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Facing Partiality Series

Contributed by Tom Jamieson on Jan 16, 2003

“If you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors" (James 2:9). God hates partiality.

Introduction “Is God biased?” As a Jew, Peter might have thought so. After all, the priests who served Him were Jews, the prophets who proclaimed Him were Jews, and the scholars who described Him were Jews. They were God’s “chosen people” -- the guardians of His Temple and His Law, the recipients ...read more

Scripture: Acts 10:23-48

Denomination: Baptist

The Faces In The Crowd Series

Contributed by Jerry Stepp on Mar 31, 2007

Points on those gathered in the crowd to see Christ as He travled to the Hill top of Calvary

The Faces in the Crowd Luke 23:24-33 March 18th 2007 Pastor Jerry Stepp This is not the kind of kingdom that either the Palm Sunday or Good Friday crowds wanted. You see, God’s grace is the enemy of all “institutionalized religion.” Institutional religion wants to control people by misusing the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 23:24-33

Denomination: Baptist

The Faces Of Opposition

Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Dec 7, 2006

We should not be surprised that the gospel is opposed. We’d like to think that everyone will just accept this wonderful news, but that is not the case. Let’s look at the faces of that opposition.

Passage: Acts 17:1-33 Intro: One of the recurring themes of Acts is opposition. 1. mostly from the Jews, but others as well. 2. it was as well as recurring theme in the life of ministry of Christ. 3. we can draw this principle; that where the gospel goes, opposition will arise in one form or ...read more

Scripture: Acts 17:1-34

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Facing The Giants

Contributed by Michael Wilson on Nov 26, 2006

This sermon is based on the clip from Facing the Giants. It’s deals with vision and whole-hearted commitment. You can get the clip from SermonSpice.com (http://www.sermonspice.com/videos/2488/wholehearted/).

Facing the Giants Introduction Proverbs 29:18 What is vision: the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur. Key questions --Why do you get up every day? --What keeps you going through tough times? --What motivates and ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 29:18

Denomination: Charismatic

Facing The Court Series

Contributed by Tom Fuller on Nov 16, 2008

The Apostle Paul has put himself in harms way and now stands before a Roman court. Thanks to the Lord working through other people, he is bold to share his faith - a boldness we can have too.

As we saw in verse 11 of chapter 23, Jesus’ will was for Paul to go to Rome. Paul may have not known just how he was going to get there but here he was in Roman custody, having barely escaped being torn to death twice—first by the Asian Jews in the Temple and second by the Sanhedrin itself. What ...read more

Denomination: Calvary Chapel

Facing The Giants

Contributed by John Putty on Apr 16, 2011

Dealing with obstacles to church growth spiritual and practical

Facing the Giants 1 Sam 17:1-11(KJV) 1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:1-11

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Facing Fear

Contributed by Jeff Pearce on Feb 1, 2012

Faith over fear

Facing fear Intro: What does being afraid do? 1: Hesitation a) you second guess b) you wait when you should move c) you stand still Point: Fear is something everyone who has ever lived has had to deal with, at one point and time even the bravest men and women felt fear creep into their hearts ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:1-58

Denomination: Other

Face The Facts

Contributed by Benjamin Gibbs on Jul 24, 2018

Truth is sometimes a bit different than what we first believed. So, if you should learn about the deep things of God, and it is not as you thought it was, would you embrace it or disgrace it. would you believe it or not . STUDY TO SHOW YOURSELF APPROVED, VERSE BY VERSE!

summary: What if you should learn of an updated present truth, would you embrace it or disgrace it. STUDY TO SHOW YOURSELF APPROVED, VERSE BY VERSE! A doctrine supported by an inspirational verse from the Bible does not necessarily guarantee that the doctrine is correctly interpreted - For ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 15:9

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Facing The Giants

Contributed by Isaac Magsino on Apr 30, 2020

Intro: Everyone knows what it’s like to be afraid. Our fears can be paralyzing…. It is one of the weapons used by Satan for us to not continue in our Christian life. It is like a big GIANTS in our lives that hinder us to continue.

FACING THE GIANTS Verse: Selected Intro: Everyone knows what it’s like to be afraid. We all have things that we’re afraid of. A fear I think we have all had at one time or another. There are hidden fears that motivate us too. Fear of failure causes many people to never start, or try anything ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 12:2, 1 Samuel 17:8

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Facing Temptation Series

Contributed by Jonathan Kruschel on Mar 28, 2019

Struggling temptation is not uncommon to us nor was it uncommon to Jesus. See how Jesus' struggle against temptation helps us as we daily face temptation.

Do you ever feel like you’re wearing one of these (a target)? Maybe it’s that you feel like you’re being blamed for everything that is going wrong in other people’s lives, even when it’s not your fault. Maybe it’s more of the personal attacks that are being fired in your direction because of what ...read more

Scripture: Luke 4:1-13

Denomination: Lutheran

Part 3---Pray And Seek Series

Contributed by Bob Soulliere on May 1, 2007

But when we seek the first thing we must seek is God’s kingdom, not our own. We need to stop worrying about tomorrow because today has enough problems of its own. When we are doing God’s work and concentrate on that our problems will go away. When we seek

What God expects of us Part 3---Pray and seek We have talked for the past 2 weeks about what God wants us to do. We discussed dedication and sacrifice and even humbleness. Today we are going to continue with that thought about what God wants us to do, then next week we will go into what God will ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7:14-16

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

My Trust Is In Him

Contributed by Matthew Davaughn Cox on Apr 9, 2013

Psalm 9:10- And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou Lord has not forsaken them that seek thee.

Putting your trust in God at all times. We should be able to put our trust in God everyday of our life. There should not be a day of our life that we don’t trust God. If we can trust our friend we can trust God. God will never turn his back on you. God will have your back no matter what goes ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 9:10

Denomination: *other

Restore My Soul Series

Contributed by Mark Haines on Oct 16, 2009

We often seek restoration for our weary souls in the very things that tear us down but we need the Lord to restore our souls.

PATTERN: PASTORAL CARE INTERVENTION THIS IS OUR PROBLEM: Everyone in this room has seen someone with a worn out, dried up, caved in, torn down, burned out soul this morning. Perhaps you woke next to him. Possibly it was the guy who cut you off in traffic on the way to worship. By chance it was ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 23:5

Denomination: Wesleyan

Judged By My Own Actions Series

Contributed by Michael Stark on Oct 15, 2017

A study of the continual struggle each believer faces as the Spirit confronts the flesh.

“If it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, ‘You shall not covet.’ But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I ...read more

Scripture: Romans 7:7-20

Denomination: Baptist

Do We Really Want Forgiveness And Healing? Series

Contributed by Doug Fannon on Aug 17, 2017

God will hear our prayers, forgive our sins, heal our land, but we must humble ourselves, pray and seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways.

Opening Illustration: During the Revolutionary war, Colonel Rall, A Hessian (German) commander at Trenton, New Jersey, was playing cards when a courier brought a message stating that General George Washington was crossing the Delaware River. It was Christmas Day evening 1776. Rall put the letter ...read more

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7:13-14

Denomination: Baptist