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    When You're Weary, But Still Walking PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Oct 4, 2025
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     | 149 views

    When we feel exhausted and overwhelmed, God invites us to trust Him, wait on Him, and receive renewed strength for each day.

    Some of us walked in today with a quiet question humming beneath the surface: How much longer can I keep this up? The calendar is crowded, the to-do list grows fangs, and sleep feels like a stranger. Parents, professionals, students, caregivers—such faithful folks—yet even you can feel thin at the ...read more

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    Sermon # 14 - Stay United, Prayerful And Obedient Series

    Contributed by Andrew Dixon on Oct 3, 2024
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    Jonah’s disobedience brought untold troubles on all the crew aboard that ship. The church too must be wary of those who are divisive and must strive hard to maintain unity, integrity continuing in prayer and being obedient to God.

    We read in Jonah 1:11, Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea was raging and growing more tempestuous. (AFV) The events that preceded this verse were that the ship on which Jonah voyaged was faced with a severe tempest. The mariners ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

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    Hope PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Nov 5, 2025
    based on 4 ratings
     | 152 views

    This sermon encourages steadfast hope in God’s promises, trusting Him through unseen and uncertain times, and patiently waiting for His faithful fulfillment.

    Friends, take a deep breath. If your week has felt like a thousand tiny cuts—emails unanswered, hopes on hold, prayers that feel like whispers in a windstorm—you are not alone. Hope can feel thin on Thursday afternoons and threadbare by Saturday night. Yet right here, in the everyday ache and the ...read more

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    Hope When There's Hurt

    Contributed by Rex Johnson on Jul 4, 2009
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    This sermon will inspire you to never give up hope when there is somthing worth waiting on. Its based on the Prodigal Son & his father.

    Hope When There’s Hurt Luke 15: 11-24 Three points we will explore this morning in the lesson of the Prodigal Son. 1- Rebellion 2- Regret 3- Return 1- Rebel---V-12 said the younger son said to his dad, give me my share of the estate. Our society today has not changed, we want more than we ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    We Have The Power

    Contributed by Matthew Blau on Jun 4, 2014
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    We Don't need to wait around. We are not powerless. With the Help of the Holy Spirit, we can still Make Disciples of all Nations!

    We have the Power Batteries, without them, cars don’t move. Cell phones remain silent. Flashlights remain dark. Hearing aids are useless. When we flip the switch we expect something to turn on. How that happens, we really don’t care. That is unless we flip the switch and nothing ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    The Key To Effective Testimony

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on May 8, 2002
    based on 31 ratings
     | 6,326 views

    The three keys to effective testimony 1. Being God’s witnesses 2. Waiting for God’s timing and 3. In God’s power

    Sharrington/ Swanton Novers/ Blakeney 12-05-02 Acts 1:6-14 Story: A man was arraigned for murder in Los Angeles about 70 years ago. The case against him looked pretty good, but his lawyer thought of an ingenious ploy. In his summing ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    Funeral Message For A Long-Time Believer

    Contributed by Scott Maze on May 18, 2021
     | 4,155 views

    Let me ask you a question: if you were given a choice of going to Heaven today or waiting ten years, what would you choose? Your answer to this question tells a lot about what you think about Heaven. I think the majority of people would desire to wait ten years or more.

    Bill is a sweet man who was a remarkably faithful husband. Like so many seniors of our day, medical science was able to extend the length of Bill’s life even though the quality of his life suffered. He hurt for the past seven plus years and wasn’t able to be a part of our church as he wanted to. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Day Of The Trumpet!

    Contributed by Victor Ramlall on Sep 25, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,615 views

    He is coming and we need to be ready! Will He find you ready and waiting if He should come today...if the trumpet should sound even NOW?

    1 Co 15:51-58 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    What Is God Doing?

    Contributed by Randy Stephenson on May 28, 2012
     | 4,871 views

    What is God doing? What is God doing in your life today? What is God doing when you have to wait to experience God? What is God doing when you have to wait for prayers to be answered? Could God be making certain that you have nothing more important in you

    What is God doing? What is God doing in your life today? What is God doing when you have to wait to experience God? What is God doing when you have to wait for prayers to be answered? Could God be making certain that you have nothing more important in your life than God? God has a history of ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    Sermon- We Cry, How Long, Lord.

    Contributed by Damien Saylor on May 4, 2020
     | 4,255 views

    From generation to generation, suffering has been part of our lives. Situations mount to the point that we can’t keep on. We cry, how long must we wait, Lord. What are we waiting for? Is it a cure, remedy, or is it Jesus’ return? What are we asking for?

    Sermon- We cry how long, Lord? - I know as we look around, a large scale of us can say that this Pandemic hasn’t affected me much. - Let’s think about the people it has affected this morning. - To date, over 60,000 people have died from covid19 in America. - I think of the families, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Eat In Church Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Sep 16, 2022
     | 2,199 views

    If you want to come together for the advancement of the gospel, then come together around the cross. remember Jesus, reflect on yourself, and remain, or wait, for one another.

    21 years ago (2001), DreamWorks produced the animated film Shreck, in which Shrek, an ogre, falls in love with the beautiful princess Fiona, who turns out to be an ogre herself. They fall in love, get married, and live happily ever after. Then Shrek 2 comes along three years later (2004), and the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    Anger

    Contributed by Michael Fredette on Aug 6, 2019
     | 4,746 views

    So the number one goal of every Christ follower must be producing fruit. But there are things just waiting to derail you, to ruin your fruit .

    So the number one goal of every Christ follower must be producing fruit. But there are things just waiting to derail you, to ruin your fruit . Matthew 3:10"The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Maintaining The Unity Series

    Contributed by John Lowe on Jul 4, 2018
     | 16,792 views

    The theme of this letter is "Christian Unity." Paul had established many churches, and watched them grow, so he realized that without unity, nothing else really matters.

    The Book of Ephesians By: Tom Lowe Date: 8/3/17 Lesson 16: Maintaining the Unity (Ephesians 4:1-6) Ephesians 4:1-6 (KJV) 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 2 With all ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Slow Down

    Contributed by Wayne Lawson on Oct 8, 2019
    based on 6 ratings
     | 16,638 views

    People who hate to wait suffer from what he calls “Hurry Sickness,” which he defines as “an increased sensitivity to the passage of time.”

    TITLE: SLOW DOWN SCRIPTURE: EPHESIANS 5:15-16 I came across an article about a real problem that is afflicting most people in the 21st century. It is called “Hurry Sickness.” Hurry Sickness, first diagnosed in the late 1950s, has reached epidemic proportions. So, I thought this would be a good ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Vine, A Place To Grow

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Aug 29, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,982 views

    This is a message for Junior age campers at an evening vespers service, dealing with Jonah chapter 4 as Jonah waits for God to destroy the wicked city of Nineveh

    Jonah chapter 4: The vine-a place to grow Intro: In our last lesson from Chapter 3 of Jonah, we saw Jonah obediently follow God’s call to go to Nineveh and to preach against all the evil that was going on there. Naturally, we remember that it took a storm and a great fish to get Jonah ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ