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  • "Making The Wise Choice"

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Sep 28, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,082 views

    Teaches how we make choices and how to make better ones.

    “Making the Wise Choice” October 3, 2010 “The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good ...read more

  • An Extraordinary Introduction Series

    Contributed by Thomas H on Oct 4, 2010
     | 5,427 views

    In this extraordinary introduction, Paul introduces us to his letter to the Ephesians with a blessing of grace and peace - two words which neatly describe what Christ has done for us and which Paul develops in his letter to the Ephesians.

    Ephesians 1:1-2 As many of you know, for the last few years we lived in the former Soviet Union. I remember one morning a young man came up to me, wanting me to translate a letter from Russian to English for him. He had some acquaintance in an English speaking country and he wanted me to ...read more

  • Don’t Sell Your Birthright Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Oct 7, 2010
    based on 5 ratings
     | 62,887 views

    Believers have rich inheritance rights as children of God, but like Esau some have sold their birthrights. Please, Believer, don’t sell your birthright like Esau: don’t sell your priesthood; don’t sell God’s promises; and don’t sell your power over sin.

    Just a year ago (on September 16, 2009), an article in The Washington Post began with these words: “The king folds her own laundry, chauffeurs herself around Washington in a 1992 Honda, and answers her own phone. Her boss’s phone, too.” The article was about Peggielene Bartels, a secretary in the ...read more

  • The Heart Of Truth Series

    Contributed by Brad Bailey on Oct 8, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,506 views

    Truth is not only a matter of the head, embracing truth through our rational abilities, but also through the disposition of our inward choice.

    Intro – The Heart of Truth Let me begin by asking a question… is truth a matter of the head or the heart? Do we embrace truth through the deduction of our rational abilities… or through the disposition of our inward choice? This is an issue that Jesus is going to challenge us with ...read more

  • Your Not Welcome

    Contributed by Jim Mccutchen on Oct 10, 2010
    based on 20 ratings
     | 9,269 views

    One Sunday morning, Satan happened to be standing outside of a large Church. Inside, the people were singing, praying, and listening to a sermon. Someone passed by on the sidewalk and noticed Satan standing on the steps of the church. The passerby asked S

    YOUR NOT WELCOME! We all face moments of temptation: I heard about a 4-year old girl was caught by her Mom standing on a stool in the kitchen eating cookies. Her Mom had told her that she was not to be eating those cookies until after dinner. When caught red-handed and confronted by her Mom, she ...read more

  • Drought - Its Cause & Cure

    Contributed by John Perry on Oct 16, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 11,479 views

    Drought is an ongoing reality where we live, something we've learned to live with & something we've gotten used to. But the thought of drought in our land got me thinking about the reality of personal, spiritual drought.

    Bunbury Sun am 17/10/10 “Drought – its cause & cure” Intro: *** One of the constant topics coming up in the news at least every week if not every day now w/ the approach of summer is the obvious drought we’re facing. Rainfall has been perilously low this last winter, dams ...read more

  • The Three Temptations Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 24, 2010
     | 10,387 views

    The temptations that Satan tempted Christ with are common to each of us and we can learn from his response

    Forty days, in the wilderness. Forty days, not four, not fourteen but forty. And all he took with him was what he was wearing. He wasn’t part of a tribe, had nobody to build an alliance with, it was just him, a rugged terrain and God. What did he eat? Did he hunt, or fish, he ...read more

  • "The Transformation -Part 2"

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Oct 26, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,019 views

    The ways we are transformed into God's image.

    “The Transformation – Part 2” October 24, 2010 Ephesians 4:17- 24: “So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of ...read more

  • Bone Weary

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Oct 29, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,933 views

    Like Jeremiah, we get bone weary when we feel abandoned, when we are living out of tune with the times, and when we suppress the desire to live in integrity. But In Christ we see one who experienced all this but lives to give us new life.

    Calverton Baptist Church, Silver Spring, MD, January 31, 1982; Takoma Park Baptist Church, Washington, DC September 22, 1985 There was a time when I did not really know what it meant to be tired. I still cherish the image of myself as tireless, limitless in energy, able to leap tall buildings ...read more

  • Answering Questions Series

    Contributed by Jim Drake on Dec 14, 2009
    based on 17 ratings
     | 26,567 views

    Have you ever asked a question and not gotten the answer you were looking for? I think we all have. The fact is, that just because a person is asking a question, doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re looking for an answer. Especially if the answer goes ag

    Have you ever asked a question and not gotten the answer you were looking for? I think we all have. Many times we will even ask a question with an answer already in our heads that we are looking for. Sometimes, we will even frame the question in such a way that even the way we ask it is designed ...read more

  • I Dare You To Just ’turn The Other Cheek’ Series

    Contributed by David Diyanni on Dec 15, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 9,353 views

    This is another popular spiritual urban legend. A Christian cannot defend himself since he has to turn the other cheek.

    Urban Legends Part 5 “Just turn the other cheek” Matt 5:38-39, Luke 4:28-30, John 18:12, Matt 21:12, John 2:13, Matt 26:53 Urban Legend Debunked A. Today is the last sermon in our ‘urban legend’ series. Next week we are going to start a new sermon series called ‘Character Sketches.” We are going ...read more

  • God Sent His Love

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Dec 18, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,999 views

    God delivered His love to mankind through a poor young virgin named Mary.

    Text: “….God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him” (1 John 4:9). There are some people who do not realize how important they are to Almighty God. They do not seem to understand that they are not here by accident, but that God the Father has a definite plan ...read more

  • Back In The Day

    Contributed by K. Simms on Dec 23, 2009
    based on 24 ratings
     | 26,001 views

    How many times have you been in a conversation, folk sitting around reminiscing; talking about how things used to be?

    Back in the day… Isaiah 23: 11-18 “Cross over to Cyprus even there you will find no rest…” In other words, if you’re trying to get away from what God has in store for you, you’re not going to be able to. “Look at the land of the Babylonians, this people ...read more

  • Mapping Out The New Year Series

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Dec 29, 2009
    based on 68 ratings
     | 20,863 views

    The scripture is our divine GPS for mapping our lives in order to experience many good days. What does this divine GPS tell us to do? 1- Seek the Lord 2- Follow the Lord 3- Trust the Lord

    INTRO.- Have you ever had a bad day? Well, of course. Who hasn’t? But what about a really bad day? Here’s one that tops many I’ve heard. ILL.- The following is seen in a Florida newspaper: A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the house in the kitchen. The man ...read more

  • “jesus And The Truth About Sin” Series

    Contributed by John Hamby on Jan 11, 2010
    based on 28 ratings
     | 26,066 views

    Jesus confronts the Pharisees defective view of sin.

    A Study of the Book of Mark Sermon # 24 "Jesus and the Truth About Sin" Mark 7:14-23 In our study we have seen how the Pharisees had elevated their oral traditions to a position of equal or ...read more