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  • Jim Butcher avatar

    Why Feeling Sorry About Your Sin Isn’t Repentance

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Nov 19, 2013
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    A look at real repentance versus the emotion that we often mistake for repentance.

    THE NEXT STEPS (LITERALLY): Even after surviving the whale ordeal and getting a second chance, Jonah’s repentance begins with a lot of walking. - Jonah 3:3. - This is a fact that at one level seems rather obvious but that hit me hard a while back. As I considered the story of Jonah, I had ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Believing God Series

    Contributed by D Marion Clark on Mar 6, 2016
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     | 11,895 views

    “Do you know what God wants?” He wants to be believed. I could have learned that lesson earlier if I had paid attention to the response of the Ninevites to Jonah’s preaching.

    Jonah 3:1-9 Believing God 11/9/14 D. Marion Clark Introduction I can remember the moment when I learned one of my most significant spiritual lessons. I was sitting on the pulpit platform at Tenth Presbyterian Church. James Boice was preaching. He asked the question, “Do you know what God ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Fruit For Christmas

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Dec 14, 2015
     | 4,882 views

    John the Baptist (and John Wesley, too) said that repentance would bear fruit in a changed life. Preparing for the coming of Christ means living and life of repentance and bearing the fruit that reflects that repentance.

    Merry Christmas. Here’s your orange. No joke. An orange was a pretty common Christmas gift in years gone by, especially during the Great Depression. A child would awaken on Christmas morning to find a stocking stuffed with an orange, and apple, perhaps a banana, a few nuts, and if ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    The Impending Day Of The Lord Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Jul 13, 2018
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     | 10,811 views

    Joel 2:1-17 teaches us that God's impending judgment may yet be averted by a wholehearted repentance.

    Scripture We are currently in a sermon series that I am calling, “Lessons from a Minor Prophet: Joel.” The Prophet Joel was perhaps the earliest of the Old Testament’s writing prophets. My own view is that Joel wrote his prophecy in the eighth (or perhaps even in the ninth) century BC. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    The Great Search For Hope

    Contributed by Michael Blankenship on Jan 22, 2001
    based on 63 ratings
     | 2,366 views

    The inward, outward, heavnward search causes us to draw closer to the abondant love of our Lord and Savior.

    First Baptist Church 545 South Main street Jellico, Tennessee. 37762. Pastor: Michael Blankenship Sunday Morning January 14, 2001 It seems as if today more than ever before in history we are less satisfied with the lives, which we live. We have more than our parents and grandparents ever dreamed ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Sarah Keith avatar

    Encourage One Another

    Contributed by Sarah Keith on Mar 12, 2013
     | 4,964 views

    During Lent, rather than giving up something outward and physical, give up discouraging words!

    During Lent, many people give up something they enjoy eating--chocolate for instance--in order to focus on and consider anew the sacrifice Jesus made for humankind. This season, however, rather than giving up something outward and physical, I suggest giving up discouraging words. It’s difficult ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • Mark Mitchell avatar

    Is The Church A Lighthouse Or A Club House?

    Contributed by Mark Mitchell on May 24, 2017
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    This sermon helps the congregations see the difference between being and inward focused church and an outward focused church

    Introduction: Illustration “The Guiding Light” I. What is a lighthouse? A. A lighthouse provides light to anyone in need B. A church that is a lighthouse understands that the source of light is Christ. - Joh 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. - Joh 1:5 The light shines in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Day By Day

    Contributed by Larry Grant on Jul 27, 2025
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     | 575 views

    Paul reminds us that while the “outward man” is “perishing”, but “the inward man is renewed day by day!

    II Corinthians 4:7-16 (NKJV) DAY BY DAY July 27, 2025 I. THE VESSEL - There is a problem presented in the text and the problem is the vessel that holds this treasure! The vessel is an earthen vessel and this clay pot is fragile! Verse 7 says . . . “we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    What Does It Mean That The Day Of The Lord Will Come?

    Contributed by Chris Swanson on Jan 7, 2024
     | 842 views

    The people of Judah had become prosperous and smug in their relationship with God and it can be applied to believers today.

    What Does It Mean That the Day of The Lord Will Come? Joel 2:12-13, 2:28-32 The book of Joel is one of warning to the people of Judah and can be applied to believers today. The people of Judah had become prosperous and smug in their relationship with God. While underestimating God, they had become ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    It's Never Too Late

    Contributed by Mitchell Leonard on Feb 17, 2023
     | 5,708 views

    A sermon to adults on the need for amending your ways and serving the Lord.

    Jeremiah 7:1-7 It’s Never Too Late 2/19/23 a.m. Have you ever thought what the word “TOO” means? Now there are a lot of “TOO’S” There’s the numeral “TWO”. 1, “2”, 3, 4, 5 There’s “TO” that means also. “I to like to eat candy.” There’s “TO” that means approaching or nearing. “He’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 30, 2025
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     | 186 views

    God invites us to humble ourselves, pray, and turn from sin, promising forgiveness and healing when we seek Him with sincere, repentant hearts.

    Storms come with headlines and hard weeks. They rattle windows and rattle nerves. But some promises feel like a porch light left on—steady, warm, welcoming us home. Today we stand beneath one such light. It’s a promise for people who are weary of worry, hungry for hope, and ready to see God’s hand ...read more

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    Sour Grapes

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on May 29, 2020
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,751 views

    From blame to shame. A call to repentance.

    SOUR GRAPES. Ezekiel 18:1-4; Ezekiel 18:25-32. It seems to be very much a part of fallen human nature that we want to blame someone else for the things that go wrong in our lives. This all began in the garden of Eden, after the first couple ate of the forbidden fruit. Adam blamed both his ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Turn Back O Man

    Contributed by Steve Gladwell on Aug 11, 2001
    based on 67 ratings
     | 8,175 views

    The importance of repentance

    About four years ago, I read a story in the paper about a couple who were about 45 years old. They were fortunate enough to have picked the correct six numbers in the lottery the year before the story appeared and they were featured in the same paper at that time when they said that the win would ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    What God Has In Store For The Wicked

    Contributed by Dr. Phillip Paschal on Oct 9, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,381 views

    THE NEED TO REPENT

    WHAT GOD HAS IN STORE FOR THE WICKED NAHUM 1:2-3, 6 1. BACKGROUND. THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN BY NAHUM, WHO IS CONSIDERED TO BE A MINOR PROPHET; NOT BECAUSE HE IS NOT OF SIGNIFICANCE, BUT DUE TO LENGTH OF THE BOOK THAT BARES HIS NAME. THE NAME NAHUM IS AN ABBREVIATION OF THE NAME NEHEMIAH, WHICH MEANS ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Faith

    Contributed by Grant Adams on Feb 19, 2024
     | 708 views

    Faith and Repentance

    Faith is the positive aspect of true conversion, the human side of regeneration. In repentance, the sinner turns away from sin, while in faith he turns to Christ. These are inseparable, the one from the other. True repentance cannot exist apart from faith, nor faith from repentance. It has been ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist