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  • Gerald Roberts avatar

    What God Provides When We Are The Mess?

    Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Sep 23, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,725 views

    The sermon shares how God continues to find value in us even when we are the mess.

    What God Provides when we are the mess? Exodus 16:2-15 1. The Lord brought you out of Egypt This is what Israel was brought out of .What was in Egypt? A. Enslavement of the People B. Taskmasters were in Egypt C. Task Master set affliction 11So they put slave masters over them ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Rick Duncan avatar

    Helping Your Friend Become God's Friend Series

    Contributed by Rick Duncan on Aug 26, 2003
    based on 57 ratings
     | 5,664 views

    If your friend were God’s friend how would their life be different? If your friend were God’s friend how would your relationship with each other change? If your friend were God’s friend how would you feel about their eternal destiny?

    On our vacation, I asked God to open some doors for me to give a clear word about Christ. I was looking for opportunities. Let me share a story with you about one of them. I was in a pool playing around with Evan, our ten-year-old son, when a man asked me, “Are you finding you way around here ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Dry Brook

    Contributed by Phil Anderson on May 31, 2004
    based on 36 ratings
     | 9,149 views

    How to turn your times of dicouragement {spiritual dry brooks}into times of victory.

    “The Dry Brook” I Kings 17:1-24 1KI 17:1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word." 2 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: 3 "Leave here, turn ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Dr. Madana Kumar, PhD avatar

    Seek, Find And Obey: An Encounter With God

    Contributed by Dr. Madana Kumar, Phd on Feb 26, 2018
    based on 2 ratings
     | 13,451 views

    What happens when we seek the Lord? How do we react when we actually find him and have the encounter with the awesome God? We are called to obedience once we have the encounter with God. How often do we do this Seek, Find and Obey?

    Good morning. This morning, let us start with a basic question. Why do we come to church? Our church is a small congregation, and hence the number of responses we can get here might be limited. But if you do a poll in a large church, there are many common answers to this question. Some of us come ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How We Can Accomplish Our Mission For The Lord Series

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jan 12, 2018
     | 10,376 views

    How can we accomplish our mission for the Lord? 1. With a strong commitment to spread the Word of God (vs. 5-7). 2. With strong courage to face our opposition (vs. 6-8). 3. With strong confidence in our God (vs. 9-12).

    How We Can Accomplish Our Mission for the Lord Acts 13:5-12 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - May 18, 2014 *From 1990-2000, church attendance remained basically the same in churches across America. Unfortunately, during that same time, our population grew by over 30 million people. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Mindset = Lifestyle Series

    Contributed by David Dykes on Oct 30, 2014
    based on 2 ratings
     | 26,832 views

    Most people really want to try and please God. But if they don’t have faith it is a frustrating experience, because most people think the way you please God is by ceasing to do bad and getting it all together. But we don’t have the power to do that.

    INTRODUCTION I’m preaching through the book of Romans, verse after verse, and I personally believe if you could compare the whole Bible to a mountain range, then the book of Romans would definitely be the Himalayan mountains and Romans, Chapter 8, would be the Mount Everest towering over all ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    God Will Do Great Things For You

    Contributed by James Dina on Aug 21, 2022
     | 2,034 views

    Nobody knows how babies are formed in the womb. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!  (Romans 11:33)

    "God does great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number" (Job 5:9). https://mountzionblog.org/god-will-do-great-things-for-you/ God will do great things in your life today that will surpass human understanding. Nobody knows how babies' bones are formed in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    The Love Of God-5

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on Mar 23, 2021
     | 2,652 views

    5 of 5. Paul highlighted the necessity of self-giving love to the proper outworking of Christian living. Self-giving love is essential to true Christianity, but How or in What ways is it essential? As A Christian, the Love of God must Humble my...

    The LOVE Of GOD-V—1Corinthians 13:1-13 Attention: In general people have a similar & genuine confusion about the meaning of love, & what it means to serve a ‘loving’ God. They suppose themselves to be ‘eating from’ the best that ‘love’ has to offer, when in reality they don’t have the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Standing In The Need Of Prayer

    Contributed by Susan Babb, Osl on Mar 28, 2013
     | 10,440 views

    We know how to make intercessions for others. But is it alright to pray for my needs as well.

    Standing in the Need of Prayer Matthew 7:1-7 I. Pastor – parrot A. all would say, “Let’s pray, let’s pray.” 1. Pastor tried to teach parrot to say other things but to no avail B. Pastor learned that a Deacon had a parrot 1. Deacon’s parrot would ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • T.J. Conwell avatar

    Mary’s Testimony Of God’s Work Series

    Contributed by T.j. Conwell on Dec 2, 2024
     | 792 views

    We must live to show others who He is to us, to show what He is doing! Christmas is the PERFECT opportunity to show people God’s mercy & love because what He has done demonstrates how He feels about His creation!

    2024 Christmas Series – Part 1 Sermon 1 – Mary’s Testimony of God’s Work Luke 1:39-55 Introduction - This morning, we enter the season historically called Advent -- Might ask, “What is Advent?” Comes from Latin word, “Adventus” -- In its original form, Advent means "coming" or ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Life Purpose: Tell Me Again Where We Are Headed Series

    Contributed by Kevin Higgins on Dec 21, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 5,433 views

    Why you exist and how to fulfill that purpose.

    Life in the Fast Lane Life Purpose: Tell Me Again Where We Are Headed Revelation 4:11 Woodlawn Baptist Church December 19, 2004 Introduction When we began this series a couple of months ago, we began with a message titled, Making the Drag: Enjoying the Journey on the Highway of Life. I told you ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Julian Silva avatar

    Can A Saved Person Ever Be Lost?

    Contributed by Julian Silva on Jan 24, 2003
    based on 15 ratings
     | 4,653 views

    How a Christian can know for a fact that he or she is saved according to the Scriptures.

    I. Scripture Introduction: 1 John 5:11-13 Body: Many times we have heard individual christians say, "Oh, God, at last in heaven, save us!" If we’re ever going to get to heaven, we’re going to have to get saved right here! That indicates that this individual does not know whether he or she is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Elmer Towns avatar

    Why Some Verses Are Hard To Understand Lesson 1 Series

    Contributed by Elmer Towns on Feb 11, 2019
     | 2,243 views

    How to deal with difficult verses

    A. INTRODUCTION: WHY SOME VERSES ARE HARD 1. Because God is truthful, He wrote a Bible that is truthful. Truth is consistent with its self, and correlates with reality (the laws of nature). 2. What appears to be a contradiction, has an explanation. 3. We won’t understand everything. Peter said ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Know Me By My Many Names Lesson 1 Series

    Contributed by Elmer Towns on May 3, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,258 views

    How do we know what God is like?

    A. HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT GOD IS LIKE? 1. By creation, miracles, laws, our conscience and His names. 2. We need to examine every source that tells us about God to fully understand His attributes and nature. B. WHY STUDY THE NAMES OF GOD 1. To understand His character. 2. To know the different ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dave McFadden avatar

    "Come As You Are But Don’t Stay As You Are” Series

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Feb 5, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 19,110 views

    In light of the cross of Christ, how should be as believer's live?

    We’ve been talking about sharing our faith. About taking the command of our King seriously: “go and make disciples of ALL nations,” (Matthew 28:19-20). We’ve talked about how we must be passionate and obedient about sharing the Good News with everyone. Then we said we need an attitude of acceptance ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist