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  • Jeff Simms avatar

    How To Share Your Faith Part Iii

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Sep 27, 2004
    based on 13 ratings
     | 1,608 views

    Sharing your faith

    SBC Philippi pm 9/19/04 How To Share Your Faith Part III Luke 15:11-24 Primary Purpose: To look at the example of the prodigal son and what it means to be saved. In a sermon by Ken Hemphill, former President of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary he tells of a Sunday evening after ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Jesus V Legion: A Hellish Stoush! (A Sermon On Luke 8:26-39)

    Contributed by David Smith on Oct 25, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 14,324 views

    I do personally believe that the greatest thing that holds people back from following Jesus, and that so often holds us back from truly giving ourselves to Him, is fear.

    Those of you who tune in regularly to my online forum will know that there’s been a lot of discussion lately about Christopher Hitchens’ new book, "God is Not Great - how religion poisons everything". The publishers, Allen and Unwin, had sent me a review copy that I passed on to someone else on ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    The Purpose

    Contributed by Dan Borchert on Aug 30, 2002
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    Why do we care about the unreached? What difference does it make? What is all the fuss about anways? Those questions will be looked at

    2 Peter 3:12 PURPOSE Missions Conference 2001 Introduction A. It’s that time again. It is that time once a year were we… B. Many of you have grown up in this Church. Maybe in an Alliance Church all the time. It seems like all your hear about is missions…. C. I know many of you are sick of ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

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    Homecoming

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Sep 18, 2005
    based on 97 ratings
     | 24,534 views

    The Prodigal Son, the greatest homecoming story ever written.

    Homecoming Luke 15:11-32 INTRO.: Thinking of homecomings, this is possibly the most famous homecoming story in the Bible. What a wonderful homecoming ths prodigal had when he finally came to his senses. This is a story about coming home to God. This is not the point Jesus was making. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Lord Offers Sight For The Seekers Of 2005

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Dec 30, 2004
    based on 38 ratings
     | 9,002 views

    Isaiah uses the rock of Abraham as a source of comfort and hope to the Israelites and us who face difficult times.

    December 31, 2004 Isaiah 51:1-6 1 "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn; 2 look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was but one, and I ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Making Disciples

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jan 29, 2004
    based on 25 ratings
     | 7,538 views

    To stress the importance of making disciples of others and building up others

    Making Disciples Matthew 28:19-20 Primary Purpose: To consider what Jesus meant when He called us to make disciples Today we are talking about what it means to make disciples. This Scripture is also called the “Great Commission” because it tells us what we are to be about as a church. Many ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Witnessing To Your World

    Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 20, 2006
    based on 1 rating
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    Series looking at our role in witnessing.

    Witnessing to your World Gladstone Baptist Church – 17/4/05 One of my favourite subjects at school was physics. I know that most of you are just groaning inwardly now because you can’t think of anything worse. And I know that all the theory and the equations and the mathematics was pretty bad, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Jonah Sulks Series

    Contributed by Alan Mccann on Nov 4, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,005 views

    Jonah’s heart is revealed as not right and God is concerned with the conversion of people more than we are.

    Jonah 4 What makes you angry? Do you get angry very easily? Anger is such an important emotion but it is also a very revealing emotion. It tells us something is wrong – the problem is it does not tell us if the thing which is wrong is outside or inside us. We get angry because something is not ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    God And Me!

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Aug 4, 2015
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    Let me tell you, the harvest that you get from spending time with Him is incredibly enormous; I may not get what I need now but I get the energy to endure sufferings, patience to wait, wisdom to talk and grace to walk.

    God and me! John 15:4 "Abide in Me, and I in you……” Ah, here we go, my incredible pursuit for God takes over everything else! Prep begins! It’s after school hours - most of you know that I work at our Abide School (School for the needy and under privileged kids) – ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Too Small A Thing Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Nov 29, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,655 views

    Exposition of Isaiah 49:1-13 in order to kick off our season of prayer for International Missions

    Text: Isaiah 49:1-13, Title: Too Small a Thing, Date/Place: NRBC, 12/2/07, AM A. Opening illustration: Judges 7:2--And the LORD said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ’My own ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Are You Excited To Repent?

    Contributed by Doug Koehler on Dec 5, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,404 views

    Mark offers us a deep look into the call to repent. This sermon, brings us back into the day when all of Jerusalem traveled 25 miles or so to see what John the Baptist was all about. Would you be as dedicated and driven?

    Mark 1:1-8 2nd Sunday in Advent December 7, 2008 “Series B” Are You Excited to Repent? What gets you excited with anticipation? I am talking about the sort of excitement that keeps you up at night. You used to own tons of examples of this sort of excitement when you were all kids. You had ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    What Is Going On In America

    Contributed by Bob Briggs on Feb 11, 2004
    based on 64 ratings
     | 4,541 views

    The Passion of the Christ is only the tip of what a pagan culture is attempting to do in silencing the church.

    Jon Meacham, managing editor for Newsweek magazine wrote a cover story entitled, “Who really killed Jesus?” editorializing what they described as Mel Gibson’s troubling movie, “The Passion of the Christ.” Troubling are the words of Meacham when he states, “Though countless believers take it ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • MELVIN NEWLAND avatar

    Christ, The Church, & Our World Today

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jul 2, 2002
    based on 56 ratings
     | 12,839 views

    God’s plan has never changed. He has commissioned the church to "…go into all the world & make disciples of all people, baptizing them in the name of the Father, & of the Son, & and the Holy Spirit."

    MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH BROWNSVILLE, TX ILL. Many of you grew up in a little town much like the one that I am going to describe to you now. It isn’t very different from many small towns even today. So travel back with me for a few moments to your Hometown, USA. ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The End Of Time

    Contributed by Wendell Blackburn on Jan 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,030 views

    Endtimes

    THE END OF TIME?? MATTHEW 24:1-14 People Listen to me tonight, The End of this World is much closer than you think!! But nobody knows when its gonna be!! I’m afraid many of us could miss the boat because Our ministers today and I’ve been guilty as well We are steering away from Preaching ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • MELVIN MAUGHMER, JR. avatar

    Wait On Me!!!

    Contributed by Melvin Maughmer, Jr. on Feb 15, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 12,965 views

    Oftentimes it is difficult for one to do what they encourage others to do.Someone can say pray for such and such and we can say I believe God will work mightily on your behalf, but when it becomes something personal then we oftentimes struggle between faith and doubt.

    Wait on Me! By Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr. OPENING: - Oftentimes it is difficult for one to do what they encourage others to do. For example my mother will tell whomever the moment they mention they may do not feel well - to go see the doctor, but when she has something wrong she will not ...read more

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    Denomination: Apostolic