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    Love: What The World Needs Now PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 24, 2023
    based on 3 ratings
     | 991 views

    This sermon explores the nature of divine love as described in Corinthians, and how we can embody and share this transformative love in our lives.

    Welcome, dear friends, to this sacred gathering where we seek to draw closer to our Creator, to understand His word, and to let His love fill our hearts. Today, we turn our hearts and minds towards one of the most profound, powerful, and pivotal passages in the Holy Scriptures. A passage that ...read more

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    Living As Jesus' Reflectors In A Changing World PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 16, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 147 views

    God uses our ordinary lives and small acts of integrity to shine Christ’s light, making a meaningful difference wherever we are placed.

    Some of the most meaningful moments of grace happen in the middle of ordinary days. Between alarm clocks and car keys. Between lunches packed and emails sent. Somewhere between the grocery aisle and the front porch, God whispers a reminder: You carry light. You may not feel brilliant. You may feel ...read more

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    Peace The World Can't Give PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 22, 2025
    based on 3 ratings
     | 97 views

    Jesus offers his own unshakeable peace to calm our anxious hearts, inviting us to trust his presence instead of giving in to fear or panic.

    Some days the headlines hit like hail on a tin roof. Bills stack up, calendars crowd in, and our hearts hum with hurry. We lie awake staring at the ceiling fan, counting worries like sheep that refuse to sleep. We wonder if peace is a myth, a mirage on the horizon of a hurried life. Is there a calm ...read more

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    Our Daily Behavior In The World P2 Series

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on May 25, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,764 views

    Today we continue our study in our daily behavior in the world. Let us look to God’s word for His direction.

    How should we behave in this world…Part 2 Show Christ …by living above reproach … …by living at peace … …by giving no place for revenge … Again, we as “true” believers have a call to live a balanced life…to be “in the world, but not of the world”. If ye were of the world, the world would love ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Stephen The Martyr Series

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Mar 6, 2023
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    We need to be led by the Spirit and not resist his leading.

    STEPHEN THE MARTYR Text: Acts 7:51-60 Introduction 1. Illustration: The author, Antonio Socci, claims the untold story of the 20th century is the murder of 45 million Christians, mostly at the hands of communist and Islamic regimes, and that massacres continue to this day. Drawing heavily from ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    How To Love The Father More Than The World

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on May 25, 2005
    based on 38 ratings
     | 5,116 views

    The following is a list of twenty five things that often crowd out our love for the Father. Since Jesus told us to watch and pray that we enter not in to temptation. It is a good idea to know what competes for our greatest passion.

    How to Love the Father More than the World Marks of Worldliness (I John 2:15-18) What are the various ways that people subtly love the world more than we show love for our heavenly Father? Perhaps it could be summarized in the word preoccupation. Illustration: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - An 86-year-old ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Empowering Spirit Within And Confronting The External World Series

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Sep 5, 2023
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     | 1,271 views

    To Christians, power is the means to fulfil a divine mission. We are meant to be salt and light, agents of change in the world, guided by the power of the Holy Spirit.

    The Empowering Spirit Within and Confronting the External World Introduction What is the essence of power? Is it the relentless force of a river, at once life-giving and potentially destructive? Or the formidable energy of atoms, capable of both creation and devastation? Power may manifest in ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Keeping Our Balance In A Topsy Turvy World

    Contributed by Marilyn Murphree on Apr 20, 2009
    based on 10 ratings
     | 6,544 views

    We have been given authority and power in order to become overcomers in the present circumstances. We do not need to succumb to the pressures around us but can live overcoming lives.

    Valley Grove Assembly of God May 3, 2009 Keeping Our Balance in a Topsy Turvey World Colossians 2:6-16 INTRODUCTION: There are many things that upset the apple cart in our “topsy turvy” world. One of them is the downturn in the economy with the loss of ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Promoting Authentic Human Development In An Outsourced World Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 10, 2009
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     | 3,499 views

    New social justice problems have emerged in recent years, straining systems of insurance and welfare. How shall we as Christians respond?

    Monday of 28th week in course October 12, 2009 Caritas in Veritate The queen of the South and the men of Nineveh will rise up and condemn the generation of pharisees for not believing in Jesus. At the end of time, they will also condemn the pharisees of our day for not believing in Jesus or His ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    The World And Its Money Cannot Buy Happiness

    Contributed by James (Edward) Cady, Jr. on Sep 27, 2008
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     | 2,766 views

    Our happiness cannot be attained through money, but by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

    The World and its Money Cannot Buy Happiness Acts 3: 1-11 Introduction: • Satan’s main strategy with God’s people has always been to whisper; don’t call, don’t ask, don’t depend on God to do great things. • Satan will tell you to rely on your own cleverness and energy; your’ll get along just ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Sermon - Standing Strong In The Faith In A World Of Temptation

    Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on May 15, 2025
     | 723 views

    After Paul heard troubling reports about the church in Corinth and received a letter that the church wrote him, he responded by writing 1 Corinthians. His most basic purpose is to exhort the Corinthian church to live like who they are: “saints” or God’s holy people.

    Subject: Standing Strong In a World of Temptation Text: 1Corinthians 16:13-14 “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love.” Introduction: How do you stand strong against temptation? It’s not surprising for a church to have sin problems. A church is a ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Friendship With God

    Contributed by C Jordan on Jun 18, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,875 views

    Everyone has the choice to either be friends with God or friends with the world. In this passage, James gives us seven characteristics of the person who is a friend of God.

    JOURNEY THROUGH JAMES #6: FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD INTRO TO TOPIC: What are some of the most important things in your world? I am sure that most of you would say it is your friendships. Have you ever pondered what it means that we have the opportunity to become friends with God, the Creator of the ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Desperate Houswives In Real Life

    Contributed by Tommy Oliver on Jan 26, 2008
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,271 views

    A Concise outlined sermon on how Joseph Resisted Temptation.

    Introduction: Description of how the prime time show Desperate Housewives has depicted our society with schemes, complex family problems and sexual temptation. Transition: A man and his wife were once in a shopping mall when a young attractive woman in short dressed walked by. The husband tried ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How Hard Is Your Tongue?

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Aug 15, 2016
     | 2,955 views

    Are you trying to break bones of resistance or break relationships?

    Pro 25:15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. Ouch! This smacks pretty much all of us. Sometimes it takes real patience when dealing with someone that is not of like persuasion, especially politicians. Note we are to speak with a soft tongue. I have been ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Message For The End Times Remnant: The Last Great Awakening

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on May 24, 2021
     | 2,481 views

    Welcome to the wilderness. Temptations on one side, false teachers on the other. The true message is Jesus Christ as revealed in the gospels, repent and believe! Join our ranks, the ranks of the holy remnant in a post-Christian world.

    Welcome to the wilderness. Temptations on one side, false teachers on the other. The true message is Jesus Christ as revealed in the gospels, repent and believe! Join our ranks, the ranks of the holy remnant in a post-Christian world. The United States, Europe, the western world has slipped into ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army