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  • Christopher Arch avatar

    "quit Your Complaining"

    Contributed by Christopher Arch on Jun 19, 2025
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    Series on Philippians

    Title: “Quit Your Complaining!” Script: Phil. 2:14-16 Type: Expos/Series Where: GNBC 6-22-25 Intro: The title of my sermon today might easily be heard in any household where a mother is at home with her small children. Or where possibly teenagers are in the home. Or where young adults are in ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Taking Christ Out Of Christmas

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Dec 30, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 7,792 views

    What would happen if we took all of the Religious elements out of Christmas?

    Have you noticed that every year people seem more intent on secularizing Christmas? They wish you a “Happy Holiday” or “Seasons Greetings” then have presentations at school that make no mention of the Manger or the Wise Men let alone the Christ Child. Now I may be a little overly sensitive but ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    The Father Of Lights

    Contributed by Joshua Blackmon on Jun 14, 2025
     | 105 views

    The world is constantly changing, but our Father is constant.

    Sermon Title: “The Father of Lights” Introduction: A World of Shadows and Flickering Lights I want you to picture a moment from your day—maybe one that happened just yesterday evening. The sun was low in the sky, and it began casting long shadows across the room or your backyard. Things that looked ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    A Thousand Points Of Light

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 21, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,192 views

    God’s people are the light of the world. Each act of love is an example of the will designed to pierce the darkness.

    A Thousand Points of Light Matt 5:13-16 13 "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. 14 "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Brian Bill avatar

    Why You Can Trust The Bible Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on May 5, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,563 views

    If we believe the Scriptures are inspired, inerrant and authoritative, we must need, reed, feed, heed and seed the Bible.

    Why You Can Trust the Bible 2 Peter 1:16-21 Rev. Brian Bill May 2-3, 2015 Revelation Song Announce National Day of Prayer this Thursday and then pray for Nepal, Baltimore, and the Supreme Court. Communion Meditation On Tuesday and Wednesday I was up in Madison to speak to some young men who ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Light Of The World

    Contributed by Brian Menear on Apr 14, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,567 views

    What was the light that was present at Creation?-Jesus Christ

    Light of The World(NIV) Genesis 1:1-4 GE 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. GE 1:3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Mark A. Barber avatar

    Comfort Ye My People: An Exposition Of Isaiah 40:1-11

    Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Nov 28, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,003 views

    In times like this, we need to be comforted as well as to give words of true comfort/

    Comfort Ye My People: An Exposition of Isaiah 40:1-11 Whenever we hear the word “comfort,” we think of the word “discomfort.” One does not need to be comforted when one is already comfortable. Comfort is a hot bowl of soup when one has been working outside in the freezing cold all day. Comfort is ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Ovidiu Radulescu avatar

    Human Smoothies In God's Blender Series

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Jan 22, 2015
    based on 12 ratings
     | 7,905 views

    Blenders are designed to take independent foods and integrate them to create something new, bigger and better than any one item could be on its own. What a housewife does in a kitchen when she mixes the batter for a cake, God does with the Universe.

    Blenders are designed to take independent foods and integrate them to create something new, bigger and better than any one item could be on its own. What a housewife does in a kitchen when she mixes the batter for a cake, God does with the Universe. (BRING A BLENDER, show an tell...) God is the ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

  • Brian Moon avatar

    Faith And Freedom From Doubts Series

    Contributed by Brian Moon on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 3,350 views

    Part three of a series done on 1st John

    “Dear John,” part 3 (Faith and Freedom from Doubts) Story – When I was just a little boy my mom was walking with me through our neighborhood. I was on my brand new tricycle and was pretending to be some big racecar driver when I saw a lady walking a little white puppy. I asked my mom if I could go ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Peter Schmidt avatar

    Three Steps To Sainthood Series

    Contributed by Peter Schmidt on Nov 17, 2003
    based on 73 ratings
     | 8,717 views

    The Roman Catholic Church has a 3-step process to being recognized as a saint. Daniel 12 shows the Bible’s 3 steps to sainthood. Saints aren’t extraordinary Christians who do miracles. Saints realize their sins, trust their Savior, and share their Savior!

    Saints Triumphant Daniel 12:1-3 Maybe you have heard the buzz these days in the Catholic Church about saints and sainthood. As I’m sure you’ve heard, the current pope isn’t doing too well health-wise, and before he passes away, one of the things he’s determined to do is to get this woman called ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • John Sears avatar

    When The Bear Is Giving Chase Series

    Contributed by John Sears on Sep 28, 2011
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,854 views

    We all experience conflict in life. Often times conflict happens with people we are closest to. Somtimes, the relationship we thought would last forever is blown apart by it. How do we handle this conflict when it happens or repair the relationship?

    Introduction: Two long time friends decide to go camping in the woods for the weekend. They pack up their gear and head out. As they hike to their favorite campsite, a large grizzly bear ambles onto the path about 100 yards in front of them. Both friends freeze in their tracks hoping the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • Jason Bonnicksen avatar

    The Lamp Of Life

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Jul 10, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,145 views

    God gives to us to light the path beneath our feet.

    INTRO Let me ask you a couple of silly questions. Have you ever walked down a darkened hallway in the middle of the night, and then stubbed your toe, or bumped into a wall or something else? How about this one: have you ever walked outside at night without the use of artificial light and ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Mark Aarssen avatar

    Come See The Everlasting Light

    Contributed by Mark Aarssen on Feb 4, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,395 views

    On New Year’s Day more than a billion people were looking to a light that was falling instead of rising and nearly all of these people were Gentiles who were looking in the wrong place for their hope and their joy.

    Message: Isaiah 60:1-6 Light figures prominently in New Years and at Christmas. Maybe you stayed up on New Year’s Eve to watch the “Ball Drop” from New York City. It’s a tradition that goes back to December 31, 1907. Ever since that first “Ball Drop” people ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Mary Erickson avatar

    Testify To The Light

    Contributed by Mary Erickson on Dec 18, 2023
     | 767 views

    A sermon for the third Sunday of Advent, Year B

    December 17, 2023 Rev. Mary Erickson Hope Lutheran Church John 1:6-8, 19-28 Testify to the Light Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. I saw a PBS show a few weeks ago about Dark Sky Preserves. They’re part of the greater Dark Sky ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Ken Sauer avatar

    "On The Mountain And In The Valley"

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Feb 27, 2014
    based on 5 ratings
     | 10,923 views

    A sermon for Transfiguration of the Lord Sunday.

    "On the Mountain and In the Valley" Matthew 17:1-9 A friend writes: When my daughter-in-law noticed that her two-year-old daughter was ignoring her food, she said, "Keri, why aren't you eating?" Keri replied, "I can't eat; God told me not to." Her mother chided: "God wouldn't tell you not ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist