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  • Shawn Drake avatar

    Hold Them Up

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Oct 19, 2025
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,239 views

    This is a Pastors' Appreciation Service Sermon that encourages us to hold our Ministers up.

    HOLD THEM UP Exodus 17:8-13 Introduction: On this Pastors’ Appreciation Service, I am reminded of an article I read about the “Perfect Pastor”. The perfect Pastor… * Preaches exactly 10 minutes. The perfect Pastor… * Condemns sin but never hurts anyone’s feelings. The perfect Pastor… * Works ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Leadership Series

    Contributed by Erik Estep on Jan 20, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 24,327 views

    Today in our passage of Scripture we’re going to see Peter, who was a disciple of Jesus, writing to church leaders as to what their responsibilities were.

    Intro: Bernard Brown is the president of Kennestone Regional Health Care System in Georgia. And he talked @ once working in a hospital where a patient knocked over a cup of water, which spilled on the floor by the patient’s bed. The patient was afraid he might slip on the water if he got ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    "New Adventures"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Jun 26, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 12,386 views

    A sermon for the first Sunday of a new appointment for a pastor.

    “New Adventures” Jeremiah 29:11-14a A young preacher had just finished seminary and had taken his first appointment in the hills of Kentucky. Wanting to be effective in his preaching ministry, he walked into the pulpit on his first Sunday and preached about—what he called--the evils of ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    What Do To About Phebe?

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jul 4, 2008
    based on 17 ratings
     | 7,699 views

    An honorable woman, but not what many think she was.

    Rom 16:1-2 16:1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: 2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Covenant PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Jan 26, 2024
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,264 views

    This sermon explores building relationships with our new pastor, fostering inclusivity in our congregation, and embracing a renewed covenant with God for all.

    Good morning, dear church family. It's a joy to gather with you in the warmth of this sanctuary, the echo of our shared laughter and the harmony of our joined voices filling this sacred space. It's a blessing to be here with you, united in faith, bound by love, and driven by our shared pursuit of ...read more

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    And Jesus Stood Still

    Contributed by Tim Shockley on Feb 17, 2015
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,957 views

    In one of the most stressful times of Jesus' life, He heard a single voice cry out for mercy. And He stood still.

    There is a church in downtown Washington, DC, right in an area where there are a lot of street people. Almost every Sunday, a few of them would come into the church and sit in the back pews and watch the service. They are scary people, because they are toothless and dirty and they have not bathed ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Lord Build Me In Speech Series

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 2, 2021
     | 2,156 views

    Words are powerful. We see this theme in James chapter 3 played out, but it’s also a theme strung through the entire book of James. Words are very powerful. They can do great good. I can encourage someone, and their spirits will be lifted.

    "Yiddish folklore offers a telling tale about our words. One such man had told so many malicious untruths about the local rabbi that, overcome by remorse, he begged the rabbi to forgive him. "And, Rabbi, tell me how I can make amends." The rabbi sighed, "Take two pillows, go to ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    The Time Has Come For Bi-Vocational Ministers And Staff

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jun 3, 2001
    based on 61 ratings
     | 4,860 views

    We are all ministers so we need to rethink some traditional vocational concepts.

    The Time Has Come For Bi-vocational Ministers and Staff I have served in many churches over the last twenty-five years in a bi-vocational capacity. Only at the time I had not heard the terminology nor realized that it was what was needed in the churches. I had been saved and mentored under the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Receive Your Compassionate Shepherd’s Care

    Contributed by Michael Otterstatter on Jul 22, 2024
     | 611 views

    May the Holy Spirit work in us a deeper understanding of one of the ways our Good Shepherd provides compassionate care for us. He does that through the shepherds he sends to us. He does that to equip us for the life of service he calls us to live.

    “The LORD is my shepherd.” “I am the Good Shepherd.” “I am Jesus’ little lamb, Ever glad at heart I am.” Generations of believers have loved those kinds of descriptions of God’s love for them and of their relationship to God through faith in Jesus. Shepherd and sheep. Sheep and shepherd. ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Biblical Expectations Of An Elder Series

    Contributed by Kevin L. Jones on Feb 13, 2017
    based on 4 ratings
     | 13,055 views

    A sermon examining what God expects from an elder.

    Biblical Expectations Of An Elder Titus 1:5-9 Thom Rainer president of LifeWay Christian stores recently asked a few hundred laypersons to write down what they desired of a pastor. He shares some of the top responses that he received: People desire a Pastor who possessed love of congregation, they ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Wedding Sermon

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Jul 8, 2011
    based on 10 ratings
     | 39,612 views

    A wedding sermon focusing on the three words -- leaving, cleaving and weaving.

    Nick and Kim Vogt Wedding July 9, 2011 5:00 p.m. • Opening Music o CD of Instrumental Music • Seating of parents and grandparents o CD of Instrumental Music • Guys come out and stand in their places o No music • Attendants come down o Canon in D • Bridal ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ken Henson avatar

    Where Is God? Where Are You? Series

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Sep 23, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,613 views

    John’s first glimpse of Jesus in this Revelation is extraordinary and strange. I’d like to focus on instead is where Jesus is. Jesus is in the midst of the Church and the Church is in the palm of His hand.

    I was in the Spirit into the Lord’s Day (the Day of the Lord), and I heard behind me a great voice, like a trumpet, saying, I am the A and the Z, the first and the last and, What you see write into a book, and send to the seven churches, to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and to Tyatira, ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Jonah

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Jul 24, 2020
     | 8,599 views

    The pandemic situation right now in the world points squarely to disobedience to God, don’t you dare think you can disobey and get away with it, the ‘corona virus’ has been released on the world from the storehouse of God.

    When you leave His presence..Part 1 Jonah 1: 3”But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.” When you disobey God, you actually may feel free but you are fleeing from His presence, which is very dangerous. If you watch the bird’s nest , it is so secure, protected, ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    The First Steps Home Series

    Contributed by Allan Quak on Jan 1, 2019
     | 7,058 views

    The Lord moves a whole Empire to make sure that it is possible for His people to come home from Babylon. No matter what we have done God cares for us and He will fulfil all His promises as He brings us back from the homeward journey.

    Message The First Steps Home Ezra 1:1-11 Today we are going to make a start on a new sermon series. The series is called Jexit. You might ask, “Well what is that?” Well we know what Brexit is … the attempt of England to leave the European Union. Jexit is the focus in history when Judah exists ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Promise Of The Holy Spirit Series

    Contributed by Ken Sowers on Mar 19, 2014
     | 6,041 views

    Jesus promises the Holy Spirit to be always with them

    Promise of the Holy Spirit Listen closely to this passage, Jesus tips us off on what Love looks like, see if you can spot it. John 14:15-31 "If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-- 17 the Spirit of ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational