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  • Bruce Ball avatar

    A Year Of New Beginnings

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Dec 25, 2007
    based on 275 ratings
     | 135,031 views

    A sermon to help us enter the new year with a proper focus and purposeful intent. Text and audio will be placed at www.sermonlist.com

    What is the one thing most people have in common at the new year? Most of us make resolutions, don’t we? One young boy asked his father what his new years resolution was, and his father said he was going to do everything possible in the new year to make his mother very happy. The boy asked his ...read more

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    A New Year's Blessing

    Contributed by Charles Whitmire on Jan 6, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 9,681 views

    This sermon looks at the blessing from God for us found in Numbers 6:22-27.

    Next week we start a new series called “Resolution Revolution” based on a passage in Colossians. We’ll cover topics that hopefully will allow us to live out a life resolved to be new in Christ. We’ll talk about the idea that we have been rescued and redeemed by Christ, that we have a new authority ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Christmas New Creation

    Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Jan 7, 2008
     | 1,906 views

    In Jesus Birth, the New Creation has begun

    New Creation at Christmas December 16, 2007 Luke 1:26-38 I was talking with a friend this week about all the accesses that happen at Christmas, and how the retail ales system has taken over this celebration of Christ’s birth. We can respond to it in two different ways – at worst, we can just ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Priorities For A New Year

    Contributed by David Owens on Jan 7, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 33,850 views

    In this sermon I borrowed and built on the seven priorities from a sermon by SermonCentral contributor, Darrell Garrett called "How to Meet the New Year".

    Introduction: A. Happy New Year! This is the first Sunday of 2008! It is hard to believe we are almost through the first decade of the 21st Century! 1. For many people the first week in January is the most depressing week of the year. 2. The holidays are over, the family and friends have gone ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Disturbing Good News Series

    Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jan 10, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,675 views

    The disturbing good news about Jesus can bring healing and forgiveness to all who believe in Him.

    Disturbing Good News Acts 4:1-12 Intro: While staying in a hotel this past week, I saw the little signs they put in your room that you hang on your door when you don’t want to be bothered. You know what they say: DO NOT DISTURB! Or in espanol, no moleste. The idea is this: “I’m busy doing what I ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Peace For The New Year

    Contributed by Carl Kolb on Jan 10, 2008
     | 3,168 views

    A sermon on dealing with conflict

    Peace for the New Year Colossians 3:15 The motto of the Apollo 11 flight was "We come in peace for all mankind." This motto was on the plaque which was deposited on the face of the moon. The landing was on the Sea of Tranquility. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin found a tranquil and peaceful ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    It's A New Day

    Contributed by Ryan Harris on Jan 21, 2008
    based on 24 ratings
     | 20,076 views

    Get past your past, and realize God is giving you a fresh start!

    It is a New Day Isaiah 43:18-20 18 “ Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert. 20 The beast of the field will honor Me, ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Patrick O'Loughlin avatar

    What's New With You? Series

    Contributed by Patrick O'loughlin on Aug 6, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,463 views

    God is always wanting to do something new in us.

    Text: 2 Corinthians 5:11-13 Title: What’s new with you? Introduction 1. We are called to give others the message of renewal (v17) “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” Illustration: Now suppose ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Good News Shoes

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Aug 8, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,285 views

    As we strap on our good news shoes, we follow after Jesus Christ, our Lord, where He will take us. As we follow Him we tread out, we live out, and we walk out, the Gospel of Peace in palpable ways.

    Good News Shoes, Romans 10:5-15 Introduction One of the most beautiful of all Christmas stories was told by the American poet, Edwin Markham, about a cobbler, a godly man who made shoes in the old days. One night the cobbler dreamed that the next day Jesus was coming to visit him. The dream seemed ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Sing A New Song

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Sep 16, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,534 views

    This is a call to move from traditional worship focusing on the Builder Generation to Multi-ethnic worship. Can also be used to explain the differences in worshop preferences between generations and moving to contemporary worship

    Sing a New Song Psalm 96 I am a PK, a preacher’s kid and grew up in a traditional Methodist church with hymns, the organ, anthems, a handbell choir and Calls to Worship. In 1990, I attended a conference in Houston on cutting edge ministry. The first night opened with worship. I walked in and the ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Seeing A New Thing

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jun 29, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 13,010 views

    Some of us are just not observant and do not see what God is doing. We let fear paralyze us, we do not see what an international church means, and we need to bear a testimony of excitement about all that God is doing in this church.

    Many of you know that I recently spent a week in Kentucky and Indiana doing a family history search. My companion for that week in archives rooms and on cemetery grounds was my younger brother, who is a professor at Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Texas. We planned for that particular week, as ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A New Year's Resolution

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jul 12, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 9,539 views

    A New Year’s message based on 2 Kings 4.

    A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION 2 Kings 4:26 INTRO: As we are facing this New Year, there are things in our lives that we need to examine and see if "It is well with us." Relate the story of 2 kings 4:8-37. I. "IS IT WELL WITH THEE?" A. Is it ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A New Family Dynamic Series

    Contributed by Larry Vinson on Jul 24, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,256 views

    This sermon tells us that ministry is a family affair.

    Redefining Relationships A New Family Dynamic Joshua 24:14-15 Lawrence D Vinson MINISTRY IS A FAMILY AFFAIR I.INTRODUCTION I realize that over the last eleven months of ministry here that I may sometimes come across as hateful towards the trends of this world. I realize that there are times ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    New Age Movement Series

    Contributed by Carl Allen on Jul 28, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,109 views

    The New Age movement is huge pull on the world today, but it is nothing new at all. This is a study of its misleadings and contradiction to the Bible.

    New Age Movement The Serpent’s Old Lie in an Updated Package Intro Among the myriad of new religions and cults today, nothing is more far-reaching or hard to define than the New Age Movement (NAM). Russell Chandler, a former writer for the Los Angeles Times, observed that “New Age is not a sect ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    New Year's Revolution

    Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 30, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,681 views

    We’re talking about a REVOLUTION…a passion burning deep within us that we can’t contain…passion to see the world around us change…this is our mission!

    New Year’s Revolution Resolution = “the act of determining” Revolution = “A Revolution is where passion takes on purpose to effect a radical change in one’s surroundings.” Revolution Cry…by Steve Fee When passion takes on a purpose and searching one embrace the light When skeptics find ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal