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  • Paul Apple avatar

    Promise Keeper Series

    Contributed by Paul Apple on Jun 25, 2001
    based on 30 ratings
     | 11,392 views

    GOD GUIDES HIS COVENANT PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THEIR PILGRIMAGE TO POSSESS HIS PROMISES

    BIG IDEA: GOD GUIDES HIS COVENANT PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THEIR PILGRIMAGE TO POSSESS HIS PROMISES I. (:1-7) THE HEART SONG OF GOD’S COVENANT PEOPLE Who is addressed here as God’s covenant people? "seed of Abraham" = "His servant" "O sons of Jacob" = "His chosen ones" What should be their Heart ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    A Call To Courage Series

    Contributed by Paul Apple on Jul 7, 2001
    based on 48 ratings
     | 4,915 views

    PAUL CHALLENGES TIMOTHY TO REJECT FEAR AND EMBRACE SUFFERING IN FULFILLING HIS CALL TO THE MINISTRY OF THE GOSPEL

    BIG IDEA: PAUL CHALLENGES TIMOTHY TO REJECT FEAR AND EMBRACE SUFFERING IN FULFILLING HIS CALL TO THE MINISTRY OF THE GOSPEL INTRODUCTION: “Therefore” – based on vv.6-7 you have been called and gifted for the gospel ministry you have received the divine empowering = “power and love and ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Against All Odds

    Contributed by David Parks on Nov 1, 2002
    based on 54 ratings
     | 6,432 views

    On its face - at the start of it - it seemed unlikely this new venture (the church) cold possibly suceed.

    AGAINST ALL ODDS: THE CHURCH ACROSS THE AGES TEXT: Daniel 7:9-14 Introduction: 1. If any new venture ever seemed to be striking out against all odds it was the early Church of Christ started on that fateful day of Pentecost in AD. 30 2. How in the world did it survive? 3. Just 50 days earlier their ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Fellowship With God Series

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 3, 2002
    based on 115 ratings
     | 35,953 views

    2nd in First John Series

    FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD 1 John 1:5-7 INTRO: Today, I want to talk to you about fellowship with God. We would count it a great privilege if the President of the United States were to want to fellowship with us. We’d be honored. Yet the God of this universe, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords desires ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    What To Do On Sunday

    Contributed by Jerry Falwell on May 15, 2002
    based on 135 ratings
     | 6,145 views

    The Apostle John becomes our example of what to do on Sunday.

    WHAT TO DO ON SUNDAY By Jerry Falwell I. INTRODUCTION The Book of Revelation was written on Sunday. The writer John said, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as a trumpet” (1:10). The Apostle John becomes our example of what to do on Sunday. We can ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    God's Calling

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Mar 12, 2002
    based on 67 ratings
     | 9,295 views

    God’s Calling - Acts 16

    Acts 16 – Paul is Called to Europe and to the Gentile World Illustrations:FEELINGS When George B. McClellan was commissioned Major General of the Army, he wrote his wife, "I don’t feel any different than I did yesterday. Indeed, I have not yet put on my new uniform. I am sure that I am in command ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    My Beloved

    Contributed by Ken Sowers on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,289 views

    The baptism of Jesus

    John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Equipping God's People

    Contributed by Rev. Bruce A. Shields on May 3, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,440 views

    Educating the Body of Christ to the power of the Holy Spirit and the whole armor of God as well as understanding that life isn’t perfect after we accept Christ.

    Equipping God’s People 1. Beyond Salvation – Isn’t Life Perfect Now? 1 Peter 3:17 – Suffering for what is right “17. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.” Hebrews 10:32 – Persecution of new converts “32. But call to remembrance the ...read more

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    Denomination: Bible Church

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    A Place Beside God

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 23, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,727 views

    Christ is the mediator between God and men.Just like Moses men can see the glory of God but we must be in the Rock that is Christ Jesus.

    A PLACE BESIDE GOD Exo 33:18 And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. Exo 33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Being A Finisher

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Jun 23, 2007
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,288 views

    Athletic history records some leaps from worst to first. For example, the Minnesota Twins finished last in their division in 1990, yet came back to win the World Series in 1991, illustrating the maxim, “ it’s not how you begin, it’s how you finish!”

    Being a Finisher Text: Hebrews 10: 32-39 But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33 partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Don Jones avatar

    Freedom

    Contributed by Don Jones on Jul 2, 2007
    based on 18 ratings
     | 10,600 views

    True freedom comes in knowing Jesus Christ and doing His will.

    Freedom’s Price Galatians 5:13-18 Introduction Thus may the 4th of July, that glorious and ever memorable day, be celebrated through America, by the sons of freedom, from age to age till time shall be no more. Amen, and amen. Virginia Gazette, July 18, 1777 I am apt to believe that it will be ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Blessed Be God

    Contributed by Steve Hereford on Jul 10, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,893 views

    How do you respond to God? Do you "bless" Him? What does that mean? Join Pastor Steve as he explains the meaning of 1 Peter 1:3.

    Peter tells his readers to “Bless” God. That phrase is very similar to what we saw in our study of Psalm 103:1-4, where David said: “Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Lord Send The Fire

    Contributed by Pastor/Author: Terry Sisney on Oct 5, 2007
    based on 80 ratings
     | 31,257 views

    If our God is a consuming fire, then we as his church, his body, must have the fire. He maketh his angels ministering spirits and his ministers flames of fire.

    1 Kings 18:24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken. I’ve always been fascinated by fire, as a child my first encounter with fire was (matches) I ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Far Too Easily Pleased

    Contributed by Rusty Davidson on Feb 19, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,855 views

    The sermon shows how we can exchange the temporal pleasures of this life for the eternal pleasures of God.

    Far Too Easily Pleased Text: Psalm 36:5-8 I. Introduction Quote: C. S. Lewis - If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Comforter Series

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Nov 13, 2007
    based on 15 ratings
     | 39,509 views

    Showing what it means to call the Holy Spirit the Comforter

    Title: The Comforter Theme: To get into the lives of people the importance of seeing the Holy Spirit as the comforter. Text: John 14:15-17 John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God