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  • Brady Cooper avatar

    No Wake Zone: Assessing Your Wake Series

    Contributed by Brady Cooper on Jun 23, 2009
    based on 8 ratings
     | 9,720 views

    This sermon addresses the effect of our "wakes" in our relationships, i.e. how our behavior and attitudes affect those around us in our homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, friendships and extended families.

    I’m so excited about this series we’re starting today. We’ve entitled it No Wake Zone. We’ve done that for a real specific reason. This is a relationship series, but we want to do a visual of what healthy relationships are really like. I think if we could see it first, then we could begin to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Nickolas Kooi avatar

    Sword, Suffering, And Shame

    Contributed by Nickolas Kooi on Jul 4, 2017
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,497 views

    It is not easy following Jesus. We can lose friendships, our family, and endure hardships and heartache. Jesus tells us in Matthew 10 that these things will happen, and that we look to Him when they do.

    In High School, one of my favorite teachers was Mr. Smith. I enjoyed his humor, his teaching styles, and his supportiveness. I also really enjoyed him as a soccer coach. I know I was one of his favorite students too, as he once said that in a class. He was instrumental in getting me a $2,000 ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan avatar

    Rights Of Believers Series

    Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on Oct 15, 2022
     | 1,266 views

    Paul mentions that Church has some disputable matters related to food, clothing, friendship, and cultural impacts on the believers. There are always tendencies and trends among the believers to accuse, judge, passing comments on others.

    Romans 14:01-08 Rights of the believers Disputable Matters – Romans 14:1-3 Paul mentions that Church has some disputable matters related to food, clothing, friendship, and cultural impacts on the believers. There are always tendencies and trends among the believers to accuse, judge, passing ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • MELVIN NEWLAND avatar

    Home Baked Happiness- Giving Christmas To Your Family Series

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 13, 2001
    based on 791 ratings
     | 122,167 views

    Part of the Christmas Wonder PowerPak.

    MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK ILL. It’s Christmas time, & Lucy comes in where Charlie Brown is standing & says, "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown. `Tis the season of peace on earth & good will toward men. Therefore, I suggest we forget all ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Mark Pierce avatar

    Comfortable Or Conformable Series

    Contributed by Mark Pierce on May 25, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,179 views

    Should our Christian faith be comfortable or conformable? What are the conformable paradoxes?

    Comfortable or Conformable – 03.29.09 READ – John 12:20-32 Introduction – The Christian life is filled with uncomfortable paradoxes. Today I’d like to consider the fact that our lives as Christ followers are not necessarily to be comfortable, but to be conformable. This ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    I Love This Church

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Jan 29, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,753 views

    Uses Toby Keith’s song, "I Love this Bar" and the "Cheer’s" Theme song, to compare to the church and the need everyone has to belong.

    “I Love This – Church!” February 1, 2009 “How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Tyler Edwards avatar

    Disconnected From God

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on Apr 25, 2009
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     | 34,442 views

    Have you ever felt disconnected from God? How do we connect with Him?

    Text: Psalm 51:10 March 30th, 2008 Disconnected Have you ever felt disconnected from God? Have you ever wondered if He was really there? Have you felt lost, alone and wondered if God was really listening? Why is it that if God desires a relationship with us so badly that it can seem so hard to ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Popularity

    Contributed by Rick Thiessen on Sep 19, 2007
     | 857 views

    Our world is obsessed with outer beauty and poplarity, but the Bible has something to say about stucturing our lives to be about "the crowd"

    SE090907 3QUELS 1 Shrek - Popularity TITLE SLIDE If you went to our Visioncast retreat 2 weeks ago, you remember our speaker Tim Bergmann, buddy of mine from college. Well, last month he tells me about a bunch of pictures of himself with these really cool cars. Their church did a fund raiser ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Carl Willis avatar

    Can He Really Do That? Series

    Contributed by Carl Willis on Jun 9, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,033 views

    Jesus acknowledges the faith of friends and forgives the sin of the paralytic. The scribes question His authority, so He validates His authority with healing. To what lengths are you willing to go to bring others to Jesus? How is your religious l

    Can He Really Do That? Mark 2:1-12 Mark 2:1-2 (HCSB) When He entered Capernaum again after some days, it was reported that He was at home. So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and He was speaking the message to them. Why He Returned * Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    A Visit To Mongu

    Contributed by Mark Aarssen on Dec 3, 2009
     | 2,628 views

    How long has it been since you had a real good visit with God? Have you taken the time to greet one another properly and have you bothered to invite your friends to travel with you?

    A Visit to Mongu 1 Thessalonians 5:11-28 While in Africa I met many beautiful Christians and one such man was Pastor Kenneth I want to talk to you this morning about the importance of a visit and how our Heavenly Father demonstrates how we ought to go about visiting. From the very start of His ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Joseph Smith avatar

    Friend Of The Shut Out Series

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Oct 20, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,501 views

    We are not shut out: Jesus includes us by giving us knowledge, by giving us a place in His mission, and by paying the price to see that we are included in the Kingdom.

    A number of years ago I saw a very provocative poster. It was a depiction of the doors of Washington. Nothing more than a series of doors, arranged in rows on the poster, probably twenty or twenty-five, all photographs of various doors in this city. Some of them were beautifully simple doorways ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Joseph Smith avatar

    Heavenly Cpr

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Mar 28, 2010
     | 4,001 views

    1986, with an Assistant reading the part of Philemon. An imaginary set of letters between Paul and Philemon, emphasizing that a new relationship with Christ changes every human relationship, and calls for forgiveness and mutual support.

    Among all the weighty theological treatises the apostle Paul wrote to the churches he had established, among all the complex sentences and profound thoughts and ponderous pronouncements, there is one little gem from the hand of the great apostle that is quite different. The little letter to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Patrick Nix avatar

    Balancing Relationships

    Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,218 views

    Balance is “the ability to decide an outcome by throwing one’s influence/support to one side or the other.”

    I desire balance, yet it escapes me again today. What of it – where did it go? It is defined as “a state of equilibrium; equal distribution of weight.” Balance is “the ability to decide an outcome by throwing one’s influence/support to one side or the other.” In life, the rest that we call balance ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • David McBeath avatar

    Accepting Forgiveness Series

    Contributed by David Mcbeath on Feb 6, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,441 views

    This sermon is about accepting forgiveness.

    Series: Christmas is For-Giving Message: Christmas is For-Giving 3 “Accepting Forgiveness” Topics: Forgiveness, Jesus, Church, Hurt, Pain, Receiving Forgiveness, David Text: 2 Samuel 12:22-23, Matthew 1:21-22, 2 Corinthians 7:10 Date: January 22, 2011 Pastor: David McBeath REVIEW/PREVIEW It is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Mike Rickman avatar

    We All Need Somebody To Lean On

    Contributed by Mike Rickman on Nov 26, 2010
    based on 5 ratings
     | 11,683 views

    Our need for one another in the church is mutual.

    November 28, 2010 Morning Worship Text: Philippians 1:3-11 Subject: Mentoring Title: We All Need Somebody to Lean On In keeping with the celebration of Thanksgiving, and in conjunction with the message from last Sunday morning about mentoring new believers and developing spiritual ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God