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  • Elmer Towns avatar

    Leadership Transfer Lesson 2

    Contributed by Elmer Towns on Jul 31, 2025
     | 103 views

    “I will give you all the land on which you set your feet … no one will be able to stop you. I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not fail you or abandon you” (Joshua 3-5)

    A. CAN YOU THINK YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS? “After the death of Moses the Lord’s servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant. He said, ‘Moses my servant is dead. Therefore, the time has come for you to lead these people, the Israelites, across the Jordan River into the land I am ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Change Your Perspective From Gloomy To Glorious!

    Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Apr 15, 2025
     | 532 views

    Changing your perspective can help you stop automatic negative attitudes, speech, thoughts and navigate situations with a more balanced outlook. The Jewish people needed a different perspective, so God sends Haggai.

    Sermon – Change Your Perspective From Gloomy to Glorious! Scripture Lesson – Haggai 2:1-9 “On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai: “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and to ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    From Goodness To Going

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jul 11, 2005
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,584 views

    Preached at the National Baptist Memorial Church -- a congregation facing selecting a pastor, dealing with an aging building, and in decline. The issue is whether we will stop depending on just being "good" and will live out of grace to bear our witness

    I heard not long ago about a very special automobile. It was built in the 1920’s by the Italian firm Bugatti, and it was designed for the outrageously wealthy. This car had 450 horses under the hood, it was 22 feet long and weighed 6000 pounds. It was hand-crafted of the finest materials, it ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Enter God's Rest Series

    Contributed by Frank Lay on Sep 12, 2004
    based on 31 ratings
     | 33,507 views

    In spite of the fact that Jesus paid it all for us on the cross, people continue to struggle, trying to earn the Christian life. If that is your situation today, I plead with you to stop trying, and start trusting. Be diligent to enter into that rest.

    HOW TO ENTER GOD’S REST Hebrews 4:11-16 "Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience." "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Wrestling In Prayer Series

    Contributed by Alan Mccann on Sep 13, 2004
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,421 views

    We all need to learn that satan wants to stop us praying (ephesians 6) and that we need to wrestle against that. added to this we need to be challenged to persevere in prayer - like the men and women of faith in scripture

    WRESTLING IN PRAYER Isn’t it amazing how quick the pace of life is? Are you not astounded that every 18 months or so the speed of a computer doubles? We all use to think the www was quick with a dial up connection but now we have broadband and isdn lines. We have instant everything. You can go ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    Requires Gathering The Resources Series

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Oct 21, 2002
    based on 27 ratings
     | 6,197 views

    Sermon 3 of 4 on Building a great church. How did it happen that in the course of building a place of worship that the people were giving so much that it was becoming a distraction to the actual work and Moses had to tell them to stop?

    Building A Great Church Requires that You Gather the Resources Exodus 36:1-6 The LORD has given to Bezalel, Oholiab, and others the skills needed for building a place of worship, and they will follow the LORD’s instructions. Then Moses brought together these workers who were eager to work, and he ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Digging Again The Old Wells

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Oct 25, 2003
    based on 194 ratings
     | 23,812 views

    As Isaac dug again the wells his father Abraham had dug years before, so we would be wise to re-dig some spiritual wells in our lives that may have become stopped up.

    DIGGING AGAIN THE OLD WELLS “Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with earth. And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we." Then Isaac departed from ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    We Shall Reap, If We Faint Not

    Contributed by Gary Huckaby on May 22, 2003
    based on 98 ratings
     | 30,798 views

    How often do people quit just before receiving the answer to a request? How many times have we stopped working for the Lord only to find out that someone else reaped the harvest after us?

    A Sermon For You A Ministry of Huckaby’s Evangelism We Shall Reap If We Faint Not By-Evangelist Gary Huckaby D.D. Text: Galatians 6:7; "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Jonah Storms Series

    Contributed by Dan Cale on Mar 8, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 10,472 views

    This is part 5 of a 5 part series on surviving the storms of life. Jonah storms are storms of our own making. Find out what causes these storms and how to prevent them and even stop them once they are started.

    Surviving the Storms of Life Jonah Storms Jonah 1:1-17 Over the last few weeks we have been looking at the storms of life and how to survive and even thrive in the midst of them. We have walked through spring showers, thunderstorms, and even category 5 hurricanes. Today I want to finish this ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    The 7 Stages Of The Prodigal Series

    Contributed by Tom Fuller on Oct 12, 2006
    based on 17 ratings
     | 24,196 views

    Do you have ever wonder whatt causes someone to walk away from God or how it could even happen to you? Learn the stages and how to get with God and even stop the Prodigal in his tracks.

    The 7 Stages of the Prodigal We can be a prodigal and not even know it. The young man in this parable "came to himself" when he was slopping with the pigs. But if we are aware of the stages we might come to ourselves much earlier and avoid some of the consequences of being estranged from God, or ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

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    Suffering Saints Shall Surely Survive Series

    Contributed by Mack Armstrong on Oct 16, 2007
     | 3,507 views

    We need to stop and remember that our forefathers suffered much for thier faith in Christ, yet they bore the affliction with grace and dignity and through their trials, they made it through to Glory Land. The record they left teaches us much.

    HEBREWS 10:32-39 SUFFERING SAINTS SHALL SURELY SURVIVE I. SUFFERINGS: Hebrews 10:32-34 A. Severity. B. Solidifying. C. Spoliation. II. SELFLESSNESS: Hebrews 10:34-37 A. Succor. B. Steadfastness. C. Surety. III. SUMMATION: ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Completing Christ

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Oct 10, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,032 views

    Our lives find meaning and completeness if we first recognize what God has already done in us, if we see that God never stops working in any life, and if we devote ourselves to His purposes.

    If I were to take you to my home this afternoon, I could show you a parable of the human condition. My house would tell you a whole lot about our family, of course, but it also would tell you about the whole human problem. You see, our house is unfinished. It is incomplete. Oh, it was built in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Keep The Fire Burning

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Sep 20, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 18,273 views

    Why does the fire of revival burn so brightly but so shortly? What can the church do to keep the fire in our belly burning brightly? Stop filling the church with people and ask for the people to be filled with God!

    Intro: Second Timothy is Paul’s farewell address to Timothy and the church at large. Paul is in prison in Rome waiting for execution. This is one of the letters that Paul wrote called the Pastoral Epistles. That simply put is the pastoral letters. First and Second Timothy and Titus make up the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Channel Of God's Blessings

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jun 10, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,987 views

    Christ’s work did not stop with His departure. We are God’s agent of change in the lives of many who are crippled spiritually today. Let us touch lives, through faith in Christ’s Name.

    For this crippled man, every day is the same. • The same spot, the same crowd, the same scene, the same routine. • Every day he would be carried and dropped at Temple gate called Beautiful. • The congregation recognised him “as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate…” He has ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Digesting The Golden Veal - Golden Calf Series

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 16, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,589 views

    We today fool ourselves. There is sin in our lives and we may stop the sin, we may see to it that the sin is eliminated from our lives – but that is not the same as being repentant and turning away from our sin.

    Mark Twain was a man who became quite hostel towards the Bible and towards the Christian faith. He was so persistent in his attacks upon Christianity, that his wife, who was a devote Christian, became so discouraged, she eventually turned her back on Jesus Christ – something Mark Twain regretted ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational