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  • Mark Atherton avatar

    Backyard Religion

    Contributed by Mark Atherton on Apr 28, 2001
    based on 86 ratings
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    a faith of our own making will not cut it

    1) Backyard Religion doesn’t take sin seriously. (17:1-2) ----------Godly sorrow vs. worldly sorrow (2Cor. 7:10) 2) Backyard Religion worships in spirit but not in truth. (17:3-6) ---------“There’s a way that seems right to a man but in the end it leads to death.” ---------“Not everyone who says ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Roger Hasselquist avatar

    Branches - Broken And Grafted

    Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Apr 11, 2022
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    The main thing to learn from Romans chapter 11 is the fact that God wants to restore us to Himself. He wants us, Jew and gentile alike, to be His people and realize how precious a thing He has done for us.

    Alba 3-10-2022 BRANCHES – BROKEN AND GRAFTED Romans 11:11-32 Today is the day we refer to as Palm Sunday. It commemorates the event when Jesus entered the city of Jerusalem at the beginning of that week when He would die on the cross for us. It was a day of celebration. Jesus was being hailed ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Chris Surber avatar

    Living The Dash Series

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Sep 8, 2010
    based on 8 ratings
     | 32,833 views

    Sermon 1 in a 6 part series based on Kerry & Chris Shook's "One Month To Live."

    Living the Dash, James 3:13-18 Introduction (Series) Today we begin a 6 part journey based off of Kerry & Chris Shook’s book entitled “One Month to Live.” The book and this sermon series ask the question, “What if you knew for sure that you have just 30 days left to live? ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • Dr. Ronald Shultz avatar

    Flower Quickly Fading

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Apr 20, 2020
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    Your life is a frail flower, not an oak tree. Be fragrant like a blue bonnet, not a stink weed or an irritant like ragweed.

    Jas 1:10  But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.  11  For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Daniel McCalister avatar

    Let God Be Bigger

    Contributed by Daniel Mccalister on Jan 13, 2016
    based on 4 ratings
     | 17,640 views

    The focus of this sermon was to help our students know the purpose of letting God become greater and for them to become less, and that he is theirs, always with them.

    Let God be Bigger: John 3:30 Sometimes in our lives we forget about what is truly important. We are always go go go, and rarely stop to thank the person/people in that means most to us in our lives. To some it might be your Father, Mother, Girlfriend, Boyfriend, Favorite Teacher, For some of us ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    They Were Out Of Their Minds Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 3, 2025
     | 102 views

    God’s works are always greater than we can describe.

    Pentecost Sunday 2025 Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and enkindle in them the first of your love. This prayer was one of the first I learned back in grade school, and, of course, I had no idea the depth of richness of its meaning. We rarely do understand what prayers mean ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

  • Barry Edmondson avatar

    We Walk By Faith, Not By Sight (A Long Walk On A Short Pier)

    Contributed by Barry Edmondson on Aug 10, 2008
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    Your intellect and your five senses are hollering “No! It won’t work. I’ll make a fool of myself.” But God’s Word and His Spirit say “Yes!” We are faced daily with challenges to walk by faith, not by sight.

    •• Philip took the proverbial “long walk on a short pier”. He had been having an immensely successful revival in the city of Samaria, with many conversions and healings, signs, and wonders manifested (Acts 8:5-8). Philip immediately left all that to follow the instructions from “an angel of ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Thomas Lanthrip avatar

    The Doctrine Of Regeneration

    Contributed by Thomas Lanthrip on Sep 20, 2006
    based on 11 ratings
     | 8,247 views

    A message designed to cut to the heart of the nature of salvation.

    The Doctrine of Regeneration John 3: 1-21 Quote: “As to its nature and source it is a supernatural, creative act of the Holy Spirit, not reforming our old nature, but giving us a new one alongside of the old.” James M. Gray Intro: Last week we looked at the truth of the matter about man’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Gethsemane - "The Spirit Is Willing But The Body Is Weak"

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Dec 15, 2009
    based on 11 ratings
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    Good intentions don’t cut it!

    Gethsemane – “The Spirit is Willing but the Body is Weak” Matthew 26:36-46 August 23, 2009 Me: I have never been known as a person of physical strength. I don’t think anyone will ever confuse me with say, Arnold Schwarzenegger or anybody like that. When we were working on the parking lot, I ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Dennis Davidson avatar

    Justified By Faith Series

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on May 23, 2011
    based on 21 ratings
     | 25,319 views

    Justification by faith humbles man by excluding all grounds of boasting. Justification by faith also provides opportunity for all mankind to be saved but still upholds the value of the Law which we have all broke.

    ROMANS 3: 27-31 JUSTIFIED BY FAITH Praise God for His offer of forgiveness through faith in Jesus Christ! Those who don’t take God up on His offer don’t truly see themselves as sinners in need of salvation. They make boasts such as: My good actions outweigh my bad. I’m ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan avatar

    Always Go Well Series

    Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on Jan 2, 2022
     | 2,540 views

    2022 is another challenging critical year with the variant of Omicron. There may be many long-term goals pending, modified, cut short because of the difficulties, defeats, and failures we faced for the last two years due to the Pandemic turning into an endemic living with Corona

    Theme: Always go well Text: Deuteronomy 12:26-32 The Lord is good and his love endures forever. Illustration: In the middle of a sermon, a man in the congregation got up and walked outside. The wife went up to the pastor after the sermon to apologize for her husband's rude behavior. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Glenn Durham avatar

    Is The Gospel For The Devout? Series

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Mar 6, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 10,250 views

    The Easter message cuts to the heart of those who are devout.

    Introduction “Luis Palau tells of a woman in Peru whose life was radically transformed by the Gospel. Rosario was a terrorist, a brute of a woman, an expert in martial arts who had killed 12 policemen. When Palau conducted a crusade in Lima, she learned of it, and incensed by the message of ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Christopher Holdsworth avatar

    An Unchained Gospel

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Sep 24, 2013
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,692 views

    Cutting a straight furrow with the Word of God and avoiding catastrophe.

    AN UNCHAINED GOSPEL. 2 Timothy 2:8-15. I. SALVATION WITH ETERNAL GLORY (2 Timothy 2:8-10). Paul asks Timothy to “remember Jesus Christ raised from the dead’ (2 Timothy 2:8). Here in the Greek of 2 Timothy 2:8 the resurrection is mentioned BEFORE the Lord’s nativity into the house of David. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • John Lowe avatar

    Psalm 37: When Wickedness Triumphs On Earth Series

    Contributed by John Lowe on Nov 4, 2019
     | 13,610 views

    The first eleven verses look at things from the point of view of the righteous man. The theological foundation for the psalm is the covenant God made with Israel, recorded in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 27-30.

    Tom Lowe Title: PSALM 37: WHEN WICKEDNESS TRIUMPHS ON EARTH A psalm of David. Part 1 Prospects That Are Foreign to the Wicked (verses 1-11) Part 2 Pursuits That Are Favored by the Wicked (verses 12-22) Part 3 Paths That Are Forsaken by the Wicked (verses 23-31) Part 4 Points that are ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Daniel Olukoya avatar

    Axes Upon Thick Trees

    Contributed by Daniel Olukoya on Aug 2, 2006
    based on 114 ratings
     | 24,056 views

    A thick tree requires more effort than a tender plant in cutting it down.God wants you to become His battle axe, to cut down such trees.

    Jeremiah 51:20-23: ”Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; With thee also ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal