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  • GUY GLASS avatar

    Four Tools We Need To Make It Through Times Of Trouble Series

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Feb 25, 2016
    based on 5 ratings
     | 15,196 views

    This message deals with four tools we can use from the book of James to get us through times of trial and persecution.

    FOUR TOOLS WE NEED TO MAKE IT THROUGH TIMES OF TRIAL JAMES 1:1-8 JAMES, A SERVANT OF GOD AND OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, TO THE TWELVE TRIBES SCATTERED AMONG THE NATIONS: GREETINGS. 2  CONSIDER IT PURE JOY, MY BROTHERS, WHENEVER YOU FACE TRIALS OF MANY KINDS, 3  BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT THE TESTING OF ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Way: On Trial Series

    Contributed by David Richardson on Mar 28, 2004
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     | 3,026 views

    The Path to Jerusalem for Jesus contained His Betrayal, His Arrest and His Persecution. Our lives as Christians will also, in some form or another, contain similar Betrayals, possible confinement and most assuredly persecution. Are you up to it?

    The Way: On Trial John 14:1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God ; trust also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

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    The Unexpected Path To Perfection

    Contributed by Paul Dayao on Aug 23, 2025
     | 135 views

    This sermon explains how God purposefully uses the trials of life to refine our faith, produce steadfast endurance, and develop us into spiritually mature believers who are complete in Christ.

    If you were to take a survey of every person in this room, and perhaps every person in this city, and ask them, "What is your main goal in life?" you would get a lot of different answers. Some would say to be successful, to provide for their family. Others might say to be healthy, to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Right Hand Of God.

    Contributed by Abimbola Salu on Nov 2, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
     | 21,498 views

    Jesus Christ is at the right hand of God interceeding for us.

    The right hand of God must indeed be a wonderful place to be! When someone is described as being the right hand man of another, it connotes the image of someone who is indispensable, important, reliable, that can be trusted and can deputize for the top man. In some cultures and governments, the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Ones The Wolves Pulled Down!

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Sep 6, 2005
    based on 70 ratings
     | 20,817 views

    Be strong and don’t lag behind for the wolves are watching and drooling!

    The Ones The Wolves Pulled Down! Garth Brooks had a song awhile back called Wolves written by Miss Stephanie Davis. In it he speaks of thinking about the ones the wolves pulled down the morning after he drove heifers to lower ground during a bitter January with ten-foot drifts and wind that had ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Peace In The Lion's Den Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Oct 3, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 21,189 views

    You can find rest if you rest in God. You can find peace if you depend on the Lord. You can get rid of all your worries if you commit your life to the Lord and pray every day.

    This last week, I came across a five minute clip from an episode of The Bob Newhart Show on YouTube. That was back in the days when sit-coms were funny AND clean, unlike so many of them today. Bob, as you may know, was a psychologist on the show, and in this scene a woman comes into his office ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    The One Prayer That Disturbs Hell

    Contributed by John Gaston on Oct 21, 2013
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     | 8,419 views

    When the world tries to shut us down, we should pray for strength to bear persecution, for boldness, for a demonstration of the miraculous, and a new filling of the Holy Spirit.

    THE ONE PRAYER THAT DISTURBS HELL Acts 4:23-31 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR: A Baptist Dog 1. A Baptist preacher and his wife decided they needed a dog. Ever mindful of their congregation, they knew the dog must also be Baptist. They visited an expensive kennel and explained their needs to the manager, ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    The Beatitudes

    Contributed by Rick Boyne on May 21, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,924 views

    Jesus exhorts us to have attitudes of humility and kindness.

    The Beatitudes May 19, 2013 Evening Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: Jesus exhorts us to have attitudes of humility and kindness. Focus Passage: Matthew 5:1-12 Supplemental Passage: Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Encouragement And Consolation, But Not Comfort Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 8, 2013
     | 4,271 views

    God gives us abundant consolations in our ministry, but does not grant us the privilege to be comfortable.

    The God of Consolation Monday of Tenth Week in Course 2013 St. Paul seems almost obsessed in today’s reading with the word paraklesis. In seven verses he uses some form of the word at least nine times. Paul is certainly trying to tell the Corinthians, and us, something ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Last-Days Survival Kit

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jan 3, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,923 views

    Jesus gives us key strategies to survive the coming end days.

    Those must have been frightening words to hear from their Lord. It’s Jesus’ warning of the coming storm that would return over and over and over again until he returned. Wars have NEVER ceased, persecution has continued, rebellion is still going on. Much of what Jesus told his ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    The Boldness Of John The Baptist Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Feb 3, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,330 views

    In this lesson we examine the boldness of John the Baptist in Luke 3:18-20 and learn several truths about bold Christians.

    Scripture We are studying the life of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke in a sermon series I am calling, “To Seek and To Save the Lost.” The first two chapters of Luke’s Gospel deal with the prophecies and births of John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ, and then what happened to ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Spiritual Thermodynamics Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on May 4, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,888 views

    We grow and multiply through faith, oppression, and obedience as God's ancient people did when they experienced harsh treatment in Egypt.

    In The Last Days Newsletter, Leonard Ravenhill tells about a group of tourists visiting a picturesque village. They walked by an old man sitting beside a fence, and one of them asked, “Were any great men born in this village?” The old man replied, “Nope, only babies.” ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    The Price Of Freedom

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on May 25, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,393 views

    We must understand that Christ paid the ultimate price for our freedom from sin and the clutches of Satan. The price of our freedom from sin was paid in blood. How do we respond to that sacrifice will ultimately determine our eternity too!

    Opening illustration: When I talked to some young men shortly before D-day during Gulf War II, I observed that they were scared. None of them wanted to die. However, the vast majority expressed their conviction that the cause for which they were fighting was right and worthy of the risk. Queen ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Scars

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jun 19, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 15,720 views

    How do you wear your scars?

    As I was trimming the fuzzy remnants of hair on the crown of my bald head I noticed the scar from the head injury I received in the car accident that killed my Dad in 1959. The gash was deep enough that they told my Mom that had it gone another half inch it would have killed me. For many years ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dr. Jerry N. Watts avatar

    The Beat Up Church Series

    Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Aug 8, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,587 views

    The Church at Smyrna is a church which received no criticism from the Lord but much abuse from both the culture and the "congregation" (those who ’say’ they are Jews)

    The Unveiling The “Beat Up” or “Bloodied” Church Revelation 2:8-11 * From my observation we live in an increasingly violent culture. Hardly a day passes when we don’t hear of someone being killed or attacked. An honest look at our entertainment would indicate that America has bought into ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist