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  • John Johnson avatar

    Lord Teach Us To Pray

    Contributed by John Johnson on Nov 12, 2002
    based on 46 ratings
     | 8,805 views

    One of the things that motivated the disciples is that they saw Jesus pray. Each and every one of us must be a person of prayer.

    Lord Teach Us to Pray Luke 11:1 Why does a person want to learn to pray? One of the things that motivated the disciples to ask Jesus was that they saw him pray. Often times they would see Jesus pray He prayed on everyday occasions. As he was ministering to the crowds by teaching, preaching and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Look Behind The Scenes

    Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Sep 3, 2001
    based on 58 ratings
     | 7,884 views

    This sermon deals with temptation and what happens when we choose to run with the wrong crowd.

    Look Behind The Scenes Proverbs 2:1-15 Acts 16:16-21 Text Proverbs 1:8-9 We live in a world where things are not what they seem to be. The movie Jurrassic Park has us believing we have seen gigantic dinosaurs roaming on an island in the Atlantic ocean, when in reality we have seen nothing ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Shiboleth

    Contributed by Abiodun Adeniyi on May 1, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,343 views

    YOU MAY SAY THAT YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN BUT CERTAIN THINGS WILL PROVE YOU WRONG OR RIGHT

    Today is Nigeria’s 32nd independence anniversary. At a time like this everyone of us need to ask the question whether the independence we are celebrating today has any relevance to the one we got in the year 1960. In the same vain many of us Christians need to ask ourselves whether the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Public And Private Ethics Series

    Contributed by John Hamby on May 4, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 9,155 views

    # 26 in series on Hebrews. Ethics cannot exist apart form a standard of right and wrong.

    A Study of Hebrews “Jesus Is Better” Sermon # 26 “Public and Private Ethics” Hebrews 13.1-6 At first glance Hebrews 13 may appear to be just a grouping of unrelated closing thoughts to the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Steve Malone avatar

    The Da Vinci Code: Who Is Jesus, Really? Series

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Jun 26, 2006
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,427 views

    The goal of this message is to show how The DVC concept of Jesus is wrong. Our Jesus is God!

    Who Is Jesus, Really? Breaking The Da Vinci Code -1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    God Is Love

    Contributed by Craig Smee on Jul 6, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,069 views

    Taking folk to a realisation that despite evrything they feel is wrong with themselves God loves them.

    1. There are 6,000,000,000 people on the planet in 237, countries speaking 6,528 languages. Half have never heard the truth about Jesus. Source: Missions – unhindered.org 2. 67% of all humans from AD30 to the present day have never heard of Jesus’ name. Source: Wolrd Christian Trends; Pasadena: ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Who Are You Listening To?

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on May 11, 2009
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,421 views

    Who are "THEY"? The “Right” THEY will keep us above the fray; The “Wrong” THEY will turn us into the fray!

    Who Are You Listening to? Nehemiah 4 Do you know someone who BELIEVES everything he is told? Some things are better heard after one has STUFFED his ears! All of us are prone to lean into the SWAY of THEY! Everyone needs a place where they can be ENCOURGAGED! You can get DISCOURAGED ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    The Life Of Abraham, Part 3: Lot Is Not The Heir. Series

    Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Feb 6, 2014
     | 5,710 views

    Lot makes the wrong choice and sells out his inheritance for the promised riches of this world

    The Life of Abraham, Part 3: Lot is not the Heir. Genesis 13:1-18 Introduction In the last lesson, we left Abram heading back to the desert, having been expelled from Egypt with all he possessed. And we can see from the beginning of the text today that Abram managed to spoil the Egyptians in much ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Strong Body Of The Upright

    Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Mar 7, 2014
     | 2,973 views

    To compare the wrong and right interpretation of this verse Proverbs 14:11 with proofs from the Bible.

    I. EXORDIUM: Do you have bodies like the man of steel? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To compare the wrong and right interpretation of this verse Proverbs 14:11 with proofs from the Bible. IV. TEXT: Proverbs 14:11 (Amplified Bible) 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    What's Right With The Church?

    Contributed by David Cook on Aug 8, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,914 views

    Let's talk about what's right about the church, more than what's wrong!

    Open: Share a good and bad experience you've had with the church. Read 1 Corinthians 1:4-9 1. GOD SAVES YOU * Talk about God's Saving Grace and the peace that comes from knowing you belong to Jesus. 2. GOD ENRICHES YOU * How has faith in Jesus changed your life? Talk about the importance of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Do Justice! Series

    Contributed by Rev Dr Randall M Deal Sr on Jul 1, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,612 views

    BIG IDEA: DO what God says is right and DEFEND those being wronged!

    Outline, Devotional, Audio & Video available at http://bit.ly/m5nFsb. Micah 6:1-7 God wants relationship not ritual! Proverbs 21:3, Amos 5:21-23 Micah 6:8 Deuteronomy 10:12-13, Require: Ask vs. Demand Matthew 23:23 God is just and loves justice! Psalm ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Quiet Sharp Focus!

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Aug 18, 2013
     | 3,859 views

    Train your eyes! Let your eyes not meander towards the wrong things! Control!

    QUIET SHARP FOCUS! 2 King 2:10”…if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you..” “Keep your eye on the ball” is a mantra for many golfers and golf instructors!” Someone said: “Quiet Eye training, as the name suggests, is an attempt to ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Denn Guptill avatar

    What Jesus Said About Self Love Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Jun 10, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 15,047 views

    Too often we are taught that it is wrong to love ourselves but is that really what the bible teaches?

    What Jesus Said about Self Love This is week five of our “What Jesus Said About Emotions” series. And emotions are a part of each one of us. God created us as emotional beings, within the first three chapters of the story we watch the first couple as they experience loneliness, joy, ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

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    Step Ten - Review, Rinse And Repeat Series

    Contributed by Robert Butler on Jan 8, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,098 views

    Continued to take personal inventory and when we wrong promptly admitted it. How?!!!

    STEP 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we wrong promptly admitted it. How?!!! Read Scripture: John 15:2 "Every Branch in Me that does not bear fruit, he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit he prunes it, that it may bear more fruit" The biblical equivalent of ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Is The Lord Delayed In His Coming?

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Aug 6, 2018
     | 5,513 views

    There is a wrong way and a right way to look at the Lord’s apparent delay in coming again.

    Introduction Peter most likely wrote this, his second letter (2 Pet. 3:1 ) to the churches of Asia Minor (1 Pet. 1:1 ), from a Roman jail a short time before his martyrdom (some time during the period AD 64-67). If 1 Peter has as its main focus a defense against threats from outside the ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed