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  • Brian Atwood avatar

    How Living With Integrity Increases Our Hope

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Nov 16, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,704 views

    How living with integrity increases our hope.

    We’re in the series "From Hurt to Hope." We’ve been learning more about how to experience the hope that God offers – even when the deck is stacked against us. We’ve been covering the Apostle Peter’s first letter, which was written to Christ followers of the First Century being brutally ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Call To Be Faithful Series

    Contributed by Brad Beaman on Jun 4, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,097 views

    In your difficulty if you ever start to wonder, does anybody really know what I am going through, be assured Jesus does.

    Maybe right now you are undergoing suffering and hardship. You may recently have had the painful experience of being slandered. It may have come just for the simple reason you are a Christian standing on God’s principles. In your difficulty if you ever start to wonder, does anybody really know ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Predictably Unpredictable

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Dec 16, 2011
     | 3,134 views

    Inconsistency of men being contrasted with the Consistency of God

    Predictably unpredictable… Jim Thorpe! Does it ring a bell? Well arguably he was the greatest athlete of 20th century. Blessed with abundant natural talent in those days of amateurism, Thorpe virtually “torpedoed” the competition into submission by winning ...read more

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    Faith To Face Family Series

    Contributed by Mark Tonkery on Feb 3, 2012
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     | 3,428 views

    Faith to face your family when they reject your Christian faith.

    Faith to Face Family Text: Hebrews 11:4 Introduction I. Since May 10, 2010 Nurta Mohamed Farah has been imprisoned at her home in southern Somalia because she became a Christian, according to Compass News Direct. According to witnesses, Nurta's family keeps the 17-year-old chained to a tree by day ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Suffering For Jesus Series

    Contributed by Allen James on Feb 14, 2010
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     | 3,384 views

    Final message in Approved series through the Beatitudes explores the idea of being persecuted for righteousness sake.

    Suffering for Jesus • Matthew 5:10-12 Two Common Approaches re: Suffering for Jesus: Too Light-hearted about it… Confuse Temptation and Trials with persecution… Introduction: Persecution is more about our spiritual preparation than it is about our personal ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Idols? Series

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Feb 14, 2011
     | 7,424 views

    An idol is anything we place above Jesus Christ; so, let us constantly evaluate our calendars and our checkbooks.

    What is the main point of the 2nd Commandment?? We find God’s 10 Commandments in Exodus 20 and Deutoronomy 5. The 2nd Commandment states, You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Jerry Cosper avatar

    Picture Of Abuse

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Oct 9, 2012
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    Satan continues, once again, resorting to external methods to stop the church’s growth. The experience of Peter and John gives a clear picture of persecution. Wherever and whenever these things take place among believers, there will be persecution of on

    The early church was doing well. However, last time (Acts 5:1-11) we saw the introduction and the punishment of hypocrisy as it entered the church for the first time. We saw that it was Satan’s way of trying to stop the growth of the church. Well Satan continues in tonight’s passage ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Keeping The Faith When Times Are Tough Series

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Sep 16, 2012
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     | 10,478 views

    RECENTLY, SOMEONE SHARED WITH ME A “RULE OF THUMB” FOR THEM PERSONALLY. IT GOES LIKE THIS, “WE ARE ALL PROBABLY ABLE TO HANDLE THREE CRISES IN OUR LIVES AT ANY GIVEN TIME.” WELL, I THINK THAT PAUL IS PROBABLY AT HIS LIMIT HERE! HE HAS TO ADJUST TO A WH

    KEEPING THE FAITH WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH Acts 9:19-31 and after taking some food, he regained his strength. Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. 20 At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God. 21 All those who heard him were astonished and asked, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Body Of Christ: Death By A Thousand Cuts

    Contributed by Terry Frazier on Feb 25, 2012
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    As members of the body of Christ, we as Christians need to pay more attention to the persecuted members of the body of Christ world wide.

    The Body Of Christ: Death By A Thousand Cuts This message today will and should cause all of us to be sad, very sad but also very much encouraged too! I will inform you of some great human tragedies and I will also show you just how brave and faithful some foreign Christians are and in so doing I ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Command And A Call !!!

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Mar 8, 2012
     | 2,342 views

    To exhort those being persecuted to leave all matters into the hands of the ONE , who has said "Vengeance is mine".

    The Command and a Call “Winners do not do different things, they do things differently”…wrote the wise management guru Shiv Khera in his book “You can win”. I want to rephrase this sentence oozing wisdom slightly and put it this way “Christians may not do ...read more

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    For Righteousness Sake Series

    Contributed by Mitchell Skelton on Mar 22, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,622 views

    "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:10

    INTRODUCTION The preacher of an underground Chinese church tells others of the precautions they must take to avoid government persecution. Each time their church reaches ten to fifteen members, they split to reduce attention. They also alternate meeting places for the same reason. Because phone ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Bound And Determined Series

    Contributed by Byron Harvey on Mar 30, 2009
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     | 6,555 views

    Paul is warned not to go to Jerusalem, but he is bound and determined to trust God and go, even if it costs him dearly.

    “Bound & Determined” Acts 21:1-16 July 6, 2008 Two questions as we begin this morning: how do you know you are really trusting God? What do you do when the will of God involves doing something that will really cost you? I. A Desperate Plea - :1-6 READ VV. 1-3 - This ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    Under Arrest Series

    Contributed by Byron Harvey on Mar 30, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,157 views

    Paul goes to Jerusalem and is arrested; is he doing the will of God?

    “Under Arrest” Acts 21:17-36 July 13, 2008 Could Paul have been wrong? Certainly, as I’ve repeated, he was a man, a man of flesh-and-blood, and he was not above sin! There are two points in today’s passage at which different commentators believe that Paul made an error. There ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

  • Jimmy Dillon avatar

    2013 - Stay The Course

    Contributed by Jimmy Dillon on May 17, 2013
    based on 10 ratings
     | 6,840 views

    2013 will bring many challenges to believers faith and they must realize the testing of that faith is what will strengthen them.

    2013: Stay the Course Luke 4:1-12 As I have prayed and thought about the New Year of 2013, I feel in my heart that the Lord is saying this will be a year of testing A testing of our faith in God; our relationship with God; our dependence upon God; our understanding of God We will be tested in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Gregory Lilly avatar

    Jesus: The Destitute One Series

    Contributed by Gregory Lilly on May 29, 2013
    based on 5 ratings
     | 8,720 views

    Jesus came to His own people and they rejected Him, the Sanhedrin hated Him, and even His own disciples abandoned Him in Gethsemane. Truly Jesus was destitute of companionship.

    Luke 9:58 Introduction: In our text, Jesus is not speaking of Him living in poverty, but He is speaking of His lack of normal necessities for living such as companionship and acceptance into His society. Jesus clearly is teaching His disciples and us, that to live Godly will ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist