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  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How Jesus' Life And Ministry Contrasted With The Pharisaical Religious Leaders

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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    Jesus’ values were based on loving the Lord with all of one’s heart, soul, strength and mind. (Luke 10:27) The Pharisees’ values were rooted in their traditions and their religious laws

    How Jesus’ Life and Ministry Contrasted With the Pharisaical Religious Leaders Illustration:The trouble oftentimes with religious people is that they try to be more spiritual than God himself. Frederick Buechner. 1. Jesus’ values were based on loving the Lord with all of one’s heart, soul, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Three Strikes Don't Always Mean Your Out

    Contributed by Joe Mack Cherry on Sep 16, 2015
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    God provides a way for us to get throughout the ballgame of life in hopeless circumstances.

    Three Strikes Don’t Always Mean You’re Out By: Joe Mack Cherry I. Introduction A. Illustration – Game 4 of the 1941 Baseball World Series 1. NY Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers a. A rivalry so fierce it continued when the Dodgers left Brooklyn and moved to LA and continues to ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Full Of Grace And Truth

    Contributed by Mary Erickson on Jan 6, 2025
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    A sermon for the second Sunday of Christmas, Year C

    January 5, 2025 Rev. Mary Erickson Hope Lutheran Church John 1:10-18 Full of Grace and Truth Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. “And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    The Dedicated Son Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 24, 2025
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,586 views

    What made Samuel such a great man for God? What made him so influential that God even saw him as equal to Moses?

    Two days after Pearl Harbor, a man named Bob Feller enlisted in the US Navy and served with distinction in the Pacific against the Japanese. But it wasn’t in the navy that Bob Feller became famous. Bob attained fame as a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, and for 18 seasons he struck out some of ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    A Baseball Parable

    Contributed by Sam Martin on Aug 15, 2002
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    Jesus often spoke in parables. He used common experiences such as fishing and farming in His parables to teach a valuable lesson. Baseball is a very common activity in our culture, so I would like to use it to illustrate the Christian life.

    Text: Mark 4:33-34 Introduction: Jesus often spoke in parables. He used common experiences such as fishing and farming in His parables to teach a valuable lesson. Baseball is a very common activity in our culture, so I would like to use it to illustrate the Christian life. I. First Base - ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Individual Worship Series

    Contributed by Jeffery Richards on Sep 7, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 8,356 views

    This is the second in a series on the topic of Worship. This focuses on the need for individual worship on a daily basis.

    INDIVIDUAL WORSHIP ROMANS 12:1-2 Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the First Cause, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Body Of Christ Series

    Contributed by Mitchell Skelton on Jan 13, 2004
    based on 51 ratings
     | 6,855 views

    The church is much like a ball team. In order to achieve victory, all the players must be practiced and ready come game time. In 1 Corinthians, Paul describes the church as the body of Christ. To be victorious we all must play our part. To be victorio

    1 Corinthians 12:12-31 INTRODUCTION One beautiful, sunny afternoon two baseball teams met to play a game. Although it was expected to be a good game, one team was assured of victory. The teams dressed in their respective uniforms, the White Sox in white and the Black Sox in black. Game time ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Richard Reid avatar

    Going The Distance

    Contributed by Richard Reid on Dec 12, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,139 views

    The secrets of Abraham.

    Going the Distance Genesis 12: 1-4 10/9/04 0n three different occasions and at three different times God called Abraham. 1. From his hometown in Ur - Gen 11:31 - Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot the son of Haran and his daughter in-law Sarah, his son’s wife, and they went out ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Facing The Giants

    Contributed by John Putty on Apr 16, 2011
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     | 3,515 views

    Dealing with obstacles to church growth spiritual and practical

    Facing the Giants 1 Sam 17:1-11(KJV) 1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Byron Sherman avatar

    God’s Removal Strategy-3(2017) Series

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on Aug 2, 2017
     | 3,263 views

    3 of ? Genesis records God’s strategy for Removing the Legacy of Wickedness. But what does His strategy address? God’s strategy for removal(the legacy of wickedness) addresses/engages...

    Series: SUPPLANTING The LEGACY Of WICKEDNESS—Genesis 6:9—10:32 A—GOD’s REMOVAL STRATEGY-III—Genesis 6:9-22 Toward Removing the Legacy of Wickedness B—REMOVAL—Genesis 7:1-24 C—SALVATION—Genesis 8:1-19 D—RESPONSE—Genesis 8:20-22 E—POTENTIAL For RESTORATION—Genesis 9:1-19 F—SAME Ol’ SAME Ol’—Genesis ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Wesley Bishop avatar

    Atm

    Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Mar 14, 2004
    based on 46 ratings
     | 9,123 views

    This is about the Anointing, Trials and Ministry of Jesus.

    Turn with me to Mark 1. Read Mark 1:9-15. There are three things we see in this passage. There is anointing, trial and ministry. Anointing Jesus had to be anointed by the Holy Spirit before he could start his earthly ministry. For the first thirty years of his life, he was a carpenter in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • William D. Brown avatar

    Types Of Jesus Christ In The O.t.

    Contributed by William D. Brown on Jan 9, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,206 views

    let me say that there are various people, & sacrificial offerings as well as such things as, Manna, & The Temple, & Foundation stones and cornerstones, and also Jacob’s ladder, as well as many other things that are typical and pictures of the Lord Jesus.

    John 5:39-- TYPES OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE O.T. 1-10-09 Today I want to talk just for a little while on some of the many {types} of Jesus Christ that we see in the O.T. First of all let me say that there are various people, & sacrificial offerings as well as such things as, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • David Asch avatar

    Escaping The Trap Series

    Contributed by David Asch on Feb 16, 2005
    based on 34 ratings
     | 11,217 views

    How do we escape the traps of life, religion, etc? How do we get out, how do we keep out? In this message we discover the keys as we see some religious leaders try to trap Jesus.

    ESCAPING THE TRAP Mark 12:13-27 INTRO: Pitch the hamster – feeling trapped. A hum-drum existence, punctuated by brief moments of excitement. Eat the food. Run on the wheel. Over and over again. Not able to be all a hamster could be. You could tell it was getting to her – more urgent climbing and ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    5 Steps To The Savior

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 17, 2012
     | 3,760 views

    A sermon on John 1:14-18 (Outline taken from John Piper at: http://www.sermoncentral.com/outsideurl.asp?outsideurl=http://www.soundofgrace.com/piper89/12-24-89.htm)

    HoHum: Jeffie was in his playpen and he was crying. Tears were rolling down his little cheeks, his face was red as it could be. He was crying, and he looked pitiful in his little baseball T-shirt and diaper. Then Jeffie’s Grandpa entered the room; Jeffie’s little face lit up when he ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    "Darkness And Light"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Jan 3, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,437 views

    A sermon for Epiphany Sunday.

    "Darkness and Light" Matthew 2:1-12 When you live in the city it can be easy to forget what it's like to get away from streetlights, big buildings, bright restaurant signs, car headlights, and all the rest. I was out in the country a year or so ago, and we were getting ready to have a bon ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist