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  • David Scudder avatar

    Attacking Apathy Series

    Contributed by David Scudder on Oct 19, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,423 views

    The church in Laodicea lost their passion for Christ; did they also lack forgiveness?

    Attacking Apathy Revelation 3:14-22 Purpose: To show how the church in Laodicea was unknowingly lifeless. Aim: I want the listener to feel their own need for a closer relationship with Christ. INTRODUCTION: Today we are looking at the last of seven letters from Jesus Christ to seven churches ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • James May avatar

    Get Some Ants In Your Pants

    Contributed by James May on Mar 26, 2003
    based on 168 ratings
     | 52,685 views

    God teaches us a lot from the habits of the ant.

    Disclaimer: Due to the large amount of sermons and topics that appear on this site I feel it is necessary to post this disclaimer on all sermons posted. These sermons are original to the author and the leading of the Holy Spirit. While ideas and illustrations are often gleaned from many ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Scott Carmer avatar

    Are You A Lazybones? Series

    Contributed by Scott Carmer on Feb 21, 2005
    based on 11 ratings
     | 6,086 views

    There is a big difference between taking a Sabbath and being lazy. Lazyness separates us from our own potential, from the love of others, and from the grace of God.

    Are You a Lazybones? Proverbs 6:6-11 February 20, 2005 Twenty three years ago, I was one of seventeen men and women who stood before the Annual Conference and was ordained into the United Methodist ministry. We had all written thousands of words explaining our personal histories, our theology, ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Obeth Jebakumar avatar

    God Hates Laziness. Let’s Be Deligent. Series

    Contributed by Obeth Jebakumar on Apr 25, 2023
     | 2,919 views

    GOD expects us TO WORK HARD

    GOD hates LAZINESS. Let’s BE DELIGENT. # WHO is a Diligent person? A DILIGENT person is … Someone who is responsible and works hard and carefully... Someone who performs with intense concentration and focus… Someone who takes his/her work seriously and who does it well and rapidly… # GOD ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Kevin L. Jones avatar

    Awake From Your Slumber

    Contributed by Kevin L. Jones on Dec 6, 2015
    based on 7 ratings
     | 45,181 views

    A sermon examining the danger of spiritual negligence.

    AWAKE FROM YOUR SLUMBER! Proverbs 24:30-34 (Antioch Baptist Church, Sunday March 23rd. 2025) When I was 13 years old, our family moved away from my childhood home. When my parents sold that house it was in excellent condition. Inside was a renovated kitchen & bathroom, and there was new ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dr. Jerry N. Watts avatar

    You Can Run But You Just Can't Hide Series

    Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Sep 24, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,862 views

    A series of message of from the book of Jonah

    YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU JUST CAN’T HIDE Jonah 1:4-5 1. The book of Jonah begins with Jonah’s receiving God’s call to “go and serve.” This is a common call from God. 2. God takes His call to His children very seriously and expects His children to respond affirmatively to His call. 3. To recognize ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • steve kinnard avatar

    It Takes Gumption To Harvest A Crop

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Jan 30, 2019
     | 5,061 views

    It takes effort to have a harvest

    It Takes Gumption To Harvest a Crop, No effort to grow Weeds (Gal 6:7-10) ( A Hard working farmer Toils to prepare his fields and sows GOOD SEED, He then reaps a great Harvest--- A lazy Bum don’t prepare and lets weed seeds take over, He also reaps a harvest—WEEDS OR GOOD CROPS – YOUR ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Shawn Drake avatar

    Don't Be Idle Series

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Nov 10, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,802 views

    This is the 7th sermon in the "Continued Encouragement" series from 2 Thessalonians.

    Series: Continued Encouragement [#7] DON’T BE IDLE 2 Thessalonians 3:6-18 Introduction: As we have stated every week; both letters to the Thessalonians were letters of encouragement. While Paul continually was encouraging them and complimenting them, he did want them to remember why they ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Kelly Benton avatar

    Pay Attention

    Contributed by Kelly Benton on May 30, 2012
    based on 40 ratings
     | 22,216 views

    To stress that we must pay attention to God and our spiritual life in order to avoid Satan’s attacks.

    Last week I shared briefly about how I lost two windows out of my Excursion. I really didn’t explain how it happened. It happened because of user error. I was at the ball field coaching our son’s ball team last Saturday. The first thought in many minds at this point of the story is, ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

  • Dr. William D. Poovey avatar

    L’s That Lead To Lack Or Poverty

    Contributed by Dr. William D. Poovey on Apr 17, 2015
     | 2,503 views

    L’s That Lead to Lack or Poverty

    L’s That Lead to Lack or Poverty Laziness Proverbs 14:23 - In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. ( lack ) Proverbs 6:6 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Proverbs 20:4 - The sluggard will not plow by reason of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Foursquare

  • Dennis Davidson avatar

    Procrastination's Garden Series

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Feb 21, 2013
    based on 14 ratings
     | 18,623 views

    Noting carefully the slothful man & his field can teach us how to avoid more than poverty. Learning diligence from the depicted wall & vineyard's condition is not the only lesson offered here for the far greater concern is the condition of a soul whose o

    PROVERBS 24: 30-34 PROCRASTINATION'S GARDEN [Isaiah 28:24-29; 5:1-6] We have idleness portrayed before us by the master sage, Solomon, the wisest man that ever lived (1 Kings 3:12). The true to life picture is of negligence and the consequences it brings. To the observant eye, the results of an ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ed Vasicek avatar

    How To Minimize Your Influence For God

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 27, 2012
     | 3,605 views

    Sometimes the best way to understand how to be a productive Christian is to look at the formula for spiritual worthlessness and do the opposite.

    How To Minimize Your Influence for God (2 Corinthians 6:1-11) 1. Facebook is big. And the computers they have are many. 2. “With 900 million members worldwide and growing, Facebook is building its first European data storage facility—60 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Lulea, ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Peter Loughman avatar

    Spiritual House: Peter And The Stones Series

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 27, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,816 views

    We don’t rid ourselves of vices to build a spiritual house, God has cast aside that old life, that’s old news. You are being built into a holy place, not as a guest, but as a worshiper.

    Os Guinness tells a story of an experience in a Pyrenean village. A farmer had tied an enormous load of wood onto the back of a donkey. However hard the farmer whipped the animal, it could only stumble along, getting progressively slower and slower, until it sank down in exhaustion under the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Jeff Walton avatar

    Spiritual Apathy To Spiritual Awakening! Series

    Contributed by Jeff Walton on Jul 3, 2001
    based on 124 ratings
     | 15,897 views

    It emphasizes how God points out the apathetic attributes of Israel.

    Haggai: Lesson One § Student Handout Subject: Spiritual Apathy to Spiritual Awakening! ESTABLISH Study 1. The Relevance of Haggai’s Message for the Church today. A.Directed to God’s people some 2,500 years ago B.Haggai is one of the Post-Exilic prophets of the Restoration, the other two being ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Thomas Swope avatar

    Sound Advice Series

    Contributed by Thomas Swope on May 14, 2014
     | 6,901 views

    A study of Proverbs 6 verses 1 through 11

    Proverbs 6: 1 - 11 Sound Advice 1 My son, if you become surety for your friend, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger, 2 You are snared by the words of your mouth; You are taken by the words of your mouth. 3 So do this, my son, and deliver yourself; for you have come into the hand of ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel