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  • Monte Brown avatar

    Freedom From This Evil Generation

    Contributed by Monte Brown on Oct 20, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,894 views

    We live in troubling times... Sin is ever-present with immorality seemingly on the rise. There are many religions seeking to address the problem, but their solutions are amiss. Christians in the first century A.D. found themselves facing similar

    Introduction We live in troubling times... Sin is ever-present with immorality seemingly on the rise. There are many religions seeking to address the problem, but their solutions are amiss. Christians in the first century A.D. found themselves facing similar circumstances... ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Fresh Encounter

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Oct 24, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,707 views

    All of us need to hear God’s love in a fresh way. Some say they do not want an encounter, but they do. Some do not expect anything new. Some are just past their first thrill of knowing Christ. Some have never exercised faith. Christ waits to receive

    Just about everybody ought to get married, at least once. There’s nothing quite like it in all the world. Everybody ought to have the experience of learning the difference between fantasy and reality. That’s what happens when you get married. Everything up to marriage is fantasy. It’s romance, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Remarriage Is Adultery Series

    Contributed by David Smith on Oct 27, 2009
    based on 7 ratings
     | 11,087 views

    Jesus said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

    Every now and then you find yourself tacking a Bible passage that just doesn’t lend itself to starting your sermon with a joke. Today’s Gospel reading is one such passage. For divorce is no laughing matter, and of course I know that first-hand. Indeed, not only did I experience the divorce of my ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    No Rich People In Heaven Series

    Contributed by David Smith on Oct 27, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,590 views

    "Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!" And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, "Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom

    In any journey, such as a trek through the bush, there are exciting parts, such as when we start out (perhaps) and when we near your destination, there are relatively boring parts, and there are patches that are just hard work. In our journey through the Gospel of Mark we seem to have reached an ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    Living A Merciful Life

    Contributed by Martin Wiles on Sep 29, 2010
     | 4,757 views

    Believers have the wonderful privilege of showing God's mercy to others-and the responsibility.

    Living A Merciful Life Matthew 5:7 INTRODUCTION Landing on the bleak Massachusetts shore at Plymouth in December of 1620, the Pilgrims had to endure a desperate winter. It was a winter filled with hunger-a winter in which about half of them died. As luck would have it though, there was an Indian ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    It Only Takes A Spark Series

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 1, 2010
    based on 7 ratings
     | 22,643 views

    This sermon looks at the calling of the first disciples & encourages us to follow in their footsteps, bringing others to Jesus.

    John 1:35 – 51: It only takes a spark - Bringing others to Jesus. It only take s a tiny spark to ignite a fire and only takes one individual filled with the Spirit of God to ignite others into becoming followers of Christ. It was one man John the Baptist, who saw Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    "Are Your Prayers In The Dead-Letter Department?"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Oct 12, 2010
    based on 14 ratings
     | 11,202 views

    A sermon on prayer based on Luke 18:1-8 and 2 Corinthians 12:7-10.

    2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Luke 18:1-8 “Are Your Prayers in the Dead-Letter Department?” By: Ken Sauer, Pastor of East ridge United Methodist Church, Chattanooga, TN No doubt you have heard about the Postal Service’s “Dead Letter Department.” That’s the place ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    Single And Devoted Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Nov 1, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,792 views

    Exposition of 1 Cor 7:7-9, 25-40 regarding singleness and Paul's five advantages it had over marriage

    Text: 1 Corinthians 7:7-9, 25-40, Title: Single and Devoted, Date/Place: NRBC, 10/31/10, AM A. Opening illustration: Second Class Brethren: read Kostenberger’s opening, G, M, and Family, p. 173-174 B. Background to passage: Paul is now into the section of the letter that deals with the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Parable Of The Wedding Feast

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on Nov 6, 2010
    based on 13 ratings
     | 53,090 views

    There are five important principles for us to learn from the Parable of the Wedding Feast.

    THE PARABLE OF THE WEDDING FEAST Text: Matthew 22:1 – 14 Have you ever received an invitation to a party or celebration? The first invitation that I remember receiving was for a birthday party when I was in the seventh grade. Over the years, I have been invited to graduations, weddings, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Martha And Mary

    Contributed by Colin Thornby on Nov 6, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,601 views

    Service is being in relationship with Jesus (Luke 10:38-42)

    Let us pray: Jesus, be in what I say, and stop me from getting in the way of what you want my sisters and brothers to hear. Help us all to listen to you with our ears, our minds and our hearts, so that your living presence can teach us, renew us and help us to live as children of the Father. ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Wings Of Refuge

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Nov 11, 2010
     | 4,994 views

    Funeral message, for Ekerete Akpaete, Nigerian, who died suddenly in the arms of his infant daughter.

    Takoma Park Baptist Church, Washington, Dc, March 25, 2000 To experience great loss is difficult enough. To experience that loss in a far country, with few who understand, few who are close, is even more difficult. And when that loss means that those who depend on you will need you even more, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    When Lions Eat Straw

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Nov 15, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 11,197 views

    When Lions Eat Straw 1) We shall see a new heaven and a new earth 2) We shall never cry again 3) We shall live in everlasting harmony

    The American author John Steinbeck was once told by his English professor that he would become a published author “when pigs fly.” As far as that professor was concerned, Steinbeck’s chances of writing a decent book were as good as the chances of a pig somehow sprouting wings and ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    It Is All About Jesus

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Nov 17, 2010
    based on 309 ratings
     | 82,676 views

    When doctrine and truth are abandoned, when the authority of the Scriptures is denied you do not get liberal Christianity. You get a whole new religion; Perverted by man. Jesus is the way, Jesus is the truth, Jesus is the life. It Is all about Jesus. Updated July 2025

    A theological college in the United States .... invited to their annual conference, .... a renowned professor ... as their guest lecturer. He spoke for two and a half hours .... "Establishing proofs" .... that the resurrection of Jesus ... never took place. The professor quoted ... ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Joseph Smith avatar

    Be Still, My Foolish Heart

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Nov 18, 2010
    based on 5 ratings
     | 9,741 views

    There is a worldwide awareness that God exists, but also a worldwide infection of sin. God in Christ comes to get our attention so that never can anyone say, in foolishness, that God is absent or does not matter.

    Takoma Park Baptist Church, Washington, DC October 5, 1986 In some of the more strict religious communities there is the practice called “shunning.” When someone is shunned, usually because he or she has violated the moral code or has broken the way of behaving expected in that ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    I Was Just Doing My Job Series

    Contributed by Allan Bendert on Nov 29, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,058 views

    A look at Herod and the leaders of the Temple.

    I WAS JUST DOING MY JOB MATT 2:3-8 HELLO, MY NAME IS YOUSEL; I AM A SCRIBE, WELCOME TO JERUSALEM. THE CITY YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT, BETHLEHEM IS ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH WEST OF HERE. I REMEMBER THE DAY THAT THE STORY HAPPENED THAT YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT. THE DAY THOSE KINGS CAME. WOW! WHAT A DAY THAT ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist