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  • Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit Series

    Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Feb 29, 2004
    based on 70 ratings
     | 3,698 views

    Ash Wednesday: Christ’s name elicits jeers and rejection from those who don’t know Him. But for the poor in spirit, Christ is Savior, Son of the Living God.

    Why the outcry? Why the outcry when the name or the work of Jesus is mentioned in public? The reaction to the mention of the name is like splashing ice water on people. We see it in our own lives as the name of Jesus offends – sometimes family members; sometimes friends or neighbors. We see it in ...read more

  • You Can't Unscramble Eggs

    Contributed by Chris Layton on Jun 23, 2001
    based on 114 ratings
     | 6,603 views

    You can’t change your past. But you can take that past and go forward for Christ.

    Title: “You can’t unscramble egg’s” Text: 1 Timothy 1:12-16 ETS: Despite his past, God saved and used Paul. ESS: Despite your past, God can save and He can use you. OSS: I want my people to be saved and used by God. Probing Question: Why doesn’t our past matter? U.W. Reasons Transitional ...read more

  • Jesus' Pain Became Our Gain

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Mar 21, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,139 views

    A Good Friday Word. This was done by our community with four pastor’s involved. This chapter was broken down into four parts. this was the third out of Four lessons from Matthew

    Jesus’ Pain Became Our Gain Text: Matthew 27:32-44 32And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. 33And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, 34They gave him vinegar to drink ...read more

  • Just Be Like Jesus Series

    Contributed by Aarron Ellerman on Feb 27, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,061 views

    What does it mean to "walk in the Spirit" and how do we accomplish it?

    Series: Study of Galatians Text: Galatians 5:16-25 Title: “Just Be Like Jesus” I. The Spirit vs. The Flesh (16-18) Vs. 16 • “Walk” present active tense, so what Paul is saying is “to keep walking” in the Sprit and don’t ever stop. o Romans 6:12-14 o Romans 8:9-13 • What exactly does it mean to ...read more

  • Part 4 - Genesis 18:16-30 - Just Passing By And Saw Your Light On ... Series

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jul 9, 2010
    based on 16 ratings
     | 5,001 views

    So why did they stop off at Abraham's place first? Just passing by, saw your light on and thought we would drop in? Lord, let me have that kind of light, but what was the point of eating a meal with Abraham and then going on?

    Part 4 - Genesis 18:16-30 - JUST PASSING BY AND SAW YOUR LIGHT ON ... He slipped away into eternity peacefully the other day as we stood by his bed. The family and I held hands and prayed as an old man who loved the Lord and loved his family was in that moment absent from the body and present with ...read more

  • God's Promise: Jesus Can Be Born In You Today

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Dec 9, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,392 views

    A short talk given at our December Pensioners' Praise. During the year our theme has been The Promises of God and I was asked to talk about God's promise to Mary.

    An Angel is a Messenger of God, and the Messenger said: “Do not be afraid, Mary. You have found favour with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus” (30-31). If a Messenger from God were to say to me, “Warner, do not be afraid. You have ...read more

  • Love The Lord Your God: Parenting Beyond Your Capacity

    Contributed by Andy Payne on Oct 30, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,408 views

    The reality is there is no perfect family. There is no perfect parent, parenting style, or parenting trick. “... God is more interested in using broken people than He is creating a better picture.”

    Love the Lord your God Family Camp 2010 Intro: Perfect parents Parenting Beyond your Capacity Book by Reggie Joiner & Carey Nieuwhof “God isn’t holding up a perfect picture; He’s writing a bigger story.” Images of what the ideal family is Flood of parenting books, ...read more

  • The Lord Is My Shepherd

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Nov 13, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,588 views

    A sermon on Psalm 23 based on material from Phillip Keller’s book, "A Shepherd Looks at the 23rd Psalm."

    The Lord Is My Shepherd Ps. 23 INTRO.: Written by a shepherd, David. Later became leader of the most powerful empire Israel ever had. We see him in the field with his sheep. Perhaps meditating on God’s goodness and care. He draws upon his knowledge of a shepherd’s relationship with his sheep to ...read more

  • Creativity--The Opposite Of Liturgy Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 21, 2011
     | 2,847 views

    Our profession of faith in Christ is guided not only by Scripture, but by the Fathers of the Church, the historic creeds, and our liturgical tradition.

    Monday of the 5th Week of Easter Spirit of the Liturgy Mistaken identity. It’s an embarrassment, and occasionally a lethal inconvenience. Consider poor Jude here. No wonder he appears to have preferred the name “Thaddeus,” and became patron saint of hopeless causes. Even the ...read more

  • Vanity Of Vanities Series

    Contributed by Jonathan Mcleod on Jul 20, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,866 views

    Life is full of meaning when your faith is in Christ.

    [To receive a free sermon each week by email, please contact jonrmcleod@yahoo.com] WHO IS THE AUTHOR? The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem (v. 1). Who wrote the book of Ecclesiastes? • “Preacher” (qoheleth) means “one who gathers” or ...read more

  • Abraham, A Man Challenged #16 Series

    Contributed by Raymond Smith on Jan 20, 2008
     | 2,272 views

    The Weighing of God

    Abraham, a man of Challenge, Faith and Promise The Weighing of God Reading Genesis 22:1ff In the course of these studies we have seen the way in which our Lord has over many years has developed in Abraham, not just a sense, but also the reality of what his Lord was going to do through him and his ...read more

  • Three Great Words From God

    Contributed by Carl Allen on Dec 27, 2007
    based on 28 ratings
     | 14,674 views

    Often we hear people speak disparagingly of making New Year’s resolutions. They think these promises are worthless. This cynicism could indicate that they have no hope for the coming year being better than the last. It is certainly easy to give way to

    Three Great Words from God for the Coming Year Romans 15:7-13 Intro Often we hear people speak disparagingly of making New Year’s resolutions. They think these promises are worthless. This cynicism could indicate that they have no hope for the coming year being better than the last. It is ...read more

  • Part 3 - Genesis 21:14-21 - My Kingdom For A Gps! Series

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 27, 2010
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,640 views

    DIVORCE is never pleasant, especially when children are involved, but Abraham doesn’t count on them getting lost. Most people don’t stop to think about the consequences of divorce or how much it will effect the next generations.

    Part 3 - Genesis 21:14-21 - MY KINGDOM FOR A GPS! When we left to Pastor a Church in the Whitsundays we left our children, Ben and Rachel, behind in Sydney. Rachel was still in her late teens, but both of them were already involved in Hillsong Church and did not want to leave. We remember the pain ...read more

  • Towards A New Creation

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Apr 22, 2018
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,900 views

    Longing for home.

    TOWARDS A NEW CREATION. 2 Corinthians 5:6-17. Having spoken of the impermanence of the ‘tent’ of this body, and the ‘eternity’ of our dwelling in heaven (2 Corinthians 5:1), the Apostle Paul began to mix his metaphors, yearning to be ‘clothed upon’ with ‘our habitation which is from ...read more

  • A Withering Religion

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Jul 21, 2020
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,997 views

    Judgment begins at the house of God.

    A WITHERING RELIGION. Matthew 21:12-22. Today’s passage brings together two events which are not unrelated to each other: the cleansing of the Temple, and the withering of the fig tree. Both are figurative of the state and changing status of the old Jewish faith at the dawn of the gospel ...read more

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