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  • David Owens avatar

    The Church Everyone Wants To "join"

    Contributed by David Owens on Aug 18, 2025
     | 663 views

    The early church is an excellent model for us to follow. They had four characteristics that made them a church that everyone would want to join.

    The Church Everyone Wants to “Join” David Owens Scripture Reading: Acts 2:42-47 8.17.25 Introduction: A. Good morning, brothers and sisters! Praise God for another Lord’s Day to gather to worship God and to encourage each other. 1. As you know, we just completed a sermon series about eternal ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Advantages Of A Strong Small Church Pt 1

    Contributed by David Welch on Aug 4, 2018
     | 4,707 views

    This message shares some of my thinking from a brief exploration of the character and place of the small church. I credit a large measure of my thinking to the author of the "Grasshopper Myth" by Karl Vater. I include and credit a number of quotes to him

    Chico Alliance Church Pastor David Welch “The Advantages of the Small Church” Introduction I have wrestled most of my ministry career with the subject of church growth and health; what constitutes success. Numerous movements and strategies have come and gone. Nearly all the conferences for ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

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    How God Wants To Grow Our Church Series

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jun 27, 2017
     | 10,184 views

    God will grow our church: 1. With the same kind of men (vs. 24-33). 2. With the same methods (vs. 23-24). 3. With the same message (vs. 34-36).

    How God Wants to Grow Our Church Acts 10:23-36 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - Feb. 23, 2014 *Think about the answer to this question: "On a scale of 1 to 10, how committed are you to seeing our church grow?" Church: We need to be more committed than ever before. A five-minute ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Justin Steckbauer avatar

    How To Repent Of All Sins In Your Christian Life

    Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Mar 27, 2021
     | 2,529 views

    Repentance is a beautiful thing. Repentance is a breaking free from the ties and bonds of this world, and the sins that so easily corrupt us, and a process of being transformed into the likeness of Christ.

    Mark 7:20-23 (ESV) And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    The Temple Incident

    Contributed by David Petticrew on Mar 16, 2003
    based on 20 ratings
     | 4,710 views

    Jesus actions in the temple demonstrate that we have a responsibility to reach out and not just to make things comfortable for ourselves.

    The story we read today is an interesting one. It’s one that doesn’t really fit with the picture of Jesus that we usually think about. How does a loving Jesus, who goes around teaching good morals, fit with this violent figure who disrupts a market place, stops temple worship and causes chaos. If ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    Purpose #4 Serve Series

    Contributed by Dan Borchert on Jun 5, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,889 views

    WE will all serve in different ways. Uses Rick Warrens classic SHAPE model

    Purpose #4: Serve I Corinthians 12:12-27 SHAPE Introduction A. Our military is often referred to as the Service B. What are they doing? They are serving our Country C. We have the largest military in the world D. Because of our size we have to have different people doing different things E. If ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

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    A Big Gospel Heart Series

    Contributed by Rev. Matthew Parker on Apr 17, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,944 views

    We are accepted by God because of what Christ Jesus did for us on the cross. We are called, in turn, to extend that acceptance and welcome to all those from all over the world who fill our community.

    A Big Gospel Heart One Sunday a children’s program leader noticed a little girl standing outside the room, looking in with great eagerness at the fun the other children were having. The leader went outside and invited the little girl inside. "They’ll all laugh at me." "Why do you think that ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Planting The Seed - Watching It Grow

    Contributed by Mike Rickman on Sep 22, 2003
    based on 26 ratings
     | 6,059 views

    The Book of Acts gives a clear indication as to how the church should operate. How do we measure up?

    September 21, 2003 Morning Worship Text: Acts 5:12-16 Subject: Church Growth Title: Planting the Seed – Watching it Grow Do you ever get up on Sunday morning and not feel like going to church? A husband and wife got up one Sunday morning and the wife got dressed for church. It was just about ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Damien Spikereit avatar

    A Picture Of Wisdom

    Contributed by Damien Spikereit on Oct 25, 2000
    based on 117 ratings
     | 3,911 views

    Uses the words of James to paint a picture of a wise Godly leader.

    - Whenever I would go down to Florida to visit my grandmother, or I called her Oma, when I was a child. I could always count on a visit to the Toy Store in the local Mall. I knew it was coming, and I would think about that little trip weeks in advance. Because I knew that whenever we would take ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Identity Crisis

    Contributed by Derrick Bunnell on Nov 15, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,546 views

    The speaker laid out a four part process to effective outreach programs. The first step in the process was to develop an identity. This got me thinking about the identity of the Adventist church and more specifically this church. Identity is much more t

    I met with the pastor this week to discuss the mission and purpose of the church. We discussed many things to help the church grow and to make known to the world that Jesus is coming soon. We mulled over outreach ideas, mission statements, etc. One of the things that stood out in my mind was a ...read more

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    Denomination: Adventist

  • Art Good avatar

    Come Inside And See What Happens

    Contributed by Art Good on Jul 26, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,089 views

    Maybe, there is someone listening to me right now, who walked into this building and you had a problem you couldn’t solve, you had a knot in your stomach you’ve been carrying around for days. And maybe, this morning, something has happened inside you. M

    Come Inside and See What Happens Illus. Last January our family went to Disney World. The kids loved it until we took them on one particular ride. Jordan was a little apprehensive when he read the name, “The Tower of Terror”. But I said to him, “Just go inside and see what happens.” He went ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Breaking Out Of The Box Series

    Contributed by Duane Smith on Sep 22, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,856 views

    The purpose of this message is to help us see that we don’t want to put God or our ministry in a box and to prepare us for what God just might want to do through us in the future.

    BREAKING OUT OF THE BOX Acts 11:1-18 INTRODUCTION: A. How should we go about ministry and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ? 1. Most people who are Christians would have an answer to that question 2. The answers, for the most part would probably be predictable a. If I had the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Simony, Nepotism And Cronyism- Oh My!

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 24, 2006
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,958 views

    A sermon on corruption in the church based on the story of Simon the Sorcerer in Acts 8. (Thanks to SermonCentral Contributors and Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)

    Sermon for 1/22/2006 Acts 8:4-25 Introduction: In February 2001, Adam Burtle, a 20 year old student at the University of Washington put his soul up for auction on eBay. The ad read: "Hardly used. I make no warranties as to the condition of my soul. As of now it is near mint condition, with only ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • James May avatar

    The Third Temple

    Contributed by James May on Aug 20, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 7,154 views

    While Israel and world awaits the building of the Third Temple we must realize that the true temple is a spiritual house that each of those who are born again are living stones that make up the House of God.

    THE THIRD TEMPLE By Pastor Jim May 1 Peter 2:5-10 We are living in a time when all of those who are waiting for the coming of the Lord are watching the events of this world and wondering just how close we are to that day when we shall all be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Jim Kane avatar

    The Obedience Of Love; The Love Of Obedience

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,529 views

    Fourth sermon in the summer 2006 Series, “Being God’s People by Serving, Obeying, and Giving.”

    What is love? Love has always been a big topic of discussion between us humans. Much is said about love and much is written about love. However, it seems to me that we have never been able to give a satisfactory answer to the question, ‘What is love?’ (1) But we are often able to describe love ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God