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  • I. Grant Spong avatar

    Sheep Without A Shepherd

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jul 12, 2021
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     | 4,387 views

    As we look around our community, do we see sheep without a shepherd who need to hear the good news? Let’s focus on our mission. Let’s look at Jesus’ instructions and example in Mark 6:30-34, 53-56.

    Prelude As we look around our community, do we see sheep without a shepherd who need to hear the good news? Purpose: Let’s focus on our mission. Plan: Let’s look at Jesus’ instructions and example in Mark 6:30-34, 53-56. 1 Tell & Rest Mark 6:30 Then the apostles gathered to Jesus and told ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Test It Out Series

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Apr 14, 2024
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     | 2,693 views

    This is the 4th Sermon in the Series "Be Genuine" from 1 John.

    Series: Be Genuine [#4] TEST IT OUT 1 John 2:3-11 Introduction: In a time when the theory is, “It’s easier to ask for permission than forgiveness”; many people have times in their lives where they question their salvation. They ask themselves questions like, “If I’m saved, then why do I keep ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Dead Flies In A Nation Series

    Contributed by Charles Payne on Oct 18, 2025
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    America did not begin in perfection — but it began in fear of God. Our earliest laws quoted Scripture. But dead flies do not fall all at once. The jar spoils slowly.

    🪰 DEAD FLIES IN A NATION (National Decay) SEEING THE BIG PICTURE TEXT Ecclesiastes 10:1 “Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor…” PROLOGUE: A NATION ONCE FRAGRANT America did not begin in perfection — but it began in fear of God. Our earliest ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Freedom To Choose

    Contributed by Paul Searight on Mar 28, 2010
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    In Christ we have freedom to choose. In a choice laden world do we make the right choices. We made the big choice, God, but are we daily making the right choices? Are we taking our sin seriously? With freedom comes responsibility.

    Freedom to Choose When I was working on the book I published on the Great British Hymns – John Parker and I visited Oxford and whilst there visited one of the oldest English churches in the centre of Oxford. On a pillar near the pulpit was a small plaque commemorating those men martyred by ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Forgiving Means Forgeting Series

    Contributed by Michael Luke on Jul 22, 2016
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    Misconceptions concerning forgiveness have forged a very formidable spiritual myth. This spiritual myth is the widely-held belief that genuine forgives means literally forgetting what happened.

    Series: Mythbusters “Forgiving Means Forgetting” 1 Samuel 12:13-14 Matthew 18:21-35 Open After a two week break with Youth Sunday two weeks ago and the concert last week, we’re back in our series of messages called Mythbusters. We’re focusing in on spiritual myths. ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Spiritual Warfare Series

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Nov 29, 2025
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     | 452 views

    Satan is real, not a metaphor. But he is not an independent force for evil; he is a created being, and therefore under God's sovereign control. Here is what Peter tells us about how to defeat him.

    We live in a rationalistic age. We live at a time when a purely materialistic view of the world is the one commonly accepted, a time when talk of the supernatural is dismissed as nothing more than fables and legends, myths and superstitions; the archaic remnants of a medieval world view. Our ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Changed In A Flash!

    Contributed by James May on Apr 19, 2001
    based on 529 ratings
     | 31,266 views

    One real encounter with the True Light, Jesus Christ, and everything changes.

    Changed in a Flash! Acts 9:1-6 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him the letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Good Shepherding

    Contributed by Bradley Boydston on Dec 8, 2001
    based on 15 ratings
     | 4,652 views

    How can we call Jesus the "good shepherd" when there is so much tragedy? From the Sunday after the Columbine shootings. Deals with the problem of evil.

    "I am the good shepherd..." The very fact that Jesus chooses to describe himself as such suggests that there were other less-than-good shepherds operating in the neighborhood. There were people who cared more for themselves than the sheep and were less than considerate-perhaps even brutal at ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    What Should We Think About Cloning? Series

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Mar 2, 2001
    based on 78 ratings
     | 3,697 views

    It is no longer science fiction! What does the Bible have to say about cloning?

    WHAT SHOULD WE THINK ABOUT CLONING? GENESIS 11:1-9 I know what you all might think about the topic that we would discuss this morning. You may think that everything I’m about to say sounds like science fiction. You know what, it does! It does sound like science fiction, but what we will talk ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Dream Generously Series

    Contributed by John Harvey on Mar 20, 2006
    based on 26 ratings
     | 5,450 views

    I don’t want to preach to you about tithing. I want to encourage you to live a generous life! Jesus said more about money than anything else.

    A minister was speaking about all the things money can’t buy. “Money can’t buy happiness, it can’t buy laughter and money can’t buy love” he told the congregation. Driving his point home he said, “What would you do if I offered you $1,000 not to love your mother and father?” A hush fell over the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Husbands Be Considerate

    Contributed by Steven Cannon on Jan 15, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,770 views

    Husbands be considerate of your wives.

    HUSBANDS BE CONSIDERATE 1 Pet 3:7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. Be understanding. Be chivalrous. The woman has ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Overcoming Addictive Behaviors

    Contributed by Rex E. Faile on Jan 29, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,298 views

    The apostle Paul warns the Corinthians of their destructive behaviors of the past and speaks of their new hope found in Jesus Christ

    OVERCOMING THE DESTRUCTIVE COMPULSIONS IN OUR LIVES Pastor Rex E. Faile, Sr. Lakewood Christian Church ad·dict (…-d¹kt“) tr.v. ad·dict·ed, ad·dict·ing, ad·dicts. 1. To devote or give (oneself) habitually or compulsively. 2. To cause to become compulsively and physiologically dependent on a ...read more

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    Understand The Lord's Will

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Oct 19, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,609 views

    Analyse your lifestyle, prioritize what is imporant, economise your energy and utilize the present.

    [I’ve taken the main points in this sermon from Rick Warren’s sermon MANAGING YOUR TIME - Growing Through Goal Setting, Part 3, June 2-3, 2006, and added my own thoughts.] Last Week: (1) Making the Most of Your Time. This Week: (2) Understand the Lord’s Will. NIV - Be very careful, then, how ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    "Stolen Cure"

    Contributed by Ken Harris on Jun 28, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,471 views

    The purpose of this sermon is to motivae the hearers to affirm to others that God through Christ honors our faith.

    28 June 2009 Fourth Sunday in June U.S. Army Chaplain (MAJ) Ken Harris Fortress Chapel Contingency Operation Site (C.O.S.) Sykes Tall-afar, Iraq BIG IDEA: God through Christ honors our faith. REFERENCES: Mark 5:25-34 (ESV); Leviticus 17:11b (ESV) … life of the flesh is in the blood … Hebrews ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    High Hopes

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jan 3, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,807 views

    God will favor us with a combination of faith, hope and love in the forthcoming year of 2009.

    Text: “For You are my hope, O Lord God; You are my trust from my youth” (Psalm 71:5). Story: The school system in a large city had a program to help children keep up with their school work during stays in the city’s hospitals. One day a teacher who was assigned to the program received a routine ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church