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  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How To Get Where God Wants You To Go

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 10, 2001
    based on 51 ratings
     | 13,271 views

    Principles for Determining God’s Will for Your Life

    How To Get to Where God Wants You to Go (Acts 25:1-12) W. H. Griffith on p. 467 on his outlines in Acts gives this great illustration: "An elderly Christian woman, very poor but noted for her constant activity, was laid aside by illness and her neighbors asked her how she could bear it? She ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How God Closes One Door And Opens Another

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 12, 2001
    based on 111 ratings
     | 19,960 views

    God guides us by using closed doors and opens doors if we are willing to submit to His total control

    How God Closes One Door and Opens Another (Acts 16:6-18) Illustration:Sir Alexander Mackenzie is a Canadian hero. An early fur trader and explorer, he accomplished a magnificent feat when he led an expedition across Canada from Fort Chippewyan on Lake Athabasca to the Pacific Ocean. His incredible ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How Does God Demonstrate His Love To Us?

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 67 ratings
     | 22,291 views

    Have you ever stopped to consider how God demonstrates His love to us? Most people assume that God loves us just because He created us, but there is much more evidence. God’s love involved a supreme sacrifice in His Son, Jesus Christ. It must have grieved

    1. Have you ever stopped to consider how God demonstrates His love to us? Most people assume that God loves us just because He created us, but there is much more evidence. God’s love involved a supreme sacrifice in His Son, Jesus Christ. It must have grieved God to offer His Son to be whipped, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How Can Our Sermons Have Greater Influence

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 48 ratings
     | 4,410 views

    Why do you suppose that so many sermons fail to produce lasting changes in the lives of some people? Among the many answers to that question could be the fact that our preaching fails to contain the essential ingredients of the messages preached by the f

    Why do you suppose that so many sermons fail to produce lasting changes in the lives of some people? Among the many answers to that question could be the fact that our preaching fails to contain the essential ingredients of the messages preached by the first century apostles. Notice in this ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How To Discern Between Decisions That Are Good, Better Or Best 

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 24 ratings
     | 4,761 views

    Ask the Lord to help your decisions take into account Biblical, spiritual, moral, mental, social, historical, and interpersonal factors.

    Quote: Jesus said, "If anyone is willing to know my will they will know of the teaching if it is from God or whether I merely speak from myself." (John 7:17) Illustration:To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard. 1. Have you ever wondered how to tell the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How Christ Gives Meaning To All Aspects Of History

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 37 ratings
     | 3,296 views

    Jesus was used by God to accomplish precisely what He intended by sovereign foreknowledge, power and miraculous interventions. Only the Lord is able to make sense of chaos

    How Christ Gives Meaning to All Aspects of History Illustration:If God did not bless, not one hair, not a solitary wisp of straw, would grow; but there would be an end of everything. At the same time God wants me to take this stance: I would have nothing whatever if I did not plow and sow. God ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How Should We Respond To God's Long-Suffering

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 31 ratings
     | 5,056 views

    How Should We Respond to God’s Long-Suffering(Rom. 2:4-6)

    How Should We Respond to God’s Long-Suffering (Rom. 2:4-6) Illustration:The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How Did People Go To Heaven Before Jesus? Series

    Contributed by Mike Fogerson on Jul 12, 2005
    based on 15 ratings
     | 4,526 views

    A saving faith in Jesus is still the only way to heaven.

    How Did People Go to Heaven Before Jesus? Gal. 3:6-8July 10, 2005 FBC, Chester Mike Fogerson, Pastor Introduction: Even so Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7 Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. 8 The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ralph Andrus avatar

    How To Keep From Getting Wrapped Around The Wringer

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jul 20, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,311 views

    - We Live in a Pressure Cooker World - The world is ready to wrap us around it’s wringer - Paul helps us in this struggle

    How To Keep From Getting Wrapped Around The Wringer Acts 18:1-11 - Remember the wringer washer - Guide it Through - Hit the release bar Paul - V.1 “After these things”  Laughed out of Athens 17:32  Sought After in Berea 17:13  Chased out of Thesalonica 17:5-10  Asked ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Hear God Speak (Acts - Part 26) Series

    Contributed by Jeff Christopherson on Jan 15, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 5,704 views

    How to prepare my heart to hear God

    How to hear God speak Acts Series: “Completely Irreligious, Yet Radically Christian” Part 26 Pastor Jeff Christopherson - July 13, 2003 One of the most basic claims of Christianity is that God speaks to people… … “and God said…” (over & over..) The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Be Right In The Middle Of God's Will (Acts -- Part 16) Series

    Contributed by Jeff Christopherson on Jan 15, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,420 views

    What to know in order to live a successful life...

    How to be right in the middle of god¡¦s will Acts Series: ¡§Completely Irreligious, Yet Radically Christian¡¨ Part 16 Pastor Jeff Christopherson May 4, 2003 Acts 9:1-31 WHAT TO KNOW IN ORDER TO LIVE SUCCESSFULLY: I. THE PLAN: (Understand God¡¦s Eternal Purpose) ¡§You will ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Handle The Temptations Of Power (Acts - Part 14) Series

    Contributed by Jeff Christopherson on Jan 15, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,975 views

    The key to handling power is to understand what power is - and what power does...

    How to Handle the Temptations of Power Acts Series: “Completely Irreligious, Yet Radically Christian” Part 14 Pastor Jeff Christopherson April 13, 2003 Acts 8:4-25 I. Understand What Power Is: Power is not neutral. Power is the potential to create or destroy. Examples: • Adam ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Become A Spiritual Leader (Acts - Part 12) Series

    Contributed by Jeff Christopherson on Jan 15, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,790 views

    Four Keys to Effective Spiritual Leadership...

    How to become a spiritual leader Acts Series: ¡§Completely Irreligious, Yet Radically Christian¡¨ Part 12 Pastor Jeff Christopherson March 30, 2003 Acts 6:1-7 FOUR KEYS TO EFFECTIVE SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP 1. Realize your Purpose. ¡§Day after day, in the temple courts and from ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Share Your Story (Acts - Part 4) Series

    Contributed by Jeff Christopherson on Jan 15, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,778 views

    learning how to naturally share what’s important...

    How to share your story Acts Series: ¡§Completely Irreligious, Yet Radically Christian¡¨ Part 4 Pastor Jeff Christopherson February 2, 2003 Acts 2:14-41 1. Be a part of a spiritual team. ¡§Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How Can God Forgive Somebody Like Me?

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Sep 12, 2006
    based on 8 ratings
     | 7,190 views

    Have you looked at your sinful life and ask, "How can God forgive somebody like me?" If God could forgive David for all that he had done, then he can and will forgive you.

    HOW CAN GOD FORGIVE SOMEBODY LIKE ME? ILLUSTRATION: He had been FOUND OUT! By the time he decided to CONFESS his SIN the entire NATION was already talking. UNFAITHFULNESS, ADULTERY, LIES, MURDER! How could the LEADER of the nation, the man everyone ADMIRED, the one known as “the man ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ