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    Different Types Of Anointing Series

    Contributed by Ubirathan Miranda on Dec 10, 2002
    based on 85 ratings
     | 105,968 views

    The Holy Spirit’s ministry through the different types of anointing available for belivers in Jesus Christ.

    The Different Types of Anointing By Ubirathan Miranda, Pastor OPERATIVE VERSE “There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.” I Corinthians ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Foundations Of Kingdom Series

    Contributed by Chris Appleby on Dec 29, 2002
    based on 83 ratings
     | 6,404 views

    God uses the faithfulness of a woman to begin his work of bringing to fulfilment the promise to make Israel into a great nation.

    Well, the story of the birth of Samuel has everything in it doesn’t it? It’d make a decent plot for a soap opera. There’s domestic strife. Elkanah lived at a time when it was common for a man to have 2 wives, and all the problems you might imagine arising in such a scenario happened. One wife, ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    Prayer Changes People Series

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
    based on 44 ratings
     | 7,654 views

    The Life of Samuel, Part 1 of 5.

    PRAYER CHANGES PEOPLE (1 SAM 1:1-22) Kurt Cobain, the founder and leader of the grunge band Nirvana, was the most acclaimed and creative singer of his generation. His parents divorced when he was eight and two of his father’s uncles committed suicide. Marriage and the birth of a daughter were ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Dare To Discipline Series

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
    based on 55 ratings
     | 8,684 views

    The Life of Samuel, Part 2 of 5.

    DARE TO DISCIPLINE (1 SAM. 2:12-36) The new millennium brought out the worst in parenting, and no parenting method was criticized more harshly than that of captured American Taliban, John Lindh Walker. When Lindh Walker was 10, the family from Washington State moved to socially liberal Marin ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Shape Up Or Ship Out Series

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
    based on 65 ratings
     | 7,593 views

    The Life of Samuel, Part 3 of 5.

    SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT (1 SAM. 3) As I was sitting in my van in a parking lot a month after my 42nd birthday, a strand of hair dropped onto my shirt before my very eyes. Instinctively I picked up the hair to see its color, length, and texture. Negative questions immediately arose: Is it gray? Am I ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Revive Us Again Series

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
    based on 36 ratings
     | 7,758 views

    The Life of Samuel, Part 4 of 5.

    REVIVE US AGAIN (1 SAM. 7) The closet thing to a revival I had experienced was at the youth fellowship in my home church. Seven of the twenty-something young people, including me, are in the ministry at the present. Five are pastors, one is a seminary lecturer, and one is an assistant pastor. ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    They Love Me, They Love Me Not Series

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
    based on 95 ratings
     | 13,027 views

    The Life of Samuel, Part 5 of 5.

    THEY LOVE ME, THEY LOVE ME NOT (1 SAM. 8, 12:16-25) A joke on the management of cows has been circulating for many years under the subject “World Economics,” “World Politics,” or “World Ideologies”: Communism: You have two cows. The government takes both, milks them, keeps the milk, and gives you a ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    The Danger In Asking

    Contributed by Frank Jackson on Jan 10, 2003
    based on 15 ratings
     | 5,893 views

    Making a single nation out of a dozen tribes was not easy. Unity came hard for Israel; it also came for the United States. U.S. history may shed light on I Samuel’s story.

    THE DANGER IN ASKING I Samuel 8:5 Pray Making a single nation out of a dozen tribes was not easy. Unity came hard for Israel; it also came for the United States. U.S. history may shed light on I Samuel’s story. Most people think George Washington was the first president of the United ...read more

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    Denomination: Disciples Of Christ

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    Who Is Calling?

    Contributed by Garth Wehrfritz- Hanson on Jan 12, 2003
    based on 39 ratings
     | 4,644 views

    Who are the Elis and Philips in our lives? Do we realise that God calls us often through the least likely of people and circumstances?

    Sermon for 2 Epiphany, Yr B 19/01/2003 Based on I Sam 3:1-10 & Jn 1:43-51 “Who is Calling?” By Pastor Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson This Sunday I want to begin by complimenting the international ecumenical committee for their wisdom and inspiration in selecting the biblical passages that they did—since ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Tire Kickers

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jan 13, 2003
    based on 98 ratings
     | 12,724 views

    A Sermon for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany Call of Philip, Nathanael

    2 Sunday after the Ephipany I Samuel 3:1-10, John 1:43-51 "Tire-Kickers"   In her book, A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall tells how her late preacher-husband felt a sense of destiny a sense of call in his life. One dark night, Peter, then a young man, decided to take a shortcut across the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    When God Called Samuel

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Jan 14, 2003
    based on 91 ratings
     | 21,318 views

    Samuel’s call was timely because the priesthood of Eli’s family line had been defiled and compromised by his sons Hophni and Phineas.

    WHEN GOD CALLED SAMUEL Text: First Samuel 3:1-10 We have all heard of a thing called tough love. Tough love is when one confronts another with unyielding consequences. Tough love does not yield to the ones who want to bend the rules. Tough love is tough because it reminds the ones or the ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    Wake Up

    Contributed by W Pittendreigh on Jan 17, 2003
    based on 58 ratings
     | 4,634 views

    God calls us, but we tend to ignore His call.

    1 Samuel 3:1-10 The boy Samuel ministered before the LORD under Eli. In those days the word of the LORD was rare; there were not many visions. One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    "Listen! God Is Speaking"

    Contributed by Kenneth Sauer on Jan 17, 2003
    based on 84 ratings
     | 11,132 views

    God spoke to Samuel and God is speaking to us...are we listening?

    1 Samuel 3:1-20 “Listen! God is Speaking” By: Rev. Kenneth Emerson Sauer, Pastor of Parkview United Methodist Church, Newport News, VA Many of us can probably relate to how the people felt in Samuel’s time: “In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions.” This was a ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    God's Voice: Hearing, Knowing And Finding It

    Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Jan 18, 2003
    based on 197 ratings
     | 29,104 views

    Epiphany 2: Does God still speak with us today? How can we tell if what we hear is God’s voice? How do we position ourselves to better hear the Word of God? This message attempts to answer these questions.

    Here are three questions that I want to answer in this message: 1) Does God really speak to people? 2) If so, how do we know that it is God Who is talking? And finally, 3) How do we position ourselves to better hear the voice of God? In order to answer these questions, we’re going to look at Samuel ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Speak Lord Your Servant Is Hearing

    Contributed by William Baeta on Jan 20, 2003
    based on 47 ratings
     | 14,107 views

    “Now the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ And Samuel answered, ‘speak, for your servant hears” 1 Samuel 3:10.

    Theme: Speak Lord, your servant is listening Text: 1 Sam. 3:1-10; 1 Cor. 6:12-20; Jn. 1:35-42 The letter to the Hebrews begins by telling us “In the past, God spoke to our ancestors many times and in many ways through the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son, Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed