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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
     | 6,705 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
     | 10,103 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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    Keeping The Faith When Times Are Tough Series

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Sep 16, 2012
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    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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    Faith To Face Family Series

    Contributed by Mark Tonkery on Feb 3, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,431 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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    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

  • Dr. Jerry N. Watts avatar

    Who Is Able To Stand? Series

    Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Apr 27, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,835 views

    In the final day - 'who is able to stand before the Lord?' This is the question asked after the 6th seal at the end of Revelation 6.

    “Who Is Able To Stand?” The Unveiling - #21 of Jerry Watts Revelation 6:9-17 * The last question in verse 17 is our first challenge of today. “Who is able to stand before the Lamb and the One on the throne in their day of wrath?” Just as surely as God sent the flood waters ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Predictably Unpredictable

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Dec 16, 2011
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    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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    But If Not

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Apr 11, 2014
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     | 18,373 views

    Making a commitment to serve the Lord no matter what.

    Daniel 3:16-19 KJV Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. [17] If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    They Laid Hands On Them

    Contributed by Charles R. Peck on Dec 9, 2013
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    The early church in conflict with the elders of the city.

    And They Laid Hands on Them Acts 4:4 It was just a short time after the church was birthed that the apostles began to understand what Jesus had said concerning the Kingdom of Heaven. He had told His disciples, “If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” In ...read more

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    How To Do Right When You’ve Been Done Wrong Series

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 13, 2013
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    How to do right when you’ve been done wrong (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request – email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

    SERMON OUTLINE: (1). Be open before the Lord (vs 1-2) (2). Remember God’s Loving Faithfulness (vs 3) (3). Refuse to Listen to Ungodly Advice (vs 4-5) (4). Keep Your Hands Clean and Your Heart Thankful (vs 6-7) (5). Be faithful in Public worship (vs 8) (6). Patiently stand and wait for relief ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren

  • Jerry Cosper avatar

    Preaching To A Heathen And Superstitious People

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Jan 8, 2014
     | 5,176 views

    If you live for Christ, opposition will come.

    JUN 2 2013PM Preaching to a Heathen and Superstitious People Acts 14:8-20 There was a preacher who was an avid golfer. Every chance he got, he could be found on the golf course. It was his obsession. One Sunday was a picture-perfect day for golf. The sun was out, no clouds in the sky, and the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    2013 - Stay The Course

    Contributed by Jimmy Dillon on May 17, 2013
    based on 10 ratings
     | 6,841 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
     | 8,725 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

  • David Taylor avatar

    Paul’s Perspective On Adversity Series

    Contributed by David Taylor on Mar 6, 2014
     | 4,561 views

    Philippians - Manual of Joy Paul’s Perspective on Adversity

    Philippians - Manual of Joy Paul’s Perspective on Adversity 1:12-18a David Taylor We are working our way through the letter to the church at Philippi. One of the main themes is that joy is central to our lives when Christ is central in our lives. Joy is not a choice, not an attitude but is ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Faith In Jesus Series

    Contributed by E. True Neilson on Dec 16, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,563 views

    The book of Hebrews is all about Jesus!

    SIMPLY JESUS FAITH IN JESUS HEBREWS 11:1-40 WHAT IS FAITH? -The whole book of Hebrews has been building a case that we can be confident in the faith we’ve put in Jesus. -Our author has gone to great lengths to show that Jesus offers us a better covenant. -That Jesus is the better priest for ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ