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  • Shawn miller avatar

    Faith: Believing Is Seeing

    Contributed by Shawn Miller on Feb 7, 2015
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     | 11,943 views

    A message of walking by faith and not by sight

    Faith: Believing is Seeing Introduction: Hope motivates us to keep going and not give up. Without hope we don’t want to do anything. I heard Hal Lindsey give a good illustration of the necessity of hope: he mentions how man can survive without shelter for 3 months, he can survive without ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Beginning. Series

    Contributed by John Lowe on Feb 4, 2018
     | 9,717 views

    God creates. Everything begins with God and fulfills His purposes for His glory. He works by the power of His Word (Ps. 33:6–9), the same Word that can work in our lives. He works according to a plan: first He forms, and then He fills.

    April 24, 2013 Commentary on the Book of Genesis By: Tom Lowe Lesson I.A.1: The Beginning. Scripture: Gen. 1:1, 2. Genesis 1.1, 2 (KJV) 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Committed Unto Death Series

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Apr 24, 2023
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     | 2,605 views

    In our text we have the last act of the Savior before He died. It is an act of commitment, faith, confidence & love. While Jesus hung upon the cross seven times His lips moved in speech. This is His final word, His seventh word from the cross.

    LUKE 23: 44-49 [JESUS’ LAST DAY SERIES] COMMITTED UNTO DEATH [Psalm 31:5; John 10:17-18; Hebrews 10:19-22] In our text today we have the last act of the Savior before He died. It is an act of commitment, faith, confidence and love. While Jesus hung upon the cross seven times His lips moved ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Resurrection Before Dawn Series

    Contributed by Rodney Fry on Mar 7, 2008
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,878 views

    The Crucifixion had Brought Earth’s Darkest Day Even the light of the sun had been hidden from view Imagine the dark despair that swept in on the followers of Christ They had forgotten or doubted His promise to rise from the dead Troubled Women

    Disclaimer Please note that all my sermons come from the Lord. But I get my info from many sources from my library and other sources. I do not claim all material as my originality. I don’t quote all sources but I give credit to the Lord who is the author of all sermons. “All originality and no ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    When Is Christmas?

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Dec 27, 2023
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    Solomon built a temple for the Lord to dwell in a special way, and God appeared. How did God appear at Christmas?

    12.31.23 1 Kings 8:6–13 (EHV) 6 The priests brought the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, to the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim, 7 for the cherubim were spreading their wings over the place for the ark, so that the cherubim ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Jesus - The Law With Flesh On

    Contributed by Glenn Newton on Jun 18, 2004
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    One of the Things that I love about Jesus was that when He came, it was like He turned on the Lights, so all the people who had been living in this darkness, all the sudden they could see the truth for themselves....

    Jesus ~ The Law with Flesh On Pastor Glenn Newton 7-28-02 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    Just A Rendezvous....or Is It A Relationship?

    Contributed by Wm. Darryl Scott Sr D.d. on Jan 2, 2003
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     | 11,266 views

    MANY DON’T WANT TO TRY JESUS. JESUS WAS SAYING TO NICODEMUS, WHY DON’T YOU COME OUT OF THE DARK INTO THE MARVELOUS LIGHT. I DON’T WANT RENDEZVOUS,..I WANT A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU!

    JUST A RENDEZVOUS….. OR A RELATIONSHIP? JOHN 3:1-5 PRAYER: HEAVENLY FATHER, WE PRAY THAT YOU ALLOW YOUR PRESENCE TO BE MADE MANIFEST IN THIS PLACE. LET YOUR HOLY SPIRIT FILL THIS PLACE THAT WE MAY WORSHIP YOU IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. YOU ARE OUR STRENGTH, YOU ARE ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Principles Of God

    Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Aug 23, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
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    We can learn a great deal from the way Paul and Barnabas went into a dark world with the light of the gospel. And things really haven’t changed all that much. People are still people, and they still need the gospel.

    Passage: Acts 14:8-20 Intro: When New Tribes Missions goes into a new area, they have a plan. 1. it involves the missionaries living among the people, in order to demonstrate the unique life of the follower of Jesus Christ. 2. it involves learning the language and the culture of the people they ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

  • Mark Aarssen avatar

    The Blind Chapter

    Contributed by Mark Aarssen on Jul 22, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,654 views

    When our eyes close in death we will no longer be able to see as we do now. Only the light of God can open our sinful eyes to our blindness and save us from eternal darkness.

    John Chapter 9 The Blind Chapter Blindness can be a physical condition as in today’s text. It can and is also a spiritual condition for many who live in a dark and sin filled world. While walking along with his disciples Jesus sees a blind man. The disciples ask Jesus who sinned, this man or ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Better Late Than Never

    Contributed by Donald Sibley on Oct 21, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,572 views

    JESUS IN HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE POWER OF PARABLES; TO BOTH TRANSFORM MENS LIVES FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, AND ALSO TO SET ADVERSARIES OF THE CHURCH, TO CONTEMPLATE THE ERRORS IN THEIR OWN THINKING; USES A PARABLE HERE TO TEACH, TO HUMILIATE, AND INSPIRE T

    BETTER LATE THAN NEVER MATT. 21:28-32 JESUS IN HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE POWER OF PARABLES; TO BOTH TRANSFORM MENS LIVES FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, AND ALSO TO SET ADVERSARIES OF THE CHURCH, TO CONTEMPLATE THE ERRORS IN THEIR OWN THINKING; USES A PARABLE HERE TO TEACH, TO HUMILIATE, AND INSPIRE ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Carl Allen avatar

    A Rose Among Thorns Series

    Contributed by Carl Allen on May 5, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 12,951 views

    I want to take the first eleven verses of this chapter and show you the ways Joseph was different from his brothers. I want to show you how we can be a light in the middle of a dark and dying world.

    A ROSE AMONG THORNS Genesis 37:1-11 Introduction In our first message on Joseph, we took a hard look at his background. We discovered that his family was marked with problems of all sorts. This godly man grew up in some of the roughest of conditions. I am still amazed that God could take a young ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ned Bartlebaugh avatar

    Prophecy Of Christ

    Contributed by Ned Bartlebaugh on Dec 14, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 19,613 views

    A look at three prophetic passages that Jesus Christ would be born in Bethlehem, that he would be a great light shining in the darkness, that he would be "God with us" and that he would be Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, Wonderful Counselor.

    When you look at the life of Jesus, He fulfills all 322 of the prophecies in the Old Testament about the coming of the Messiah. The odds of just 8 of the major prophecies being fulfilled by one person is 1 in 10 to the 17th power, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. And this is only 8 of them! To help ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Surer Word Of Prophecy

    Contributed by Joe Rowland on Aug 24, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,412 views

    Peter here is speaking of the Old Testament, which is the Word of God, even more sure than his personal experience. This is saying that the Word of God is the only true light which alone can dispel the spirituel darkness.

    A Surer Word Of Prophecy 2 Peter 1:16-21 16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Practical Christian Living

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Sep 29, 2013
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     | 30,411 views

    The Christian life is to be lived out by believers daily. We are to shine as lights in the present darkness of a sin ridden lost world. Each of us must strive to don the new characteristics and virtues of the practical Christian life daily.

    Practical Christian Living Colossians 3:12-25 The Christian life is to be lived out by believers daily. We are to shine as lights in the present darkness of a sin ridden lost world. The evidences of the genuineness of a person’s conversion and the reality of that person’s faith should ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Bill Walker avatar

    Words

    Contributed by Bill Walker on Nov 1, 2016
     | 6,648 views

    Gaining inspiration and courage from the words of Jesus on the cross. In our world of darkness, Jesus calls us to be light-bearers. It is through our trials and disappointments that we are enabled to step in among those who are struggling and hurting.

    WORDS Luke 23:34 You are leaving the church building and walking to your car in the parking lot. Adults are visiting and children are laughing and playing as you and your family walk by. Then suddenly you hear shots ring out and you see three, four, and five … maybe six people drop to the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ