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  • C. Philip Green avatar

    Ministering Angels Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Dec 9, 2020
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,688 views

    Trust God to send His angels to minister to you in your time of need.

    One Sunday evening, Marilyn Clark of Cincinnati, Ohio, overheard her 5-year-old daughter, Julie, practicing “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” It was a song she'd been rehearsing that morning in church for the next week's Christmas program. But something wasn’t quite right. In place of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    Fight Off What Comes Naturally (Idolatry)

    Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Mar 8, 2020
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,539 views

    Doing what comes naturally will not lead us in the direction of drawing closer to God. Naturally we have a bent away from the things of God.

    Fight Off What Comes Naturally Exodus 20:1-21 1 Peter 2:9-12 3/6/2020 Some things that come naturally to us can prove deadly if we give ourselves over to them. Have you ever been driving and got sleepy at night. You do things to fight off that natural desire to sleep. You may open ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Dear Babby

    Contributed by Bruce Smalley on Aug 23, 2012
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     | 2,152 views

    An article written in response to a "Dear Abby" letter and response in the local newspaper.

    Time for another “Dear Babby” column -- this time with an alternative response to the “letter” and “answer”: DEAR BABBY: My son let me know this past year that he is a kleptomaniac. My first reaction was to tell him it was OK. (I had already suspected that he ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

  • Chris Carter avatar

    What's In A Trial

    Contributed by Chris Carter on May 29, 2012
     | 5,742 views

    When we go through the tough times in life there are many things we can get out of it.

    “What’s in a TRIAL” James 1:2-8 I. T-Test (vs2-3) A. Tests take effort to complete and pass 1. We live in a NOW society 2. Many people live as if things are owed to them and no work is necessary to achieve what they want 3. In turn this is a failure in the spiritual life as ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Be Afraid!

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Mar 15, 2013
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,763 views

    Paul calls on us to fear, using the terrifying picture of an olive tree.

    March 17, 2013 Romans 11:16-21 If the root is holy, so are the branches. If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not boast over those branches. If you ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Ambushed By Unfaithfulness

    Contributed by Jason Seger on Feb 16, 2012
     | 5,010 views

    David was an experienced military leader. He knew that he had to keep his guard up on the battle field, but was ambushed at home in his palace because he didn’t realize an enemy of a different kind was lying in wait for him. He never saw it coming, bu

    Ambushed by Unfaithfulness Scripture Text: 2nd Samuel 11:1-4 Introduction: Do these words sound familiar? “Do you promise to love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto her, so long as you both shall ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Fire Extinguishers

    Contributed by John Gaston on Apr 23, 2013
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     | 18,727 views

    Which will you extinguish: Hell's fires or Heaven's fires? Fire is important; but it must be the right kind. At a time when God's people were compromising & backslidden, Samson set an example of a man who fanned the flames of the Spirit and extinguished h

    FIRE EXTINGUISHERS EXTINGUISHING HEAVEN’S FIRE OR HELL’S FIRE? 1 Thess. 5:17 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR: FIRE AT CHEMICAL PLANT 1. One dark night a fire started inside a large chemical plant. Because an explosion was likely, an alarm went out to fire departments all around. Many began ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Sleep On Peter, It’s Too Late To Pray!

    Contributed by John Gaston on May 14, 2013
    based on 5 ratings
     | 12,339 views

    If we don't pray, trials may come that will overwhelm our faith. 3 times the Lord warned Peter to pray; 3 times Peter denied the Lord.There comes a time when it's too late to pray. We must get motivated to pray more in order to withstand the troublesome t

    “SLEEP ON PETER, IT’S TOO LATE TO PRAY!” Mark 14:34-42 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR 1. A man, making a long driving trip, drove all night. By morning he was very tired; so he decided to stop at the next city, park somewhere, and catch an hour or two of sleep. 2. Unfortunately, the ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    My Grace Is Sufficient? How?

    Contributed by Jody Vansickle on Aug 12, 2013
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     | 15,854 views

    A sermon which helps explain just how God's grace is sufficient in all situations.

    My Grace is Sufficient: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 by Jody VanSickle The grace of God and how it has come down for us ~ to save us. After we have experienced that grace we are called to help others to experience that grace as well. One of the Scriptures that I have always loved about grace is verse 9 ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Recipe For Disaster

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Oct 29, 2012
     | 5,464 views

    Sermon showing the four steps or ingredients to a fall, the recipe for disaster using King David as the example. This is the is first of two sermons... the second being Recipe for Success

    Recipe for Disaster 2 Samuel 11 Over the next two weeks I am going to be preaching a 2 part message… The two sermons present the wrong way and the right way to avoid spiritual disaster. This week I will start with the NOT TO sermon and I am calling it “The Recipe for ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Bitter Cup ►part 2◄ Series

    Contributed by James Ledbetter on Jun 29, 2015
     | 4,833 views

    Second Sermon in my series The Bitter Cup. Jesus wants us to be ready to partake of the Bitter cup!

    Bitter Cup (Part-2) THE CUP OF TESTING:- Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterward a hungered. ~Matthew 4:1, 2 Jesus went out alone into the wilderness and began to seek His Father. He ...read more

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    Denomination: Apostolic

  • Maurice McCarthy avatar

    Devil You Can't Have Back What God Gave Us

    Contributed by Maurice Mccarthy on Aug 3, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,997 views

    Jephthah tells the Ammonites the land God gave the Israelites will not be surrendered back to them. A message about how the enemy is always trying to take back lost territory and how we should respond.

    Devil - You Can't Have Back What God Gave Us! PPT 1 Message Title PPT 2 Text Judges 11:23 'Since now the LORD, the God of Israel, drove out the Amorites from before His people Israel, are you then to possess it? (NAS) Judges 11:23 It was GOD, the God of Israel, who pushed out the Amorites in favor ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    What You Talking About Willis

    Contributed by Horace Wimpey on Jan 11, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,971 views

    In the narrative between Eve and the serpent, we see the importance of God's word.

    What you talking about Willis Genesis 2:16&17, 3:1-7 Intro: Back in the 80’s, there was a television show called Different Strokes. The star of the show was a child named Gary Coleman. In this show, two black children were adopted by a rich white man because their mother who was his maid ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Christian Enticement Series

    Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jan 15, 2014
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     | 5,760 views

    Pergamum is known as The Compromising Church. We will look at the strengths of this church / Subtle Seduction of this church / Standard for the church.

    Christian Enticement Revelation 2:12-17 12 "To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword. 13 I know where you live-- where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, even in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Resistance Is Not Futile!

    Contributed by Leslie Tarlton on Jan 19, 2014
     | 3,964 views

    An expositional Series in the Book of James

    James 4:7-17 Resistance is not Futile! Pastor James continues to address the issues he is seeing in his church. Chapter 1 - James addresses the congregation’s failure to examine see their own wavering faith, lack of patience & understanding • They show partiality toward the rich, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational