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  • Steve Ely avatar

    Stolen - Pt. 1 - Presence Series

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Jan 17, 2019
     | 4,896 views

    Have you ever experienced theft? Something that is rightfully yours taken? This year, during Christmas, it is time to get those things back!

    Presence I. Introduction No one likes a thief at any time of the year but especially at Christmas. You have read or seen accounts of families who have lost everything at Christmas due to a thief breaking into home or car. All hope seems to be lost. It seems Christmas for all of its emphasis on ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Stolen - Pt. 2 - Opportunities Series

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Jan 17, 2019
     | 3,315 views

    Have you ever experienced theft? Something that is rightfully yours taken? This year, during Christmas, it is time to get those things back!

    Sermon Bumper Opportunities I. Introduction UPS expects to deliver 750 million packages this season, up from 500 million five years ago. The parcel service typically ships more than 19 million packages a day. But between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, that daily volume nearly doubles. What also ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Stolen - Pt. 3 - Peace Series

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Jan 17, 2019
     | 3,797 views

    Have you ever experienced theft? Something that is rightfully yours taken? This year, during Christmas, it is time to get those things back!

    Peace I. Introduction Porch Pirates! Thieves that capitalize on packages left unattended on the front porch. This category of thief has led to a booming business in video doorbells which enable us to record this activity. In fact, a startup video doorbell company was recently purchased by Amazon ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Unleash The Gospel Series

    Contributed by Russ Barksdale on Nov 13, 2017
     | 6,409 views

    A generosity initiative that will enable us to cooperate with God in achieving the vision to make a greater impact for Him; to push back the darkness faster & better.

    October 8 Unleash the Gospel (Acts 1:8) (Ephesians 3:20-21) In every contest, there comes a turning point; something that changes the momentum and even the outcome of the game. We are at that place right now at Rush Creek. With all that God has done in and through us in the past, He has a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Backsliders

    Contributed by Chuck Brooks on Sep 10, 2020
     | 6,513 views

    God begins to lament concerning his people’s backslidden condition. He was grieving that His people had turned their backs on Him...

    Jeremiah was a prophet who prophesied for 42 years, ministering from the reign of the last good king of Judah, Josiah, to the final destruction of the city of Jerusalem. Politically, the region was going through many changes as the Assyrian Empire got smaller and Egypt, Babylon, the Medes, and ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    A Tough Promise To Keep Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Feb 7, 2016
     | 12,639 views

    This message looks at the story of the Vow of Jephthah, what he could learn looking back, and what we can learn looking ahead.

    A Tough Promise to Keep Have you ever made a promise you regretted? Given your word and then realized the price was way too high but couldn’t find a graceful way to back out? Happened different times in the bible. Herod had John the Baptist arrested because John wouldn’t stop harping ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Exchanging Gifts With God Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 21, 2020
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     | 3,050 views

    We can never pay God back for the gift of His Son, but we can gift ourselves to Him out of love and appreciation.

    Exchanging Gifts with God (2 Corinthians 9:15, Romans 12:1-2) 1. A little five year old girl took a sheet of brown construction paper and cut out the letter “E” with her safety scissors. She wrapped it and gave it to her dad for Christmas. When dad opened the present, he looked at it with a smile ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    What Do You See Post Covid -19???

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Jun 13, 2020
     | 3,837 views

    This is not for everyone, this is for people who are going through a dark period of discouragement, failure and uncertainty, bravo friend, God has got your back!

    The voice of a prophet, what do you see post COVID -19??? Friday night, (June 12, 2020) I was in my room doing an all-night prayer and my daughter was also praying in another room. After reading the Bible, I started intense prayer from midnight 12 am, I was weeping at His feet, I needed many ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Twenty-Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Cycle A; 24th Sunday, Year A-- Forgiveness Is Releasing

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jun 21, 2020
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,576 views

    “Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full,” both of the people in our Gospel today said the exact same thing.

    As a sought-after corporate motivational trainer, Brian Tracy normally does not take phone calls, but he took this one from a man who said that he had a testimony to share. The man said he was raised in a dysfunctional family and he was furious with his family. He had a bad marriage, was cheated by ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    A Root Awakening

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 25, 2021
     | 2,536 views

    When we are rooted deeply in our faith we can survive and thrive. God grafts is into the roots of our faith back to Abraham.

    1. Fanny Crosby I once read a story about a little girl who lived in the late 1800’s. At the age of six, a doctor was treating her inflamed eyes and accidentally blinded her. When she was eight years old, she wrote these words: “Oh, what a happy child I am, although I cannot see. I am resolved that ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Nobody Ever Spoke Like This Man Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 27, 2020
     | 3,423 views

    The viral pandemic is forcing us back into our homes, our families, so that we can give voice and action to our repentance.

    Saturday of the Fourth Week in Lent 2020 “No Man Ever Spoke Like This Man” As I write these lines, our nation and the world is continuing in the grip of a health crisis that is unparalleled since the pandemic of 1918 and the year following, which was a flu that killed 50 million human beings ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    When The Bottom Drops Out Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Jul 20, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,529 views

    Even the righteous suffer when judgement is poured out on the nation. God's people are what holds back judgement at this time.

    “How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street. “The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands!” [LAMENTATIONS 4:1-2] [1] What a dramatic ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Living On The Edge

    Contributed by David Dunn on Nov 14, 2025
     | 136 views

    Living on the edge numbs the soul, but God’s mercy pulls us back from the drift and invites us into renewed holiness and freedom.

    INTRODUCTION — “THE DANGER OF ALMOST” There is a way of living that looks safe, feels reasonable, and appears harmless — until suddenly it isn’t. A way of living that doesn’t plunge off a spiritual cliff, but tiptoes toward one. Scripture gives it a name: Living on the edge. Living just close ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

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    Advent - Both

    Contributed by Alvan Lewis on Jan 6, 2026
     | 14 views

    A look back 2000 at our Lord's first Coming and a look forward to our Lord's Second Coming

    On this final Sunday of Advent I invite you to look back and look ahead. Back to our Lord’s first coming and ahead to our Lord’s Second Coming. Back through the mists of time to a cattle stable in Bethlehem. Ahead through the lens of faith to the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord. Down, down into ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    We Have Work To Do! PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Jan 8, 2024
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,882 views

    This sermon encourages believers to persistently follow God's call, utilize their strengths for His glory, and foster spiritual growth without looking back.

    Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters in Christ, I greet you all in the precious name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It's wonderful to see each of you here today, gathered in fellowship and in pursuit of the wisdom that can only be found in God's holy Word. Today, we find ourselves ...read more

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