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  • Jon MacKinney avatar

    Faith And Decision-Making

    Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Dec 20, 2005
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    We are called on the make decision all the time, from long ranging decisions to simple ones. How did the early church go about making a life and death decision at the infant stage of their existence?

    Passage: Acts 4:23-31 Intro: I was amazed to discover on the web this week that for some churches, the question is not what time their Christmas Day service should be, but whether they should have it at all! 1. decision making in the church can be a quagmire, with all those opinions flying ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    The Healing Of The Man At The Pool PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 27, 2023
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,589 views

    To explore the transformative power of Jesus, both in physical healing and spiritual transformation.

    Good morning, church! I hope you're all feeling blessed and highly favored. Today, we're going to delve into a remarkable passage from the Book of John - chapter 5, verses 1 to 15. This story is a powerful illustration of not only the healing power of Jesus, but also His ability to transform our ...read more

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  • Ajai Prakash avatar

    Faith In Action

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on May 30, 2013
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    Some Christians have a similar problem—spiritual gambling. It’s a way of living that involves taking chances by seeing how far we can stretch God’s patience. There’s not one chance in five that God won’t keep His word. There’s not even one chance in a tho

    Opening illustration: The problem of compulsive gambling may seem foreign to most of us. Yet experts believe that millions of Americans are psychologically addicted to gambling. It gives them the excitement of hope and risk, but it usually ends in defeat. It is indeed a temporary pleasure. For ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Scott Carmer avatar

    Choose Faith, Not Fear

    Contributed by Scott Carmer on May 14, 2007
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     | 6,035 views

    The story of Lydia, who responded to Paul’s leadership by being baptized.

    Choose Faith, Not Fear Acts 16:9-15 May 13, 2007 Mother’s Day Today is Mother’s Day. It is a day that we are all familiar with because we all have had mothers at one time or another. I have a feeling (Now I could be wrong about this. Maybe other men don’t share my perspective. But I have a ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Charles Jones avatar

    God Is Still Faithful

    Contributed by Charles Jones on Aug 30, 2007
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    For God to be unfaithful it would mean that he would be acting contrary to His nature, which would be impossible: Numbers 23:19 is plain enough: "God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent."

    Deuteronomy 7:9 Text "God, the faithful God" When we read this quotation we must understand that it is taken from 2 passages of scripture that focus on describing to us one of the 8 characteristics of God which is Faithfulness or Loyalty in Exodus 20 we read: (v.6) 1 God spoke all these ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • David Jenkins avatar

    The Reality Of Expectant Faith Series

    Contributed by David Jenkins on Sep 25, 2004
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     | 4,696 views

    The reality of expectant faith

    Acts 4:23, “23As soon as they were freed, Peter and John found the other believers and told them what the leading priests and elders had said.” This here is a transition into the heart of the testimony of God’s active involvement as expressed in Acts 4:23-31 and the remainder of ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Darrin Fish avatar

    Maturing In Our Faith

    Contributed by Darrin Fish on Sep 3, 2015
     | 5,612 views

    In life we are called to encourage others

    Maturing in our faith INTRO.- ILL.- There once was a man whose life long dream was to sail around the world in his boat. • And as he set off on his Voyage • There was a crowd of people laughing at him on the pier • They were saying things like you’ll never make ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Faith Is One And Catholic Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 17, 2014
     | 3,100 views

    The word "catholic" means universal. It means we are open to all humans and open to all Truth.

    Thursday of 5th Week of Easter 2014 Lumen Fidei Today’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles gives us a glimpse of the first ecumenical council, and an important look at the hierarchical structure of the early Catholic Church. Remember that the debate was over circumcision. Some of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Fact, Faith, And Feeling

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
    based on 6 ratings
     | 9,345 views

    These three words stand for three most important issues in our spiritual life. We all have to deal with them in one form or another, but it is above all things necessary that we should place them in the right order.

    Intro: These three words stand for three most important issues in our spiritual life. We all have to deal with them in one form or another, but it is above all things necessary that we should place them in the right order. (Illustrate: Train) I. FACT (Acts 8:32-33 quoted Isa. 53:7-8) Fact ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Foundations, Faith And Family Series

    Contributed by Jay Tigner on May 7, 2016
     | 5,247 views

    When the church looks like what Jesus created the church to look like the church will accomplish what Jesus designed the church to accomplish.

    The Church is Born… The last verse of the passage that we studied together last week described the birth of the Church—ACTS 2:41. The Holy Spirit had helped the preacher preach and the Gospel of Jesus Christ was proclaimed with power. The Holy Spirit had helped the hearers hear when ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How God's Mercy Acts Through Our Faith And Love Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 3, 2024
     | 755 views

    We love God and because of that we obey His commandments, so we are bound to love the children of God by obeying His commandments.

    Second Sunday of Easter 2024 (Sunday of Divine Mercy) This is the Sunday of Divine Mercy, but isn’t every Sunday a celebration of the mercy of God? Our psalm today cries out “His mercy endures forever.” God’s mercy, which in Hebrew reads as hesed, is everlasting. In fact, this statement, that ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Maturing In Our Faith

    Contributed by Darrin Fish on May 6, 2014
     | 4,700 views

    How to motivate and encourage others.

    Maturing in our faith INTRO.- ILL.- There once was a man whose life long dream was to sail around the world in his boat. • And as he set off on his Voyage • There was a crowd of people laughing at him on the pier • They were saying things like you’ll never make ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • Craig Smee avatar

    A Faith Soaked Heart

    Contributed by Craig Smee on Nov 27, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,647 views

    Having and developing a Christian memory.

    A young child was looking at a plaque in the lobby of the church with the names of people from the congregation who had died in the military. The pastor came up to the boy and explained that the plaque had the names of people who died in the service. With wide eyes, the boy asked, “Which service, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    God's Faith Incubator Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 7, 2011
     | 5,765 views

    Outreach ministry and discipleship development are significant challenges. so we need to glean wisdom from the experience of the godly, especially Paul. Here are two pieces of advice we can glean from Paul's experience, even though our context of ministr

    God's Faith Incubator (Acts 13:42-52) 1. A few years ago, the WWJD fad was raging. It was a good fad. Do you remember the bracelets with WWJD that the kids would wear? 2. I saw a cartoon of Jesus with a bracelet on. It said, "WWI" for "What would I do?" 3. Two incidents happened within the ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    A Faithful Prayer Warrior Series

    Contributed by Ricky Tuttle Thd on Aug 18, 2023
     | 1,635 views

    Today we look at the servant Stephen and his prays. In the last moments of his life we see his short observation and then his prayer.

    “A Faithful Prayer Warrior” Acts 7:54-56, 59-60 We again are looking at the prayers of the people of God; not to copy them but understand how they prayed and the effect of prayer. There are only 650 prayers in the Bible and 450 that are answered. Today we look at the servant Stephen and his ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist