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  • Simone Williams avatar

    From Pain To Power Battered, Beaten And Rejected But Not Abandoned

    Contributed by Simone Williams on Jan 26, 2004
    based on 21 ratings
     | 6,716 views

    Women’s Conference message

    Pain – A feeling of being hurt, suffering to have a bad effect on do damage or harm to Power – great ability to do or act, authority, influence, control, strength or force over something or someone Abandoned – Give-up entirely leave without intending to return Rejected – Throw away as useless or ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Don Hawks avatar

    Islam Series

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Feb 9, 2004
    based on 50 ratings
     | 4,976 views

    Part of the series on world religions inspired by Adma Hamilton’s similar series.

    (Video Clips from Willow Creek: I Have a Friend Who thinks all Religions are the Same) (Internet sites researched included in body of text) SLIDE 1 Welcome, attendance pads I continue the series of messages on Christianity and world religions. Today I will discuss Islam and as is the case in all ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Dealing With Difficult People Part 2 Series

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 22, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,639 views

    Dealing with Difficult people God’s way.

    Dealing With Difficult People Strategies From Genesis Many Christian writers and counselors will give you a specific course of action to use on each type of difficult person. I will share common types of difficult behavior in a few minutes, but I want to lay a proper foundation first. My ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • David Smith avatar

    Genesis 21:8-21 (The God Of Ishmael)

    Contributed by David Smith on Nov 28, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
     | 17,539 views

    The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob turns out the be the God of Ishmael too!! ...

    We continue our sojourn with Abraham today – Abraham, the ‘father of faith’. We’ve been working our way through the story of Abraham for some time now – stories about Abraham & Sarah, Abraham & his family, Abraham & his descendents, Abraham and the promises God made to him - Abraham the ‘father of ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    A Mother's Tears

    Contributed by Danny Nance on Mar 21, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,467 views

    Mother’s day sermon focused on God’s responses to our trials in life.

    A Mother’s Tears — Gen. 21:14-21 I remember my mother’s tears. Mom is one of those people whose tears come gently, and often. I remember her tears during movies like “Ol’ Yeller.” I remember her tears as she told me our dog had to be put to sleep. I remember her tears at her children’s weddings. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dan Cale avatar

    12 Keys To Abundant Living: Don't Quit Series

    Contributed by Dan Cale on Apr 5, 2007
    based on 36 ratings
     | 11,380 views

    This sixth in the series deals with our propensity to give up on marriages, family, and jobs before God is done working.

    Fresh Start 12 Secrets for Abundant Living This week we are continuing in our series for the New Year - 12 secrets for abundant living. Remember that this whole series is based on 3 very important principles. 1. God has a plan for your life - Jeremiah 29:11 says “I know the plans that I have for ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Being Blessed And Recieving A Curse Series

    Contributed by Thomas Black on Feb 2, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,109 views

    The Wicked have always persecuted the righteous; yet it is not our task to hate and hurt back but to turn the other cheek and bless them who curse us.

    Genesis 21:9-21 is an Old Testament Passage with a New Testament Parallel familiar perhaps to some, but worth hearing all over again. < Read Gen 21:9-21; Gal 4:21-31> 1. Combined these texts cover our relationship to the Law and to Grace, and there are other lessons in here as well for followers ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    H.a.g.a.r. Series

    Contributed by Thomas Black on Feb 2, 2005
    based on 44 ratings
     | 19,480 views

    Hagar is for us a model representing single mothers everywhere, and her story displays both the problems and the solutions in God’s program for single mothers.

    Genesis 21:145-21 In a time of great rejoicing, when everyone else would have been having a good time; Sarah looked over in the midst of the celebration and saw that Ishmael was making fun of her new son Isaac. Paul tells us in Galatians that he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Letting Go We Move On Series

    Contributed by Louis Bartet on Aug 10, 2003
    based on 64 ratings
     | 7,191 views

    If we are to make progress in life, then we must let go to go on.

    SERIES TITLE: Making Progress Sermon Title: Letting Go Sermon Text: Genesis 21:9-14 (C) louis bartet, 2003 -------------- While visiting India, I had the opportunity to minister two and three times every day. The opportunity was there, but from my vantage point I wasn’t being very effective. ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Dear Dad

    Contributed by Antonio Torrence on Jun 8, 2003
    based on 44 ratings
     | 9,395 views

    The focus of this sermon is the important of young boys and men having positive male roles such as fathers, and uncles actively participating in their lives.

    "Dear Dad" Genesis 21:8-21 By Reverend A. LaMar Torrence, Cross of Life Lutheran Church When I read the story of Ishmael, I wonder what he would say to his father Abraham after being cast out of his home. I imaged him as young man who may have one day, sat down and wrote his father a “Dear Dad” ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Trusting God

    Contributed by Matthew Oliver on Jun 24, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 12,124 views

    The experience of Abraham and Ishmael and Christ’s words tell us that we are to trust God, even to death.

    5th Sunday after Pentecost Trusting God. Preached at Saint John the Evangelist, Cold Lake, Holy Eucharist 23 June 2002 Genesis 21:8-21; Romans 6:1-11; Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17; Matthew 10:24-39 O Lord, we pray, speak in this place, in the calming of our minds and in the longing of our hearts, by ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    What About The Second Wife?

    Contributed by Monty Newton on Jun 21, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,753 views

    God is sensitive to the plight of the outcast... to those who are marginalized or living on the fringes. God sees, hears, and helps.

    Title: What about the Second Wife? Text: Genesis 21:8-21 The Big Idea: God is sensitive to the plight of the outcast… God sees, hears, and helps. Introduction Let me begin by saying that this is a rather convoluted story. It is intricate and involved. To convolve something is to roll it ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Hot Sand, No Water Just Grace

    Contributed by Duane Brown on Oct 26, 2003
    based on 37 ratings
     | 9,883 views

    Hagar was lost from herself, but never from God

    Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Keith Peters avatar

    Wells In The Wilderness

    Contributed by Keith Peters on Jul 9, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,550 views

    Uses the experience of Hagar to remind us of God's care.

    “Wells in the Wilderness” Gen. 21:14-21 1. DEPRESSION OF HAGAR. A. DEPRESSION BECOMES DESPAIR WHEN YOU LOOSE YOUR HOPE. (Prov 13:12) "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick:” 1) Satan is a thief who seeks to steal our hope by redirecting it in people or ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    God's Grace In The Ups And Downs Of Life Series

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on May 26, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,744 views

    Throughout our lives, we encounter both triumphs and tragedies. Victories and struggles. In all of them, God’s grace is constant, as we will see through the child God gives Sarah, the comfort God gives Abraham, the water God gives Hagar, and the Salvatio

    Events can change IN A MOMENT. Our emotions can go from the top of the world to the bottom of the barrel in flash of time. The year was 1986. By now, the launch of the Space Shuttle was news but not like it was during the first few launches. This launch was different because for the first time ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational