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  • Daren Mitchell avatar

    What Is Prayer About

    Contributed by Daren Mitchell on Sep 17, 2012
     | 3,763 views

    Prayer is not an antidote to worry. Have you ever prayed about a stressful situation just to discover that you’re still worried about it? Faith is the antidote to worry. Prayer is about asking God for the supernatural.

    I would like for you to consider for a moment if God appeared to you and said, “The people of Kabul Afghanistan are ready to hear about my Son Jesus and I want you to be the messenger to go speak of His resurrection and offer of grace.” Would you go? Would you go, knowing, that ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    A Son Only A Father Could Love

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Jun 16, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,350 views

    No matter what we’ve done, our heavenly Father will always take us back.

    A Son Only a Father Could Love Text: Lk. 15:11-32 Introduction 1. Read Lk. 15:11-19 2. Illustration: Once a mother allowed her children to get a hamster with the understanding that they take care of it. So they got a hamter and named his Danny. However, after a while it was the mother who ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    What Is The Unforgivable Sin? Series

    Contributed by Jefferson Williams on Feb 20, 2022
     | 2,714 views

    In Mark 3, Jesus answers the question of what is the unforgivable sin?

    The Unforgivable Sin? Mark 3:20-30 Pastor Jefferson Williams Chenoa Baptist Church 02-20-2022 Again? At a church I used to serve at there was a man who I will call Luke. Every three months or so, he would come into the church in tears and tell the secretary that he needed to talked to me asap. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Flexing To Adjust To What Is Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 20, 2008
     | 2,983 views

    The early church was comfortable with innovating and changing its methodology; even today, Biblically grounded churches have freedom to adjust to the times as long as the truth of Scripture is not sacrificed in the process. Our text provides us with a mo

    Flexing to Adjust to What Is (Acts 6:1-7) 1. This was in Friday’s news: LAGOS (Reuters) – A father took his 20-year old son to an Islamic court in northern Nigeria for idleness, asking that he be sent to prison for refusing to engage in productive activities, state news agency NAN said Friday. "He ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Passing Along What You Have Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Jul 9, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,807 views

    Before passing on, pass it on by leaving a legacy of faithfulness.

    Passing Along What You Have 2 Timothy 2:1-7 Rev. Brian Bill July 8-9, 2023 We had a blast being with our family for a few days last weekend. Here’s a picture of our seven grandchildren ages seven and under. I appreciated Pastor Ed preaching but wasn’t happy with him singing at the end because ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    What Kind Of God? Series

    Contributed by Thomas Bowen on Jan 29, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,114 views

    Our exersize of Christian freedom is directly related to what other has taught us about what God is like.

    Christian Freedom – What kind of God? Here at the first of the year we are working through a short series of messages related to the topic of Christian freedom. Last week we talked about how our American citizenship gives us amazing freedoms and rights but they are limited by other people’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Congregational

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    Judgement For All

    Contributed by Robert Cox on May 17, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,081 views

    Everyone will be judged the same no matter HOW or WHAT you believe....or don’t believe

    ROMANS 2:11For God does not show favoritism.12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    What Are You Thinking? Series

    Contributed by David Owens on Mar 26, 2018
    based on 4 ratings
     | 27,298 views

    What we think about is so important, because what we think is what we become. Here in Philippians 4:8-9, Paul tells us what kinds of good things we should think about.

    Introduction: A. Whenever I got into trouble as a boy, which happened once in a while, my mother would ask me: “What were you thinking?” 1. Can you guess what my favorite answer was? “I don’t know.” 2. Truth is: most of the time I wasn’t thinking, or at least I wasn’t thinking clearly ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    From Why To What

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Feb 21, 2024
     | 1,140 views

    The normal human response, “Why did this happen?” calls God to account. On the other hand, “What do you want me to do?” is an invitation for God to call us to account.

    Sixty years ago President John Fitzgerald Kennedy sent a group of military advisors to a little country in the Far East that most Americans had never heard of. Their government was having some trouble with rebels and turned to the U.S. for help. Who else should they turn to? The United States was ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    What Is Your Name

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 23, 2005
    based on 26 ratings
     | 5,308 views

    Who of us have never known an experience that we’d sooner forget; an experience of theft or maybe deception; or recounting those times when we were selfishly motivated, yielding to sin’s tempting tug and losing to its hold and persuasion.

    The unknown author of the following story captures the value of a name. “After the American Civil War the managers of the infamous Louisiana Lottery approached Robert E. Lee and asked if he’d let them use his name in their scheme. They promised that if he did he would become rich. Astounded, Lee ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    What Pleases God?

    Contributed by Stephen Collins on Jan 14, 2009
    based on 35 ratings
     | 12,371 views

    A message exploring the 4 most popular ways we displease God and the 3 ways we please Him most.

    Stephen N. Collins Millville – 09/05/08 What Pleases God? “What does the LORD require of you?” -Micah 6:8 Icebreaker: (Show Pictures of Office) Intro: I came in that day to my office, worn out. The stress of a busy week was getting to me, and I walk in my office to see that. And you know ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    What Is Your Name

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 2, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,543 views

    Discovering your name sometimes requires experiences of dark nights and aloneness. God must test our behaviour. He pushes us to see things that are not good for us, things that must change. He loves us far to much to leave us to our destructive behaviour

    The unknown author of the following story captures the value of a name. “After the American Civil War the managers of the infamous Louisiana Lottery approached Robert E. Lee and asked if he’d let them use his name in their scheme. They promised that if he did he would become rich. Astounded, Lee ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    What The King Desires

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Jan 30, 2009
    based on 16 ratings
     | 17,078 views

    David’s sigh brought out some noble actions of his three mightiest men.

    WHAT THE KING DESIRES TEXT: 2 Samuel 23:13-17 (Secondary Text: 1 Chronicles 11:12-19) 2 Samuel 23:13-17 KJV And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim. [14] And ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    What Are Our Motives

    Contributed by Randell Brown on Sep 29, 2001
    based on 70 ratings
     | 11,964 views

    What is our purpose behind our worshipping and fasting unto GOD?

    Text: Isaiah: 58:1-11 Topic: “ FOR WHAT IS THE PURPOSE FOR OUR FAST” “WHAT ARE OUR MOTIVES” 1. WHY ARE WE FASTING, MAKING SACRIFICES, WORSHIPPING GOD? 2. ARE WE TRYING TO GET EARTHY GAIN, IS THAT OUR OBJECTION? 3. ARE WE TRYING PLEASE OUR PASTOR, PARENTS, OR ANYONE ELSE BESIDES GOD? 4. ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    What's That In Your Hand?

    Contributed by Jack Whitehead on Mar 28, 2003
    based on 14 ratings
     | 11,863 views

    God can use the simplest of His creation to accomplish His will.

    What’s That In Your Hand Christian? Exodus Chapter 4:1-5 And Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath Not appeared unto thee.2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, a rod.3 And he said ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist