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  • Dennis Selfridge avatar

    Goodness For Goodness Sake

    Contributed by Dennis Selfridge on Sep 17, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,538 views

    Goodness can only come from God.

    Goodness for Goodness SAKE THE fruit of the spirit is Goodness Gal. 5:22 2Pe 1: 5 make every effort to add to your faith goodness. Eph 5: 9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness. Ps 23:6Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    We Cannot Know Another’s Story Series

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Jun 4, 2010
    based on 11 ratings
     | 7,666 views

    God must be loved greatly for us to live the life (and die the death) he calls us to.

    Scripture Introduction Near the end of the Chronicles of Narnia book, The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis describes Shasta feeling sorry for himself because life is hard. While he cries, the Lion draws near, and Shasta is frightened when he realizes this is a very large creature. He cannot see ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Rick Gillespie- Mobley avatar

    Because We Love & We Care

    Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Apr 25, 2001
    based on 19 ratings
     | 5,210 views

    This is a stewardship sermon based on the parable of the good Samaritan.

    Because We Love And We Care 10/29/2000 Proverbs 1:8-19 I John 3:16-20 Text Luke 10:25-37 Today we enter the challenge phase our New Life Campaign. One of our reasons for building the New Life Center is because we love and we care. Our first love is our love for God, for the ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    We Are Responsible For What We Teach Others Series

    Contributed by W.bryan Jackson on Mar 6, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,482 views

    The tongue is a double edged sword. Arguments and wars have been started by words of misunderstanding. This week, is James 3 we read about being held responsible for what we teach and the words we say. We are taught the true wisdom has many characteristic

    James 3:1-18 Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. 2) We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check. 3) When we put bits ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Falling Towers Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 2, 2013
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    Everyone must face the problem of evil; Jesus tells us to be faithful to our call.

    3rd Sunday of Lent 2013 Despite the fact that nobody but academic researchers remember it, November of 1641 was one of the most important months in history. In that month, just before the English Civil War broke out, the first issue of what would be called a “newspaper” appeared in ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    We Believe Better Than We Behave Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Sep 20, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,085 views

    Confronting the normal tendency to promote our own interests,even while surrendering to the reign of God’s Spirit, goes a long way toward promoting unity within the congregation.

    JAMES 4:1–3 WE BELIEVE BETTER THAN WE BEHAVE “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Faithfulness

    Contributed by Norman Bernad on Jul 20, 2023
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    When we are truly faithful to God, this shapes the way we live. For example, we are able to be loyal in our relationships here on Earth and truly love others. Faithfulness requires us to submit our ways to

    The Fruit of Faithfulness When we are truly faithful to God, this shapes the way we live. For example, we are able to be loyal in our relationships here on Earth and truly love others. Faithfulness requires us to submit our ways to God. It comes from a place of realizing that we are in need of a ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Fruitless Religion Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Feb 27, 2010
    based on 9 ratings
     | 10,701 views

    If we want to bear fruit for the glory of God and lead people to Him on a regular basis, then we must let Christ clean out the fruitless religion, and we must pray with hearts full of faith and forgiveness

    A clergyman dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates. Ahead of him is a guy dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket, and jeans. Saint Peter says to this guy, “Who are you, so that I may know whether to admit you into the Kingdom of Heaven?” The guy replies, “I’m Joe Cohen, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

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    The Power Of Kindness Series

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Oct 22, 2008
    based on 15 ratings
     | 33,324 views

    We all need the healing kindness of God because it’s rare to find it in the world around us. However, when you see God’s loving kindness working through others, it causes you to stop and take notice because it provides a glimpse into heaven and makes the

    Opening illustration: For 30 years, Randy Murphy drove without a traffic incident, without being stopped by the police, and without a driver’s license. Then, the 46 year old Knoxville, Tennessee native’s luck ran out. On his way home from work as a dishwasher, he increased the volume on his radio. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Gentleness & Goodness Series

    Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 20, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,186 views

    We live in a ‘dog-eat-dog’ world. There is not even much gentleness or goodness where you might expect to find it: nurses and doctors have become preoccupied with lawsuits and their paychecks, homes are toxic environments, and churches are full of bitter

    Do gentleness and goodness seem like qualities on the top of many lists? What do these words mean to you? For some, it might mean being a push-over or a marshmallow… to others, it might be a coveted virtue. Needless to say, these character traits are as scarce as water in a summer Arizona ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Love Demands Series

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Sep 24, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,375 views

    The Fruit of the Spirit is God’s love and work in us, the love of Christ flowing in through His Holy Spirit in and out of us! All because we have a personal relationship with Christ, we have God’s living presence in us, living in us. The result is we have

    Opening illustration: The teacher in our adult-education creative-writing class told us to write "I love you" in 25 words or less, without using the words "I love you." She gave us 15 minutes. A woman in the class spent about ten minutes looking at the ceiling and wriggling in her seat. The last ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Why Christians Must Be Involved In The Political Process

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 23, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,129 views

    A message based on the assertion that the Church cannot sit on the sidelines in the political process, since many of the issues are not political issues, but moral and biblical ones.

    Why Christians MUST Be Involved in the Political Process Various Scriptures October 22, 2006 Introduction Well, you can tell from the title that I’m going to discuss politics again. And as much as you may not want to hear about stuff like this, it’s not nearly as much as I would rather not ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Simon Fisher avatar

    Why Christ Must Rise From The Dead.

    Contributed by Simon Fisher on Jun 1, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 8,305 views

    How Christ rising from the dead makes us certain of the love of an almighty and eternal God.

    For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. (Jn 20:9) So the disciples went to the tomb, Peter, and John, and Mary Magdelene, of whom John and Mary had seen Jesus die two days before, and they found that Jesus was not in the tomb. And when Mary waited in ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

  • John Wright avatar

    Faith Must Be Proven By Works & Not Just Words! Series

    Contributed by John Wright on Feb 1, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 8,596 views

    James teaches that biblical faith is not expressed in words only or just in one’s mind, but that it must be expressed in the actual doing and obeying what God and Christ command us to do.

    INTRODUCTION 1. Open your bibles to James 2:18-26. 2. In our last lesson we discussed two different kinds of faith, from James 2:14-17. We discussed a faith that is not profitable and a faith that is dead. As a contrast to those two faiths, we also discussed a “living faith”. 3. In the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Fr Mund Cargill Thompson avatar

    Must I Go Unto The House Of The Lord? Series

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Jan 1, 2026
    based on 2 ratings
     | 123 views

    Some good reasons for going to Church... And some even better reasons for going to Church!

    “I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord.’” (Psalm 121:1) “In days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; all the nations shall stream to it. Many peoples shall come ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican