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Remembering Series

Contributed by Duane Wente on May 29, 2023

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We are a forgetful people. In America, holidays like Memorial Day help us remember the men and women who gave their lives in service to our country. Mordecai instructed that God’s people celebrate an annual festival to remember how God had saved them. God also gave us ways to remember today.

Video Ill.: We Will Remember (Memorial Day) — Centerline New Media ("The Old Man and the Gulls" from Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story by Paul Aurandt, 1977, quoted in Heaven Bound Living, Knofel Stanton, Standard, 1989, p. 79-80) I know I’ve told this story before, but I love the ...read more

Scripture: Esther 9:16-28, Exodus 12:14, Exodus 12:17, Exodus 12:26-28, Luke 22:7-20 (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

First Journey Series

Contributed by Duane Wente on Jun 4, 2023

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Paul was handpicked by God to be His messenger of the Gospel to the Jewish and Gentile world. Along the way, Paul preached and built relationships with many people. As we look at some of the events on his first missionary journey, we can learn from the people he met and the lessons he taught.

Introduction Video Ill.: Mom vs. Dad Vacation Prep - Holderness Family I can relate to some of those things! You know, the weather outside tells us it is summer (though the first full day of Summer isn’t for another couple of weeks on June 22). Many of us have either already taken our vacation ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 13:19-23

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Spiritual Gifts- Tongues And Prophesy Series

Contributed by John Oscar on Jul 29, 2021

based on 1 rating

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A three-part sermon series exploring the spiritual gifts, what they are, and how we can use them today.

Spiritual Gifts- Tongues and Prophecy Spiritual Gifts Series CCCAG, 6-27-21 Scripture: 1 Cor 14:1-5 One quick note- I will have a Q&A session when we are done. After about five years of being a full-time paramedic I had a series of pretty bad calls that started to take some of the joy out of my ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:1-5

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Jesus And Nicodemus Series

Contributed by Troy Borst on Mar 13, 2001

based on 228 ratings

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We learn that Jesus came to offer answers to our deep and longing questions

TOWARDS EASTER 2001: JESUS AND NICODEMUS John 3:1-21 INTRODUCTION This morning I want us to meet a man and get to know him a little better than we might have before. His name is Nicodemus. There is a lot we don’t know about this man, but I think we can learn a lot about him and about Jesus from ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-21

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Becoming Like Little Children

Contributed by Patrick O'loughlin on Sep 21, 2003

based on 25 ratings

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Why must we become like little children in order to enter the kingdom of God?

Text: Mark 10:13-16 Title: Becoming like little children. Introduction There are really only two types of people in the world and I have just given you the scriptural proof. 1. There will always be people who give us less than we hope for. As people were bringing little children to Jesus in ...read more

Scripture: Mark 10:13-16

Denomination: Assembly Of God

On The Teeter-Totter

Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Apr 29, 2003

based on 5 ratings

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When we slide away from God’s plan and toward the world’s value system, it’s like going from one end of a teeter-totter to the other. We can’t move toward one end without moving away from the other

Passage: I Corinthians 5:1-8 Intro: 1 Corinthians just never gets any easier, does it? 1. reading this passage, studying it, the questions come flying at you like sparks off a grinding wheel. 2. so easy to get bogged down in those questions, try to make this passage say more than was ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 5:1-8

Denomination: Evangelical Free

How To Pick Your Battles

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000

based on 86 ratings

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There are many battles not worth fighting. Here we can learn when we need to engage in the good fight of faith.

How To Pick Your Battles (I Sam. 17:1-15) Illustration: Paul wrote, "Fight the good fight of faith." People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. Abigail Van Buren. Stan Mikita, a professional hockey star, used to get into a lot of fights during games. He stopped when his ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:1-15

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Second Chances

Contributed by Scott Terrell on Jul 16, 2005

based on 44 ratings

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We all are given second chances do you give them?

Second Chances John 8:1-11, Mark 16:6-7, 14:66-72 ____________________________________________________ A woman comes home one afternoon and tell her husband that the car won’t start. ...read more

Scripture: John 8:1-11

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

What Pain Teaches You: Lesson 1: When Pain Comes

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Feb 13, 2006

based on 11 ratings

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Two kinds of pain. Physical pain. “Her pains came upon her” (I Sam. 4:19). Mental pain. “It was painful to realize the wicked purpose” (Ps. 73:16, ELT).

1. The most obvious observation, pain hurts! 2. Definition from Webster, (1) “Localized physical suffering associated with bodily disorder or disease or injury.” (2) Basic bodily sensation, induced by noxious stimulus, received by naked nerve endings, characterized by physical discomfort and ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 41:10

Denomination: Baptist

Follow Me

Contributed by Joanna Beveridge on Feb 2, 2007

based on 8 ratings

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How can we "sell" Christianity in today’s world?

The second part of today’s Gospel reading told us about Jesus calling Andrew, Simon Peter, James and John to be his disciples. This was probably not the first encounter with Jesus for any of them. We know, for example, from last week’s reading from St John’s Gospel that Andrew was already a ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 4:12-23

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Choose To Belong

Contributed by Jason Winters on Oct 12, 2007

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tALK LIKE WE BELONG TO jESUS

Choose To Belong Bond-Servant=choose to become a servant Connected to Jesus Quit trying to jerk His chain He controls the chains if we have in fact bound ourselves to Him Speak like you belong to God! Proverbs 18:6-7 6 A fool’s lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating. 7 A fool’s ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 18:6-7

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Doing Thanksgiving Right

Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Nov 20, 2005

based on 56 ratings

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Christians can do Thanksgiving right

Intro: Out of the many nations of the world, America is one of only a few that celebrates Thanksgiving Day. In most nations there is not a day set apart to offer thanks. This thought hit me, it is because we were established as a Christian nation, and Christians have the most to be thankful for. ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 100:1-5

Denomination: Assembly Of God

How To Love God

Contributed by Kemuel Travis on Mar 29, 2007

based on 34 ratings

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To show what it means when we truly love God.

-Ask almost anyone in the united states if they love God and the answer would be “Yes!” -Sometimes, though, I think people misunderstand the question -Sometimes they think the question is “Do you love what God does for you?” -They have a servant kind of God -Some think the question is, “Do you ...read more

Scripture: Mark 12:28-34

Denomination: Wesleyan

Doubting God's Goodness Series

Contributed by Jeffery Richards on Nov 20, 2002

based on 19 ratings

| 10,627 views

How does the first sin of humanity relate to and affect us today? 2nd in the series "Life Changing Bible Stories from God’s Word."

DOUBTING GOD¡¦S GOODNESS Gen 3:1-19 In 1874, James Eads completed the first steel bridge in America. It spanned the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri. No one believed that it would support its own weight. Eads ordered 14 locomotives to stop on the bridge at the same time. The people then ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 3:1-19

Denomination: Baptist

Lord I Will Not Cease Till You Bless Me.

Contributed by Jim Parisi on Mar 21, 2003

based on 17 ratings

| 4,556 views

We are going to continually keep knocking at Gods heart till he answers our prayers and requests. We Will Not Cease Till He Blesses Us

Lord I Will Not Cease Till You Bless Me. HHM Pastor Jim Parisi March 16, 2003 In the next few weeks we are going to make an greater effort to start to sow the seeds of revival into the rich soil of our hearts, and this community. We are going to start by praying for Gods Presence and His ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 32:24-28

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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