked as if he would have to go into bankruptcy because his partner had ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Blessed Are The Desperate

    Contributed by Pastor/Author: Terry Sisney on Jul 28, 2002
    based on 419 ratings
     | 65,035 views

    Desperate people do desperate things, They may climb a tree, lay in the dirt or jump in a lake, Beware of the desperate person.

    Mk 2:1-13 Mk 5:26-34 For they do not care what anyone thinks. They do not care what anyone says They will go where no one else will go They won’t let anything stop them They will do desperate things, Emptiness is the prerequisite for desperation, Desperation is the condition that exists when a ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Fourty Days That Changed A Life 1

    Contributed by Melvin Shelton on May 14, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,969 views

    You can know God on two levels. You can know God’s works and also know God’s way.

    40 Days that changed a life. (01) Show me thy ways. Exodus 33: 12. I don’t know that you have never noticed that the number 40 is used several times in the Bible. I want us to look into the Bible and look at some Bible characters and at some lives transformed in 40 days. We will call this ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • James Chandler avatar

    Sin, Stones, And Forgiveness

    Contributed by James Chandler on Jan 11, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,596 views

    It is not a question of IF we have sin in our lives, but how we deal with sin in our lives. In John 8, we see how Jesus helped an adulterous woman deal with the sin in her life, and he will do the same for you and me.

    Can you imagine being in Time’s Square in New York City, and there on the jumbo-tron screen was every sin you have ever committed being displayed for all to see? How horrible would that be? How humiliating would that be? We all know we have sin in our life, we just don’t want everyone else to ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    God Is With Us Series

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Dec 23, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,871 views

    A sermon for Christmas to highlight the fact that God became flesh and is with us

    For many years Andrew and Susan had an artificial tree. However this year they decided to get the real thing, so the smell of Christmas could flow throughout their house and they could for once have the real thing. So early in December they approached some locals who told them where they could find ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    When Will There Be No More Tears? Series

    Contributed by James Bohrer on Dec 24, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,506 views

    A message concerning true forgiveness and restoration.

    7 And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, even the veil which is stretched over all nations. 8 He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; For ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Tim Patrick avatar

    The Reverse Prayer

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Jun 10, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,435 views

    This sermon examines God’s pursuit of us and the prayer that results.

    Have you ever caught yourself doing something in reverse? That happened to me on my first attempt at snow skiing. We were in Boone North Carolina and had chosen a beginner slope as a place to sharpen our skills. However, yours truly (out of control) skied onto a slope with a black diamon rating. A ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Raymond Smith avatar

    Abraham, A Man Challenged #14 Series

    Contributed by Raymond Smith on Jan 20, 2008
     | 2,322 views

    God’s response to Integrity

    Abraham, a man of Challenge, Faith and Promise God’s response to Integrity Reading: Genesis 28:1ff Last time we looked at "God’s Response to Intercession," along with the call of our Lord to this fellowship to strong prayer. Abraham has now moved from Hebron, he has come into the country ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Ralph Andrus avatar

    Ufo Answers - Hoax Or Demonic

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Aug 13, 2005
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,887 views

    UFO Answers - Hoax or Demonic What does the Bible Say

    PowerPoint Available on request UFO’s - Next logical step for Evolutionists is the belief in aliens - Readers Digest Poll four out of five believed that there is alien life in outer space. - 1996 Gallup poll claimed that over 70% of the population believed that the government knew more about ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist