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  • John Wright avatar

    Alcohol #2 Drinking Alcohol Is Not Wise! Series

    Contributed by John Wright on Mar 1, 2010
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    Drinking alcohol is not wise because the end result may be like Zach and it is not wise because it will beat upon one's mind and body and because it puts the brain to sleep and because just small amounts begin to effect one in bad ways quickly and because

    INTRODUCTION 1. Please open your bibles to Proverbs 20:1. 2. Proverbs 20:1 teaches among other important lessons, that the drinking of alcohol is not wise. 3. Here is a question. Can you tell yourself one or more reasons why that the drinking of alcohol is not wise? What reasons do you come up ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    What Are You Afraid Of?

    Contributed by Thomas Bowen on Mar 4, 2010
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    What should Christians be afraid of.

    What are you afraid of? Matthew 8:23-27 Being a man I hate to admit that I might be afraid of any thing. So my first reaction to talking about fear is to tap into my childhood. My physical childhood, I still am mentally child like. I was probably afraid of the dark, and lots of other normal ...read more

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    Denomination: Congregational

  • Peter Loughman avatar

    Keeping Up Appearances Series

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Mar 9, 2010
    based on 5 ratings
     | 9,751 views

    Do we equate the things we love about our Churches with the authority of Scripture? You bet we do.

    What is the most authoritative part of the Bible? Is the New Testament the most authoritative part of the Bible? The New Testament is the New Covenant that Jesus Christ gave to us, that sure is a powerful thing. Could the Gospels be the most authoritative part of the Bible, because they are about ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    A Confident Step Of Faith

    Contributed by Nate Herbst on Nov 21, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
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    This is a short summary of numerous apologetical reasons to trust the Bible and Jesus Christ - it is a summary of numerous other resources and a short but hard hitting perspective on taking a confident step of faith (some of the notes are similar to the "

    Why Believe in Jesus Thanks so much for having us!!!
 I’m so excited about all God is doing here, I am praying for you guys! Keep up the fight. 
 Get ready for a lot of info in a short period of time. 
 BIG NOTE: I’ll be using a ton of info from a ton of people today. Those ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Of Signs & Traps

    Contributed by Peter Fisher on Nov 29, 2009
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    Fist Sunday of advent, exhortation to watch and pray

    Of Signs and Traps Aim To Alerts the congregation to the signs or the return of Christ& to encourage them to avoid the traps on the way To introduce Advent Introduction – Advent Happy New Year. That may sound like a strange thing to say just before Christmas, but the season of Advent is the start ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Mark Opperman avatar

    Promoting The Purposes Of God Series

    Contributed by Mark Opperman on Dec 10, 2009
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    As individual believers who belong to God’s family, we must make God’s will the most important pursuit of our lives.

    Promoting the Purposes of God Text: Acts 18:12-21 Intro: We believe God has called our church to fulfill 5 main purposes: Sharing the good news through evangelism, Building people’s faith through discipleship, helping people connect with God through worship, helping people connect with other ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Steve Ely avatar

    House - Part 6 - Parade Of Homes Series

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Dec 11, 2009
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    Is God’s house a building? Does His house have rules, systems, or structure? How can we be His house unless we know?

    House “Parade of Homes” I. Introduction God’s House is being built. Part of it or not, like it or not, fully understand it or not God is in fact building for Himself a habitation. My desire is that we become a part of that edifice and structure. So, we have been trying to understand the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Heading Toward Christmas - Thinking About Gifts Series

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Dec 13, 2009
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     | 15,716 views

    Since we’re thinking about Christmas I think we should think about the gifts we’ve been given by God. This is just a simple reminder of how blessed we are.

    INTRO.- ILL.- Herb Forst in Cross River, NY, in Reader’s Digest: What not to Buy Your Wife: 1. Don’t buy anything that plugs in. Anything that requires electricity is seen as too practical. 2. Don’t buy clothing that involves sizes. The chances are one in seven thousand that you will get her ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Cross Was Always The Plan

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Dec 15, 2009
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    Message about how Jesus affirms to His disciples during His arrest that God’s plan was going forth.

    The Cross was Always the Plan Matthew 26:47-56 August 30, 2009 Me: How many people in here are planners? You plan everything out, or at least as much as possible. You plan your work day, your work week, maybe even your work month. You plan your vacation to the smallest detail, including ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    New Beginnings - A New Year Message For 2010

    Contributed by Dr. Madana Kumar, Phd on Jan 1, 2010
    based on 14 ratings
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    Our God is a God of New beginnings, and he never gets tired of providing mankind with new beginnings

    New Beginnings – A New Year message for 2010 Like other Christian festivals, the celebration of New Years Day in the West started before the church came into existence. At first, the Romans celebrated the beginning of the new year on March 1, not January 1. Julius Caesar instituted New Year’s Day ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Think About These Things Series

    Contributed by Steven Buhr on Jan 15, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,121 views

    We can get ourselves pretty depressed and worried and fearful and even sick if we let our minds dwell on so many ‘bad’ things. We ought to spend a lot more time thinking about good things, and not so much time worrying about bad things.

    Think about these things…November 29, 2009 Philippians 4:8,9 What are you thinking about right now? Maybe you are thinking about how nice it is to be in church this morning, with people who think it’s nice to have you here. Maybe you’re having thoughts about what you had ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Conquering Mountains

    Contributed by Norbert Garcia on Oct 23, 2009
    based on 7 ratings
     | 15,970 views

    In life we are faced with obstacles on a daily basis. Many times we cannot conquer them on our own. With God’s help mountains will become molehills.

    CONQUERING MOUNTAINS Peaks and valleys. Ups and downs. Mountains and molehills. We use different euphemisms to explain how our life progresses such as peaks and valleys or ups and downs. Life is never simple we all have our good days and our bad days. If we were to plot our life on a graph it ...read more

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    Denomination: Adventist

  • Joel Smith avatar

    Leave The Light On Series

    Contributed by Joel Smith on Jul 27, 2009
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     | 9,324 views

    God calls His children to go into the darkness and leave their light on.

    Light has amazing qualities. It attracts and transforms. Turn on a light in the darkness outside and watch what happens. Every flying critter within range will flock to it. Turn out all the lights at night in your safe, comfortable house and what happens? It becomes a treacherous obstacle ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Joseph Smith avatar

    Three Score And Ten

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Aug 12, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 12,123 views

    For 1989, 70th anniversary of the church. Three Scriptures with the number "70" in them ... life includes pain and conflict; but we are to forgive without reservation; God knows the plans He has for the next 70 years of this church.

    We’ve reached a milestone, a real milestone. Seventy years old. That’s a good long while. That is, in fact, a lifetime, according to one of the Scriptures I’m going to read, the typical, average lifetime of a human being. And it’s not too bad for an institution like a church. We’ve been here, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Peter Loughman avatar

    Role Reversal Series

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Sep 1, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,672 views

    You are who you are, very, very, specifically, so God can use you in His particular circumstance. Don’t be ashamed of your background, or where you come from.

    Note to reader: I have hot-links to various subjects in this sermon. The document with the active links can be found in PDF form at this web address: http://www.firstpresanchorage.org/Sermons.htm (The sermon is titled the same, "Role Reversal"), the links are not active in this document. May our ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational