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  • How The Holy Spirit Provides Us With The Serenity To Accept The Things We Cannot Change, The Courage To Change The Things We Can And The Wisdom To Know The Difference

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 202 ratings
     | 18,325 views

    How the Holy Spirit Provides Us With the Serenity to Accept the Things We Cannot Change, the Courage to Change the Things We Can and the Wisdom to Know the Difference 2 Cor. 12:9-12

    How the Holy Spirit Provides Us With the Serenity to Accept the Things We Cannot Change, the Courage to Change the Things We Can and the Wisdom to Know the Difference 2 Cor. 12:9-12 Quote: Adaptability is a great ability Illustration:Years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright was given the impossible task of ...read more

  • When Heaven Is Silent

    Contributed by Chris Talton on Jan 15, 2002
    based on 534 ratings
     | 208,796 views

    What do we do when even with all our prayers and all our begging of God, heaven is silent?

    September 30, 2001 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 “When heaven is silent” INTRODUCTION We love stories about answered prayer. We get a thrill hearing accounts of God’s miraculous interventions in people’s lives, even as God intervened in Ryan Williams’ life. It motivates us to be more diligent about ...read more

  • Handles For The Hard Times (Part 4) Series

    Contributed by Rich Young on Jan 18, 2001
    based on 96 ratings
     | 3,841 views

    Fourth in a series of sermons on dealing with difficult times.

    Handles for the Hard Times (Sermon #4) TEXT: II Cor 12:1-10 INTRODUCTION · Ever been between a rock & a hard place? · Times when circum/difficulties/trials are pressing in upon you? · Life feels like it’s a zoo and the zoo has been turned over to the monkey? · Times when confusion & chaos ...read more

  • Christian Maturity: Dependence Or Independence

    Contributed by Charles Gilbert on Aug 29, 2001
    based on 91 ratings
     | 7,640 views

    A sermon asking the question about Christian maturity, is it becoming more dependent on oneself or on Jesus.

    Christian Maturity: Dependence or Independence II Corinthians 12:9-10 We have a perception of maturity that as one becomes maturer and as one becomes greater in power that he becomes more dependent upon self or becomes independent. We get this perception when we consider children, as they grow ...read more

  • When There's Nothing Left

    Contributed by Lynn Loe on Sep 12, 2001
    based on 18 ratings
     | 7,134 views

    What do we do when there seems to be no alternative to the dire circumstances we find ourselves in.

    When There’s Nothing Left 2 Cor 12:7-10 7 And because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me— to keep me from exalting myself! 8 Concerning this I entreated the ...read more

  • Where Is God?

    Contributed by John Covell on Oct 17, 2001
    based on 44 ratings
     | 4,575 views

    God says we need him and, even though we might not often think of it in these terms, we wish we didn’t need God. We don’t want to need God.

    A few weeks ago, I was given a list of 75 questions asked by our elementary kids about God. One of them was, “Where is God?” A few astronauts have said that there must not be a God because they’ve been out in space, and they didn’t see him there. Some say God’s in the earth, he’s in the rocks, he’s ...read more

  • Weakness And Strength

    Contributed by Howard Parnell on Oct 7, 2002
    based on 24 ratings
     | 6,062 views

    When it comes to holy living, we all have weaknesses. The apostle Paul shows us how God can use our weaknesses to show His strength.

    WEAKNESS AND STRENGTH II Cor. 12:10 INTRO. This entire chapter deals with the Apostle Paul’s very peculiar experience. In vs. 1 he refers to his glorious revelations, the unspeakable visions he had seen (vs. 3-6) and in vs. 7 he mentions the thorn in the flesh which was designed by God to ...read more

  • Exploring The Supernatural: How To Really Experience Life Supernaturally

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Nov 8, 2002
    based on 38 ratings
     | 2,543 views

    Surprising source of a strength for the Christian: his "thorn"

    1I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know--God knows. 3And I know that this ...read more

  • Christian Paradoxes Series

    Contributed by George Durham on Feb 15, 2002
    based on 126 ratings
     | 14,592 views

    The radical call of Christ is to live with a counter-culture world view based on the paradoxes of Christianity.

    CHRISTIAN PARADOXES A paradox is a statement that doesn’t seem to make sense; but when understood, makes a lot of sense. In fact, a paradox says something that couldn’t be said as well any other way. Jesus made some paradoxical statements. He did so to draw the attention of His listeners, who ...read more

  • Ten Assurances Everybody Wants

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Feb 16, 2002
    based on 116 ratings
     | 7,119 views

    We need to look at every community when it comes to their need for Jesus Christ and His love and forgiveness. Let us learn to view everyone, everything and every relationship from the mind of Jesus Christ. Here are ten assurances in developing our relatio

    Ten Essential Assurances Illustration: 30 years ago two shoe salesmen were sent to Nigeria to survey the country for the possibility of building a shoe factory. The first man came back and said, "Few people here wear shoes so there is little need to build a new shoe factory in Nigeria. The second ...read more

  • For What Should We Pray? Series

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jan 5, 2001
    based on 169 ratings
     | 13,753 views

    The natural response when we see someone who is sick, or going through tough times, or marital difficulty, or financial reversals, is to say, "We’re praying for you." But for what should we pray? (PowerPoints available - #148)

    MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (Powerpoints used with this srmon are available at no charge. Just email me at mnewland@sstelco.com and request #148.) ILL. In Tony Campolo’s book, "The Kingdom of God Is a Party," he tells of an event that took place when he ...read more

  • Resolving Your Spiritual Fatigue

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Aug 18, 2002
    based on 66 ratings
     | 14,212 views

    There are times in everyone’s walk with god that they need a spiritual refill

    Resolving Your Spiritual Fatigue Selected Passages August 18, 2002 Introduction I read about a woman who telephoned a friend and asked how she was feeling, "Terrible," came the reply over the wire, "my head’s splitting and my back and legs are killing me. The house is a mess, and the kids are ...read more

  • Paul: The Perplexity Of Prayer Series

    Contributed by Tim Byrd on Aug 27, 2002
    based on 41 ratings
     | 5,274 views

    Looking at the perplexity of unanswered prayer

    PAUL THE PERPLEXITY OF PRAYER “ I asked… but God said…” Date: September 1, 2002 P.M. Service Place: Allendale Baptist Text: 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO THE PERPLEXING QUESTION OF UNANSWERED PRAYER? Introduction I shared with some one several days ago about our prayer ministry ...read more

  • What's Your Thorn

    Contributed by Rolland Bouchard on Sep 4, 2002
    based on 209 ratings
     | 19,511 views

    A sermon to help us see that God works through our hardships, to keep us close to Him.

    WHAT’S YOUR THORN? AIM: To show the congregation that God’s power is shown in our weakness. OPEN: a) Good morning and Welcome b) Something Relevant c) My suffering, my weaknesses. d) Introduce topic • What’s God’s purpose for you life? Have you ever wondered about that? I’m not referring to ...read more

  • An Appointment With Extraordinary Grace

    Contributed by Daniel Richins on Sep 7, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 9,103 views

    Whether you realize it or not, you have an appointment with the extraordinary grace of God.

    Romans 5:1-2, 20-21 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Webster: Grace – in theology: the free unmerited love and favor of God. Both of these passages were written by Paul, formerly Saul of Tarsus I. Saul of Tarsus A. Free-born Roman citizen - also a Hebrew (Benjamite) B. From the great city of ...read more