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  • Mike Rickman avatar

    Thanksgiving In All Things

    Contributed by Mike Rickman on Jun 12, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,665 views

    Our response to God in the hard times tells the world who we really are.

    June 13, 2004 Morning Worship Text: 2 Corinthians 4:7-15 Subject: Suffering for God Title: Thanksgiving in All Things You know that one of my favorite bible passages come from Acts 16. I love the story of Paul and Silas being thrown into a Philippian jail and put into stocks in the inner ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    What's The Big Deal?

    Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Mar 14, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 5,655 views

    This is about undistracted worship.

    Do you remember “Let’s Make A Deal” with Monty Hall? People would dress up in goofy costumes and carry signs to get his attention so he would come to them to make a deal. They would barter and trade. Unknowingly contestants would trade away a new car for 5 baby pigs. Or, they would trade away ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    The Heart Of Worship Is Our Heart Series

    Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Mar 15, 2004
    based on 138 ratings
     | 13,034 views

    This is about authentic worship.

    As I mentioned last week, worship is a broad term. It is often misunderstood. I want to come back to Rick Warren’s definition given in his book, The Purpose Driven Life, “Anything you do that brings pleasure to God is an act of worship.” That’s a boiled down definition of worship. What happens ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    First Things First Series

    Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Mar 15, 2004
    based on 38 ratings
     | 4,336 views

    This is about getting priorities straight.

    Worship is bringing pleasure to God. One way we bring pleasure to God is by doing his will for us, and his church. We have two big problems though. The first is that we may think we are inferior, and the second is that we have our own ideas about what is best. I. We are not INFERIOR. When I was ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Revival

    Contributed by Kevin Keeling on Mar 20, 2004
    based on 28 ratings
     | 12,000 views

    2 Chron 7:14 There Is A Condition to Revival 14 If my people, which are called by my name,

    2 Chron 7:14 There Is A Condition to Revival 14 If my people, which are called by my name, There Is An Action for Revival shall humble themselves, The Depends on God and pray, The Devation to God and seek my face, The Departure from sin and turn from their wicked ways There Is A Reaction ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Especially Series

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Mar 21, 2004
    based on 65 ratings
     | 4,804 views

    Three times the word "especially" appears in the New Testament, prompting us to be intentional in fellowship, to emphasize family life, and never to forget the centrality of the message of the Cross.

    Dealing with people is always messy. There is no way you can work with human beings and have everything neat and clean. When you deal with people, you get a mess. They misunderstand, they misinterpret, they make mistakes, they get it wrong. And that’s just on Sundays! The rest of the week is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Healthy, Growing Church

    Contributed by Dr. Kenneth Rhodes, Jr on Jan 2, 2002
    based on 78 ratings
     | 7,126 views

    A sermon that looks at the essentials of a healthy, Biblical, growing church.

    Acts 2:42-47 (NET Bible) 42 They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Reverential awe came on everyone, and many wonders and miraculous signs came about by the apostles. 44 All who believed were together and held ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    God's Priorities For The Church Series

    Contributed by Christopher Roberts on Jan 4, 2002
    based on 70 ratings
     | 8,558 views

    In the first church God laid down 4 priorities for the 3,000 new believers. Any successful church will devote themselves to these priorities in all that they do.

    Please e-mail me with any comments or if you use any part of this at your church at Mail4ChrisR@aol.com. I would love to hear about it. God Bless! - Chris Think about this for one second. What are the priorities for the church. When we do that we can’t help but have a long list of things the ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    I Love My Church

    Contributed by Bo Dunford on Jan 5, 2002
    based on 60 ratings
     | 52,134 views

    Beatitudes of our love for the church.

    1CHRON.29:1-5 "I LOVE MY CHURCH" A) Someone sent me a list some time ago entitled, "Satan’s Beatitudes!" * They said if the devil were to write his beatitudes they would probably go something like this: * Blessed are they who are too tired and busy to go to church on Sundays and Wednesdays, for ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Church Of The Hot Waffle

    Contributed by John Roy on Jan 15, 2002
    based on 25 ratings
     | 5,791 views

    The church is to be the welcoming place for struggling sinners and stained saints.

    The Church of the Hot Waffle Matthew 11:19 & Mark 2:15-17 The Waffle House is to restaurants what little league baseball is to the Major leagues. The Waffle House serves food and that is where it’s comparison with other restaurants stop. It features, waffles, of course, Bert’s Chili, Omelets, and ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Mark Haines avatar

    Sharing The Mission Series

    Contributed by Mark Haines on Jan 19, 2002
    based on 26 ratings
     | 4,432 views

    A deductive exposition of selected texts on the church’s mission and how to share in accomplishing it.

    I’d like to take a moment to review the reasons for the title of this series of messages – “What’s your commitment to God’s church?” 1. This is God’s church because “he bought [it] with his own blood” (Acts 20:28). This church is God’s church and we must never think or act in any other way. If we ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Change Is Constant

    Contributed by Alan Chandler on Jan 22, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 6,791 views

    No one really likes change. However, change is not only a sign of a healthy church, it is also Biblical

    "Change is Constant" Acts 1: 9-11 January 20, 2002 I. Intro A) Joke: How many church board members does it take to change a light bulb? (Make up as many humorous excuses as you can think of i.e. I like sitting in the dark, does the church want us to change the light bulb, can we afford to change ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Ray Ellis avatar

    God's Mission And Vision

    Contributed by Ray Ellis on Jan 14, 2008
     | 17,331 views

    God’s Mission is twofold: "To seek and to save the lost and make disciples of all people groups."

    God’s Mission & Vision for the WVCC 2008 Numbers 13 There are many indicators that this will be a year of growth and outreach for the Willow Vale Community Church. Many of you are involved in prayer triplets that will meet ten times between December 16th to March 23; a hundred days of ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

  • Jeremy Poling avatar

    Carry Him To His Mother

    Contributed by Jeremy Poling on Jan 15, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,069 views

    The hurting need to come to church.

    Carry Him To His Mother 2Ki 4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. 2Ki 4:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. 2Ki 4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Unshackled Hands Series

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 28, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,074 views

    I could quite easily justify not even stopping...But I was reminded that unshackled hands are not concerned about how or why – only that there is a need and I should do something about it.

    A well dressed woman was on an African Safari that stopped in a leper hospital. The air was humid and sticky. Flies buzzed in frenzy. The woman noticed a nurse bending toward a patient, attending a leper’s pus-filled sores. The woman said, “I wouldn’t do that for all the money in the world” to ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army