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  • Paul Clemente avatar

    Defiled By The World (Preventable? Response?) Series

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on May 4, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,253 views

    What God wants us to do now is totally depend on Jesus Christ to show the world that Jesus already won all the battles!

    Is there sin in the world? Sin is anything that does not line up with a Holy God! Specifically, where do we see sin in this world we live in?? We are confronted with sin everyday, aren’t we? Jesus prayed to God the Father in John 17, “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    The Product Of Pentecost

    Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Dec 20, 2009
     | 3,957 views

    A devotional encouraging God’s people to Prayer.

    The Product of Pentecost Acts 4:1-31 * For the last 2 weeks we have been called to powerful prayer by God’s word. We began the journey in Acts 1 as they prayed for 10 days after the ascension of Jesus. We reviewed the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost and my prayer was and is, “Lord, do it again ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Keeping The Faith

    Contributed by Randy Croft on Dec 21, 2009
    based on 10 ratings
     | 14,451 views

    How to weather doubt, discouragement, and hardships.

    Keeping the Faith ILLUS: The story is told of a man who was walking across the road when he was hit by a car. The impact knocked him on his head which caused him to be in a coma for a couple of days before he finally regained consciousness. When he opened his eyes, his loving wife was there beside ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How To Respond To God When Things Don’t Make Sense Series

    Contributed by Pat Damiani on Jan 4, 2010
    based on 5 ratings
     | 17,682 views

    Habakkuk’s psalm helps us to know how to respond to God even when things don’t make sense.

    This morning we’re going to return to our journey through the Old Testament prophets in preparation for our study of the Book of Revelation. So go ahead and turn in your Bibles to the Book of Habakkuk. If you’re not familiar with that small book, you can find it by going to the first book in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    La Misericordia En La Miseria

    Contributed by Craig Benner on Jan 13, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,612 views

    Dios deleite en mostrar Su gran misericordia cuando un menos lo merece.

    La Misericordia en Medio de la Miseria Habacuc 3:1-16 El profeta entendía que Dios estaba al punto de permitir la destrucción de Jerusalén. A pesar de eso, Habacuc le conoció a Dios como un Dios de misericordia. Sí, iba a venir el castigo de Dios a su pueblo por sus rebeliones, pero por los que ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Comfort The Shaken!

    Contributed by Jofrey Bustamante on Jan 20, 2010
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,118 views

    When God shakes the earth, people must listen! We need to offer relief to the shaken!

    Introduction: The recent earthquake in Haiti jolts us with a thunderous reminder of one theological fact - our God is sovereign. No one on this planet is genius enough to understand, in its minutest details, everything in this life. But we must accept, although grudgingly as others would, even ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    When Things Happen To You

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Sep 30, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,773 views

    This sermon explains how to cope when bad things happen to you.

    How do you respond when bad things happen to you? Sometimes we are depressed. Sometimes we are destroyed. Sometimes we prosper. God gives us a model for handling bad things. This model was displayed by the apostle Paul. It is found in Philippians 1:12. "The things which happened to me have actually ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Making Mountains Out Of Moles Series

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Oct 13, 2009
    based on 8 ratings
     | 10,258 views

    The "P.A.U.S.E. Principle" applied to eradicating the moles that try to undermine spiritual success.

    We’re in the series “Something More” based on the story of a man named Nehemiah who lived over 2,000 years ago. The “something more” Nehemiah prayed that God would help him arrive at in his life was the rebuilding of the wall around Jerusalem that had been destroyed a generation earlier and not ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Challenged But Not Conquered

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Oct 16, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,007 views

    Encouragement for children when things don’t go right.

    Title: “Challenged but not Conquered” 2 Corinthians 4:7-9 October 18, 2009 Prior to Service: • Supply Ping Pong Balls (one for each child) • Supply Markers • Set up boundary for children’s activity (boundary should be large enough that children can run inside the boundary.) GAME: “Not Where I ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Sermon About Grumbling

    Contributed by Christopher Martin on Jun 17, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,723 views

    A sermon for Pentecost 12B preached 8/31/2003 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Garner, Iowa (LCMS).

    I think that it may be a safe assumption to make that when you all came here this evening, you didn’t expect to hear a sermon about grumbling. If you did, boy, someone must have let my secret out of the bag or you hacked into my computer or something……But, in all seriousness, we are confronted ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Chris McCarthy avatar

    Signs

    Contributed by Chris Mccarthy on Oct 11, 2010
    based on 9 ratings
     | 10,711 views

    Facing our fears and understanding the big picture of Jesus' end time prophecies.

    The best fairy tales come from the worst fears… Most of them were written in a time where poverty, famine and childhood abandonment were common. All three of those are mixed into a story about kids getting lost in the woods and eventually meeting a cannibalistic witch in a children’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    "What Is Threatening To Choke You?"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Nov 23, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,670 views

    A sermon about perseverance in the face of suffering.

    James 5:7-11 “What is Threatening to Choke You?” BY: Ken Sauer, Pastor of East Ridge United Methodist Church, Chattanooga, TN www.eastridgeumc.com Take a moment and think about what lays heavy on your heart. For many of us, this won’t even take a moment. For many of us, ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    Money Talks & The Power Of Patience

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,873 views

    Money Talks & the Power of Patience (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request - email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

    Reading: James chapter 5 verse 1-11. Ill: • Albert Einstein was invited to speak Swarthmore College. • It was to be at a banquet held in his honour. • Hundreds of people from all over the country came along; • They crowded an auditorium to hear what he had to say. ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren

  • Tom Owen avatar

    Shake And Bake Series

    Contributed by Tom Owen on Dec 7, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,861 views

    Learning how to be the church in today's world through learning from the book of Acts.

    [2] How many of you have ever heard of the cooking method called shake ‘n bake? [Shake ‘n bake demonstration.] Ever feel like that piece of pork? Let me rephrase that… Ever feel like that piece of meat? Wait a minute… Ever feel like your trapped in a situation ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ross Cochrane avatar

    Part 3 - Genesis 22:1-11 - When It Comes To The Crunch... Series

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 10, 2010
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,848 views

    It is what happens in these intervening years before the "some time later..." that determines my destiny. It is those things appropriated and applied in the EVERYDAY that determine how I will respond to God when the crunch comes "some time later".

    Part 3 - Genesis 22:1-11 - WHEN IT COMES TO THE CRUNCH... Day after day the drudgery of books had began to depress me. Don't misunderstand. I love reading books. I was working in a warehouse at the time. Two of us would work in a large cubicle to pack books into boxes according to a computer order ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational