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  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How To Reconfigure Our Irrational Assumptions With Scriptural Thinking

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 14, 2002
    based on 120 ratings
     | 5,295 views

    How to Reconfigure Our Irrational Assumptions With Scriptural Thinking - (Rom. 12:1,2) Do not be guilty of irrational exuberance or discouragement.

    How to Reconfigure Our Irrational Assumptions With Scriptural Thinking - Rom. 12:1,2 Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the USA’s Federal Reserve Bank said of Americans in 1997, "I am afraid that too many have given in to the thinking of irrational exuberance." Quote:Let the mind of the Master be the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Simon Rundell avatar

    How Foolish Of Me To Think That God Was Beneath Me...

    Contributed by Simon Rundell on Dec 20, 2000
    based on 54 ratings
     | 3,287 views

    Contrasts the notion of Christ as foundation with Christ as Capstone, leading us up towards God.

    Sermon: 28th March 1999 (My very first sermon before beginning at Theological College) "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes"? Ladies and Gentlemen, When a Parish sends one of its congregation for training ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

  • Bo Dunford avatar

    I Think I'll Just Praise The Lord

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Jan 5, 2001
    based on 259 ratings
     | 28,262 views

    We are created for God’s glory and we are to offer Him praise continually

    PS.145:21; 146:1-2; 147:1; 148:1-5; 149:1; 150:1-6 "I THINK I’LL JUST PRAISE THE LORD" A) I believe according to the Bible, man was created to praise and glorify the Lord! * Isa.43:7 God says, "For I have created him for my glory." * 1 Cor.10:31 "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Troy Borst avatar

    What Should We Think About Capital Punishment? Series

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 5, 2001
    based on 104 ratings
     | 5,826 views

    Takes a look at the death penalty from a Biblical perspective to aid Christians in their thought process

    WHAT SHOULD WE THINK ABOUT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT? OPENING ILLUSTRATION… Texas Executes Rapist-Killer; Third of the Year HUNTSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - Texas carried out its third execution of the year on Monday, putting to death a delivery truck driver who raped and killed a 19-year-old waitress ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Keith Linkous avatar

    When You Think You're Going Under

    Contributed by Keith Linkous on Jun 22, 2002
    based on 416 ratings
     | 39,545 views

    Don’t despair, Christ is there. And He desires to lift you up when you think you’re going under.

    We have all had that “sinking feeling,” haven’t we? We’ve all had our share of storms. There are various types of storms in life. 1. Situational storms. This is when circumstances seem to plot against you and everything seems to go wrong. Murphy’s law is in full force. Everything seems to go ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Rick Gillespie- Mobley avatar

    Thinking Clearly About Our African Spritual Heritage

    Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Mar 4, 2005
    based on 34 ratings
     | 25,843 views

    This sermon was preached on Black History Sunday and it highlights people of color in the bible and challenges the stereotypes we have of Africans as people and of African history.

    Thinking Clearly About Our African Spiritual Heritage 2/27/2005 As we go through our sermon series on thinking clearly, one of the ones that got left out was thinking clearly about our African Spiritual Heritage. We’ve decided to put this one in. Why do we need to think clearly here. ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    We're More Stubborn Than We Think Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Jun 10, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 9,679 views

    If God’s kindness doesn’t lead you to repentance, perhaps God’s condemnation will.

    We’re More Stubborn Than We Think Romans 2:5-11 Rev. Brian Bill 6/11/06 This story could only come out of Michigan…perhaps you saw it in the Pantagraph. In celebration of the date 6-6-06, this past Tuesday, a town called Hell, Michigan put on a party and invited the whole country to come. Radio ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Building Dynamic Faith: Lesson 4: Thinking The Unthinkable

    Contributed by Elmer Towns on Jun 23, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,382 views

    God has promised to do the impossible in response to prayer. Let us recognize that throughout life, God has already done the humanly impossible. Realize God wants to do exceeding and abundantly beyond all that we ask or think.

    A. STATEMENTS ON PRAYER BY JERRY FALWELL (as taught by Jonathan Falwell). 1. Prayer can do anything God can do . . . and since God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent. 2. “Nothing of eternal significance ever happens apart from prayer.” 3. “Faith begins where man’s power ends.” 4. There are ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Clint Shrum avatar

    We Have More Power Than We Think

    Contributed by Clint Shrum on Jan 9, 2007
    based on 38 ratings
     | 9,792 views

    Children of God often sell themselves short on the power of God.

    WE HAVE MORE POWER THAN WE THINK Luke 10:19-20 Intro: In verse 1 of this chapter we find Jesus has appointed 70 followers to go out into the harvest. He has given them orders to carry neither a purse nor scrip nor shoes and he has told them to salute no man by the way. In other words Jesus was ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How To Reconfigure Our Irrational Assumptions With Scriptural Thinking

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Sep 17, 2006
     | 2,136 views

    Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the USA’s Federal Reserve Bank said of Americans in 1997, "I am afraid that too many have given in to the thinking of irrational exuberance."

    How to Reconfigure Our Irrational Assumptions With Scriptural Thinking Romans 12:1-12:2 (NIV, NIRV, TNIV, KJV) How to Reconfigure Our Irrational Assumptions With Scriptural Thinking - Rom. 12:1,2 Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the USA’s Federal Reserve Bank said of Americans in 1997, "I ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Warner Pidgeon avatar

    Do We Think Jesus Is Coming Back Or Not?

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Nov 22, 2006
    based on 16 ratings
     | 6,406 views

    This sermon encourages us to watch, to wait, to be alert, to be on our guard, and not to worry. This is an encouragement to remember and believe that Jesus will indeed return with great power and glory, and to remember it whatever our current circumstance

    If I were to hand out confidential voting papers on which you can vote either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, I wonder what the results would be …(long pause). You want to know what the question is, don’t you! It’s this: Will Jesus return? Is He coming back? Yes or no. Mark chapter 13 is not easy to understand, ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Cleavon Matthews Sr. avatar

    Lord, I Think I've Had Enough

    Contributed by Cleavon Matthews Sr. on May 11, 2008
    based on 89 ratings
     | 42,050 views

    Sometimes we want to give up because we feel alone and abandoned.

    LORD I THINK I’VE HAD ENOUGH! 1 Kings 19:1-18 By Cleavon Matthews December 29, 2003 INTRODUCTION In this solemn Scripture our attention is seized by the shattered state of God’s messenger. This valiant and venturous prophet has been victimized by fear. At this point he is but a shadow of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Steve Shepherd avatar

    The Great Quake And Tsunami - What To Think - What To Do

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Mar 17, 2011
    based on 75 ratings
     | 5,697 views

    We should think something and do something about the terrible devastation in Japan and for the people.

    INTRO. - The whole world shook and not just Japan, this past week, actually on Friday, March 11th, and that certainly wasn’t the end. The end may never come for those who live in Japan and the surrounding areas. I might tell a joke about earthquakes but it wouldn’t be funny. One nationally known ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Davon Huss avatar

    Things Might No Work Out The Way You Think They Will

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 23, 2004
    based on 29 ratings
     | 2,746 views

    A sermon on boldness (thanks to various SermonCentral contributors for many of the illustrations)

    Sermon for 8/22/2004 Boldness Introduction: A. The Six Shooter was a popular western, broadcast on NBC radio from 1953-54. Jimmy Stewart starred as Britt Ponsett, a Texas plainsman. On one broadcast, Britt called a bully’s bluff even though his gun was several feet away on a dresser. In ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • KL BURRUS avatar

    Lord I Think I've Had Enough

    Contributed by Kl Burrus on Sep 20, 2008
    based on 44 ratings
     | 27,163 views

    Elijah’s experience tells us that no matter how saved you are you’re going to have some bad days. Your faith will be tried, there are seasons in your life when you will question what you believe, when you will doubt your faith.

    1st Kings 19:4 – LORD I THINK I’VE HAD ENOUGH It is enough; now, 0 LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. Life is composed of experiences and encounters that provide challenge to one’s character and testing to one’s spirit. Life’s greatest wars are never fought on a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist