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  • Tim Zingale avatar

    How Is Your Effort?

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Sep 17, 2007
    based on 54 ratings
     | 23,504 views

    A sermon for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost

    17 Sunday after Pentecost Proper 20 Lectionary 25 September 23 Luke 16:1-13 "How is your Effort?" "He also said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. And he called him and said to him, ’What is this that I ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Conviction - How Strong Is Yours?

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Sep 13, 2023
     | 2,388 views

    In the Bible, through his actions and prayers, Daniel gives us a powerful example of what it looks like to live unashamed in a culture that sees no need to live righteously and obediently for God's glory.

    We live in a culture that's becoming more and more antagonistic toward anyone who follows Christ. In the Bible, through his actions and prayers, Daniel gives us a powerful example of what it looks like to live unashamed in a culture that sees no need to live righteously and obediently for ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dennis Lee avatar

    God’s Sustaining Grace

    Contributed by Dennis Lee on Oct 4, 2017
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,902 views

    This sermon looks at God's grace and how it sustains us through times of temptations, tiredness, and troubles.

    God’s Sustaining Grace It seems that many people are going through so much. It’s really unbelievable. It ranges from those with a wide variety of illnesses to those whose stress levels have reached so high they’re one tick away from a heart attack. And let’s not forget about those whose emotions ...read more

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    Denomination: Foursquare

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    How To Become A True Worshipper

    Contributed by Dr. Craig Nelson on Dec 3, 2023
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,072 views

    Worship is an instinct within every human being because it is God-created and has been divinely implanted within us. He has provided an outlet for our need to worship.

    "The hour cometh," Jesus said, "when the true worshippers SHALL worship." All other things of importance will be set aside for worship. Mere rituals will give way to meaningful worship. This promise follows the earlier pledge that "... the water that I shall give him shall ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Holy Is His Name (Part 2) Series

    Contributed by Roy Newton on Jan 14, 2011
     | 3,643 views

    In a series on the Lord’s Prayer, this sermon is the second part of an examination of the meaning of the first petition ’May Your Name be kept Holy’, answering the question ’How do we keep God’s Name Holy?’

    "Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy." (Matthew 6:9, NLT) (SLIDE 2) INTRODUCTION A pastor was building a wooden trellis to support a climbing vine. As he pounded away, he noticed that a young boy that he recognised from the Sunday school was watching him. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Brian La Croix avatar

    Knowing God - #6 - God Is Holy Series

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 5, 2001
    based on 44 ratings
     | 6,177 views

    Last in a series about attributes of God and how we can reflect them to others.

    KNOWING GOD - #6 God is Holy 1 Peter 1:15-16 Introduction I like white shirts. I like them a lot. Part of the reason is that they go with everything. No matter what color of pants you are wearing, no matter what color tie, no matter what color shoes (I go for black most of the time), a white ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    How Are We Saved

    Contributed by Christopher Raiford on Jul 11, 2002
    based on 39 ratings
     | 4,803 views

    Lenten Sermon

    How Are We Saved? Not by the Law Which Brings God’s Wrath But by God’s Grace Through Faith The story is told about a small, country church where the pastor called a special meeting of the congregation to approve the purchase of a brand new chandelier. After some discussion pro and con, one member ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Dennis Selfridge avatar

    How To Be An Overcomer

    Contributed by Dennis Selfridge on Feb 11, 2003
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,377 views

    hOW WE CAN WITHSTAND TEMPTATION

    The Atheist asserts there is no God. The Agnostic says he can¡¦t tell if there is a God or not. The Materialist boasts that he does not require a God. The Worldly fool wishes there were not God. The Christians answers that he can¡¦t do without God. Atheism says: ¡§Creation without a Creator; ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Bradley White-Findeisen avatar

    How To Have Integrity

    Contributed by Bradley White-Findeisen on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 31 ratings
     | 5,600 views

    Jesus did two things that turned the major institutions of his day against him: First, he pointed to the real condition of the institutions of his time: In Matthew 23:13-32 he says, "How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You travel across land and sea to fi

    Jesus did two things that turned the major institutions of his day against him: First, he pointed to the real condition of the institutions of his time: In Matthew 23:13-32 he says, "How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You travel across land and sea to find ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How To Walk In The Spirit

    Contributed by Donnie De Loney on May 24, 2012
    based on 11 ratings
     | 8,366 views

    How the believer can walk in a life of victory

    How to Walk the Spirit Gal 5:25 25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. (NKJV) Batteries are a great portable power source. Batteries come in all shapes and sizes and can be used to power just about anything you can ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Alan McCann avatar

    Intiimacy With God Series

    Contributed by Alan Mccann on Aug 18, 2004
    based on 24 ratings
     | 9,865 views

    How Job’s desire for intimacy with God remained even in times of suffering.

    INTIMACY WITH GOD I read recently in a book the following: ‘Look at any Sunday morning congregation and what do you see? Tired women and bored men.’ There is, I believe, some truth in both of those descriptions. It is all too easy to become exhausted in the Christian life. The comment ‘my ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    How Love Looks Series

    Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Jan 27, 2020
     | 3,113 views

    This is the 32nd sermon from a series on the Gospel of John. In this sermon we look at how Jesus delayed his coming to Mary and Martha after Lazarus' death, and why He did that. As well as why it's so important to know Jesus, rather than just know about Him.

    How Love Looks (Part 32) Text: John 11:1-16 Well it’s good to see you all this morning. Last Sunday, we had originally intended to go out to Arkansas to celebrate my dad’s birthday. And we did get to spend time with him on his birthday, but not at his house… in the hospital. I think most of you ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    How To Change The Church

    Contributed by John Gullick on Oct 8, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,600 views

    A sermon that suggests we can change the church by understanding how we belong to the body of christ and how we need to change ourselves first.

    How to change the church "Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Coz von avatar

    How Will The World End? Series

    Contributed by Coz Von on Jun 11, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,170 views

    Matthew 24: There will be wars, rumors of wars, pestilence and earthquakes, all these are the beginning of sorrows, but the end is not yet: So what is the difference between tabloid sensationalism and the Bibles predictions - and How will the world end?

    ...there’s a serious side to the end of the world. Several years ago a cover story on Newsweek announced, “Doomsday Science: New Theories About Comets, Asteroids, and How the World Might End.” By “how the world might end,” scientists mean the extinction of the human ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Dr. Odell Belger avatar

    How To Overcome Sin

    Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 2, 2022
     | 1,862 views

    Years ago a newspaper reporter asked then Governor of Arkansas, William Jefferson Clinton,

    who was seeking to get the nomination of the democratic party to be the next candidate for president of the United States, this question, “Sir, it has been stated that you have had many adulterous relationships, is this true, or not true?” Mr. Clinton, with anger in his voice for being asked such ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist