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  • Brian La Croix avatar

    A Merry Heart Does A Body Good...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 20, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,537 views

    A message meant to encourage Christians to have a more positive outlook on life rather than live in the negative all the time.

    A Merry Heart Does a Body Good… Various Scriptures July 22, 2007 I’d like to think that I’m overall, a pretty positive guy. I like to joke around, I like to laugh, and I try not to take myself too seriously. But every now and again I have to stop and wonder if I really am that positive of a ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Freddy Fritz avatar

    Rejoicing In Hope Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Feb 24, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,166 views

    In this sermon we look at a third blessing of justification, a third possession in Christ, which is rejoicing in hope.

    Scripture In the first four chapters of his letter to the Romans the apostle Paul explains how we come into a right relationship with God. The good news of God is that we can come into a right relationship with God by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. This is called justification by ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Jon MacKinney avatar

    Be Encouraged

    Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Feb 26, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 19,055 views

    There are so many things we can be discouraged about. But we are called to be encouraged. Why?

    Passage: 2 Timothy 1:1-7 Intro: Living in the world, it is easy to be discouraged. 1. things don’t always go as we planned. 2. a few people are happy this Super Bowl Sunday, but most football fans are discouraged because their team isn’t playing and probably won’t next year, either. 3. jobs ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

  • Jerry Smith avatar

    Restore To Me The Joy Of Your Salvation

    Contributed by Jerry Smith on Mar 11, 2008
    based on 11 ratings
     | 35,331 views

    With the pressures of life and sins we commit, we can lose the joy of our salvation and become dry. God wants to restore us to full and complete JOY in Him.

    Joy is to be an evidence of walking with Jesus! The book we are studying in our home group is called “Outflow”. The basic premise is that we are to let Jesus so fill our lives that He spills out and overflows from our life to others. Over the pass three weeks while reading the book I had to come ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Tom Owen avatar

    Bitter To Better Part 1

    Contributed by Tom Owen on Mar 12, 2008
     | 4,802 views

    Getting rid of bitterness

    Bitter to Better part 1 [Coffee demonstration.] Sometimes our lives become like a black cup of coffee. Sometimes we find ourselves, for one reason or another, [2] bitter. Just bitter at life. Do you ever find yourself like that? Do you ever feel like you need a little cream and sugar in your ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Bitter To Better Part 2

    Contributed by Tom Owen on Mar 12, 2008
     | 3,490 views

    Letting go of bitterness

    Bitter to Better part 2 [2] Last week we started talking about how to go from bitter to better. If bitterness has crept into your life, there is a way to alleviate the pain. There is a way to get better. Last week we focused on what to do when another person has caused the pain and bitterness ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jeremiah Parker avatar

    How We Give Thanks

    Contributed by Jeremiah Parker on Mar 22, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,337 views

    How and why we give thanks to God.

    How We Are to Give Thanks Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. By him therefore let us offer ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Richard Francis avatar

    Open The Wells

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Mar 29, 2008
    based on 11 ratings
     | 12,237 views

    Our hearts can be wells of salvation, open by faith in Jesus Christ and allowing the waters of life to flow into the lives or all those we meet and know as we walk our lives on this earth, no better reason for being than that.

    Wells We don’t tend to think much of wells these days do we We just turn a tap and there’s the water, who needs a well? Holes in the ground with a puddle of muddy water at the bottom, taking effort to draw the water up and potentially having a serious health risk if not looked after properly. But ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Mike Wilkins avatar

    Thankgiving And Prayer From Prison Series

    Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Mar 31, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,882 views

    An introduction to Paul’s "happiest letter."

    Philippians 1:1-11 March 30, 2008 Introduction, Thanksgiving and Prayer Acts 16 stories Stopped from going into Asia and Bithynia Macedonian vision Lydia’s conversion Demonized girl Paul & Silas imprisoned and beaten Earthquake & Jailer’s Salvation Rejection of release This is the ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Kevin Ruffcorn avatar

    Blessed By God Series

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Apr 1, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,645 views

    God wants us to experience an abundant, blessed, happy life. The Psalmist gives us direction on how we can be open to God’s blessings in our lives and be like trees planted by water.

    Psalms 1:1-6     “Blessed by God”INTRODUCTIONThe Bible often talks about joy and happiness. Jesus talks about being happy, or blessed, in the Sermon on the Mount. One of the fruits of the Spirit that Paul lists in his letter to the Galatians is “joy.” Psalms, like this psalm, talk about being ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Glenn Durham avatar

    A Holiday Heart Series

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 8, 2008
    based on 15 ratings
     | 8,419 views

    God’s people are to marked by thankful hearts and lives.

    Scripture Introduction I discovered “Holiday Heart Syndrome” from the electro-cardiologist who was a member of our church. Over the holidays, people often eat and drink more than usual. The sudden excess can cause an otherwise healthy heart to develop an abnormal rhythm, a fast and ineffective ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Howard Strickland avatar

    Rejoicing In Christ Alone

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Apr 9, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,579 views

    Philippians 3:1-12 verse upon verse weekly study. Good solid Bible teaching.

    Rejoicing in Christ Alone Philippians 3:1-12 1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you is not tedious, but for you it is safe.2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation! 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Daniel Habben avatar

    "Hallelujah!” – A Word For Every Occasion

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Dec 31, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 13,200 views

    Because of God’s great love for us, we can say "Hallelujah!" no matter what we’re facing in life.

    How do you identify a Canadian? If you’re traveling outside the country, you’ll easily recognize the college student from the U of A, the office worker from Ottawa, and the family from Fernie by the “patch” – that Canadian flag sewn on backpacks hoisted by just about everyone who hails from the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Matthew Kratz avatar

    Showing Our Thanks

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 6, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,499 views

    We can give thanks in 1)Praise of God’s Eternatlity 2) The Perception of our Frailty and 3) The Plea for God’s Steadfast Love

    Thanksgiving is a time when we can formally recognize and give thanks for the obvious and more abstract things that shape our lives here in Canada. The first recognized Canadian thanksgiving was held in 1578, at least forty years earlier than that of our friends to the south. In a misguided ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

  • Jonathan McLeod avatar

    The Best Reason To Give Thanks

    Contributed by Jonathan Mcleod on Oct 11, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,045 views

    Give thanks because God’s love for us is eternal. It didn’t have a beginning and it will not have an end.

    Two attitudes toward thanksgiving: • Blessings are seen as coming from US, not GOD. Bart Simpson’s Thanksgiving prayer: “Dear God, we paid for this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing.” Prayer by the character Charlie Anderson (Jimmy Stewart) in the movie Shenandoah: “Lord, we cleared this ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist