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  • Howard Strickland avatar

    What’s In A Difficult Week?

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Apr 10, 2017
     | 6,449 views

    Have you ever had a difficult week? Have you? I certainly have, Sometimes I’ll get like, “What’s the use!” No one will escape a difficult week in losing a loved one. Grief over-the-top, not seeing your way out. “We’ve all had difficult weeks.” Moreover, m

    What’s In A Difficult Week? Luke 22:39-46NKJB Have you ever had a difficult week? Have you? I certainly have, Sometimes I’ll get like, “What’s the use!” No one will escape a difficult week in losing a loved one. Grief over-the-top, not seeing your way out. ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Don't Waste Your Most Precious Possession Series

    Contributed by David Dykes on Jan 25, 2018
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     | 53,755 views

    You haven't always existed; only God is eternal in both directions. Your soul will exist long after your physical life is over, either in heaven with God or in hell separated from God.

    INTRODUCTION What is your most precious possession? This world has plenty of expensive baubles and trinkets. Here are some actual things people own that they probably consider to be a precious possession. For instance, how about a gold-plated, diamond studded iPhone? The cost is $2.97 million and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Great Betrayal

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Feb 5, 2018
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    Judas first stole a few shekels and then made some more wrong choices until he was pulled deeper and deeper into depravity. Be careful about minimizing your sins because they may lead you to something even darker and more destructive.

    The month of February reminds me of my candidating weekend at Edgewood five years ago when you were checking me out and I was checking you out to see how God might be leading each of us. I think I preached at least five times, attended a number of groups and met with a ton of people. I still ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    My Pleasure Or His Pleasure

    Contributed by Craig Benner on Jul 12, 2015
     | 6,699 views

    What does God have to say about pleasure, anyway?

    Is His Pleasure the same as My Pleasure? Ps 147:11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Chik-Fil-A has a policy that their employees respond to the customers ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Jesus Thirsts Series

    Contributed by Allan Quak on Feb 27, 2018
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     | 11,791 views

    The thirst of Jesus on the cross reminds us that Jesus is human - which makes Him eligible to take our place and our punishment.

    Message John 19:28 I Thirst Talk about the effect of the drought in Australia We understand what happens when you remove water from the land. We have this vast land called the outback. Beautiful yet it can be deadly. Move on to drought in other nations. Everyone in Australia has relatively easy ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Stigma Of Being Holy Series

    Contributed by Kevin Hall on Nov 26, 2012
     | 5,382 views

    There are so many thoughts of half truths pertaining to our own orthodoxies that many get a false sense of what makes us a peculiar group of people to the rest of the world.

    “The Stigma of Being Holy” I Peter 1:16 Over the past few weeks we have interacted with the subject of Stigmas. We’ve talked about the Stigma of what it meant to be Christian. Last week Pastor Chad spoke about the Stigma of a Missionary. So to conclude this Stigma series I want ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Jerusalem Lifted Up Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 1, 2012
     | 4,295 views

    The Council envisioned a humanity integrated, not split apart, and entirely in the image of Christ

    Monday of First Week in Advent 2012 Gaudium et Spes When Roman general Titus stood on Mount Scopus in March of the year 70 AD, and looked toward the rebel city of Jerusalem, he learned by experience what many before him had known. Like Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus and Herod, he saw ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    God Shows Up

    Contributed by Gerald Roberts on May 28, 2013
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     | 5,923 views

    Disasters show up, Nature shows up, human sprit shows up , and God shows when we needed the most.

    IN the text today we note that God shows up no matter what the circumstance may be. After the tornado that struck Oklahoma we understand the horrific-ness a storm like this can produce. The storm ruins, harms, wounds and kills life. Let is consider some of the following: 1. Disasters will Show Up ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Clay Jars

    Contributed by Alvan Lewis on Mar 18, 2019
     | 7,819 views

    Where does God place the indescribable treasure of Eternal Life?

    Where do you hide your emergency house key? (And if you’ll give me that information, you’ll give me your Bank PIN number) Do you have it near the back door in a fancy marble box engraved with the words: Emergency House Key? Do you have it encased in an alabaster jar sitting on a pedestal on your ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    When Your World Is Turned Upside Down: When The Wrong People Win

    Contributed by James Wallace on Dec 28, 2020
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     | 4,770 views

    What if the wrong people end up in charge, in control of our government, your work, your school or whatever organization you are involved with? How will you respond?

    We’re in an election year again. In the midst of the Pandemic, the Democratic National Convention occurred virtually this week and dominated all the major TV networks. As expected, the speakers at the Democratic Convention relentlessly attacked the incumbent president, and true to form, he ...read more

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    Denomination: Bible Church

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    Be Imitators Of Christ During Covid-19

    Contributed by Dr John Singarayar Svd on Oct 25, 2020
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,043 views

    Being the children of light we become the presence of our Human Saviour and we express Humanity in action like Christ Jesus to all people, at all times and in all seasons in our lives during COVID-19 and beyond

    Be Imitators of Christ During COVID-19 Luke 13:10-17, Acts 7:47-50, Ephesians 4:32, Hebrews 13:8, Matthew 28:20, Ephesians 5:1-8. Reflection Dear sisters and brothers, “Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

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    Change Inevitable, Growth Optional

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 8, 2023
     | 1,690 views

    But our world seems bound to turn its back on God’s gift.

    Fifteenth Sunday in Course (A) Originally 13 July 2008 edited 2023 “Farmers are the founders of human civilization,” said Daniel Webster. Farming and gardening are just the same the analogies chosen by the Lord to illustrate a profound truth about the loving mercy of our God. Moreover, if we pay ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Even In The Deserts Of Our Life, Christ Is There Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 3, 2021
     | 1,616 views

    As weak and sinful as I am, He gives me the grace to serve Him.

    Homily for Monday of 14th week in course There is an undeniable tension in the Gospels between two divine realities. On the one hand, the Lord, always kind and merciful, reveals Himself through signs and wonders–personal revelations like the angels on Jacob’s ladder, raising little girls from ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Our Lord Never Gives Up

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 10, 2022
     | 1,216 views

    Imagine one being divine for a couple of weeks. Not like Jesus Christ, who as Second Person of the Trinity emptied Himself of everything to become man, all the way to a cross.

    Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Course 2022 One of the critical prophetic statements in the OT is in the book of Hosea (11:9). Hosea hears God tell him about the divine intention toward the kingdom of Israel: “I will not. . .destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man–the Holy One among you–and I will not ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    God, Man, And Beasts - Part 1 Series

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Feb 21, 2021
     | 2,579 views

    What happens with man's thinking regarding themselves and animals when God is omitted?

    Job 40 God, Man, and Beast – Part 1 God spoke in Job Chapters 38-41 to challenge Job and in a way God challenges all people (including every person today), by asking questions which only God can truly answer! The point of God’s questioning is: No matter how smart, how religious, how ambitious a ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible