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  • Izak Shipman avatar

    Don't Let The Past Determine Your Future

    Contributed by Izak Shipman on Oct 5, 2002
    based on 164 ratings
     | 22,508 views

    A sermon about the mess of failure, or a life and how God can create something out of nothing. For people who want to start over again.

    Gen 1:26-28. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27. So God created man in His own ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Past Is Nailed To Calvary. The Future Is Tied To The Risen Christ.

    Contributed by Michael Trigg on Nov 28, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,875 views

    Our hope in the future lies in the greatest advocate in eternity who will not only speak for us but will also claim us as His own

    The past is nailed to Calvary. The future is tied to the risen Christ. Isaiah 2:3 “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD.” Introduction Last time, we visited Isaiah’s first recorded vision, when he uttered God’s condemnation of a rebellious nation. A people who had rejected their ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Every Saint Has A Past And Every Sinner A Future Series

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Dec 26, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,935 views

    Friend of Sinners, Pt. 1

    EVERY SAINT HAS A PAST AND EVERY SINNER A FUTURE (LUKE 5:27-32) Tony Campolo told how, upon arrival in Honolulu, he made his way unwittingly to a seedy part of town for a snack at 3:30 in the morning, to be surrounded by eight or nine prostitutes who had just taken the night off. He overheard the ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Getting Past Defeats: My Soul Looks Back Series

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jul 16, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 7,080 views

    Montgomery Hills Baptist Church: To live large means dealing with the pain inflicted on us. Some of it comes from our arrogance, some from scapegoating. But God is able to work through that pain toward the accomplishment of His purposes.

    There is at my house a photograph I treasure. In that picture I am about three years old, and my father is holding me in his arms. My father is wearing the cap of a Shell Oil service station attendant. Nothing especially remarkable about that, except for what I hear in my memory whenever I see ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Released From Chains, Bound To The Word: Acts 16:25-34

    Contributed by Christopher Metze on Jul 24, 2025
    based on 1 rating
     | 263 views

    A sermon on the powerful, life-changing, and community-forging Word of God.

    The guard at Philippi’s prison is on his routine patrol. He’s carrying out his duties as usual when two outsiders—Paul and Silas—are brought to him, already beaten and bruised. He’s commanded to confine them in the inner prison—the place designated for the most hardened, perhaps most dangerous ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Lesson 8: Why Does God Keep Secrets?

    Contributed by Elmer Towns on Oct 1, 2014
     | 1,105 views

    God's infinity; our limitation

    Pastors Bible Class Thomas Road Baptist Church Series: When God Is Silent Lesson 8: Why Does God Keep Secrets? A. INTRODUCTION: WHY PEOPLE KEEP SECRETS? 1. To surprise. 2. To shield us from disappointments. 3. To keep us from danger. 4. Because we are not ready. 5. To keep us ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Growing Through Focus And Forgetting Series

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Jul 27, 2015
     | 6,464 views

    Focus our lives allows us to forget and move forward.

    GROWING THROUGH FOCUS AND FORGETTING PHILIPPIANS 3:12-14 NOT THAT I HAVE ALREADY OBTAINED IT OR HAVE ALREADY BECOME PERFECT, BUT I PRESS ON SO THAT I MAY LAY HOLD OF THAT FOR WHICH ALSO I WAS LAID HOLD OF BY CHRIST JESUS. 13  BRETHREN, I DO NOT REGARD MYSELF AS HAVING LAID HOLD OF IT YET; BUT ONE ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Grace Killers- Assumptions

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Feb 10, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,891 views

    Zacchaeus, the tree-climbing tax collector, met Jesus and was changed. He vowed to repay four times the amount of money he had dishonestly taken form others. This is the first of a series of messages on grace.

    Grace Killers- Assumptions Text: Luke 19:8 What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. (Mark Twain) One person said, “Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.” (Unknown) Zacchaeus, ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Living Daddy Down

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 9, 2012
     | 5,872 views

    You blew it. It was a mistake. Others saw it. Humiliated. Shamed. The laughing stock. Now what? It is time to live daddy down!

    Living Daddy Down I. Text - Numbers 16:1-7, 16-35 Getting on his high horse one day, Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, along with a few Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On, son of Peleth—rebelled against Moses. He had with him 250 leaders of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Don’t Lose Your Song! Series

    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Apr 29, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 12,988 views

    Do not go the next 20 years allowing the same things to steal your joy. Change your approach. Learn to live in that joy.

    For more sermons visit our: Website: https://cityharvestag.com/sermons/?sermon_topics=cross Podcast : https://city-harvest-sermons.simplecast.com/episodes/your-work-matters Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CityHarvestA... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cityharvestag/ YouTube: ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    How Far Have We Gone With Christ? Series

    Contributed by Kyle Sullivan on Jun 10, 2010
     | 3,936 views

    What is your Past, Present and Future?

    Ephesians 2:11-13 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)... remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    "Rehab For Rahab" Series

    Contributed by David Henderson on Apr 11, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 18,063 views

    All of us have a past. Rahab certainly did. God used Rahab regardless of her past and wants to do the same with us. The Promised Land if for everyone!

    “Rahab’s Rehab” Joshua 2 Let’s begin this morning with the definition of the word past….. Here it is: “having existed in a time before the present. Used in an earlier time. Done. Gone by. Elapsed in time.” Many people struggle all of their lives to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Guilt Cannot Overpower Us

    Contributed by T.j. Conwell on Oct 6, 2013
     | 6,371 views

    It doesn't matter who you used to be. In spite of your past, God loves you, he will change you, and he will use you—if you open your heart to him.

    Guilt cannot overpower us Acts 23:1-11; 1 Tim 1:12-16 Introduction We are called to have a common purpose in what we do -- The purpose is to worship, to love, and to celebrate Christ and share Him always -- That is our challenge, mission, and it is STILL where we find ourselves today ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    New Year ,new Hope.

    Contributed by Peter Mwariri on Dec 31, 2011
    based on 5 ratings
     | 10,060 views

    Around this time most people are full of excitement and of course they should be for a new year lies ahead.To most of the people it means a time to party and drink,while others take this as the time to reflect and plan ahead.Yet others are still buried in

    Let us closely examine this verse, Philippians 3:13-14 "No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Take Three Good Looks

    Contributed by David Nolte on Jan 2, 2019
     | 10,027 views

    Life consists of three time frames: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

    “Three Good Looks 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 David P. Nolte There are three time periods in each life. Yesterday, tomorrow and today. The past has come and gone; tomorrow doesn’t exist; so today is all we really have in which to live and love and labor and laugh and learn. Yesterday is ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ