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Know Your Enemy

Contributed by Rick Boyne on Feb 24, 2015

When we know our enemy, we do not have to be afraid.

Know Your Enemy February 22, 2015 Evening Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: When we know our enemy, we do not have to be afraid. Focus Passage: Isaiah 14:12-15 Introduction: The devil is the greatest of all the fallen angels, He opposes God and is completely ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 14:12-15

Denomination: Baptist

Precious Promises For Your Journey

Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Nov 6, 2015

reassurance

Isa. 41:8-20 PRECIOUS PROMISES FOR YOUR JOURNEY 10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 41:8-20

Denomination: Holiness

What Am I Doing Here? Lets Go Back.

Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Aug 29, 2022

You know August is the month we start “going back” to many activities … back to school, back to sports, maybe even back to work after a summer vacation. It’s also Going back-to-church-time, Going Back to Faith trusting and confiding.

Jeremiah 2:4-13 “What Am I Doing Here, Lets Go Back” 1. Jeremiah the Prophet the weeping prophet no wonder he wept because of the sins of Israel • Jeremiah spoke on behalf of God always trying to get Israel to repent change go back to Godliness. God speaks to us asking us to return to God. • As a ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 2:4-13

Denomination: Methodist

All Lives Matter

Contributed by Michael Koplitz on Aug 3, 2021

We can learn how to treat one another by the example of how Jesus dealt with children. Jesus dealt with children in an anticultural manner.

To fully interpret and understand Jesus' words, one must understand the culture in which he lived. Children were treated differently than they are today. That does not mean that parents did not love their children as much as parents do today. Parents loved their children because they were ...read more

Scripture: Mark 4:10-20

Denomination: United Methodist

A Time To Hide Series

Contributed by Norman Bernad on Aug 4, 2021

Today is Pentecost, & hardly anyone realizes it. Yet, this day is important, because Pentecost is the birthday of the Church, & God has given us the wonderful opportunity of being a part of it.

Today is Pentecost, & hardly anyone realizes it. Yet, this day is important, because Pentecost is the birthday of the Church, & God has given us the wonderful opportunity of being a part of it. Isaiah 26:20-21 20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide ...read more

Scripture: Joel 2:28, Isaiah 26:20-21, Acts 2:14-16

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Angel Or Adversary

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Aug 15, 2021

Let the angels do their work, but beware of the "angel of light" who is spreading error in Jesus' name.

Colossians 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 2:18-19, Hebrews 1:13-14, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, Ephesians 4:13-15, Matthew 7:21-23  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Baptist

The True Purpose Of Pentecost Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 20, 2021

All of us need clear vision, and not just of material things.

Thursday After Pentecost 2021 It has been said, probably ever since humans walked the face of earth, that the “winners write the history.” The winners also endeavor to craft the culture that they live in. So, for example, after the Norman invasion of England in 1066, the Norman princes built ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:30, Mark 10:46-52

Denomination: Catholic

Revolutionary Patience

Contributed by Michael Koplitz on Jun 2, 2021

An alternate interpretation of the sower and seed parable is offered.

Binding the Strong Man – A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus authored by Ched Myers is a fascinating look at Jesus' life and His words. It is an entirely different method than the usual Christian commentaries. The story of the sower of the seed is always seen as a spiritual ...read more

Scripture: Mark 4:1-9

Denomination: United Methodist

The Tongue

Contributed by Grant Adams on May 4, 2022

When you go to the doctor for a physical examination, often one of the first things they will tell you is to, “Stick out your tongue.” They can often diagnose the illness by looking at the tongue.

When you go to the doctor for a physical examination, often one of the first things they will tell you is to, “Stick out your tongue.” They can often diagnose the illness by looking at the tongue. Just as in the physical realm the tongue often reveals the condition on the inside, so also in the ...read more

Scripture: James 3:1-12

Denomination: Baptist

Prayer, Politics, Isaiah And Hezekiah Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 14, 2020

God took those pottery shards and put together, in the end, a beautiful mosaic, our Gospel tells us, of Joseph, Mary and Jesus.

December 17 of the 3rd Week in Advent 2020 Today’s Gospel makes no sense unless we know something about the history of God’s relationship with the chosen people, Israel. Genealogies in Scripture always mean more than we modern Americans understand. They always point in some way to the Lord, and ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:1-17, Genesis 49:8-10

Denomination: Catholic

Governor Decrees Series

Contributed by Shawn Drake on Dec 14, 2020

This is the 1st of 3 sermons in "A COVID Christmas". This shows the correlations between the days of Jesus' birth and today's environment.

Series: A COVID Christmas [#1] GOVERNOR DECREES Luke 2:1-7 Introduction: Here we are in the Christmas Season; and I’m agitated. It is supposed to be a time of joy and celebration; and instead, it is a time of corrupt politics and virus lockdowns. Political, Governmental, and Religious ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

Persecution Can Be Good

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jan 30, 2021

We grow soft and cold without it. Sometimes it takes the fire of persecution for us to seek the fire of God.

1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 19 Wherefore let them that ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 4:17-19

Denomination: Baptist

Twelfth Sunday In Ordinary Time, B-- Asleep In A Storm

Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jun 18, 2021

The boat was 26.5 feet long, 7.5 wide and 4.5 feet high, the fore and aft sections were decked.

The boat was 26.5 feet long, 7.5 wide and 4.5 feet high, the fore and aft sections were decked. Jesus had gone to the back of the boat to catch a nap, and then a storm hits. “Why doesn’t he intervene?” “Do you not care that we are perishing?” E.g. Glen Scrivener says that a few years ago he ...read more

Scripture: Mark 4:35-41

Denomination: Catholic

Refuge In Christ

Contributed by David Goering on Aug 9, 2018

True christians have seen their miserable condition and have fled for refuge in Christ.

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 6:17-18 "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have FLED FOR REFUGE to lay ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 6:17-18

How Should We Regard Mr Trump

Contributed by Brian Hadfield on Jan 14, 2017

In a Media frenzy and with our own views how do greet this Presidency

Trump one week to go Isaiah 32:1-8 James 3.1- 6 In the last few days you could be forgiven for thinking a presidency or a premiership was in its final hours. Revelations of alleged impropriety; possible footage of heaven knows what; the handing over of assets to family members ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 32:1-8