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  • Dr. David Hallum avatar

    Whole Lot Of Shaking Goin’ On!

    Contributed by Dr. David Hallum on Dec 14, 2016
     | 5,674 views

    God's ways are hard to understand at times.

    Introduction: Pastor Owen Bourgaize relates this personal anecdote: Sometimes His ways are hard to understand at the time, I can offer a personal example: Teenage children can be quite a trial, even a pain! 25 years ago my son was! He was keen on old vehicles that he intended to renovate. Against ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Dealing With Divorce: Hope For The Hard-Hearted And The Heavy-Hearted

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on May 3, 2005
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,650 views

    What does the Bible say causes divorce? Why is it such an epidemic in our land? Here’s hope for the hard hearted and the heavy hearted!

    Dealing with Divorce: Hope for the Hard Hearted and the Heavy Hearted No one knows the pain of divorce more than one who has been divorced. Divorce is not a topic that I can talk about from personal experience; in twenty-seven years of marriage Ronda and I have never even entertained the idea. ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Doing The Difficult Thing

    Contributed by Jay Robison on Aug 1, 2006
    based on 25 ratings
     | 5,715 views

    Why does it have to be so hard? Doing the most important things in life is often hard. God knows that and will help us!

    DOING THE DIFFICULT THINGS March 5, 2006 Jay Davis Robison MATTHEW 16:21-28 Have you ever asked yourself Why does it have to be so hard?? Why does marriage have to be so hard? Raising Kids so hard? Why is being honest, losing weight, growing in Christ so hard If doing right is the right thing, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Problem Of Perfectionism Series

    Contributed by Thomas Bowen on Jan 29, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,519 views

    It is really hard to keep up the pretence of being a perfect Christian. It si so hard that you will probably lose your faith.

    Christian freedom – The problem of perfectionism In recent messages we have talked about the things that affect our Christian Freedom. How when we normally claim that we are free people that we automatically accept limits on our freedom. Limits based on cultural limits which might affect freedom ...read more

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    Denomination: Congregational

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    Genesis-People Relating To God- Part 5-- Too Hard ? Series

    Contributed by Randy Edwards on Oct 12, 2015
     | 7,059 views

    Part 5 of a study on the book of Genesis- focus on our relationships and responses

    Please feel free to use any or all of this material for God's glory As always , I write like I preach - sorry if it is hard to read Too hard? Genesis 18:1-18:15 Have you ever been in a situation where everything seemed impossible? I mean no matter how hard you looked You could not see ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Perry Greene avatar

    Even If You Don't

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 25, 2021
     | 3,567 views

    Faithfulness to God is blessed even in hard circumstances.

    1. The challenge to faithfulness even when things don’t go our way. 2. Habakkuk 3:16-19 16 I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. 17 ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Mark A. Barber avatar

    Blue Christmas: A Reflection From The 137th Psalm

    Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Dec 12, 2020
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,752 views

    Sometimes it is hard for people to be merry in the Christmas season.

    Blue Christmas: A Reflection from the 137th Psalm Christmas is supposed to be a season of joy. It is a time we reflect upon the heavenly army singing “Peace on Earth and goodwill to men. Even the world joins in with Christmas lights and parties and singing songs like “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas. ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Prayer And Peace

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Jan 27, 2002
    based on 36 ratings
     | 6,001 views

    Life is hard. Prayer is our pathway to peace.

    This morning, I’m going to begin by openly acknowledging a fact of life. It’s something each one of us knows to be true, something we’ve all learned by personal experience, but which we usually try to avoid admitting publicly. And here it is: life is hard. For everyone. Ever since Adam and Eve took ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Callousing Of The North American Church

    Contributed by David Smith on Jul 11, 2001
    based on 24 ratings
     | 3,002 views

    Addressing the whys of hard hearts in the pews - and out

    The Callousing of the North American Church Mark 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. (KJV) Illustration - John’s first day at work ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Dr. Keion Parrish avatar

    Expressing Our Faith

    Contributed by Dr. Keion Parrish on Jun 9, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,343 views

    Showing our Faith throught the hard times.

    Sermon Scripture: John 12:1­8; Mark 14:3­9, especially Mark 14:9 Expressing Our Faith Introduction: In our lives we have a choice. We might respond to Jesus in a conventional way, "going through the motions," or we might surrender our lives to Him as an expression of our faith no matter how ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Parenting Is Heart Work Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on May 18, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 7,167 views

    Parenting is not only hard work, it is heart work.

    Parenting is Heart Work Deuteronomy 6:1-12 Rev. Brian Bill 5/18/08 I came across a job posting this week that I thought I’d pass along to see if there any takers. JOB DESCRIPTION: Long-term team players needed for challenging, permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Living In The Pages

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Jan 13, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,962 views

    Find it hard to obey? Learn to live in the pages!

    LIVING IN THE PAGES LUKE 2:21-38 I John 5:3-4 3 Loving God means doing what he tells us to do, and really, that isn’t hard at all; 4 for every child of God can obey him, defeating sin and evil pleasure by trusting Christ to help him. (TLB) Living in the Pages means OBEDIENCE. Luke 2:21-24 21 On ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    The Anchor Still Holds!

    Contributed by Lark Lewis on Jul 14, 2011
    based on 16 ratings
     | 24,485 views

    This sermon is about faith in God in hard times.

    The Anchor Still Holds! Hebrews 6:17-19 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for ...read more

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    Denomination: Apostolic

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    Taming The Tongue

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Oct 19, 2013
     | 8,163 views

    Controlling the tongue is a hard job to do, but not impossible.

    JAMES 3:5-10 “TAMING THE TONGUE” A) There was this cartoon from leadership magazine that shows a line of pews and the same sentence being passed from pew to pew! * 1st pew: My ear kind of hurts ... 2nd pew: The pastor has an earache. * 3rd pew: The pastor got a hearing aid ... ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Abraham's Unwavering Faith (Part 2)

    Contributed by Jimmy Dillon on Nov 14, 2011
     | 5,756 views

    Meesage about keeping faith in the hard times

    Abraham’s Unwavering Faith (part 2) Romans 4:18-25 Review Last week, when we examined Romans 4, we looked at the faith of Abraham We saw that Abraham – Against all hope – He believed He didn’t let the circumstances dictate his faith or belief in God’s promises We ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist