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  • Stuart Blount avatar

    How Are You Being Formed ?

    Contributed by Stuart Blount on Apr 20, 2001
    based on 84 ratings
     | 5,358 views

    What is shaping us is of great importance to our progress as followers of Jesus. God’s desire for us is transFORMation.

    WHAT IS FORMING YOU ? Galatians 4:12-20 ….. Key verse: 19: “My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is FORMED in you …..” What shapes you ? What is the goal of life ? What forms who I am ? These are really important questions for anyone who can honestly ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    How To Avoid A Regrettable Response

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,411 views

    Have you ever wondered how you might have avoided an interpersonal offense that caused years of regret? No doubt, Paul and Barnabas must have asked themselves that question after they parted company over a dispute regarding the credibility of John Mark. B

    1. Have you ever wondered how you might have avoided an interpersonal offense that caused years of regret? No doubt, Paul and Barnabas must have asked themselves that question after they parted company over a dispute regarding the credibility of John Mark. Both apostles should have been able to ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How To Avoid Internal Divisions

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 55 ratings
     | 6,840 views

    Every family, organization and movement struggles with the problem of internal divisions. Many internal conflicts result from a struggle over control. If everyone learns to give the Lord control for whatever they are responsible for, many internal divisio

    Every family, organization and movement struggles with the problem of internal divisions. Many internal conflicts result from a struggle over control. If everyone learns to give the Lord control for whatever they are responsible for, many internal divisions can be minimized. In Judges 9, we are ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How To Prevent Real Failure

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 76 ratings
     | 5,944 views

    Ways to avoid failure from God’s perspective

    Nobody wins all the time. Everyone occasionally faces setbacks. Illustration: The greatest baseball player who ever lived got on base 39.4% of the time. The greatest soccer player only scored goals on less than 3% of his shots. The greatest home run hitter of all time also struck out more than ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How To Not Waste Your Potential

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 57 ratings
     | 6,453 views

    Steps to avoiding your God given potential

    The Lord gives every person great potential, but few seem to come close to realizing it. Illustration: Samson possessed great potential for God, but gave into temptations that eventually destroyed him. Why do so many people with great promise fritter away their opportunities? Let us look at the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How Clean Is Your Temple Series

    Contributed by Bob Briggs on Jun 26, 2001
    based on 85 ratings
     | 13,415 views

    Part Three of a series discussing the temple of God

    Last Sunday night we looked at the condition of the Temple and discovered the doors and been broken down according to 2 Chronicles 29:3. Relating this to our lives, we are the temple of the living God if we are believers. It is a real possibility for us, through disrepair, to allow a thief ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • David Wilson avatar

    How To Get God's Attention

    Contributed by David Wilson on Feb 5, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,193 views

    A brief devotional type sermon from Malachi 3

    Malachi 3:13-18 In this running “dialogue” between God and the People, Malachi pictures God as saying that the people had spoken harshly toward God. I particularly like the King James wording “stout” because it conveys that the words were not only harsh, but also strong words. The Amplified ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Pastor Dempsey Daniels avatar

    How To See Into The God Realm

    Contributed by Pastor Dempsey Daniels on Feb 18, 2004
    based on 31 ratings
     | 4,194 views

    How To See Into The God Realm

    How to See In the God - Realm - Part one John 11:40 A. Have faith in God 1. Webster’s Dictionary defines faith as, "unquestionable belief; unquestioning belief in God; complete trust or confidence; loyalty; sincerity; honesty." 2. People can have faith in people, in things, or in ideologies. They ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How Far Is Too Far?

    Contributed by Dennis Lawrence on Jun 13, 2003
    based on 24 ratings
     | 6,978 views

    Can someone go so far that God can’t redeem them? What can we learn from King Manasseh?

    How far is too far? How much sinning is too much sinning? How bad is too bad for someone to be and to lose hope of a future with God? How late is too late to come to oneself and reconcile with God? How simply disgusting and awful is it possible to be and turn to God? Christians are sensitive to ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How Great Is Your Love

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 18, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
     | 10,723 views

    Love is an uncommon force that copes with suffering. By enduring the pain, sorrow and anger we are exhibiting God’s unconditional love. People who are mature in love endure the pain of selfish, critical and immature scoffers.

    How Great is Your Love - I Cor. 13:4-7 Illustration: One evening while appearing on CNN’s Larry King Live, Jack Kemp, the honorable congressman from New York, made an insightful comment about the religious right when he said, “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How Are You Worshiping God?

    Contributed by Jack Whitehead on Nov 28, 2002
    based on 38 ratings
     | 7,078 views

    This sermon deals with vain worship.

    How Are You Worshiping God? ISAIAH 1:10-20 I am amazed at the vain worship that takes place today in our modern churches. It seems to me that many people come to church to be seen, or to pay God his dues, as if that were possible. Many people come to church because it’s their family church. What ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • S Henriques avatar

    How God Uses The Ordinary

    Contributed by S Henriques on Sep 6, 2003
    based on 65 ratings
     | 10,970 views

    God uses the ordinary. We don’t always understand it, and though we might agree that we ourselves are ordinary, we hesitate when we consider that God could use us.Selected events from the life of Moses can show us some of the ways God uses what we conside

    How God Uses The Ordinary 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Selected passages from the Life of Moses by S. M. Henriques Bethlehem Baptist Church Benton, Mississippi When you woke up this morning, you may have thought about the day ahead of you. It may have occurred to you that this was Sunday, and that it ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Bo Dunford avatar

    How About Them Camels

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Jan 1, 2005
    based on 45 ratings
     | 12,425 views

    An interesting study about camels and how they are in comparison to us and the grace of God.

    GEN 24:62-67 “HOW ABOUT THEM CAMELS” A) This scripture passage is given in the context of Abraham sending his servant out to find a bride for Isaac! * This is one of the most beautiful Old Testament pictures of God sending the Holy Ghost out to bring in a bride for His Son, the Lord ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • William Young avatar

    How To Overcome Spiritual Depression

    Contributed by William Young on Sep 23, 2001
    based on 55 ratings
     | 7,519 views

    Have you ever felt like you were alone in the world? Sadly too many of our own feel that they are alone in the race of life.

    HOW TO OVERCOME SPIRITUAL DEPRESSION PSA. 119:25-32 Introduction: 1. Have you ever felt like you were alone in the world? 2. Sadly too many of our own feel that they are alone in the race of life. 3. We can all fall victim to spiritual depression a. Many types of depression (clinical, emotional, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Terry Owens avatar

    How's Your Service Plan

    Contributed by Terry Owens on Oct 28, 2001
    based on 71 ratings
     | 9,229 views

    See what God is looking for in service to Him.

    Every moment of every day you’re living out your commitment to Christ. Those around you that knows that you’re a Christian watches you to see if you’re really living the life. I think the world really wants to see a real Christian, but so often they see those who profess Christ, but they don’t ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God