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  • Joe Harding avatar

    Revival: Do You Want It?

    Contributed by Joe Harding on Oct 24, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,497 views

    IS A CALL TO BE WELL!

    REVIVAL: DO YOU WANT IT? JOHN 5: 1-15 OCTOBER 17, 2004 MT. WESLEY WESLEYAN CHURCH HIDENITE INTRODUCTION: TRAGIC DEATH OF KEN CAMINITI/ CHRISTOPHER REEVE THE SAME DAY, SUNDAY OCTOBER 10, 2004 41 AND 52 YEARS OF AGE RESPECTIVELY. TRANSITION THOUGHT: Both of these story teach us the reality of pain ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Red Carpet

    Contributed by John Beehler on Apr 9, 2003
    based on 36 ratings
     | 7,225 views

    The red carpet would shortly be stained blood red.

    The Red Carpet It’s Palm Sunday. What does this day mean to you? Just one more week to chocolate heaven? The day we get the leaf at church and the kids parade through the sanctuary with them? Actually it’s the day they threw down the symbolic red carpet for Jesus’ triumphal ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Muddy Waters

    Contributed by John Beehler on Mar 27, 2003
    based on 74 ratings
     | 6,851 views

    Can we "see Jesus"?

    Muddy Waters Now there are a lot of things going on in our scripture for today. And it may seem that some of those things don’t go together. We’ve got Greeks wanting an audience with Jesus, Jesus talking about gardening, His death, the weather, and God talking to ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Scary Sanity

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Jun 25, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,968 views

    If you really start to believe in who Jesus really said He was, then you’ve got to entertain the notion that he could radically change YOU too! That is scary!

    Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he did not live in a house but in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he fell down before him and shouted at ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    The Awful Reality Of Hell

    Contributed by Gary Huckaby on Feb 7, 2003
    based on 37 ratings
     | 4,794 views

    Is there a real litteral hell? Is the story in Luke 16 a parable or a real story? Hell is real and it will be an awful reality to those who are there throughout eternity.

    A Sermon For You A Ministry of Huckaby’s Evangelism The Awful Reality of Hell By- Evangelist Gary Huckaby (Preached at Stateline Christian Church, Alabama) Our text today is from the book of Luke 16:19-31. Today the subject of hell is one that is seldom preached. It is believed to be a real ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Are You An Ishmael Or An Isaac?

    Contributed by Melvin Shelton on Jan 2, 2005
    based on 19 ratings
     | 5,601 views

    The Apostle Paul spent a lot of his life trying to earn his own salvation.

    Are You an Ishmael or an Isaac? Galatians 4:21-31 01/02/05 Paul says to these Galatian believers who were in danger of going back into bondage, having been set free by Christ. Now false teachers have come and they are going back into bondage. The Apostle Paul spent a lot of his life trying to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Unique Assembly Series

    Contributed by Steven Angus on May 31, 2006
    based on 41 ratings
     | 7,443 views

    How Pentecost introduced the Holy Spirit to the Church. First in a series of sermons on the Holy Spirit titled: May I Introduce You to the Holy Spirit.

    SERIES: May I Introduce You to THE HOLY SPIRIT A UNIQUE ASSEMBLY Acts 2:1-12 It was the day was Pentecost. It was the time of the year when all good Jews would take part in a glorious time of celebration. Pentecost had been in existence for centuries and was a time when all Jews would come ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    The Songs Of Christmas

    Contributed by Howard Mcglamery on Dec 8, 2002
    based on 58 ratings
     | 10,451 views

    A sermon based on the Christmas chorus’s that we sing every Christmas. Noting the scriptures they are based upon.

    The Songs of Christmas Introduction Christmas and music are synonymous. We can never think of this time of year without recalling Christian music. What is the music of Christmas? To many children raised under the "political correctness" of today’s public school system, the music of Christmas is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Hell Is Waiting To Meet You

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Dec 19, 2002
    based on 56 ratings
     | 6,681 views

    The Bible’s description of hell.

    ISA.14:9-11 “HELL IS WAITING TO MEET YOU” A) Is hell real? Is hell a place of fire and brimstone? * Do some people actually go to hell? * Matt. 25:41 says that “hell was prepared for the devil and his angels.” * Many in this generation seem to have rejected the idea of hell! * But if hell is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Lesson 5 Witnessing To Mormons Series

    Contributed by Jeffery Bixby on Oct 24, 2001
    based on 40 ratings
     | 4,290 views

    Lesson 5 of 6

    Witnessing to Mormons Lesson 5 Occult Influences in Mormonism/Temple Ceremony excerpts Scripture: Deuteronomy 18:10-11 "Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Looks Of The Lord's Supper

    Contributed by David Fox on Nov 12, 2001
    based on 100 ratings
     | 6,293 views

    What is communion really about?

    5 Looks of The Lord’s Supper I Cor. 11:17-34 Explanation: This Morning we will be partaking The Lord’s Supper. Often we may receive the bread and the juice without really understanding what this act of obedience is all about. Let’s take a look at this passage of scripture to see what it is ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Proverbs For Parents

    Contributed by Tim Parsons on Jun 17, 2006
    based on 11 ratings
     | 6,473 views

    This sermon Takes a look at the Role of a Parent and Veiws on Disciple our childern.

    PROVERBS FOR PARENTS TEXT PROVERBS 22:6 PS. 127:3-5 3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Richard McNair avatar

    A Question Of Priorities Series

    Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Sep 16, 2003
    based on 27 ratings
     | 5,827 views

    How would Jesus build a church? He did build a church by reaching the lost and making it a priority.

    “My kids were lost and I didn’t even know it.” ... ILL #1 “My kids were lost and I didn’t even know it.” ... When I was in school in Dallas my 2 kids,6 & 9, spent the afternoon with a pastor friend of mine Garris Baggett and his wife. Janet and I were at work and didn’t even know the kids had ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Abiodun Adeniyi avatar

    Building A Christian Home In A Worldly Environment

    Contributed by Abiodun Adeniyi on Nov 11, 2009
    based on 9 ratings
     | 20,495 views

    The Difficulty of Raising family in the present world.

    Building a Christian Home in a Worldly Environment The world is such a delicate place to live for the Christian that is heavenly minded because the things that are in the world as the scripture describes it are: the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes. Most of the things around here that make ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Mark Pierce avatar

    Comfortable Or Conformable Series

    Contributed by Mark Pierce on May 25, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,395 views

    Should our Christian faith be comfortable or conformable? What are the conformable paradoxes?

    Comfortable or Conformable – 03.29.09 READ – John 12:20-32 Introduction – The Christian life is filled with uncomfortable paradoxes. Today I’d like to consider the fact that our lives as Christ followers are not necessarily to be comfortable, but to be conformable. This ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational