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  • Ed Pruitt avatar

    Eliminate The Distractions

    Contributed by Ed Pruitt on Jul 29, 2006
    based on 57 ratings
     | 28,872 views

    Are we all allowing the distractions of this world to cause us problems with our walk with Jesus Christ?

    DISCLAIMER: Since there are a large amount of sermons and topics and illustrations that are posted on Sermon Central, I feel it is necessary to place this disclaimer on all of the sermons that I submit. These sermons are original to the author and the leading of the Holy Spirit. While ideas and ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Oct 17, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,027 views

    We damage ourselves as well as the others when we write off whole peoples through racism. When we see them as persons, with human faces, we discover that to write them off is to damage ourselves. Fellowship in Christ leads us to value difference.

    A widow, shortly after her husband’s death, was going through his papers. She found a couple of old certificates, yellowed with age and crumbling into dust. They had been made out to her husband more than fifty years ago, and seemed to be some kind of promissory notes. Some sort of company had ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Uncommonly Average Series

    Contributed by Quint Pitts on Oct 17, 2009
    based on 8 ratings
     | 9,680 views

    A look at Priscilla and Aquilla. They weren’t especially gifted, rather average people, but they lived an uncommon life.

    UNCOMMONLY AVERAGE The Cure For The Common Life—Part 1 Bud Villers was a good man. Bud was my neighbor. I grew up beside him until he died when I was in college. Bud helped my dad put a roof on our house, he assisted my dad when they poured concrete sidewalks and porches. My dad helped him put ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Green Means Go Series

    Contributed by John Sears on Feb 16, 2012
    based on 15 ratings
     | 22,334 views

    The last words we speak are important. Join the adventure as we learn how Jesus disciples moved from fear to faith in their journey to follow Jesus’ final words.

    Introduction: My wife and I were nervous about our mission trip to Globe, AZ. It wasn’t the trip itself. It was because this would be the first time we had left our children in the care of another person for such an extended length of time. So like any parent, before we left we made sure that ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • Larry Turner avatar

    Hey, Preacher. Leave Those Weeds Alone. Series

    Contributed by Larry Turner on Mar 16, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,013 views

    We live in a world where wheat and weeds live together. How we live can convert the weeds to wheat. This sermon looks at a four step program to accomplish this.

    Last week we acknowledged the existence of two spiritual kingdoms. There is the kingdom of sin that established itself in rebellion against God’s rule. And there is the Kingdom of Jesus that is crying out for us to rise up against the kingdom of sin. We also acknowledged the fact that we ...read more

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    Denomination: Foursquare

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    How The Pharisees Got It Wrong

    Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Aug 20, 2011
    based on 8 ratings
     | 14,159 views

    In this topical sermon we are going to examine how the Pharisees missed it so badly by examining their history, their beliefs, and where they went wrong.

    How the Pharisees Got it Wrong Text: Matthew 15:1-14 By: Ken McKinley (Read Text) Well we’re taking a little break from Ecclesiastes. We did last week so that I could talk to you all about how we might better serve God as a church. And tonight, I want to talk to you about how the Pharisees ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Clearing The Heir

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 25, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,265 views

    Many people live every moment completely oblivious to their rightful divine inheritance.

    “Clearing the Heir” Gal. 4:1-7 You might just be the long-lost heir to someone’s fortune. Because unclaimed money from estates reverts to the state after a period of time the government is not really eager to spend a lot of time or money looking for deserving heirs. But the ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Five Mothers Of Jesus

    Contributed by Greg Nance on May 12, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,253 views

    Matthew's mothers help us celebrate Mother's Day with lessons that challenge us, but bring us to deeper faith.

    Happy Mother’s day! Today’s lesson will be a brief overview of the mothers listed in Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew with a focus on the most prominent quality of each. What would you say is the defining characteristic or quality in your own mother? Of all the things that stand ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Be Persistent

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 15, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 20,694 views

    God never gets tired of hearing our prayers regardless of how many times we pray for the same thing.

    Text: “Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up” (Luke 18:1). Have you ever felt like giving up because you thought something was too difficult for you to learn or do? Maybe the therapy you were going through caused you pain and ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Agents Of Change Series

    Contributed by Keith Foskey on Apr 15, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,674 views

    How was salt used in the Bible? How does salt lose its taste? How is light a parallel for salt?

    “Agents of Change” Matthew 5:13-16 Toward the end of 2013, we began a series of messages on the Sermon on the Mount. Our goal is to take this great message of Christ, verse by verse, and seek to understand the profound truths within. Before Christmas, we stopped having completed the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    We Interrupt Our Regular Programming To Bring This Important Imagination! Series

    Contributed by Victor Ramlall on Jun 23, 2013
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,479 views

    God gave man the power of imagination which should be surrendered, sanctified and used to glorify God

    It is more than just pie in the sky when you die. It is life and more abundant life right now. What did Jesus say you have now and will have? The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Making Of An Apostle Series

    Contributed by Joe Tilton on Jul 13, 2013
     | 4,692 views

    Continuing in a series on going to Jerusalem, based on travels described in Luke. This is in line with United Methodist Lectionary. Please let me know if you use these messages.

    July 21, 2013 Making of an Apostle Jesus is walking through a town, when He sees that the townspeople are about to stone a woman. He asks, “Why are you going to stone her?” A voice comes from somewhere in the crowd that proclaims, “Because she is a sinner.” Jesus ...read more

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    This Spirit Called Jezebel- Part 2 Series

    Contributed by Nelson Emeonu on Jul 14, 2014
     | 4,535 views

    This is the end time.We are living in a terrible moment and the spirit of this dangerous woman called Jezebel is at work in our age

    THIS SPIRIT CALLED JEZEBEL- Part 2 You are welcome to THE TRUMPETER. Remember, its a moment we share the UNDILUTED word of God, preparing the saints for the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We sincerely thank God for the people that have been following this preaching of the word of God ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    Divine Ability For Human Necessity Series

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Oct 8, 2015
    based on 4 ratings
     | 16,601 views

    “Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.” Proverbs 19:21

    Proverbs 19:21 says “Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.” A "man's heart" is a little world, full of Dreaming, scheming, and planning. We are always devising. To every device of all hearts, God's "counsel," His design, exists ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Christmas Focus In Matthew: Jesus Series

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Dec 7, 2015
     | 5,141 views

    Christmas is the celebration of the birth of the most important person ever born. This morning we are going to look at Matthew 1 and focus on one reason why Jesus Christ is the #1 person who has ever lived. We find the truth of it in Matthew 1 which is

    CHRISTMAS FOCUS IN MATTHEW: JESUS MATTHEW 1:18-25 INTRODUCTION… Most Important Ever Born (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521212/Wikipedias-10-significant-people-EVER.html) Who is the most important person ever born in all of history? Right away we all say Jesus Christ because we ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ