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  • Gregory Thomas avatar

    The Senses Can Disconnect You Series

    Contributed by Gregory Thomas on Jul 27, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,319 views

    If You Walk According to your five senses you can easilly fall into self and outside of God’s will.

    The Senses Can Disconnect Us Introduction In this third chapter of Genesis we find that God created man in his own image. That’s totally correct, we are made in God’s Image; nonetheless; though we are made in the image of God we yet have ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    A Greater Than Edison Is Here!

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Nov 28, 2007
    based on 36 ratings
     | 8,778 views

    The Light has come to dispell the darkness of the humna heart. Come, walk in His self-revelation.

    A Greater Than Edison Is Here! Isaiah 9:2,6-7 AS WE MAKE OUR JOURNEY THROUGH THE ADVENT SEASON, one symbol is preeminent—LIGHT! Tree lights, candle lights, houses, buildings, and malls decorated with lights. Perhaps it’s a parable of our times that we are rarely without ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Byron Sherman avatar

    The Love Of God-1

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on Feb 16, 2021
     | 2,200 views

    1 of 5. Paul highlighted the necessity of self-giving love to the proper outworking of Christian living. Self-giving love is essential to true Christianity, but How or in what ways is it essential? As A Christian, the Love of God must...

    The LOVE Of GOD-I—1Corinthians 13:1-13 Attention: Valentine’s Day is upon us, & our society is confused about the meaning of ‘love’, because it can carry a variety of meanings. In our society ‘love’ is most often portrayed thru books, movies, & television in a sentimental sense or a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Steven Simala Grant avatar

    It's All About Who?

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 11, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,253 views

    It’s All About Who? The Issue of Selfishness, And How Mothers Teach Us The Right Way To Live I thank God that we still have one sane institution in an insane world – motherhood. Perhaps the only place where self-giving, self-sacrificing, self-denial is

    It’s All About Who? The Issue of Selfishness, And How Mothers Teach Us The Right Way To Live May 8, 2005 1 Samuel 1:19-28 Intro: A Spanish proverb reads “An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” “Legally, a husband is the head of the house and a pedestrian has the right of way. Both are ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Tim Hinrichs avatar

    Back To School

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Sep 13, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 18,496 views

    We are in training in God's school of Christlikeness. Having already received the diploma, we are transformed by Christ to renounce the past, live godly lives in the present, and look forward to our future with hope and not fear.

    This week we sent our son back to school as he had his first taste of Junior High. Sometimes I look back to my High School years and believe it or not I wish I could do it over again and learn those lessons that I didn’t take so seriously and also not worry so much about things that ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Four Paths To Happiness--Two Are Dead-Ends

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 9, 2014
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    Of the four roads supposed to lead to happiness, two are dead-ends--the pursuit of pleasure and the pursuit of honor and power--but the paths of service and union with God actually get us there.

    Seventh Sunday in Course 2014 Our family has for several years tried each February 2, or thereabouts, to watch the Bill Murray film, “Groundhog Day.” For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, the movie follows Bill Murray as Phil Connors, a weather forecaster for a 2nd rank TV ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Prayer Keys - Humility Series

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Feb 16, 2012
     | 9,263 views

    Humility is being totally consumed with glorifying God and not at all concerned with glorifying self. When I am totally consumed with glorifying God and not at all concerned with glorifying self, I pray as God wants me to pray.

    PRAYER KEYS - HUMILITY One Christmas afternoon, a pastor's wife dropped into a chair and said, “Boy! Am I ever tired!” Her husband looked over at her and said, “I’ve been on my feet for most of two days. I led two special services last night, three today. I’ve ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Logos Is The Solid Rock Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 25, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,318 views

    Jesus challenged His disciples–and that means not just the original ones but us today–to build His Church on solid rock

    Thursday of the 12th Week in Course 2020 Logos is Solid Rock Rock or sand? Where do you build your house? On a solid foundation or on shifting sand? The listeners who heard Jesus’s words here probably had or knew someone who had built on a poor subsurface. After all, the region of Palestine is in ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

  • Tom Fuller avatar

    We're All Broken Series

    Contributed by Tom Fuller on Nov 21, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,781 views

    The human mind is self-rationalizing and self-deceptive. Without a guide, we have no idea what is right and good. God's Word offers that guide but it's more than just reading a guidebook and determining to do better. We need to come to grips with the brok

    Today we are going look at just three verses. Normally these verses might be couched in terms of “this is really bad stuff—this is sin—don’t do it!” While that is true, I want to handle these verses a little differently. Firstly, remember that these words are written ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

  • Derek Geldart avatar

    Two Models Of Living Series

    Contributed by Derek Geldart on Jun 10, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,777 views

    We can either live for Jesus or live for the pleasures of this world. Reading, memorizing, and meditating on God's word is not enough! To draw nearer to the Lord we simply must put His words into action by imitating those who imitate Christ!

    Two Model of Living one’s Life Philippians 3:17-21 Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567 To live one’s life worthy of the Gospel of Christ is far from an easy task! Though the believer has passed from death to life and is now sealed by the Holy Spirit does not mean one ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Charles Mallory avatar

    Setting Our Minds On Divine Things

    Contributed by Charles Mallory on Sep 12, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 841 views

    Jesus taught his disciples to set their minds on divine things such as denying themselves and taking up their crosses to follow him. He added to that statements about "losing" our lives and to not be ashamed of the Gospel. What does all this mean?

    THERE ARE PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE THAT CAN CREATE FEAR AND POSSIBLY DISTRESS DUE TO THEIR BLUNT, BUT HIDDEN MEANING. IN LUKE 14:26, WE ARE TOLD THAT “IF ANYONE COMES TO ME AND DOES NOT HATE FATHER AND MOTHER, WIFE AND CHILDREN, BROTHERS AND SISTERS—YES, EVEN THEIR OWN LIFE—SUCH A PERSON CANNOT BE MY ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

  • Charles Mallory avatar

    It's Our Choice

    Contributed by Charles Mallory on Sep 23, 2022
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     | 2,628 views

    Looking at the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, we see how costly it is to be focused only on "self" and not be mindful to be preparing our soul for eternity.

    THOMAS HOOKER, THE GREAT PURITAN LEADER AND FOUNDER OF THE COLONY OF CONNETICUT, ONCE WROTE THIS OF HELL: “CONCEIVE THIS MUCH, IF ALL THE DISEASES IN THE WORLD DID SEIZE ON ONE MAN, AND IF ALL THE TORMENT THAT ALL THE TYRANTS OF THE WORLD COULD DEVISE, WERE CAST AGAINST HIM; AND IF ALL THE ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

  • Michael Hollinger avatar

    Where God Is

    Contributed by Michael Hollinger on Nov 9, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,103 views

    When, in hope, we choose to endure suffering with the people of God over the fleeting pleasures of sin, we choose well, because God is with those who suffer.

    Title: Where is God? Invocation: Psalm 13 Responsive Reading: Romans 8:12-25 Text: Hebrews 11:23-28 3By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after his birth, because they saw that the child was beautiful; and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. 24By faith ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dr. George Calhoun avatar

    No Pain, No Gain Series

    Contributed by Dr. George Calhoun on Oct 25, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 34,044 views

    C.S. Lewis wrote: “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

    Luke 8: 40-56 What motivates you to make changes in your life? Think back to a time when you made a change in your life and ask the question, “What motivated me to make that change?” I’ve always been interested in what motivates people to make changes in their lives so this past week I did a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rick Kallstrom avatar

    Prepare To Meet Thy God

    Contributed by Rick Kallstrom on Jan 27, 2003
    based on 34 ratings
     | 10,754 views

    Today, we live in a world full of sin and corruption. It is a world that seems to focus more on the pleasures and material things that surround us than on the spiritual things of God!

    Today, we live in a world full of sin and corruption. It is a world that seems to focus more on the pleasures and material things that surround us than on the spiritual things of God! All across this wonderful place called planet Earth, a land created for us by God, men, women, boys and girls, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational