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  • Barry O Johnson avatar

    Three Parables, One Message

    Contributed by Barry O Johnson on Apr 26, 2025
     | 1,153 views

    This message is an examination of Luke 15, which contains three parables that communicate the same message.

    Please turn with me to Luke 15. We're going to look at this chapter tonight, and I know it's a very familiar chapter, but I want to take a look at it and bring some things out that I pray will bless you and see this chapter in a different light. Most of the time when Luke 15 is taught, the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    My Child Has Come Home

    Contributed by David Dunn on Dec 3, 2025
     | 133 views

    The Father runs toward wandering children with restoring love, covering shame, celebrating repentance, and welcoming every prodigal home with joy and resurrection life.

    Introduction — When Words Can’t Touch the Wound There are some wounds in life that do not bleed outwardly, yet they bleed continuously inside a parent’s heart. These wounds have no bandage, no cast, no sling. They don’t show up in X-rays or MRIs. And yet they ache every single day. They are the ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

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    The Problem Of Karma Series

    Contributed by David Elvery on May 7, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,888 views

    Karma doesn’t determine our future lives, but Repentance will

    The Problem of KARMA Gladstone Baptist Church – 11/2/07 am Karma doesn’t apply to the Calamities of life OOPS I don’t know how many of you have ever watched the show My Name is Earl. I’ve watched it a couple of times and I am not condoning or supporting everything in it, but I’ve gotten a laugh ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Long Obedience In The Same Direction

    Contributed by Bradford Robinson on Jan 20, 2003
    based on 59 ratings
     | 16,286 views

    This message is about how we need to be obedient to God in the present if we are going to have success in the future. It looks at why we obey and why this is often more difficult than we think.

    A while back, my oldest girl Clarissa was in her play room and she had overturned a box of wooden blocks and it made to worse mess you could imagine. I walked in there and said, “Clarissa, I want you to pick up every last one of these blocks right now.” She fussed a little bit and then I walked ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Made New - Listening Anew Series

    Contributed by Ken Gehrels on May 22, 2001
    based on 70 ratings
     | 4,728 views

    How do we hear God speak to us?

    Made New - Listening Anew Bible Reading: John 14: 23-29 PREPARED BY KEN GEHRELS PASTOR CALVIN CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH NEPEAN, ONTARIO Recently, I heard of a chap here in Ottawa who was offered a job with a ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Obedience Is A Challenge To Our Faith Series

    Contributed by Bobby Stults on Feb 19, 2007
     | 5,674 views

    Obedience to God is a challenge to our faith when God asks us to do ANYTHING. Obedience to God is a challenge to our faith especially when God asks us to do what we think to be impossible... Finally Obedience is a challenge to our faith when God asks us

    Sermon Date: February 4, 2007 Sermon Text: Jonah 1:1-3 (NASB) 1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying, 2 "Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me." 3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Challenge Of Turning Critics Into Friends

    Contributed by Ray Ellis on Mar 13, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,089 views

    Job learned how to handle criticism and with God’s help turned his critics into friends.

    The Challenge of Turning Critics into Friends Job 23:10-14 How do you handle criticism? Job had his share of critics. He learned to handle his critics with class. God helped Job turn his critics into friends. In fact God encouraged his critics to become prayer partners with Job. Job ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

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    Give Me Liberty

    Contributed by Jerry Falwell on Sep 25, 2009
    based on 11 ratings
     | 17,833 views

    A sermon preached on the Christian foundation of America.

    GIVE ME LIBERTY A sermon preached by Jerry Falwell This is an encyclopedia survey of Patrick Henry because most Americans only know Patrick Henry by one phrase from a speech, not his total influence. Henry, Patrick (1736-99) was born to a prosperous farming family in Hanover County, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Christmas Grace (2012)

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 1, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,353 views

    Luke 1

    CHRISTMAS GRACE (LUKE 1:26-38) There is a tradition that Jonathan Edwards, third president of Princeton and one of America’s greatest thinkers, had a daughter with an uncontrollable temper. But, as is often the case, this weakness was not known to the outside world. A worthy young man fell in ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Our Weakness, His Strength Series

    Contributed by D Marion Clark on Dec 25, 2012
     | 5,132 views

    Gethsemane communicates to us that there is a spiritual reality beyond what we can see and experience for now – God’s holiness, his perfect justice, the pure love between Father and Son, the horribleness of sin, our full depravity, the reality and necessi

    Introduction We have all experienced moments in our lives when we felt like the weight of the world was on our shoulders. A difficult decision lay before us, and the responsibility felt as though it would crush us. Either the task was extremely difficult to accomplish, or the consequences of our ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    New Wine And Old Wineskins Series

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Dec 30, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 32,012 views

    Message about the New Year and things that must change if we are going to allow the Lord to do something fresh and new in our lives.

    Title: New wine and Old wineskins Theme: To show that to gain for the future we have to let go for the past. Text: Mark Mark 2:18 The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. Then they came and said to Him, "Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Choosing Your Attitude

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Aug 27, 2013
    based on 7 ratings
     | 15,983 views

    Everyone acknowledges that a bad attitude stinks. We don’t even need to discuss about how and why to have a sick attitude … it comes so natural because naturally we are born with it … though we are born in sin but we have a choice to choose our attitude.

    Opening illustration: During 1997 as the world focused on the deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, another significant passing went almost unnoticed. Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl died on September 2 at the age of 93. During World War II, Dr. Frankl was imprisoned at Auschwitz, where ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    "Today, You Will Be With Me In Paradise"

    Contributed by Jarrod Jones on Jun 19, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 12,844 views

    In 13 words, Jesus reveals the only way a person can get to heaven and how the worst person can get there apart from “religion.”

    Everyone enjoys a good scandal. It makes for great headlines, website views, and magazine sales. The famous last words of Jesus that we’ll focus on this weekend are the most scandalous last words in history. His 13 words to a dying criminal confronts all religions, spirituality, belief ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Amazing Wonder Of Exaggeration

    Contributed by James Snyder on May 27, 2017
     | 4,794 views

    If you earn it, you can spend it any way that you want to. The great joy of life comes from reaping what you sow.

    I once asked my father if he would give me a weekly allowance. After all, many of the kids in my school were getting allowances from their parents and I thought I deserved an allowance as well. I was surprised by my father’s response. “I give you a great allowance here everyday.” ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

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    Unknowingly Shipwrecking Your Faith Series

    Contributed by Barry O Johnson on May 16, 2017
     | 9,845 views

    This is the sixth message in the series on Faith. Many Christians allow ministers to speak into their lives without "fact checking" what they say against Scripture. This can cause them to shipwreck their faith.

    This is the sixth message in this series on Faith. The underlying theme of the series has been our responsibility for faith either manifesting or not manifesting in our lives. For a person to say “I have faith” and not produce “faith results” means that person is not walking in faith the way he ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational