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  • Alison Bucklin avatar

    What Is This Thing Called Love?

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on May 8, 2023
     | 1,071 views

    Love for God must always come before love for any earthly object of our affection.

    Everybody knows what love is, right? Love is what makes you sit up all night assembling the bicycle for your daughter’s birthday, or leave the board meeting early to make it to your son’s soccer game. Is that the same thing as the love that makes your mouth go dry and your heart beat fast when ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    "Spiritual Thirst, Quenched By Jesus ”

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on May 24, 2023
     | 1,616 views

    A message for Pentecost based on the words of Jesus in John 7 at the Feast of Tabernacles in October as He identifies Himself as the "Rock" from which water quenched the thirst of the Israelites on their journey. Seven months later Jesus was dead.

    In Jesus Holy Name May 28, 2023 Text: John 7:37-39 Pentecost Redeemer “Spiritual Thirst, Quenched by Jesus ” We rightly celebrate Easter as the day that changed history, the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Divine Encounters

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Aug 14, 2020
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    Never for a moment think that God has forgotten you, in the darkest hour of your life, God is bringing people into your life that you may not recognize at that point of time. Amen.

    Chief cup bearer and the chief baker! Genesis 40:3”So he put them( the chief cup bearer and the chief baker) in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.” It is midnight 1.20 am, August 15, 2020, Saturday, as I write this ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Give God What Is His (October 22, 2017).

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 14, 2020
     | 5,967 views

    Why were the Pharisees wanting to try to trick Jesus? The reason why they wanted to try and trick Jesus was because Jesus’s authority rivaled their own! In trying to force Jesus to choose a side, they hoped to get Jesus to incriminate Himself.

    GIVE GOD WHAT IS HIS Text: Matthew 22:15 - 22 How many times have you heard someone say something like, “I only have to do two things, pay taxes and die”? Now they even have a new tax added on which is called by some a “death tax” which means that they tax the estate that is on by a ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    Crescendo (August 18, 2019).

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 14, 2020
     | 3,143 views

    Jesus shared with his audience then and his congregation today that life is not always a rose garden. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Some who are open to the gospel are often rejected by those who oppose it and sometimes they are family members.

    CRESCENDO Text: Luke 12:49 - 56 Have you ever had something happen that made your Adrenalin glands kick in instant overdrive when you were almost asleep? It said that Beethoven would sometimes shock his audiences with a shift from soft music to abrupt harsh noise. Imagine sitting ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    "Kingdom Power: Politics Or Service” Lent 5

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Mar 12, 2024
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    The illustration is a fictional story about "knowing the day of our death". Jesus knew why He was going to Jerusalem. The disciples believe the "kingdom" of the Son of Man, Daniel 7 is about to be fulfilled. Jesus turns Daniel upside down. Service!

    In Jesus Holy Name March 21, 2024 Text: Mark 10:43b-45 Redeemer “Kingdom Power: Politics or Service” Years ago I heard or read a fictional story about a man who wanted to make a lot of money in the stock market. But there were just too many ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    "Is This The King? On A Donkey!” (Plus Outline)

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Mar 21, 2024
     | 1,015 views

    There is nothing normal about “parades.” There is always preparation. God has prepared since Adam and Eve. 3 Words: Launch. Membership. Culture of the King 1st Launch Egypt Membership =Passover Culture Palm Sunday=Launch 2nd Membership 3rd new culture

    In Jesus Holy Name March 24, 2024 Text: Luke 19:11b Palm Sunday Redeemer “Is This the King? On a Donkey!” There is nothing normal about “parades.” There is always preparation. Anticipation is in the air. So it was in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Follow Jesus~ Series

    Contributed by Jon Daniels on Apr 7, 2025
     | 818 views

    Based on Luke 9:23-27 - Challenges hearers to follow Jesus every day.

    “FOLLOW JESUS” Luke 9:23-27 FBCF – 4/6/25 Jon Daniels INTRO – Following Jesus is a daily decision. Every day, there’s a real enemy to face & real battles to fight. Every day, there will be temptations to resist. Every day, you & I must decide if we are going to glorify God w/ our lives ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Wake Up Thou That Slumber And Sleep

    Contributed by Melvin Maughmer, Jr. on Sep 23, 2025
     | 658 views

    . Let us pray that the division that are being used to utterly destroy us as a nation, as a people, are themselves destroyed and we can come together in unity and Love regardless of political, spiritual, racial, economic or any other differences.

    Wake Up thou that Slumber and Sleep By Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr. Ephesians 5:14 “Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give the light”. OPENING: - This scripture literally refers to a spiritual awakening from the state of sin and spiritual ...read more

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    Denomination: Apostolic

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    You Can Get There From Here

    Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 9, 2025
     | 120 views

    Hezekiah’s revival shows that true renewal begins with repentance — a turning from sin and toward God that opens the floodgates of divine mercy.

    Sometimes revival comes in such gradual ways. Without even realizing when it all began, we find ourselves enjoying the spiritual blessings and joy that revival brings. Sometimes revival comes in response to conflict, or persecution, or maybe tragedy. Our complacency, our apathy, is shattered by ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

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    "Servant Leadership Vs I Want To Be Great”

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Sep 17, 2024
     | 1,213 views

    Opened with "The Invisible Gorilla" story. The disciples did not understand the culture of the kingdom even after viewing all the miracles... Quotes from Jesus Manifesto and Who Broke My Church... about values of being "servants".

    Jesus Holy Name September 22, 2024 Text: Mark 9:33-35 Redeemer “Servant Leadership vs I Want to Be Great” Jesus has been busy. He has been transfigured on a mountain before Peter, James and ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Starting Over Series

    Contributed by Roshelle Brenneise on Sep 26, 2024
     | 598 views

    Life resumed on planet earth….. Will the future be different from the past?

    September 28, 2024 We ended last time by briefly discussing the covenant sign of the rainbow. This morning we are going to begin by looking at the Covenant itself. The Covenant God made with Noah and his descendants is the first formal covenant described in the Old Testament. In the Hebrew ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

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    Don’t Play With Ghosts, Witchcraft Or Mediums

    Contributed by John Gaston on Oct 23, 2024
     | 1,030 views

    The Halloween Season seems innocent and as something laughable, but under the veneer is a real danger. God, who's much wiser than us, warned us to stay away from all witchcraft, necromancy, spirits, and satanism. Warn your friends of this menace.

    DON’T PLAY WITH GHOSTS, WITCHCRAFT OR MEDIUMS Deut. 18:9-12 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR 1. This reminds me of the two old baseball players, Abe and Jake, who made a deal. Whichever one died first, he would come back and tell the other guy if there's baseball in Heaven. 2. A few months later, ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Holy Habits #1 - Goodness Series

    Contributed by John Dobbs on Jun 19, 2025
     | 803 views

    For the next few weeks we want to focus on some Holy Habits - behaviors that we should seek to repeat often enough that they become automatic.

    SEVEN HOLY HABITS: GOODNESS Introduction In 1898, A psychologist named Edward Thorndike conducted an experiment to study the behavior of animals - he chose cats. He would place each cat inside a device known as a puzzle box. The box was designed so that the cat could escape through a door by some ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Living In God

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 14, 2025
     | 357 views

    Even the most noble and selfless kind of human love is inadequate to define God’s love. Because human love and divine love are different.

    When I was a little girl going to Sunday School, and used to come home with questions, my mother was in kind of a dilemma. You see, she didn’t believe in God. She thought there was a lot of good stuff in the Bible, as long as you left God out of it. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed