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  • Rick Gillespie- Mobley avatar

    Investments Tips For A Healthy Church

    Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Oct 22, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,025 views

    This sermon is geared for a church celebrating an anniversary. THis is our 45th year anniversary service.

    Investment Tips For A Healthy Church 9/23/07 Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 Matthew 9:35-38 Today we look back and recognize the 45 years God has blessed this particular part of the body of Christ known first as Glenville Presbyterian Church and today as Glenville New Life Community Church PCUSA. ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    A Thanksgiving To-Do List

    Contributed by T. Michael Crews on Nov 19, 2007
    based on 24 ratings
     | 17,373 views

    A Thanksgiving Sermon from Psalm 105:1-4

    A Thanksgiving To-Do List Psalm 105:1-4 What are your plans for Thanksgiving? Many of you plan on doing some cooking, entertaining some family or friends. You’ve got a menu to plan, groceries to buy, dining rooms to decorate. Maybe you’ve already started, or maybe you’ll wait until the last ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • David Owens avatar

    Jesus The Powerful Series

    Contributed by David Owens on Nov 20, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,465 views

    Jesus clearly demonstrated His power over every realm of existence while He was on earth. His power is still at work in those who believe in Him.

    Introduction: A. When you were a child did you dream of having super powers? 1. Maybe you watched cartoons or read comic books and dreamed of being super strong, or super fast, or being able to fly. 2. I remember experimenting as a child to see if I could move or bend objects with my mind. 3. As it ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    How Justification Works Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Nov 21, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,282 views

    This sermon looks at the definition of justification.

    Scripture Last week we resumed our study in “Romans: The Good News of God.” However, I did not finish my sermon, and so I plan to finish it today. The issue that the Apostle Paul is dealing with in his letter to the Roman Church is how God saves sinners. The most important question that anyone ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Sherm Nichols avatar

    Your Married Name Series

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
    based on 14 ratings
     | 11,517 views

    Considering the names Beulah and Hephzibah to understand what it means and how desireable it is to be in a righ relationship with God.

    Happy Watangi Day! For those of you who don’t know, that was this past week. Watangi Day is a New Zealand holiday. If you would like to learn more about it, ask the Hintens, they used to live there. I think I know why they left there now… There’s a hill in New Zealand called: ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Tom Shepard avatar

    Called To Commitment Series

    Contributed by Tom Shepard on Jan 2, 2008
    based on 50 ratings
     | 26,439 views

    This sermon calls for four areas of committment. 1. Commitment to FELLOWSHIP. (Membership) 2. Commitment to LEARNING. (Discipleship) 3. Commitment to MINISTRY. 4. Commitment to OUTREACH.

    [Note: Our church has a discipleship program known as CLASS. Christian Life And Service Seminars. This is a four step process to help Christians grow. Here are the courses: CLASS 101 - Discovering My Membership (Fellowship) CLASS 201 - Discovering Maturity (Discipleship) CLASS 301 - ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Sherm Nichols avatar

    Offerings That Cost Me Nothing – Give Sacrificially Series

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 27,118 views

    Giving sacrificially, in light of God’s grace, is a great reflection of Who God is and accomplishes more than we can realize at the time

    It’d been a hard winter in the Appalachian Mountains. Snow had piled up deeper and deeper, it turned bitter cold, rivers froze, people were suffering. The Red Cross used helicopters to fly in supplies. One crew had been working day after day--long hours. They were on their way home late in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Steve Shepherd avatar

    Gearing Down, Gearing Up

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Jan 3, 2008
    based on 164 ratings
     | 41,005 views

    From our text, let’s think about some things we can do to improve our lives and our relationship to the Lord. 1- Wake up 2- Shape up 3- Dress up

    INTRO.- ILL.- Do you remember those days when you had a manual transmission and had to downshift in order to help slow the car down? I remember back in 1968 I had purchased a new Pontiac Firebird with a 400 cubic inch engine with 330 horsepower. I drove it on the highway a lot because while I was ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Ben Peak avatar

    A Prayer Of Dependence

    Contributed by Ben Peak on Jan 3, 2008
     | 2,925 views

    I believe that this desire for independence is something that should not carry over into our spiritual lives. I think we all have experienced the failures and disappointments that come when we try to walk this way on our own. I believe that scripture t

    On July 4th of the year 1776 a group of men known as the Second Continental Congress adopted a document which declared our nations independence from Great Britain. As Americans we are rightly proud of our Declaration of Independence. We hold men, such as John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Andy Flowers avatar

    What Made The Wise Men Wise?

    Contributed by Andy Flowers on Jan 3, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,640 views

    Christmas Sermon

    Text- Matthew 2:1-12 Title- What Made The Wise Men Wise? Matthew 2:1-12 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rodney V Johnson avatar

    12 Steps To Recovery Part 1 Series

    Contributed by Rodney V Johnson on Jan 4, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 18,755 views

    This series focuses on the 12-step program for recovery as adapted from the Alcoholics Anonymous program. This sermons gives an overview and discusses the first step.

    Twelve Steps To Recovery Part 1 Scripture: Romans 7:14-25; James 1:23-24; 2 Kings 5:1-15 Introduction As we begin a new year, I am led to do this series on the “Twelve Steps to Recovery” based on the twelve step program of Alcoholics Anonymous. I will not present the entire series over ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Steve Greene avatar

    Holiness: A Culture Or A Lifestyle?

    Contributed by Steve Greene on Jan 14, 2008
    based on 26 ratings
     | 12,722 views

    This message looks at eight characteristics we often find in holiness culture and then contrasts them with the characteristics of an authentic holy life.

    Holiness: A Culture or a Lifestyle? Christianity has an image problem in America today. Many, who are outside the church, are convinced that lifestyle does not line up with beliefs for the average churchgoer. As a result, Christians have acquired a hypocritical image. The perception of those ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Peter Loughman avatar

    Effective Prayer - Don't Give Up Series

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 15, 2008
    based on 18 ratings
     | 9,867 views

    We don’t bring an issue before Jesus once, and that is the end of it, there is a purpose to our repeatedly bringing up an issue before God, and that purpose is the building of our faith. This is what Jesus does with Bart.

    Bartimaeus. Physically blind, financially strapped. Stuck in a job that is going nowhere. He is a nuisance. He is in the way. He is a passing thought. He is in fact, a painful reminder to everyone walking by, that disaster is very possible in their own lives. This man is nothing….and yet, and yet, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • DJ Castilleja avatar

    Available To Serve - Must Be Present To Win

    Contributed by Dj Castilleja on Jan 21, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,310 views

    We learn through the experience of Moses that availability is sometimes more useful than ability. God choses to use us in his plan for meeting the needs of a hurting world.

    Available – “Must Be Present To Win” By D.J. Castilleja The last few weeks we have been talking about the Church Family. It is our hopes that you will really grasp and take hold of this concept of church being more than a building, more than a place to go on a Sunday morning, but a loving, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Denn Guptill avatar

    Marriage, What It Is And What It Ain't Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Jan 21, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,441 views

    A look at what defines what marriage is

    Last week we began our Growing Great Families with the message “Sex, God’s Wedding gift” and I talked about how in God’s perfect plan sex was reserved for within marriage. Now most people know what sex is, perhaps with the exception of Bill Clinton. With that in mind it would only be fair to ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan