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  • Rick Bartosik avatar

    Narnia: Winning The Last Battle

    Contributed by Rick Bartosik on Dec 12, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,675 views

    "The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning" Aslan, in The Last Battle, 228

    “Winning the Last Battle” John 5:28-29 Dr. Rick Bartosik Mililani Community Church December 2005 "There was a real railway accident," said Aslan softly. "Your father and mother and all of you are—as you used to call it in the Shadowlands—dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Six Marks Of A Spiritual Mentor

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Sep 2, 2005
    based on 49 ratings
     | 19,246 views

    Paul here explains what it meant that he was a spiritual father to the Cornithians and therein gives us insight into how we can impact others.

    The Heart Of The Passage: “Paul is a spiritual father to the Corinthians.” - v. 15. - There are two ways to become a spiritual father. One is to be part of birthing someone to new life. The second is to raise a spiritual child into a spiritual adult (an adoption type of situation). - In both ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Call To Discipleship

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Mar 13, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 18,730 views

    A message on discipleship.

    THE CALL TO DISCIPLESHIP John 1:43-45; Mark 1:16-20; 2:13-14 INTRO: These three Scripture passages contain the calls of four of Jesus’ twelve disciples. Certain truths leap out of the passages. The first thing to notice is that Jesus issues the call to discipleship. In the Greek, the calls of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Jesus' Picture Gallery

    Contributed by John Vella on Feb 5, 2007
    based on 19 ratings
     | 5,048 views

    The important thing is not to have just one image of Jesus. This would hardly do him justice. It would be the same as our parents showing their friend only one photograph of us.

    Seeds for Sowing, Vol. IV, Issue 3, No. 18 Third Sunday of Lent (Year B) March 26, 2000 Readings: * Exodus 20:1-17 * 1 Corinthians 1:18, 22-25 * John 2:13-25 Jesus’ Picture Gallery Baby Pictures One of the first things that new parents want to have is a picture of their baby. Many parents ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Desperately Avoiding Evil Series

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Jan 12, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,703 views

    This is the first is a three part sermon series on the Methodist Society General Rules.

    (This sermon is in text format, but are talking points and is intended to be expounded upon) This morning I was going to preach on avoiding evil – but then I thought, you don’t need that! Right? Some people don’t believe in evil, one man told me just over Christmas, that they didn’t believe in ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • Mark H. Stevens ThD avatar

    The History Of Sexual Sin

    Contributed by Mark H. Stevens Thd on Feb 2, 2014
     | 4,671 views

    A glance back through Biblical Histiry concerning sexual sin and it's effects on Israel and the Church today!

    THE HISTORY OF SEXUAL SIN 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    "Forgiveness"

    Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Sep 14, 2017
     | 9,146 views

    Forgiveness is a choice we must make accordin to the text in Matthew 18, if reuse to forgive wow are we.

    Matthew 18:21-35 | 9/17/2017 1. Forgiveness is a Choice I can choose to forgive or not • Scarlett Lewis lost her 6-year-old son Jesse in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He was one of 20 children killed in that horrific attack in 2012 -- an absolute nightmare come to life. ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    "It Is Finished"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Mar 26, 2015
     | 6,120 views

    A sermon for Good Friday.

    "It Is Finished" The main thrust of this sermon were borrowed from Jim Green Somerville John 19:17-30 "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?" Several years ago I was with a woman whose husband had just died. "I was in the kitchen," she cried, "I heard a noise from the living room, and ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    Give Us A New Year Series

    Contributed by The Rev Deniray Mueller on Jan 30, 2018
    based on 3 ratings
     | 24,105 views

    a new year of new possibilities

    For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal

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    A Lesson In Righteousness Series

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Feb 10, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,425 views

    Jesus graciously proclaims that his followers are salt and light. They live out a new righteousness established by the cross and empowered by the Spirit.

    Matthew 5:13-20 “A Lesson in Righteousness” INTRODUCTION There’s an old saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” We all know that this is not true. Words have a powerful effect in our lives. Each of us seems to have something ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    01 Introduction To Acts Series

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jan 10, 2012
     | 3,103 views

    Giving a brief background on Acts: It's Title, Author, & Content

    Introduction to Acts - What do you know about your family’s sp. history? - What is one way your family’s Sp. past has contributed to your Sp. present + Billy Graham going to a major crusade / a liberal in area didn’t want him to come / went to cmte. and said, we don’t want ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Cost Of The Cross

    Contributed by Jeffrey Sims on May 4, 2025
     | 503 views

    There is a cost involved in everything we do. It even cost us something to follow Jesus and yes, there is a cost even for The Cross

    Introduction: Counting the Cost Some things in life are easy to say but harder to live out. I remember a young firefighter in training. He was passionate, excited, and couldn’t wait to get out there and fight fires. But during a live burn drill, the flames got hotter than he expected, the smoke ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Tree

    Contributed by Michael Koplitz on Apr 26, 2022
     | 1,813 views

    Unity is so important for the church that Jesus spoke about it in the last narrative of Mark's Gospel. Why can the church not agree to disagree? She needs to come together as one!

    9 Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons. 10 She went and reported to those who had been with Him, while they were mourning and weeping. 11 When they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    What Revelations Has To Say To The U.s. Church Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 14, 2020
     | 2,000 views

    Do we have anything in common with the first-century church of Ephesus? Unfortunately, yes we do. Too much have we abandoned the love of Christ we had at first.

    Monday of 33rd Week in Course 2020 In this penultimate week of the Church year, the Church gives us snippets from the Book of Revelations, the last and in some ways most difficult book of the New Testament. You see today the style of the letters; the ones we have this week are written to churches ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Salt And Light

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Feb 3, 2023
     | 3,016 views

    We are commanded by Christ to be both Salt and Light to the world.

    You Are – Matthew 5: 13 - 20 Intro: A minister was making a wooden trellis to support a climbing vine. As he was pounding away, he noticed a little boy who was watching him. The youngster didn’t say a word, so the preacher kept on working, thinking the las would ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed