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  • Ed Lucas avatar

    How Majestic Is Your God

    Contributed by Ed Lucas on Aug 31, 2001
    based on 40 ratings
     | 6,723 views

    Giving God full supreme authority and power in all of your life.

    How Majestic Is Your God? Psalm 8 INTRODUCTION For the next couple of months we will be taking a special journey. We will be traveling through the book of Psalms. Each week, with the exception of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, we will engulf ourselves in the words of the psalmist. Psalms is a ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Where Do God & Country Meet?

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Oct 31, 2002
    based on 264 ratings
     | 29,843 views

    Where do God & country meet? How can we be good Christians & yet good citizens? Can we be both, or do we have to be one or the other? Do we have to sacrifice our love of God for love of country, or vice-versa?

    MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (REVISED: 2022) TEXT: Romans 13:1-7; 2 Chronicles 7:14; 1 Timothy 2:1-4; Philippians 3:17-21 ILL. A few years ago Dr. James Dobson began his Focus on the Family Newsletter with words as important, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Can We Trust The Map? Series

    Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 14, 2004
    based on 14 ratings
     | 5,575 views

    An introduction to Luke considering the trustworthiness of the author, the sources of information, the process of writing

    Luke – Can we trust the Map? I don’t know how many of you watch the show Survivor. I know – many of you are thinking – that is garbage. It is all about greed and money. And I’ll grant that it is. But I love to watch, it because I learn a lot about people from it. It is amazing how different ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Wealth + Power + Knowledge = Zero Series

    Contributed by Thomas Swope on Dec 11, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,449 views

    A study of chapter 1 verses 1 through 18

    Ecclesiastes 1: 1 – 18 Wealth + Power + Knowledge = Zero 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” 3 What profit has a man from all his labor in which he toils ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

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    Power To Heal Series

    Contributed by John Bright on May 9, 2022
     | 1,823 views

    Working through the Gospel of Luke using consecutive expository preaching. Teaching sheet included at end of text.

    “Power to Heal” Luke 8:40-56 A sermon for 9/5/21 Pastor John Bright Harmony & Swansonville UMC We live in a day of declining trust in authority. People don’t trust the government to protect us. The recent chaos abroad has made it worse. People don’t trust their denominational leaders - that’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Challenging Religion Series

    Contributed by Ken Sowers on Mar 18, 2014
     | 4,782 views

    Jesus confronts religious leaders

    Challenging Religion Vital to read the entire book at one sitting from time to time. Chapters 5-7 at minimum Jesus' teaching are set in the backdrop of the Feast of Tabernacles - Season of our Gladness! Called Succoth - Booths. Booths = we want rain. Fall harvest festival - reminder of tent ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Neither Jot Nor Tittle Series

    Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Jun 27, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,448 views

    Is Jesus making the Law binding upon Christians in these verses?

    Neither Jot, nor Tittle Matthew 5:17-19 This text has many emphatic markers in the Greek which indicates that what Jesus says here is to be taken with all seriousness. We need to be reminded again that the Sermon on the Mount was preached to His disciples in the light of dividing the true ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • James Jackson avatar

    Shift, Part 1: Shift Out Of Neutral Series

    Contributed by James Jackson on Sep 29, 2020
     | 10,037 views

    Before we can shift IN to anything else, we have to shift OUT of neutral. How do we do that? According to Ezekiel, God only knows.

    Good morning! Please turn in your Bibles to the Old Testament book of Ezekiel, chapter 37. That’s not one we spend a whole lot of time in, so I’ll give you some time to find it. Ezekiel is in the second half of the OT. It’s after Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah… While you are looking up Ezekiel 37, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Justin Steckbauer avatar

    Three Tough Questions To Ask Yourself As A Christian

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Mar 23, 2021
     | 2,905 views

    I often wonder where my fellow believers stand, especially those who I stand along side of in the church. We live in a day and age where there is much compromise and strife within the church.

    I often wonder where my fellow believers stand, especially those who I stand along side of in the church. We live in a day and age where there is much compromise and strife within the church. The church as a body of believers is struggling to understand how to deal with culture. Some seek to ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Veteran Christianity

    Contributed by John Oscar on Nov 12, 2017
     | 7,282 views

    Explaining how veterans have learned several key life lessons from the military that will help them in their walk with God

    Veteran Christianity CCCAG November 12th, 2017 Scripture- Matt 8:5-13 In 1988, I was in the Military Processing command in Milwaukee Wisconsin to get my physical and fill out paperwork to enlist in the US Army. There were many reasons that I had chosen this route in life, among them was because ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Our Awesome God - Part 3

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Oct 18, 2016
     | 8,376 views

    1. Behold the awesome strictness of our God (vs. 22-23). 2. Behold the awesome Scripture of our God (vs. 24-29). 3. Behold the awesome salvation of our God (vs. 30-32). 4. Behold the awesome supremacy of our God (vs. 33-36).

    Our Awesome God - Part 3 Romans 11:22-36 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - Oct. 2, 2016 BACKGROUND: *Tonight we get to the end of Romans 11, and all of you probably know that in the last three chapters Paul was led by God's Holy Spirit to discuss the Jews. The big question was: If ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Paul Apple avatar

    Here Comes The Judge Series

    Contributed by Paul Apple on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 43 ratings
     | 6,801 views

    UNJUST RULERS WILL HAVE TO ANSWER TO THE SUPREME JUDGE WHO IS THE FINAL AUTHORITY

    BIG IDEA: UNJUST RULERS WILL HAVE TO ANSWER TO THE SUPREME JUDGE WHO IS THE FINAL AUTHORITY (:1) INTRODUCTION -- CALL TO ORDER IN THE COURTROOM the Judge is God Himself (in the midst of His own congregation) the unjust rulers and unjust judges are the subjects of judgment I. (:2-4) CASE AGAINST ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Pressing To The End PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 28, 2023
    based on 3 ratings
     | 924 views

    Explore the authority of Christ, the audacity of the Pharisees, and the call for believers to persist in their faith.

    Good morning, Church family! I'm feeling particularly moved today as we dive into a powerful passage from the Gospel of Matthew. This passage is like a complex painting, with layers upon layers of deep, spiritual meaning. It speaks about the authority of Christ, the audacity of the Pharisees, and ...read more

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  • Mike Rickman avatar

    The Thing Legends Are Made Of

    Contributed by Mike Rickman on Feb 28, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,282 views

    Legends are based on what people want to believe. The power and ministry of the church in the authority of Jesus is the real thing.

    March 1, 2009 Morning Worship Text: Matthew 4:23-25 Subject: The Ministry of Jesus Title: The Thing Legends Are Made Of Have any of you ever made up a really good story? I mean one of those stories that you can tell that you make it sound so believable that people really take you seriously? ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Who Is This Jesus?

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Feb 3, 2009
     | 3,943 views

    To this day people still have difficulty defining who God is, and if Jesus was God incarnate, then who is Jesus?

    Patrick Morley wrote, “The turning point in our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is.” (quote from SermonCentral.com) In the person of Jesus Christ, God came to earth to live among us in the person of His only begotten Son. Yet, even to this day people ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed