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  • Pat Damiani avatar

    A Love Affair With Jesus Series

    Contributed by Pat Damiani on Apr 27, 2008
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    50th in a series from Ephesians. How marriage reflects the love between Jesus and His body, the church.

    Donald Grey Barnhouse was the pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1927 until his death in 1960. Early in his ministry he read Revelation 13:8 which described Jesus as the “Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world”. His observation about that passage, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How Do We Grow

    Contributed by Richard White on May 2, 2008
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    Like the nursery rhyme; Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? This passage gives us the essentials for growing individually and corporately.

    How do we Grow? Acts 2:36-47 There is a very popular children’s nursery rhyme, Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Today we might say Christian, Christian quite contrary, how does the Church grow? The Early Church had great growth because of several convictions, today I will ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Becoming A Community Series

    Contributed by Daniel Richter on May 29, 2008
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     | 7,494 views

    All the believers were together and had everything in common...

    Becoming a Community Last week we began a series on the early church. A group of Christians that were on fire for Christ and who were committed to each other and to the spreading of the gospel, no matter what it took. We read a description of this church in Acts chapter 2 that I want to read for ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

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    A Sermon For Pentecost 3, Proper 4

    Contributed by Ronald Harbaugh on Jun 1, 2008
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    The Gospels have a communal as well as a personal dimention.

    3rd Sunday after Pentecost (Pr. 4) June 1, 2008 “Series A” Grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us pray: Dear Heavenly Father, Creator of the universe and author of life on this planet we call earth, we give you thanks for our life, and the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Break Down The Walls To Witness

    Contributed by Ronald Harbaugh on Jun 5, 2008
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     | 3,547 views

    A sermon for the 4th Sunday of Pentecost, Series A, Proper 5

    4th Sunday after Pentecost [Pr. 5] June 8, 2008 “Series A” Grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us pray: Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for the healing power of your Son, Jesus the Christ, who offers to each of us forgiveness and the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Family Devotion Series

    Contributed by Daniel Richter on Jun 11, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,055 views

    Family Devotion: What We Should Be Doing Together

    Family Devotion: What We Should Be Doing Together We’ve spent the last month looking at the early church that’s found in the book of Acts. For 3 of those four weeks, we looked at the idea of community, of becoming a family in this church like we see in that church in Acts. I’ve been very ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

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    I Am Thankful But Not Satisifed

    Contributed by Teddy Walker on Jul 14, 2010
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    It's time to stop being just thankful and go for it ALL!

    1 Sam 1:2-20 2 And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. 3 And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Don't Just Sit There

    Contributed by Thomas Bowen on Jul 17, 2010
     | 7,926 views

    Faith generates action - faith empowers the work of the church.

    Don't just sit there James 2:14-2:18 Just a couple of weeks ago we finished up on a series of messages that I had hoped offered encouragement for the members of this church to be ready to receive God vision …perhaps even to spark a yearning to look for what God wants to do with us. ...read more

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    Denomination: Congregational

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    Perfectly Joined Together Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Jul 21, 2010
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     | 7,878 views

    Exposition of 1 Cor 1:10-17 regarding Paul's desire for the church to be without division and perfectly joined together

    Text: 1 Cor 1:10, Title: Perfectly Joined Together, Date/Place: NRBC, 7/4/10, AM A. Opening illustration: An African proverb says, "When elephants fight, grass gets trampled." The church at Corinth had been nurtured by two of the world’s greatest evangelists: Paul and Apollos. Their ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Fury Waits Series

    Contributed by Christopher Lanham on Jul 22, 2010
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    God tarries, but does that mean he is faithful to his promise to return soon?

    The Fury Waits 2 Peter 3:1-18 Cascades Fellowship CRC, JX MI May 3, 2009 Series: Little Letters – The Forgotten Wisdom of the Bible There is a play out there by Samuel Beckett called Waiting for Gadot. In the play, two derelicts sit and discuss rather mindlessly their deplorable condition ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Fellowship

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Aug 16, 2010
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     | 10,771 views

    Some important characteristics of great and effective relationships in the Church.

    Fellowship Some Important Characteristics of Great and Effective Relationships in the Church Hebrews 10:23-25 July 11, 2010 NOTE: THE ME/WE/GOD/YOU/WE FORMAT IS FROM ANDY STANLEY’S BOOK, "COMMUNICATING FOR A CHANGE." Me: Over these next few months we’re going to take a Sunday once in a while and ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Authority Of The Believer#1

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Sep 5, 2010
    based on 6 ratings
     | 8,067 views

    the authority the Christian has through Christ

    Intro: God gave man authority in the garden. Satan through deception robbed man of his authority on earth. Man lived in bondage to sin. When Jesus said, it is finished, He completed the work of regaining the authority that man had lost. He took the keys from Satan, and gave all authority back to ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Godly Treasures Series

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Dec 14, 2009
     | 4,606 views

    Our lives and the lives of those around us will only be as rich as how much we grab on to God’s treasures!

    We read in Matthew 6 of the King James Version of the Bible: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    You've Got Mail: Laodicea Series

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Dec 22, 2009
    based on 16 ratings
     | 12,477 views

    The last in a series of seven. This is an expository, alliterated sermon with practical application based on the letter to Laodicea in Revelation. PowerPoint is avialable if you e-mail me.

    YOU’VE GOT MAIL: LAODICEA Scott Bayles, preacher First Christian Church, Rosiclare, IL Finally, at the end of a long route, about forty-five miles southeast of Philadelphia, was the city of Laodicea. Laodicea was the wealthiest and the worst of the seven cities to whom Jesus wrote. Forget ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    The Idol Of Stoicism: Philadelphia Series

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jan 7, 2010
     | 4,000 views

    The Church has two options: it can be proactive and walk through the doors that are opened to it or it can wait passively and watch opportunities to come and go

    AMERICAN IDOLS: LOOKING AT OURSELVES AND OUR LOYALTIES THROUGH THE EYES OF JESUS THE FIRST SUNDAY OF THE NEW YEAR THE IDOL OF STOICISM: PHILADELPHIA REVELATION 3:7-13 Sermon Objective: The Church has two options: it can be proactive and walk through the doors that are opened to it or it can ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene