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  • Marilyn Murphree avatar

    "Making Sure Our Children Have Faith" Series

    Contributed by Marilyn Murphree on Jun 6, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,659 views

    What can parents do to make sure their children have faith in the years to come. Today’s scripture shows three vital things.

    Iliff and Saltillo UM Father’s Day June 19, 2005 “Making Sure Our Children Have Faith” Deut. 6:4-9 INTRODUCTION: Have you ever wondered if your children and grandchildren will have faith in God as the years go by? The same was true at the time when Moses lived. At the ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Todd Kornahrens avatar

    The Parable Of The Two Sons

    Contributed by Todd Kornahrens on Sep 23, 2005
    based on 18 ratings
     | 10,931 views

    With God it is better late than never.

    The parable Jesus shares in today’s Gospel lesson proves the old adage better late than never We find Jesus once again in a debate with the Pharisees over Christ’s authority For centuries the Pharisees ran the Church as an elites social organization rather than the loving body ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Epiphany A

    Contributed by Roger Haugen on Jan 8, 2002
    based on 69 ratings
     | 18,605 views

    The Wise Men break into our little world and show us how awesome God’s breaking into our world truly is. We have sanitized the story and need to hear it once again as for the first time.

    Epiphany A Matthew 2:1-12 6January 2002 Each Christmas in our home Barbara Robinson’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever comes out and quietly makes its way around. It is the story of a church, which is faced, with the drudgery of putting on the Christmas pageant for yet another year. The woman ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Get Over It

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Dec 19, 2002
    based on 68 ratings
     | 19,941 views

    Many need to get over their hurts that they have experienced in the church and go on for God instead of quitting on God!

    PHIL.3:13-14 “GET OVER IT!” A) So, here you sit tonight, as a child of God, and the Bible says that you are to forget everything behind you! * You should be reaching forward! * This is why people are failing in life! * We are either living in the past, or we are living for now, and we ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Future: Won By Some, Lost By Others

    Contributed by Cornelio Castillo on Aug 10, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,498 views

    The roles of human and Divine will in determining the future.

    THE FUTURE: A Race Won By Some, Lost By Others Joshua 23 How many of you, young people of today will one day in the future, find yourselves sitting in a dark corner of your rented and very small room, looking at your 3 hungry but sleeping children and wondering about the source of their food for ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Divine Destiny - Part Seven

    Contributed by J. Yeargin on Sep 2, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,492 views

    Idolatry can control a believer’s life and cause confusion and heartaches. A believer living like this is looking for a spiritual accent in their life, and that’s about all. It’s just like a spiritual band aid. This becomes a carnal relationship with t

    THE BIRTH OF A DREAM We had good services this morning, especially with having as many visitors as we did. We should remember them in prayer that the Lord will continue what perhaps began in their hearts. Traditionally, Easter and Christmas can bring in people that don’t normally attend church ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    God's Power

    Contributed by Keith Davis on May 5, 2003
    based on 54 ratings
     | 12,953 views

    How do we conquer each day we live with the help of God?

    Title: God’s Power Text: Ephesians 3:14-21 Introduction: Tell the story of the little boy and the sand box. As he was digging, he discovered a huge rock in the middle of the sand. He dug till he loosened the stone. Once loosened, he pushed and shoved, even using his feet to the edge of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    "I Will Be With You”

    Contributed by Mark Haines on Nov 11, 2000
    based on 101 ratings
     | 6,185 views

    A pastoral care intervention sermon challenging God’s people in my care to exchange their desire to have control & comfort for faith in God’s promise to be with them.

    WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Danny Cox, a former jet pilot turned business leader, tells his readers in Seize the Day that when jet fighters were first invented, they "flew much faster than their propeller predecessors. So pilot ejection became a more sophisticated process. ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Why Are We So Angry?

    Contributed by Mark Beaird on Nov 13, 2000
    based on 165 ratings
     | 7,427 views

    Possible causes of anger in people today and what to do about it

    WHY ARE WE SO ANGRY? 1999 by Mark Beaird Text: Ecclesiastics 7:9 "Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools." "Do not become quickly provoked," the scripture tells us. Anger does seem to get out of control easily doesn't it? Sometimes we become angry ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Hold Up The Light

    Contributed by William White Jr on Jan 20, 2001
    based on 94 ratings
     | 11,134 views

    It is a textual sermon for I only use the one biblical text I supplied to the congregation.

    HOLD UP THE LIGHT-ISAIAH 49:3-6 I remember some three years ago I visited a nursing home with my mentor, Melvin Black. I was captivated by the singing, moving, and ongoings of the patients there but I took great interest in an African American man pushing himself in a wheelchair. After the ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    "Give" Is Not A Four-Letter Word

    Contributed by J. Douglas Duty Jr. on Oct 10, 2001
    based on 138 ratings
     | 10,378 views

    sermon in giving

    “Give” is not a four-letter word! 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 Time and Money – both are hot commodities in Northern VA. Both cause a great deal of anxiety in our lives because we never think we have enough of either. People are even now talking of the economy and about pouring money into it to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Reach For The Top

    Contributed by Dana Visneskie on Dec 30, 2004
    based on 77 ratings
     | 9,132 views

    A great New’s Year Day message. I talk about having Paul’s attitude of forgetting the past and straining towards the future, enjoy!

    Title: Reach For The Top Text: Phil 3:12-14 Read Text!!! Pray!!! Introduction: - This is the time of year, where most people take inventory of there lives and make resolutions to change. Here are the top 10 most popular: 1. Lose weight 2. Stop smoking 3. Stick to a budget 4. Save or earn ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Thronging Or Touching

    Contributed by Thomas Dibble on May 29, 2003
    based on 92 ratings
     | 10,592 views

    There is a difference in thronging around Jesus and really touching Jesus. There is a difference between just showing up for church and showing up with the intention of touching Jesus.

    In the beginning of the Bible, in the book of Genesis it tells us of a close and personal and intimate relationship that Adam and Eve shared with God. God would make Himself known to them in the cool of the day or the evening time. What an awesome time of fellowship that must have been when ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Roger Haugen avatar

    7 Easter B

    Contributed by Roger Haugen on May 29, 2003
    based on 115 ratings
     | 13,720 views

    Have you ever had anyone tell you they are praying for you? Jesus is praying for you asking protection and sanctification.

    7 Easter B John 17:6-19 1 June 2003 Rev. Roger N. Haugen Have you ever had someone tell you they are praying for you? Likely we all have had people pray for us, but it is different when someone tells you they are praying for you. It might happen when you are going through a difficult time with ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Larry Brincefield avatar

    Okay, We Got The Presents, Now What? Series

    Contributed by Larry Brincefield on Jul 20, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,714 views

    God gives us gifts; so what do we do now? We prepare God’s people for service so that the church may be built and we gain maturity.

    Title: Okay, we got the presents, now what? Text: ephesians 4:12-13 Author: Larry C. Brincefield Author’s Website: www.pastorlarry.net Introduction 1. Everyone loves to get presents!! • Last week, we looked at some of the “presents” that God gives us… • He gives us His grace… • That’s an ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene