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  • Brian Atwood avatar

    When We Need To Get Away From It All Series

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Feb 13, 2003
    based on 434 ratings
     | 49,319 views

    Third sermon in the series, "Reality Prayer - How to Ask So God Will Answer".

    We all want a place to go when we’re stressed or sad, tired or lonely, fearful or tempted, disappointed or discouraged - a place where we can unload our burdens and get some relief. When we feel insecure and inadequate we need a refuge - a shelter. We need a retreat. Prayer can transport us to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    One For The Road

    Contributed by David Dunn on Sep 16, 2025
     | 247 views

    God meets us when the journey is too long and provides grace for every step, but His grace is never permission to remain the same; it is power to move forward in joyful obedience.

    Introduction – When the Trip Feels Too Far Have you ever started on a trip and realized part way through that you just didn’t plan for how long or how hard it would be? Maybe you packed light for a hike and then found the trail twice as steep as the guidebook said. Maybe you took a family ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

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    Spare The Emerods

    Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 24, 2025
     | 96 views

    God’s mercy sometimes arrives as discomfort; pain can become grace when it turns us from pride to reverence before His holy presence.

    1. When triumph turns tender The Philistines thought they had finally beaten Israel’s God. They carried the Ark of the Covenant into the coastal plain like a trophy from a conquered foe. The Ark—God’s throne on earth, the sign of His covenant—was now sitting in the temple of Dagon, the half-fish, ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

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    Rest For The Weary

    Contributed by Christopher Nerreau on Aug 9, 2004
    based on 164 ratings
     | 24,642 views

    Sometimes we can do all the right things as Christians and still be at the end of our rope. In this sermon I will encourage both believers and unbelievers to seek rest in Christ.

    “Rest For The Weary” Matthew 11:28 INTRODUCTION: Open in Prayer ILLUSTRATION: Think back with me if you will to a time when you were about 6 yrs. Old. Can you remember playing all day, not a worry in the world? Can you remember the feeling of your pillow at the end of the day? You just had a ...read more

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    Denomination: Orthodox

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    Living A Life Of Peace

    Contributed by Hylton Davidson on Jun 8, 2012
     | 15,793 views

    God wants us to live a life of peace

    Living a life of Peace Definition of Peace: Noun 1. condition in which there is no war, violence, quarrel or disorder 2. quietness 3. calm When we look at the news of today: 1. Murders 2. Lack of job security 3. Corruption 4. Moral fabric of society tearing at the seams 5. Political unrest at ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Be Still And Know

    Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Feb 20, 2009
    based on 75 ratings
     | 29,229 views

    Even as Christians, we can find ourselves struggling against God at times. We need to stop and consider. It is far better to travel with the current than against it.

    Be Still and Know Griffith Baptist Church – 2/22/09 P.M. Service Text: Psalm 46 Key verse: Psalms 46:10 - Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Premise: Even as Christians, we can find ourselves struggling against God at times. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Dream A New Dream---Expect Greater

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Nov 20, 2014
     | 5,365 views

    What are we expecting in our families and our churches? Consider the importance of a dream. What crushes our dreaming ability. Blessed is he who expects nothing, he shall receive exactly what he expected.

    DREAM A NEW DREAM... EXPECT GREATER... By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com EXPECTATIONS: 1. wait, stay 2: to look forward 3: to be pregnant : await the birth of one's : NEW LIFE, 2: to anticipate or look forward to the coming or occurrence of : suppose, think 4 to consider probable or ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Shoud I Help My Brother Or Sister

    Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Jun 1, 2001
    based on 65 ratings
     | 6,356 views

    This sermon deals with what happens when our Christian Liberty leads another person into temptation.

    Should I Help My Brother Or My Sister GNLCC 5/20/2001 2 Sam. 11:1-5 1 Corin. 8:1-13 Suppose you had invited someone over to your home. Let’s suppose there was a skunk outside and something scared it so that it gave off it’s scent. The smell begins to enter the home. You immediately ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Have A Slice Of Humble Pie Series

    Contributed by David Dykes on Apr 9, 2003
    based on 319 ratings
     | 43,802 views

    God doesn’t cause trouble and adversity, but He uses trouble to refine some humility in us. While trouble causes some people to raise their faces to heaven and become bitter, others bow their knees before God and become better.

    Have a Slice of Humble Pie Luke 14:1-11 by David O. Dykes INTRODUCTION Maybe you’ve seen Jeff Foxworthy’s “Redneck” list. He says, “You know you’re a Redneck if…”: 1. Directions to your house include, “Turn off the paved road.” 2. You take your fishing pole to Sea World. 3. You have flowers ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Marty Hopkins avatar

    When God Seems Far Away

    Contributed by Marty Hopkins on Sep 26, 2005
    based on 34 ratings
     | 12,779 views

    A message for those who have serious questions for God as to why things happen the way they do.

    “When God Seems Far Away” (Habakkuk chapter 1) I have a message this morning that I think every person here can identify with. And as I prepared this message, I really wrestled with what to say and how to say because I don’t want anything to be taken wrong or misunderstood. I just want you to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Steve Shepherd avatar

    The Divine Prescription

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Dec 14, 2000
    based on 564 ratings
     | 32,024 views

    God gives us the prescription for a better life here and now.

    THE DIVINE PRESCRIPTION Ps. 37:1-7 INTRO.- ILL.- A little boy went into a grocery store and asked the clerk for a box of Duz detergent. The clerk said, “What do you need the detergent for?” The little boy replied, “I want to wash my dog.” The clerk said, “Well, son, that Duz detergent is pretty ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Scott Kircher avatar

    Urban Legend: God Won’t Give You More Than You Can Handle Series

    Contributed by Scott Kircher on Jan 10, 2010
    based on 34 ratings
     | 17,607 views

    Looks at the Spiritual Urban Legend that God doesn’t give you more than you can handle and discusses the reasons that we often face more than we can handle and what God does through that in our lives

    Spiritual Urban Legends God will never give you more than you can handle Numbers 11:4-6, 10-23 Luke 10:38-42 God allows us to face more than we can handle so we learn to… Carry each other’s burdens (Numbers 11:17; Galatians 6:2) Rely on God’s strength (Numbers 18-23; 2 Corinthians 1:8-9; Daniel ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    A Beastly Future Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Oct 10, 2013
     | 9,225 views

    In these days when it seems God’s people are losing, don’t despair. Instead, be confident in the victory that’s soon coming, and be ready when Jesus comes to give us that victory.

    There is an old legend that describes Satan in a meeting with all his demons. He wanted to send one of them to earth to aid men and women in the ruination of their souls, and he asked for volunteers. One creature came forward and said, “I will go.” Satan said, “If I send you, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

  • Bruce Ball avatar

    Easter 101

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Mar 17, 2008
    based on 16 ratings
     | 8,923 views

    An Easter teaching for seekers and those who may have questions about what happened on that Sunday when Jesus arose. http://www.sermonlist.com/2008.html

    Every Easter Sunday, we find people sitting in churches that have no real understanding of just what went on at Easter, or why it happened. They come to church because they have a yearning to hear the story of Christ, but they leave with just as many questions as they had before they came in. ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Come Away With Me!

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 2, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,958 views

    Peter and the disciples are struggling across the lake on a cold stormy night. They are tired, worn out from rowing, their muscles are aching, they are cold and they feel like a dirty beaten rug. In that moment of fatigue they see something walking on the

    Sermon - Come away with me! Thesis: Peter and the disciples are struggling across the lake on a cold stormy night. They are tired, worn out from rowing, their muscles are aching, they are cold and they feel like a dirty beaten rug. In that moment of fatigue they see something walking on the water ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational