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  • Matthew Kratz avatar

    "Artificial Righteousness”: Glorifying In The Flesh.

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 16, 2019
     | 1,454 views

    1) Religious Pride (Galatians 6:12a), by 2) Cowardice (Galatians 6:12b), and 3) Hypocrisy (Galatians 6:13).

    This month, heavily armed assailants again attacked an Ebola treatment centre in the heart of eastern Congo’s deadly outbreak. Some community members wary of outsiders after years of deadly rebel attacks have shown hostility to health workers in a region that is facing its first Ebola outbreak. ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

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    "Artificial Righteousness”: Glorifying In The Flesh.

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 16, 2019
     | 1,439 views

    Paul points to three factors that tend to motivate human works of attempted righteousness. They are often reflect: 1) Religious Pride (Galatians 6:12a), by 2) Cowardice (Galatians 6:12b), and 3) Hypocrisy (Galatians 6:13).

    This month, heavily armed assailants again attacked an Ebola treatment centre in the heart of eastern Congo’s deadly outbreak. Some community members wary of outsiders after years of deadly rebel attacks have shown hostility to health workers in a region that is facing its first Ebola outbreak. ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

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    "Artificial Righteousness”: Glorifying In The Flesh.

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 16, 2019
     | 1,536 views

    Paul points to three factors that tend to motivate human works of attempted righteousness. They are often reflect: 1) Religious Pride (Galatians 6:12a), by 2) Cowardice (Galatians 6:12b), and 3) Hypocrisy (Galatians 6:13).

    This month, heavily armed assailants again attacked an Ebola treatment centre in the heart of eastern Congo’s deadly outbreak. Some community members wary of outsiders after years of deadly rebel attacks have shown hostility to health workers in a region that is facing its first Ebola outbreak. ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

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    Samson: Shortsighted And Short-Circuited

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 14, 2002
    based on 153 ratings
     | 35,044 views

    This message deals with the characteristics of Samson’s sad life, and the lessons to be learned from his mistakes.

    Samson: Shortsighted And Short-Circuited Text: Col.3: 1-6; Judges 16: 19, 20 Intro: Samson is one of the more colorful figures of the Bible. As a child in Sunday School, his physical exploits captured my youthful imagination, and filled me with wonder and admiration. I tended to overlook, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Secret Message Made Public

    Contributed by Chris Gowen on May 2, 2001
    based on 57 ratings
     | 4,623 views

    God has given us a message that must not remain private, but it must go public.

    Judges 2:12-30 NKJV 12 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD. 13 Then he gathered to himself the people of Ammon and Amalek, went and defeated ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    God's Purpose In Good And Bad

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on May 15, 2004
    based on 104 ratings
     | 10,165 views

    God has a purpose for us in both good times and bad.

    INTRO.- ILL.- One man said, “After finishing an out-of-town errand, I discovered that my car wouldn’t start because it was out of gas. A passer-by told me there was a service station a half-mile away, so I took a gas can from the trunk and trudged the distance in the sweltering sun. “The ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Go Against The Flow Series

    Contributed by T D on Dec 31, 2010
     | 20,955 views

    Living for Christ instead of living like the world.

    Series: It’s Backwards Go Against the Flow Matthew 7:13-23 Residents of a small Australian town have been left speechless after fish began falling from the sky. Hundreds of spangled perch bombarded the 650 residents of Lajamanu, shocking local Christine Balmer, who was walking home when ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    Kickoff Time

    Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Oct 3, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,040 views

    This sermon is to kickoff our Stewardship Campaign and our Anniversary Service in sharing the vision for our two year campaign.

    “It’s Kickoff Time” 9/26/10 Haggai 1:5-15 Luke 21:1-4 A long time ago when I played football, I was on the kickoff team. I was always full of optimism and I could feel butterflies in my stomach. When the referee blew that long whistle, everything we had been practicing for for weeks was ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Gold From An Unlikely Mine Series

    Contributed by Carl Allen on May 5, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 9,592 views

    We hear a lot in our day about dysfunctional homes. I realize that many homes today are in turmoil. Divorces, sins of all kinds, absentee parents, among other evils, have left the home in a mess. In many cases it seems that children growing up today do no

    GOLD FROM AN UNLIKELY MINE Genesis 30:22-24 Introduction We hear a lot in our day about dysfunctional homes. I realize that many homes today are in turmoil. Divorces, sins of all kinds, absentee parents, among other evils, have left the home in a mess. In many cases it seems that children growing ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Confronting Your Ten Foot Challenge With Grace Series

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 28, 2014
     | 7,079 views

    A message to help people identify their most difficult challenge in life right now and to approach it unafraid and with the Lord’s empowerment

    Today we are introducing a new series entitled “Lessons for Life from the Shepherd King.” In other words, for the next 4 weeks, we’re going to be looking into a few scenes from the life of David. Poet, shepherd, musician, singer, statesman, warrior - King David is more than just ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Wholly Devoted Heart Series

    Contributed by David Owens on Sep 17, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 17,201 views

    In this sermon, we explore the importance of the spiritual heart, diseases of the heart, how to have a wholly devoted heart.

    Introduction: A. The story is told of a mechanic who was working on a car motor when he spotted a world-famous heart surgeon enter his shop. 1. The heart surgeon stood at the counter waiting for the service manager to come take a look at his car. 2. The mechanic shouted across the garage, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Guarding Against Deception Series

    Contributed by D. Dewaine Phillips on Jan 7, 2022
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,132 views

    Once we cast a vision and begin laying hold of the Promised Land, we need to watch out for deceptive people; those who creep into the fold to snatch away our vision, and plunder our hard-earned spoils in an act of spiritual piracy.

    Once we cast a vision and begin laying hold of the Promised Land, we need to watch out for dream catchers! Now, when I speak of dream catchers, I am not referring to the round wooden frame resembling a spider’s web, which was handcrafted by the Ojibwa tribe of Native Americans for the purpose of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Dare To Be A Daniel

    Contributed by Christopher Arch on Sep 20, 2025
     | 324 views

    Introduction to the book of Daniel

    Title: “Dare to Be A Daniel” Scripture: Daniel 1:1-2 Type: Expository Series Where: GNBC 9-21-25 Intro: The times in which we are living require Christians to be heroic if they are going to make a difference in our culture as well as our world. As we have recently witnessed with appalling ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Religious Play-Acting

    Contributed by David Dunn on Nov 9, 2025
     | 136 views

    Jesus frees us from religion’s stage—calling us from performance to presence, from spotlight to sunlight, to live unmasked before the Father.

    Religious Play-Acting The Sermon on the Mount opens with blessing and ends with a choice: sand or rock, appearance or obedience. Between those two poles, Matthew 6 sits like a quiet heart—Jesus’ exposition of motive. Here the Lord shifts from what disciples do to why they do it. He moves from ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

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    A Visitation Of God

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 25,048 views

    A look at four groups of people impacted by the visitation of God on the first Christmas. These four groups are represented one way or another in every visitation of God.

    A Visitation of God Luke 1:68[1] 12-19-04 [PC1] Intro In Luke 1:68 Zacharias praised God concerning the coming of Christ and prophesied saying, “Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people...” (NKJV) The word translated “visited” is “epeskepsato” and it’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic