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  • Jay Robison avatar

    Doing The Difficult Thing

    Contributed by Jay Robison on Aug 1, 2006
    based on 25 ratings
     | 5,765 views

    Why does it have to be so hard? Doing the most important things in life is often hard. God knows that and will help us!

    DOING THE DIFFICULT THINGS March 5, 2006 Jay Davis Robison MATTHEW 16:21-28 Have you ever asked yourself Why does it have to be so hard?? Why does marriage have to be so hard? Raising Kids so hard? Why is being honest, losing weight, growing in Christ so hard If doing right is the right thing, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Joy In Salvation Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Jan 29, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,934 views

    Exposition of 1 Peter 1:3-9

    Text: 1 Peter 1:3-9 Title: Joy in Salvation Date/Place: LSCC, 5/1/05, AM I. INTRODUCTION A. Opening illustration: Illustrations file- Joy—“Prescription for Joylessness” B. Background to passage: These are Peter’s first words following the greeting to believers scattered all over Northern ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jason Jones avatar

    How To React To Persecution Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Jan 31, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,288 views

    Exposition of 1 Peter 3:13-17

    Text: 1 Peter 3:13-17 Title: How to React to Persecution Date/Place: LSCC, 11/27/05, AM I. INTRODUCTION A. Opening illustration: the persecution of the insurance companies, the suffering of the bricklayer—ill file B. Background to passage: Peter again takes up the subject of Christians being ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Our Perfect Example

    Contributed by Bryan Dill on Nov 26, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 14,173 views

    Jesus Christ is perfect in so many ways. Peter explains to us how He is the only example we should follow.

    A couple with especially irregular church attendance had been asked by their preacher to host a visiting minister for lunch. The couple obliged and put together a very special meal for the guest preacher. When they all sat down to eat, their little boy, who was accustomed to diving right in, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Johnny A. Palmer Jr. avatar

    God's Best Teacher - Professor Pain!

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Mar 30, 2010
     | 6,037 views

    None of us like it, but it is the best teacher we will ever know...I'm talking about pain.

    Intro: 1. Spurgeon, “I bear willing witness that I owe more to the fire, and the hammer, and the file, than to anything else in my Lord’s workshop. I sometimes question whether I have ever learned anything except through the rod. When my schoolroom is darkened, I see the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Kevin L. Jones avatar

    Jesus Is... (Part 2) Series

    Contributed by Kevin L. Jones on Feb 14, 2010
    based on 5 ratings
     | 23,295 views

    A sermon examining who Jesus is.

    JESUS IS… (Part 2) Acts 3:18-23 Our selected text covers a sermon that Peter preached at Solomon’s Colonnade in response to the astonishment of the crowd after the healing of the lame man. Peter addressed the people and made it clear that he did not heal this man by his own power. In verse ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dr. Jerry N. Watts avatar

    A Message To The Messengers Series

    Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Jul 5, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,513 views

    This message is a message of encouragment and challenge to the family of God.

    The Unveiling A Message to the Messengers Revelation 1:-9-11 * Every time you look into, linger over, and listen to God’s word, you will discover something new & fresh. * In reading verse 9, you can sense the loneliness of the Apostle John who finds himself on an island, quite likely, in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Come To The Living Stone

    Contributed by Bruce Lee on May 28, 2025
     | 361 views

    A brick and a block were walking down a road when a piece of concrete jumped up and made a funny face, screamed and ran off. The brick asked the block, “what’s up with him?” The block replied, don’t pay him no mind, he is a “cycle path.”

    Come to the Living Stone “2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. The Living Stone and a Chosen People 4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Jerry Shirley avatar

    Palms In The Garden [palm Sunday]

    Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Apr 4, 2006
    based on 357 ratings
     | 27,565 views

    The only palms that really mattered eternally during passion week were Jesus’ palms. A study of all His hands touched and accomplished, and what they were about to do! Link included to formatted text and PowerPoint Template.

    Palms in the Garden Matthew 26:36-56 http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/PalmsInGarden.html See all our Easter sermons, PowerPoints, and much more at: http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/Special.html ----- Just outside Jerusalem was a little garden…the garden of Gethsemane. Jerusalem has always been a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Cross Carrying

    Contributed by Roger Haugen on Mar 17, 2003
    based on 58 ratings
     | 7,256 views

    Jesus instructs us, if we want to be a follower, to deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow.

    2 Lent B Mark 8:31-38 16 March 2003 Rev. Roger Haugen Just verses before we have Peter declaring, “You are the Christ, the son of the living God!” Jesus is the Messiah, the one who has come to save his people, to lift them above the “oppressor’s rod”, to bring about the Kingdom of God where the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Steven Cook avatar

    Spiritual Fevers

    Contributed by Steven Cook on Feb 12, 2003
    based on 34 ratings
     | 10,063 views

    This sermon is concerned with the problems that exist in the Christian’s life lending the need for revival.

    “Spiritual Fevers” Luke 4:38-44 Dr. Steven G. Cook I. Introduction A. Read Text – Luke 4:38-44 B. This the 4th miracle of Jesus recorded in God’s Word. C. The first recorded miracle (Changing Water into Wine) revealed that Jesus is “The Creator of Life”. D. The second recorded miracle of Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dwight Shaffer avatar

    Sometimes Life Isn't Fair

    Contributed by Dwight Shaffer on Mar 1, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,519 views

    This message can be helpful when tragedy strikes within the church family.

    Sometimes Life Isn’t Fair Book of Job A) As a church family, we have experienced that in a very real way over the past few weeks. That truth has been vividly illustrated to us – as we have hurt – suffered and shed many tears together as a family. Most of us could cite examples of ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • James Buchanan avatar

    How To Help Those Who Hurt Series

    Contributed by James Buchanan on Sep 21, 2003
    based on 40 ratings
     | 6,752 views

    The second in a series of three sermons dealing with the hurts in life and how God expects us to handle them.

    Driving through Texas, a New Yorker collided with a truck carrying a horse. A few months later he tried to collect damages for his injuries. "How can you now claim to have all these injuries?" asked the insurance company’s lawyer. "According to the police report, at the time you said you were not ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Jonathan McLeod avatar

    A Life Of Submission, Part 2 Series

    Contributed by Jonathan Mcleod on Oct 30, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,095 views

    We are to react to mistreatment the way Jesus did.

    “Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect [for God], not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. For [the reason for submitting] it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. But how is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Victor Ortiz avatar

    God Has A Purpose For Every Problem

    Contributed by Victor Ortiz on Jan 20, 2008
    based on 11 ratings
     | 30,316 views

    An incouranging word that our GOD is in control.

    God has a purpose for every problem! • How many are here this morning that are experiencing some type of • Problem, (let be honest this morning, lets be for real,) • some sort of trouble, • in some type of pain? Isn’t it true? That all of us here today have come to Christ when we were * ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational