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  • Gaither Bailey avatar

    Seeking

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Jan 2, 2009
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    How can we use the example of the "wise men" who sought to worship the Christ child as a guide to our own searching?

    Matthew 2: 1 – 12 / Seeking Intro: Have you even misplaced something in your house? You know it is there; but, you can’t find it. One day this week, I lost my car keys. Barbara and I searched all over the house for those keys. They were nowhere to be found. I borrowed Barbara’s keys, got in ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    The Scene Is Set For Revolution And Reformation Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 21, 2017
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    God writes straight with crooked lines, in every age.

    Thursday of 29th Week in Course 2017 Reformation and Revolution Let’s imagine for a moment what happened when St. Paul and his companions came to a town in Anatolia or Greece, his two assigned missionary territories. There were probably Jews there, who met in someone’s home or maybe, if the ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Epicurus And Christ Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 11, 2017
     | 3,835 views

    Renaissance atheists ate, drank and were merry and ignored God’s teaching, because they thought of the Christian God as just another non-existent being who wanted to keep them from enjoying themselves.

    Thursday of the 32nd Week in Course Reformation/Revolution The Pharisees were religious leaders in Israel at the time of Christ, and, like all pious Jews, they believed that God would send a Messiah to inaugurate the Kingdom of God. But most Jews thought that the kingdom would be brought by force, ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Christians And Sin And Forgiveness Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 30, 2017
     | 3,452 views

    As we image Christ more and more, so does the nature of God abide in us. Let’s strive daily to attain that blessedness, and pray for all Christians to aspire to that state.

    Thursday in Christmas Season: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Reformation-Revolution John the Baptist’s witness to Jesus was like the little snowflake that hits the snowbank and causes an avalanche. “Behold the Lamb of God” was a sentence that to a Jew tuned to the prophets would evoke images of Isaiah’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Spirit-Filled Evangelization Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 20, 2017
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    'A spirit-filled evangelization is one guided by the Holy Spirit, for he is the soul of the Church called to proclaim the Gospel.'

    Thursday of 6th Week of Easter 2017 Joy of the Gospel Today’s reading from Acts is one of those gems of the Bible that gives evidence for its historicity. Aquila and Priscilla were probably already Christians when they came to Corinth, about AD 49. They were caught up in the dragnet Emperor ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Getting Hungry Enough To Receive

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Jan 19, 2008
    based on 33 ratings
     | 3,511 views

    The manifestation or demonstration of the Spirit is given to individuals to profit all!

    Getting Hungry Enough to Receive Text: I Corinthians 12:1-7, 31 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant: 2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led. 3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    A Return To Bondage Series

    Contributed by Aarron Ellerman on Jan 22, 2008
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    The key to keep from returning to our old ways is growing in our relationship with Christ.

    Galatians 4:8-11 “A Return To Bondage” I. Their Former Life (8) • Paul wants them to remember the time before they knew God that is before they came to have an intimate relationship with Him. • “When ye knew not God.” o Know – is a word that means to know intimately or have personal knowledge ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Sacred Community Series

    Contributed by Allen James on Nov 6, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,888 views

    God desires to create sacred communities who are wholly devoted to Him.

    OPENING ILLUSTRATION: ARRIVING TO FIND THINGS MUCH WORSE THAN EXPECTED INTRODUCTION: As Ezra returns from Babylon to Jerusalem he discovers the people have a serious SIN PROBLEM. Rather than becoming a SACRED COMMUNITY they had become a COMFORTABLE COMMUNITY who had wandered from the words of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Mind Of Christ Series

    Contributed by James Tilley on Dec 10, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,231 views

    This is an exposition of Philippians 2.5-8

    The Mind of Christ Text: Phil 2.5-8 Introduction: • What is Christmas all about? -v.5. • Christmas doesn’t belong to the world and they world cannot give Christmas its meaning. • The passage tells us what Christmas is really about, it’s about Jesus Christ. He truly is “the reason for the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Do It Series

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Oct 25, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,098 views

    This is the 1st sermon in the series "When God Says..."

    Sunday Morning October 25, 2009 Bel Aire Baptist Church Series: When God Says… [#1] DO IT Jonah 1:1-17 Introduction: Ever dealt with a child that when you tell them to do something they can come up with a million reasons why they shouldn’t have to? I can’t tell you how many ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    While They Promise Them Liberty.

    Contributed by Anthony Smith on Dec 27, 2011
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    There are people and organizations that claim to provide liberty from religion especially from the power of Christianity, for even the mention of Christ, the Bible, prayer, or even the showing of the cross is offensive to them, they all say it’s not polit

    Liberty; Freedom from restraint, in a general sense, and applicable to the body, or to the will or mind. The body is at liberty, when not confined; the will or mind is at liberty, when not checked or controlled. There are people and organizations that claim to provide liberty from religion ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Put Off & Put On Series

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Sep 30, 2016
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,432 views

    We all have ideas and ideals of how things are and how they should be that have been shaped by our experience and our world. Paul is saying we need to look away from the world to develop new values and thoughts based on God's values.

    Ephesians 4:17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Good Friday 2017 (Weak/Strong Faith) Series

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Apr 17, 2017
     | 4,726 views

    the faith of the first 12 disciples was weak; how about ours today when Jesus is mocked in our midst?

    We remember of course today Jesus Christ, God who became human to pay for the penalty of our sins by taking them to death on a cross. Before reading the story in Mark 15, let us highlight God’s prophecies about the suffering Messiah. Since the Messiah had to suffer and die for man’s sins, we ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Unto Us A Son Is Given

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Nov 18, 2013
    based on 14 ratings
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    The in-breaking of the holy into the world of men.

    UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN. Isaiah 9:2-7. 1. Troubled times It is quite appropriate that the sign of God’s deliverance from oppressive times should be in the birth of a child: for He says, “My strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9). Whether in Judah’s oppression by Aram and ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    When Did We See You Hungry? Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 12, 2011
     | 4,187 views

    Our good works for our brothers and sisters are icons of Christ in our culture.

    Monday of First Week in Lent 14 March 2011 Spirit of the Liturgy At various times in the history of the Church, Judaizing elements in and outside the Church have risen up and waved the second half of the first commandment at the Church, and accused us of worshiping images and idols. ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic