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  • Carl Benge avatar

    What Does God Want? Freedom Through Forgiveness Series

    Contributed by Carl Benge on May 6, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,972 views

    How forgiveness is a two way street and how God wants us to forgive and be forgiven to break the cycle.

    Over the past two weeks we have explored the message that God wants us to be repentive, loving kindness , seeking a holy justice for all, as well as being in humble love with God. Today Jesus brings us another message from God, and that message is He has come to deliver people from captivity, ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Stewardship Of The Body Are You Building Or Breaking Series

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on May 22, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,364 views

    Paul is chastizing the Corinthians for thinking they are spiritually mature when in fact they are still in need of the milk or basics of God’s word. The question this should cause us to ask ourselves is are we building or breaking!

    Intro: Why did Paul write this letter? He wrote it because the conduct of the Corinthians did not match their confession of Christ. Division, strife, incest it sounds like a soap opera gone bad. We have to remember many of the Christians that Paul minister came out of a corrupt and selfish ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Understanding Stewardship

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Sep 2, 2010
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     | 8,298 views

    Stewardship is an essential dynamic for growing in our Christian walk

    Introduction The day the church treasurer resigned the church asked the local grain elevator manager to take the position. He agreed under two conditions. That no treasurer’s report would be given for the first year. That no questions be asked about finances during that year. The people ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Be Fervent In Your Love

    Contributed by Gary Stebbins on Aug 12, 2009
     | 3,125 views

    Peter tells us that we must be of sound judgment and sober spirit to prepare for the last days in which we live.

    Be Fervent in your Love! Prayer Open with prayer … 1 Ki 4:29 As God gave to Solomon … (wisdom, great discernment, breadth of mind) Introduction We will be looking at 1 Pet 4:1-11 … 1Pet 4:1-2 Jews- believed suffering was a great purifier. Suffering tends to distract our focus from the many ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

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    Supernatural Encounters

    Contributed by Dillon Burroughs on Mar 9, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 19,979 views

    A biblical discussion of culture’s fascination with the supernatural based on Ephesians 6:12. Original audience was for a medium-sized church congregation.

    Supernatural Encounters Dillon Burroughs Ephesians 6:12 2.5.06 Have you noticed America’s new focus on the supernatural? America’s entertainment choices include… movies such as Underworld, The Sixth Sense, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, television programs like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ghost ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Attitudes And Actions For Victory Series

    Contributed by David Owens on Mar 1, 2011
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     | 8,184 views

    This sermon finishes the series on 1 Peter and focuses on how to win the victory over our enemy and the persecution he brings.

    Introduction: A. I like the story told of the 5-year old boy who was in the kitchen as his mother was making supper. 1. His mother asked him to go into the pantry and get her a can of tomato soup, but he didn’t want to go in alone. 2. “It’s dark in there and I’m ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Goal Line Stands

    Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Feb 6, 2012
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    Do we push and strain to score a touchdown or hold the offense on goal line stands? Do we really care about what Christ calls us to do and be?

    Goal Line Stands 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 January 22, 2012 One of the most exciting parts of a football game occurs when one team gets the ball near the other teams goal line. Then it becomes time for a goal line stand. The defense digs in to stop the offense, while the offense does everything ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Church Personnel Manual Part 1

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Feb 6, 2012
     | 3,671 views

    A talk on the way love should look and be displayed, and the way we see spirituality.

    Text: 1 Cor 13:1-7, Title: Church Personnel Manual, Date/Place: 2/5/12 NRBC Opening illustration: Common problem in churches: lack of love. Even in Peru one of the local churches that we are working with experienced a fairly traumatic split that caused their reputation to be stained. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Gifted For Growth Series

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Feb 15, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,145 views

    If you are sealed by the Spirit then you are gifted by God to help the body grow in Christ. This is an introduction to a study on the gifts of the Spirit discussing their source, significance, and stewardship of the gifts.

    Intro: Ephesians 4:8 quotes Psalm 68:18 which says “You received gifts from men.” Paul is saying something that would have been understood by people in His day. You gave gifts to men. Paul is using this under the idea of a King who has conquered his enemy coming back into the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    On The Run And Searching For Water

    Contributed by James May on Feb 26, 2012
    based on 9 ratings
     | 25,136 views

    Like the deer pants after water, the people of God are often hounded by adversity and the enemy of our souls. Often we find ourselves running the wrong way, becoming thirsty and dry spiritually. It's time we started running to Jesus, our only true sourc

    On the Run and Searching for Water By Rev. James May I know that I’ve told this before, but I want to begin this message again by bringing to your mind the story of the lion and the gazelle that dwell on the Serengeti plains of northern Africa. Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Somewhere Over The Rainbow

    Contributed by Evangelist Stanley Baker on Oct 11, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 11,542 views

    Grandma Baker, who sits in church with a number of hurts and spiritual needs

    Somewhere Over the Rainbow By Rev. Stanley Baker Have you ever read something that made all the bells go off inside you? You yell, "That's it! That's what I've been thinking!" because it seems the author has been reading your thoughts. Well I read ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    In Touch With Earth

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Dec 1, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,152 views

    Revision of earlier message. God calls us to remember that we are both physical and spiritual, and are therefore to be stewards of the earth as well as spiritually sound. The Table reminds of both our physical and spiritual sides and responsibilities.

    Takoma Park Baptist Church, Washington, DC, October 6, 1985, World Communion Sunday No matter how sophisticated we may become, something in us reaches out for the soil, reaches out for our roots and stirs within us to claim a simpler, more basic way of life. I would just about bet that most of us ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    More

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Aug 3, 2012
     | 4,782 views

    Sermon for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B.

    John 6: 24 – 35 / More Intro: I want you to imagine this morning that you are a solitary traveler in a lonely desert. As you travel, you become very thirsty. Just ahead you see a rusty old pump at the edge of an oasis. Handing on the pump is a note that reads, “I have buried a ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    The Body Of Christ, Series

    Contributed by Brad Beaman on Oct 27, 2007
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     | 6,407 views

    The body of Christ is one unit. Regardless of our race, our nationality or our social status, we are all one in the body of Christ.

    I had friends in Scotland. They were Mr. and Mrs. Willie and Mary McNeill; they served in China when the Japanese invaded China they were interned in China. They were interned with Eric Liddell. Eric became famous because of the movie made of him, Chariots of Fire. He won an Olympic gold medal in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jan 28, 2009
     | 8,882 views

    Growth can come by pruning, cultivating, or simply letting it happen. God wants the church to grow, and all these methods are used.

    Growth takes place in one of three ways. Things grow because one of three things happens. First, some things grow just because it is in the very nature of those things to grow. You don’t have to do anything, you don’t have to feed them or nourish them or encourage them. Some things just grow. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist