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  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    Compost Your Fig Tree Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 18, 2021
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    If our fig tree isn’t bearing fruit, it’s time to dig around it and apply some good compost. Both are important, essential actions.

    Third Sunday in Lent The brilliance of Jesus the preacher can be seen in today’s story, unique to St. Luke, about how He handled some local gossip. Pontius Pilate, the Roman boss of Judea, ruled as a tyrant. On this occasion, it appears he broke up a revolutionary plot right in the area of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Take Time Under The Tree

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Jun 11, 2021
     | 1,650 views

    Reflecting on the mustard seed, we look at Paul's encouragement for the Colossians in their growth in grace.

    6.13.21 Colossians 1:6 The gospel is bearing fruit and growing in the entire world, just as it also has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth. Throughout the Old Testament God warned the Israelites to withhold from worshiping the gods of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Dr. Bradford Reaves avatar

    The Parable Of The Unfruitful Fig Tree Series

    Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on May 16, 2024
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    The Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree

    Dr. Bradford Reaves CrossWay Christian Fellowship Hagerstown, MD www.mycrossway.org ? We are continuing our series of parables of Jesus. Whenever Jesus wanted to clarify the truths of the Kingdom of God, he used word pictures or illustrations called parables. The word parable means literally “to ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren

  • Jason Jones avatar

    Wrath Upon A Fig Tree Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Jun 4, 2025
     | 117 views

    This morning we will look at a living parable with two meanings for us.

    Background to passage, Matthew 21:18-19: Last week of Jesus’s life. Major confrontation with the religious establishment. Two demonstrations of his messiahship publicly, and now one with the disciples even more pointed than the first two. With this prophetic parable, Jesus completes his claim as ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Jesus' Family Tree

    Contributed by Ken Sauer on Nov 20, 2024
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     | 722 views

    For the first Sunday in Advent. There is no one who is not good enough for God to love.

    Matthew 1:1-17 Jesus’ Family Tree When I was in college I was walking across campus when I came across a woman who was in one of my classes. She also came to our Campus Bible study. She was maybe in her 50’s, which seemed ancient to me. We got into a long and in-depth conversation that ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • Mark Schaeufele avatar

    Jesus' Misión Series

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Feb 19, 2024
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    Jesus came to put you in the right place. Are you ready to be put in the right place?

    JESUS MISSION Text: Luke 19:1-9 Introduction 1. Illustration: Jesus’ mission we're told in Luke 19:10 is to “Seek and save what was lost.” Lost doesn’t mean “damned or doomed,” says William Barclay. In the New Testament it simply means to save people in the wrong place. Barclay continues that ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    The Truth About Power Series

    Contributed by Scott Maze on Jun 4, 2021
     | 4,486 views

    Jesus doesn’t tell Zacchaeus, “I’ll stand in your doorway, but I will not come inside.” Jesus doesn’t tell Zacchaeus, “I’ll look in your window, but I will not come inside.” No, Jesus says instead, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.” (Luke 19:5b)

    We are in a short series of sermons entitled The Truth about You. And we conclude this series with a very famous story, the story of Jesus and Zacchaeus. This is the last of Jesus’ personal encounters (in Luke’s gospel) before He arrives in Jerusalem to be tried, crucified, and eventually ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    He Knows Your Name

    Contributed by Dennis Lawrence on Nov 16, 2005
    based on 19 ratings
     | 10,010 views

    Jesus works with you as an individual, not as a number.

    He Knows Your Name Cornwall September 11, 2005 There was a time when Jesus, while travelling, came to Jericho, a city beside the Jordan River and 825 feet below sea level. This city was literally ‘down’ from Jerusalem, situated on a prominent hill. Jericho is in the current West Bank, a disputed ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Putting Faith To Work

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Sep 30, 2019
     | 8,174 views

    How can anyone have enough faith to follow Jesus all the way? Let’s learn that we already have enough faith to fulfill big dreams. Let’s see what Jesus says in Luke 17:5-10.

    How can anyone have enough faith to follow Jesus all the way? Let’s learn that we already have enough faith to fulfill big dreams. Let’s see what Jesus says in Luke 17:5-10. Tiny Faith Big Action Luke 17:5-6 The apostles said to the Lord, “Show us how to increase our faith.” 6 The Lord answered, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    You Can Stand Out!

    Contributed by Peter Balogun on Jul 12, 2004
    based on 20 ratings
     | 30,699 views

    The bottom is getting crowded every second. How can a man make his way through to the top? This message shows you how.

    From our text, we see a man with many limitations trying to get the attention of Jesus Christ. As usual, Jesus was going about doing good and went through the territory of this man who had long been awaiting the day Christ would come into his life. Zacchaeus was a man of small stature, so cannot ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    When Salvation Comes

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Nov 3, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,087 views

    Salvation comes to us when we are willing to breakdown the barriers that separate us from God.

    Luke 19: 1 – 10 / When Salvation Comes Intro: Randy Newman wrote a song some time ago called “Short People.” The lyrics go something like this: “Short people got no reason to live. They got little hands and little eyes and they walk around tellin’ great big lies. They got little noses and tiny ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Jeff Strite avatar

    Won't You Be My Friend Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 9, 2018
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,737 views

    God said it was not good for the man to be alone, and yet too many people are more isolated than ever. Using a clip from the popular TV series "This is Us" we address the question of "How can we witness to others?"

    OPEN: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn9aSZ7uPXI – video clip from “This Is Us” of conversation between Katie and a woman she’s helped. See Footnote) APPLY: That clip came from a scene in a popular TV series called “THIS IS US”. Katie (one of the main characters in the show) is helping a girl ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Deldrick LeaSure avatar

    When A Crook Met Christ

    Contributed by Deldrick Leasure on Apr 27, 2010
    based on 8 ratings
     | 9,760 views

    This sermon deals with how a person can come to know Christ even in the midst of their lifestyle.

    Luke 19:1-10 “When A Crook Met Christ” credit given to another source of sermoncentral for the introduction of this sermon For those of us who own and operate an automobile, we understand that our manuals as well as the car manufactures have instructed us that we should ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • W Pittendreigh avatar

    Amos -- Amateur Prophet Series

    Contributed by W Pittendreigh on Sep 21, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 10,714 views

    Amos was a businessman, not a prophet -- but he saw things in his society that needed to be examined. "Judgment is coming," is the theme of his preaching.

    Amos 5:6-14 6 Seek the LORD and live, or he will sweep through the house of Joseph like a fire; it will devour, and Bethel will have no one to quench it. 7 You who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground 8 (he who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns blackness into dawn ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • John Daniel Johnson avatar

    Just One Night In His Presence

    Contributed by John Daniel Johnson on Nov 12, 2011
    based on 16 ratings
     | 16,484 views

    This is a sermon about truly desiring to be in the presence of the LORD daily in our lives.

    Just One Night in His Presence: “Do You Truly Desire the Presence of the LORD?” Scripture Text: Numbers 17:1-10 Do you remember the story of Zacchaeus? If you remember, he was a tax collector of a short stature. He had heard of the teachings and miracles of Jesus, and heard that Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist