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  • Greg Nance avatar

    Do You Want To Get Well?

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Sep 23, 2009
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     | 5,469 views

    Jesus meets a man who has his hopes of healing focused on a pool that is stirred by an angel. Thirty-eight long years of paralysis will finally end, but not as he expected. Who is this strange healer?

    Do you want to get well? John 5:1-18 John 5:1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Loving Your Bullies Series

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 27, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,493 views

    1) The Misinterpretation, 2) The Mandate , & 3) The Motive.

    In His sixth, and last, illustration contrasting the false righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees with the true righteousness of God, Jesus contrasts their kind of love with God’s. Nowhere does humanistic, self-centered system of religion differ more from God’s divine standards than in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

  • Dr.W.Samuel Legon avatar

    Look What God Has For Us Who Serve Him

    Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on Mar 10, 2012
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     | 5,142 views

    Why not be a winner not a looser.

    LOOK WHAT GOD HAS FOR US WHO SERVE HIM Each and every one who does his best for the Lord will have a reward in the end. We find in the new testament five crowns we can win. This is a promise of our Father. These crowns show our qualities of accomplishments in our life time. These ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Sanctifying Storms Series

    Contributed by Douglas Mcdaris on Mar 15, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,600 views

    We all experience scriptural sanctification and spiritual storms. Sanctification is being set apart for God's service and growing in grace.

    SANCTIFYING STORMS 1 Peter 1:1-9 Our conversations show what is important to us. We all experience scriptural sanctification and spiritual storms. Sanctification is being set apart for God's service and growing in grace. What dominates our speech as we assemble for worship? Do we grumble about ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Shaping Storms Series

    Contributed by Douglas Mcdaris on Mar 15, 2012
     | 6,602 views

    Our text shows God using “Shaping Storms” to expose and expel idolatry from a nation. God uses “Shaping Storms to expose and expel sin from individual believers as well.

    Shaping Storms Jeremiah 18:1-6 Our text shows God using “Shaping Storms” to expose and expel idolatry from a nation. God uses “Shaping Storms to expose and expel sin from individual believers as well. 1. Shaping Storms Responds To The Pressure Of The Hands Of God! A. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Survival Strength Series

    Contributed by Douglas Mcdaris on Mar 15, 2012
     | 8,070 views

    Singing and shouting during sunny days does not reveal true faith in Christ. The true test of faith is how one survives storms.

    SURVIVAL STRENGTH Colossians 3:11 “Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.” Singing and shouting during sunny days does not reveal true faith in Christ. The true test of faith is how one ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Endurance!

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Jun 14, 2014
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     | 7,724 views

    The flavor is brought to the fore through crushing, thrusting, pressing and finally fermenting! Behind every refreshing sip of tea that we take, there has been a lot of tossing and rolling!

    Tea aficionados! Romans 5:3,4”……we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope..” Here’s a message for tea aficionados! If you have a crush for tea, remember, after careful ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Jesus Is Troubled With Our Troubles

    Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Jul 24, 2014
     | 8,962 views

    To show that JESUS experiences trouble with us and delivers us from it.

    I. EXORDIUM: Are you in trouble? if yes, then if you have accepted the LORD the LORD is there with you in your troubles. He will deliver you from troubles. II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show that JESUS experiences trouble with us and delivers us from it. IV. ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Dr. Madana Kumar, PhD avatar

    Strength During Suffering

    Contributed by Dr. Madana Kumar, Phd on Feb 26, 2018
    based on 3 ratings
     | 12,742 views

    Suffering is a reality. Where can we gain strength from when we suffer?

    New years are time to generally reflect and to look forward to new things. Despite the fact that it repeats every 365 days, it is still something to look forward to. We all have heard multiple jokes about New Year resolutions. Today is the 7th of the month and, if we had made New Year resolutions, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    His Explanation Series

    Contributed by John Lowe on Mar 18, 2018
     | 6,312 views

    Paul returns to the charge of vacillation that had been made against him and gives a straightforward explanation of why he did not visit Corinth as planned. If the apostle had visited Corinth at the time planned, he would have had to deal very firmly ....

    March 27, 2014 Tom Lowe The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians Lesson II.A.1.c: His Explanation. (1:23-2:4) 2nd Corinthians 1:23-2.4 (NKJV) 23 Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth. 24 Not that we have dominion over ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Chris Anderson avatar

    God’s Purpose In Our Pain Series

    Contributed by Chris Anderson on Mar 11, 2023
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,201 views

    Message 1 in an expositional series through Paul's "second" letter to the church in the ancient Greek city of Corinth where he defends his apostleship and corrects serious doctrinal errors within this young church.

    One of our pastors shared a story with me Thursday about a bittersweet moment that he experienced on Wednesday as he attended the funeral visitation of the mother-in-law of one of our former staff members. I wasn’t able to travel to the visitation myself but I have genuinely been praying for his ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Never Again

    Contributed by Nkwor Sunday Sunny Azuka Onyekachukwu on Dec 7, 2023
     | 2,567 views

    There is always an end to the affliction of the chikdren of God.and this happens to show the mightiness of the Almighty God. At this point, God declares to the enemy, Never Again or Touch Not!

    Jeremiah 31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. One of the mandates of heaven for a child of God is to pu a ceasation and cause an end to evil occurrences. The Lord has come to bring to an end, patterns in ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Paul Andrew avatar

    Fourteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year B: Country Music, I Aint Leaving You, Thorn

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jun 4, 2024
     | 665 views

    then I realized that God uses not just our gifts, but our thorns too

    Country music often tells stories about real life problems, thus the joke, “What do you get when you play country music backward?” You get back your wife, your dog, and your truck. One song tells about a man taking his beloved wife, whom he truly loves, to his 10th High School reunion, where he ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Fasting To Repent Day-Seven Devotional Series

    Contributed by Elmer Towns on Feb 27, 2026
     | 23 views

    Fasting is not something to be enjoyed, but rather a time of self-denial,

    Every Jew was commanded to keep the Yom Kippur Fast which was the Day of Atonement Fast, “On the tenth day of the seventh month of each year, you must go without eating to show sorrow for your sins” (Lev. 16:29, CEV). What new modern versions call “go without eating,” other versions call it ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dr. Abraham Obadare avatar

    Total Turnaround For God’s Glory

    Contributed by Dr. Abraham Obadare on Oct 4, 2025
     | 385 views

    The book of Zephaniah is a short one, with only three chapters, which tells us that God will deal with evil, and a day will come when He will save, heal, bring back, and appoint us for praise.

    “Behold, at that time I will deal with all who afflict you; I will save the lame, and gather those who were driven out; I will appoint them for praise and fame in every land where they were put to shame.” Zephaniah 3:19 Total turnaround for God’s glory is what you and I expect during this ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal