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  • Patrick Bissig avatar

    How To Be A Dud For God

    Contributed by Patrick Bissig on Nov 28, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 2,827 views

    How to be ineffective for the Kingdom of God

    I Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.” Brought up with fireworks on the 4th of July. Tennessee to buy them Every now and then we would have one that The fuse would light… Smoke would come out… Anticipation would raise…NOTHING!!! It was a dud! Nothing but ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Tom Shepard avatar

    How To Talk To God Series

    Contributed by Tom Shepard on May 1, 2007
    based on 44 ratings
     | 15,730 views

    This is the fourth sermon in this series. What should you talk to God about and how you should talk to Him?

    Communicating With God: How To Talk To God Today we are continuing our series “Communicating With God.” Last week we looked at “How to Test the Voices You Hear” and we found that there are seven filters we can use to determine if the voices we hear are from God. Two weeks ago we looked at “How To ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How To Know The Will Of God

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 30, 2004
    based on 109 ratings
     | 4,184 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

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    How To Be Blessed By God

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Jun 30, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,451 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

  • Stephen Funderburk avatar

    How To Be Used By God

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jul 19, 2006
    based on 47 ratings
     | 14,329 views

    message on how to prepare your life to be a vessel for God’s purpose in life.

    Intro: it seems to me that every Christian has a desire to be used by God in some special way. What concerns me, and how this sermon has been birthed into my spirit, is that most Christians have a limited view of being used of God. Someone sings at church, someone says a prayer, I give an offering, ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How To Be Blessed By God

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 17, 2003
    based on 159 ratings
     | 26,555 views

    Psalms 1 gives us guidelines for being blessed, favored and multiplied by God. It also provides us with warnings that are equally important but usually misunderstood.

    How to Be Blessed by God Psalms 1 gives us guidelines for being blessed, favored and multiplied by God. It also provides us with warnings that are equally important but usually misunderstood. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • David Dykes avatar

    How To Return To God Series

    Contributed by David Dykes on Apr 4, 2003
    based on 178 ratings
     | 118,018 views

    Prodigals still exist. These individuals rebel, stepping away from God’s blessings, indulging in reckless living and ruining their lives. But God runs to meet those who are at the point of total desperation and who are willing to repent and return home.

    How to Return to God Luke 15:11–24 by David O. Dykes INTRODUCTION The parable in this passage focuses on the character and nature of the God of the Bible. It’s usually called the parable of the Prodigal Son but I prefer to call it the parable of the Loving Father. Jesus uses this story to teach ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Kemuel Travis avatar

    How To Love God

    Contributed by Kemuel Travis on Mar 29, 2007
    based on 34 ratings
     | 9,990 views

    To show what it means when we truly love God.

    -Ask almost anyone in the united states if they love God and the answer would be “Yes!” -Sometimes, though, I think people misunderstand the question -Sometimes they think the question is “Do you love what God does for you?” -They have a servant kind of God -Some think the question is, “Do you ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • David Seeley avatar

    How Big Is God?

    Contributed by David Seeley on Mar 5, 2004
    based on 54 ratings
     | 4,064 views

    God is abundantly able to help those who obey Him and put their trust in Him. This message gives hope to those who are facing the trial of life. No matter how big the trial, God is bigger than it all.

    How Big is God? (Matthew 19:26) But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. (KJV) I. God is bigger than your whale <problems of your own making> Jonah was the cause of his own problem. If he had only obeyed God in the first place ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    How To Miss The Will Of God

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Aug 1, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 1,451 views

    Four common mistakes people make in trying to determine the will of God

    July 31, 2005 Dakota Community Church Understanding God’s Will Week One: Common Misconceptions Introduction: Friday night we went as a family to see “Kingdom of Heaven” and several times the will of God was a major theme. - When the magistrate wanted to flee on the fastest horses. - When they ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite

  • Brian Atwood avatar

    How To Respond To God Series

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Dec 15, 2005
    based on 35 ratings
     | 5,295 views

    How Mary’s response to God’s enlightenment is an example to us all on how to respond to God.

    How to Respond to God Part 3 of 4 in the series, Christmas Calms Our Fears Last week we reflected on the pronouncement of the angel to Zechariah that the prayers of he and his wife Elizabeth had been heard and that they were going to have a son. Let’s pick up the story in the first chapter of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ken Sauer avatar

    "How To Walk With God"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Aug 14, 2004
    based on 34 ratings
     | 4,887 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
     | 19,638 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

  • Paul Shafit avatar

    How To Worship God

    Contributed by Paul Shafit on Jun 9, 2014
     | 7,154 views

    How much of your life is God centered and how much is self centered?

    "How To Worship God" (Psalm 65) The old song goes, "I don't know what you came to do; but I came to praise the Lord." How appropriate it is for us to think about the ways we can lift up God’s name and honor Him. He's shown His love for us by sending Christ Jesus into the world to deliver us ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Kevin Ruffcorn avatar

    How To Love God Series

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Jun 24, 2014
     | 4,649 views

    God has moved mightily in our lives. God invites us to respond by placing God first in our lives and loving him with all of our heart, mind, soul and strength. (The first tablet of the Ten Commandments).

    Exodus 20:1-11 “How to Love God” INTRODUCTION Jesus spoke to a group of Jewish converts. His conversation is recorded in the eighth chapter of John’s gospel. In verse thirty-two Jesus says, “The truth will set you free.” Jesus follows this statement up in verse ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran