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A Heart To Build - A Man After God's Own Heart Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 18, 2005

based on 67 ratings

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God told David He didn’t want him building a Temple for Him. It’s possible to build a building God doesn’t want. Do you know what makes the difference between what He wants and what He doesn’t?

OPEN: According to a story in R.Digest from several years ago, a great emperor named Shah Jahan once built an absolutely beautiful structure in memory of his wife of 19 years who died while bearing their 14th child. When she died, Shah Jahan left his wife’s deathbed and went straight to his ...read more

Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:1-17

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

"If A Man Dies, Shall He Live Again?"

Contributed by Charles Salmon on Apr 17, 2006

based on 17 ratings

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Sermon on resurrection based on Job’s question in Job 14:14

If a Man Dies, Shall He Live Again? Job 14:14 INTRO.: Story of Job’s trials. Seldom has anyone suffered like Job. Yet, we see the hand of God at work even in his terrible circumstances. Job’s three friends provide no comfort. Job is at the point of death, so he ponders issues of life and ...read more

Scripture: Job 14:14

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

What Could Erode A Man's Assurance Of His Salvation

Contributed by Nche Takoh on May 2, 2006

based on 6 ratings

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Christians can be sure they are saved because they are walking in that divine light (which is God)

Theme: What could erode a man’s assurance of his salvation. By: Nche Sam Takoh From I John 1:1-2, Christians can be sure they are saved because they are walking in that divine light (which is God). Walking in the light means confessing sin (I John 1:6; 2:2), obeying God’s commandments (I John ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 1:1-2

Denomination: Baptist

The Da Vinci Code: Man-Made Of God-Breathed? Series

Contributed by Lynn Malone on May 22, 2006

based on 16 ratings

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An answer to Dan Brown’s attack on the reliability and authenticity of Scriptue in "The Da Vinci Code."

Cracking the Da Vinci Code: Man-made or God Breathed? 2 Timothy 3:14-17 Sir Leigh Teabing is one of Dan Brown’s main characters in The Da Vinci Code. Teabing is a British knight who has spent his entire adult life in search of the Holy Grail. It is Teabing who reveals the secrets of the Da ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16

Denomination: Methodist

"Come, See A Man..." By Dr. E. Winson Butler

Contributed by Winson Butler on Jul 20, 2004

based on 17 ratings

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When you help someone up a mountain, you’ll find yourself close to the summit too. This truth is seen in Jesus’ conversation & conversion with the woman at the well.

Introduction If the truth was known, when we help another we’re really helping ourselves and we are no more like Christ than when we are extending a hand to someone else! It’s no secret, Jews and Samaritans were historic enemies, however, when we are willing to lay aside our differences and reach ...read more

Scripture: John 4:29-30

Denomination: Baptist

Following Jesus To The Cross #3 - Dead Man Walking Series

Contributed by Mark Thornton on Nov 21, 2001

based on 265 ratings

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This is the third message in a series that looks at Jesus final few days before He was crucified. This message considers the anxiety that Jesus was feeling and how He faced His fears on the way to the cross.

INTRODUCTION If you were given a choice, how would you Choose to Die? -- In an accident - quick & relatively painless? -- In your sleep? -- Surrounded by your friends and loved ones? Of course, none of us are given the choice of how we die -- we don’t know until the moment comes. Jesus, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 26:1-54, Luke 22:42-43

Denomination: *other

Jesus Christ The Only Mediator Between God And Man Series

Contributed by W. Bryan Wheeler on Dec 17, 2001

based on 60 ratings

| 21,220 views

There is nothing so satisfying, so comforting, so animating to the soul than a Spirit-wrought display of the truth about Jesus Christ.

“JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY MEDIATOR” - #2 Preached on October 28th 2001 - AM Text: 1 Timothy 2:1-6 Intro: If someone were to ask you to summarize the Bible in five words or less, - How would you answer them? - You might say that the Bible is about … God’s glory and man’s salvation—and that would be ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:1-6

Denomination: Baptist

The Man Who Discovered What He Already Knew Series

Contributed by Tim George on Feb 5, 2001

based on 114 ratings

| 4,987 views

Many people spend their whole lives searching for something of value when it is closer than they could ever imagine. James was such a man who needed to discover what he already knew.

Once there was a band of poor Brazilian goat headers who decided to make a long journey to California in search of gold. They took with them bags of rocks they used in a gambling game. Unfortunately, most of them died on the dangerous journey. One young man made it to San Francisco with nothing but ...read more

Scripture: James 1:1

Denomination: Baptist

Study 6. Jesus - The Bridge Between God And Man Series

Contributed by Eric Sellgren on Feb 8, 2002

based on 20 ratings

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Many other people came to recognise that Jesus was God in the New Testament.

Jesus didn`t just appear without warning. Before He was born there were some who were told to expect Him. The Angel told His Mother that she should call His Name Jesus, and that that Name means "The Saviour". Jesus came to us with a special and divine purpose, the save men from themselves. In the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:26-38

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

You Can't Keep A Good Man Down

Contributed by Gregory White on Jun 18, 2003

based on 24 ratings

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Although we are faced with discouragements in our lives, if we keep faith and strength in God, He will not let us stay down forever.

You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down Thank you for having me speak here again tonight. Our pastor and his wife are on vacation so they don’t have to hear what I have to say. I guess they are the lucky ones. No, I think they needed a break. They work very hard in this church and ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 39:2-3

Denomination: Baptist

The Strong Man Who Wasn't Strong Enough

Contributed by Mike Turner on Jul 10, 2003

based on 34 ratings

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Samson was strong....but not strong enough. At least not strong enough to overcome his biggest enemy.....himself !

The Strong Man Who Wasn’t Strong Enough ! Judges 13-16 Intro. The book of Judges is a book of cycles. The cycle consists of.....disobedience to God, dominion over them, and deliverance from them. This cycle is repeated seven times in the book of Judges. The story of Samson’s life ...read more

Scripture: Judges 13:1-5, Judges 13:24

Denomination: Baptist

"The Man Of God Who Lost His Religion"

Contributed by Jerry Depoy on Aug 4, 2003

based on 34 ratings

| 3,483 views

I love hearing people share their personal testimony. This message unveils the testimony of the Apostle Paul. Before he was saved, when he got saved, and since he got saved.

“THE MAN OF GOD WHO LOST HIS RELIGION” “THE PERSONAL TESTIMONY OF THE APOSTLE PAUL” Before Paul was saved… Religion 1. He was trusting in religious ceremony. “circumcised” He had been circumcised. Many people are trusting in their infant baptism or some other ceremony performed by their ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:1-14

Denomination: Baptist

The Right Man In The Right Place At God's Right Hand

Contributed by Charles Degner on May 12, 2003

based on 28 ratings

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What does it mean for the church today to believe that Jesus is sitting at God’s right hand?

That power is like the working of his mighty strength, {20} which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, {21} far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 1:16-23

Denomination: Lutheran

What Satan, Society And A Savior Can Do For A Man

Contributed by Jeffrey Kellum on May 21, 2003

based on 28 ratings

| 3,071 views

Different reactions to sin oppression

INTRODUCTION: Read Story from Mark 5 TEXTUAL IDEA: The story of the healing of the demon possessed man shows us much about the relationship demons have with man and Christ. SERMON IDEA: What Satan, Society and a Savior Can Do For a Man NEED: To develop healthy spiritual relationships 1.Consider ...read more

Scripture: Mark 5:1

Denomination: Baptist

A Man Called Philip - Moving In The Miraculous And Baptizing In Water Series

Contributed by Bruce Morrison on Jun 10, 2003

based on 99 ratings

| 10,474 views

God set precidents through the lives of two deacons, Stephen and Philip, that remain in the church to this day.

Water Baptism Series #3 - A Man Called Phillip - Moving in the Miraculous & baptizing in Water Bible Text: Selected passages from the Book of Acts chapters 6 and 8. Philip - a deacon In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them ...read more

Scripture: Acts 8:1-40, Acts 6:1-7

Denomination: Independent/Bible

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