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  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    We Must Serve The Poor Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 25, 2016
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    The church ministered to the poor. If we lose that character, we are no longer the true church.

    Fifth Day of the Christmas Octave 2016 Joy of the Gospel St. John the Evangelist is the apostle and evangelist of love, but he can write in very black-and-white manners. In his first epistle his language is stark: if you obey the law to love your brother you are walking as Jesus did. If you say ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Changing Hearts, Changing Worlds Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 11, 2016
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    The Holy Spirit knows well what is needed in every time and place.

    Thursday of 11th Week in Course There’s a contrast between our two prophets–Jesus and Elijah–in today’s Scriptures. Elijah’s missionary method was pretty direct. When Israel defected from worshiping the true God, he called down a three-year drought. When he won ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    The Shepherds At Dawn Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 21, 2014
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    We should emulate the shepherds, and be thankful for their witness.

    Christmas Dawn Mass 2014 Thirteen Days of Christmas “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; the Lord is God and He has enlightened us.” These words of today’s Gradual psalm are the centerpiece of the Christmas dawn Mass Scripture readings. St. Paul tells us that the ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    A Word To The God-Fearing

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Mar 19, 2017
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    Peter's sermon at the house of Cornelius: the Gentile Pentecost.

    A WORD TO THE GOD-FEARING. Acts 10:34-43. Whilst meditating on a rooftop in Joppa, the Apostle Peter received a vision in which he was warned ‘not to call anything impure which God has cleansed’ (Acts 10:15). Meanwhile, in Herod’s seaport of Caesarea, a God-fearing Roman Centurion named ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Help For Hungry Hearts

    Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Aug 12, 2011
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    Only Christ can satisfy the deepest longing of the human heart.

    “Help for Hungry Hearts” Acts 8:26-40 Acts 8:26 “And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. 27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Before The Holy Spirit Can Use A Believer

    Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on Sep 29, 2011
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    The Holy Spirit must be strong in us

    BEFORE THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN USE A BELIEVER Gal.3: 3Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 4Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Spiritual Superheroes

    Contributed by Jon Lipka on Apr 1, 2012
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    God has graced us with every spiritual gift that we need for life and godliness, and has given us power through the Holy Spirit to life the life of grace.

    I. OPEN: Spiritual Superheroes, even though we don’t always feel like it A. Do you like Superman? “Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.” Whenever Lois Lane, or a careless child, was in danger, and there was ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    The Things That Are To Come

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on May 24, 2012
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    Pentecost Sunday, Year B 2012

    The Things That Are To Come / John 16: 4b – 15 Intro: Sharon and Joan had been best friends ever since Sharon moved in next door with her husband and three kids. Joan baked a cake and took it next door to her new neighbors. That was 20 years ago. Their kids had grown up together. The 2 ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    True Confessions

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Jul 27, 2013
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    Here is a very short teaching on what confessing means in regard to 1 John 1:9

    True Confessions 1 John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and will purify us from all unrighteousness." Over the years, many revivals have happened when God poured out His Holy Spirit so mankind may have the opportunity to be restored back ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Drawn Into The Family Of God

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Dec 26, 2013
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    What it means to be heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ.

    DRAWN INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD. Romans 8:12-17. 1. The mortification of sin (Romans 8:12-14). Paul has just commented that “if Christ is in you the body is dead on account of sin” (Romans 8:10). And that “the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead will also quicken (revivify, make ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Faith: Touching And Being Touched By Jesus

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 18, 2014
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    "the light of love is born when our hearts are touched and we open ourselves to the interior presence of the beloved"

    Thursday of 2nd Week in Ordinary Time 2014 Lumen Fidei King Saul of Israel exhibited what we might call paranoid schizophrenic tendencies. He had an on-off relationship with his son, Jonathan, and the same kind of relationship, but even more intense, with the man he considered his main rival, ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Standing In The Freedom Of The Gospel: Maintaining Our Focus

    Contributed by David Taylor on Jan 23, 2014
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    Standing in the Freedom of the Gospel: Maintaining our Focus

    Standing in the Freedom of the Gospel: Maintaining our Focus Galatians 3:1-9 As a pastor there are so many needs and so many good things that can be done. It is easy to get distracted and lose focus on the most important things. The church in America is easily distracted that the main thing God ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Seeing The Plan And Hearing The Word

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 25, 2014
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    Like Augustine, we must integrate into our lives the need to see God's vision and to hear God's call.

    Thursday of 3rd Week in Course 2014 Lumen Fidei The vision of God is always broader and deeper than any plan of a human. King David was in a really good mind when he wrote this prayer of thanksgiving to God. Remember that Saul, his predecessor, had wanted a dynasty, but he turned against ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    The Word In The Life Of God's People Series

    Contributed by David Taylor on Jan 30, 2014
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    Foreigners in a Foreign Land The Word in the Life Of God's People

    Foreigners in a Foreign Land The Word in the Life Of God's People 1 Peter 1:22-23 David Taylor We are revisiting this passage to direct our attention to this fall, which really starts at the end of the month with Sunday School, Youth Group, and then in the fall Life Groups and Pioneers. I ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Need For Christian Stability

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Nov 2, 2013
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    Go on holding on: the day of Christ is not here yet.

    THE NEED FOR CHRISTIAN STABILITY. 2 Thessalonians 2. The church of the Thessalonians had heard a rumour concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our being gathered together to Him (2 Thessalonians 2:1). There were those who taught that “the day of Christ” was already here (2 ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational