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  • Keith Manry avatar

    Experience Ultimate Wholeness Series

    Contributed by Keith Manry on May 18, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,200 views

    Part 3 of a series based on Mel Gibson’s film "The Passion of the Christ." Portions of this sermon were derived from sermons given by Sermon Central designed with the same intent.

    Experience Ultimate Wholeness Luke 19:1-11 Over the past six years in pastoral ministry I’ve had the opportunity of officiating at more than sixty funeral services ranging from elderly people to infants, from victims of accidents to those whose deaths were a welcomed relief at the end of a long ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Experience Eternal Life Series

    Contributed by Keith Manry on May 18, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,566 views

    Easter Sunday - Part 5 (The final sermon) of a series based on Mel Gibson’s film "The Passion of the Christ." Portions of this sermon were derived from sermons given by Sermon Central designed with the same intent.

    “Experience Eternal Life” John 20:1-18 Introduction: It was the night of October 31st, 1936. Halloween night. A group of men and women sat with their hands joined at a round table. They awaited the message – the same message they had hoped to receive for the past 10 Halloweens. But the message did ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Experience The Joy Of Receiving

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Dec 10, 2002
    based on 39 ratings
     | 3,770 views

    Learn how to experience joy in all that we receive

    Two weeks ago, Pastor Winsome Wu taught us how to cultivate joy in life. Last week, I talked about how we can experience joy by choosing the right expectations for each day and for our future. So intentional efforts are required to experience joy. Joy, we talked about, is more than happiness. ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Experience The Joy Of Giving

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Dec 16, 2002
    based on 51 ratings
     | 12,505 views

    Learn to give in ways that bring joy to others and to yourself

    This is the fourth message in our series on experiencing joy. By now you know that joy is a matter of spirit and not circumstance. Furthermore, joy comes by obedience to God’s Spirit and His word and not by accident. When we discipline our thoughts, actions and relationships according to God’s ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Experience The Joy Of Peace

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Dec 23, 2002
    based on 55 ratings
     | 4,476 views

    Learn how to have peace with God, peace with others and peace of mind

    Experience the Joy of Peace If you’ve been here the last four weeks, you would have learned some very practical and eternal truths for experiencing a life of joy. We talked about how joy is a matter of our spirit, the part of us that relates to God. We need to know, joy requires effort and ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    An Upper Room Experience

    Contributed by Stephen Noel on Apr 9, 2001
    based on 96 ratings
     | 52,105 views

    The Power of the Holy Spirit is needed in ALL believers. You wouldn’t want to go into a fight without a weapon, would you?

    ‘An Upper Room Experience!’ Acts 1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room . . .. 14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication. AND WHEN . .AND WHEN . .AND WHEN . .AND WHEN! (with increased excitement and vigor!) And When They Were Come In, they ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Experience The Holy Spirit Series

    Contributed by Phillip Davis on Mar 23, 2001
    based on 117 ratings
     | 14,095 views

    Learning how exciting life can be when we experience the Holy Spirit.

    EXPERIENCE THE HOLY SPIRIT I CORINTHIANS 2:9 – 13 Allow me to begin this series of teachings about the Holy Spirit by saying right up front – this is a teaching for the heart much more than for the head. Now I am not asking you or saying to you that you won’t need to think or to leave your ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How To Experience Pentecost

    Contributed by John Kapteyn on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 74 ratings
     | 5,445 views

    What the events of Pentecost meant and mean to us today.

    1. Personal illustration of time when I experienced power of Holy Spirit to enable me in my ministry. 2. This experience helps me get some idea of what happened that powerful and wonderful day in Jerusalem nearly 2,000 years ago when the Holy Spirit came down - day of Pentecost 3. Not comparing ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Experience Ultimate Wholeness Series

    Contributed by Stephen Pattison on Mar 22, 2005
    based on 111 ratings
     | 16,573 views

    The sermon weaves a chapter of Max Lucado’s "He Chose the Nails" with reflections on freedom from sin and more.

    “Experience the Passion” Series “Experience Ultimate Wholeness” (The Cross) March 19/20, 2005 ** This sermon weaves a chapter from Lucado’s "He Chose the Nails" with reflections on freedom from the conseguences of sin and ultimate wholeness. (Max Lucado: He Chose the Nails) “What would have ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    How To Experience God Series

    Contributed by Larry Brincefield on Jul 20, 2005
    based on 24 ratings
     | 14,752 views

    The "Hand of God" was with Ezra because: 1. He Studied God’s Word 2. He observed God’s Word 3. He Taught God’s Word

    www.pastorlarry.net Title: How to Experience God Text: Ezra 7 (esp. vv. 6-10) Author: Larry C. Brincefield 1. Since the dawn of history… • Mankind has sought a relationship with God… • Adam and Eve longed to walk thru the Garden of Eden with their Creator in the cool of the day… • And ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    "An Anointed Experience..."

    Contributed by E.t. Cummings on Sep 18, 2003
    based on 46 ratings
     | 11,084 views

    In this sermon, God designed purpose is to get the believer to understand his purpose in ministry and his plan to accomplish his planned tasks.

    As we discover the church of today, the church really doesn’t know how to experience the anointing because many sermons have been preached, many stories have been told, and many books have been written, but to give you the true meaning of anoiting, many people can’t tell you because they have the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Living The Pentecostal Experience

    Contributed by Mike Rickman on Oct 31, 2003
    based on 35 ratings
     | 11,150 views

    We Pentecostals have made a mistake in the past, looking for sensationalism in our church experience. The true Pentecostal experience is that, plus a whole lot more.

    October 26, 2003 Morning Worship Text: Acts 4:23-31 Subject: The Pentecostal Experience Title: Living the Pentecostal Experience 103 years ago on New Years Day 1900, a group of Bible students led by Charles Parham assembled in a house in Topeka Kansas. They were seeking an “Apostolic” ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    The Emmaus Road Experience

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Apr 22, 2003
    based on 65 ratings
     | 16,987 views

    Using the NKJV, this outline simply divides the Luke 24:14-46 passage into six subdivisions which might facilitate a didactical approach to this great passage.

    THE EMMAUS ROAD EXPERIENCE Luke 24:14-46 The experience that two of Christ’s disciples had as they returned to their home in Emmaus tells us a great deal about the resurrected Christ. Every born-again believer would loved to have been walking with these two disciples and our Lord as He expounded ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Experience The Promises Of God

    Contributed by Glenn Narvaez on Feb 22, 2006
    based on 37 ratings
     | 5,121 views

    This sermon talks about the things Christians need to do to be able to experience the Promises of God in their lives

    How to Experience the Promises of God Ptr. Glenn Narvaez - February 17, 2006 4 Facts We Need to Know a. God is a blesser "Your father’s God helps you. God All-Powerful blesses you. He blesses you with rain from above. He blesses you with water from springs below. He blesses you with many babies ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    "The Wilderness Experience"

    Contributed by Ken Harris on Dec 10, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 12,480 views

    The purpose of this sermon is to motivate the hearers to affirm to others that God draws believers and non-believers out to the WILDERNESS in order to spiritually toughen/strengthen them.

    6 December 2008 U.S. Army Chaplain (MAJ) Ken Harris Fortress Chapel F.O.B. Sykes Tall-afar, Iraq BIG IDEA: God draws both believers and non-believers, out to the WILDERNESS, in order to spiritually toughen/strengthen them. REFERENCES: Second Sunday of Advent; Isaiah 40:1-11 (ESV); Psalm 85:1-2, ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal