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  • Quint Pitts avatar

    He's Still Got The Whole World In His Hands--Part2

    Contributed by Quint Pitts on Mar 29, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,108 views

    This is a sermon in response to the anxiety and panic revolving around the economic crisis of 2009

    HE’S STILL GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS—PART 2 Top Ten Oddest Country Songs 10. How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away 9. If the Phone Doesn’t Ring, You’ll Know It’s Me 8. When You Leave Walk Out Backwards, So I’ll Think You’re Coming In 7. If I’d Shot You When I Wanted I’d Be Out By ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Understanding God's Calling

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Dec 7, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,520 views

    Discover what it means to follow God’s will.

    I want to begin by sharing three stories that have similar endings. The first story involves Chuck Colson. Chuck Colson was sent to prison for his part in Watergate during the Nixon administration. After Chuck Colson was released from prison he felt lead to start a prison ministry. As he explained ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Daniel's Resolution To Purity Series

    Contributed by Rule Digal on Jan 13, 2006
    based on 44 ratings
     | 10,074 views

    While it is true that God fulfills his purpose despite and through our failures, we are not excused from being responsible and accountable with our actions and decisions.

    Theme: Daniel’s Resolution to Purity Text: Daniel 1:8-21 Intro. a. Last message: God is sovereign. Everything is under the control of His mighty hand. Nothing will ever take place outside His plans. Events are always in line to God’s purpose. They always fulfill His best intentions for ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Stop Pretending

    Contributed by David Azbell on Sep 2, 2004
    based on 30 ratings
     | 9,307 views

    Are we to sit and eat with sinners? Are we to seek the lost?

    Matthew 9:9-13 9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. 10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Something Better Than Perfume

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 24, 2004
    based on 53 ratings
     | 5,604 views

    One’s name or reputation is a precious possession It needs to be guarded and cherished. This sermon calls upon the follower of Christ to do just that.

    Something Better Than Perfume III John 1:4-12 Have you ever heard of the expression, “Your name will be mud?” Do you know where it originated? Samuel Alexander Mudd was the doctor who set John Wilkes Booth’s leg after Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theater in 1865. Mudd claimed ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Forgiving Our Family

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Jan 28, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,901 views

    Why is it that the hardest people to forgive are often those we love the most???

    Forgiving Our Family Matt. 18:23-35 Today I want to address the first of the Giant issues in the family... Forgiveness. It seems ironic, crazy even, that we would ha ve to talk about forgiving our wife, our husband, or kids, our parents, our siblings. These are the people we love! You would ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    What Is The Opposite Of A Christian People Series

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Jan 29, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,556 views

    What flight simulators and Chipee the Parakeet have to teach us about Gaudate Sunday.

    What would you say was the opposite of a Christian people? would it be an atheist people? a pagan people? Perhaps even a hypocritical people? an unforgiving people? what would be your answer? When the novelist George Bernanos was asked this question “what is the opposite of a Christian ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    Work Of The Holy Spirit - Overcoming Series

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Aug 7, 2016
     | 5,192 views

    Helping us understand what the work of the Holy Spirit is.

    Title: The Overcomer Theme: To show that the work of the Holy Spirit is to bring conviction: of sin, of righteousness and of judgement. Text: John 16:7 - 11 Joh 16:7-11 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    The Shipwrecked Life

    Contributed by C Jordan on Jun 14, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 13,139 views

    What do you hang onto when the storms of life rage, you’ve lost all control, and all hope is lost? The strong anchor of God’s presence, God’s promises, and God’s power.

    THE SHIPWRECKED LIFE OPENING: Share mine and my wife's trip to Focus on the Family’s Kerith Retreat Centre last week. INTRO TO ACTS: Acts is the story of the first 33 years of the church of Jesus Christ. • KEY VERSE: “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you ...read more

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    Grace To Face The Past Series

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Apr 22, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,488 views

    God gives the grace to face the issues and problems of the past

    We all have regrets, according to Dr. Richard Kinnier of Arizona State Univ. The most common regret was not being a better student, not studying more. Other common regrets include not being more assertive, not having more self-discipline, not taking more risks, not spending quality time with ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    The Most Beautiful Word Series

    Contributed by Jim Kilson on May 20, 2014
     | 8,271 views

    Part 1 of 8 in a series covering "words" in the Bible that are all too often overlooked, marginalized, or ignored.

    INTRODUCTION: We live and breathe words; words can light fires in the minds of men, words can wring tears from the hardest hearts, words can provoke us to action, and paralyze us with fear… they provide a voice to our deepest feelings. There is an almost unquantifiable power in words, they ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Doubting The Doubts!!!

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Feb 24, 2012
     | 10,581 views

    To learn to go to God in the event of getting doubts...

    Doubting the doubts! “When you ‘taste’ doubt, you taste chaos but when you ‘taste’ faith, you taste cosmos” is a juicy one-liner which adorns sermons revolving around faith, preached with much gusto by a many a preacher, the world over. Nothing wrong ...read more

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    Above My Companions

    Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Oct 31, 2013
     | 4,387 views

    To show that we and CHRIST are one.

    I. EXORDIUM: Are you like CHRIST in everything? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show that we and CHRIST are one. 1 Corinthians 6:17 (The Message) 6:17 Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Thanks-Giving

    Contributed by Samuel Fulkerson on Dec 3, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,227 views

    Everyone has something to be thankful for and as Christians we should be Thanks-Givers!

    Quotes: "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest." ~ William Blake "We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility." ~C. S. Lewis "Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    God Meant It For Good!

    Contributed by T.j. Conwell on May 6, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 9,476 views

    Examining Joseph’s life and how he gave us an example to forgive, see God’s hand in a situation, and move forward!

    God meant it for good! Genesis 50:17-21 (This sermon is actually based on a devotional I received from several weeks ago.) Turn to Genesis, Chapter 50 Allow me to give you some background information on this passage before we read it. In Genesis, Chapter 37, Joseph had a dream that one day his ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational