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  • Brandon Searles avatar

    Where Have All The Heros Gone

    Contributed by Brandon Searles on Mar 2, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,963 views

    This nation is in need of Heroes. We must resurrect the dream within our children to believe in heros. Perhaps not Superman or Spiderman but the hero of a loving father.

    (Read Malachi 4:5-6) ¡§Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.¡¨ Intro: As ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Ian Johnson avatar

    Suddenly

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on Mar 2, 2005
    based on 20 ratings
     | 10,172 views

    You can’t present a sacrifice, unless you are in His presence! A sacrifice always dies. When you come into his glory you will die! Holiness will be the resurrection fruit of this death!

    Suddenly Glory fills the house. Ian Johnson Mar 2, 2005 SUDDENLY GLORY FILLS THE HOUSE. Suddenly ~ Straightway~ Speedily~ Instantly. : These are all words used with regularity in the Bible. The same sudden, instant, unexpected thing happened to the Prophet Isaiah. Isaiah 6:1-7 (NLT) In the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Stagnant Pond Or Flowing Waters?

    Contributed by John Beehler on May 22, 2003
    based on 77 ratings
     | 11,637 views

    Do you share God’s love with others?

    Stagnant Pond or Flowing Waters? I wonder why it’s such a compliment to tell a woman she looks like a breath of spring, but not to tell her she looks like the end of hard winter. Isn’t that the same thing? I wonder why it pleases her to say time stands still when you look into her ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Tomato Sandwiches

    Contributed by Thomas Bowen on May 28, 2003
    based on 59 ratings
     | 4,574 views

    As christians we are not called to bare fruit but to abide in Christ, Fruit is a natural product of a connected person.

    Tomato Sandwiches John 15:1-8 I don’t know a lot about vines and grapes. I once had a neighbor that had some. He was making wine in his garage. That was pretty aggressive for a guy in Birmingham Alabama. The first year he had the vines I don’t guess he got any grapes. In the fall after his ...read more

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    Denomination: Congregational

  • Shawn Drake avatar

    Hope Series

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Dec 1, 2004
    based on 34 ratings
     | 26,916 views

    This is the 1st sermon and service notes for the series "Christmas Brings".

    Series: Christmas Brings…[#1] HOPE Hebrews 6:18-20 Welcome Hymn 87 “Joy To The World” (Vs. 1&4) Hymn 89 “O Come All Ye Faithful” (Vs. 1&3) Offering Hymn 335 “Standing On The Promises” (Vs. 1&4) Children’s Choir “Meet With Me” Introduction: Now that Thanksgiving has passed, the Christmas ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jeff Armbrester avatar

    What Do You Want For Christmas? Series

    Contributed by Jeff Armbrester on Dec 22, 2004
    based on 17 ratings
     | 9,202 views

    Mary receives the announcement that she is going to have a baby. The focus of the message the excitement that comes with anticipating the birth of a child. We’ll explore the excitement and anticipation we have for Christmas. The title of the sermon will b

    What do you want for Christmas? Have you made out your list? Have you been shopping to see what you may want this year? We enjoy gifts. I do. I still get excited about opening gifts. Gifts say a lot. They are windows into our soul because they reveal what our true desires are. Gifts tell us that ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Watergrave

    Contributed by John Beehler on Jan 8, 2002
    based on 48 ratings
     | 3,008 views

    When we are baptized with the water we are also baptized with the Holy Spirit and, as a result, receive a full measure of the same grace and love Jesus received when He showed us the way with His baptism.

    Watergrave Do any of you remember your baptism? I remember mine. You see, I can remember mine because I was 17 at the time. I was baptized and brought into membership in a Baptist church. Now, it wasn’t because I was a Baptist that I was older when I had this experience of ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Pride Or Self Worship

    Contributed by Rick Balmer on Aug 8, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,264 views

    How is your pride? Do you suffer from self-worship?

    James 4:1-6 (KJV) 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Willingly

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 13, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,990 views

    A sermon on willing service from Judges 5:1-9, emphasis on vs. 2 and 9. (Outline taken from Pulpit Commentary, Volume 3; Pages 53-54

    Sermon for 8/12/2007 Judges 5:2, 9 Willingly Introduction: Video clip- Get Involved (Sermon Spice) WBTU: A. Read Scripture Judges 5:1-9 B. Our Scripture this morning comes from a song of praise from Deborah. 1. The people of Israel chose new gods (vs. 8) and the Lord delivered them into ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Called To Be A Bondservant Series

    Contributed by Matthew Haynie on Aug 13, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 12,185 views

    When we clothe ourselves with Christ we put on the "livery" of Christ and in doing so we become His servants. This message is om outline form but has all the Illustrations written out.

    I love bumper sticker theology. It may not always be the most sound theological statements, but they generally at least have the ability to make you think. The one in particular that I am thinking about said, "God is my Co-pilot." Do you remember the sticker? It took a great deal of heat. Perhaps ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • David Swanger avatar

    God's Answer To Anger

    Contributed by David Swanger on Aug 14, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,152 views

    Does your anger need to be controlled, condemned, conquered or channeled. Does it result in sinful or God honoring behavior. You do have a choice.

    GOD’S ANSWER TO ANGER The story is told of a man and woman who had been married for over 60 years. They had shared everything except there was one secret in their marriage. The wife had a shoe box in the top of her closet, and she had cautioned her husband never to open it and never to ask ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Gene Gregory avatar

    Attempting The Impossible

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,190 views

    What to expect when obediently following Christ.

    ATTEMPTING THE IMPOSSIBLE - Matthew 14:22-33 Give background So the disciples did what Jesus told them. They got into a boat and headed out across the lake. When they did, a storm caught them. The story is told of two hunters came across a bear so big that they dropped their rifles and ran ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Gene Gregory avatar

    What's It Worth To You?

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,965 views

    An examination of the Kingdom of God.

    WHAT’S IT WORTH TO YOU? - Matthew 13:44-46 In Jesus’ ministry, He taught a great deal about the Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom of God. It was only natural, as He was teaching, for people to wonder how to become part of the Kingdom, how to get in on the Kingdom of God. In response to their ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ronald Harbaugh avatar

    Understatements Reveal The Grace Of God

    Contributed by Ronald Harbaugh on Jan 31, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,446 views

    Although this is a rewrite of Tom Long’s Sermon, published in 1987, I believe it offers a new perspective. 4th Sunday after Epiphany, series B

    4th Sunday after Epiphany, February 1, 2009 “Series B” Grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us pray: Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for your Son, Jesus the Christ, your incarnate Word, who came to reveal your will and grace for our ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Samuel Stephens avatar

    I Am Jealous Of Your Dog!

    Contributed by Samuel Stephens on Jan 31, 2009
    based on 9 ratings
     | 6,419 views

    I am jealous of the dawgs who get the crumbs from the table!

    Matthew 15 26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. I am Jealous of your Dog. We live in a time where pop culture has flipped the meaning ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist