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  • Bobby Stults avatar

    Be Careful What You Ask For... Series

    Contributed by Bobby Stults on Sep 13, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 12,281 views

    We must be careful what we seek after b/c we may get it...

    Sermon Brief Date Written: September 13, 2006 Date Preached: September 13, 2006 Where Preached: OZHBC (Wed - PM Service) Sermon Details: Series Title: Basic Bible Study Sermon Title: Be Careful what you ask for… you may get it! Sermon Text: Judges 14:1-3 Introduction: In the book by C.S. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rodney Fry avatar

    Major Miscalculations (Samson)

    Contributed by Rodney Fry on Jan 14, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
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    Dont make the same mistakes as Samson

    MAJOR MISCALCULATIONS Samson Introduction It was a party to end all parties. The main entertainment was a tragic comic display. They called out a blind hulk of a man and forced him to do tricks in front of the drunken crowd. This was not just any old slave, this was their former enemy. His name was ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Everybody Is Not Your Friend/Smiling Faces Tell Lies

    Contributed by Ronnie Mcneill on Jan 15, 2007
    based on 58 ratings
     | 33,858 views

    In life we must realize that everyone that smiles in your face isn’t always your friend. Every body standing in your corner is not always in your corner. Smiling faces do at times tell lies.

    Sermonic Theme: “Everybody Is Not Your Friend” with the undercutting theme of “Smiling Faces Tell Lies” Now whichever theme suits your need, you have a choice. Everybody Is Not Your Friend, or Smiling Faces Tell Lies. This sermon is one of great difficulty and pain to preach because when my ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Road To Ruin

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 1, 2001
    based on 94 ratings
     | 11,360 views

    Samson was on the road to ruin because he fraternized with the enemy, wasted his strength and was deluded by pride.

    The story of Samson begins much like the story of the other judges of Israel. The nation was in misery because of the domination of a rival country that was oppressing them. That nation was the Philistine nation. (Interestingly, the word Philistine is where we get our word “Palestinian,” so this ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Randy Santiago avatar

    Dancing With Delilah

    Contributed by Randy Santiago on Jan 10, 2001
    based on 276 ratings
     | 14,162 views

    How to keep from dancing with the devil

    Samson was the superman to the Israelites. He was handsome and strong, tall, tan, and terrific. Samson was born in the time of Judges where a new generation of those who didn’t know God did evil because they did what was right in their own eyes. Very much like the new millennium. “Just Do ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Bill Harper avatar

    Parenting In Perilous Times Series

    Contributed by Bill Harper on Jan 23, 2001
    based on 237 ratings
     | 23,027 views

    The parents of Samson model for us the marks of successful parents who raise their child in difficult times.

    “PARENTING IN PERILOUS TIMES” Text: Judges 13:1-25 Intro: Illustration-Radio personality Paul Harvey tells the story of how Eskimo kill wolves. First the Eskimo coats his knife blade with animal blood and allows it to freeze. Then he adds another layer of blood, and another, until the blade is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Samson's Hope

    Contributed by Chris Thron on Mar 11, 2001
    based on 96 ratings
     | 10,884 views

    Samson lost all by compromising his committment to God. Where is his hope? Where is OUR hope?

    And Samson did not know that the LORD had left him. But the Philistines took him, put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. There they bound him with chains of brass, and set him to grinding in the prison house. (Judges 16:20-21) Recall the story of Samson’s downfall. Samson was the original ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Father's Day - The Blessing

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Mar 13, 2001
    based on 1,664 ratings
     | 211,196 views

    Dr. Gary Smalley wrote a book entitled, "The Blessing." In it he examines the blessing that Isaac bestowed upon Jacob. Let’s consider 4 ingredients of that blessing.

    MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK REVISED - 2016 TEXT: Genesis 27:25 34 ILL. One day in school, Calvin, the precocious, smart-mouth kid of the Calvin & Hobbes comic strips, raised his hand in class. Warily, his bespectacled teacher, Mrs. Wormwood, asked, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    How To Not Waste Your Potential

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 57 ratings
     | 6,735 views

    Steps to avoiding your God given potential

    The Lord gives every person great potential, but few seem to come close to realizing it. Illustration: Samson possessed great potential for God, but gave into temptations that eventually destroyed him. Why do so many people with great promise fritter away their opportunities? Let us look at the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Samson's Marvelous Riddle

    Contributed by Charles Holt on Nov 3, 2000
    based on 112 ratings
     | 11,081 views

    Samson’s wedding riddle was born out of conflict teaching important life lessons.

    Charles W. Holt email: cholt@gt.rr.com SAMSON’S MARVELOUS RIDDLE Judges 14:1-18 Samson’s quick wit and prankish nature unexpectedly yield a gem of stunning insight. It is a masterpiece of encouragement and hope for times when life gets crazy, seemingly out of control; when one is fighting to ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Honey From A Lion

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 16, 2000
    based on 75 ratings
     | 14,764 views

    We overwhelmingly conquer, through Him who loved us.

    Most of us have heard stories of Samson; the superhero of the Bible, who accomplished great feats of strength and prowess in battle. Then of course, there is the account of Samson and Delilah. Movies have been made of them; they are often portrayed as one of the great romantic couples of ...read more

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    Denomination: Orthodox

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    Living La' Vida Loca Series

    Contributed by Antonio Torrence on Dec 9, 2000
    based on 91 ratings
     | 7,334 views

    This sermon is about the dangers of pursuing the wrong things in life.

    "Living La Vida Loca (the Wild Life)" - Judges 16 Reverend Antonio L. Torrence, Pastor of the Cross of Life Lutheran Church I yet believe that it is equally important that the saints are socially relevant as well as biblically correct and theologically sound. It is important for us to be some ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    Living Up To Your Potential

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Apr 9, 2003
    based on 49 ratings
     | 6,029 views

    Samson possessed great potential for God, but gave into temptations that eventually destroyed him. Why do so many people with great promise fritter away their opportunities? Let us look at the life of Samson to discover how to not waste our God given abil

    The Lord gives every person great potential, but few seem to come close to realizing it. Illustration: Samson possessed great potential for God, but gave into temptations that eventually destroyed him. Why do so many people with great promise fritter away their opportunities? Let us look at the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Bob Groves avatar

    Samson - Picking Up The Pieces Series

    Contributed by Bob Groves on Apr 11, 2002
    based on 78 ratings
     | 13,999 views

    Dealing with restoration after failures.

    Today – A message of Hope...Restoration...Coming Back... About – Regrets...Failure...Mistakes... Not just 1 or 2 little ones – LIFE of them... OR Many Over & Over & Over... PRAY Today – A Life in the Bible that in 1 – Not Only of Regrets or Failures... A LIFE that was Literally From ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Steve Boyd avatar

    The Critical Hold Of Sin

    Contributed by Steve Boyd on Aug 20, 2003
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,027 views

    Sin has a way of gripping our lives in such a fashion that we may not know it until it is too late...

    The Critical Hold of Sin May 16, 1999 Judg 14:1-3 1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. 2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal