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  • Jerry Shirley avatar

    Justified Freely

    Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Apr 6, 2011
    based on 28 ratings
     | 6,752 views

    Ask me why I love my wife and I'll have laundry list of reasons she's lovable. But Jesus loved me while I was yet a sinner. Link inc. to formatted text, audio, PowerPoint.

    Justified Freely Romans 3:24 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/JustifiedFreely.html Justified = just as if I'd never sinned A one time event that happens at the moment of salvation. Sanctified = an ongoing process of growing in the Lord. Righteousness breaks down along the above lines... Imputed ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Larry Vollink avatar

    Jesus And John, The Apostle! Series

    Contributed by Larry Vollink on Feb 6, 2021
     | 1,977 views

    Learning how Jesus loved His best friend, John, as 'the disciple whom Jesus loved."

    Who is this disciple whom Jesus loved so tenderly? Is he a real person, or a secret person that does not want to identify himself? As Jesus chose him, he was a fisherman, and called the son of Zebedee, and brother to James. He also wrote the gospel of John and the Epistles of I, II, and III, John ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Shawn Drake avatar

    How To Enjoy Life- Friendship Series

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on May 5, 2024
    based on 2 ratings
     | 12,575 views

    This is the 197th sermon in the series "Action". This is the 5th sermon from Philippians.

    Series: Action [#197] HOW TO ENJOY LIFE- FRIENDSHIP Philippians 2:19-30 Introduction: Who is your best friend? Most of us talk about our friends as people we have a casual, long-term relationship with. Maybe it is a co-worker, a neighbor, or people from your past. Friends, or so we think, are ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Denny Feasby avatar

    What Your Lost Friend Looks Like Series

    Contributed by Denny Feasby on May 21, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,144 views

    A series looking at the lost.

    What Your Lost Friend Looks Like Ephesians 4:17-19 Intro: Last Sunday I made a comment that Baptist Churches aren’t growing today like they were up until the last 20 years or so not because Baptists have become outdated or obsolete but because the members of most Baptist Churches have lost their ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How To Help Your Friends Grow In Faith

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 16 ratings
     | 3,173 views

    Everybody has desires for good things, but some people have more faith to work towards fulfilling their desires. Actually, if we want to grow in faith, we first need to grow in love. The more we love, the more we trust.

    HOW TO HELP YOUR FRIENDS GROW IN FAITH INSTEAD OF FRUSTRATION Everybody has desires for good things, but some people have more faith to work towards fulfilling their desires. Actually, if we want to grow in faith, we first need to grow in love. The more we love, the more we trust. This principle ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Dave McFadden avatar

    "A True Friend Stirs You Up" Series

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Oct 20, 2004
    based on 36 ratings
     | 18,928 views

    A true friend will care enough to confront you.

    "Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet, perhaps return his blow; But of all the plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send; Save, oh save me from the candid friend!" This poem speaks about an aspect of friendship which most of us would probably rather do without, but which ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Scott Jensen avatar

    Job's Three Friends, What They Got Right

    Contributed by Scott Jensen on Mar 30, 2010
    based on 20 ratings
     | 42,976 views

    Job's three friends spoke to him throughout the book of Job. Much of what they said was wrong and hurtful. However, their initial reaction was one that we all should pay attention to.

    Introduction The story of Job is one that has been talked about through the ages. This one man, lost so much, in such a short period of time, and still found a way to move on with his life. But, he didn’t do it alone. When we talk about the book of Job, we normally talk about his ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Gaither Bailey avatar

    A Grieving Friend, A Dead Girl And A Sick Woman

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Jun 30, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,831 views

    This sermon examines three stories of faith as found in 2 Samuel 1:1, 17 - 27 and Mark 5: 21 - 43.

    Mark 5: 21 – 43 - A Dead Girl and A Sick Woman 2 Samuel 1:1, 17 - 27 Intro: This week has been a particularly difficult one for me. It seemed as though every time I started one project or task something or someone would interrupt and I was off in a different direction. That’s sort of how I ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Tim Patrick avatar

    Bringing Our Friends To Jesus (Part 1) Series

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Aug 8, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,576 views

    Examine eight ingredients that should be present as we seek to bring our friends to Jesus.

    Look at four ingredients that should be present as we seek to lead our friends to Jesus. Next week we will look at the other four ingredients. 1. In bringing our friends to Jesus we must see the person. -In our text a group of men see a cripple man that needed Jesus. -We are in the people ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Bringing Our Friends To Jesus (Part 2) Series

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Aug 8, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,343 views

    Examine eight ingredients that should be present as we seek to bring our friends to Jesus.

    Last week we examined the first four, of eight, ingredients that must be present when we bring our friends to Jesus. Today we examine the last four of those ingredients. 5. In bringing our friends to Jesus we must accept the opportunities God gives us. In our text God gave a group of men the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Wade Martin Hughes, Sr avatar

    Agape: You Are My Friends --- Real Love.

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 5, 2023
     | 988 views

    WHY THE CROSS? AGAPE-LOVE. The cross changes the nature of a believer from a servant to a friend. Love is not something that God does... LOVE IS WHAT GOD REALLY IS. The cross reveals the depth of God's love for humanity.

    AGAPE: YOU ARE MY FRIENDS… NO LONGER SERVANTS? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes) FAITH IS AN ACTION WORD… Is this real? I place a metal chair in front of the crowd. I talk about how strong the chair appears to be? Then I ask the crowd do you think ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Joel Pankow avatar

    Come And See Jesus. The Words Of An Excited Friend

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Jan 18, 2024
     | 1,241 views

    Over 80% of people who come to church are INVITED by a friend. See that happen in today's text.

    1.21.24 John 1:43–51 (EHV) 43 The next day, Jesus wanted to leave for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid avatar

    The Making And The Breaking Of A Servant Of The Lord

    Contributed by Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid on Feb 1, 2019
     | 1,810 views

    Giving honor to our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus, my sisters and brothers, God said, “I made you” [Gen. 2:18, 22, KJV]. Now, in reflection, deception broke Eve [I Timothy 2:14, KJV], ...

    THE MAKING AND THE BREAKING OF A SERVANT OF THE LORD by Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid (December 19, 2018) “And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him….And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from him, made he a woman, and brought her unto the ...read more

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    Denomination: Friends

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    The Value Of Friendship In Ministry Series

    Contributed by Troy Luttrell on Apr 8, 2014
     | 5,188 views

    God’s church is strengthened by everyday people who use their hands, their presence, and their faithfulness to serve others.

    Background: . • Illustration: On June 1, 1967, the Beatles had another hit on the radio entitled, “With a little help from my friends.” The chorus had these three lines: “I get by with a little help from my friends. I get high….. I’m going to try ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Gene Gregory avatar

    The Choice Each Must Make

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Nov 17, 2003
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,181 views

    Examining the responses to Jesus’ birth, we see the choice each of us must make.

    A DECISION YOU HAVE TO MAKE - Read Matthew 2 This past week, Pinellas Circuit judge W. Douglas Baird ruled that Terri’s Law, the law governor Jeb Bush and elected state officials passed in order to save the life of Terri Schiavo by preventing her feeding tube from being removed, was ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist