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  • Children & Those Serving Them Are Important To God thumbnail

    Children & Those Serving Them Are Important To God PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Jan 18, 2024
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     | 947 views

    This sermon emphasizes our divine responsibility to guide children in God's ways, reflecting the importance God places on children and those who serve them.

    Welcome, my dear family in Christ. I am so glad to see each and every one of you here today. I see familiar faces, and I see new ones too. Each of you is a testament to the grace of God in our lives. We are gathered here today to celebrate, to learn, to grow, and to become more like Christ in our ...read more

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    Binding Hearts: Family Unity PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Feb 16, 2024
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     | 2,068 views

    This sermon emphasizes the importance of fostering familial bonds within the Christian community, reflecting God's love and support through empathy, kindness, and shared responsibility.

    Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters in Christ, we gather here today under the banner of God's unending love and grace. We come together not as strangers, but as a family bound by the love of our Heavenly Father. We come together not as individuals, but as a collective body of Christ, united ...read more

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    Our Message Is Jesus PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Mar 18, 2024
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     | 8,837 views

    This sermon explores overcoming temptations, utilizing the Holy Spirit's power, and our responsibility to proclaim Christ, as exemplified by Jesus in Luke 4:14-21.

    Good morning, dear friends. As we gather here today, let us find comfort in the shared fellowship of our faith, the unity of our purpose, and the shared hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. We are here, not by chance, but by divine appointment. Each one of us, handpicked by God, has a unique purpose in ...read more

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    Whose Image Is This? Premium Sermon

    Contributed by PRO Premium on Oct 25, 2023
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     | 1,032 views

    This sermon explores the balance between fulfilling our earthly responsibilities and maintaining our spiritual identity, using Jesus' teachings on paying taxes as a guide.

    Jesus was obviously an amazing teacher and rabbi. Throughout the course of his ministry I imagine that he answered thousands of questions about God, the law, and living a life of faith. But near the end of His earthly ministry, some questions came with ulterior motives. Many of those asking were ...read more

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    A Child-Sized House

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Nov 2, 2009
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     | 3,424 views

    Let us commit to building a church building with room for personal response to Christ and not business as usual; with room for spontaneity and not control; with room for those who need healing and not for exploitation.

    When our children were small, we often took them to the Smithsonian museums, to try and cram a little culture into heads usually preoccupied with cartoons or sports. The best place to go was the Museum of American History, because there were so many different kinds of exhibits and so many ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Gift Of The Son Series

    Contributed by John Knight on May 2, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,487 views

    Fourth in series. The gift of the Son of God.

    The Gift of the Son John 8:42-47 Have you ever been insulted? I. Insults Blond Joke Insults can be hurtful, or funny -depends upon the delivery "You’re so fat each step you take registers on the Richter scale." *hurtful/ harmful But, when overweight individual gets on stage and pokes ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    How To Celebrate Christmas

    Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 29, 2008
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     | 3,323 views

    Tonight we are going to look at the familiar story of the wise men coming to see baby Jesus. Although months after Christ’s birth, they share a place in historical first Christmas. From their part of this story we see how we need to celebrate Christmas.

    How to Celebrate Christmas - Get them talking: How does your family celebrate Christmas? - Christmas around the world Illustration: Replacement Santa Text: Matthew 2:1-12 The “wise men”, or Maji, were the ancient equivalent Jedi Knights – superb knowledge of math, science, astronomy, ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Why The City

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jan 16, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,605 views

    This sermon was part of a service of Prayer for our City. For Christ to reach a nation, he must reach the cities.

    Why> the City (Church of the City Prayer Service) – Combined, Bi-lingual Service Opening Songs ED - Message: Today our church is participating in something that is happening in 80 other congregations of all kinds across the city of San Antonio. About a month ago Dallas, Jesus, and I ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Report To Headquarters Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 21, 2011
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,256 views

    The Great Commission Jesus left his followers is about discipleship. Making disciples, baptizing disciples, and teaching disciples the whole counsel of God is the particular way the church is to focus her efforts to glorify God.

    Report to Headquarters (Acts 14:21-28) 1. Many Americans do not take honesty seriously. A boss asked one of his employees, 'Do you believe in life after death?' 'Yes, sir,' replied the new employee. 'I thought you would,' said the boss. 'Yesterday after you left to go to your brother's funeral, ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    In Exchange For Your Soul

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Sep 2, 2017
     | 7,634 views

    Let’s discuss the value of the cross, losing ourselves to gain ourselves and living a holy life all from Matthew 16:21-28.

    Prelude, Purpose, Plan Have you ever suffered for doing good? Have you ever wondered if it was all worth it? Why do those who do evil seem to prosper? Is there any justice? Is evil really punished and good rewarded? Let’s realize that payday is coming, for good and evil. Let’s discuss the value ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Our Civic Duty

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Nov 7, 2025
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     | 226 views

    Christians must serve as salt and light in our world. As part of our responsibility in the world, we must be good citizens, fulfilling the will of the Lord by wise exercise of our participation in the civic process.

    “You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Reading The Christmas Story Again For The First Time

    Contributed by Hans Krause on Oct 22, 2018
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     | 5,664 views

    What does the Christmas story sound like, if we could hear it again for the first time? Whom would we identify with in the story? What would our response be?

    [Sermon preached on 25 December 2017, Christmas Day] Amal is a young man from Syria. He has come to Finland as an asylum seeker. Back in Syria, the authorities are after his life because he has offended the Prophet Muhamad. There is no way he could return and survive. Amal still considers himself ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Unveiling Of The Gospel - Part 7 Series

    Contributed by Tiger Gullett on Jan 20, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,824 views

    The FINAL study in a series of messages from the book of Romans.

    REVIEW: Lesson 1 - THE PLAN OF THE GOSPEL (1:1-17)(1:117) Lesson 2 - THE NEED OF THE GOSPEL (1:18-3:20) Lesson 3 - THE WAY TO THE GOSPEL (3:21-5:11) 5:11) Lesson 4 - THE BENEFIT OF THE GOSPEL (6:1-8:39) Lesson 5 - THE REJECTION OF THE GOSPEL 9:1-11:36) Lesson 6 - THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GOSPEL ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Revenge Is Sweet, Or Is It?

    Contributed by Bramwell Hayes on Sep 16, 2006
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,296 views

    How the way of Christ is not the way of vengeance, but the way of seeking our foes’ blessing and salvation.

    Litigation seems to be increasingly common in our society, people are always taking each other to court in order to get some form of compensation for some wrong that they perceive has been done to them. Most of you will know that I used to be a doctor; in fact I still practice at the detox unit. ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    The End Is Near

    Contributed by Craig Condon on Jan 24, 2015
     | 3,676 views

    Our work is to win lost souls for Christ. We are to do this by spreading the Good News of the Gospel. We can do this work just by talking to our friends.

    Do you ever get the feeling that time is passing by quickly? Do you ever feel that you have too much to do and not enough time to do it? If so, then you can probably appreciate the sense of urgency that Paul has in the reading from 1 Corinthians 7:29-31, which we heard earlier in today’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican