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  • Jerry Flury avatar

    Half-Baked

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Jul 7, 2013
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    Hosea charged Israel with being “a cake not turned” or “half-baked". They were half-hearted towards God. Like Israel, many of today’s professed believers have followed the same pattern of incomplete discipleship.

    1 Half-Baked Hosea 7:8-10 “Ephraim is a cake not turned.” — Hosea 7:8 Hosea, a prophet to the house of Israel during the reign of Jeroboam II, used several colorful admonitions to bring to Israel’s attention the state of their relationship with God. In his comparison he ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Forgiveness!

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Dec 10, 2013
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    We are bombarded on all sides with ‘revenge theme’ movies, violence and blood through media; in the midst of all this cacophony, it is soothing and refreshing to read about a man who forgave the people who harassed and traumatized him

    Nelson Mandela! Mathew 18:35”……. forgive your brother from your heart." Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison on Robben Island. Christo Brand was his jailor. Brand started to work on Robben Island off Cape Town in 1978 when he was 18 and Mandela was 60. At such a ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Strangers In A Temporary Place

    Contributed by Joe De Leon on Dec 29, 2013
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    As Christians we should not get too comfortable in our journey called life...

    Strangers in a Temporary Place God bless you I sure hope you had a wonderful time this week with your families, I know that we had a wonderful time with ours. I would like for us if you would to turn your Bibles to John 14:1-3 What Jesus is telling us who follow him is that this world is a ...read more

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    The Trumpet Judgments Part Iii; 200 Thousand Thousand (Rev 9:12-20) Series

    Contributed by Pastor Jeff Hughes on Jan 22, 2014
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    Angels released at the Euphrates; 200 million horsemen at war

    The Trumpet Judgments Part III; 200 Thousand Thousand (Rev 9:12-20) We return to our study in Revelation 9, discussing the Trumpet Judgments. So far, we have studied the first five of these Trumpet Judgments, and this week we will study the sixth, with the seventh in a few weeks when we reach ...read more

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    Denomination: Bible Church

  • D Marion Clark avatar

    Good Topsoil Series

    Contributed by D Marion Clark on Oct 29, 2012
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    The failure to live by the gospel is found in people’s hearts.

    Jesus’ Parables We come to our first parable this morning, so we ought to consider before we get into it, what is a parable? I’ll give you a starting definition. A parable is a picture with a point. The picture may be a story such as the tale of the good Samaritan. It may be an ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    A Time To Hear Series

    Contributed by D Marion Clark on Oct 29, 2012
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    Jesus is saying, “I, the lamp, have come with the light of the gospel. Don’t cover me and my message over as many of you are doing. Let the lamp shine openly. The reason that you hide my light is that you really prefer something else which is less than

    Introduction We are back to the parables this morning. In contrast to our extended metaphor of the sower and his soil conditions, we now come to a collection of short images and sayings. Remember how I said that usually it is the context that makes the parable’s meaning clear? The peculiar ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    When God Seems Far Away

    Contributed by H.b. Charles Jr. on Jun 24, 2012
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    "When God Seems Far Away" is an exposition of Psalm 61, which teaches that you can never be so far away that God cannot hear you when you call.

    WHEN GOD SEEMS FAR AWAY Psalm 61 A certain little boy greatly missed his father, who was separated from the family for the long time by military duty. But the boy was comforted by a picture of his dad that sat in a frame on his nightstand. When he was frightened at night, he would state at the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Through The Rascals Out

    Contributed by John Mccormack on Sep 19, 2013
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    CLEANSING THE TEMPLE

    THROUGH THE RASCALS OUT OBSERVATION: NEHEMIAH WAS A JEWISH CAPTIVE AND CUPBEARER TO KING ARTAXERXES, KING OF PERSIA. HE RECEIVED WORD OF SCANDALOUS ACTIVITIES IN THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM. MOST SCHOLARS DATE THE WRITING ABOUT 430 B.C. INTERPRETATION: NEHEMIAH 13: 10-14 ALL TEMPLE WORSHIP ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Byron Sherman avatar

    The Limitations/Irony Of Worldly Wisdom-4

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on Oct 8, 2013
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    4 of 4. Paul related the limitations/irony of worldly wisdom to the Corinthians believers. The irony of worldly wisdom is in its being relegated to foolishness. But How is it limited? Worldly wisdom is limited by...

    The LIMITATIONS/Irony Of WORLDLY WISDOM-IV—1Corinthians 1:18-25 Attention: A cowboy rides into town & stops at a saloon for a Sasparilla. Unfortunately, the locals always had a habit of picking on strangers, which he was. When he finished his drink, he exits the saloon only to find that ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Mindset Of Christ Series

    Contributed by Rick Burdette on Nov 8, 2013
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    Humility, A Servant's Heart, Obedience

    Philippians 2:5-8 (p. 819) November 10, 2013 Introduction: The challenge we ended with last week was “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, rather in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests, but each of you to the interests of ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    Like Lightning Lighting Up The Sky Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 9, 2013
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    In the Christian life, with suffering, God gives us wordless and imageless insights that strengthen and confirm faith.

    Thursday of 32nd Week in Course Lumen Fidei To get a clearer understanding of today’s Gospel, we have to take it in context. First, Jesus is addressing the Pharisees, who wanted to know when the kingdom of God would come. Remember that this sect–really a kind of political party as ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

  • Mark A. Barber avatar

    In Spirit And Truth Series

    Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Aug 13, 2013
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    What is worship all about? Whom do we worship? How? It is not in Spirit and in Truth. The two are covered by one preposition. Truth and Spirit cannot be separated.

    Introduction Last week we were introduced to the Samaritan woman. We remember Jesus being led by the Father to go through Samaria. We remember Jesus getting to the well in a state of heat exhaustion so serious that his disciples left him in hostile Samaritan territory alone to get lifesaving ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    The Slight Problem

    Contributed by Monty Newton on Jun 13, 2009
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    The difference between one human being and another is the heart... that only God can see.

    Title: The Slight Problem Text: I Samuel 15:34-16:13 Thesis: The difference between one human being and another is the heart... that only God can see. Introduction In his book Blink, which is a book about thinking without thinking, Malcolm Gladwell told about the bias of those who judged ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Ed Vasicek avatar

    The Problem Within Deuteronomy 5:28-29, 10:12-16; 30:6 Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 12, 2009
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     | 6,594 views

    The human heart -- the internal, invisible center of our being -- needs some work that only God can do.

    Introduction to the Series, followed by the sermon "The Problem Within" from Deuteronomy 5:28-29, 10:12-16; 30:6 Introduction can be used as a bulletin instery Jesus Favorite Book: Deuteronomy An introduction to our series By Ed Vasicek "The fifth book of the Pentateuch is …a new and fresh ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Pray Like You Mean It!

    Contributed by Rev. Matthew Parker on Oct 31, 2009
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    Our prayers are affected by the way we understand God. Jesus uses this quirky parable to drive home that God is passionate about humanity and, in particular, your well-being.

    Sermon for CATM – November 1, 2009 – “Pray Like You Mean It!” A young man went into a drugstore to buy 3 boxes of chocolate: small, medium, and large. When the pharmacist asked him about the three boxes, he said, “Well, I’m going over to a new girlfriend’s house for supper. Then we’re going out. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational