Getting Right With God
Contributed by Tom Fuller on Dec 30, 2002
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Some people think that God looks at our lives and balances the good against the bad. If we have more good than bad, we get to heaven. That’s not how it works - to get right with God you’ve got to go around the law and get rightness from another source.
For a full audio version of this message go to: www.livingwatersweb.comAdvertising is a good thing by itself – it’s simply a way for us to find out about products and services in the marketplace. But today in America each of us is bombarded with at least 3,000 advertising messages each and every ...read more
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Denomination: Calvary Chapel
Me Almighty
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 1, 2004
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When you think you could do a better job than God, You need to remember: 1. There is one God, and you are not him. 2. God’s job is harder than you think. 3. Our goal should be to be like God, not to be God.
On our plane trip out to San Diego this summer they showed the film Bruce Almighty with Jim Carey. Besides being hilarious, it had a real message behind it. Carey plays Bruce Nolan, a local Eyewitness News TV reporter in Buffalo, New York. He is discontented with almost everything in his life, ...read more
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Denomination: Methodist
Discerning The Spirit's Voice
Contributed by Jelle Horjus on Feb 14, 2004
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How do we find guidance from the Spirit in life’s confusing dilemma’s? Follow the difficult road that Jesus took.
Discerning the Spirit’s Voice - sermon on Acts 21:1-14 -Paul the apostle is becoming an older man. When we meet him in this story, he is coming back from his third mission-journey. Maybe his hair got more grey, perhaps he cannot walk so fast as in the old days, but… look at his face! Look at ...read more
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Denomination: Baptist
What On Earth Am I Here For? Series
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 22, 2004
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1. Why am I alive? -- To be loved by God. 2. Does my life matter? -- I was made to last forever. 3. What is my purpose? -- To get to know God.
(Note: The outline and some of the content of this sermon are from Rick Warren’s Forty Days of Purpose material.)In the scripture we have read today, Paul is speaking to a group of Greek philosophers. Now these men were not atheists or agnostics. Neither were they anti-religious. In ...read more
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Denomination: Methodist
Who Killed Jesus?
Contributed by James Buchanan on Mar 6, 2004
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Dealing with the movie, "The Passion of the Christ", it deals with the question of who was really responsible for Jesus’ crucifixion.
Today, I want to ask the question—who killed Jesus Christ?The answer is important, maybe more important than you realize. You see, there has been a lot of anti-Semitism because of the story of the passion, and there has been a lot of blame assessed to the Jewish people.In three days, a movie ...read more
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Denomination: Independent/Bible
Let God's Son Shine!
Contributed by Timm Meyer on Mar 17, 2004
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LENT 3(A) - Let God’s Son shine as Jesus brings us into his light and keeps us away from the dark.
LET GOD’S SON SHINE! Ephesians 5:8-14 - March 14, 2004 - LENT 3EPHESIANS 5:8-148For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10and find out what pleases ...read more
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Denomination: Lutheran
A Crucified Will
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 30, 2003
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When it comes to dying to ourselves: 1. Jesus is our example. 2. Willfulness is our problem. 3. Crucifixion is the answer.
In Luke 20:17-18 Jesus tells one of his most mysterious parables. He begins by quoting Psalm 118:22: “The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone.” And then he says, “Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.” What a strange ...read more
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Denomination: Methodist
Jesus Would Be Crucified Series
Contributed by Joel Pankow on Apr 10, 2003
the prediction of the melting and crucifixion of Christ
April 9, 2003Psalm 22:14-16I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death. 16 Dogs have ...read more
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Denomination: Lutheran
Remember Me (Whose Line Is It?) Series
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 11, 2003
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The story of the thief on the cross is one of the most powerful in all the Gospels. But it is possible to get some wrong impressions from what this teaches us.
OPEN: A minister was talking to a professing Christian and asked him if he was active in his local Church. The man responded, "No, but the dying thief wasn’t active in a local Church and he was still accepted". The minister then asked if the man had been baptized. He said, "No, ...read more
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Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
Not What The Eye Sees Series
Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Feb 4, 2003
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We might say "The clothes make the man," but God is more interested in the heart, and so should we be.
James 2:1-13January 26, 2003Not What The Eye SeesThey say “the clothes make the man.” It is probably not that the clothes make the man, but that the clothes make our opinion of the man, or the woman. When I was in university, I was heavily involved with a Christian group on campus ...read more
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Denomination: *other
Experiencing The Joy Of Worship
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 13, 2003
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1. We need to get in touch with our Creator. 2. We need to get in touch with eternity. 3. We need to get in touch with hope.
Someone has written about the difference in worship styles in story form, using a bit of humor: “An old farmer went to the city one weekend and attended the big city church. He came home and his wife asked him how it was. ‘Well,’ said the farmer, ‘It was good. They did something ...read more
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Denomination: Methodist
"From The Garden To The City" Series
Contributed by Gary Smith on Mar 15, 2003
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This sermon takes you on a trip from the garden of Eden, to the New City Of Jerusalem. It seeks to explain we should read & study the prophetic scriptures.
Prepared For Lexington Church Of God For Sunday Morning March 16th, 2003 “From The Garden To A City”TEXT: 1 Cor 2:4-13 (KJV) 4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:5 That your faith should not stand in ...read more
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Denomination: Church Of God
Christmas Through The Eyes Of The Shepherds And Wise Men
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 7, 2003
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A look at the real Christmas as they shepherds and wise men experienced it.
We began the Advent season looking at Christmas through the eyes of the world. Last week we looked at Christmas through the eyes of Mary and Joseph. This week we want to look at Christmas through the eyes of the shepherds and wise men, and on Christmas Sunday we will look at Christmas through ...read more
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Denomination: Methodist
Exchange Self-Destructive Tendencies With Spiritual Fruits
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 16, 2003
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Do you observe that you tend to get better or worse(bitter, angry and anxious) when difficulties come in to your life? Is your life more characterized by triumphs or turmoil and tension? Irritations have a way of bringing a sense of frustration that leads
Exchange Self-Destructive Tendencies With Spiritually Fruitful Traits (Gal. 5:16-23) Too many people allow themselves to fall into self-destructive practices out of ignorance, neglect or spiritual indiscipline.Some people need to know when to admit mistakes. Take for example what not to put in ...read more
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Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Christ, Our Hope
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Apr 11, 2004
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A look at the arrest, trial, torture and resurrection of Christ
The images of Mel Gibson’s film are still fresh in my mind. I can see him being arrested in the Garden. I can see his trial and the brutal beating. I can see the crucifixion. And I can see the final scene as Jesus walked triumphantly from the tomb. It was a movie that has profoundly impacted ...read more
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Denomination: Methodist
