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  • suresh manoharan avatar

    Doubting The Doubts!!!

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Feb 24, 2012
     | 10,588 views

    To learn to go to God in the event of getting doubts...

    Doubting the doubts! “When you ‘taste’ doubt, you taste chaos but when you ‘taste’ faith, you taste cosmos” is a juicy one-liner which adorns sermons revolving around faith, preached with much gusto by a many a preacher, the world over. Nothing wrong ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Experience The Glory Of God In Your Life

    Contributed by William Baeta on Jun 1, 2012
    based on 6 ratings
     | 34,360 views

    “For God so loved the world, that he gave His only Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him

    Theme: Experience the glory of God in your life Text: Is. 6:1-8; Rom. 8:12-17; John 3:1-17 Today is Trinity Sunday, a day we affirm and celebrate the Triune God. Our revelations of God always comes from Him and He is the One who reveals Himself as the Holy Trinity, One God who is three persons, ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Keep Driving Until You Can't Series

    Contributed by Tom Fuller on Sep 7, 2008
     | 6,262 views

    When faced with adversity, our tendency is to panic, take our hands off the wheel, and just let it happen to us. We see in the example of Paul and Barnabas that God is in control no matter what happens and that as long as you can share the gospel you can

    Introduction I took a course on defensive driving some time ago. The instructor said the most important concept to remember is to keep driving until you can’t any more. What he meant is that when faced with a crisis on the road we have a natural tendency to freak out and take our hands off the ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

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    A Life Well Lived

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Sep 1, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 8,431 views

    Enoch gives us a model of faithful living for God

    18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. 19 And after he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 20 Altogether, Jared lived 962 years, and then he died. 21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22 And ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    A Good Man That Was Really Bad!

    Contributed by Rodney Kelley on Sep 8, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,080 views

    There is no other way of salvation but God’s way!

    INTRO. Have you ever just seen someone that was a good man or woman, but knew they had a need that only God could meet. We go through lives, many times seeking for the things that will only satisfy for a brief time, and wonder why we are never content. In our text today, we see a great story of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Waiting For Jesus

    Contributed by Don Schultz on Jan 27, 2010
    based on 6 ratings
     | 10,429 views

    He's coming - are you ready?

    When will everything be OK? Have you ever asked yourself that question? You’re sitting on the couch, watching the news. You see that the economy has gotten a lot of attention lately. Banks are getting bailed out. Car makers are begging to get bailed out. So many foreclosures, you see. ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Comfortable Or Conformable Series

    Contributed by Mark Pierce on May 25, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,323 views

    Should our Christian faith be comfortable or conformable? What are the conformable paradoxes?

    Comfortable or Conformable – 03.29.09 READ – John 12:20-32 Introduction – The Christian life is filled with uncomfortable paradoxes. Today I’d like to consider the fact that our lives as Christ followers are not necessarily to be comfortable, but to be conformable. This ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Feast/The Excuses Series

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Feb 28, 2010
    based on 7 ratings
     | 8,621 views

    There are many excuses for rejecting what God has to offer, and God sees through them all. If we’re full of the world we’ll have no appetite for Heaven.

    Today’s parable starts out as table-talk. At a dinner, Jesus mentions “the resurrection of the righteous”, an encouraging truth. Someone at the table gets so excited, he declares a Beatitude: “Blessed is everyone who will eat at the banquet in the Kingdom of God!” ...read more

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    Denomination: Congregational

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    Intimacy With God Series

    Contributed by Ryan Akers on Aug 28, 2007
    based on 16 ratings
     | 15,316 views

    How do you know your alive? Not physically but spiritually alive. There are two vital signs that we should have to check whether or not we are really alive in Christ.

    Vital Signs Part 1- Intimacy With God Pastor Ryan Akers Me- What excites you? What gets your heart pumping and your blood racing? What is it that keeps you up all night because you are too excited to sleep? Hunting- thrill of the kill Roller Coasters- anticipation of the climb Sports- rivalry, ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    How To Avoid A Shipwreck

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Feb 5, 2009
    based on 34 ratings
     | 12,365 views

    Five things when ignored can cause a ship wreck

    On April 10, 1912 the. Titanic left her harbor in Southampton, England. This was the maiden voyage for the 882 foot long ocean liner that had been billed as unsinkable. She carried with her 2,228 passengers and crew. Most of the passengers had paid thousands of dollars to sail on that great luxury ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Jesus Is...lord Series

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Jul 25, 2017
     | 5,765 views

    A sermon dealing with what it means when we say "Jesus is Lord!"

    Jesus is… Jesus is…Lord Philippians 2: 5 – 11 One of the favorite movies around the Malone household is The Princess Bride. The film is a fairy tale as told to an ailing grandson by the visiting grandfather, and the story is filled with heroes and villains, damsels in distress and perils ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Empowered Series

    Contributed by Jim Kilson on Apr 22, 2014
     | 7,222 views

    Part 2 of 5 in a series on our identity in Christ based on the words of the Apostle Paul in Romans 8.

    INTRODUCTION: In life there are times that each of us desires to do the right thing, make the right decisions, but we feel powerless to do so. Our determination only takes us so far, our focus only keeps us centered for so long, and then we fail, which causes us to wonder why we continue to do what ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Hope In Weakness Series

    Contributed by Mary Erickson on Mar 14, 2019
     | 6,485 views

    God's power is made perfect in weakness

    March 13, 2019 Hope Lutheran Church Lenten Service Psalm 91; 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 Hope in Weakness Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. “For whenever I am weak, then I am strong,” (2 Corinthians 2:10). St. Paul was no stranger ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Funeral For A Christian Teacher

    Contributed by Steve Wilson on Jun 8, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 23,409 views

    Funeral for an 80 year old man (I call him George) who died suddenly. The sermon is weaved around the verses of the song "Because He Lives"

    Coming out of the 1960’s and into the 1970’s our country was going through some great turmoil with the height of the drug culture and the peak of the Vietnam War. The whole “God is Dead” theory was running wild in our country. It was not the best of times. In those days a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Theology Of "thoughts & Prayers"

    Contributed by Pedro Trinidad on Oct 14, 2019
     | 3,294 views

    When tragedy strikes, the response of many well-meaning people​ is to say, "Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected".

    Christian Clichés Where God guides, God provides If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. The greatest distance in the universe is the eighteen inches between your head and your heart. You can’t outgive God! We are saved by faith alone but not by a faith that is alone. When God ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist