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  • Understanding Temptation

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jan 24, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,563 views

    Temptation can take us by surprise sometimes. We can get discouraged when we find ourselves giving in over and over. We get overwhelmed when it seems like we can't catch a break. What can we do? It's important that we understand what's going on so we can

    UNDERSTANDING TEMPTATION James 1:13-18 1) The difference between testing and temptation. • Testing is good; temptation is not (Vs. 17). Every good and perfect gift is from above. Therefore, since God doesn’t tempt anyone temptation is not good. However, it isn’t sin, since Jesus ...read more

  • How God Turns Failure Into Favor Series

    Contributed by David Dykes on Oct 9, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 27,812 views

    Failure isn’t final and it isn’t fatal. God can bring you back from failure.

    INTRODUCTION This is the fourth message is the series from 1 Thessalonians which I’ve entitled, “Finding Hope in a Hopeless World.” In this message we’re going to talk about “How God Turns Failure into Favor.” I don’t even know if kids in school take home ...read more

  • Triple Threat

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Aug 22, 2023
     | 1,402 views

    We have exactly the same weapons against temptation that Jesus used against Satan in the wilderness.

    How many of you remember your first day at school, or your first day at a new job? You usually get some kind of orientation, don’t you. At that new job, maybe you spent the morning in the human resources signing benefits papers and getting company policies explained to you, maybe you get led ...read more

  • How To Live Like Christ

    Contributed by Craig Condon on Jun 8, 2015
     | 4,552 views

    God calls us to have a servant's heart. He wants us to glorify him and not ourselves. God places us where he wants us to serve, and we must give our all in everything he asks us to do. God wants our obedience and our best effort.

    It is February 15, 1921. In the operating room of the Kane Summit Hospital, Dr. Evan O'Neil Kane is performing an appendectomy, but this is no ordinary appendectomy. First, it marked the first use of local anaesthesia in major surgery. Dr. Kane believed local anaesthetic was much safer than ...read more

  • 7 Tests For A God-Glorifying Ministry - 1 Peter 4:11 Series

    Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on Jan 30, 2025
     | 377 views

    When speaking, use the words of God. And when serving, do it in a way that shows God to be the source of the strength.

    1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's multifaceted grace. 11 If anyone speaks, ...read more

  • As Worthless As A Dead Battery Series

    Contributed by Chris Anderson on Mar 19, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,763 views

    Message 5 in a series through James that helps us explore the relationship between faith and works in our lives. James was the half-brother of Jesus and the leader of the church in Jerusalem

    I have the good pleasure of working alongside several self-proclaimed mechanical ignoramuses. And between these two guys, they have a LOT of talent and God has gifted them with things that he didn’t give me. But the one skillset that neither of them has ever been accused of is this: auto mechanic. ...read more

  • Job Series

    Contributed by John Lowe on Apr 14, 2022
     | 4,256 views

    Job was faithful to God, even when he lost absolutely everything that had been important to him. This legend concerns Job, a prosperous man of outstanding piety. Satan acts as an agent provocateur to test whether or not Job's piety is rooted merely in his prosperity.

    Job Job was faithful to God, even when he lost absolutely everything that had been important to him. This legend concerns Job, a prosperous man of outstanding piety. Satan acts as an agent provocateur to test whether or not Job's piety is rooted merely in his prosperity. However, Job still ...read more

  • Paul Kept Surrendered So He Could Graduate! Series

    Contributed by Dennis Selfridge on May 22, 2010
     | 4,704 views

    Paul passed many tests to graduate.

    Paul kept surrendered so he could graduate! 2 COR 4:7-12, 16-18 A father was filling out an application form for his daughter, who was seeking entrance to a very exclusive college. He came to the question on the form which asked whether the applicant was a leader. In honesty, he wrote, "No, ...read more

  • Trusting God - In All Of Life Series

    Contributed by Roy Newton on Oct 27, 2011
     | 11,193 views

    Introduction to a series based on the life of Joseph learning what it means to Trust God in all the events of life.

    TRUSTING GOD … IN ALL OF LIFE "After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to his father’s burial. But now that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers became fearful. “Now Joseph will show his anger and pay us back for ...read more

  • My Beloved Son - Sermon On Mark 1:10-20

    Contributed by Darrell Ferguson on May 6, 2023
     | 1,225 views

    We should appreciate the Father’s love for the Son because that’s the love we get if we repent and believe enough forsake everything and follow him.

    Mark 1:9 At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 As Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am ...read more

  • What Jesus Meant (The Peirasmos) Part 9 Series

    Contributed by Denis O'callaghan Ph.d. ,th.d., D.d., D. Phil. on Sep 21, 2012
     | 4,542 views

    "That defining moment" the peirasmos-the trying of Jesus

    What Jesus Meant (the peirasmos) Part 9 Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil. The encounter in the desert with Satan is what we would call "That defining moment" the summing up of a whole process-the spiritual quest during His adolescence and young manhood. The ...read more

  • Sixteen Signs Of A True Believer Part 8 Series

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 10, 2010
     | 3,922 views

    Sermon 12 in the series, "Things that Accompany Salvation." This sermon:: (Sign # 13) The Constraint Test. Do I love God? (1 John 4:19) The love of God constrains me.

    Series: Things That Accompany Salvation Hebrews 6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. Message 12: Sixteen Signs of a True Believer (Part VIII) (2 Cor. 5:14; 13:5; 1 Jn. 4:16-21) 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine ...read more

  • We Will Go To The Other Side

    Contributed by Oscar P. Lopez, Jr. on Apr 10, 2002
    based on 27 ratings
     | 7,540 views

    Crises happens to test our faith.

    WE WILL GO TO THE OTHER SIDE! MARK 4:35-41 By OSCAR P. LOPEZ JR. PROPOSITION: CRISES IS CHRIST’S TEST TO THE FAITH OF CHRISTIANS INTRODUCTION: A. CRISIS – “Dangerous or difficult situation.” “emergency” “problem” 1. World Crisis 2. Philippine Crisis 3. Personal Crisis. * In times of ...read more

  • Count It All Joy

    Contributed by Mark Baker on Jan 30, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,564 views

    How God proves us with tests.

    James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3. knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Have you ever really stopped and considered that God’s ...read more

  • Return Of The Twelve; Jesus Withdraws; Five Thousand Fed Series

    Contributed by John Lowe on Aug 13, 2017
     | 15,059 views

    Jesus said, “Bring them to me” (five loaves, and two fishes). It is not what we have that matters, but what we do with what we have. We must be willing to give the little that we have to Him; then He will increase it and use it.

    -Spring, AD 29- Near Bethsaida Title: Return of the Twelve; Jesus Withdraws; Five Thousand Fed Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, Luke 9:10-17, John 6:1-14 -Matthew (Chapter 14)- 13 When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard ...read more