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2nd Sunday After Christmas, Year B

Contributed by Garth Wehrfritz- Hanson on Dec 30, 2002

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There is seeing, then there is SEEING; there is knowing, then there is KNOWING. How do people see and know Jesus?

Sermon for II Christmas Yr B, 5/01/2003 Based on Jn 1:10, 18 Grace Lutheran Church, Medicine Hat, Alberta By Pastor Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson Well, here we are, celebrating our last day of “The Twelve Days Of Christmas.” On this day, we hear again those marvellous words from the prologue of John’s ...read more

Scripture: John 1:10-18

Denomination: Lutheran

I Have Decided To Follow Jesus (150 Years)

Contributed by Spencer Homan on Dec 15, 2008

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This sermon celebreated 150 years of history with a call to follow our own history and "decide to follow Jesus."

Acts 16:23-34 23 After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. 24 Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. 25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and ...read more

Scripture: Acts 16:23-34

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Christmas: "Well Stricken In Years..." By Dr. Winson Butler

Contributed by Winson Butler on Dec 8, 2004

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In the presence of trouble, some people grow wings, while others buy crutches. I’m sure Mary felt the same way when she heard how she was going to have a baby & how it was to happen. Let’s examine the birth of Jesus together!

Introduction In a little small "dry" town. A businessman decided to open a tavern. The local Churches began an outcry! They all came together to pray and asked God to intervien. Two days later, lightening mysterioulsy struck the bar and it burned to the ground. The owner hired a laywer to sue the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:5-7

Denomination: Baptist

Let Us Place Ourselves In The Lord's Hand This Year! Series

Contributed by Peter Schmidt on Nov 13, 2003

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The new Church Year is a time for us to look forward to new opportunities of service in the Lord’s kingdom.

Advent I Isaiah 64:1-8 I guess I should apologize to you all. This is the point of the service where you are expecting to hear a sermon, and I don’t have one to give you. I mean, I figured "what’s one week?" You’ll survive without one, right? Besides, I already had one to do for Thanksgiving Day. ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 64:1-8

Denomination: Lutheran

How To Have A Happy New Year (Part 2) Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Dec 31, 2014

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If you want a happy new year, demonstrate humility in mercy, purity, making peace, and in accepting persecution. Be humble if you want to be happy.

Orla Shup, of Albion, Pennsylvania, was babysitting her pastor’s 3-year-old daughter, playing their favorite game together, Go Fish. One evening, after winning several rounds, the little girl kept bragging about how good she was. Jokingly, Orla Shup said to her, “I'm going to have to ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:7-12

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Time...happy New Year Ecclesiastes 3:1

Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jan 2, 2015

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Where has the time gone? There is a time for everything but, that never seem to bother me when I was young. But as I get older I consider almost everything in time. It’s time to take my medicine, it’s time to go to the doctor, it’s time for this or time for that.

Time? Another Happy New Year. Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-4

Denomination: Baptist

Back To Future - Facing A New Year Without Fear

Contributed by Gerald Du Preez on Nov 6, 2015

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Knowing Jesus allows us to face the future with confidence

2015: Back to the Future John 14:1-3 In a few days we will be saying “Happy New Year”! 2015, just saying the date reminds us of how quickly time is marching on. We are moving into a new year and into the 16th year of the new millennium. It is hard to believe that we are already ...read more

Scripture: John 14:1-3

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Post-Baptismal Life - Epiphany 1 Year C

Contributed by Ernie Arnold on Jan 4, 2016

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Luke shares with us what a Christ centered post-baptismal life involves: 1. A life of intimate prayer 2. A life empowered and led by the Holy Spirit 3. A life that reveals in its true identity and mission as a child of God

Scripture: Luke 3:1-6, 15-22; Isaiah 43:1-7; Psalms 29 Theme: Post Baptismal Life Proposition: Luke shares with us what a Christ centered post-baptismal life involves: 1. A life of intimate prayer 2. A life empowered and led by the Holy Spirit 3. A life that reveals in its true ...read more

Scripture: Luke 3:1-22

Denomination: Nazarene

The Only New Year’s Resolution That Matters

Contributed by Tim Smith on Jan 6, 2013

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This message is about discovering God's will for your life

The Only New Year’s Resolution That Matters Proverbs 16:1-4 One Sunday while serving at Aldersgate UMC, we had a guest speaker from GA in town for an Evangelism Conference. His message could be summed up as this: to be an effective servant of God, you have to discover God’s will and ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 16:1-4, Proverbs 16:9

Denomination: Methodist

State Of The Church, Year End Review And Vision (2013)

Contributed by Tim White on Jan 8, 2013

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Year in review for First Baptist, Eula, as well as vision and challenges.

We are not the perfect Church. However, this past year, we have shown that we are a Church that is moving to improvement. Php 3:8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:8-15

Denomination: Baptist

Happy New Year Of Renewal – Part 2 Series

Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Jan 23, 2013

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To magnify our great Lord for His attribute of renewing things!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR OF RENEWAL – PART 2 Continuing with series on “God of renewal”, now in the concluding part of the series, let’s focus on these subjects… GLOBAL God can not only renew an ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 19:28

Denomination: *other

Lessons In The New Year From Lepers - Part 1 Series

Contributed by William Wyne on Mar 7, 2012

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Learning from the trials and testings of others to be strong and courageous.

The story of the Four Lepers is a story that we as believers personally might learn from, but we as a church should allow this story to teach us congregationally as well as we move in this New Year. It’s one of my favorite Old Testament stories that I have on other occasions used as ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 7:1-8

Denomination: Baptist

Lessons In The New Year From Lepers - Part 2 Series

Contributed by William Wyne on Mar 7, 2012

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Learning from the trials and testings of others to be strong and courageous.

Life is a total of our choices. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist and live with them and in them, or to take the responsibility to change them. And it’s only when you exercise your right to choose, can you exercise the right to change. You may think ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 7:1-8

Denomination: Baptist

May I Be More Like Christ In The New Year

Contributed by Gordon Weatherby on Jan 3, 2017

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This is a New Year's message based on Philippians 3. Paul had looked back at his life in Judaism, and realized he still needed to be growing to become more like Christ.

MAY I BE MORE LIKE CHRIST IN THE NEW YEAR! Philippians 3:2-14 Greenmount and O’Leary Churches of Christ January 01, 2016 Audio Link to this sermon: http://chirb.it/fsdJd1 INTRODUCTION: 1.) On this New Year’s Day we reflect on both the past and also the future. 2.) Because we have been given ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:2-14, Philippians 3:1-13

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Funeral Sermon: 94 Year Old Christian Lady

Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 6, 2017

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Evelyn was baptized late in life and was faithful to the end.

Song: How Great Thou Art (Recorded) Family Enters Song: Jesus Let Us Come to Know You (Congregational) Welcome John 14.1-6 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a ...read more

Scripture: John 14:1-6, John 20:12

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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