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  • Steve Shepherd avatar

    Remembering People (Memorial Day)

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 307 ratings
     | 37,099 views

    Memorial Day is about remembering people.

    INTRO.- ILL.- A group of friends went deer hunting and paired off in twos for the day. That night one of the hunters returned alone, staggering under the load of an 8-point buck which he was carrying. "Where’s Harry?" He was asked. "Harry had a stroke of some kind. He’s a couple of miles back up ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    A Tragic Beginning, A Tragic End

    Contributed by Bob Briggs on Dec 15, 2000
    based on 41 ratings
     | 4,919 views

    Some stories start out good in life and get better, some start out bad and get worse.

    Tonight I want to share an unusual message with you, a message that is pointed out of Matthew Chapter 27. Lets read from verse 3-5 (READ). The message is titled, a tragic beginning, and a tragic ending. Some stories start out bad and end good, some start out good and end good, and some start out ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    The Lord Is My Shepherd

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Dec 20, 2000
    based on 1,197 ratings
     | 156,178 views

    Obviously, God wants us to be a happy, satisfied people. We shouldn’t be restless & jealous, always chafing about what we don’t have. There should be a spirit of thankfulness in us that brands us as belonging to Him.

    MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (Revised: 2011) Turn with me this morning to the 23rd Psalm, perhaps one of the best loved passages in the Bible. We often read it in times of stress or sorrow. But I would like you to see it in a slightly different way this morning. Now ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Praying With Joy! Series

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Dec 20, 2000
    based on 214 ratings
     | 37,033 views

    Is prayer a first response to you? Or is it a last resort? Do you pray in an attitude of gratitude? Or are you always grumbling? When you pray, do you make sure that God receives the glory, & not you?

    MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK This morning I would like for us to go back nearly 2,000 years to the city of Rome. It is an exciting time to be in Rome, a metropolis of gladiators, chariots, & palaces. But we’re not going to stop at the coliseum or ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    An Attitude Of Gratitude

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 27, 2000
    based on 521 ratings
     | 69,837 views

    Learning to be grateful and letting create joy, contentment and the desire to share.

    There was an article in the local paper where I used to live about a couple who had been living on welfare and food stamps from 1983 to 1991. They had drawn a great deal of money from the welfare system, before it was discovered through a welfare fraud investigator, that the couple had stocks, ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    The Faces Of Deception (The Ninth Commandment) Series

    Contributed by Timothy Peck on Jan 4, 2001
    based on 100 ratings
     | 9,621 views

    Since truth exists we ought to seek the truth, tell the truth, live the truth, and share the truth with others.

    "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." That’s what Sir Walter Scott said almost 200 years ago, and it’s just as true today as it was then. Yet that doesn’t stop most of us from lying, does it? The 1992 book The Day America Told the Truth found that 91% of us lie ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    God's Protection In Times Of Danger

    Contributed by Howard Harden on Jan 18, 2001
    based on 261 ratings
     | 116,851 views

    As a father would protect his children, Psalm 121 suggests three ways God protects us from danger.

    When I was a boy, my family’s home was broken into three times. Valuables were stolen, memories gone. We realized how unsafe and unprotected we truly were. After the third time, my father decided that this would never happen again. He began to turn our little house into a fortress. For ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Vision That Changed The World Series

    Contributed by John Hamby on Jan 23, 2001
    based on 250 ratings
     | 41,276 views

    How Peter’s vision changed the outreach of the church.

    A Study of the Book of Acts Sermon # 20 “A Vision that Changed the World” Acts 10:1-33 God had called the people of Israel to a special relationship with Him so that they might be His people, his witnesses, His missionaries to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Preparation For Perfection

    Contributed by Joe Bedy on Oct 9, 2001
    based on 29 ratings
     | 3,926 views

    Each person must run the race themselves, no one can carry us to the finish line.

    Preparation for Perfection" Oct. 14, 2001 1 Cor. 9:24-27 One of our Elders at the retreat shared with me what an Elder had shared with him, he said "do not give the donkey all the hay at one feeding." Being called a donkey by Stan and afterwards having spent much time analyzing what a donkey ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Vision Thing Series

    Contributed by Byron Harvey on Oct 10, 2001
    based on 39 ratings
     | 5,479 views

    This sermon was part of a series I preached on Nehemiah’s one holy passion, the glory of God.

    One Holy Passion Nehemiah 2:11-20 February 25, 2001 ¡§The Vision Thing¡¨ ¡§He was born in the summer of his twenty-seventh year, coming home to a place he¡¦d never been before.¡¨ That was how John Denver described his feeling as he saw the Rocky Mountains for the first time. Karen and I had ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    The Judgment In God's House

    Contributed by Terry Vaughan on Oct 12, 2001
    based on 80 ratings
     | 14,677 views

    God is judging us and it begins in the house of God.

    WESTSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH PASTOR: TERRY VAUGHAN SERMON TITLE: THE JUDGMENT IN GODS HOUSE “FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. FOR GOD SENT NOT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The End Does Not Justify The Means Series

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Nov 8, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
     | 11,971 views

    Jacob: Wrestling with God and Man, Pt. 2

    THE END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS (GENESIS 27:1-46) In Italy, a man went to a priest and confessed. “Forgive me, Father,” he said, sobbing. “During World War II, I hid a refugee in my attic.” “Well,” the priest replied, “That’s not a sin.” “But,” the man admitted, “I made him pay rent.” “That ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Eating And Digesting Series

    Contributed by Kent Lenard on Nov 9, 2003
    based on 28 ratings
     | 8,926 views

    This sermon deals with the importance of reading and studying God’s word.

    Eating and Digesting Rev 1:3, Deu 17:18-19, Acts 17:11, 2 Tim 2:15, Heb 5:12-14 November 3, 2003 I. Last week I talked about the importance of developing the habit of spending time with God’s Word. And, we talked about ways to improve our hearing. A. And, it is vital to our Spiritual ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Denn Guptill avatar

    Why Ten?

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Mar 31, 2003
    based on 79 ratings
     | 11,066 views

    A look a the concept of tithing from Melchizedek on.

    We don’t know a whole lot about him, and what we do know is buried in mystery. We know that he was the King of Salem, we know that he was a priest of the Most High God, we know that he had a funny name and we know that Abraham thought enough of him that he made an offering of ten percent of ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    "The Good Samaritan"

    Contributed by Ray Scott on Mar 11, 2004
    based on 224 ratings
     | 46,608 views

    Jesus answers the question: "Who is my neighbor?" for the lawyer who wanted to know who he HAD to love, and who he DIDN’T HAVE to love.

    “The Good Samaritan” Luke 10:25-37 INTRODUCTION: Can you name some FAMOUS NEIGHBORS? o Mr. Rogers Neighborhood … sweater, sneakers … “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood … won’t you be my neighbor?” o Dennis the Menace … “Helloooo Mr. Wilson!” o Ricky & Lucy Ricardo … Fred & Ethel ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist