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  • Joe Holman avatar

    Why Listen To God Series

    Contributed by Joe Holman on Oct 20, 2004
    based on 17 ratings
     | 12,797 views

    Third in a series on hearing the voice of God. Gives several benefits of hearing God.

    Can You Hear Me Now? Why Listen To God? John 10 Intro: One day I was at the park with some of my kids. There was one kid there, he was without any parents, who was being mean. At one point I asked him to stop doing what he was doing, and he replied, now this is about a seven year old, “I don’t ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Handcrafted By God

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on May 17, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,954 views

    Is God bending, shaping, or polishing me right now? What’s my attitude: Am I thanking and praising God, or am I complaining about the process? Trials are intended not to provoke us but to prove us. See the present from the perspective of the future. Look

    Opening illustration: The Steinway piano has been preferred by keyboard masters such as Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Cliburn, and Liszt—and for good reason. It is a skillfully crafted instrument that produces phenomenal sound. Steinway pianos are built today the same way they were 140 years ago when ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    God’s Way Does Not Fail

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 3, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,442 views

    Although God’s way can seem must unusual, trust him with patient hope. Parts: A. His way amazes. B. His way brings hope. C. His way prevails.

    Text: Numbers 24:17 Theme: God’s Way Does Not Fail A. His way amazes B. His way brings hope C. His way prevails Season: Christmas 1 Date: December 27, 2009 Web page: http://hancocklutheran.org/sermons/God_s-Way-Does-Not-Fail-Numbers24_17.html Grace and peace to you from God our Father ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Where Is God When I Hurt? Series

    Contributed by Scott Maze on Jun 4, 2021
     | 3,843 views

    1 Peter is a book about suffering. It’s about how to live in a hostile culture for faith.

    A pastor is cutting his front lawn. He looks up from mowing to see a dump truck back out of his neighbor’s driveway. Yet, the large truck backed over his neighbor’s eighteen month old son. The little boy had been squatting behind the truck’s huge tire. The pastor joined the boy’s hysterical mother ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Curtis Kittrell avatar

    Will You Allow God To Reproduce Christ's Likeness In You?

    Contributed by Curtis Kittrell on Sep 27, 2001
    based on 67 ratings
     | 6,817 views

    this testimony of the apostle Paul in which he shares his own personal theology with the Galatian Christians who had become known for their backslidings. It is a beautiful miniature, shining forth as an unusual and sparkling gem, an entire commentary on

    WILL YOU ALLOW GOD TO REPRODUCE CHRIST’S LIKENESS IN YOU? by: A.W. Tozer "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave him- self for me. " ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • David Flowers avatar

    Suffering Well

    Contributed by David Flowers on Apr 21, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,808 views

    In light of the shootings this week at Virgina Tech, Pastor Dave discusses the mystery of suffering.

    Suffering Well Stuff Jesus Changed, part 4: Suffering Wildwind Community Church David K. Flowers April 29, 2007 This has been a terrible week for America, first in receiving the news about the deaths of those students and professors in Virginia, and then as we get information about the shooter and ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

  • Gregory Griffin avatar

    What Does God Require

    Contributed by Gregory Griffin on Jan 29, 2005
    based on 38 ratings
     | 9,641 views

    What God requires of His Children. This sermon touches on what Micah said was "required" of the people of his day.

    “What does God Require of Me?’ Micah 6 DBC 1/30/05 In our passage of scripture, we have the Prophet Micah foretelling destruction of to Jerusalem for their sinful ways. In verse 1, he tells the people to “Plead their case” as it were before God. He then goes on to list what God had done for ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Suffering For Christ Series

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 16, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,650 views

    All suffering that a believer endures in the path of obedience is suffering for Christ and with Christ.

    INTRODUCTION Main emphasis: We should see all the hardship and suffering that comes to us in life as something that God brings to us to do us good, strengthening our trust in him and our obedience, and ultimately increasing our ability to glorify him. It seems to me that the suffering which God ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Brian Bill avatar

    If God Is Good, Why Do I Hurt So Badly?

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Apr 29, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,738 views

    The God of the whirlwind took on human flesh and came to die on the cross. The mystery of suffering and sin should always take us to the Savior.

    If God is So Good, Why Do I Hurt So Badly? Rev. Brian Bill April 27-28, 2019 Play video called, Questions. We all have questions, don’t we? For the next four months, Lord willing, we’ll be addressing questions you’ve heard people ask. Sometimes inquiries are from those who don’t yet know ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Suffering Is Good

    Contributed by Myron Loss on Jun 9, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,705 views

    The purpose is to help change our errant thing about how suffering is to be avoided at all cost.

    Suffering is Good God had one Son without sin; He has no sons without suffering. St. Augustine Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • David Leach avatar

    When Bad Things Happen – God Is Not Allowing It

    Contributed by David Leach on Jan 27, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,536 views

    I wish to submit to you that this teaching is doctrinal nonsense, and that there is no such thing as “God’s permissive will”.

    When bad things happen – God is not allowing it The Myth: There is a popular Church teaching that God has two wills, which are: 1. A perfect will – meaning what God actually wants; 2. A permissive will – meaning what God allows even if its not His perfect will; I wish to ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • David Owens avatar

    Patience In Suffering Series

    Contributed by David Owens on Aug 8, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 11,520 views

    While we are suffering, James says that there is one thing we must do, and two things we must not do.

    Introduction: A. Dr. Robert Lightner, a long-time faculty member of the theology department at Dallas Theological Seminary was involved in a terrible plane crash. 1. He was in a single-engine plane that flipped over during takeoff. 2. He was badly injured and bruised beyond recognition. His ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Derek Geldart avatar

    Patience In Suffering

    Contributed by Derek Geldart on Jun 28, 2020
    based on 2 ratings
     | 6,790 views

    The following sermon is going to suggest that it is possible and even spiritually advantageous for Christians to be patient and rejoice in our Lord during the greatest storms of suffering in our lives!

    Patience in Suffering (James 5:7-12) Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567 Who amongst us would ask to be granted the patience of Job? To sit upon a “dunghill” of unimaginable suffering and pain and yet cry out “blessed be the name of the Lord” for though “He slay me, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dennis Davidson avatar

    The Suffering Servant's Trust Series

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on May 1, 2008
    based on 14 ratings
     | 17,464 views

    The 3rd Servant Sermon teaches that obedient & faithful life is centered on obeying God’s Word. Through all the darkness & suffering the Servant holds to God’s trustworthiness. Then this Servant invites God’s disciples to trust God & walk in His Word.

    ISAIAH 50: 4-11 THE SUFFERING SERVANT’S TRUST [Mark 15:16-20] Following God’s declaration that He will deliver His people from their transgressions and rebellions begins the third (42:1-9 & 49:1-7) Servant Sermon in Isaiah. This obedient and faithful Servant’s life is centered on obeying ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Stephen Sheane avatar

    Holding God's Promises Series

    Contributed by Stephen Sheane on Oct 29, 2009
    based on 33 ratings
     | 40,983 views

    The promises of God are certain, complete, collective, constructive and conditional.

    HOLDING GOD’S PROMISES Back in 1921, a missionary couple named David and Svea Flood went from Sweden to the heart of Africa to what was then called the Belgian Congo. They met up with another young Scandinavian couple, the Ericksons, and the four of them sought God for direction. In those days ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance