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  • Erik Estep avatar

    Waiting For Christmas

    Contributed by Erik Estep on Dec 15, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,458 views

    What is it you’re looking forward to this Christmas? What kind of gift would you like to get? There’s a gift just waiting for you that can transform your life.

    Intro: It’s always exciting thinking @ X-mas. For me, one of the fun parts of X-mas is just watching my kids get excited @ it. Let me share w/you some letters kids wrote to Santa Claus. -“Dear Santa Claus, when you come to my house there will be cookies for you. But if you are real hungry ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Respond To God Series

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Dec 15, 2005
    based on 35 ratings
     | 5,213 views

    How Mary’s response to God’s enlightenment is an example to us all on how to respond to God.

    How to Respond to God Part 3 of 4 in the series, Christmas Calms Our Fears Last week we reflected on the pronouncement of the angel to Zechariah that the prayers of he and his wife Elizabeth had been heard and that they were going to have a son. Let’s pick up the story in the first chapter of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Presence Of Joy Series

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Dec 19, 2005
    based on 24 ratings
     | 7,696 views

    The shepherds story gives us the good news of the presence of joy.

    The Presence of Joy Linus Most people in America are familiar with this passage, even if they rarely crack open a Bible. These verses from Luke have even entered the popular culture, through Linus’ famous speech in the Charlie Brown Christmas video. Every December since 1965, (That’s 40 ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Recognition

    Contributed by Chris Tiller on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 55 ratings
     | 10,448 views

    Simeon and Anna recognized Jesus immediately to be the promised Redeemer. How did they recognize him? What can we learn from their recognition of him?

    The very first time John the Baptizer encountered Jesus the Messiah, he recognized him. John was six months in the womb of his mother Elizabeth at the time. Jesus was a mere flicker of cells in Mary’s womb. Do you remember the story? It was the angel Gabriel who gave Mary the news. “Do not be ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Timothy Darling avatar

    Narnia: Always Winter And Never Christmas Series

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Dec 21, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,906 views

    Sometimes the waiting in our lives is like a winter of unending anticipation.

    In his book The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis tells how a young girl, Lucy, enters the wardrobe in the spare room of the Professor’s house and is unable to find the back of the cabinet. Instead she works her way through fur coats and steps into a forest with snow crunching under ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite

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    A Big Breath

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 24, 2005
    based on 80 ratings
     | 14,783 views

    A sermon for the First Sunday after Christmas A sermon about Simeon and Anna

    First Sunday after Christmas Luke 2:22-40 "A Big Breath"  22 And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord  23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be called ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Christopher Martin avatar

    Your Servant Departs In Peace

    Contributed by Christopher Martin on Feb 13, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,600 views

    A funeral sermon for a 71 year old man who passed away just a few weeks after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. I was at his bedside as he took his last breath and based my message on the liturgical canticle the "Nunc Dimmitus" which I sung at his beds

    Sermon Text: “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.” Just a few short months ago, I ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Brian La Croix avatar

    Jesus In The Real World

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 20, 2008
     | 2,441 views

    Christmas message based on the reality that Jesus came as a real person so we can know God.

    Jesus in the Real World Luke 2:1-24 December 9, 2007 NOTE: THE ME/WE/GOD/YOU/WE FORMAT USED IN MY MESSAGES IS BORROWED FROM ANDY STANLEY’S BOOK, "COMMUNICATING FOR A CHANGE." We: Raise your hand if you either are a teenager or you’ve been a teenager. Now raise your hand if at anytime during your ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Mothering Sunday At Gaddesby

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Mar 1, 2008
    based on 9 ratings
     | 8,676 views

    What can we as Christians learn from Mary, the mother of Jesus attitude to God

    Introduction Story: I came across a true story that happened during the Holocaust of the Second World War. Solomon Rosenberg, his wife and their 2 sons were arrested, together with his mother and father for the crime of being Jews. They were placed in a Nazi concentration camp. It was a labour ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Jimmy Dillon avatar

    Simeon's Long-Awaited Christmas

    Contributed by Jimmy Dillon on Nov 1, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,137 views

    Looks at the gift that Jesus is to those who receive Him.

    Simeon’s Long-Awaited Christmas Luke 2:25-35 Introduction Christmas time is the most wonderful time of the year to most people…it is for me You can see it all around as all of the decorations go up, the stores are packed, all the great Christmas TV shows come on I know children look forward to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Brad Beaman avatar

    Christmas: What Is Your Response? Series

    Contributed by Brad Beaman on Nov 10, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,447 views

    When we look at the Christmas story in the Bible we find several different ways people responded that first Christmas.

    When we look at the Christmas story in the Bible, we find several different ways people responded that first Christmas. Today we find people respond to Christmas in various ways much like on that first Christmas. Some People are Preoccupied. Everyone, then, went to register himself, each to his ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Telling Of The Good News. Series

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Nov 17, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,402 views

    Understanding what the Good News of Christmas is Christ.

    Title: Telling of the Good News. Theme: Understanding what the Good News of Christmas is Christ. Text: Luke 2:8-21 8. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. Shepherd were probably the most unlikely people to be presented ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Mack Armstrong avatar

    Obedient Observer Observes Orthodoxy Series

    Contributed by Mack Armstrong on Dec 27, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,714 views

    The Holy Family goes to the Temple for the presentation of Jesus and finds two saints who preach two powerful messages concerning the Baby and the family.

    LUKE 2:21-40 OBEDIENT OBSERVER OBSERVES ORTHODOXY I. HIS OBEDIENCE: A. Obligatory. B. Offering. C. Optimism. II. HIS OBSERVATIONS: A. Obsequious B. Occupant. C. Orations. III. HIS ONUSES: A. Obfuscating. B. Ominous. C. Optimistic. I come now to my third sermon in this ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Darren Rogers avatar

    Christmas Characters #3 - Simeon Series

    Contributed by Darren Rogers on Dec 28, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
     | 10,311 views

    Simeon was prepared to meet God - are you?

    Christmas Characters #3 – Simeon - 9th December 2007 am The birth of the Messiah was an event that had been anticipated for hundreds of years as it was foretold through the prophets and in the Scriptures. God had promised a Saviour, and He gave that Saviour in a most magnificent way, but so many ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rick Crandall avatar

    Looking Beyond Christmas - Now What?

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jan 3, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 9,328 views

    The days after Christmas shouldn’t be a let-down for us. They should be a launching point, a glorious beginning in our lives.

    Looking Beyond Christmas - Now What? Luke 2:36-40 Sermon by Rick Crandall McClendon Baptist Church - Dec. 30, 2007 BACKGROUND: *Looking beyond Christmas: In the Scripture today Jesus is 41 days old, and in vs. 22 His parents have taken Jesus to the temple to present Him to the Lord. While they ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist