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  • Ken Pell avatar

    Children's Sermon: God's Love

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Mar 9, 2009
    based on 25 ratings
     | 39,481 views

    God’s love is capable of embracing everyone without rations or exclusions

    Children’s Sermon: God’s Love Ephesians 3:17b-19 Sermon Objective: To show God’s love is capable of embracing everyone without rations or exclusions. Sermon props: Glass that is half full of water and some marbles. Good morning everyone! It is so good to see you today! I just love meeting with ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Dr. Odell Belger avatar

    The Mind Of Christ

    Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Mar 29, 2022
     | 1,778 views

    A college boy was explaining the reason he flunked out in college was because he had a clinker in his thinker.

    Did you know that about ninety-nine-and-nine-tenths of the problems that confront people is because they have that same problem--they have a clinker in their thinkers? We laugh this off as not being important, but God sees the way people think as being very important. Illus: We see this in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Paul Andrew avatar

    Twenty-Sixth Sunday In Ordinary Time—b ; 26th Sunday B-- Lessons From Lizards

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Sep 24, 2021
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    According to the artist "the Thinker" is sitting in mute amazement as he contemplates lost people in hell.

    Lizards scatter when they perceive a threat, and they will self-amputate their tail if a predator seizes it. It will leave its tail behind and run but with modified locomotor performance and mechanics. The lizard says to itself: 'It's better to lose my tail than to lose my ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    According To Your Faith

    Contributed by Dr. David Wesner on May 18, 2015
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     | 7,966 views

    As a Believer, Faith, not emotions overcomes the world. As a Believer, Faith, not rational thinking defines who we are. As a Believer, Faith, not rational thinking is the filter through which we see everything. You are a Believer!!

    Jesus walked on the earth over 2000 years ago. His Disciples walked with Him, watched Him closely, heard His voice. They were eyewitnesses to His miracles. Yet, even they had trouble taking in everything they were seeing. We are 2000 years removed from those moments. We have to decide whether we ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

  • Anne Robertson avatar

    Going Out Of Your Mind

    Contributed by Anne Robertson on May 26, 2003
    based on 77 ratings
     | 7,121 views

    The understanding of Holy Communion comes through experience more than rational thought.

    GOING OUT OF YOUR MIND TEXT: Luke 24:13-35 One of my favorite books for mindless reading is the Science Fiction parody, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, probably because it contains one of my favorite illustrations of being mindless. The people of the universe are burning to know ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • James Jack avatar

    Miracles - Just Tricks For The Gullible? Series

    Contributed by James Jack on Apr 10, 2009
    based on 9 ratings
     | 5,881 views

    Can a modern, rational person still believe in the miraculous events described in the Bible?

    I used to love fairy-tales. They’re full of amazing, supernatural, magical events. • Snow white rises from the dead • Sleeping beauty awakened by a kiss • Jack climbs a beanstalk to the sky • A fairy godmother grants Cinderella a wish • A frog turns into a handsome prince Many people seem to ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    Get Onboard (February 6, 2022)

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Mar 11, 2022
     | 2,217 views

    In this story, we see excuses, and an invitation that brought forth an alt[a]ration.

    GET ONBOARD Text: Luke 5:1-11 Luke 5:1-11  Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God,  (2)  he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

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    Finishing The Race

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 1, 2022
     | 2,045 views

    From the time we come to know the Lord, we are running the spiritual marathon He has marked out for us. Our concern is both to run the race well and to develop the next generation of runners.

    Finishing the Race (2 Timothy 4:1-8) [Note: this was Pastor Ed Vasicek's retirement sermon after 43.5 years in continuous full time ministry and 39 years at Highland Park Church in Kokomo, IN) 1. People can justify just about anything, if they are quick enough. Today I have two ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Everything You Wanted To Know About Church Membership

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 18, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,873 views

    The biblical basis and rational reasons for church membership and explanation of the process for joining our church.

    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and Maybe Didn’t Want to Know) about Church Membership Chuck Sligh October 29, 2006 TEXT: 1 Corinthians 12:12 – “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Relationship Principles Series

    Contributed by Allan Quak on Mar 31, 2016
     | 7,306 views

    In the Seventh Commandment we are given a rational for how all relationships, including singleness, work.

    Message 1 Corinthians 7:1-16 “Relationship Principles.” We are up to the seventh commandment in our series; “You shall not commit adultery”. The issue of adultery is one that comes with many emotions. So today we are not going to start in the Old Testament … we will ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    What History Says About The Resurrection

    Contributed by Rick Macdonald on Aug 8, 2001
    based on 54 ratings
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    With the risk of being miserable, why would a group of intelligent, rational individuals ever believe in the resurrection?

    What History says about the Resurrection April 2000 1 Corinthians 15:16-19 - For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; 17and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. 18Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Wade Martin Hughes, Sr avatar

    Sanitize Sin?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Dec 4, 2014
     | 4,098 views

    today there grows a spirit of compromise that sanitizes, justifies, rationalizes,palliates, and extenuates sin. Sin destroys...

    SANITIZE SIN? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com I. WE MUST COME TO REALIZE WHEN MANKIND APPROACHES THE TROPIC OF SIN... ALL PPEOPLE HAVE THE TENDANCY TO MAKE LIGHT SIN AND SIN'S CONSEQUENCES... A. COULD THESE THREE TYPES OF EXCUSES LEAD TO THE TENDANCY OF SIN? Matthew 22:1 And Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Fleeing From God Series

    Contributed by D Marion Clark on Mar 6, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,987 views

    To escape the presence of God is not rational thinking, certainly for a prophet of God. But how many of us are rational when we reject God’s commands and escape his attention? And that leads us to consider how much Jonah is like us.

    Jonah 1:1-4 Fleeing from God 10/19/14 D. Marion Clark Introduction Responding to the call of God is a mixed bag among biblical characters. There is Abraham, the model of obedience. God calls him to leave his homeland and he leaves. God calls him to sacrifice his son, and he rises early the next ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Andrew Moffatt avatar

    Tools Of The Faith Part 1: Take That Thought Captive Series

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jun 2, 2010
    based on 6 ratings
     | 10,654 views

    Tools of the faith make our journey easier. As we live in the will of God as we think in accordance with his will, we stay in his will.

    We are told in scripture to work out our salvation. The interesting thing about this is that when we work we need a few tools and the better the quality of the tools the easier the job usually goes and the better the results. (Here I pulled a couple of nails out of a peice of wood with a jemmy bar ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    "the Scientific Brilliance Of Genesis 1:1"

    Contributed by Donald Whitchard on Jan 2, 2021
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,128 views

    When we stop to meditate on the first verse of Holy Scripture, we see not only the majesty and power of Almighty God in action, but if we look deeper, we also see the beginnings of scientific thought and the real explanation for the origin of life and the universe.

    "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1, KJV). Consider for a moment how solemn, powerful and wondrous these opening words of Holy Scripture are. They present the work, thought, and exactness of Almighty God. You are probably saying to yourself, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist