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  • Ed Wood avatar

    How Big Is God?

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Feb 18, 2003
    based on 58 ratings
     | 18,679 views

    A message about the Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience of God.

    HOW BIG IS GOD? Isaiah 66:1 INTRO: “How Big is God?” The song writer, Doris Akers, asked and then attempted to answer that question in a song. Akers compared God’s bigness to the mightiest ocean, the tallest of trees, the broadest of rivers, the deepest of seas, and the highest of mountains. I ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Look For God Series

    Contributed by Preacher Fo Real on Aug 13, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,316 views

    Redo of Armed to be set free

    How to look for God. (Deuteronomy 4:29; 1st Kings 3: 11-12; 1st Kings 4: 29-30; Job 28:28; Psalms 69:32; Psalms 111:10; Proverbs 2:5-6; Proverbs 3:5; Proverb 9:10; Proverbs 28:5; Matthew 3:1-2; Matthew 4:16-17; John 6:26-29; Acts 17:28-31; Romans 12:2; Ephesians 6:5-8; Hebrews 11:6; James 1:19-25) ...read more

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    How Not To Love God

    Contributed by Michael Hollinger on Aug 19, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,003 views

    Don’t let the mystery and the power of the cross ever be substituted for anything less. Not the law, not wisdom - just the power of the cross.

    Title: How to not love God Text: 1 Cor 1:17 – 31 MP: As unreasonable as it is, the cross is still more powerful than any sign or logic It’s always dangerous to use a Monty Python sketch to bring out the truth of a Scripture, but in this case, you’ll see, the shoe fits. But, seeing as this ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Patrick O'Loughlin avatar

    How To Please God Series

    Contributed by Patrick O'loughlin on Jun 4, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 19,452 views

    How to please God by faith

    Text: Hebrews 11:6 Title: How to please God I want to concentrate on the first part of the verse. The part that says “And without faith it is impossible to please God…” (Hebrews 11:6) The phrase “And without faith it is impossible to please God” tells us three great truths. 1.it tells us ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How To Know The Will Of God

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 30, 2004
    based on 109 ratings
     | 4,190 views

    Twenty-one hindrances, twelve principles and six helps in knowing the will of God.

    How To Know the Will of God 1 John 5:14-5:15 - "And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of peace and boldness) which we have in Him (we are sure that if we ask anything according to His will (in agreement with His plan). He listens to and hears us." Illustration: He was a ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Charles Wilkerson avatar

    How To Be Blessed By God

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Jun 30, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,464 views

    Testing God by obedient living allows us to find God’s blessings no matter our life’s situations

    What is the difference between those like Billy Graham, Mother Theresa, Robert Schuler, Dietrich Bonhoffer, C.S. Lewis & most of those who tell pollsters that they’re Christians? Let me suggest that one key difference is in how they have believed what God has promised them in verses like those here ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    "How To Walk With God"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Aug 14, 2004
    based on 34 ratings
     | 4,903 views

    I want to walk with God, how about you?

    Galatians 5:16-26 “How To Walk With God” By: Rev. Kenneth Sauer, Pastor of Parkview United Methodist Church, Newport News, VA www.parkview-umc.org One time I was in a mall, when I spotted a cute little kid with his mother. When her son started to veer away from his mother, the woman called ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • Dean Morgan avatar

    How Big Is God

    Contributed by Dean Morgan on Oct 1, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 19,655 views

    God is a big God! But some Christians act as if they have a big devil and a little God working in their lives.

    TEXT: Isaiah 12:4-6 TITLE: HOW BIG IS GOD? A Bible Sized God ¡V A Bible Sized Devil This is one of those questions that you would expect a child to ask. They are forever asking such things as: ƒæ Where did God come from? ƒæ How old is God? ƒæ Who made God? Here is one of those questions that I ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    How To Convince God

    Contributed by Isaac Magsino on Jan 16, 2006
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,045 views

    But when you realize that it is God who can rise you up; you suddenly, find yourself ashamed and this could be the reason on why it is hard to be close to Him. You’re thinking that God is hard to convince.

    Theme: How to Convince God Text: Genesis 32: 22-31 Place: FBC Kodiak, Alaska Date: January 15, 2k6 Intro: Illus: Three handsome male dogs are walking down the street when they see a beautiful, enticing, female Poodle. The three male dogs fall all over ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Shawn Rose avatar

    How To Please God

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 18, 2009
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,982 views

    Enoch was described as a man that "pleased God." Wouldn’t you like to have this testimony?

    HOW TO PLEASE GOD Text: Hebrews 11:5 Introduction: · Enoch mentioned 9 times in Bible, 6 in Genesis, 1 in Luke, 1 in Jude, 1 in Hebrews · Genesis 5:24 Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him · Hebrews 11:5 he had this testimony, that he pleased God · Wouldn’t it be nice to have ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jay Robison avatar

    How Big Is God

    Contributed by Jay Robison on Feb 16, 2009
    based on 14 ratings
     | 10,022 views

    Is God bigger than my mistakes? Is God big enough to love the whole world? Of course God is, but sometimes we need to ask ourselves if our God is too small

    HOW BIG IS GOD? April 13, 2008 Jay Davis Robison ISAIAH 12:1-6 She was a precocious 6 year old with a pink bow in her hair It was after worship service at church one Sunday When she turned and asked her mommy How Big is God? Is God bigger than our dog, or daddy or a mountain? Perceptive ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Brian Bill avatar

    How God Restores Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Feb 22, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 18,331 views

    Life is filled with bad news and good news. Joel and Zephaniah offer us both.

    How God Restores Joel and Zephaniah Rev. Brian Bill 2/22/09 Life is often filled with good news and bad news. Have you ever heard someone say, “I have some good news and some bad news? What do you want to hear first?” When I’m asked this question I usually want the bad news first in the hopes ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Richard Schwedes avatar

    How God Heals

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Sep 22, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,748 views

    Healing is an important gift from God given to the church. This sermon explores how God heals physically, spiritually and emotionally.

    The bible clearly shows that healing is one of the things God is up to. In Mark 1:33-34 we heard The whole town gathered at the door, and Jesus healed many who had various diseases. Imagine being in that room. Or imagine being in the house when four characters pull the roof off the house to lower a ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Adrian Rogers avatar

    How To Know The Will Of God Series

    Contributed by Adrian Rogers on Mar 15, 2011
    based on 26 ratings
     | 78,048 views

    A classic sermon from the Adrian Rogers Legacy Collection about determining God's will for your life.

    This Sermon From Adrian Rogers Legacy Collection Used By Permission © 2010 www.ARLC.org Take God’s Holy Word, please, and turn with me to the Book of Colossians, chapter 1. We’re going to read verse 3, and then, verses 9 and 10. And, as you’re finding it, and as you’re ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • David Scudder avatar

    How To Give To God

    Contributed by David Scudder on Oct 24, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,341 views

    Using guilt to get people to give money to the Lord’s work is wrong, but it is a temptation because 37% of regular church attenders give nothing to the church, 33% of them engage in at least some form of gambling.

    Part I Purpose: To lay out God's parameters for giving. Aim: I want the listener to examine how they give to God and make any changes that are contrary to God's design for giving. INTRODUCTION: Joey Mimbs and Ralph Travis of Ellenton, Florida wrote this following song to be sung to the tune of ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible