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  • Jeffery Anselmi avatar

    Unwanted Dinner Guests

    Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Jul 19, 2002
    based on 124 ratings
     | 14,912 views

    What can we learn about reaching the lost from the feeding of the 5,000

    INTRODUCTION • Have you ever come home from a long day at work, just wanting to relax? Maybe you have put in many hours at the office or in the factory. • On your way home, you envision a scene where you come home and put up your feet turn on the television and read the newspaper. Then you see ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Peace And Joy

    Contributed by Jay Patton on Aug 25, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 6,551 views

    The reason why Paul can order Christians to rejoice in the Lord.

    Introduction: Why Me Lord? Background: One of the ways we can stand firm in the faith is to remember who it is we serve. Purpose Statement: Christians have every reason to rejoice because… I. The LORD is with you (v. 5) A. Yahweh Shammah: The Lord is There 1. Context of Ezekiel 48:35 2. His Eyes ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Healed People Heal People

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 101 ratings
     | 47,486 views

    Characteristics of people helpers.

    1 - After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him. 2 - and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; 3 - Joanna ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Values We Live By

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jun 6, 2002
    based on 38 ratings
     | 4,507 views

    Our values determine our course of action.

    What makes a man willing to lay down his life for another? Consider these three examples: Richard Antrim, a native of Peru, Indiana, was a naval officer and POW in the Dutch East Indies during the Second World War. In April 1942 he attempted to intervene in the harsh punishment of a fellow naval ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Jerry Shirley avatar

    How To Relieve Stress And Tension In The Home Series

    Contributed by Jerry Shirley on May 18, 2004
    based on 51 ratings
     | 9,613 views

    LEARN TO LAUGH, CULTIVATE CONTENTMENT, ALLEVIATE ANGER, AND WALK IN WISDOM!

    How to Relieve Stress and Tension in the Home Prov. 15:13-25 You will notice in this passage some negative words… v. 13 sorrow 15 afflicted 16 trouble 17 hatred 18 strife 22 disappointed These are all synonyms for stress and tension. They represent those times when the string gets too ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Speaking Truth In A Skeptical Age

    Contributed by Roger Thomas on May 26, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,636 views

    Speaking the truth in love is the needed standard in a post-Christian/post-modern world.

    Speaking Truth to a Skeptical World 1 Peter 3:15 Dr. Roger W. Thomas, Preaching Minister First Christian Church, Vandalia, MO If there were a patron saint of our age, a hero or symbol for the times, it might well be Pilate. The Roman politician did his best to find a way to not condemn Jesus, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    How Firm A Foundation

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Sep 20, 2002
    based on 28 ratings
     | 9,967 views

    The foundations in America are showing signs of crumbling. We need some firm foundations.

    September 22, 2002 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, And do not the things which I say? 47Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like: 48He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    How To Have A "Happy" New Year

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 19, 2001
    based on 368 ratings
     | 9,490 views

    Developing a biblical frame of mind for the New Year that will produce true happiness.

    How to Have a “HAPPY” New Year Phil 3:10-14 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    The Politics Of Truth

    Contributed by John Ross on Dec 5, 2003
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,459 views

    Pilate’s question to Jesus is our question as well: What is truth?

    “The Politics of Truth”, Based on: John 18:28-38a 11/23/03 (9:30 & 11:00) Undercurrents…today…Unseen, but very real…beneath surface… Today: Surface…Heritage Sunday/Spec Off…Under: first live web cast to 55 mil Am & Buckeyes Text: Surface…Jesus arrested; on trial before priests; handed over to ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    A Time To Dance

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jan 8, 2004
    based on 40 ratings
     | 12,154 views

    Funeral sermon for Vera Byars, court information specialist and amateur dancer. Ballroom, minuet/ballet, tap -- whatever style she used, it all witnessed to a life of joy. This is not any longer a time to mourn.

    I agree with the Scripture, where it says that, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” I agree with that, because we know that some things are fine, in their place, but they are not appropriate in other places. There is a time and a season for everything, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    What's In A Name?

    Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Mar 13, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,895 views

    This is an advent sermon.

    When I was a kid, we used to play this game. When someone was wearing a stocking hat, we would run up to them and say, “Where was Mickey Mouse when the lights went out?” When the other person said, “I don’t know,” we would pull their stocking hat over their eyes and say, “In the dark!” The idea, ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Mark Chapter 2 Series

    Contributed by Germain Brown on Mar 29, 2001
    based on 90 ratings
     | 5,776 views

    "Why doesn’t anything change in my home?"

    MARK CHAPTER 2 Allelujah, how many servants do we have in the house today? I said, “How many servants do we have in the house today?” All right, sit down! Ha, now let’s get started. We’re going to see how many servants we do have in the house. Praise the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Jesus Is Risen Series

    Contributed by Chris Appleby on Apr 14, 2001
    based on 64 ratings
     | 7,450 views

    Mary and the disciples discover true belief in Jesus and are sent out to proclaim his resurrection

    It’s early Sunday morning, and she can’t wait any longer. Jesus had been taken down from the cross late on the Friday and buried in Joseph’s tomb, but the Jewish law prohibited them from travelling as far as the tomb on the Sabbath, particularly this Sabbath, being Passover. So they’d had to wait a ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Guy Caley avatar

    Do You Want To? Series

    Contributed by Guy Caley on Feb 16, 2003
    based on 396 ratings
     | 37,631 views

    5th in the series "Conversations with Jesus." Jesus asks us today just as he did the man at the pool, "Do you want to get well?"

    When I was a chaplain for soldiers in Basic Training, I learned to use a counseling technique called "Soloution Focused Therapy. One of the main questions that the counselor asks with this technique is, "What are you going to do?" Almost always the first reply would be be "I need someone else ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    C. A. R. E.

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Oct 24, 2003
    based on 24 ratings
     | 6,985 views

    What do we have to do to be known as a caring church? What all is involved?

    C. A. R. E. 1 CORINTHIANS 12:25-27 (MKJV) That there not be division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it. And you are the body of Christ, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist