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  • Jeff Strite avatar

    How Much Do You Have To Hate Someone? Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 31, 2011
    based on 78 ratings
     | 17,767 views

    How much do you have to hate someone NOT to tell them about Jesus? Without Jesus they will spend eternity in Hell.

    OPEN: (Showed “Scary” – a short video produced by “MinistryFlix” and offered on sermoncentral.com. The video introduced the fact that most people like to be scared a little bit on Halloween. The tag line was “Do you know what is really scary? Many of friends and family do NOT know Jesus as Lord and ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    God Is Calling You

    Contributed by David Radcliff on Mar 12, 2016
     | 5,093 views

    The fields are white unto harvest and God is calling you. Are you willing to say, “Here am I. Lord, send me?"

    GOD IS CALLING YOU Matthew 20:29-34 INTRODUCTION: The fields are white unto harvest and God is calling you. Are you willing to say, “Here am I. Lord, send me?" May we consider three things in the Scriptures we have just read: First, the condition of the sinners; second, the compassion of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Serve God Now!

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Mar 22, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 19,021 views

    Now is the time to serve the Lord, because: 1. Our lives are speeding by. 2. God's Light is still shining. 3. The lost are still sitting in darkness. 4. The Lord is still saving. 5. And the Lord is still standing close by us.

    Serve God Now! Matthew 4:12-17 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - Feb. 6, 2013 BACKGROUND *In our last study two weeks ago, we looked at the temptation of Jesus Christ, but there's a little bit of whiplash as we go forward tonight. Under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, Matthew ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Putting God First

    Contributed by Victoria Oladipupo on Oct 12, 2004
    based on 39 ratings
     | 28,772 views

    The secret of successful life is to cast all our burden unto the Lord and make Him first in every area of our life.

    Topic: Putting God first Scripture Reading: Mt. 6: 31 – 34 “Therefore do not worry, saying, what shall we eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what shall we wear? For after all these things the gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How To Be Used By God

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jul 19, 2006
    based on 47 ratings
     | 14,326 views

    message on how to prepare your life to be a vessel for God’s purpose in life.

    Intro: it seems to me that every Christian has a desire to be used by God in some special way. What concerns me, and how this sermon has been birthed into my spirit, is that most Christians have a limited view of being used of God. Someone sings at church, someone says a prayer, I give an offering, ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Helping God Out Series

    Contributed by Thomas Black on Apr 28, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,915 views

    Do you ever try to “help God out”? Or are you content even in an uncomfortable situation to trust Him?

    The flow of the story is rather simple: Jacob wants to go home, but instead remains on with uncle Laban and gets rich in the mean time. The passage carries with it allot of presuppositions; starting with the obvious strain between Jacob and Laban and continuing in Jacob’s alternating faithfulness ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    David, God's Man

    Contributed by Tim Parsons on Oct 7, 2006
    based on 16 ratings
     | 10,387 views

    This sermon takes us in a deep look at the story of David and the gaint, and a veiw of his heart.

    DAVID, GODS MAN 1 Samuel 17 LETS VEIW THIS CHAPTER TOGETHER. THE STORY OF DAVID AND Goliath CONSIDER SOME THOUGHTS. #1· Think of a giant as anything that bullies or controls a person, family, or church. · #2 What are some of the giants that Christian men face? · #3 What are some giants ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    The Expansion Vision Of God Series

    Contributed by A. David Hart on Apr 15, 2007
    based on 9 ratings
     | 13,217 views

    This sermon is to show us how it is in the Lord’s plan, to spread the gospel of Christ to all of mankind.

    THE EXPANSION VISION OF GOD Acts 10:9-22 There is a poem entitled “A Prayer For the Future” quoted by Sir Frances Drake, it said and I quote, Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    God's Call To Prayer

    Contributed by Frank Lay on Jan 8, 2005
    based on 26 ratings
     | 30,893 views

    What can we do in difficult times. God invites us to call on Him. Like Jeremiah, we can respond to God’s invitation to prayer

    GOD’S CALL TO PRAYER Jeremiah 33:3 The Setting: Jeremiah was living in desperate times. The people of Jerusalem had been taken captive. Jeremiah had faithfully preached but his message had been totally rejected. Moreover, Jeremiah was imprisoned. Yet God gave this man, an invitation to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Our Surprising God Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 26, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,447 views

    Isn’t life based solely upon the laws of nature and cause and effect? Most of the time, yes -- but sometimes God surprises us.

    Our Surprising God (Acts 3:1-10) 1. This week has been a rough, depressing week for many people. 2. Keith & Aimey Williams were through an awful ordeal… 3. Last week, a teenager in our community committed suicide after losing a brother a year ago in an accident… 4. Hundreds of Engineers and White ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    A Promise Keeping God

    Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Nov 10, 2015
     | 7,427 views

    A Promise Keeping God

    Malachi 3 v. 1 - 10 A Promise Keeping God - God Promised 1. THE MESSENGER - v. 1 "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    God Exalts The Humble Series

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Feb 23, 2015
     | 12,168 views

    Focus on doing God's will and leave the exalting to Him. Stay teachable regardless of how much you know. Our significance comes from God, not from this world.

    Josh 3:7, 4:14 God Exalts the Humble ES 22 Feb 15 1410 Today, I want to talk about humility and how I achieved it! • I wonder if this is even possible. The moment I thought about it, I might just have lost it. • Man loves to exalt themselves. In the Scriptures, we see a different ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Who Are God's People?

    Contributed by Judith Hand on Oct 11, 2014
     | 6,525 views

    God's people are forgiven sinners who have accepted Christ's sacrifice for their sins. Repentant people are accepted by God, but those who think they are good enough to enter heaven on their own merit will be cast out.

    Who Are God’s People? Exodus 32:1-14 Philippians 4:1-9 Matthew 22:1-14 Our first reading from Exodus is not difficult to understand. The Israelites have gotten impatient waiting for Moses so they ask Aaron to make them gods who will go before them. They had had many highs and lows on ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • T.J. Conwell avatar

    A Lesson Of Faithfulness To God Series

    Contributed by T.j. Conwell on Dec 29, 2024
     | 578 views

    God is calling out to each of us to turn to Him – to repent and follow completely. What we do with this simple command shows who He is to us (it’s personal); so if we choose to run away from the things of God then we choose us over Him!

    2024 Christmas Series – Part 6 Sermon 6 – A lesson of faithfulness to God Luke 2:25-40 Dismiss the children for Children’s Church and Nursery Wednesday nights to resume on January 15 at 6:30pm / Lunch Today Introduction - Welcome to Seasons! This morning, we conclude our series on ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    God Has The Key

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 10, 2003
    based on 45 ratings
     | 5,929 views

    A funeral sermon for a believer

    GOD HAS THE KEY REVELATION 1:17-18 READ REVELATION 1:17-18: “When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ