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  • Whoever Wants To Have A Half Christ Loses The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    “whoever wants to have a half Christ loses ...read more

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  • Sheep Wander, Shepherds Seek

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Sheep Wander, Shepherds Seek My friend, Rev. Tom Goode sent me a quote by Margaret Guenther: To be fully known is not possible in our human relationships, but it is the foundation of our relationship with Christ. To be known, fully known, is both painful and profoundly comforting. We accept the ...read more

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  • Theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg Said That …the ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg said that …the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live. [2] Wolfhart Pannenberg, in a conversation ...read more

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  • I Heard The Story Of A Little Boy Who Had ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I heard the story of a little boy who had misbehaved and was sent to his room. After a while the little boy came out and informed his mother that he had thought about what he had done and that he had said a prayer. The mother said, “That’s wonderful. If you ask God for forgiveness and to help you ...read more

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  • American Missionaries Went To Japan After ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    American missionaries went to Japan after WWII/multitudes were coming forward to be saved…seemed to lack genuine conviction. Decisions seemed to be superficial. They came to realize that in the Japanese culture they are taught that when you are conquered, you have a moral obligation to accept the ...read more

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  • C. S. Lewis Says This About Love: To Love At All ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    C. S. Lewis says this about love: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and ...read more

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  • Heart Prints

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Heart Prints Whatever our hands touch We leave fingerprints On walls, on furniture On doorknobs, dishes, books. There’s no escape. As we touch we leave our identity. Oh God, wherever I go today Help me leave heartprints Heartprints of compassion Of understanding and love. Heartprints ...read more

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  • How Many Of You Read Alice In Wonderland? There ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    How many of you read Alice in Wonderland? There was a morning in Wonderland when Alice complained to the queen, “But I find it quite impossible to believe what you say” At which her majesty mumbled, “Well, maybe you do, my dear; but when I was your age I made it a point to believe six impossible ...read more

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  • A Boy Asked His Father, "How Much Do You Make In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A boy asked his father, "How much do you make in an hour?" The father got mad and answered roughly, "Don’t bother me." He was tired and irritable after a tough day at work, but the boy insisted. "Please, how much do you make?" The father said in a bad tone of voice, "six pounds." Then his son ...read more

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  • The Longest 24 Hours  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Author Zig Ziglar writes: The longest 24 hours of my life were those after my daughter’s death. When making the funeral arrangements with her husband and his parents, I had to listen to a salesman who was an incessant talker and who told us 30 times he wasn’t a salesman. Twice while we were making ...read more

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  • The Story Is Told That When Leonardo Da Vinci ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The story is told that when Leonardo Da Vinci was painting The Last Supper, he had an intense and bitter argument with a fellow painter. Da Vinci was thinking of a way to get this guy back. He came up with a devious plan. He decided to paint the face of his enemy onto the face of Judas Iscariot so ...read more

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  • A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Speaker, Jill Briscoe tells this story: Not too long ago I was babysitting one of our three, 3-year-old grandchildren. In our family, we had twins and a single birth all within 24 hours. We call them Search, Destroy, and Demolition. I was to baby-sit Demolition. As I waved good bye to his parents, ...read more

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  • In A Seminary Missions Class, Herbert Jackson ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In a seminary missions class, Herbert Jackson told how, as a new missionary, he was assigned a car that would not start without a push. After pondering his problem, he devised a plan. He went to the school near his home, got permission to take some children out of class, and had them push his car ...read more

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  • Max Lucado Writes In God Came Near "One New ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Max Lucado writes in God Came Near “One New Year’s Day, in the Tournament of Roses parade, a beautiful float suddenly sputtered and quit. It was out of gas. The whole parade was held up until someone could get a can of gas. The amusing thing was this float represented the Standard Oil Company. With ...read more

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  • Christaholics

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Author Calvin Miller writes: “Many Christians are only “Christaholics” and not disciples at all. Disciples are cross-bearers; they seek Christ. Christaholics seek happiness. Disciples dare to discipline themselves, and the demands they place on themselves leave them enjoying the happiness of their ...read more

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  • In 1997, Reilly Rankin, Was An All-American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In 1997, Reilly Rankin, was an all-American golfer as a freshman at the University of Georgia. In her sophomore year, she was set back by an appendectomy, hernia repair and treatment for endometriosis. Having recovered from these procedures, her and a group of friends ventured out onto Lake Martin, ...read more

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  • My Friends We Are Living In A Generation That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    My friends we are living in a generation that has forgotten what this country was founded upon and the price it has cost throughout history to keep this country free. We have forgotten that 231 years ago the landscape of the world was changed, both politically and physically. Of those day’s ...read more

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  • A Couple Of Years Ago, The Boston Red Sox Won ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A couple of years ago, the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 87 years. It was funny listening to all the stories the next day on Sports Talk radio stations, as they had people from all around the country, telling of how long they, and their parents and grandparents had waited for that ...read more

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  • The Call Of Bishop Cowther

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Call of Bishop Cowther That day, as the slaves were packed into the Portuguese slave ship, they probably did not know that they would be free within a few hours. Even as they were freed by the captain of the British frigate, I don’t think anyone knew the incredible long range results. One of ...read more

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  • Two Children Went To Sunday School One Day And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Two children went to Sunday school one day and the teacher told them the story in Genesis about Lot’s wife looked back and how she became a pillar of salt. As they were walking home afterwards one of the children said to the other one, "Do you really believe that Lot’s wife was turned into a ...read more

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