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  • Cameron Bottema avatar

    How To Use What God Gave You - What Is That In Your Hand?

    Contributed by Cameron Bottema on Nov 24, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 16,105 views

    God can use the ordinary things in our lives for His extraordinary purpose. Also, this is a great sermon to finish the spiritual gifts study with.

    Introduction: "When God is ready to do what seems to be the impossible He takes what appears to be the improbable and transforms it into the improvable." It has been said of the Church: "20% of the people do 80% of the work of the Church." It has also been said of the Church that: "20% of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Friends

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    Christmas: Why Jesus Came Series

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Dec 15, 2012
    based on 289 ratings
     | 61,509 views

    Why did Jesus come to earth? Why did God send Jesus to earth? 1- To seek and save the lost 2- To serve and not be served 3- To destroy the devil’s work 4- To show us the Father

    INTRO.- ILL.- On Christmas morning a woman told her husband, “I just dreamed that you gave me a beautiful diamond necklace. What do you think it means?” “You’ll know tonight,” he said. That evening just before opening presents, the husband came home with a small package and gave it to his wife. ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Working Together

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Sep 12, 2013
     | 11,108 views

    Why did God create us? Why does He call us together in Christ? We all know we are saved through Jesus Christ, but for what purpose? God answers that clearly in Ephesians 4:11-16. From creation to Christ we are called together to serve.

    The text for our topic of today (we begin our relationship with each other) is from Genesis 2:18 (And Ephesians 4:11-16) The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone, I will make a helper suitable for him.” God had created everything in order and after each creation ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    I Would Rather See A Sermon Than To Hear One Any Day

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Sep 20, 2013
    based on 48 ratings
     | 42,184 views

    "I would rather see a sermon than to hear one any day: I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. Beloved, You may be the only Sermon that your neighbor ever Sees!

    Today's Gospel text can be difficult to understand. The disciples ask Jesus to increase their faith, and He responds: BIBLE " If you had faith the size of mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted into the sea." END Then Jesus speaks about a servant doing his ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Dave McFadden avatar

    “make The Commitment” Series

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Jan 21, 2013
     | 4,357 views

    If our lives are going to count for Christ, we need to make the daily commitment to live for Him as opposed to living for ourselves.

    We are thinking about how we, as believers, can “Get In The Game” for God and live lives that count for Christ. We said we can know we’ve “Got Game” if we: Go for the gold; Aim for excellence; Make the commitment; & Expect God to work. In “going for the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Bobby Stults avatar

    Internal Opposition/Conflict Series

    Contributed by Bobby Stults on Feb 3, 2013
     | 7,520 views

    When serving God conflict and attack from the enemy is expected, what we do NOT expect is the enemy using our own to attack. We must meet this challenge of internal conflict and Nehemiah gives us a template on how this can be done... meet it with honesty

    Sermon Brief Date Written: January 31, 2013 Date Preached: February 3, 2013 Where Preached: OPBC (AM) Sermon Details: Series Title: Building with God Sermon Title: Internal Strife and Opposition Sermon Text: Nehemiah 5 [ESV] Introduction: Nehemiah had heard of the great trouble ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    What In Our World Is God Doing?

    Contributed by James Snyder on Feb 4, 2013
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,615 views

    How God has worked is how He is working and how He will work. To understand this is to begin to weed out of our life the merely good and concentrate on what God has for us.

    Ernest Hemingway was one of the great American writers that changed the way writers wrote and readers read. According to him, the value of a book was in proportion to how much good material you are willing to cut from the manuscript. If, for example, in the last draft of the manuscript one sentence ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

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    Die With Your Boots On

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Mar 17, 2013
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,328 views

    How will you die?

    There is a country song by Toby Keith that says, "We're all just killin' time until the Good Lord takes us home and the best that you can hope for is to die with your boots on." The phrase die with your boots on has been around a long time and has been used to describe good guys and bad guys ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Savior Of Love! Follow Him!

    Contributed by Victor Ramlall on Dec 9, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,931 views

    Our Savior and Lord has given us an example practical Christianity that we should follow his steps in a submission, service and sacrifice of love.

    Mat 20:20-28 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. 21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    The Cap (Or The Roof) The Purposeful Action Of The Church Series

    Contributed by Rev. Richard Norman on Jan 10, 2012
     | 4,116 views

    The Staff, The Foundation, The Walls, and now we cap our series with our Third and very important purpose of the Church, The Evangelization of the lost. In this series we will call this part, or this action “The Purposeful Action of the Church”.

    The Cap (or The Roof) The Purposeful Action of the Church John 1:29-31 (NIV) Part 4 THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH Introduction The Staff, The Foundation, The Walls, and now we cap our series with our Third and very important purpose of the Church, The Evangelization of the lost. In this series we ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    Tsade - Psalm 119:137-144 Series

    Contributed by Bobby Stults on Mar 28, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 12,521 views

    Do you compare yourself to others to make yourself look good? Does it anger your soul when sin is present in the life of others? In your life? Truth is what God's Word has to offer us and sometimes it is the hardest thing to face, but God will never lie t

    TSADE March 21, 2012 Oak Park Baptist Church – Wed Bible Study Series Psalm 119:137-144 (HCSB) – 18 of 22 Tsade – 18th letter of the Hebrew Alphabet Read/show ALL verses b4 verse by verse teaching… [HCSB] 137You are righteous, LORD, and Your judgments are just.138The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Holy Spirit And Spiritual Gifts Series

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 16, 2012
     | 6,229 views

    A sermon on spiritual gifts, serving and meeting needs (Material adapted from Dr. Jack Cottrell's book, "The Holy Spirit: A Biblical Study", chapter 7)

    HoHum: The former editor of Christianity Today, Kenneth Kantzer, commented once that he never knew what his gift was. He just served where he saw the need. If a man of this experience and caliber never knew what his gift was but just served where he saw a need, then this should serve as a good ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Rick Burdette avatar

    People That Influence Their World

    Contributed by Rick Burdette on Apr 30, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,469 views

    Witness, influence, evangelism and service

    PEOPLE THAT INFLUENCE THIS WORLD Matt 5:13-16 (page 683) May 30, 2010 INTRODUCTION: I came into my office Monday, went to check out my email and under the headings that scroll by was… "Believe it or not, celebrities are fat and zitty like the rest of us." Well since I'm ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Respect The Temple Series

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 31, 2012
     | 5,784 views

    Our bodies are not o nly sensational and special - they are also sacred.

    “Building Quality Relationships: With Jesus – Respect the Temple” Eph. 5:3-8; Ps. 139: 1-6 & 13-18 Let’s begin with a brief exercise. When I say “Now”, I want you to exhale and empty your lungs. Ready? Now…Now take a deep breath and fill your lungs. In the ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Don Schultz avatar

    Serve, As You Have Been Served

    Contributed by Don Schultz on Feb 13, 2014
    based on 5 ratings
     | 13,941 views

    Get rid of the me-mentality and serve like Jesus has served you.

    CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP CALLS FOR SERVICE Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." What does it mean when you say, "This restaurant has bad service"? What does that mean? It means that they put a big plate of food in front ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran