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  • Terry Cavanaugh avatar

    How To Resist Temptation

    Contributed by Terry Cavanaugh on Feb 12, 2016
     | 6,857 views

    Jesus' temptation teaches how to handles life temptations.

    Luke 4:1-13 How to Resist Temptation Welcome on this Valentine’s Day. It is ironic that this is also the First Sunday in Lent. Lent is generally that season of the year when people have chosen a favorite treat or some vice to give up for these six weeks. One man said his children ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    A Journey Of Repentance Series

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 11, 2007
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     | 6,091 views

    the only journeys of eternal significance are the journeys of our souls. This is an intro sermon to a lenten series on repentance

    A Journey of Repentance February 6, 2005 Intro: THE TWO TOWERS DVD Chapter: 50 Start Time: 2:44:15 End Time: 2:46:35 Invitation to a Journey: The greatest journeys are never easy. Frodo and Sam discovered that. So did Alice when she fell into wonderland, Dorothy in Oz, all the heroes ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The End Does Not Justify The Means

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Feb 12, 2005
    based on 21 ratings
     | 3,133 views

    Family Sermon: What can we learn from Jesus’ temptations

    NR 13-02-05 Family Service Talk on The Temptations of Jesus Lent is a period of 40 days from Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday when we remember Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness It was a time of quiet, fasting and prayer, in preparation for the beginning of his ministry in Galilee and beyond. It ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    Truckloads Of Mercy And Forgiveness Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 27, 2021
     | 2,013 views

    Our forgiveness invites God and other people to forgive us.

    Monday of the 2nd Week in Lent 2021 The prophet Daniel was exiled to Babylon with many leading Israelites by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. At the time of this writing the Persians, who had conquered Babylon, are led by King Darius. Daniel has just realized that the time of Israel’s exile ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Is That Thunder I Hear?

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Mar 28, 2009
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     | 3,486 views

    Do we hear the message of Christ Jesus and willingly follow? Or do we think his words are only like the thunder the people heard?

    John 12: 20 – 33 / Is That Thunder I Hear? Intro: There was a family from Boston who left the crowded city for Montana. They bought a ranch to raise cattle. Friends came for a visit and wanted to know what they named the place. Bar-J, Suzy-Q, Flying-W, Lazy-Y, Last Chance, Big Kahuna Cattle ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    A Fat Tuesday

    Contributed by Gregg Barbour on Apr 2, 2007
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     | 5,673 views

    In this lesson on Mardi Gras, students will learn what it means to "eat, drink, and be merry"

    Tonight you will be celebrating your very own version of Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is the French phrase for "Fat Tuesday" and also known as Carnival and Shrove Tuesday, the last day before the beginning of Lent, a period of fasting and repentance leading up to Easter. Traditionally, it is the day ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Sinner

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Feb 12, 2007
     | 4,570 views

    Ash Wednesday Sermon

    Ash Wednesday Sermon Psalm 51:2-5 "Sinner" 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Actively Repent And Avoid Presumption

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 1, 2025
     | 195 views

    We can stand under Gis mystery, His greatness, His uniqueness, and admire or adore Him. That’s the extent of our “understanding,” to stand beneath his Being.

    Monday of the Eighth Week in Course 2025 This is one of those liturgical weeks that gets started in one direction and then heads off in another mid-week. Of course, I’m talking about Wednesday as the turn-around day, Ash Wednesday, which begins the universally recognized time of Lent. So we should ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    The Day Of Atonement Yom Kippur Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 30, 2005
    based on 39 ratings
     | 11,144 views

    Yom Kippur foreshadows a massive and complete spiritual cleansing.

    Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:26-32, Leviticus 16:5-34) 1. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is THE defining event of all history. 2. It completed that holy weekend when Christ died on the cross for our sins, was buried, and then victoriously rose again. 3. As we continue our ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Our God Is Not Small

    Contributed by Alan Stokes on Mar 8, 2001
    based on 78 ratings
     | 8,412 views

    As we draw closer to the Jesus who was Transfigured, we will find that God is bigger than all of our problems.

    Today is Transfiguration Sunday. On this Sunday in the church year, we call to our memory the event when Jesus Christ went up on the mountain and his appearance radically changed before Moses, Elijah, Peter, James, and John. Read Luke 9:28-36 Several years ago now, J.B. Phillips wrote a best ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    Time To Be Full Time Christians

    Contributed by Ian Bullock on Mar 18, 2021
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,979 views

    A sermon considering the price of discipleship, and challenging people to action. I borrowed the Illustration at the beginning of my sermon from Revd. Martin Dale sermon in 2006 with thanks :)

    In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. 26 Christians were crucified at Niz-hiz-aka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan on the 15 February 1597, amongst them was a young seventeen year old boy, Thomas Kosaki, who had been sentenced to die for his Christian witness - along with his father. He ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    Specks, Logs And Improving Our Vision

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 26, 2025
     | 388 views

    We all know that the Internet has given us lots of opportunities to be tempted to sin, hasn’t it? Is the temptation itself sinful?

    Eighth Sunday in Course 2025 Some people don’t have the deuterocanonical book of Sirach in their Bibles, so I’ll read some of the first reading. Sirach was written in Hebrew, but over the years those versions were mostly lost, but survive in Greek. The book is mostly a compilation of proverbs, ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Adapt The Delivery, Not The Message Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 2, 2013
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     | 3,356 views

    The stark message of the Gospel must be delivered in ways that will be heard by modern humans.

    Monday of 3rd Week in Lent Gaudium et Spes Adapting the Delivery, Not the Message Those commentators who are not very familiar with the documents of Vatican II, but who count themselves experts on the “spirit” of Vatican II frequently see the Council as creating a break with the ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Transfigured Through Obedience And Suffering Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 4, 2012
     | 4,815 views

    The transfiguration event offers us an opportunity to learn how we might achieve union with God in the pattern of Jesus on Tabor.

    Monday of 18th Week in Course 2012 Transfiguration Verbum Domini “The word of God has bestowed upon us the divine life which transfigures the face of the earth, making all things new (cf. Rev 21:5).” These words of Pope Benedict’s letter, Verbum Domini, should frame our thoughts ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Jesus - Eternal Life Lifted Up

    Contributed by Al Lowe on Mar 28, 2003
    based on 38 ratings
     | 6,650 views

    Lenten message identifying Jesus as the source of Eternal Life.

    John 3:14-21 PROPOSITION: Jesus is the source of eternal life. OBJECTIVE: To realize the Source during lent. This is now the fourth Sunday during Lent. On April 13, we will experience the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem to begin his week of passion. This tradition call is Palm Sunday. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist