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  • Mark Flurry avatar

    Developing A Strong, Godly Faith

    Contributed by Mark Flurry on Jul 28, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,651 views

    How does one strengthen and grow in faith?Expository sermon based on Psalm 131 with a backup application passage from Luke 18:9-17

    1. It begins when I recognize my weakness and humble myself before God. (vs. 1a) a. God is more interested in my availability than my abilities. b. There is no place in God’s kingdom for my pride. 2. My faith will work best when I allow God to be God, and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Faith To Move Against The Stream Series

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Aug 6, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,402 views

    Discover the kind of faith it takes to move against the stream of popular culture as you examine the life of Noah.

    What fish is known for swimming up stream against almost insurmountable odds? The Salmon is the answer. The Salmon swims up stream to fulfill a God given instinct to reach its feeding and breeding grounds. Salmon are famous for their fighting spirit. They battle currents and leap across rapids and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    What Is Lacking In Your Faith? Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 8, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 10,555 views

    So for now, Something is missing.

    What Is Lacking In Your Faith? (I Thessalonians 3:9-13) 1. Some people always feel like there is something missing from their lives. 2. Other people feel content though they have little in all realms. Alan McCann said, "The scourge of Christianity is being saved and stuck – thinking that is all ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Peace, Faith, Love And Hope

    Contributed by Rodney V Johnson on Aug 25, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,014 views

    The relationship between peace, faith, love and hope.

    Peace, Faith, Love and Hope Scripture: Phil. 4:7; Heb. 11:6; Rom. 10:17; Matt. 24. 10, 12-13; 1 Cor. 13 Heb. 6:17-19 Introduction This is the last day of 2006 and we will never see this year again. This year will be history as of midnight tonight. Although we may face ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Trinity : Shaping Your Faith

    Contributed by Joseph Neil Adams on Dec 31, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,742 views

    People tend to think the Trinity doesn’t matter & is an hindrance & obstacle to real faith, but this is not true - sincerity is no substitute for truth.

    Psalm 8 2 Corinthians 13: v 5-14 A story is told of a little girl drawing, when her mother asks what it is she is sketching. ‘I am drawing a picture of God’ she said. The Mother tells her this is impossible, as no-one knows what God looks like; when the girl says ‘Well they will when I’m ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Saved By Good Works Or By Faith? Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Jan 5, 2008
    based on 14 ratings
     | 9,117 views

    This sermon answers the question, "Are we saved by good works or by faith?"

    Scripture The October 22, 1996 headlines of The Times of London cried: Lost Forever: A Nation’s Heritage Looted By Its Own People. Afghanistan’s National Museum in Kabul is rubble, said the newspaper. It once held one of the world’s greatest multicultural antique collections: Persian, Indian, ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    God's Faithful, Imperfect People

    Contributed by David Owens on Jan 15, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 25,174 views

    This sermon is based on the book Messy Spirituality by Michael Yaconelli. It is an encouragement to keep serving in spite of our imperfections.

    A. There’s a story told of a preacher who was preaching a message about the fact that no one is perfect. 1. To prove his point he asked for anyone who was perfect to stand up. 2. One man stood up in the middle of the congregation. 3. The preacher asked him, “Do you really think you are ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Just Shall Live By Faith

    Contributed by Jerry Gatson on Jan 19, 2008
    based on 11 ratings
     | 17,026 views

    The Christian lifestyle is a life of faith. We are saved by grace through faith, stand by faith, walk by faith, and fight by faith so we can overcome by faith.

    Faith Toward God: The Just Shall Live by Faith SERIES TEXT - Hebrews 6:1-2 SERMON TEXT - Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. A lifestyle of faith transforms us from being just a man into a just man ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

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    Living Faith Completed With Virtue Series

    Contributed by Raymond Smith on Jan 23, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,598 views

    #1 In the scriptures there is the assumption that anyone who is born again of the Spirit of God, that that person has the very power of God to live a life of godliness. This is not a life that is some unproductive barren wasteland, but a life that is full

    The Enlargement of Life Living Faith Completed with Virtue. Reading: 2.Peter.1:1-11 There is in the scriptures an assumption made and portrayed, that anyone who is born again of the Spirit of God on the basis of the atoning work of Jesus, that that person has the very power of God to live a life ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Faith To Endure Our Blessings Series

    Contributed by Michael Hollinger on Jan 26, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,132 views

    Sometimes it requires faith to endure our blessings

    Title: Faith to Endure Our Blessings Text: Luke 1:26 – 38, 48 – 56 MP: It takes faith to endure our blessings FCF: Sometimes it requires faith to endure our blessings. If that sounds odd, maybe it is because we do not fully appreciate what it means to truly be blessed. It is easy to assume ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Living Like The Family Of Faith

    Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Jan 31, 2008
     | 2,785 views

    Prayer is the outworking of faith. And faith is the foundational characteristic of the believer. Here are some very practical ways to practice our faith in our church family.

    Passage: James 5:13-20 Intro: In the post-game comments of several of the bowl winning teams, there was a common thread. 1. they talked about their team as family. 2. interesting that when people want to find the highest image for teamwork, support, love, they use family. Il) studies ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    We Walk By Sight Not By Faith Series

    Contributed by Gregory Thomas on Feb 1, 2008
    based on 38 ratings
     | 11,181 views

    A discovery of our walk of faith, and how we can say we walk by faith but struggle with sight.

    WE Walk BY Sight And Not By Faith Introduction Paul was in Ephesus when he wrote this epistle and has to write because the Corinthian Church had been stirred up by false teachers who made an attempt to turn the people against Paul. Saying he was: 1) Unstable 2) Overbearing 3) Unimpressive ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Real Faith = Real Blessed

    Contributed by La Juana Morris on Jul 31, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 9,469 views

    Blessing is in our level of faith in the Giver of Blessings

    John had a way of causing his readers to see the loving side of God through His son Jesus. In John’s writings, he tells us to love each other, to love like God, and that God is love. He stresses how the love of God was manifested with the sacrifice of His only begotten son, in an effort to make ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Believing The Impossible Through Faith Series

    Contributed by Chad Bolfa on Aug 5, 2008
    based on 15 ratings
     | 19,236 views

    Study through the eleveth chapter of Hebrews; We all experience times of feeling like we are at a place of absolute impossibility; unless God comes through then I am doomed.

    Letting Your Faith do the Walking Part IV Believing the Impossible through Faith Hebrews 11:11-12 Introduction We all experience times of feeling like we are at a place of absolute impossibility; unless God comes through then I am doomed. Abraham and Sarah find themselves in a situation we ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Good And Faithful Servants Of The Lord Series

    Contributed by Rule Digal on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 19,123 views

    “What does it take to be a good and faithful servant of God?” I believe every true believer wants God to find and commend them the same way the Master in this parable found and commended the first two servants who were doing the task given to them.

    Good & Faithful Servant of the Lord Matthew 25: 14-30 nOTE: Some materials of this sermon are taken from sermoncentral. com Introduction The parable of the Pharisee and the Tax-collector which we have examined last Sunday teaches us how to approach God in a way that is acceptable to Him. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational