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  • Tim Hinrichs avatar

    Back To School

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Sep 13, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 18,532 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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    Take The Plank Out Of Your Eye

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Jan 27, 2014
     | 10,547 views

    Before we start speaking to an unbeliever, we need to pray, often in secret without saying a word to the person we are praying for in our prayer closet.

    Take the plank out of your eye! Luke 6:41, 42 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 42How can you say to your brother, ’Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    What Did Jesus Mean By "Whoever Loses His Life For Me Will Find It" Series

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Jul 19, 2013
    based on 3 ratings
     | 34,422 views

    A look at Jesus' difficult (and frequently ignored) teaching that "whoever lose his life for me will find it." What does that mean? What does it look like to live that out?

    WHAT DOES "LOSE YOUR LIFE TO FIND IT" MEAN ANYWAY? It means to pursue Jesus’ path even at the expense of my desires. - Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; Luke 17:33; John 12:25. - This is a foreign concept to many Christians. In the American church we largely ignore this ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    "...our Transgressions Are With Us ..."

    Contributed by Dr. Abraham Obadare on Aug 10, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,283 views

    We all must pray to God that our own inner nature will not destroy us.

    The book of Isa. 59:12 says, “For our transgressions before you are many,and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions indeed are with us, and we know our iniquities:” Scripture: Judges 16:1-end Using the account in Judges 16 as a case study, we realize that when we live with sin as Samson ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Know Yourself (Short Homily)

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Feb 10, 2012
    based on 69 ratings
     | 19,068 views

    This is a very short Homily titled "Know Yourself". That was used for the opening of a Men's retreat weekend.

    Let me share a reading from the Gospel of Mark with you. " They came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; and when he had put saliva on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    Have You Taken Your Spiritual Temperature Lately?

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Jun 8, 2012
    based on 8 ratings
     | 17,160 views

    2 Corinthians 13:5 tells us to examine ourselves to see if our faith is what it should be. Like Laodecia, many are unaware of their spiritual temperature. What about you? Have you taken your spiritual temperature lately?

    Have You Taken Your Spiritual Temperature Lately? Revelation 3:14-20 The church at Laodicea was one of two churches in the opening chapters of Revelation that were apparently unaware of their spiritual temperature. The other was Ephesus. Laodicea is a picture of a worldly church that has all the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The New Year: An Extra Time

    Contributed by Kayode Omotoso on Dec 29, 2014
     | 8,894 views

    It’s just like yesterday that we just greeted ourselves, “Happy new year.” Now, it is December again and another new year is knocking at our doors. How time flies!

    It’s just like yesterday that we just greeted ourselves, “Happy new year.” Now, it is December again and another new year is knocking at our doors. How time flies! Few years back, at the beginning of that year when everybody was celebrating witnessing another year and ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    The Wounded Identity

    Contributed by Larry Kettle on Sep 7, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,913 views

    Jesus carries wounds in heaven so that we can show his healing power on earth.

    “The Wounded Identity” Larry D. Kettle I have spent a lifetime grappling with a “wounded identity”. I know what it means to be victimized and I know what it means to “be the victim”. I was wounded by a sense of abandonment from my mother. I was seven when my ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    What Did The Lord Jesus Ask Of His Disciples

    Contributed by Antonius Fu on Jun 10, 2023
     | 1,732 views

    The Lord Jesus wants His followers to deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

    Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, today we will reflect on a theme related to discipleship. And we will learn about the price a disciple must pay through what the Lord Jesus said in His teaching. In the passage of God's word we see that the Lord Jesus told the people who were following Him ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Days Vanish Like Smoke

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 20, 2022
     | 1,223 views

    The young make mistakes, and if they don’t have a strong and self-controlled father figure in their lives, they often make rash decisions and hurt themselves and others in the act.

    Saturday of the 25th Week in Course 2022 When we read this portion of the Wisdom book of Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes, it is always wise itself to remember who is writing it to whom. The “preacher,” Qoheleth in Hebrew, is a wise man of advanced years. The reader or listener is redundantly called, “O ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    What Is Your Jack Story?

    Contributed by Rodney V Johnson on Nov 4, 2022
     | 3,192 views

    This message is about our self-fulling prophecies - how the stories we create in our minds often becomes the reality in which we live.

    What Is Your Jack Story? Scripture: Numbers 13:25-33; Proverbs 18:21; Hebrews 11:1 The title of my message this morning is “What Is Your Jack Story?” Let me start by telling you a jack story. “There was a traveling salesman who got stuck one night on a lonely country road with a flat tire ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Find Yourself By Dying

    Contributed by Christopher Arch on Jun 16, 2022
     | 2,354 views

    This is a one verse expository sermon.

    Title: Finding Yourself by Dying Script: Gal. 2:20 Type: Expository Where: 6-19-22 Intro: In her book, It Only Hurts When I Laugh, Ethel Barret tells how four outstanding servants of God died to self and sin. George Mueller, when questioned about his spiritual power, responded simply, “One ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Deny Your Dark Side Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Feb 1, 2021
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,555 views

    Salvation is free but discipleship will cost you your life.

    Trevin Wax writes, “Recent studies reveal 91 percent of Americans agree with this statement: ‘The best way to find yourself is by looking within yourself.’ In other words, if you want to discover who you are and what your purpose is, the place to look is inside your heart.” When I googled the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Peace & Persecution

    Contributed by Jonathan Kruschel on Aug 28, 2019
     | 3,038 views

    Are you comfortable in being a follower of Christ? Countless Christians around the world face intense persecution for being followers of Jesus, but they're not alone. We share in the struggles of being a Christian. Why is that? Listen to Jesus' call to deny yourself and follow him.

    Each year, a Christian organization called “Open Doors” publishes a list of the top 50 countries where Christians are most intensely persecuted for their faith. Physical violence, death threats, execution, imprisonment, rape, neglect, burning of homes, bombing of churches, abandoned by family, ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Pray Humbly

    Contributed by The Rev Deniray Mueller on Oct 21, 2019
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,786 views

    if we pray with an open heart, it will be heard and we will be forgiven

    Last week we heard about the persistent widow, who by constantly praying and badgering an unjust judge, got the justice she deserved. And we were reminded that because of God’s love for us we can pray for justice in our own lives and it will be delivered. Today we heard another scripture that ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal