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  • Brian Menear avatar

    It's A New Season

    Contributed by Brian Menear on Apr 13, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 16,654 views

    Just are there are seasons with crops there are seasons of your life. Planting, Growing, Tending, Harvesting, and Planning.

    “It’s a New Season” Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ECC 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: ECC 3:2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, ECC 3:3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, ECC ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Life Verse Series

    Contributed by Keith Andrews on May 23, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,522 views

    Opening Sermon to the "From the Heart" Series. Discusses my life verse.

    Life verse All scripture listed NKJV: The New King James Version. 1996, c1982. Nashville: Thomas Nelson. As we are winding down the year here, I wanted to do a series of messages that to me are very important. I believe that God call all of us to do and to teach different areas. 1 Corinthians ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Identify A Counterfeit

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 30, 2005
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    Today we live in a media saturated world where we find dozens of "medicine men and women" dishing all kinds of partial truths. We all need the Holy Spirit’s discernment to identify counterfeit teachers, leaders and purveyors of ideas that are not 100% tr

    How to Identify a Counterfeit (2 Cor. 11:12-18) Today we live in a media saturated world where we find dozens of "medicine men and women" dishing all kinds of partial truths. We all need the Holy Spirit’s discernment to identify counterfeit teachers, leaders and purveyors of ideas that are not ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Deviled Ham

    Contributed by Ron Hietsch on Jun 6, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,585 views

    We too can sit at Jesus' feet restored --- forgiven for all of our sins ---- because of His atoning death for us on the cross and His glorious resurrection.

    June 19, 2016 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Year C Text Luke 8:26 - 39 Deviled Ham Earlier in Luke Chapter 8 we see that while Jesus and the disciples were sailing across the sea of Galilee to the Gerasenes ------ normally a short trip by boat ----- a nasty, life threatening, storm came up. Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Maturing In Our Faith

    Contributed by Darrin Fish on Sep 3, 2015
     | 5,620 views

    In life we are called to encourage others

    Maturing in our faith INTRO.- ILL.- There once was a man whose life long dream was to sail around the world in his boat. • And as he set off on his Voyage • There was a crowd of people laughing at him on the pier • They were saying things like you’ll never make ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Living In Thanksgiving: Dependence Series

    Contributed by Charles Whitmire on Nov 9, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,427 views

    This message focuses on our need to remember all that God does for us ...rather than independent, we are dependent on Him.

    This morning, we are continuing our series on living in thanksgiving - and lets begin again by reading this text - (read Psalm 100:1-5) Over the last couple weeks we’ve been talking about how to become people who live with a thankful heart. We’ve talked about learning to delight ourselves in God ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Christ Saves In A Perilous Storm Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 4, 2018
     | 4,151 views

    Jesus entered the boat; Jesus is the master of the Church. The disciples–that’s you and I–we follow Him into the boat.

    24th Sunday after Pentecost 2018 “At that time, Jesus entered into the boat, and His disciples followed Him.” In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, Amen. The stories of the Holy Gospel are interesting reading in themselves, and sometimes even exciting. Here we have the tale of Jesus and ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

  • Rodney Johnson Sr., avatar

    God Will Use Unusual Circumstances To Bring Us To A Greater Level

    Contributed by Rodney Johnson Sr., on May 17, 2003
    based on 66 ratings
     | 8,022 views

    This text will show the believer the uniqueness of Divine ways.

    Introduction: God’s ways are not our ways. His dealings with mankind are a cause for wonder. In today’s text, we find God using a storm to bring His disciples to a greater level. Those who expect to grow should expect storms and difficulties. There is a saying that " no one can climb a smooth ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Test Of Our Hearts And Minds

    Contributed by Dustin T Parker on Dec 27, 2009
     | 5,183 views

    What is the real test of our faith?

    Concordia Lutheran Church Pentecost 16, September 20 2009 , “A Test of our Hearts and Minds” Jeremiah 11:18-20 † IN THE NAME OF JESUS † May you be full of joy, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort; 3 Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Tending To Life Beneath The Surface Series

    Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 22, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,078 views

    Intro to the series on Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

    Tending to Life Beneath the Surface Series: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Brad Bailey – January 15, 2012 Intro Most of us know something of the tragedy of the Titanic. [1] It was created with great pride and potential… created as the largest and most lavish passenger steamship in ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Change: Change We Can Believe In Series

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 26, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,477 views

    Learn from Barnabas. Know the power of encouragement and believe in the power of the Holy Spirit in changing lives. Don’t just look at who a person is, but who he can become in Christ.

    Paul wanted to go on a second missionary journey, to return the churches they had visited on the first journey. • He shared the plan with Barnabas, who suggested taking John Mark with them again, and a quarrel broke out. • Mark had travelled with them on the first journey (Acts 13:5 ‘as their ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Dennis Davidson avatar

    God’s Omnipresence Or Everywhere Presence Series

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Apr 22, 2019
    based on 2 ratings
     | 14,383 views

    The Omnipresence of God means that there is no place in creation where God does not exist. It will take a while to wrap our mind around that thought.

    Our Awesome God Series: GOD’S OMNIPRESENCE OR EVERYWHERE PRESENCE PSALM 139: 7-12 God is unlike anything we know or experience. God is infinite. God is not subject to space and time. This is the second of God’s “omni” attributes we want to study. The word omnipresent is easy to understand. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Byron Harvey avatar

    God In The Storm Series

    Contributed by Byron Harvey on Jan 18, 2010
     | 5,643 views

    This continues my series through the book of Acts.

    “God in the Storm” Acts 27 August 17, 2008 The opportunities are many and the temptation is strong for a preacher to take this passage and approach it from an allegorical perspective. Some pastors have done just this and posted their messages online, with titles ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    Be Encourage Part 3 Series

    Contributed by Rodney V Johnson on Apr 14, 2013
     | 6,665 views

    This message focuses on how God will bless others because of us and my experience with a special five year old girl who is anointed by God.

    Be Encouraged Part 3 Scripture: Acts 27:21-25; Ezekiel 14:22-23 Introduction: As I shared with you last week, on the night that He was betrayed Jesus spent time with His disciples encouraging them in order to prepare them for what they would soon experience because of His death and ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    That Sinking Feeling

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 27, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,287 views

    Followers of Jesus can have hope though His divine 1) Authority (Matthew 14:22–23), 2) Knowledge (Matthew 14:24–25), 3) Protection (Matthew 14:26–27), 4) Love (Matthew 14:28-31), and divine 5) Power (Matthew 14:32-33).

    Matthew 14:22-33 [22] Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. [23] And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, [24] but the boat by this ...read more

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