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  • Jeff Strite avatar

    Try This At Home Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 18, 2006
    based on 34 ratings
     | 34,091 views

    Many Christians believe that ministry should only be attempted by "trained professional". "Don’t try this at home" is their mantra. But Ephesians 4 teaches something entirely different.

    OPEN: (The following illustration originated from either Tom Osborn or Lynn Malone here on sermoncentral.com) I read the following description of a preacher’s job from someone who had known a number of preachers over their lifetime, and they had put together a synthesized view of a man they ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Trusting Or Trying Series

    Contributed by Guy Caley on May 12, 2002
    based on 367 ratings
     | 63,959 views

    Here is the heart of Paul’s argument in Galatians: the difference between Trusting and Trying, Faith and Law, Human Effort and God’s Grace.

    Introduction When washing a child’s hair you tell the child to put their head back and they won’t get shampoo in their eyes. Their natural reaction is to put their head forward and rub their eyes, every time the water starts to flow. This illustrates the difference between trusting and trying. ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Shawn Drake avatar

    Try Again Series

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Nov 12, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,020 views

    This is the 3rd sermon in the series "When God Says".

    Sunday Morning November 8, 2009 Bel Aire Baptist Church Series: When God Says… [#3] TRY AGAIN Jonah 3:1-10 Introduction: I want each of you to think of someone that you least expect to be saved. Maybe it is an actor, business person, prisoner, etc… Now think of someone that ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Trusting Or Trying Series

    Contributed by Paul Foster on Dec 26, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,345 views

    Part of a sermon series on Galatians

    Introduction When I wash my son’s hair I tell him to put his head back and he won’t get shampoo in his eyes. His natural reaction of course is to put his head forward and rub his eyes every time the water starts to flow and as a result he panics, opens his eyes and soap gets in and the ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid avatar

    Try Jesus

    Contributed by Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid on Apr 26, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,947 views

    A sinner's tears of love washed away her sins as her tears washed, kissed and anointed the feet of Christ Jesus.

    TRY JESUS by Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid (April 26, 2016) “Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is with me...Thou feedest them with the bread of ...read more

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    Denomination: Friends

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    Try Tears Series

    Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Mar 15, 2024
     | 131 views

    TRY TEARS

    Psalm 56:1-12 TRY TEARS I. He Is God In My Warfare - (1–2) David Mentions A. The Needed Favour (The Mercy) It's Personal - 1 Be merciful unto me, O God: It's Practical - for man would swallow me up; It's Pepetual - he fighting daily oppresseth me. B. The Numerous Foes ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

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    Trying Faith

    Contributed by Kemuel Travis on Apr 7, 2014
     | 3,074 views

    To show that we can never truly have faith unless our faith is tried.

    -Q: Do you have a “TRYING FAITH”? -That's what we're going to consider this morning together -ILLUSTRATION: Bulletproof Waistcoat I read an amusing story about the first Duke of Wellington. An inventor was trying to interest him in a bulletproof waistcoat he had made. It was ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Jerry Van Tilburg avatar

    Trying But Failing?

    Contributed by Jerry Van Tilburg on Mar 29, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,524 views

    Why do Christians fail in living for God and how is the finished work of Christ the answer?

    We’re not a hypocrites. Loving God and desiring His will is paramount in our lives. But a sinful habit is destroying us, our testimony, and our faith. Perhaps it is smoking, an uncontrollable temper, some form of immorality, or one of a hundred different things. We’ve told ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Tim Patrick avatar

    Try Again! Series

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Jun 27, 2005
    based on 31 ratings
     | 9,073 views

    Find encouragement to keep on in spite of setbacks.

    Do you ever face setbacks? Do you ever get discouraged? Are you ever afraid to move forward for God? If so, then you have something in common with the Old Testament leader, Joshua (and the Israelite people). This is the context. Joshua had led the Israelites out of the years of wilderness ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Allen Barton avatar

    A Powerful Victorious Prayer Life

    Contributed by Allen Barton on Mar 16, 2007
    based on 9 ratings
     | 8,774 views

    A sermon about the prayer life that brings the Child of God victory and peace in todays trying times.

    1.) How often have you heard this scripture..."pray without ceasing?" (1st Thes. 5:17) How often have you heard people talking about an active prayer life? We talk about prayer a lot, but many times I feel we fall short of what God expects. 2.) In ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Wade Martin Hughes, Sr avatar

    Try Again: Tender Mercies

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 6, 2017
     | 6,190 views

    Life is not about how many times you fall. Life is about how many times you get up. TRY AGAIN, come to the tender mercies and loving kindness of a risen Savior.

    TRY AGAIN...TENDER MERCIES, LOVING KINDNESS By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com TRY AGAIN MY FRIEND... MAYBE THIS TIME... BLESS THE LORD WHEN THE DOVE COMES, BLESS THE LORD WHEN THE DOVE FLIES...BLESS THE LORD...GET UP, MY FRIEND AND TRY AGAIN... WHAT CRUSHES ONE WILL BUILD ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Wade Martin Hughes, Sr avatar

    Heavy? Pushed? Driven To Your Knees?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Dec 15, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,542 views

    There are times that the worse thing that could happen to you might be the best thing that could happen --- if we are driven to our knees...

    HEAVY? PUSHED? SHOVED? DRIVEN TO OUR KNEES... By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com Introduction: Expect the seasons of testing, TRUST THE PROMISES, thrive in the season... knowing this too shall pass... Text: Isaiah 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Who Are Your Trying To Impress

    Contributed by Dr. Keion Parrish on Jun 9, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,282 views

    The way to turn your back from the world and still save them at the same time.

    Sermon Matthew 6:5 Who are you trying to impress Introduction: We learn here that this Matthew (Levi), he was writing to the Jews for the purpose to prove that Jesus is the Messiah, the eternal King. Jesus said, (Read Matthew 6:5). This was a case of prayer gone wrong because: (1) their prayer ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Don’t Try To Save What God Is Trying To Drown Series

    Contributed by Mike Fogerson on Dec 13, 2016
     | 7,591 views

    There was about 2,000 years of time that had passed since God created Adam & Eve and the first drops of rain falling of the Flood. The world was full of sin. God had to destroy/get rid of the old in order to establish the new.

    “I Am Bringing the Flood” Series Part 1 10/02/2016 Don’t Try to Save What God is Trying to Drown A There was about 2,000 years of time that had passed since God created Adam & Eve and the first drops of rain falling of the Flood. 1 In this dispensation of time we are still talking about world ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Mark A. Barber avatar

    If We Ever Needed To See God

    Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Feb 7, 2021
     | 3,599 views

    We face trying times. This is no time to be afraid or be ashamed. But we cannot do this in ourselves. We need to see a vision of God.

    When We Really Need to See God Mark 9:2-9 Transfiguration Sunday comes every year just before Ash Wednesday. There are only three Gospel texts which tell about the Transfiguration, so it becomes a challenge to repeat a story we have heard so many times. The accounts are quite similar. Luke adds ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible