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18 Be Patient, Your Payday Is Coming Series

Contributed by James May on Jan 2, 2008

We must have patience while await the coming of the Lord. Patience with perseverance in the face of oppression and opposition will make us victorious.

Be Patient, Your Payday is Coming #18 in the Book of James Series By Pastor Jim May James 5:4-6,"Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of ...read more

Scripture: James 5:7-8

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Sunday Night-Jesus Will Find You

Contributed by Jim Caswell on May 25, 2017

We must be open to see Jesus when He comes to us.

Sunday Night: Jesus Will Find You Place: BLCC Date: 5/28/17 Text: John 9.1-41 CT: We must be open to see Jesus when He comes to us. Our story comes from John 9.1-41. There was a man who had been thrown out of his place of worship standing like a man who was lost and had no where to go. He ...read more

Scripture: John 9:1

Denomination: Christian Church

Misunderstanding True Wisdom Series

Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Nov 12, 2019

This passage is a detailed instruction about wisdom—what it is and how we are to use it.

Tonight’s passage is a detailed instruction about wisdom—what it is and how we are to use it. Many are guilty of twisting and adjusting wisdom to mean what they want. One of the greatest temptations that ever confronts us is the temptation to twist true wisdom. This is what this passage ...read more

Scripture: James 3:13-18

Denomination: Baptist

The Guarded Inheritance (April 23, 2017).

Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 14, 2020

We have a living hope, a guaranteed inheritance and the understanding that we are studying for what some call “finals” --- their final exam when they will receive the goal of their faith namely their salvation.

THE GUARDED INHERITANCE Text: I Peter 1:3 – 9 The story is told about three unlikely men who guarded a missionaries home . “Tears glistened in the eyes of the Salvation Army officer Shaw who was a medical missionary who had just arrived in India, as he saw three shackled lepers. The ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-9

Denomination: United Methodist

Hallowing Halloween.

Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Oct 29, 2009

❶. God’s Name is to be Hallowed ❷. God’s Day is to be Hallowed ❸. God’s People are to be Hallowed

ROOTS OF HALLOWEEN Pastor David J. Meyer (A former astrologer and occultist) Last Trumpet Ministries International PO Box 806 Beaver Dam, Wisconsin 53916 http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org In the early days of England, there was a kind of witchcraft known as Druidism. The Druids were called ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:9

Denomination: Baptist

A Return To Bondage Series

Contributed by Aarron Ellerman on Jan 22, 2008

The key to keep from returning to our old ways is growing in our relationship with Christ.

Galatians 4:8-11 “A Return To Bondage” I. Their Former Life (8) • Paul wants them to remember the time before they knew God that is before they came to have an intimate relationship with Him. • “When ye knew not God.” o Know – is a word that means to know intimately or have personal knowledge ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 4:8-11

Denomination: Baptist

Christ, Our Example: Sacrifice Series

Contributed by Rick Boyne on Aug 22, 2011

Jesus is the ultimate example of sacrifice, as He gave Himself to save us.

Christ, Our Example: Sacrifice August 21, 2011 Morning Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: Jesus is the ultimate example of sacrifice, as He gave Himself to save us. Focus Passage: John 10:11-18 Supplemental Passage: "Greater love has no one than this, that ...read more

Scripture: John 10:11-18

Denomination: Baptist

Comparing Genius With Revelations!

Contributed by Tony Abram on Apr 2, 2021

In Genesis the Curse came upon everything. In Revelations the Curse is gone, Jesus paid the price to destroy it. Jesus became a curse for us that we could be free of the curse of sin. He took our place on the cross.

COMPARING GENIUS WITH REVELATIONS! In Genesis the Curse came upon everything. In Revelations the Curse is gone, Jesus paid the price to destroy it. Jesus became a curse for us that we could be free of the curse of sin. He took our place on the cross. Gen. Creation of heaven and earth. ...read more

Scripture: John 1:12, Genesis 3:24, Revelation 20:10, Galatians 3:13

Lessons Of Life By Jesus

Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on Nov 10, 2014

We learn through Christ teachings things that we can look for.

LESSONS OF LIFE BY JESUS There are many lessons we learn in life that Jesus for told in the Holy Bible. 1. Learning in the school of affliction. David speaks of this in his writing in Psalms. Psalms 119: 71 It is good for me that I ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 119:1

Denomination: Baptist

A Leper Cleansed By Jesus.

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Aug 14, 2022

Leprosy is often used as a figure for sin.

A LEPER CLEANSED BY JESUS. Luke 5:12-16. The various skin diseases which fall under the Biblical heading of ‘leprosy’ have long stood as a metaphor for that worst of all human diseases: sin. However, this does not detract from the historicity of the incident which Luke now sets before us. ...read more

Scripture: Luke 5:12-16

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Unfavortism

Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Feb 27, 2012

There’s a saying, ‘the clothes make the man’. Actually, that’s not true. Clothes don’t make the man; they make the opinion of the man. The stigma is that nicer looking, nicer dressed people are more important. And we see from the text today that things we

UNFAVORITISM James 2:1-13 INTRODUCTION: There’s a saying, ‘the clothes make the man’. Actually, that’s not true. Clothes don’t make the man; they make the opinion of the man. There’s a certain image that’s portrayed when someone is dressed nice. And ...read more

Scripture: James 2:1-13

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Tapping Into The Power Of A Dream

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Sep 4, 2005

I’m talking about a vision deep inside that speaks to your very soul. I’m talking about that thing which you were born to do.

19, June 2005 Dakota Community Church Tapping into the Power of a Dream Introduction: I am not talking about everybody’s got a dream lotto commercial. That is about escape not reality. I’m talking about a vision deep inside that speaks to your very soul. I’m talking about that thing which you ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 40:25-31

Denomination: Mennonite

Increase Our Faith!

Contributed by Curt Cizek on Oct 8, 2007

Jesus gives us some hard saying in this text that need to be understood around Jesus’ disciples asking for their faith to be increased.

-My son likes going to AWANA. He enjoys playing games, hearing bible stories, singing to campfire songs. He doesn’t exactly enjoy memorizing bible passages. He give up several times while I am trying to help him learn the passages. I have to prod him on, telling him he can do it and that we are ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:1-10

Denomination: Lutheran

Halloween

Contributed by William D. Brown on Mar 27, 2008

Halloween should not be observed by Christians

Today I’m going to talk about “Halloween: 1st Thess. 5:22 22Abstain from all appearance of evil. Someone may be asking; why is Brother Brown wasting his time talking about “Halloween? Well did you every really have someone explain the origins of this so-called holiday? People in our country ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:22

Denomination: Baptist

Palm Sunday: To Worship Jesus As He Really Is

Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 4, 2009

On Palm Sunday Jesus received a warrior’s welcome into Jerusalem, but Jesus was not that kind of Messiah. Do we worship Jesus as He really is, or as we want him to be?

Do we worship Jesus as he really is? Or do we worship Jesus as we want him to be? It’s a simple multiple choice question – A or B! Do you want to go 50/50? I’m not going to ask for a show of hands. I wonder what mode of transport you would select for a King. A donkey wouldn’t be top of my list, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 11:1-11

Denomination: Anglican