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  • Dana Visneskie avatar

    God Is Walking The Land!

    Contributed by Dana Visneskie on Jun 26, 2004
    based on 96 ratings
     | 10,536 views

    A great Canada Day message or Independence Day message. I give 3 reasons why God is still walking the land in the midst of rebellion and wickeness, enjoy!

    Title: God Is Walking The Land Text: Exodus 8:22-23; Psalm 33:12 Read Text!!! Pray!!! Introduction: - In our text this morning we see God walking the land. - A land where the Jewish people where in slavery for 400 years and being badly mistreated. - A land where there was poverty for God’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Begin The New Year In The Joy Of Forgiveness

    Contributed by Christopher Raiford on Jan 2, 2002
    based on 169 ratings
     | 11,845 views

    A new years sermon that focuses on leaving your sins in the past and rejoicing in God’s forgiveness

    Begin the New Year in the Joy of Forgiveness Dear Fellow Redeemed in Christ Jesus: In "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, who against his will, takes him back to a time when he was still a young man. Scrooge sees himself proposing to the woman he loved, ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Where's Your Help Coming From?

    Contributed by Kymone Hinds on Jan 4, 2003
    based on 300 ratings
     | 64,190 views

    We need to recognize who sustained us through our past and be faithful to Him in the future.

    Where’s Your Help Coming From? Psalm 124 December 28th, 2002. I can picture the processional party of pilgrims passing through the pleasant countryside. From all different walks of life, they come. Some are common shepherds who had toiled all year round under the brisk, bleak blanket of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Adventist

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    Rewriting Your Life Story Series

    Contributed by Marty Baker on Mar 10, 2003
    based on 36 ratings
     | 17,421 views

    This messages encourages you to move on with your life. Stop living in the past; press on to a new future.

    Rewriting Your Life Story www.stevenscreek.net Dr. Marty Baker / January 26, 2003 The human brain is composed of over 12 billion nerve cells, with the analytical ability of a room full of Pentium-equipped computers. The brain indiscriminately receives and stores every kind of information thrown ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Wayne Searls avatar

    Your Potential

    Contributed by Wayne Searls on Jul 27, 2005
    based on 34 ratings
     | 5,933 views

    To help the hearer realize that God can change his/ her life in spite of the failures of their past.

    YOUR POTENTIAL 1 John 3:1-3 TEXT: Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    Ain't No Going Back There

    Contributed by Donnie De Loney on Sep 29, 2006
    based on 7 ratings
     | 11,227 views

    Quit longing for the "good ole day." They are past and over. Look to where you are now and to the future

    Ain’t No going back there Numbers 14:1-4 1So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. 2And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    "Sarah Laughed"

    Contributed by Ken Harris on Dec 14, 2003
    based on 34 ratings
     | 17,787 views

    The purpose of this sermon is to motivate the hearers to TRUST GOD to bring His promise(in their life) to past.

    BIG IDEA: IS THERE ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR GOD? REFERENCES: Genesis 17:17 (Abraham fell on his face and laugh); Hebrews 11:11 (Sarah inducted into the Hebrews Hall of Fame because she considered him faithful who had promised); Genesis 3:8 (God visiting Adam and Eve in the cool of the day); Hebrews ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Worship The Lord By Remembering

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Nov 15, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 5,768 views

    Worship the Lord by Remembering ) Your past; 2) Your rescue; 3) Your present blessings

    Finish this sentence in your mind: “I worship the Lord best by…” Did you finish that sentence with something like “…by singing”, or “…by praying”, or “…by telling others about Jesus”? While we can worship the Lord by doing each one of those things, Moses wants us to know that we won’t be moved to ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    The Joy Of Forgiveness

    Contributed by Carl Willis on Mar 28, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,753 views

    There is nothing like the freedom of forgiveness. The record of your past can be cleansed and God offers it freely.

    The Joy of Forgiveness Psalm 32:1-7 Psalm 32:1 (NIV) A psalm of David. Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Oh What Joy!!!!  David had been forgiven of many things  Adultery  Murder  Dishonesty Sin is ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    9/11 What Have We Learned?

    Contributed by Jack Martin on Sep 7, 2002
    based on 40 ratings
     | 5,060 views

    Its a look back at the past year to see if America got the message that God was trying to convey.

    Jack L. Martin Praise Assembly of God Sept 8, 2002 TITLE: 9/11 What have we learned? Jeremiah 8:19-20 Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their worthless ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Jesus Made A Curse Series

    Contributed by John Mccurry on Aug 15, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,756 views

    Series leading to Easter and one week past describing what Jesus did and why for us

    Friday, March 16, 2007 What Jesus Was Made Jesus Made a Curse Gal. 3: 10-14 Jesus was made something that He was not “A Curse” :13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangeth on a tree: One of the reasons ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    A Date At The Pool

    Contributed by Bruce Gebbeken on Nov 4, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,271 views

    Healing is closely tied to faith in what the Lord can and will do from a past experience at a pool.

    A Date at the Pool Introduction: John 5:1-15 A. Jesus was going about his business one day 1. I want you to close your eyes for a minute and imagine the scene. 2. Jesus is headed to a feast and along the way he stops at a pool of sick people. 3. Now this is no ordinary pool, but a special place. ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Steven Simala Grant avatar

    Looking Backward, Looking Forward

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 10, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 10,097 views

    Psalm 40 leads us in reflection on the past and a vision for the future. This was a new year’s sermon.

    Looking Backward, Looking Forward January 2, 2005 Intro: (Calvin and Hobbes) Looking Backward: Are you glad the old year is over? As you look back over 2004, are you glad it’s done? For some of us, that answer is a big YES! We look back and see lives uprooted by floods in basements and all ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    His Grace Is Enough

    Contributed by David Elvery on May 7, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,057 views

    Sermon looking back at God’s goodness in the past year and his promise for provision in the next

    His Grace is Enough – Ps 121, Matt 2:1-23. Gladstone Baptist Church – 31/12/06 am 1. Last year we have seen God Grace – he provided for & protected us. <How has God provided for you in 2006?> We serve a wonderfully kind and gracious God. Do you agree with me. He is a God who cares for us ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Proclaim

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Sep 17, 2011
     | 5,017 views

    In the past God overlooked religious ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

    Dakota Community Church September 18, 2011 Proclaim Acts 17:22-31 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite