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  • Charles Wallis avatar

    Get Up! Series

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Nov 17, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 23,570 views

    Saul was knocked down by the power of God. Sometimes we need a spiritual knockout, but we also need to get up.

    Get Up! A Spiritual Knockout: How getting knocked down can change your whole life. Nov. 16, 2008 Review: Acts 1-8 The Church is in a great transition: from inward (Jews) to outward (Gentiles) C. S. Lewis said “God whispers to us in our pleasures; speaks in our consciences; but shouts in our ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    The Stretcher Principle Series

    Contributed by Matthew Botha on Mar 31, 2016
     | 5,540 views

    God carries us and the prayers of other believers also carry us when we cannot or are too weak to carry ourselves

    6 April 2016 THREE STRANDS (PART 2) Key Scripture for series: Ecc 4:12 (NLT) A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back to back and conquer. Three are even better for a triple braided cord is not easily broken. There will be and probably have been seasons in your ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Don't Hang Up Your Harp

    Contributed by Maurice Mccarthy on Oct 19, 2022
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     | 6,349 views

    3 Keys to not hanging up your harp: 1.By not letting circumstances circumvent your praise. 2. Don’t let the fact that you are in foreign land cause praise to become foreign to you. 3. By Not Letting the fact you are a captive, hold your praise captive.

    Don’t Hang Up Your Harp PPT 1 Series title PPT 2 Message Title PPT 3 Text Psalms 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion. Psalms 137:2 Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps. Psalms 137:3 For there our captors demanded of us songs, And our ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Jesus' Most Difficult Words Series

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Feb 21, 2018
     | 10,393 views

    Let’s look at Mark 8:27-38 and our call to a selfless life.

    Prelude The most difficult words Jesus ever spoke are NOT the ones that are hard to understand, but the ones that are easy to understand and hard to obey. Because being a true follower of Jesus is so difficult, early Christians took time before the most important season of the Christian year to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Reuben Bredenhof avatar

    Break Up The Fallow Ground!

    Contributed by Reuben Bredenhof on Mar 16, 2021
     | 6,862 views

    Getting baptized on your head must have an impact on your heart. If you’ve been baptized, God calls you to put off the old nature and its sinfulness, and to put on the new. There’s no salvation without a change of life, no redemption without repentance.

    There once was a book-burning in the palace of Judah’s king. A scroll-burning actually, but the idea is the same. For the LORD told Jeremiah to take a scroll, write on it everything He’d said—and then to have that scroll read before the king. So that’s what Jeremiah did. He wrote down God’s words, ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Growing Up When You're Torn Down Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Sep 29, 2014
     | 12,928 views

    Trials are meant to fortify our faith.

    Growing Up When You’re Torn Down 1 Peter 1:6-9 Rev. Brian Bill September 27-28, 2014 Offertory: “He’s Been Faithful” On Monday of this week, the pastoral staff and spouses went bowling. It was meant to be a great bonding time and we purposely wanted to keep it light. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Tim Diack avatar

    Reined In And Ramped Up Series

    Contributed by Tim Diack on Sep 7, 2011
     | 3,527 views

    Who are the meek? What is meekness all about? Why is it the meek that inherit the earth? Meekness cries out "Not my will but yours be done!" It bows the knee to God and doesn't look back. The meek do not ask, "How can I be served?" but rather, "How c

    Reined In and Ramped Up - Matthew 5:5 - August 7, 2011 Series: Kingdom Life – A World Turned Upside Down #3 Over the last several weeks that we have been together we’ve been looking at the Sermon on the Mount; specifically, at the Beatitudes as found in Matthew chapter 5. I will ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    He Got Up

    Contributed by Eric Shrewsberry on Apr 8, 2001
    based on 189 ratings
     | 11,958 views

    We seem to keep Jesus crucified and dead and buried except for two days of the year, on Christmas, when he’s born, and on Easter, when he raises from the dead. If that’s what you think, I would like to change your mind about that.

    He Got Up Introduction: We seem to keep Jesus crucified and dead and buried except for two days of the year, on Christmas, when he’s born, and on Easter, when he raises from the dead. If that’s what you think, I would like to change your mind about that. I. I Corinthians 15:1-8, 13-22. A. In ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Choices That Build Or Break A Legacy Series

    Contributed by Rev. Samuel Arimoro on Jul 15, 2025
     | 119 views

    1 Kings 15 challenges us with a powerful truth: it is not where you come from, but what you choose that determines your destiny.

    CHOICES THAT BUILD OR BREAK A LEGACY By Rev. Samuel Arimoro Main Text: 1 Kings 15:1-34 Supporting Texts: 2 Chronicles 14:1-7; Psalm 1:6; Proverbs 10:7; 2 Chronicles 16:7-9; 1 Samuel 2:30 INTRODUCTION: 1 Kings 15 presents a striking contrast between two kings of Judah—Abijam and Asa. While both ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus!

    Contributed by Tex Cox on Jan 30, 2005
    based on 17 ratings
     | 10,478 views

    This morning, as we continue into our New Year, I’d like to take a look at a verse that I think we ought to read every day of the year. As a reminder of just WHO our God is:

    I found an old file entitled: “Kids on Love & Marriage” Concerning the Proper Age to Get Married "Once I’m done with kindergarten, I’m going to find me a wife." -Bert, Age 5 "Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then." -Camille, age 10 "No age is good to get ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • JOEL SANTOS avatar

    The Tasks Of A Missionary

    Contributed by Joel Santos on Oct 28, 2004
    based on 39 ratings
     | 5,410 views

    Paul’s goal in visiting various churches: To encourage and strengthen the saints so that they may stay true to the Lord and be effective witness. And to finish taking up the collections for the needy believers in Jerusalem.

    Introduction Illustration: A Missionary in Africa was once asked if he really liked what he was doing. His response was shocking. "Do I like this work?" he said. "No, my wife and I do not like dirt. We have reasonably refined sensibilities. We do not like crawling into vile huts through goat ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Give It Up

    Contributed by Rick Boyne on Jun 25, 2012
     | 3,501 views

    Give up the things that keep you from following God.

    Give It Up May 18, 2008 Evening Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: Give up the things that keep you from following God. Focus Passage: Luke 9:22-27 Introduction: Jim Elliott, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dan Cormie avatar

    Moving On Up

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Mar 1, 2005
    based on 24 ratings
     | 9,678 views

    Like the Jefferson’s of the 70”s sitcom fame it is time for some of us to move on up in the Kingdom of God.

    February 2005 Dakota Community Church Moving On Up! Introduction: Like the Jefferson’s of the 70”s sitcom fame it is time for some of us, especially some of the youth to move on up in the Kingdom of God. At some point in time each of us must make the decision to stop coming to church to be fed ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite

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    Graduations: Moving Up!

    Contributed by Kelly Durant on May 27, 2015
     | 13,024 views

    Life is full of stages. Time, outside forces, our own maturing nature forces us to move on.Young people, the first thing you need to get right in life starting independence, your priority, is to learn to seek God, fear God, and live only by His standards.

    Graduations: Moving Up! Kelly Durant 5-31-15 Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. 2. How many of you have seen a toddler scream when the parents are trying to put it into the stroller? Once a ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Up To Jerusalem

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Mar 14, 2009
     | 2,449 views

    Why was Jesus so angry in the Temple? Is that anger valid in our situations?

    John 2: 13 – 22 / Up To Jerusalem Intro: Young man sat in church – lit up cigarette and smoked it – lady - “HOW DARE YOU! WE JUST DON’T DO THAT HERE! I. It does seem out of place to smoke a cigarette in church. What else might seem “out of place” in worship? A. Don’t sit in MY pew! ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed