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  • Don Brockus avatar

    The Three Wins Of Matthew 6

    Contributed by Don Brockus on Jan 21, 2006
    based on 16 ratings
     | 5,558 views

    A Sunday morning sermon exploring our motives for the spiritual disciplines of giving, praying and fasting.

    The Three Wins of Matthew Chapter 6 Summary Outline I. When you give: Matthew 6:2-4 II. When you pray: Matthew 6:5-8 III. When you fast: Matthew 6:16-18 “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21). Introduction Dime Store Cowboy Each summer, during our tourist ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Bruce Ball avatar

    Passionate Prayer

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Jul 25, 2007
    based on 18 ratings
     | 5,956 views

    This is a sermon about praying: Our motives and our hearts. Audio will be at www.sermonlist.com

    *** This sermon begins with a short skit on prayer. If you do not want to use it, scroll down to where the sermon begins and you can use it without the skit. Melody is a lady who is praying. The pastor is the voice of God. Melody is standing at the pulpit, with her head bowed as she is ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Guard Your Heart

    Contributed by Wayne Searls on Sep 15, 2006
    based on 19 ratings
     | 14,881 views

    PROPOSITION: To motivate the hearer to be proactive in what they allow to enter their heart through their eyes and ears.

    TEXT: (NKJV) Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. INTRODUCTION: To help us better understand what the writer is tell us, let us look at the definitions of some of the key words in this passage. KEEP [HB naòtsar naw-tsar’] A primitive root; to ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    The Dating Game Series

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 2, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,420 views

    There are two complimentary components of a God-honored life; knowledge of Scripture and faith-motivated action.

    THE DATING GAME Mark 12:18-27 Sermon Objective: There are two complimentary components of a God-honored life; knowledge of Scripture and faith-motivated action. Supporting Scripture: 1 Kings 18:20-39; Hebrews 11:6, James 2:14-26 18Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Michael Erickson avatar

    A Call To Ministry

    Contributed by Michael Erickson on Apr 5, 2005
    based on 11 ratings
     | 11,614 views

    Isaiah 61:1-3- Our Motivation, Our Method and Message and Our Market

    Zechariah 3:1-7, Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him. The Lord said to Satan, The Lord rebuke you Satan! The Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    "Half-A-Dad"

    Contributed by Ken Harris on Jun 19, 2005
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,621 views

    The purpose of this sermon is to MOTIVATE FATHERS to model CHRISTIANITY by demonstrating LOVING BEHAVIORS to their children and the fatherless.

    19 June 2005 Psalms 68:4-5a (KJV) by U.S. Army Chaplain (MAJ) Ken Harris CP Walker, Taegu South Korea BIG IDEA: GOD COMMANDS FATHERS to be full-time DADS by demonstrating loving behaviors for THEIR CHILDREN AND THE FATHERLESS. REFERENCES: If ye then, being ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Ron Murphy avatar

    Response To A Sign

    Contributed by Ron Murphy on Dec 19, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,480 views

    Signs are given to motivate a response, so what response comes from the sign of Christ?

    Introduction: I. Signs of the Season!! II. A Salvation Army women was doing what Salvation Army people do this time of year, she was ringing her bell and collecting money for the needy. A. Shortly she was informed by a policeman that a local ordinance prevented her from ringing her ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Leonard Davis avatar

    Building Together For The Glory Of God

    Contributed by Leonard Davis on May 30, 2009
    based on 8 ratings
     | 14,844 views

    The motivation for building or renovating a church’s building should be to honor God as an act of worship.

    BUILDING TOGETHER FOR THE GLORY OF GOD I have known of young people and some that were not so young that made a choice to go into the ministry. I have seen some that abandoned careers that would have taken them to positions of wealth and power in the business world to be a preacher and pastor ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ken Harris avatar

    "Weapon Of Mass Destruction (Wmd)"

    Contributed by Ken Harris on Sep 13, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 7,289 views

    The purpose of this sermon is to motivate the hearers to affirm to others that mature Christians can be idenified by their speech.

    13 September 2009 U.S. Army Chaplain (MAJ) Ken Harris 504th Compound’s Multi-Purpose Facility C.O. B. Adder Tallill, Iraq BIG IDEA: There is a direct correlation between spiritual maturity and a disciplined tongue; and spiritual immaturity and an undisciplined tongue (or a Christian who talks ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Christopher Roberts (Barrister) avatar

    Don’t Kill God’s Vision

    Contributed by Christopher Roberts (Barrister) on Nov 10, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,248 views

    This sermon will consider how God uses vision to motivate and mobilise people into service for him.

    Why Me? Have you ever wondered why some people receive visions, or a call concerning what God wants them to do in life, while others may not. We do not know why God gives some people visions and not others. However, one reason why God might put a vision on someone’s heart may be to mobilise and to ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Silver Bullet 2

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Jun 20, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,388 views

    Exposition of Numbers 25 regarding two more motivations and ammunitions for Romans 8:13.

    Text: Numbers 25:1-13, Title: Silver Bullet #2, Date/Place: NRBC, 6/19/11, AM A. Opening illustration: B. Background to passage: 1 Cor 10:6-10 gives us four OT reminders of God’s dealing with sin in His covenant people that should have known better, in order to help us fight sin in our own lives. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Genealogy Speak!!!

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Jun 21, 2012
     | 4,150 views

    To motivate the Church to learn priceless lessons from Genealogies instead of ignoring them as boring!!!

    GENEALOGY SPEAK!!! “All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn’t waste His breath.” noted a noted Christian leader reflecting on 2 Tim 3:16-17. How true it is we say subjoining! Yet do all our actions convey the fact that we believe in this ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Ken Pell avatar

    The Legacy

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 23, 2012
     | 9,835 views

    A Funeral Meditation: The death of Sarah motivated Abraham to seek the promises of God for his life.

    The Legacy* Genesis 23:1-4 1 Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old. 2 She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her. 3 Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites. He said, 4 ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Michael Stark avatar

    Desiring A Noble Task Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Aug 10, 2013
     | 5,574 views

    Those who seek eldership, provided they are motivated by divine call, desire a noble task.

    “The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.” [1] Few things give me greater pleasure than seeing God raise up heralds of holiness. I taught preacher boys in Texas for a brief period. Throughout the years of my service before the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    God's Favorites Have No Favorites

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Sep 1, 2013
     | 7,248 views

    Believers know that God's love for all motivates and empowers them to show love to all.

    A man and 24 of his friends and family and were refused service at a restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina. The reason: Michael Brown and his group are African-American. Apparently another customer - a white woman - complained that she felt threatened by their presence and Brown and his ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran