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  • Alison Bucklin avatar

    Service Entrance

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 2, 2023
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    In God’s kingdom it’s how we handle our everyday lives, not whether or not we make a big splash, that truly matters.

    Anybody remember the riots that broke out some years ago when Sony’s PlayStation 3 was scheduled for release? Nearly 400 people in Boston’s Copley Place mall overwhelmed mall security. Nearly a dozen police cruisers responded to the call. Fortunately, no one was hurt, and the crowd dispersed when ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Return To Sanity

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Jun 5, 2012
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     | 9,142 views

    Pride is devastating to the life of God within us, primarily because it focuses us on ourselves and tricks us into believing that the good things of life are somehow produced by us or are given to us because we are so great or so worthy or so important.

    Return to Sanity Dan 4 Mar 11, 2012 Intro: A young woman was seeking some help: Pastor, I have a besetting sin, and I want your help. I come to church on Sunday and can’t help thinking I’m the prettiest girl in the congregation. I know I ought not to think that, but I can’t ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Recover From Failure Series

    Contributed by Tom Shepard on Jan 2, 2016
    based on 7 ratings
     | 29,645 views

    This sermon has five points to overcome failure. 1. ALLOW Jesus To Take Control 2. DO What Jesus Asks 3. SHARE The Surplus 4. WALK In Humbleness Before God 5. RE-SET The Priorities Of Your Life

    How To Recover From Failure (Or How To Be Successful) Have any of you ever had a failure in life? Have you ever tried something and it just doesn’t work? It flops – it fails. I know that I have failed at times. Things did not turn out the way that I had hoped. It’s reported ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Foolishness Of God - Part 2 Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Mar 18, 2022
     | 1,876 views

    To repair your broken relationship(s), remember what you were before you came to know Christ and realize who you are in Christ.

    The Governor’s Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts, 33 miles north of Boston, is the oldest independent boarding school in the United States. Samuel Moody founded the school in 1763, which includes Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, John Quincy Adams, and Booker T. Washington Jr. as part of its ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    There Is No Plan B Series

    Contributed by Rick Burdette on Apr 23, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,742 views

    Salvation, repentance, humility, pride

    THERE IS NO PLAN B “Why going is urgent, not optional” Romans 3: 10-12 (p 797) Oct. 16, 2011 INTRODUCTION: Have you ever heard the statement “Ignorance of the law is no excuse?” or “Ignorance of the law is no ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    "Conjunction Junction"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Apr 30, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,444 views

    A sermon about overcoming pride.

    2 Kings 5:1-16 “Conjunction Junction” By: Ken Sauer, Pastor of East Ridge United Methodist Church, Chattanooga, TN eastridgeumc.org This has been some week, to say the least!!! Here in the South, the death toll from Wednesday’s storms keeps rising. At least 340 people were ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    How Can The Lord Help Us When We Have A Tendency To Boast?

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 19 ratings
     | 4,428 views

    Guidelines for overcoming prideful tendencies

    Some Biblical guidelines for overcoming a tendency to boast: 1. Remember that everything we have comes from the Lord. Paul writes, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord." (I Cor. 1:31) When you consider how much the Lord has given us we really have little to boast about other than what we have in ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    James And John: "We Deserve The Best!" Series

    Contributed by Rick Burdette on Sep 6, 2017
     | 11,368 views

    Pride, Humility, Service, Unity

    OUT OF WEAKNESS…STRENGTH - James and John: “We Deserve the Best!” Mark 10:35-45 (p. 707) September 10, 2017 Introduction: Dwight L. Moody once said, “The measure of a person isn’t how many servants they have but how many people they serve.” But man! That doesn’t ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Where Do You Go When You've Really Blown It? Series

    Contributed by Rick Burdette on Apr 29, 2014
     | 6,656 views

    Pride, Failure, Redemption, Forgiveness

    Mark 14:27-31; 66-72 (p. 711) May 4, 2014 Introduction: [I was 19 years old and I’d been a Christian for a little over a year. I’d finished my first semester at Johnson Bible College and I had driven down to Florida to work at my sister & Brother-in-law’s church for Week ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Death Wish Series

    Contributed by Rick Burdette on Apr 17, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,945 views

    Mutiny, pride, security, arrogance

    THE DEATH WISH Luke 15: 11-12 (p740) July 17, 2011 INTRODUCTION: Have you ever wanted someone to die? I have! I remember my father's battle with cancer...it had ravaged his entire body...He only weighed 135 pounds when it began, but after battling it for a year...the last six months ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Sisera

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Nov 25, 2012
     | 5,803 views

    Pride has its fall.

    Bare foot! Judges 4:17”However, Sisera had fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.” When humpty-dumpty had a great fall, none of his horse men were able to put humpty ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    How Could Anything Exist Unless God Had Created And Sustained It?

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 31, 2025
     | 76 views

    This takes us to the central Scripture of this Sunday, the beautiful and even humorous tale of Zaccheus, the renegade Jew. I call him “renegade” because only such a person would collect taxes for the despised Roman occupiers of the Jewish homeland.

    Thirty-first Sunday Integral 2025 (yr C) The book of Wisdom, which we have heard recently, is a late OT writing that is preserved in Greek rather than Hebrew. Its theology is very advanced. Here the writer addresses God poetically as creator, ruler and master of wisdom: “Before the LORD the whole ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

  • Ajai Prakash avatar

    What Is Your Calling? (Part 8) Series

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 10, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,172 views

    Do we continue in a lifestyle if sin? Is our life filled with any form of violence? Do we yearn and live our life based on corrupted wisdom? What sort of worship we bring before God? Is pride evident in our lives?

    Opening Illustration: Narrative of Krupy who used to be our worship leader in the Middle East. As soon as pride and corrupted wisdom entered his heart, God eliminated him from ministry and his calling was stunted. Introduction: The devil was at one time a righteous angel! Therefore, he, too, is a ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • David Coe avatar

    Dumb Edom

    Contributed by David Coe on Nov 11, 2000
    based on 147 ratings
     | 4,952 views

    A sermon to show the sin of pride.

    DUMB EDOM Obadiah 1:1-18 I. THE DEFINITION OF PRIDE - vs. 4 "...thou exalt thyself..." II. THE DECEPTIVENESS OF PRIDE - vs. 3 "The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee..." III. THE DEFENSELESSNESS OF PRIDE - vs. 5-6 "If thieves came to thee..." IV. THE DESERTION OF PRIDE - vs. 7 ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Roger Hasselquist avatar

    What In The World?

    Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Jul 8, 2024
     | 829 views

    There is a lot in this world that is out of joint with common sense. But that is nothing new. The apostle John gives us a warning about how things can go haywire. He makes it clear that many things in this world get in the way of good living.

    Alba 7-7-2024 WHAT IN THE WORLD? I John 2:15-17 Have you ever been in a situation that makes you say, “What in the world!” There are some crazy things out there that could cause you to say that. James Snyder in a sermon entitled, “What a Crazy World We Live In” shared some things that made him ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ