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  • Gary Stebbins avatar

    Encounters With The Living Christ

    Contributed by Gary Stebbins on Mar 17, 2008
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     | 2,653 views

    Often we do not recognize when God is at work in our lives. Even those that walked with Jesus had difficulty recognizing the Risen Lord (Ideas for this sermon taken from an article entitled A Manifold Resurrection by John Witte and a Christianity Today

    Introduction As I was reading the accounts of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ … most started with … Mk 15:22 Then they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull. (Picture- skull/cross bones, Tina Manthorpe) There is a principle that unfolds out of ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

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    Encounters With A Living Christ Series

    Contributed by Gary Stebbins on Mar 25, 2008
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    Often we do not recognize when God is at work in our lives. Even those that walked with Jesus had difficulty recognizing the Risen Lord (Ideas for this sermon taken from an article entitled A Manifold Resurrection by John Witte and a Christianity Today)

    Introduction 2nd part of series- examining how people responded when they encountered Jesus after His resurrection If we lived when Jesus walked on- earth, how would we have responded to- man- claimed to be God? Would we believe He was who He said He was? Why would the miracles convince us He ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

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    Encountering The Resurrected Christ Series

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Apr 12, 2009
    based on 8 ratings
     | 9,274 views

    What if... Jesus really did rise from the dead? And what if... we can know Him in the power of His resurrection? When we encounter the resurrected Christ, everything changes.

    ENCOUNTERING THE RESURRECTED CHRIST OPENING TEXT: “Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence… When You did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, The mountains shook at Your presence. For since the beginning of ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Encountering And Submitting To Christ

    Contributed by Greg Johnson on Jun 3, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,638 views

    Being a Christian is all about submitting to the Lordship of Christ. First we have to have a genuine encounter with the glorified Christ. After encountering Him we submit to His Lordship.

    This message is an edited version of a sermon given at Loving God Fellowship. Copyright © 2007 Loving God Fellowship, Inc. http://www.LovingGodFellowship.org You are encouraged to share this message with those you know that are hungry for God’s Word. Encountering and Submitting to Christ By ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Close Encounters With Christ

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jan 19, 2013
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    What happens when people encounter the living Lord? -- We discover: 1. the majesty of our Savior (vs. 1-4). 2. the misery of our sin (vs. 5). 3. the ministry of our Savior (vs. 6-7). 4. the motivation of our Service (vs. 8).

    Close Encounters with Christ Isaiah 6:1-8 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - Oct. 24, 2012 BACKGROUND: *We have been studying Old Testament encounters with Christ for almost a year: From Adam to Abraham to Moses. I counted around a dozen more personal encounters with the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    True Encounter

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Sep 29, 2005
    based on 21 ratings
     | 5,115 views

    encounter with Jesus

    Intro: over the last few years there have been a lot of people claiming to have seen UFO’s or to have had encounters with alien beings. Some of these encounters are just a mere sighting, to those who claim they have been taken to other planets and returned back to earth. Most people don’t believe ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Encounter With Jesus Series

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Feb 28, 2005
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     | 7,533 views

    Every encounter with Jesus is potentially a life-changing one, therefore let us (1)seize every opportunity we have to COME to Jesus; and (2) develop a faith that would never be discouraged by the difficult.

    These 2 stories put side-by-side reveals one thing – Jesus cares. He cares enough to do something. One of the most beautiful hymns in our hymnbook is "No One Ever Cared for Me like Jesus." The first stanza goes: I would love to tell you what I think of Jesus Since I found in Him a friend so ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Power Encounters Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Oct 3, 2015
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     | 13,358 views

    A response is expected when Jesus is encountered.

    Power Encounters Mark 1:21-28 Rev. Brian Bill October 3-4, 2015 A recent article in the New York Times entitled, “Googling for God,” begins this way: “It has been a bad decade for God, at least so far.” Google searches for churches are down 15 percent over the last five ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Christ-Addicted

    Contributed by Paul Richard on Aug 10, 2022
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    Christ-addicted are prisoners of Jesus

    I am a Christian', that is always the response from most people when asked of their religious status. Often than not, it is a title bestowed as a result of the family religious background. In the real sense, Christians are christ-like. They admit being prisoners of Jesus ( Philemon 1:23) ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Encounters With Jesus Series

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Oct 10, 2015
     | 7,592 views

    The Gospel of John contains many short stories showing responses we have when we encounter Jesus Christ; some are positive and preferred while some are not. This sermon is an introduction to the series.

    THEME DEVELOPMENT When my son was right out of college he worked for an electronics manufacturer that sent him to China to learn how their production process functioned. While there, Craig did what all tourists do … he shopped. To his amusement he saw many products being sold on the street ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    A Faith Building Encounter With Christ Series

    Contributed by Joseph Marshall on Jun 24, 2006
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     | 9,345 views

    On one side, the people could not wait to see Jesus leave. On the other side, they could hardly wait for Him to arrive. For in verse forty, we are told that Jesus ahd his discipled returned to the beaches of Capernum they were warmly welcomed by the mul

    The Lord and his disciples had returned to the boats following the casting out of the veil spirits from the demon possessed man. As they began to row away from the beach towards the northeastern shores of Capernaum, perhaps they could see a crowd of frightened and superstitious Gentiles, the same ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Patrick O'Loughlin avatar

    Encountering Jesus Series

    Contributed by Patrick O'loughlin on May 2, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 24,041 views

    Part 1 of a new series about encountering Jesus. This message addresses the cost of encountering Jesus and why it is worth the cost.

    Sermon Series: Encountering Jesus We are going to start a new sermon series today called “ENCOUNTERING JESUS.” Because what you and I need more than anything else in the world is…An encounter with Jesus! In this series we going to look in the Bible at different people’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    The Sacred Encounter

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Dec 23, 2009
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     | 5,156 views

    In Christ the sacred has taken flesh and broken into the dark reality of this life. The sacred has encountered us.

    “The Sacred Encounter” John 1:1-18 Introduction Ever since returning from a recent pilgrimage to Jerusalem I have been keenly interested in the Crusades. That is, the 500 year period during the middle ages when European Christians took it upon themselves to liberate the Holy Land from Arab ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Encountering Jesus Series

    Contributed by Patrick O'loughlin on May 16, 2011
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    Part 3 of a series where we are focusing on encountering Jesus and the lessons we can learn from those who encountered Jesus in the Bible. This one is on the lessons we learn from the devil's encounter with Jesus.

    Topic: Encountering Jesus Text: Matthew 4-1-11 Introduction •We are in our 3rd week of a new sermon series called Encountering Jesus •From this series we are learning valuable lessons from different Bible Characters who encountered Jesus Recap •The first week we looked at the ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    A Savior To Encounter Series

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Dec 24, 2000
    based on 60 ratings
     | 3,450 views

    When a life encounters the savior it can never be the same

    A Savior to Encounter Luke 2:8-20 Introduction I. Different stories of encounters A. Literature 1. Scrooge: Ebaneezer Scrooge had a Christmas Eve encounter with three spirits of Christmas and he was never the same again 2. It’s A Wonderful Life: George Bailey had an encounter with an angel named ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God