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  • Scott Chambers avatar

    Learning To Curb Your Anger Series

    Contributed by Scott Chambers on Apr 9, 2013
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     | 8,505 views

    This is the final sermon in a series over the life of Moses that shows being God's man is never easy. This is the message examines the importance of not allowing our emotions to get out of control.

    At some point in our lives every one of us has experienced anger. Psychologists define anger this way: Anger is an emotion related to one's psychological interpretation of having been offended, wronged or denied and a tendency to undo that by retaliation. Modern psychologists view anger as a ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 18, 2023
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     | 1,698 views

    This sermon emphasizes the transformative power of faith, the importance of spiritual insight, and the blessing of aligning ourselves with God's vision, as demonstrated in the healing of the blind man in Mark 8:22-26.

    Good morning, family! Today, we are going to dive into a powerful passage from the Gospel of Mark that demonstrates the transformative power of faith, the importance of spiritual insight, and the blessing of aligning ourselves with God's vision for our lives. Before we dive in, let's take a moment ...read more

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    Understanding Communication Assumptions

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 15, 2001
    based on 47 ratings
     | 3,075 views

    The real problem was failing to first understand the presuppositional perspectives of the people before the outsiders conducted their experiment. Speakers need to understand their audience’s assumptions before they can expect solid receptivity. This invol

    UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION ASSUMPTIONS Case Study - To successfully understand the presuppositions of people you must know what values they hold at their sub-conscious level. Several years ago agricultural experts from the U.S. taught men in Transkei, South Africa, how to use modern fertilizer. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Getting Rid Of Your Old Junk Series

    Contributed by James Buchanan on Sep 15, 2003
    based on 100 ratings
     | 24,308 views

    A study on Ephesians 4:17-32, this is the first of a series on how to clean up our lives by stopping what’s wrong, changing our thinking, and starting to do what’s right.

    This Friday, Lynelle and I finally got to go golfing for the first time this year. And guess what? I beat her! I also got my 2nd par ever! This got me thinking. What if I played against Tiger Woods (the best golf player in the world today) and beat him? What if he had an off day, and I had a ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Water To Wine

    Contributed by Kerry Haynes on Jan 20, 2019
    based on 3 ratings
     | 15,271 views

    In his first miracle in a little town called Cana, Jesus shows that God moves in the ordinary parts of our lives to bring about the extraordinary, all in an effort to build our faith in him.

    Water to Wine John 2:1-11 January 20, 2019 [Please contact me at kerry.n.haynes@gmail.com for sermon outline in Word.] I love the fact that Jesus did his first miracle at a wedding in a small Galilee town called Cana. Verse 1 introduces the story by stating, “On the third day a wedding ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Blessings From Above Series

    Contributed by Kerry Haynes on Jul 15, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 16,349 views

    The first chapter of Ephesians is one long sentence in the Greek, packed with numerous blessings from above. God chose us, God forgives us, God seals us. We are his...forever.

    Blessings from Above Ephesians 1:3-14 Today we launch a new series through a tiny book of the Bible called “Ephesians.” The Apostle Paul wrote this six-chapter letter to the church in Ephesus while he was imprisoned in Rome. Most scholars believe it was meant to be a form letter, something that ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How Was I To Know?

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Mar 21, 2021
     | 1,900 views

    This sermon is a first-person narrative from the perspective of the innkeeper. We have all too often made the innkeeper into a bad guy. What if he did everything for the family that he could do?

    Well, it would seem I was between a rock and a hard place. I was in a situation, where there were no easy answers. I looked hard for the simple answers because, you know, they say the simplest is always the best. But, it wasn’t a simple lesson I faced. Later in his life Jesus faced several of those ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Accept One Another

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 22, 2013
     | 4,238 views

    A sermon on Romans 14:1-4 (Outline taken from Keith Krell at: https://bible.org/seriespage/mind-your-own-business-romans-141-12, end of first point)

    HoHum: I had trouble appreciating rap music. Until I met some rappers who are using their gift for the Lord. WBTU: Differences between people give opportunities for judging and legalism. We are tempted to judge others because they are looser on some issues and stricter on others. We become ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    I Heard It Through The Grape Vine

    Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Sep 29, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 14,224 views

    You have a God Given inheritance, sometimes you have to remind both yourself and those around you, including the accuser...of that ALL IMPORTANT PROMISE AND TRUTH!

    I Heard It Through The Grapevine Illus. By Sermon Central On a certain isolated Pacific island, when a young man proposed marriage, it was customary to announce it to the entire village. Then he and the whole community would go to the young woman’s home. Her father would come outside and then – ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    What The World Needs Now

    Contributed by Michael Walther on May 18, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,356 views

    Mother's Day Sermon that transitions from the importance of a mother's love to God's love. What the world needs now is the love of God in Christ that comes through God's word.

    What the World Needs Now... Introduction “The sweetest sounds to mortals given are heard in Mother, Home and Heaven” (William Goldsmith Brown). No one can possibly mistake the connection between motherhood, love and God. God certainly hasn’t missed that connection. In ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    The Imperative Of A Sound Spiritual Walk Series

    Contributed by Bobby Stults on Jul 15, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,791 views

    Paul is urging Timothy and all of his readers in the importance of presenting ourselves to our Father God as competent workers who are skilled in doing the work of God’s kingdom.

    SERMON BRIEF Date Written: January 3, 2001 Date Preached: January 3, 2001 Church: BBC (Wed PM) FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS Series: Great Imperatives for Christian Living Title: An Imperative Regarding a Sound Spiritual Walk Text: 2 Tim 2:15 “Do you best to present yourself to God as one approved, a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Man And Woman Series

    Contributed by Rev. Duraimony Dickson on Jun 5, 2021
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,078 views

    Men and women are equally important to God, equally valuable to God. You find the Bible gives value and worth and significance to both men and women, created in the image of God.

    Man and Woman “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” - Genesis 1:27 Men and women are equally important to God, equally valuable to God. You will never find Scripture belittling women. You will never find Scripture demeaning ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Winning The Battle For Your Mind

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on May 17, 2024
     | 2,118 views

    One of the most important things we need to learn and teach others is how to guard, strengthen, and renew our minds, because the battle for sin always starts in the mind.

    Opening illustration: A violent battle is raging around us twenty-four hours per day. In 1965, Donald Grey Barnhouse wrote a book about it called The Invisible War. It is the battle for your mind, and that battle is vicious. It is intense. It is unrelenting, and it is unfair because Satan never ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Put Off - Put On Series

    Contributed by Jon Daniels on Aug 12, 2024
     | 1,584 views

    Based on Colossians 3:5-17 - Challenges hearers to consider the importance of putting off the "garments of garbage" & putting on the "garments of grace."

    “PUT OFF – PUT ON” Colossians 3:5-17 FBCF – 8/11/24 Jon Daniels INTRO – Hospital visit mid-afternoon Tue. Decided to stop at Broad Street Bakery to grab a cup of coffee & work on sermon some. Tuxedo rental store upstairs in Banner Hall. On chalkboard downstairs – “In a tuxedo, I’m a star. In ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Take Heed How You Hear

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Oct 2, 2015
    based on 5 ratings
     | 15,190 views

    It is important how we come to church and hear! We often forget that listening to preaching is an act of worship but few really prepare their mind to hear the Word in a focused way.

    TAKE HEED HOW YOU HEAR TEXT: Hebrews 2:1-4 Hebrews 2:1-4 KJV Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. [2] For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal