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  • Tim Hinrichs avatar

    Lessons From The Graveyard

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Nov 8, 2011
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     | 5,746 views

    Lessons to learn as we think about death and the rest of our lives - am I ready and are those around me ready? What will I do with the rest of my days?

    Tuesday was All Saints Day and therefore this Sunday is All Saints Sunday. I don’t know if you realized it. I remember how it was in Poland – a national holiday – one of the big ones. Mostly people spend the day with relatives, walk in the cemetery, clean the graves of family ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Great News!

    Contributed by Stephen Sheane on Dec 2, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,642 views

    The birth announcements by the angels 2000 years ago was great news. Like the shepherds we need to get the news, celebrate the news and spread the news.

    GREAT NEWS It was June 18, 1815, the Battle of Waterloo. The French under the command of Napoleon were fighting the Allies (British, Dutch, and Germans) under the command of Wellington. The people of England depended on a system of semaphore signals to find out how the battle was going. One of ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

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    The Awe Inspiring Power Of Jesus

    Contributed by Lance Lewis on Oct 7, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,845 views

    A sermon about the power of Christ.

    I. Intro: You know the Bible is an amazing book. It records wonderful miracles, testimonies of healing and redemption. It describes the human condition and gives us the cure for it. It gives us instruction on how to gain eternal life and how to lives out our lives on a day to day basis. But ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Important Relationships In The Church (Part 2) Series

    Contributed by Kevin L. Jones on Mar 22, 2010
    based on 7 ratings
     | 10,478 views

    A sermon examining the importance of integrity in the lives of God's people.loving others.

    Important Relationships In The Church (Part 2) Acts 4:32-37 (Antioch Baptist Church: Wednesday, October 8th, 2025) Some of the most important relationships in my life have been cultivated inside the local church. My greatest friends, confidants, mentors, and encouragers are people that I am ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    They Prayed

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 22, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,857 views

    Our prayers should be that of the Publican

    Text: “…everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 18:14). Do you know anyone who has a tendency to exalt himself or herself? Those people who are always praising themselves, applauding themselves or paying tribute to ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    What Are You Looking At?

    Contributed by Stephen Becker on Jan 26, 2008
    based on 10 ratings
     | 6,995 views

    A look at Paul’s teaching in 1 Cor 1:10-18, emphasizing the Message and the point of the Gospel--looking to Christ--instead of focusing on our problems and issues here in this fallen world. God’s called us into salvation, how let’s give Him the Glory whi

    What are you looking at? Substance over style 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Stephen H, Becker, M.Div., ULLM St. Peter’s Lutheran Church—Evening Services January 27, 2008; 3rd Sunday after the Epiphany I heard a story about a woman driving alone over the Sierras on Highway 80 in the middle of the winter ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Intimacy With God

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Aug 17, 2012
    based on 247 ratings
     | 91,737 views

    God desires to have a close, intimate, personal ...loving, dynamic, powerful relationship with you. Christianity is not about a weekly trip to church. We must move beyond that. Updated Substantially September 2018.

    For those not familiar with an Anglican Service; there are four Scripture Readings before the Sermon. The Scripture Readings for this day are: 1 Kings 8:1, 6, 10-11, 22-30, 41-43; Psalm 84 ; Ephesians 6:10-20 and John 6:56-69. One day, ... a young disciple of Christ ... desirous of wanting to ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    What God Has Done To Us

    Contributed by Efren V. Narido on Apr 6, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,958 views

    When it seems God is not doing anything in our difficulty, it pays to remember what He has done in our life.

    “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    When You Can't Sleep

    Contributed by Monty Newton on Apr 14, 2013
     | 8,183 views

    You can't sleep when your life is unraveling... but it is the sleeplessness of an unraveling life that we learn to live in grateful dependence on God - all the time.

    Title: When You Can’t Sleep Text: Psalm 30 Thesis: You can’t sleep when your life is unraveling… but it is in the sleeplessness of an unraveling life that we learn to live in grateful dependence on God – all the time. Introduction There is a Volkswagen commercial that is ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How To Live A Successful Life Series

    Contributed by Thomas Swope on May 17, 2013
     | 9,423 views

    A study of the book of Psalms 1

    Psalm 1 How To Live A Successful Life 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree planted ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

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    Spiritual Body

    Contributed by Derek Geldart on Mar 26, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,782 views

    When Christ returns the dead in Christ and those alive will have their physical bodies transformed into spiritual ones.

    OUR RESURRECTION BODY Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567 1 Corinthians 15:35-58 Ever since God spoke the words “dust you are, dust you will return” (Genesis 3:19) humanity has been waiting to see how the soul is to be clothed upon Christ’s return. While the physical body is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Longing For God's Word Series

    Contributed by Pat Damiani on Aug 8, 2016
     | 10,057 views

    In order to become who God made us to be in Christ we must long for His Word

    ENGAGE/TENSION As you’ve probably already noticed, we’re changing things up a bit this morning for some reasons that will become apparent in a bit. I’m pretty sure that some of you are really going to like what we’ll do and others of you are not going to be quite so happy. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Important Relationships In The Church (Part 2) Series

    Contributed by Kevin L. Jones on Jan 16, 2016
    based on 5 ratings
     | 15,188 views

    A sermon examining the importance of loving others.

    Important Relationships Within The Church (Part 2) Acts 4:32-37 (Antioch Baptist Church: Wednesday, October 8th, 2025) Some of the most important relationships in my life have been cultivated inside the local church. My greatest friends, confidants, mentors, and encouragers are people that I ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Tim White avatar

    God's Solutions Are Better Series

    Contributed by Tim White on Mar 10, 2014
     | 5,431 views

    God rejects Abraham's plan and gives him a better one.

    • Ill. Todd Coget could feel the pressure. He was beginning to believe he had bit off more than he could chew and his wife was expecting way too much out of him. • He had to finish painting the kitchen to the house they were building, pick up the kids, and somehow select the things to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Rebekah Absorbed The Blame

    Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Oct 24, 2014
     | 3,462 views

    To show that JESUS is the absorber of all curses in our lives.

    I. EXORDIUM: What curse do you have in your life? JESUS totally and infinitely absorbed it all. II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show that JESUS is the absorber of all curses in our lives. IV. TEXT: Genesis 27:13 (Amplified Bible) 27:13 But his mother said to him, On me ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal