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  • Ian Humphrey avatar

    On Lying To The Holy Ghost Series

    Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Mar 27, 2025
     | 370 views

    On Lying to the Holy Ghost

    Acts 5:1-16 On Lying to the Holy Ghost Intro - God Has - A Place for His Church - Not our place, but His place for us. A Purpose for His Church - To Witness, To Work, To Watch, To Wait. A Promise for His Church - Matthew 16:18 upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    Diverse Yet One Blood

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Dec 30, 2024
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    All men are my temporal brothers through the Creation. Some men are my eternal brothers through the new Creation.

    Is it not amazing that we love and admire the diversity the Lord gave us in fauna and flora, but get crazy in the small diversity He made in humans with only one color with varying shades. Asians have 2% more fat in their eye area causing their eyes to look different. SO for that people have hated ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Let Us Test Him With Insult And Torture

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 19, 2024
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    Here and in other sources we see that there was at the time of Jesus a current of thought imagining that the Messiah, or some other righteous man, would die for the sins of the people.

    Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Course 2024 About fifty years before the birth of our Savior Jesus, an unknown Jew, probably living in Egypt because of the dispersal of Israelites by Assyria and Babylon, wrote what is called the Book of Wisdom. It’s written in Greek in the style of the Hebrew wisdom ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    When Anger Knocks

    Contributed by Rick Boyne on Jun 10, 2025
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    You can be angry, but don’t let it turn into sin.

    When Anger Knocks June 8, 2025 Morning Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: You can be angry, but don’t let it turn into sin. Focus Passage: Ephesians 4:26-27 Supplemental Passage: Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, For anger resides in the bosom of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Triumphant Entry And The Cleansing Of The Temple.

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Jun 28, 2024
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     | 650 views

    "Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest" (MATTHEW 21:9).

    THE TRIUMPHANT ENTRY AND THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. Matthew 21:1-13. Jesus approached Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover with His disciples - and to present Himself as the ultimate Passover lamb (cf. 1 Corinthians 5:7). Yet it has to be clear from the beginning that Jesus was coming as the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Emblem Of Hope Memorial Day

    Contributed by Gerald Roberts on May 21, 2025
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    The statue of liberty is a beacon of hope to some people, but the cross is the statue of Hope to all people.

    The Emblem of Hope Romans 5:8 1. How did we get the Statue of Liberty? It Is the emblem of Hope to people • The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States, intended as a symbol • of the enduring friendship between the two nations, particularly during the ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    No Pain, No Gain Series

    Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Oct 30, 2025
     | 77 views

    No Pain, No Gain

    Acts 16 v 13 - 24 No Pain, No Gain The Mission The Pursuit - 13 And on the sabbath The Place - we went out of the city by a river side, The Purpose - where prayer was wont to be made; The Peace - and we sat down, The People - and spake unto the women which resorted thither. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus Series

    Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Oct 31, 2025
     | 148 views

    Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus

    Galatians 5 v 1 - 12 Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus The Stand A Stand in Liberty - 1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty A Stand in Loyalty - wherewith Christ hath made us free, and A Stand in Legacy - be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Horatius Bonar On merit not my own I stand; ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    The Many Facets Of Life

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Jan 26, 2004
    based on 224 ratings
     | 9,203 views

    There are manny facets to the Christian life.

    INTRO.- ILL.- Some wit said the seven ages of man are: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills. Most of us experience some of those, if not all of them. We especially don’t like the bills, the ills, and the pills. And maybe the wills! We probably prefer the thrills over anything ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Lord Is My Shepherd

    Contributed by Alan Smith on Aug 16, 2002
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     | 386,505 views

    Psalm 23 is probably the best known passage in all the Bible.

    Introduction: Psalm 23 is undoubtedly one of the best-known passages in all the Bible. Most of us learned it as children and it continues to be a comfort to those who are dying, or those who have lost loved ones. Maybe it’s so well-loved because it is so personal and individual. When we read ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    How Soon Is Soon?

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Apr 5, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
     | 31,453 views

    This sermon examines the signs of the Second Coming of Christ.

    Introduction: In Revelation 22:7, Jesus says, "Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book." The question that Christians have been asking for 2000 year now is; “Just How soon is soon?” In other words, how soon will Jesus return for His church? How ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Narnia Christmas Series

    Contributed by Jonathan Dove on Jan 4, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,758 views

    This was a special service where the auditorium was decorated as Narnia and people in costume (including me as the professor). We had a costume competition for kids as well. The sermon dialogues a little with children and adults and integrates various les

    11th December 05 ABC A Narnia Christmas Welcome (earlier in service) Welcome to the world of Narnia. We continue a Celebrate Christmas series, something a little bit different from our normal services. Jesus often sat down on the side of a hill or in the city. Parents would sometimes bring ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Jesus And Me Myth Series

    Contributed by Rick Thiessen on Nov 5, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,850 views

    American Christainity has bought into some unbiblical ideas about faith and church and Jesus. This week, we talk about the lone ranger Christianity build on individualism

    SE100707 MYTHBUSTERS 1. Jesus and Me Myth MYTHS We’re prone to pick up and pass on myths. I know this because I have an email account. I get about 4 emails a week detailing fantastic stories that just a small amount of research will prove totally false. But people just keep picking them up and ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    A Shepherd Worth Following Series

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Oct 10, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,194 views

    Jesus is the Good Shepherd to Whom we can entrust ourselves

    Introduction: We have a problem this morning. How many of you have ever raised sheep? How many of you have ever lived near sheep? How many of you know very little at all about sheep? That’s our problem. You see, to really appreciate the point of Jn10, we have to know something about sheep. To ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Evasion Of Exasperation Series

    Contributed by Pat Damiani on Jun 30, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,128 views

    54th in a series from Epehesians. How to avoid exasperating my children - and others.

    This week, I ran across this article. Although it is attributed to a pamphlet put out by the Houston police department, the author is actually unknown and no one can produce a copy of any such pamphlet. Nevertheless, it gives us some good food for thought this morning: TWELVE RULES FOR RAISING ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist