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Adopted Of God Series

Contributed by Bruce Landry on May 18, 2004

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We will look at the unique adoption we have in Jesus Christ which Paul shows us in Romans Chapter 8.

Adopted of God Intimacy with the Father Inheritance from the Father NCBC, 4/25/04, Romans 8:15-17 In the Alaska Native Culture that surrounds us is an amazing example of God’s idea of adoption. Many times the younger siblings or their parents will be allowed to adopt their firstborn. To ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:15-17

Denomination: Baptist

Counterfeit Christianity: The Cult Connection

Contributed by Dave Kinney on Feb 12, 2005

based on 18 ratings

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With every ounce of religious freedom comes great weighty responsibility to defend religious truth. I firmly believe that we can know religious truth! Just as we know that there is truth in science and math, there is spiritual truth found only in Jesus

Counterfeit Christianity: The Cult Connection Jude 3,4 The year was 1783, when America officially recognized its independence from England. A fiery pastor named Ezra Stiles steps into his pulpit with a sermon entitled, “The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor”. In it he predicts that in due ...read more

Scripture: Jude 1:3-4

Denomination: Baptist

Be Enriched By God's Word

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 27, 2003

based on 35 ratings

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Too few people experience the fullness of God’s enrichment from the word of God. His word is life, empowerment and enabler to please the Lord in all respects filling us with the knowledge of His will. Let us examine a few of the benefits of God’s word a

Be Enriched by God’s Word (2 Tim 3:16,17) Too few people experience the fullness of God’s enrichment from the word of God. His word is life, empowerment and enabler to please the Lord in all respects filling us with the knowledge of His will. Let us examine a few of the benefits of God’s word as ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

In God's Time

Contributed by John Beehler on Dec 29, 2003

based on 44 ratings

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God makes the decisions

In God’s Time We all have dreams. I’m not talking about the kind of dreams you have when you’re sleeping. I’m thinking more along the lines of the kind that kids have. Kids often dream about what they want to be when they grow up. You know, things like being a singer, ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:21-35

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Are You Stuck In The Past? Series

Contributed by James Buchanan on Jan 1, 2004

based on 47 ratings

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Part one in a two part series on a vision for the future for the church. This particular sermon deals with those who long for the "good old days" for some reason or another.

I hope that all of you have had a happy new year. And I hope that you’ve all made your New Year’s Resolutions, and that you’ve all kept them up to this point. She may have missed the point of New Year’s Resolutions. With an eagerness to make some changes in the area of financial habits, the lady ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 43:18-21

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Jonah's Foolish Freewill Series

Contributed by Robert Baldwin on Aug 2, 2004

based on 11 ratings

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Jonah’s foolish attempt to exercize his freewill over God’s will

Jonah’s Foolishness Jonah 1:1-4 Intro. Most everyone is familiar with the book of Jonah. Many deny that it is true. Our Lord believed it was true because he referred to it. We are all like Jonah in certain degrees. What the book does is give us a picture of Christian disobedience and God’s ...read more

Scripture: Jonah 1:1-2

Denomination: Baptist

Narnia: Promises Foretold Series

Contributed by Glen Schlecht on Dec 5, 2005

based on 16 ratings

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Using the two prophecies in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," see the parallels to Jesus and what it means for us today to bring us hope.

“Promises Foretold.¨ Mark 1:1-8, 12-4-05, Advent 2, Narnia 2 Children’s Message: For those of you who were here last week, you know that we. re getting ready for Christmas by thinking about a story called, “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,.¨ from the Chronicles of Narnia. Today, we’re going ...read more

Scripture: Mark 1:1-8

Denomination: Lutheran

I Am The Door Series

Contributed by Alan Mccann on Apr 25, 2005

based on 34 ratings

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Jesus is the way into the fold and He calls us by name to follow.

I AM THE GATE JOHN 10 VERSES 1-10 I don’t know about you but I cannot tell one sheep from another. If I look at a flock of sheep all I see are sheep. But the shepherd when he looks sees not a flock but individual sheep. Each one is different to him, distinct. Each one he will tell you has a ...read more

Scripture: John 10:1-10

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Seeing Jesus

Contributed by Jim Kane on May 1, 2005

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2005 Easter Sermon

(Opening of the sermon is the dramatic reading script “The News” by Elaine Aadland for the Lenten/Easter Series, “Watchers on the Hill,” produced by Creative Communications for the Parish © 2003) Whatever life road you are currently on, Jesus is on that road as well. He is not far away. The two ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:13-14

Denomination: Church Of God

Dry Bones Breathe

Contributed by Glenn Branham on May 8, 2005

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Life can come to dead people, dead churches, and dead places through the power of God.

"Dry Bones Breathe!" (Or, Dead Men Live!) Ez. 37:1-14 Intro: Don’t give in to the temptation to yawn and think, "oh, just the vision of the valley of dry bones." One of the hardest things we have to combat in our reading of the Scriptures is the bland monotony of reading and re-reading a ...read more

Scripture: Ezekiel 37:1-14

Denomination: Pentecostal

What The Master Needs Series

Contributed by Pat Cook on May 16, 2005

based on 159 ratings

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Last in series on Jesus’ priorities. It’s about giving our donkeys - really, ourselves - to the Master.

Luke 19:28-38 – What the Master Needs (NOTE: these are not original thoughts to me. Most of this cmoes from another sermon of the same name.) Christian author Philip Yancey, in his book The Jesus I Never Knew, described Palm Sunday this way: “The triumphal entry has about it an aura of ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:28-38

Denomination: Baptist

Sheep Or Goat - Which Are You & Which Do You Want To Be?

Contributed by Ian Drucker on Sep 5, 2005

based on 41 ratings

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Where Do You Stand With Jesus Christ?

Sheep or Goat; Which are you and which do you want to be? Dear Brothers and Sisters, the Bible speaks often of heaven and eternal life. It speaks often of Hell. It speaks often of righteousness and unrighteousness. It speaks about judgment day. Today, I want to preach on these subjects from a ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 25:31-46, Matthew 31:25-46

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Why Bad Things Happen To Good People

Contributed by David Smith on Feb 26, 2008

based on 6 ratings

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It’s the age-old theological question - why do bad things happen to good people? Jesus, as ever, doesn’t give us the response we expect. ...

They say that philosophy deals with two sorts of questions: * Questions to which everybody knows the answer (eg. Do I really exist?). * Questions to which nobody knows the answer (eg. Why do I exist?). Religious teachers tend to deal the same sorts of questions, perhaps particularly questions ...read more

Scripture: Luke 13:1-19

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Fate, Failure And Fig Trees (And Why Bad Things Happen To Good People)

Contributed by David Smith on Oct 17, 2007

based on 11 ratings

| 4,644 views

It’s the age-old theological question - why do bad things happen to good people? Jesus, as ever, doesn’t give us the response we expect.

They say that philosophy deals with two sorts of questions: * Questions to which everybody knows the answer (eg. Do I really exist?). * Questions to which nobody knows the answer (eg. Why do I exist?). Religious teachers tend to deal the same sorts of questions, perhaps particularly questions ...read more

Scripture: Luke 13:1-9

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Jesus, The Bread Of Life (John 6:35, 41-51)

Contributed by David Smith on Nov 5, 2007

based on 7 ratings

| 7,530 views

It is not the wisdom. It is not the miracles. It is not the things about Christ that we need the most. It is Christ - God with us - His flesh, His blood - food and drink.

I don’t know what your week has been like, but I’ve had a week that has been full of typical priest-type things: visiting the sick and organising weddings, baptisms and funerals. Indeed, in the next few weeks we’ve got two baptism scheduled, there’s one wedding next Saturday, and tomorrow I have a ...read more

Scripture: John 6:35-51

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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