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  • Glenn Newton avatar

    Commit To Grow Series

    Contributed by Glenn Newton on Nov 11, 2004
    based on 32 ratings
     | 7,112 views

    A stewardship series, sermon number 2. This message takes a look at how materialism destroys our faith.

    Commit to Grow Pastor Glenn Newton Oct. 10, 2004 (Read Psalm 37:1-9.) Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you (nlt). Introduction Legendary comedian Jack Benny was well known for his portrayal of stinginess—By the way, is there anyone under 45 who knows who I’m ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    The Challenge Of Turning Critics Into Friends

    Contributed by Ray Ellis on Mar 13, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,098 views

    Job learned how to handle criticism and with God’s help turned his critics into friends.

    The Challenge of Turning Critics into Friends Job 23:10-14 How do you handle criticism? Job had his share of critics. He learned to handle his critics with class. God helped Job turn his critics into friends. In fact God encouraged his critics to become prayer partners with Job. Job ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

  • Joel Pankow avatar

    The Hour Of Darkness Series

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Mar 14, 2006
    based on 25 ratings
     | 10,978 views

    This sermon examines how and why God allowed an hour of darkness in Jesus’ arrest at Gethsemane.

    March 12, 2006 Luke 22:47-54 While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him, but Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?” When Jesus’ followers saw what was ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    A Sustained Commitment

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Apr 9, 2006
    based on 18 ratings
     | 7,096 views

    In order to have a sustained commitment, you need to: 1. Focus on the goal. 2. Focus on fact, not feeling. 3. Focus on growth.

    The backdrop for this day on the Christian calendar, which we call Palm Sunday, is the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem during the Passover Feast. Jesus has come riding into town from the Mount of Olives on a small donkey. Crowds are following him and shouting in excitement. The Bible says, “The ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Jeff Strite avatar

    Raising A G-Rated Family In An R-Rated World Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 15, 2006
    based on 144 ratings
     | 39,275 views

    It has grown increasingly more difficult to keep the world from influencing our families. What can we do to counter that influence?

    OPEN: A man was once hired to go and take a census in the hills of east Tennessee. He came to one ram-shackle home, knocked on the door and was greeted by a young girl. Brandishing his clipboard, the interviewer asked the girl, "Is your mom home?" She said, "Nah, she ran off with a moon shiner." ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Be Thankful God's Mystery Is Revealed

    Contributed by Timm Meyer on Feb 22, 2006
    based on 11 ratings
     | 6,031 views

    Epiphany 7(C) - Believers are thankful that God’s mystery is revealed because God gives us victory over death so that our lives reflect this victory of God.

    BE THANKFUL, GOD’S MYSTERY IS REVEALED February 19, 2006 - Epiphany 7 - 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 * * * * * * * * * Dearest Fellow Redeemed and Saints in the Lord, loved children of God: Everyone loves a mystery. There is a certain sense of excitement ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • David Elvery avatar

    How To Avoid The Axe Series

    Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 27, 2005
     | 5,170 views

    A Message of how to avoid God’s judment

    Luke 3:1- 15 – How to avoid the axe Have you every traveled on a road which is so pitted with potholes, you are forced to slow down. Some of them are so deep, particularly after rain, that you think you are going to be swallowed up. I’ve got this picture of an African pothole hanging on the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Are You A Spiritual Pilgrim Or Tourist?

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jul 15, 2004
    based on 46 ratings
     | 8,652 views

    Abraham is shown to be a spiritual Pilgrim on his journey to the City of God, as seen in his Call to a New Life, his Response by Faith, his Courageous Commitment, his Persistence in Difficulty and in Reaching his Goal.

    Istanbul, formerly the historic Constantinople, was an early centre of Christianity. One of the tourist attractions is the huge building called the Aghia Sophia. The guide summarised its history as a church, then a mosque and now a tourist attraction, like this: 800 years dedicated to Christ; ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Prodigal Son

    Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Jun 14, 2004
    based on 28 ratings
     | 11,474 views

    Before we can become the father, we must deal with our prodigal nature

    Luke 15:11-32 June 13, 2004 The Return of the Prodigal Returning to the Father Over the Last few weeks we have been looking at this story of the Prodigal Son with the emphasis that we are all called to become the father in the story. But I also recognize that unless we deal with our own ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Someone To Watch Over Me Series

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Dec 1, 2003
    based on 54 ratings
     | 14,470 views

    Joseph, Pt. 2 of 4

    SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME (GENESIS 39) A biographer of Michelangelo told about the famous artist's nagging problem with his work on a statue and his unconventional way of arriving at a solution to the problem. As he was working on a sculptor, the brilliant artist found that his own shadow on the ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Michael Bird avatar

    John 1.1-18: What If God Was One Of Us?

    Contributed by Michael Bird on Dec 6, 2003
    based on 46 ratings
     | 14,412 views

    This sermon attempts to demonstrate the importance, meaning and significance of the incarantion for Christian life.

    John 1.1-18: What if God was One of Us? Introduction In J.B. Phillip’s New Testament Christianity, a senior angel is showing a very young angel around the splendours of the universe. They view the whirling galaxies and blazing suns, and then flit across the infinite distances of space until at ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Does Jesus Care? Series

    Contributed by Frank Weller on Jan 24, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 21,726 views

    Based on the old hymn, this series answers the question, "Does Jesus Care?" It is a five part series, and answers the four questions posed by each of the hymns four stanzas.

    Do you remember pot-bellied pigs? They were one of the passing fads from the 1980s – that decade when all of us had big hair, big glasses and really fuzzy sweaters. Some of us also had pot-bellied pigs. Around our house, pigs were for eating and not for petting. The “pet pig craze” never caught ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Victor Yap avatar

    Whatever You Sow, You Reap Series

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Mar 5, 2004
    based on 20 ratings
     | 6,045 views

    Moses, Pt. 8 of 15

    REAP WHAT YOU SOW (EXODUS 32) In August 1989, a legal case in Los Angeles opened up a can of worms and had a rippling effect on the rest of the country and the rest of the world. Two young adult brothers - the Menendez brothers - from a wealthy family in Beverly Hills shot their parents in ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Clark Tanner avatar

    "I Do, I Do, I Do Believe In Spooks!" Series

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Mar 12, 2004
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,107 views

    The church must comprehend, in these last days, that our real enemy is spiritual. Without Christ we can do nothing (#16 in The Christian Victor series)

    “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” “And tho’ this world, with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for ...read more

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    Denomination: Orthodox

  • Jason Pettibone avatar

    Protection For Christians In Combat Series

    Contributed by Jason Pettibone on Apr 20, 2002
    based on 60 ratings
     | 5,358 views

    Can we stand in the face of terrible threats?

    Protection for the Christian in Combat Does it ever seem to you that you have had more trouble after becoming a Christian than you did before? You may not be imagining that. When you accepted Christ as Savior you enrolled as an agent of Heaven and declared yourself an enemy of all evil and ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God