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  • Stephen Sheane avatar

    What Is Your Calling?

    Contributed by Stephen Sheane on Aug 25, 2010
    based on 11 ratings
     | 25,345 views

    Have you failed or fallen in ministry? God wants you to review, renew and rest in your calling.

    WHAT IS YOUR CALLING? Two Kentucky horse racing stable owners had developed a keen rivalry. Each spring they both entered a horse in a local race. One of them thought that having a professional rider might give his horse an edge in the race, so he hired a hot-shot jockey. Well, the day of the race ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

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    Look Both Ways Before Crossing

    Contributed by Wayne Lawson on May 10, 2012
    based on 10 ratings
     | 17,348 views

    Sometimes our attenion becomes so focused in one direction that we fail to acknowledge other realities.

    TITLE: LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING SCRIPTURE: ST. LUKE 14:25-33 I want to lift up this morning as a thought – Look Ways Before Crossing. This has always been sound advice. Matter of fact it is one of the earliest recollections of instructions that I have as a child. I can recall ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Growing Through Failure Series

    Contributed by Mark Nichols on Apr 10, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,633 views

    Everyone fails. It’s what you do in the midst of that failure whether or not growth will take place.

    TEXT: John 8:1-7, Psalm 103 TITLE: Growing Pain #1: Growing through failure! SERIES: The Growing Church TOPIC: Spiritual Growth OCCASION: Burnside Christian Church, April 6, 2008 PROP.: Everyone fails. It’s what you do in the midst of that failure whether or not growth will take place. ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Can God Use Me?

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Dec 2, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 13,839 views

    Jesus restores and reaffirms us when we fail, making us fit for the Master’s use.

    Title: Can God Use Me? Text: John 21:15-19 Introduction: Annie Armstrong It is said that Annie Armstrong never tired of serving God and serving people. In 1893 because of her belief in the powerful hand of God to change lives and our world she wrote over 18,000 letters many by hand. She was the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Michael Stark avatar

    Second Generation Syndrome

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Jun 2, 2007
    based on 24 ratings
     | 15,896 views

    Why do so many children of professing Christians fail to live up to the light received in the home?

    When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land. And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the LORD had done for Israel. And ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Rotting Harvest

    Contributed by David Hicks on Nov 15, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,642 views

    Jesus has compassion on the lost. The field are white, but if we fail to do nothing, the harvest may rot.

    The Rotting Harvest Matthew 9:35-38 Her husband, the love of her life and father of her children had just died. It was a heart attack in the middle of the night. Filled with shock and grief, she struggled to make sense of the events of the past 24 hours. He was so young. He seemed so strong. ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    A Fresh Start

    Contributed by Phillip Day on Jan 24, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,786 views

    Sometimes we fail so miserably that we just need a fresh start to relationships/ministries with God.

    A Fresh Start Jonah 3:1-4 I. You Must Be Willing to Accept Responsibility for Your Previous Actions (Jonah 1:7-12) a. Acknowledge the wrong you have done (v. 10; 1 John 1:8-10) b. Understand the consequences of your sin (v. 12; Luke 12:47-48) II. You Must Be Willing to Humble Yourself (Jonah ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Don't Get Tired Series

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Feb 9, 2008
    based on 24 ratings
     | 27,039 views

    Everyone has bad days. Everyone stumbles. Even the best of us fail. What will you do?

    Don’t get tired Galatians 6:7-10 I had a friend in college who used to say, "get behind early, that way you have plenty of time to catch up." His philosophy was supported by the assumption that nobody could keep up. You might as well fall behind in a way that makes sense. Right? Maybe. It ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite

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    Servant Leadership Part 5: Listening Series

    Contributed by Dr. Madana Kumar, Phd on Mar 13, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,104 views

    One of the key attributes of Servant Leadership is listening. Many times we fail to listen to others and to God.

    Servant Leadership Part 5 Listening Preaching is the art of talking in some one else’s sleep We start sharp at 9.30 and end dull at 11.30 In 1974, at the North Presbyterian Church in Minnesota, USA, one member of the congregation was Art Fry. Art Fry used to work as a scientist with 3M ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Press On Series

    Contributed by Mark Connelly on Aug 24, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 12,400 views

    People will let you down. You will fail. So determine now to be people who PRESS ON to the end.

    In this series, I’ve been telling you stories of four heroes of the faith. My hope is that these heroes would stir your soul to follow Jesus more closely, and you’d have new stories of the faith to tell your children, and your children’s children. (Phil 3-typically go thru ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Jesus: The Most High!

    Contributed by Kelly Durant on Nov 28, 2015
     | 3,201 views

    People live with too much stress.Jesus offers a way to deal with it. Man's ways fail.

    Jesus: The Most High! Kelly Durant John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 2. When I first started out evangelizing in the 1970’s, there were a lot of drugs, oriental ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Singing While Entering Into God’s Rest

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Aug 3, 2016
     | 6,202 views

    Where the Isralites failed to rest through faith in God,we have the opprotunity to enter through faith.

    Singing While Entering Into God’s Rest Psalm 95:1-11 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. 3 For the Lord is the great God, And the great King ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Closer

    Contributed by Greg Burcham on Sep 4, 2016
     | 10,111 views

    This sermon deals with some of the reasons we fail to draw close to God and the virtues of being close to God.

    How close is close enough? Closer Zeno’s paradox. Imagine I had high school boys and girls lined up at opposite ends of the gym and had them half the distance between them every 10 seconds, how long would it be before they are touching? Well, if I always half the distance, they will never ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Limitless Love

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Feb 13, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,084 views

    It is natural to love them that love us, but it is supernatural to love them that hate us. Love never fails.

    Opening illustration: Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. "I do not only want to get rid of him, I want to get even. Before I divorce him, I want to hurt him as much as he has me." Dr. Crane suggested an ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Actions Are Weighed!

    Contributed by Bala Samson on May 29, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,149 views

    You will be rewarded according to your faithfulness and sincerity. I challenge you, He would never fail!

    Actions are weighed! 1 Samuel 2: 3” Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. The Bible says, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks and here we see Hannah pouring out her ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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