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  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How The Holy Spirit Gives Spiritual Perceptiveness Enabling You To Understand That The Best Things In Life Are Free

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 61 ratings
     | 6,959 views

    How The Holy Spirit Gives Spiritual Perceptiveness Enabling You to Understand That the Best Things in Life Are Free ( I Cor. 2:9-16)

    How The Holy Spirit Gives Spiritual Perceptiveness Enabling You to Understand That the Best Things in Life Are Free I Cor. 2:8-16 Illustration;Get the right perspective. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He’s so big we can never kill him." David looked at the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Water Or The Spirit, Which Birth?

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Feb 25, 2002
    based on 30 ratings
     | 4,148 views

    "You must be born again," is a life or death statement. But What does it mean? We explore this in John 3.

    Water or the Spirit, Which Birth? Text: John 3:1-17 When Johnny Foust and I were 16 years old, I spent the night at his house and we got out our Bibles and the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance and looked up every verse that had the words saved, forgiven, redeemed, justified, sanctified, born ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Dennis Lawrence avatar

    The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Series

    Contributed by Dennis Lawrence on Feb 9, 2001
    based on 124 ratings
     | 6,147 views

    Paul uses tremendous contrasts to show the need to distrust the world and to completely trust God and what He offers.

    The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly February 10, 2001 Contrasts can be a wonderful tool to use in order to make a point. We’re very familiar with contrasts that use extremes and represent opposite ends of a spectrum. Some of these include, black and white, big and small, tall and short, fat and thin, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    A Sinners Prayer

    Contributed by Joseph Sykes on Apr 14, 2001
    based on 76 ratings
     | 5,057 views

    The only case in biblical history of death bed salvation is rendered to a crook on a cross.

    A Sinner’s Prayer Luke 23:39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. 40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Rick MacDonald avatar

    The Great Empowered Detectives Series

    Contributed by Rick Macdonald on Aug 8, 2001
    based on 19 ratings
     | 4,285 views

    In our passage today, we are told that Jesus spoke the wisdom of God in a mystery.

    The Baptism with the Holy Spirit - part 2 THE GREAT EMPOWERED DETECTIVES 1Corinthians 2:7-16 August 6, 2000 By Pastor Rick MacDonald Introduction I have always loved a great mystery. As a child, I used to watch Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone on Sunday afternoons. What makes a mystery so ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Dan Erickson avatar

    Why Can't They Understand?

    Contributed by Dan Erickson on Nov 25, 2000
    based on 164 ratings
     | 6,112 views

    Why can't some people "get it" when it comes to the Christian gospel?

    Sometimes the words we speak just don't connect with the person to whom we are speaking. During the first week of basic training, an army drill sergeant was explaining what was in store for his squad during the next two months. One young private raised his hand and asked, "Sergeant, when do we ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • James May avatar

    Simplicity Of The Gospel

    Contributed by James May on Oct 15, 2001
    based on 74 ratings
     | 8,919 views

    Paul desired to know nothing of the Corinthians but Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The most important question we can ask is what will you do with the message of the gospel? Nothing else matters unless this question is answered correctly.

    SIMPLICITY OF THE GOSPEL By Pastor Jim May 1 Corinthians 2:1-5, "And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    The Big Picture Series

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Dec 23, 2002
    based on 61 ratings
     | 6,285 views

    This is the 5th sermon in the series "Church On The Rocks". This is also the 3rd sermon in this Christmas Series. This sermon looks at the difference the light makes in the darkness.

    Sunday Morning December 22, 2002 Bel Aire Baptist Church Series: Church On The Rocks [#5] (Christmas Series #3) THE BIG PICTURE 1 Corinthians 2:6-9 Introduction: 1 Corinthians 2:6-9 1. God¡¦s ways of doing things do not make sense to us so often, but it does not change the fact that He is in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    Spirt Led Helps In Managing Conflicts

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 4, 2004
    based on 18 ratings
     | 2,169 views

    Wearing a mask that shows everything’s fine Says that life’s struggles are not God’s design; But when we’re open, transparent, and true, People will trust God to meet their needs too

    Spirt Led Helps In Managing Conflicts I Cor 2:7-10 - "We speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began...but God has revealed it to us by His Spirit." Illustration: We were troubled on every side. Outside were conflicts, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Thinking About God's Wisdom

    Contributed by Andy Almendarez on Mar 22, 2004
    based on 36 ratings
     | 3,039 views

    Man’s wisdom comes not from himself, it comes from God.

    Thinking About God=s Wisdom. 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 Text: 1 Corinthians 2:16 Sermon Idea: Man=s wisdom comes not from himself, it comes from God. Sin runs rampant in our society. Daily newspaper and television reports of overcrowding of prisons can attest to ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • TOM TARPLEY avatar

    Don't Let Your Service Override Your Relationship

    Contributed by Tom Tarpley on Apr 21, 2004
    based on 49 ratings
     | 5,361 views

    A reminder that we need to spend more time with God.

    There are many people in the world who claim the name of Christians.There are thousands maybe even millions of people who give their money, time, and their talents to help the church continue it’s ministry of spreading God’s Word to a secular ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    The Wisdom Of The Cross

    Contributed by Jonathan Mcleod on Apr 12, 2005
    based on 15 ratings
     | 7,742 views

    Paul explains in these verses how some have come to reject the world’s opinion of the cross and see in it the wisdom of God.

    These verses are a continuation of the argument Paul began in 1:18: “The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” Paul is still talking about the cross in chapter 2. This fact is essential to a proper understanding of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Laying Aside False Dependencies

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 10, 2004
    based on 24 ratings
     | 2,798 views

    Eleven ways the Holy Spirit helps us put away our false dependencies.

    Laying Aside False Dependencies (I Cor 2:2-14) Illustration: Speechwriter Peggy Noonan, in her book Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, noted that appearances can be deceiving. "People never look like what they are," Noonan wrote. Of one unscrupulous businessman she commented that if we ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Thirteen Ways The Holy Spirit Helps Resolve Conflicts

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 20, 2004
    based on 78 ratings
     | 8,606 views

    The Holy Spirit gives us God’s secret wisdom to handle any conflict in our personal lives or ministries. Paul wrote, "We speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began...but God has reveal

    Thirteen Ways the Holy Spirit Helps Resolve Conflicts (I Cor. 2:1-16) Illustration: Many years ago a speech research unit at Kenyon College conducted a test in cooperation with the US Navy. The purpose was to discover how the tone quality of the voice affected sailors when they were given orders. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Why Don't You Just Grow Up

    Contributed by Cameron Whaley on Jul 2, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,681 views

    A sermon that focuses on maturing in wisdom as a Christian; that wisdom that one gains as he/she learns to live like Christ

    Have these words ever been said to you? or Have you ever said these words yourself? “Why don’t you just grow up?” These words are said when someone is seen as not acting the way that they “should.” I. Wisdom for the Mature As Paul was speaking to churches throughout the Mediterranean region, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist