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  • Dr John Singarayar SVD avatar

    Embracing The Joy Of Staying In Love Through The Seasons Of Married Life

    Contributed by Dr John Singarayar Svd on Feb 4, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 999 views

    Embracing the Joy of Staying in Love through the Seasons of Married Life (Valentine’s Day Homily)

    Embracing the Joy of Staying in Love through the Seasons of Married Life Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Reflection Love, the basis of human connection, develops in many ways as partners overcome the difficulties of matrimony. From the magical beginnings to the steadfast dedication of elder ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

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    The Faithful Steward (3) Series

    Contributed by Donald Mcculley on Mar 19, 2019
     | 3,294 views

    . There is a direct link between our spiritual journey and our practical stewardship. Paul leads us from glory to giving.

    THE FAITHFUL STEWARD I CORINTHIANS 16:1-4 INTRODUCTION: “Now concerning the collection.” What about the offering. In chapter 15 Paul has talked about the resurrection, rapture and reality. Chapter 16 is different. It’s as if Paul takes a break and comes back from Heaven to Earth. He goes ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    "When The Waves Rise-Recognizing The Overwhelming” Series

    Contributed by Dr. John D. Wentworth on Jul 20, 2025
     | 174 views

    In every season of life, there comes a moment when the weight of responsibility, expectation, and uncertainty feels far too heavy to bear.

    Title: # 1 “When the Waves Rise-Recognizing the Overwhelming” Text: 2 Cor. 12:9 “But he said to me; My grace sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness, ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • David Dunn avatar

    How In The World Can I Be Holy?

    Contributed by David Dunn on Sep 24, 2025
     | 126 views

    Holiness grows as we surrender: Christ renews our thoughts, equips our lives, and tunes our praise, freeing us to truly live.

    Introduction: A wild duck lands in a Danish barnyard for an easy meal. He plans to stay an hour, then a day, then a summer. When autumn comes and wild wings thunder overhead, he tries to join them but can barely clear the barn eaves. By the next spring he scarcely looks up. That is a parable of ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

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    The Storms Of Life Series

    Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Oct 31, 2025
     | 132 views

    THE STORMS OF LIFE

    Acts 27:21-44 THE STORMS OF LIFE 1. THE FACT OF THE STORM IS TO BE EXPECTED - 14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    Coping With Critics Series

    Contributed by Travis Moore on Nov 29, 2000
    based on 124 ratings
     | 5,615 views

    Learing to deal with those who think is their calluing to stick their nose in your business.

    COPING WITH CRITICS (Mat 7:1- 6, 12) "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    I Believe We Can Fly

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Nov 28, 2001
    based on 44 ratings
     | 12,851 views

    The reality is that where there is no vision the people perish

    I Believe We Can Fly “Where there is no vision the people perish” July 20, 1997 Morning Service Introduction I. The loss of dreams: Waking up and remembering part of a dream, frustration, straining to remember, longing to catch another moment of the dream II. Personal Dreams: History teacher, God ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Our Living Hope

    Contributed by Charles Mallory on Apr 6, 2002
    based on 30 ratings
     | 3,357 views

    A message of encouragement to remind us that salvation through Christ provides us with a living hope for today as well as for our future.

    CHRISTIANITY IS A RELIGION OF RESURRECTION. IN FACT, IT COULD BE ARGUED THAT THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WORD OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IS "RESURRECTION." PAUL SAID IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15:14, "IF CHRIST BE NOT RISEN, THEN IS OUR PREACHING VAIN." WITHOUT THE RESURRECTION, THE VOICE OF THE GOSPEL MESSAGE WOULD ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

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    David Faces Goliath

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on May 21, 2003
    based on 34 ratings
     | 10,117 views

    Facing our fears with faith

    David Faces Goliath 1 Samuel 17 Purpose Statement: To encourage the congregation to face their fears with faith. Introduction Have you ever been terrified? Have you ever been afraid of something that you didn’t know what to do about? That’s what I want to talk about in this message. Facing ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Frederick Meekins avatar

    A Review Of Orthodoxy By G.k. Chesterton

    Contributed by Frederick Meekins on Feb 28, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,205 views

    A Review Of The Apologetic Classic

    Over the course of the modern era, whether fairly or not, orthodoxy has come to be associated with glumness and austerity. Thus, those coming across Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton might assume they are in for a dull and obtuse recitation of doctrine and dogma. They will, however, be delightfully ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Emmaus - Surprising God

    Contributed by Joseph Neil Adams on Mar 24, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,115 views

    Do we understand our calling to be Christ to the needy & poor? Francis of Assisi & Mother Theresa are illustartions in this message that links the parable fo teh sheep & goats to the Easter Emmaus story.

    Luke 24:13-35 Matthew 25:31-46 Isaiah 53:1-3 This Emmaus scripture is a strange one isn’t it? Friends walking with not just a close friend but their leader; yet despite knowing him so well they fail to recognise Him. Yet it is not just a case of the risen Christ being so different to the Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Tag Team

    Contributed by Jason Winters on Dec 8, 2007
     | 5,312 views

    Team work in the body

    Tag Team Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Rev. Bruce A. Shields avatar

    A Message To The Graduates

    Contributed by Rev. Bruce A. Shields on May 23, 2005
    based on 40 ratings
     | 57,146 views

    A short message for the graduates to remember as they end one season of their lives and begin another.

    A MESSAGE TO THE GRADUATES OF 2005 First of all, congratulations on your achievements in this, the last year of your High School endeavor. Your hard work and dedication has finally paid off. You have passed one of the many road marks which are set before you in this life. But as with anything ...read more

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    Denomination: Bible Church

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    It Came Upon The Midnight Clear Series

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Nov 18, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,521 views

    A sermon on the Christmas message of "Peace On Earth."

    It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Luke 2:14 INTRO.: Christmas is nearing and I thought it might be good to consider the messages of some of our Christmas songs. Today, I want to think about the song, "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," by Edmond Sears, a New York Unitarian Minister, who penned it in ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    What Can Jesus' Blood Do For You? Tear Down Those Walls

    Contributed by Jonathan Powell on Mar 22, 2013
     | 5,256 views

    What does the Blood of Jesus do for you?

    What Can Jesus' Blood Do for You? - Tear Down Those Walls Ephesians 2:11-18 God's grace is amazing to you and I. God's mercy to you and I is overwhelming. His love is immeasurable to you and I - by simply providing Jesus Christ as a sacrifice for our sins. We've seen this picture painted time ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist