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  • Refreshing Others

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 29, 2000
    based on 144 ratings
     | 9,757 views

    To cause one to breathe more easily; to encourage, cheer up, and relieve by the force of one’s godly personality.

    JACKIE ROBINSON was the first African American to play baseball in the major leagues. Breaking baseball’s color barrier, he faced hostile crowds in every stadium. While playing one day in his home stadium of Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, he committed an error. The fans began to jeer him. He stood ...read more

  • An Open Letter Series

    Contributed by Richard White on Feb 24, 2005
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,227 views

    In prison Paul writes his "son" Timothy and gives him final lessons in being a godly man and evangelist

    An Open letter to a Son 1 Timothy 1:1-11 The epistles called 1 and 2 Timothy are a mentors heartfelt words to a son. Paul uses these letters as further instructions to a young evangelist that he has watched grow up in Christ. Timothy was an associate of Paul’s on his second and third ...read more

  • Bread Of Life, Cup Of Redemption

    Contributed by Samuel Wilder on Mar 11, 2005
    based on 34 ratings
     | 6,357 views

    Communion is more of an Easter moment than we realize. This time of year we can hear the last supper story fresh and realize its significance.

    Communion is more of an Easter moment than we usually stop to realize. In Matthew 26, Matthew brings Jesus into the last portion of his life before the cross. He shows us how Jesus was clearly preparing his disciples for his death and, as well, his resurrection. Jesus has spoken about his death ...read more

  • We Are A People Of Promise Series

    Contributed by Ronald Harbaugh on Dec 1, 2006
     | 6,344 views

    A sermon for the First Sunday in Advent, Series C.

    1st Sunday in Advent- December 3, 2006- “Series C” Grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us pray: Dear Heavenly Father, we give you thanks that you have, throughout the ages, remained faithful to your promise to redeem those who trust in you. ...read more

  • Ministering In Diversity

    Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Dec 7, 2006
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,283 views

    The situation was tense. A disagreement that threatened to divide the early church, a personal spat that threatened to divide friends. What should we do when it happens to us?

    Passage: Acts 15:36-41 Intro: Have you ever noticed that not everyone agrees with you all the time? 1. how can so many people be so consistently wrong so often? 2. things had been going well for Paul and Barnabas. 3. church in Antioch healthy, Jerusalem council decided in favor of Gentiles. 4. in ...read more

  • Slip Sliding Away

    Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Oct 11, 2005
    based on 29 ratings
     | 6,566 views

    God’s goal with Gideon was transformation, as it was with the entire nation of Israel. But after the victory, choices were made that set the nation right back on the same road to destruction. These are choices we can make as well, or avoid.

    Passage: Judges 8:22-35 Intro: “Slip sliding way. Slip sliding away. You know the nearer your destination the more you’re slip sliding away... God only knows. God makes His plan. The information’s unavailable to mortal man. We work our jobs, collect our pay. Believe we’re flyin’ down the ...read more

  • Christianity Vs. Wicca

    Contributed by Ken Mowery on Sep 10, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,207 views

    A comparison of Biblical Christianity with Wicca.

    As we finish this brief series in which we have looked into false religions and cults we want to look at Wicca. Wicca is an attempt to revive the pre-Christian nature and fertility religions of western Europe. It is a neo-pagan religion that believes in supernatural magick, worships a male and ...read more

  • Getting Tripped Up By The Flesh Series

    Contributed by Tom Fuller on Mar 19, 2007
    based on 18 ratings
     | 6,868 views

    The three things that trip up Christians after major victories for the Lord are arrogance, independence, and giving into the flesh. Learn how we can actually become our own worst enemy and how to stop it!

    The two greatest enemies to living a victorious life in Jesus Christ are the world and the flesh. While the world presents itself as an impenetrable walled city, the flesh appears much more subtly: as just a few small baubles, a little temptation here and there that surely can’t hurt anything. Our ...read more

  • Shipwreck Series

    Contributed by Tom Fuller on Dec 14, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 9,139 views

    The Apostle Paul is thrown into (literally) a very tough spot while on his way to possible execution in Rome. Why does God allow turmoil upon turmoil in our lives and how can he use it for His (and our) good?

    Recently Margaret and I had the opportunity to spend some time at sea. At times all you could see was ocean. There were no islands or land of any kind in sight. All you had was the rolling waves. I thought what it must have been like for the Apostle Paul—on his way to Rome where he would most ...read more

  • Wise And Foolish Virgins

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Nov 4, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,864 views

    The key message of Mt 24 and this Parable is to be alert

    NC/SMB 06-11-05 The End Times. Mt 24 is one of the hardest chapters in the Gospels to understand. Because Jesus speaks of future events. And he continues on the same theme in Mt 25, with the Parable of the Ten Virgins. But the bottom line of this parable is ...read more

  • Paul: On The Parousia Series

    Contributed by Thomas Clawser on Nov 13, 2004
    based on 18 ratings
     | 5,482 views

    PENT 23C: Part 1 of a two-part series on learning to live as end-times Christians ought to live.

    Theories on when and how the world might end have surfaced for centuries. Consider these: 1. In 960 Bernard of Thuringia, a German theologian, calculated 992 as the most likely year for the world’s end. As the time approached, panic was widespread. 2. German astrologer Johann ...read more

  • What Are You Thinking? Series

    Contributed by Gary Stebbins on May 25, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,907 views

    During this series we will be looking at Paul’s letter to the Philippian church. Paul founded the church at Philippi and wrote the letter during a time of imprisonment in Rome. One of the themes in the book is joy. (some thoughts taken from a series by Cr

    Philippians Pt3- What are you thinking? Overview Continue- 3rd part- series on Philippians. Encouragement- read Philippians- over/over- meditate. This week- pick up w/chapter 2:1. Review One of our themes- joy- last week- Joy in Suffering. Paul is writing to Philippians as a Roman ...read more

  • The Diaconal Call To Service Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 1, 2012
     | 3,566 views

    The plan of God for all of us, especially clergy, is a call to service and understanding, not tyranny.

    Solemnity of the Epiphany 2012 Diaconate Vocation Spirit of the Liturgy “Where is the newborn king of the Jews?” the Magi said to Herod. It was a straightforward question to the wrong guy. There are times to be subtle and times to be blunt. I recall many years ago when I was a sales ...read more

  • The Greatest Testimony Every Given

    Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Feb 6, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,206 views

    This great king, the greatest and most powerful of all time, gives the most amazing testimony ever given. In it we see the incredible grace of God at work in the life of the most undeserving of people.

    Passage: Daniel 4:1-37 Intro: When I was a kid growing up in the church, “testimonies” were a regular part of the activities. 1. it was a story of how God had worked or was working in a person’s life, and it had three parts. 2. first part involved what a person’s life ...read more

  • Advent: Stand Guard!

    Contributed by Charles Mallory on Nov 27, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,540 views

    May we remember to ’stand guard’ and ’stay alert’ in not only mind, heart and soul, but in the way we live out our faith.

    “HAPPY NEW YEAR!” YES, TODAY IS THE BEGINNING OF A BRAND NEW YEAR…FOR THE CHURCH. THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT MARKS THE BEGINNING OF A NEW SEASON. ALONG WITH THE DAWNING OF A NEW SEASON AND NEW YEAR COMES THE ANTICIPATION OF STARTING FRESH, STARTING OVER, MAKING CHANGES AND EXPECTATING BETTER DAYS ...read more

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