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  • Kevin Ruffcorn avatar

    Jesus Heals The Inner Person

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Apr 11, 2005
    based on 11 ratings
     | 5,456 views

    People often focus on physical healing. There are more areas that need healing than merely our bodies. We need spiritual and emotional healing also. Jesus touches our lives and heals us in whatever we need to be healed.

    Mark 5:1-13 “Jesus Heals the Inner Person” INTRODUCTION There are many memorable people in the Bible. There is Moses, Ruth, David, Peter, Mary and Martha. The man in our story this evening is one of the most memorable people in the Bible, for me, because of his total misery and ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Fred Sigle avatar

    Personal Responsibility: The Power Of One Series

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Oct 9, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,688 views

    Based on The DNA of Relationships by Dr. Gary Smalley. Are there some people you would like to change? Who wouldn’t! The problem is, we cannot change anyone but ourselves through the power of the Holy Spirit.

    PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY: THE POWER OF ONE The DNA of Relationships (part 2) A. We are continuing our series on The DNA of RELATIONSHIPS based on the book by Dr. Gary Smalley. ILLUSTRATION: There was young rookie preacher asked to officiate a WEDDING for the first time. He was rather NERVOUS ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Kind Of Person God Uses Series

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Oct 19, 2006
    based on 11 ratings
     | 15,201 views

    Sermon #1 in a series on the life of Elisha. This sermon challenges us to be the men and women God wants us to be.

    Introduction: 1. A wealthy man went on a safari to Africa and took his faithful dog along for company. One day the dog starts chasing butterflies and soon discovers that he’s lost. Before long he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having him for lunch. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Becoming A More Spiritual Person

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Oct 23, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,142 views

    Training in godilness is a effective way to deal with false teaching

    Becoming a more spiritual person for many of us means nothing mroe than being more tolerant of others. Of letting others be who they are and we will be who we are. Pluralism is the new spirituality. Pluralists contend that no one religion can know the fullness of spiritual truth, and therefore ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Tim Patrick avatar

    The Person Who Walks With God

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Aug 1, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,088 views

    Consider what it means to walk with God as you examine the life of Enoch.

    When I was in seminary in New Orleans an interesting story developed in the northeastern part of our country in the life of a man named Peter Jenkins. Peter was a young man who was disillusioned with people and with life and was looking for answers. He decided to go in search of answers. Peter ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    I Am A Person Of Power!

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 6, 2007
     | 5,185 views

    HOW YOU AND I CAN WORK WITH THE HELP OF GOD’S SPIRIT IN BELIEVING OURSELVES TO BE BIGGER AND BETTER THAN WE HAVE THOUGHT IN OUR PAST.

    SERMON OUTLINE AND NOTES—Pastor Don Hawks Bridgewater UMC—August 12, 2007 I AM A PERSON OF POWER! Exodus 3:1-6 ANSWERS: TO REALIZE THAT I AM A PERSON OF POWER, I NEED TO ACCEPT MY GOD-GIVEN POTENTIAL. GOD’S SPIRIT WOULD HAVE ME SAY TO MYSELF: (With the Power and help of God’s Spirit) 1-- I am ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Ed Pruitt avatar

    How To Have A Personal Revival

    Contributed by Ed Pruitt on Aug 7, 2007
    based on 126 ratings
     | 12,335 views

    This sermon is going to step on a few toes and the reason I know this is because I think it crushed a few of mine. And looking at the amount on NO’s I got from this sermon I Know that it did it’s job.

    DISCLAIMER: Since there are a large amount of sermons and topics and illustrations that are posted on Sermon Central, I feel it is necessary to place this disclaimer on all of the sermons that I submit. These sermons are original to the author and the leading of the Holy Spirit. While ideas and ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Lesson 2: The Mind Of A Person

    Contributed by Elmer Towns on Oct 1, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,868 views

    This is what you must know about the mind and its powers.

    Pastor’s Bible Class Thomas Road Baptist Church Series: What Makes You Do the Things You Do? Lesson 2: The Mind of a Person Dr. Elmer Towns September 30, 2007 A. INTRODUCTION “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 2:5). 1. What is personality? a. INTELLECT: ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    What's A Desperate Person To Do?” Series

    Contributed by Ed Taylor on Oct 13, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,516 views

    Have you ever wanted something so badly that it moved you emotionally - stirred you DESPERATELY?

    QUESTION: Have you ever been DESPERATE FOR SOMETHING? • Ever really wanted something so bad that it moved you emotionally, stirred you DESPERATELY? 1. It happens to me more times than I really want. a. I’m in a hurry. I have appointment to keep, a person to meet, a place to go. b. So I gather up ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Developing A Passion For Personal Ministry

    Contributed by Richard Laraviere on Aug 5, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,482 views

    Challenging each one to be involved in personal ministry.

    Go light your world and lose your cares The objective: To teach principles, that if applied, will free us from the prisons of despair we have created. In reaching out to others, God reaches out to us. Theme Song: Go light your world, by Kathy Troccoli A. There is a condition ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite

  • Matthew Stoll avatar

    No Person Is Beyond God's Grace Series

    Contributed by Matthew Stoll on Dec 9, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 18,446 views

    Our prejudices, our doubts, our fears prevent us from entering the lives of, sharing Christ with, and extending grace to those who are far from God.

    As we read through this familiar passage for many of us, listen or follow along in your Bibles or pew Bibles, I want you to begin thinking about this question I will ask again at the end: is there anyone you know that you have thought, ‘this person is too far gone,’ or have written them off. ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • David Welch avatar

    Anticipating Messiah - His Person Series

    Contributed by David Welch on Dec 29, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,358 views

    First in a four part Advent Series following the prophecies of Messiah’s coming to build anticipating for Christmas.

    “The PERSON of Messiah” Who Is He? INTRODUCTION Advent means arrival, start, coming, beginning, dawn. Christmas commemorates the first advent of Jesus Christ. Every Jew and many Gentiles looked forward to the coming of the Messiah promised all through the Hebrew Scriptures. God imbedded details of ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

  • Brian Atwood avatar

    Becoming A More Confident Person Series

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Dec 15, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,209 views

    Habits for becoming a more confident person.

    [Part 3 of 5 in the series, "Finding Calm in the Chaos"] We’re in our Christmas series “Finding Calm in the Chaos.” I was reading John Baker’s personal testimony the other day and he said something that caught my attention that goes right along with our series. Baker is the founder of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ray Ellis avatar

    A Time For Personal Spiritual Renewal

    Contributed by Ray Ellis on Feb 19, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,047 views

    The natural drift in our Christian life is toward spiritual dryness, apathy and indifference. When we get into a spiritual rut – a grace with the ends knocked out - we are ready for a time of renewal.

    A Time For Personal Spiritual Renewal Matthew 4:1-4 The natural drift in our Christian life is toward spiritual dryness, apathy and indifference. When we get into a spiritual rut – a grace with the ends knocked out - we are ready for a time of renewal. Out natural tendency is to drift from ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

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    Individual But The Same Person - Impossible!

    Contributed by Coz Von on Apr 22, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,448 views

    There are some who try to explain the Trinity, but they just confuse people! They say, God is Jesus and Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit is mixed in there too????

    There are some who try to explain the Trinity, but they just confuse people! They say, God is Jesus and Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit is too???? How can we better understand this mystery? Every opinion seems to be different, but every school of thought have verses to back their theories. Some ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational