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  • Secret Disciples

    Contributed by David Moore on Aug 5, 2010
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    "Secret disciples are weak ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Accountability

    Contributed by Thomas Donelan on Aug 4, 2010
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    He wanted to get out from out of the sphere of his father’s influence. Think about it, every year we get flooded in Florida for about a week or so every year with a bunch of college students for a thing called “spring break” and these kids go out and get drunk, do drugs, get their groove on, and ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • How To Hug

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
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    HOW TO HUG A man walked by a book store, and in the window saw a book with the title How to Hug. Being somewhat of a romantic, he went in to buy the book. To his disappointment, he discovered that it was a volume of an encyclopedia covering the subjects "How" to "Hug." Everyone knows that the ...read more

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  • His Last Thoughts Were Of His Children

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
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    HIS LAST THOUGHTS WERE OF HIS CHILDREN A Union sergeant was killed on the first day of fighting in Gettysburg. He was just one of more than 3,000 Union soldiers who died in the three-day conflict. When his body was found later that week, lying in a secluded spot in Gettysburg, he was holding a ...read more

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  • Construction Worker Survives 110-Foot ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
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    Construction Worker Survives 110-Foot Fall This past week I was reading in “God’s Word for You Today” devotional about Randy Reid, a thirty-four-year old construction worker, who was welding on top of a nearly completed water tower outside Chicago. According to writer Melissa Ramsdell, Reid ...read more

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  • Voltaire's Final ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
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    Voltaire’s Final Words When a person lives in fear of death without hope, death is a tragedy. Voltaire was an aggressive atheist. In speaking of Christ he once said, “Curse the wretch?” In twenty years, Christianity will be no more. My single hand will destroy the religion it took twelve apostles ...read more

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  • The Fearless Lion Tamer

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
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    THE FEARLESS LION TAMER A 1st grader stood in front of his classroom to make a speech about "What I want to be when I grow up." He said, "I'm going to be a lion tamer and have lots of fierce lions. I'll walk into the cage and they will roar." He paused for a moment, thinking through what he had ...read more

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  • He Knows Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
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    HE KNOWS ME David Redding tells of having a big, black Scottish shepherd as a pet when he was growing up on a farm in the country. He named the dog Teddy and they became inseparable companions. Teddy would wait on him to come home from school at the bus stop. Teddy slept at the foot of his bed. ...read more

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  • Philip Yancey's Wife Shares The Suffering Of An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
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    Philip Yancey’s Wife Shares the Suffering of an Elderly Man Philip Yancey- My wife worked with some of the poorest people in the city of Chicago, directing a program of a church that intentionally seeks out lonely and abandoned senior citizens no one else cares for. Many times I have seen her pour ...read more

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  • Wife Offers Herself In Domestic Servitude To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
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    Wife Offers Herself in Domestic Servitude To Clear Her Husband of Murder On May 2, 1962, a dramatic advertisement appeared in the San Francisco Examiner: “I don’t want my husband to die in the gas chamber for a crime he did not commit. I will therefore offer my services for 10 years as a cook, ...read more

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  • A Sunday School Teacher, In Her Class Of 5 And 6 ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 4, 2010
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    A Sunday school teacher, in her class of 5 and 6 year olds, had just finished discussing this commandment about honoring your father and mother. She asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • An Angel Story

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 3, 2010
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    AN ANGEL STORY Julie and the kids were on their way home from the park when it happened. Ben was only about 5 years old and happily walking and running ahead on the edge of the road. There was no footpath beside the road, but he was still on the grassy area. Then he must have seen our house on the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • You Will Meet An Old Lady

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2010
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    YOU WILL MEET AN OLD LADY You are going to meet an old lady someday. Down the road ahead, 10, 20, 30 years; she’s waiting for you. You will be catching up with her. What kind of old lady are you going to meet? That is a rather significant question. She may be a seasoned, soft, and gracious lady. ...read more

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  • Linus On Love For People

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2010
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    LINUS ON LOVE FOR PEOPLE Perhaps you've seen this Peanuts cartoon: Linus announces to his cranky sister, Lucy, that he's going to be a doctor. "You, a doctor?" she asks. "How can you be a doctor? You don't love mankind." Linus replies, "I do too love mankind. It's ...read more

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  • Two Tombstones

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2010
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    TWO TOMBSTONES A tombstone in a small English village reads, "Here lies a miser who lived for himself, And cared for nothing but gathering wealth. Now where he is or how he fares, Nobody knows and nobody cares." In contrast, a plain tombstone in the courtyard at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London ...read more

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  • Baseball Manager Demonstrates Humility After ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2010
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    Baseball Manager Demonstrates Humility After Winning the Pennant When the Florida Marlins baseball team won their first trip to the WORLD SERIES, the press began to shower praise on manager Jim Leyland. When congratulated on winning his first National League Pennant, Leyland responded, “I didn’t ...read more

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  • Prayer: Form Vs. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2010
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    Prayer: Form vs. Substance There was a man who would start his day by kneeling beside his bed and spending an hour or so in prayer. But he had a cat that would disturb him and would nuzzle up against him. So to keep his cat from disturbing his prayer time, he would tie the cat to his bedpost. His ...read more

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  • Faith Does Things Differently, But It Gets Them ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Aug 3, 2010
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    FAITH DOES THINGS DIFFERENTLY, BUT IT GETS THEM DONE Attorney Mike Hanson, 45, started hiking the Appalachian trail in March, from Georgia to Maine, 2179 miles, unassisted with just a pair of walking sticks and a GPS, averaging nine miles per day, fighting the flu and a sore ankle. He will finish ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Converted Not Once, But Often

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Aug 3, 2010
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    CONVERTED NOT ONCE, BUT OFTEN A person of no less stature than Ruth Graham, the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary and the wife of a world-famous evangelist, struggled with this idea of a "moment of conversion." She was raised in the faith and knew that she was secure in Christ, and yet she ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • It's Not About Repentance

    Contributed by Cameron Conway on Aug 2, 2010
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    IT'S NOT ABOUT REPENTANCE Today it's not about repentance; it's about our feelings. It's not about prayer; it's about going out for coffee. It's not about revolution; it's about the status quo. It's not about sanctification and righteousness; it's about making money. It's not about ...read more

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    Denomination: Foursquare

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