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Rewriting Your Life Story Series

Contributed by Marty Baker on Mar 10, 2003

based on 36 ratings

| 17,420 views

This messages encourages you to move on with your life. Stop living in the past; press on to a new future.

Rewriting Your Life Story www.stevenscreek.net Dr. Marty Baker / January 26, 2003 The human brain is composed of over 12 billion nerve cells, with the analytical ability of a room full of Pentium-equipped computers. The brain indiscriminately receives and stores every kind of information thrown ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:2, Exodus 14:8-12

Denomination: Church Of God

"We Have A Story To Tell"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Jun 18, 2004

based on 40 ratings

| 13,021 views

Just as Jesus told the healed man to tell others how much God had done for him--we have the same calling.

Luke 8:26-39 “We Have a Story to Tell” By: Rev. Kenneth Emerson Sauer, Pastor of Parkview United Methodist Church, Newport News, VA www.parkview-umc.org Why are we here this morning? Why are we not doing what most of the people in our community are doing right ...read more

Scripture: Luke 8:26-39

Denomination: United Methodist

This Ain't No Fish Story

Contributed by Chris Kelly on Mar 4, 2002

based on 56 ratings

| 7,127 views

Why is it that we don’t share our faith in Christ more? Maybe Jonah can shed some light on the subject. Learn 5 attitudes that keep us from reaching others from his life.

This Ain’t No Fish Story! I want to tell you a story this morning about a fish. But it’s anything but a “fish story”. Most of us can probably remember the story of “Jonah & the Whale” from our Sunday School days, but maybe now that we’re all grown up, we kind of put it in the same category as ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 12:40-41

Denomination: Wesleyan

A Love Story That Went Wrong Series

Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000

based on 136 ratings

| 10,428 views

Hosea’s painful relationship is a parable of God’s love-relationship with mankind - Love Revealed, Love Rebuffed and Love Restored

Someone said that the story of Hosea is a "love story that went wrong". When that happens there’s suffering. Hosea’s prophecy is a cry from the heart of God, "What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early ...read more

Scripture: Hosea 6:4

Denomination: Baptist

The Story Of Moses And The Stool Pigeon

Contributed by Edward Boyce on Jan 25, 2002

based on 131 ratings

| 13,521 views

Change in the congregations of America is difficult and is often resisted. This sermon looks at Moses as a model for transformation and change in a church.

The Story of Moses and the Stool Pigeon Exodus 13:17-18 Deuteronomy 8:1-16 In 1914 a very sad thing happened when Martha died. Martha was the last of passenger pigeons. One hundred years earlier the passenger pigeons covered the landscape. It was not uncommon for flocks of over one hundred ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 13:17-18, Deuteronomy 8:1-16

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

What About His-Story?

Contributed by Tony Britt on Feb 6, 2002

based on 20 ratings

| 17,837 views

This sermon is written in honor of Black History Month. Not only do we look at how important our history is, but we are also challenged to look at how we as black/African Americans have always been central to God’s story.

What About His-story? Back in the days of steam ships, only rich white people sailed at sea. One day while sailing, something suddenly happened to the ship and it was about to sink. Terrified, the white folks aboard didn’t know what to do. Someone suggested that they do what the black folks ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:8-14, Luke 26:23

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

An Old Story For A New World Series

Contributed by Mark Beaird on Feb 1, 2001

based on 103 ratings

| 6,391 views

The message remains the same in spite of the changes in our society. (3 of 3)

AN OLD STORY FOR A NEW WORLD © Mark Beaird Text: Acts 17:24-33  In the early days of the Tennessee Valley project a dilapidated homestead was going to be torn down. They were damming the river and the valley would be flooded out. A new split-level ranch was built for the Appalachian ...read more

Scripture: Acts 17:24-33

Denomination: Pentecostal

Cain And Abel - The Story Of Everyman

Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on May 22, 2002

based on 140 ratings

| 42,551 views

The story of Everyman is in the lives of Cain and Abel, So Different in the their Perspective of Life, Motivation for Worship, Sacrifice Offered and Reactions

CAIN AND ABEL - THE STORY OF EVERYMAN The Bible story of Adam and Eve, our first parents, in the Garden of Eden before their Fall, show the perfect life of happiness and fulfilment that could have been theirs. But it wasn’t to be. It ends with the guilty pair being driven out, with cherubim and a ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 4:1-12, Genesis 4:1-18

Denomination: Baptist

Law Keeping - The Real Story Series

Contributed by Chris Appleby on Jun 10, 2002

based on 13 ratings

| 4,994 views

The trouble wit hlaw keeping is that we’re unable to do it. The good thing about the law is that it drives us back to dependence on the grace of God in Jesu Christ

Here’s what happens to people from time to time. They realise they have a problem with a particular sin or sins, so they decide to do something about it. They read something like Romans 6, that we read last week and they decide that from now on they’ll be slaves of righteousness. Whenever they feel ...read more

Scripture: Romans 7:7-25

Denomination: Anglican

Peter's Biggest Fish Story

Contributed by Ted Sutherland on Apr 3, 2001

based on 131 ratings

| 14,846 views

How to pay the IRS when U R broke.

Paying the IRS, When U R Broke Matthew 17:24-27 I. Tax Exemption vs. 26, 27 A. Jesus was Exempt B. Jesus made an Exception II. Filing Jointly vs. 27 “. . . give unto them for me and thee.” III. What to do in case of Audit, vs. 27 Records, This is the record From Reader’s Digest: It’s time ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 17:24-27

Denomination: Baptist

Conquering Lonliness --- The Story Of Joseph

Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 31, 2000

based on 86 ratings

| 15,798 views

Joseph was lonely because he was alienated from his family, felt no one cared and that there was no hope. He conquered his lonliness by maintaining his integrity, becoming involved in meaningful work and forgiving those who had wronged him.

In September, 1985, a celebration was held at a New Orleans municipal swimming pool. The occasion was the celebration of the first summer in memory when no one had drowned at any New Orleans city pool. In honor of this somewhat historic event, two hundred people gathered at one of New Orleans’ ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 37:19-36

Denomination: Methodist

Joseph’s Christmas Story

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jan 5, 2001

based on 108 ratings

| 20,934 views

There are 4 parts to the story, & in each of these parts you will see how much Joseph loved Mary.

MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (Revised: 2013) If you were going to make a list of the great loving couples of history, who would be on your list? Romeo & Juliet? Anthony & Cleopatra? Mary & Joseph would probably not be on your list, for when ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Grace And Works - The Real Story

Contributed by Steve Pilon on Nov 17, 2001

based on 21 ratings

| 4,546 views

Grace and works are both important if the Christian is to live a valuable life of service to the Lord.

For the last several weeks we have been studying from the Book of 1st Peter. And for at least two of those weeks I have concentrated on and stressed the grace and mercy of God. Today, I would like to continue that theme and perhaps build upon the foundation already laid. But before I begin let’s go ...read more

Scripture: Luke 18:9-13, Deuteronomy 6:24-25

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Little Things In The Christmas Story

Contributed by Gary Huckaby on Dec 15, 2003

based on 150 ratings

| 51,126 views

God often uses little things, little people to do His Great work. Such is the case in the Christmas story. This message shows just what god used in His Christmas message to us in His Holy Word, The Bible.

Little Things In The Christmas Story By-Evangelist Gary Huckaby D.D. "And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." Luke 2:12 The story of Michaelangelo and his paintings. Someone once asked Michaelangelo, "Why he spent so much ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:12-15

Denomination: Baptist

Five Short Stories Of Grace

Contributed by Chris Tiller on Nov 19, 2005

based on 70 ratings

| 125,070 views

Five stories from Old Testament that demonstrate God’s graciousness. (Grace is not just a New Testament concept.)

In the second century, a hundred years or so after the death of Jesus and the birth of the church, lived a man named Marcion. Marcion was a Christian. Well, not exactly. Marcion called himself a Christian, but he had his own perspective about what that meant, a perspective shared by his ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 103:1-22

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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