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  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    Our Baptismal Mission: Goodness, Beauty, Truth

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 7, 2010
     | 2,752 views

    If we are to minister to a world in need, we must give it what Jesus gave: goodness, beauty and truth

    The Baptism of the Lord January 10 2010 The first thing we should do today is correct a Hollywood-produced misconception about John’s baptism. Many of us grew up watching one or the other movie in which Jesus was baptized, or a large group of Protestant Christians were baptized in a river, ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    An Amazing Promise

    Contributed by John Harvey on Dec 4, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 6,392 views

    The story of Zechariah reminds us that God promises amazing things and he always keeps his promises.

    “An Amazing Promise” December 2, 2007 God: The Christmas story is a story of an amazing birth that changed the world forever. However, it is also the story of another birth that ushered in the beginnings of Jesus’ kingdom. Zechariah was a priest in Israel. He was getting to be an old man and it ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    James Study 4 Series

    Contributed by John Mccurry on Dec 17, 2007
     | 2,698 views

    Study of the book of James

    Wednesday, October 17, 2007 James Teacher 4 Last week we studied True and Pure Religion, True is being a doer of the word, Pure remaining unspotted from this world. Chapter 2 thru 3rd chapter v12 deals with The Nature of true Faith: To avoid discrimination; avoid inactive profession of faith; ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Grace Or...

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Feb 10, 2008
     | 2,340 views

    Is life simply a matter of taking what comes and learning to live with it? Although there is some of that in the human experience; God has not left us without options.

    Dakota Community Church February 03, 2008 Grace Or… There are many things over which we have no control what-so-ever in this life. Most things in fact I would say. We have no control over when, where, or to whom we are born. We have no control over the other people in our lives, though many of us ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite

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    Prepared For Abundance

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Feb 16, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,880 views

    The four soils of life, hardness, shallowness, distraction and soil prepare for Christ

    Intro: in reading the parable of the sower, the soil and the potential of the seed for harvest, a thought comes out of this story, no one wants to miss heaven, no one wants to fail God, everyone would love to realize their full potential in Christ. There is no problem with the seed, no failure in ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Palm Sunday: Jesus The Lion! Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 29, 2010
     | 6,780 views

    Jesus Christ is the multi-faceted center or our faith. Although we cannot take in all His glory, we must embrace what God has revealed to us about Him.

    Jesus the Lion! (Revelation 5:2-10) 1. People love exciting events: A recent (March 2010) AFP article hit the presses this week: CHICAGO (AFP) – People fell onto a bag of cash like a pack of hungry piranhas after more than 100,000 dollars tumbled out the back of an armored truck onto an Ohio ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Inertia

    Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Apr 6, 2010
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     | 3,239 views

    Satan tells us this is just the way it is, we have to accept what he has for us. But Jesus has another option.

    Passage: Matthew 8:28-34 Intro: Inertia is the tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion, or an object at rest to stay at rest, unless acted upon by a force. 1. some objects are easy, like this one: PP Forrest Gump’s feather 2. others are a little tougher (Dave comes ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    The King Is Coming Series

    Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Jan 9, 2008
    based on 64 ratings
     | 19,098 views

    The final week of Jesus’ ministry is beginning, and the triumphal entry is a prelude to so much that will happen that week, and in eternity as well! First in a series that will lead us all the way to an early Easter in March. Link inc. to audio and ppt.

    The King is Coming! Matthew 21:1-17 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/TheKingIsComing.html Believe it or not, we come now to the last week of Jesus’ earthly ministry. We’ve preached somewhere around 70 times in this “Gospel of Jesus” series thru Matthew, and we’ve covered most of His life, but the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Pen In God's Hand Part 2

    Contributed by Chew Chew on Jan 22, 2008
     | 3,235 views

    Do you feel that you are insignificant? God is telling you there is none here who is insignificant. If you are willing to place your life in the hands of God, He will be committed to see His purposes in you fulfilled.

    Text: Acts 9: 10-16 Introduction For the first twenty years of his life, he lived exuberantly and was considered by his friends to be a master of revelry. Not until after being captured and imprisoned for nearly a year while fighting in Assisi’s battle with the neighbouring town of Perugia and ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Friends Introduction

    Contributed by Jerry Falwell on Sep 22, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,794 views

    How to honor and bless your friends, and present salvation to those who do not yet know the Lord.

    Friends Introduction PURPOSE: 1. To honor your friends. 2. To bless your friends. 3. To celebrate your friendship. 4. To make new friends. 5. To present salvation to friends. 6. For your church to experience the excitement of a “Big Day” when everyone gears up for visitors, the building is clean ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    "If You're Going To Have A Wedding..."

    Contributed by J. Curtis Goforth, O.s.l. on Jan 18, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,772 views

    This sermon on the second Sunday of Epiphany focuses on Jesus’ first miracle of changing the water to wine at a wedding in Cana.

    "If You’re Going to Have a Wedding..." Sermon on John 2:1-11 Epiphany 2-A January 18, 2009 The Rev. J. Curtis Goforth, O.S.L. Badin United Methodist Church It seems that at every wedding, something is bound to go wrong. No matter how much planning has gone into it, no matter how much attention ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    While I Wait

    Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Sep 13, 2013
     | 2,503 views

    To enumerate the thing we should be doing in the last days.

    I. EXORDIUM: What do we do while living in the last days? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To enumerate the thing we should be doing in the last days. IV. TEXT: Titus 2:13 (Amplified Bible) Awaiting and looking for the [fulfillment, the realization of our] blessed hope, ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Dan Proctor avatar

    The Babe Of Bethlehem: Changing Lives Series

    Contributed by Dan Proctor on Dec 21, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,729 views

    What did Jesus specialize in when He walked this earth? If you ask this question to a group of people, you may get a variety of answers. Here is the answer: He specialized in changing lives!

    The Babe Of Bethlehem: Changing Lives Luke 2:8-20 Introduction: 1. What did Jesus specialize in when He walked this earth? If you ask this question to a group of people, you may get a variety of answers. Some may say, "Healing people, teaching the Bible, fulfilling prophecy, doing good deeds, ...read more

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    Denomination: Bible Church

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    The Law Of Reciprocity

    Contributed by Charles R. Peck on Mar 11, 2014
     | 4,152 views

    Seed time and harvest

    The Law of Reciprocity “And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth; and it was so.” Gen 1:11 “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Don't Hold Back

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 14, 2015
     | 4,763 views

    Prayer, fasting and tithing are little gifts we give so that God's power can fill up our weakness.

    First Sunday in Lent 2015 “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel.” These words of Jesus, recorded by St. Mark for the Church at Rome, conclude the shortest of the accounts of Christ’s forty day retreat in the wilderness near ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic