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    Crowns You With Lovingkindness And Tender Mercies PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 4, 2025
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     | 137 views

    God meets us in our lowest places, lifts us with His grace, and restores us with lovingkindness, inviting us to live in grateful trust.

    Have you ever felt like life lowered you into a pit and then took the ladder away? The walls are slick with worry, the floor is sticky with regret, and every echo from the past seems louder than hope. David knew that feeling. He wrote like a man who had mud on his boots and a song in his mouth. In ...read more

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    A Living Hope Series

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Sep 29, 2013
    based on 19 ratings
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    The Living Christ is the source of our new birth & our living hope. If you have a living hope in the living Christ you can deal with your past failures & present difficulties because of your future blessings. God’s glorious best for you lies ahead.

    1 PETER 1: 3-6 [Renewing Hope Series] A LIVING HOPE [ Mark 16:1-8 ] The power with which Peter aims to equip these beleaguered saints is the power of hope. [If they, or we, are going to live and love like Jesus commands us, even in times of great stress and worry, then they, and we, must be ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    5 The Fully Awakened Overcomer Series

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on May 30, 2025
     | 341 views

    But we need to hear the REAL Jesus speaking today telling us to WAKE UP to the lies, and get out of the heated water, get OUT of the culture–you are in the world but not OF the world. Not everyone will be let in! We must find our voice to speak up after we WAKE UP!

    This is a sermon about “The Goat and The Frog & The Colon.” When I was growing up, my uncle would drive the stock truck by our house to pick me up and take me along with him to Lugbill’s Farm Auction in Archbold, Ohio. We would haul the choice animals over to the gate, unload, then go inside ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Everyone Loves A Love Story

    Contributed by Charles Holt on Aug 2, 2005
    based on 120 ratings
     | 73,467 views

    The focus of this message is the great love of God as illustrated in the life of the Prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer.

    Charles W. Holt Community of Grace Vinton, LA Email: cholt@gt.rr.com EVERYONE LOVES A LOVE STORY Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (Jn. 15:13). Scripture text: Hosea 1:2,3 and 3:1-3 Perhaps one of the most famous love poems every penned was ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    The Purpose Of The Spirit Series

    Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 8,268 views

    The Holy Spirit Gives us purpose in living our Christian Life.

    The Purpose of the Spirit Life in the Spirit, Part 2 John 16 Jesus has been speaking to His disciples in the Upper Room Discourse (that is His last conversations and teachings with them before He died.) He carried them to a private gathering to explain to them how they were going to maneuver in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Trust And Hope

    Contributed by Thomas Swope on Jun 20, 2019
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    A study in the book of Jeremiah 17: 1 – 27

    Jeremiah 17: 1 – 27 Trust and Hope in The Lord 1 “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; With the point of a diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars, 2 While their children remember their altars and their wooden images by the green trees on ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

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    My Soul Magnifies The Lord Series

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 5, 2022
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,929 views

    In this message we unpack Mary's song of praise (The Magnificat) found in Luke 1.

    My Soul Magnifies The Lord (The Magnificat) OKAY – who here like’s Christmas music? AND IF – you do, when do you start listening to it? DO – you have a Christmas playlist? NOW - this week I went on Spotify, and I found their ‘Best Christmas Playlist’ for 2022 (their top 100). NOW – I have no ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Way In, Is All In Series

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Jul 25, 2025
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     | 944 views

    A message about how Jesus wants disciples and not fans and about counting the cost.

    “The Way In, Is All In” Matthew 8:18-22 QUESTION – who here in this room or watching online is ready to dive into some... • ‘alive and active’ • ‘sharper than a double edge word’ • ‘judging the thoughts and attitudes of your heart and mine’ Word of God? OKAY – let’s do this! NOW - I want to ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Psalm 25

    Contributed by Dean Rhine on Nov 3, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 20,090 views

    How to Handle Difficult Days

    Psalm 25 - How to Handle Difficult Days - July 31, 2016 Turn with me this morning in your Jewish hymnals to hymn number 25. Or for those of you who haven’t brought your Jewish hymnals with you, we’ll put the words on the screen. But just a reminder for those of you who might be a ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How Dark The Dark? How Light The Light? Series

    Contributed by Tim Diack on Apr 30, 2012
     | 4,935 views

    Faith isn't something that is meant to be added to our lives, rather it is meant to shape every area of our lives. There are many things that will threaten to crowd out your faith. But when we try to live with one foot in the world and one foot in God's

    How Dark The Dark? How Light The Light? - Matthew 6:22-23 - March 18, 2012 Series: Kingdom Life – A World Turned Upside Down #22 How many of you have seen the movie, “Forrest Gump.” If you have, you’ll remember that the main character is played by actor Tom Hanks and ...read more

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    Transfusion

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jan 18, 2003
    based on 174 ratings
     | 14,203 views

    Funeral sermon for Henry Allen, who had lingered in weakened condition for many months, and who had become distanced from everyone, particularly his family.

    What you see is not always what you get. What your eyes tell you is not always the whole truth. Sometimes there is more going on than you can see. Have you ever been tricked by an optical illusion? An optical illusion is something that, when you first see it, you think you know exactly ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    You Gotta Have A Dream Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Feb 26, 2002
    based on 44 ratings
     | 4,031 views

    A series based on the winter games

    Well it almost upon us, only 5 more days and the eyes of the world will be focused on Salt Lake City Utah. As most of you know I am not a sports fan, never have been never will be. I know that never is a long time but trust me on this one. But even for a non sports fan like me there is mystique ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    "Wake The Town And Tell The People

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 27, 2002
    based on 110 ratings
     | 5,135 views

    The love of God impels us to share it with everyone, everywhere.

    Wake the Town and Tell the People I John 4:7-21 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    How To Live In Sin City

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jun 14, 2002
    based on 88 ratings
     | 7,741 views

    How to be "in" the world, but not "of" the world.

    How to Live in Sin City Dan 1:1-21 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Nutgrass Of The Soul

    Contributed by Cynthia Hinson on Jul 6, 2002
    based on 44 ratings
     | 13,148 views

    Tough, arrogant and persistent, sin (like nutgrass) will (in Malachi’s words) be burnt to stubble to make way for the Kingdom. Don’t be childish -- our faith is not a game. The prophets have warned us -- and now, someone greater than a prophet is here.

    Nutgrass of the Soul Matthew 11:2-30 Rev. Cynthia T. Hinson – St. Paul United Methodist Church – Conroe, TX – July 7, 2002 The very last book of the Old Testament is Malachi, and the last verses of the last chapter of that book read thus: 1 "For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist