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    God Of Wonders PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 27, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 158 views

    God’s power and presence remain active today, inviting us to trust Him in hardship, pray boldly, and expect miracles even in ordinary moments.

    Some days faith feels thin as fog. You stand at the kitchen sink with a coffee cup and a knot in your stomach. You sit in the waiting room and study the floor tile as if it could talk back. You lie awake and watch the red glow of the clock turn minutes into miles. In moments like these, we need ...read more

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    New Creation PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 29, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 129 views

    The sermon emphasizes that true life with God begins with spiritual rebirth, a gift of grace that transforms us and welcomes us into God’s family.

    Welcome, dear friends. If you walked in today weary, welcome. If you came hungry for hope, welcome. If you arrived with questions trailing you like a shadow, welcome. The Lord delights to meet us where we are, not where we wish we were. He comes near with kindness, with clarity, and with a promise ...read more

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    The Mission And Calling PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 30, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 136 views

    Jesus personally calls and empowers ordinary people to bring hope and healing, inviting us to trust his authority and join his compassionate mission.

    Friends, imagine Jesus speaking your name with a smile. Picture calloused hands from a carpenter’s bench reaching for ordinary people with ordinary lives—fishermen with tired shoulders, a tax collector with a checkered reputation, men whose resumes looked unimpressive by any earthly standard. Yet ...read more

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    Ministering To The Lord PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 21, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 125 views

    True strength and clarity come from worshiping God with undivided hearts, ministering to Him in prayerful devotion, and listening for the Spirit’s leading.

    Friends, welcome. Some of us came in with calendars crammed full and hearts running on low. You may feel stretched, hurried, or a little hollow. Find your seat. Breathe. The God who knows your name is near. He is not nervous, and He is not in a rush. He is here to meet with His people, and He loves ...read more

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    Five Things That Grace Does PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 26, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 183 views

    God’s grace meets us in our brokenness, not as something earned, but as a transforming gift that brings new life and freedom in Christ.

    There is a hush that falls on the heart when grace comes close. Like dawn quietly lifting the night off the hills, grace slips in—soft, steady, sure—and before you know it, the frost of fear begins to melt. Maybe you’ve felt it on a hard day when your own strength ran out, or in a quiet moment when ...read more

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    Turning Points

    Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
    based on 128 ratings
     | 8,472 views

    Patience is needed to accomplish great things.

    Turning Points Phil 3:5-6 In his 84 years, Thomas Edison patented over a thousand inventions. He is most famous for inventing the light bulb, but made more money off the alkaline battery. Edison was a bulldog, unwilling to accept failure as a final outcome to his efforts. Before he successfully ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Series

    Contributed by Dennis Lawrence on Feb 9, 2001
    based on 124 ratings
     | 8,155 views

    Paul uses tremendous contrasts to show the need to distrust the world and to completely trust God and what He offers.

    The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly February 10, 2001 Contrasts can be a wonderful tool to use in order to make a point. We’re very familiar with contrasts that use extremes and represent opposite ends of a spectrum. Some of these include, black and white, big and small, tall and short, fat and thin, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Taming The Tongue Series

    Contributed by Ewen Huffman on Oct 24, 2003
    based on 18 ratings
     | 4,930 views

    The tongue- 1)The master key 2)A fire 3)A beast 4)A spring

    Taming the tongue. Jas 3:1-12. WBC 26/10/03 pm INTRODUCTION The boneless tongue, so small and weak, Can crush and kill. Declared the Greek. The tongue destroys a greater hoard, The Turk asserts, than does the sword. A Persian proverb wisely saith, A lengthy tongue-an early death; Or sometimes ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Satisfaction Guaranteed Series

    Contributed by Ewen Huffman on Apr 24, 2003
    based on 66 ratings
     | 11,209 views

    1) the invitation of God 2) The timing of God 3) the ways of God 4) The word of God 5) The future with God

    Satisfaction guaranteed. Is 55. WBC 27/4/03 am The invitation of God- v1 29 Palms In the summer of 1988 Gregory Patton found himself temporarily assigned to Camp Pendelton, California Marine Corps Base. He’d requested to go to search and rescue school and he had gotten his wish. About ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Second Coming (Or "2006- The End Of The World?") Series

    Contributed by Ewen Huffman on Dec 5, 2003
    based on 104 ratings
     | 4,280 views

    A sermon with a Mission application to the question "when will the end of the world be?"

    The Second coming (or “2006- the end of the world? “) Matt 24:1-44 WBC 7/12/03pm BBC Two, Thursday 20 November 2003, 9pm- Horizon In November of 2003, the BBC carried this report on it’s science show called Horizons: “Michael Drosnin is an American journalist and best selling author. He has ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    There Is No Greater Name Than Jesus!

    Contributed by Dennis Selfridge on Dec 13, 2003
    based on 20 ratings
     | 10,296 views

    His name is above all others

    THERE IS NO GREATER NAME THAN JESUS Matt. 1:21 We come to this time of the year to think of what God has done to give us the gift of life. I would like to center our thoughts on the name He ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Learning To Make Lemonade Series

    Contributed by Robert Dyson on Dec 19, 2003
    based on 29 ratings
     | 15,911 views

    This sermon is designed to encourage believers to make the most out of difficult situations.

    Series: “How To Have Joy In A Jail Cell” Pastor: Robert E. Dyson City of Refuge Bible Baptist Church True Blue, VA PHP 1:3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Church On Purpose Series

    Contributed by Douglas Bryan on Jan 5, 2004
    based on 47 ratings
     | 8,082 views

    This is the first in a four part series called "On Purpose." God said by using these 4 principles the people of Babylon would succeed in doing whatever they planned.

    THE CHURCH ON PURPOSE Genesis 11:1-9 INTRODUCTION: A. For the past several years we have had a yearly theme for the overall ministry of the church 1. 2002 - Aim Higher a. 2001 - Harvest b. 2000 - Whoever is thirsty, let him come. c. Others: What Would Jesus Do? Higher and ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Make A Buck Vs Make A Difference

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Aug 21, 2004
    based on 21 ratings
     | 2,922 views

    There is a problem when God’s people invest their time, talent, and energy in temporal things that will not make any difference. Invest wisely in the eternal.

    MAKE A BUCK VS. MAKE A DIFFERENCE? IN MY OWN EYES? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com TEXT: Luke 12:15 And Jesus said unto them, TAKE HEED, and BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of THE THINGS which he possesseth. 16. And Jesus spoke a parable unto ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Whom Will He Teach?

    Contributed by J. Yeargin on May 29, 2003
    based on 15 ratings
     | 4,946 views

    My friend, if you don’t take charge of the changes taking place in your life, someone else will.

    WHOM WILL HE TEACH? Text: Isaiah 28:8 thru 13 Following the Sunday morning service, the pastor stood at the back of the church, shaking hands with the worshipers as they left. As one man was leaving, he looked intensely at the pastor and said, "Powerful sermons, Pastor. Thoughtful, well ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God