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  • Leslie Trombly avatar

    Witnessing For Christ

    Contributed by Leslie Trombly on Jun 24, 2001
    based on 55 ratings
     | 20,799 views

    How to be Witness foe Christ.

    Blessings to each one who hears this. Today’s lesson is to help your witnessing for Jesus Christ in your life on a daily basis. Each of us can be an inspirer and encourager of witnessing to others of Jesus Christ and His glory. I will teach you how to enhance your abilities to witness to the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Scott Terrell avatar

    You Can Make A Difference

    Contributed by Scott Terrell on Jun 26, 2006
    based on 27 ratings
     | 7,936 views

    We can all make a difference in the lives of the lost in ouur communties.

    You can make a difference Jude 1:23 Verse “22..Be merciful to those who doubt; 23…snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear-hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.” Does anyone here have 57 cents? Oh no the preacher is ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Darren Rogers avatar

    What Will You Be Remembered For?

    Contributed by Darren Rogers on Sep 2, 2007
    based on 58 ratings
     | 49,836 views

    What do you want to be remembered for?

    Isn’t it amazing how people always remember the bad things you’ve done. Peter’s Denial not His preaching at Pentecost David’s sin with Bathsheeba not him bringing the ark home. Jonah running from God not his preaching Eve’s sin as oppose to her beginnings The World remembers the bad things that ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • James Bryant avatar

    5-Qualities Every Christian Should Have

    Contributed by James Bryant on Oct 21, 2003
    based on 28 ratings
     | 9,996 views

    This sermon emphasizes the need to be a light to the world by the examples we exude in ourselves.

    5-QUALITITES EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD HAVE Hebrews 11:13-16 13. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14. For they that say such things ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Karl Eckhoff avatar

    Justice For The Nations

    Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Jan 14, 2003
    based on 36 ratings
     | 5,199 views

    Justice is not just a matter for that guy over there, nor is it simply a matter of punishment. God shows us His brand of justice in His Servant-Savior who would make us just by grace and then send us out as agents of justice to the world.

    Epiphany 1 B Isaiah 42:1-7 Justice for the Nations 01/12/03 The images seem so stark in contrast don’t they? Last week our chancel was decorated in color and light, green trees and a Christmas stable. This week it’s back to its original design. It’s beautiful still, but bare in contrast, not ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Scott Epperson avatar

    The Preachers And The Minister

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Mar 4, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,993 views

    AS CHILDEREN OF GOD WE MUST BE PREACHERS OF THE GOSPEL BUT WE MUST NOT EVER FAIL TO BE MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL AS WELL.

    (Luk 10:30) And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. (Luk 10:31) And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • David Cook avatar

    Attitude Determines Altitude

    Contributed by David Cook on Aug 22, 2010
    based on 6 ratings
     | 15,164 views

    Sharpen your attitude in the Lord and avoid complancency.

    The goal of my sermon this morning is to help you make an attitude adjustment in your outlook on life and walk with the Lord. * In 1977, in Tallahassee, FL, Laura Shultz, who was 63 at the time, picked up the back end of a Buick to get it off her grandson’s arm. Before that ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Spiritual Law

    Contributed by Steven Ostrowski on Mar 5, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,914 views

    The importance to follow Christian Law and to not be afraid to openly share it.

    Spiritual Law Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. The reality of our society is that we cannot impose faith on others. The Constitution of the United States forbids a state sponsored religion. While the first ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    You Shall Be My Witnesses

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Mar 16, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 14,097 views

    Too often we ask God why don’t I have this or that, why is this happening, why, why, why. Instead we should be asking what God can you do through me? God answers with the voice like many waters, You Shall Be My Witnesses.

    Vance Havner a very practical down home preacher said, “One day of green pastures and still waters is followed by dark valleys and miry swamps and a thousand whys lie unanswered, tabled for the future.” When it comes to unanswered whys from God we all too often ask more whys instead of what! In ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    God Can Use Your Prayers Series

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 25, 2003
    based on 37 ratings
     | 3,890 views

    One of the anchors for our soul is prayer. We see (1) God set things in motion when we pray, and (2) God set up His purposes when we pray.

    Acts 2:42-47 ANCHOR - God Can Use Your Prayers Acts 2 records the birth of the church. It was something new... something they have never experience before. It was the start of a new ministry. And the Bible tells us - they devoted them to SOME things... and the result was - verse 47 "And the ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Bishop Malcolm Coby, Ph. D. avatar

    The Problem, The Pain, The Promise: The Choice Is Yours

    Contributed by Bishop Malcolm Coby, Ph. D. on Aug 20, 2016
     | 12,231 views

    One of the great challenges of life is learning what to do about the choices we make. The purpose of this lesson is to help the listener grow away from problems and pain to believe and receive the promises of God.

    I. Introduction A. The Word of the Lord 1. Exodus6: 1. Moses sorrowed because his demand for freedom ironically had increased his people’s burden, not eased it. 2. So the Lord comforted and reassured his messenger, speaking to Moses twice (indicated by the word “also” in v. ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Samuel Low avatar

    Your Past, Your Present, Your Future

    Contributed by Samuel Low on Aug 16, 2003
    based on 57 ratings
     | 21,086 views

    A 3 point Outline challenging the Christian to live for God.

    Your Past, Your Present, Your Future (KJV) Philippians 3:13-14 (KJV) 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Shinning Stars

    Contributed by Stephen Fournier on Sep 19, 2003
    based on 37 ratings
     | 16,498 views

    Sermon on witnessing

    SHINNING STARS PHILIPPIANS 2:14-16 03/01/95 There was once an artist who sought to depict on canvas the meaning of evangelism. He began by painting a storm at sea. He had painted black clouds filling sky with a flash of lighting coming down from the heavens. In the raging sea he had painted a ...read more

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    Denomination: Bible Church

  • Karl Eckhoff avatar

    Blessed In This Confession

    Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Feb 12, 2004
    based on 24 ratings
     | 3,833 views

    Why is knowing Jesus as the Christ such a "blessed" thing?

    Confession of St. Peter Matthew 16:13-19 Blessed in This Confession 01/18/04 King of Prussia, Frederick the Great, was once touring a Berlin prison when a group of prisoners fell to their knees in unison before him to plead their case. I’m innocent, I tell you. I’ve been falsely accused. I’m a ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    A Charge That Does Not Change

    Contributed by William Mouser on Mar 2, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,870 views

    Two thousand years after Timothy and 3,500 years after Joshua, the Lord’s charge for his people has not changed.

    Septuagesima Sunday Joshua 1:1-9, 2 Tim. 2:1-13 “A Charge that Does Not Change” The lessons for today provide us a remarkable opportunity to bserve two very similar situations which happen to be separated from one another by a huge gulf of time, at least as far as we humans experience time. ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican