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  • Practicing Your Piety In Secret

    Contributed by Carla Powell on Jan 2, 2002
    based on 91 ratings
     | 6,325 views

    The life of faith is low-profile. We minimize ourselves so that God can be magnified and glorified. Contrasts showy piety and quiet faith actions.

    Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day in Lent, the season of the church year during which we focus our attention on our devotion to God before Easter. Ash Wednesday gives us an unusual opportunity to focus on our mortality and our sin. These are not popular topics, nor issues that we like to ...read more

  • Prayer And Relationship

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Jan 6, 2002
    based on 68 ratings
     | 6,524 views

    Why does God desire us to pray? Because He wants a relationship.

    Today is the first Sunday of the year 2002. It’s also the beginning of our third year worshipping together as a church. And for the benefit of those who haven’t been keeping careful track, this is also the 100th sermon I’ve preached from this pulpit (or music stand, or whatever it is). So in ...read more

  • Secret Praying Series

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Jan 7, 2002
    based on 44 ratings
     | 4,397 views

    My prayers are for God’s ears only.

    June 17, 2001 Secret Christianity - Part 2 INTRODUCTION Some actors make a lot of money. Julia Roberts Tom Cruise Bruce Willis and John Travolta Each of these currently make $20 million per movie. And there you have Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson who each command $25 million per film. A few ...read more

  • What Is Prayer?

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 20, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 5,615 views

    Prayer is a means to establish, deepen, and sustain our relationship with God.

    In the book, Steps Toward Spiritual Growth, the story is told of a man who was opening an adult bookstore in a small town despite the objections of many people in the community. A group of Christians from a neighboring church decided to gather for an all-night prayer meeting to ask to somehow block ...read more

  • A Solid Foundation Of Prayer

    Contributed by Carl Willis on Apr 14, 2001
    based on 54 ratings
     | 6,156 views

    The foundational legs of prayer for a stronger more effective prayer life.

    A Solid Foundation of Prayer Matt. 6: 5-15 Luke 11: 1-4 One of the greatest things we have as Christians is the power of prayer. But prayer is not some rambled utterance, but a well thought out, patterned encounter with God. Jesus was asked about prayer and in what we commonly refer to as the ...read more

  • How To Pray Series

    Contributed by John Telgren on May 6, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,289 views

    In order to stay spiritually and emotionally healthy, we must engage in a regular prayer life which involves praying trusting, heart-felt prayers.

    Intro: 1. Story of little Billy leading prayer in Bible Class a. Uses a big, deep voice full of pomp b. Isn’t that the proper way to pray? 2. Knowing how to pray not come naturally a. The disciples were grown men and felt they still could learn b. They asked Jesus to teach them to pray ...read more

  • When God's People Pray

    Contributed by Mark Mccool on Apr 21, 2003
    based on 54 ratings
     | 16,745 views

    We know we should pray. In fact, Jesus, in His Word even taught us "how" to pray. But what really happens "when" we pray? This is a faith builder and will encourage your desire to pray even more!

    “WHEN GOD’S PEOPLE PRAY” Mark McCool TEXT: Matthew 6:6-13 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as ...read more

  • Shutting Our Doors To Pray

    Contributed by Charles Mallory on Apr 25, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 5,248 views

    No matter how often we pray each day, we still need to have that time of solitary intimacy with our Heavenly Father.

    PRAYER! THE MOST UNIVERSALLY PRACTICED YET LEAST UNDERSTOOD OF HUMAN EXPERIENCES, PRAYER IS ONE OF THE GREAT MYSTERIES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. THE SIMPLEST DEFINITION OF PRAYER IS COMMUNICATION WITH GOD. THE EMPHASIS IS ON THE WORD “WITH” BECAUSE PRAYER IS NOT ONLY COMMUNICATION WITH GOD, BUT ...read more

  • Examine Your Motives Series

    Contributed by Michael Luke on Apr 27, 2005
    based on 53 ratings
     | 21,993 views

    The importance of authentic prayer and fasting in growing in relationship with God

    (adapted from Southeast Christian Church’s series: “Living a Life of Integrity”) SERIES: “WORDS OF WISDOM FOR KINGDOM LIVING” TEXT: MATTHEW 6:5-18 TITLE: “EXAMINE YOUR MOTIVES” INTRODUCTION: A. I recently ran across a letter written by a father who wanted to apologize to a certain ...read more

  • Finding Your Prayer Path Series

    Contributed by David Flowers on May 4, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,448 views

    Part 7 (and final) in series "Learning to Pray," this message encourages each individual to pray in ways that they find most natural, that draw them most closely to God.

    Learning to Pray, part 7 of 7 Wildwind Community Church David Flowers March 6, 2005 [Note to SermonCentral readers: This sermon is based on results of a temperament inventory our people took. If you are interested you can take the inventory online at ...read more

  • Guidelines For Effective Prayer (1) Series

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 9, 2005
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,471 views

    First in a series about prayer, based on Matthew 6:5-15. This message is from verses 5-8.

    Guidelines for Effective Prayer (Part 1) Matthew 6:5-8 May 8, 2005 Introduction Today’s message is a bit reflective of me: short. And it’s not because I’m not prepared, but because the verses we’re looking at today, are kind of a transition between what we discussed last week and what we’re ...read more

  • Who's Your Daddy Series

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Jan 20, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,500 views

    Fatherhood of God and the foundation for all our prayers

    Richard Nixon enjoyed family dinners with his daughters Tricia and Julie; JFK enjoyed having his children play in the Oval Office while he worked. FDR and Eleanor had six children; President Harding had a daughter with Nan Britton and President Van Buren had four sons. Yet all of these “fathers” ...read more

  • Conversations With God, Part 1 Series

    Contributed by Craig West on Dec 10, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,149 views

    4 Things Christians can do to honor God as they pray.

    “Prayer is the process by which God helps us rearrange our priorities.” - Henry & Richard Blackaby, Hearing God’s Voice (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, 2002), 114. INTRO: Yogi Berra – “Let’s just let God watch the game, ok?” Biblical Fact: God’s prevailing power is released in the lives of ...read more

  • Removing The Pits From Your Prayer Life

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Sep 9, 2006
    based on 16 ratings
     | 3,836 views

    If our prayer life is to grow and thrive, we must first remove those things that keep us from being fruitful

    Removing the Pits from your Prayer Life Matthew 6:5-6 June 25, 2006 Morning Service Introduction When I was growing up I used to spend a lot of time with one of my friend Randy. We did all sorts of things together: we played basketball, we hunted snakes, we went fishing together, we went to the ...read more

  • Feasting Through Fastiing

    Contributed by Brad Bailey on Sep 22, 2006
     | 2,169 views

    “Fasting”… topic we don’t hear much about in the church to day - Many of us may think of fasting as for the spiritually elite… those specially gifted… a gift we seek about as much as celibacy or martyrdom. - Many of our initial thoughts, or even experi

    “Fasting”… topic we don’t hear much about in the church to day - Many of us may think of fasting as for the spiritually elite… those specially gifted… a gift we seek about as much as celibacy or martyrdom. - Many of our initial thoughts, or even experiences conjure up thoughts of sitting around ...read more