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  • Why Doesn't Anybody Wear Shoes In This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 4, 2009
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    Why Doesn’t Anybody Wear Shoes in this City? In Hugh Price Hughes’ story, the "City of Everywhere," a man arrived in a city one cold morning. as he got off the train, the station was like any other station with the crowds and redcaps, except that everybody was barefooted. they wore no shoes. He ...read more

  • S.d. Gordon On Who The Great People ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 4, 2009
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    S.D. Gordon on Who The Great People Are Let me share the words of S.D. Gordon. "The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I ...read more

  • Dare To Be Different

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
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    DARE TO BE DIFFERENT A number of years ago I was traveling in the western part of North Carolina, near the town of Bryson City. I had not had my license very long and had been given specific instructions by my family members concerning the road that I would find once I left the main highway. I was ...read more

  • Compassion For The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
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    Compassion for the Down-and-Out “I heard (this story) from a friend who works with the down-and-out in Chicago: A prostitute came to me in wretched straits, homeless, sick, unable to buy food for her two-year-old daughter. Through sobs and tears, she told me she had been renting out her daughter – ...read more

  • The Church--A Hospital For Sinners (The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
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    The Church--A Hospital for Sinners (The Ragamuffin Gospel) "The Ragamuffin Gospel was written with a specific reading audience in mind. This book is not for the super-spiritual...It is not for legalists who would rather surrender control of their souls to rules rather than run the risk of living ...read more

  • How Not To Get Out Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2009
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    How Not To Get Out of Problems When the preacher’s car broke down on a country road, he walked to a nearby roadhouse to use the phone. After calling for a tow truck, he spotted his old friend, Frank, drunk and shabbily dressed at the bar. "What happened to you, Frank?" asked the good reverend. "You ...read more

  • As I Was Driving This Past Week I Was Noticing ...

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Dec 25, 2009
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    As I was driving this past week I was noticing how beautiful the path of lights along the highway looked against the darkness of the pre-dawn sky. The lights lighting the roadway sparkled like diamonds against a canvas of ebony. The scene caused me to think about the beauty of the night. As I gazed ...read more

  • Miss Bettye And Her All-Night Prayer Kitchen  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2010
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    MISS BETTYE AND HER ALL-NIGHT PRAYER KITCHEN Just this last September (2009), the Chicago Tribune ran a story about Bettye Tucker, a Christian cook who works the night shift at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She has been doing her job for 43 years -- 28 of them on the night shift. On ...read more

  • More Like ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    More Like Jesus What then is it to be more like Jesus in righteousness and faithfulness. Consider the story of: William Howard Doane (who) was a wealthy nineteenth-century industrialist who entered the business world at age sixteen and was president of his own manufacturing company by age ...read more

  • Little ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    Little Mirrors Robert Fulghum, in his book, It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It, tells how he found purpose in life. Fulghum, a former Episcopal priest, took a course on Greek culture at an Orthodox retreat center on the Island of Crete. A man named Alexander Papaderos built the center. After ...read more

  • Loyalty To Jesus

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jan 19, 2010
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    LOYALTY TO JESUS "One's loyalty to Jesus must come before his loyalty to his family or even to life itself." Source: John F. Walvoord and Roy B. Zuck, Editors, The Bible Knowledge Commentary, ...read more

  • World War Ii Pow Becomes Missionary To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
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    World War II POW Becomes Missionary to Japan Mitsuo Fuchida was the pilot in charge of one of the most successful aerial attacks in recorded history. Under his command was a squadron of 360 specially selected pilots, & on Dec. 7, 1941, Fuchida’s squadron bombed Pearl Harbor. He quickly became one ...read more

  • Bill Hybels On Prayer As An Unnatural ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    Bill Hybels on Prayer as an Unnatural Activity Bill Hybels begins his book Too Busy Not to Pray with these words: “Prayer is an unnatural activity. From birth we have been learning the rules of self reliance and self sufficiency. Prayer flies in the face of such deep seated values…. It is an ...read more

  • Rearranging Ashes

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2010
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    Rearranging Ashes The story is told of an eastern ascetic holy man who covered himself with ashes as a sign of humility and regularly sat on a prominent street corner of his city. When tourists asked permission to take his picture, the mystic would rearrange his ashes to give the best image of ...read more

  • Sin And Hypocrites  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2010
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    Sin and Hypocrites Some mistakenly think that they are free to sin, just so long as they aren't hypocrites about it, that the worst form of sin is hypocrisy. Often one hears it said, "I know I'm not perfect, but at least I'm not hypocritical about it." A few years ago in Texas there were two men ...read more

  • To Whom Are You Giving?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2010
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    To Whom Are You Giving? An experience in the life of English preacher and theologian Andrew Fuller illustrates this truth. James Duff, in Flashes of Truth, told of a time when Fuller went back to his hometown to collect money for foreign missions. One of his contacts was an old friend. When ...read more

  • William Cowper's

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2010
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    William Cowper’s "On Opening a Place for Social Prayer" In considering the audience of prayer, properly put, it is God, yet, it is the company of others that deserves prayer. William Cowper wrote this entitled: "On Opening a Place for Social Prayer" Jesus! where’er Thy people meet, There they ...read more

  • Making The Workplace A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2010
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    Making the Workplace a Ministry Priscilla and Aquila are regular people, with regular jobs, but the impact that they have for Jesus Christ goes beyond many who were called to full time ministry in their day. I have a friend back home, Michael. Michael is without a doubt a man with a call from ...read more

  • The Hope In The Transfiguration  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2010
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    THE HOPE IN THE TRANSFIGURATION In the Winter of 1966, a voters registration card arrived in the mail at the home of Vernon Dahmer. On the surface, something like this is no big deal; it happens every day. But this was different, for a number of reasons. It was different because Vernon Dahmer was ...read more

  • Reason Why Helicopter Pilot Stopped A Massacre In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2010
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    Reason Why Helicopter Pilot Stopped a Massacre in Vietnam I would like to close with another quote from Thomas Long, who relates an illustration that many of us hear this morning can recall. Long writes, and I quote: “The school where I teach gave an honorary degree several years ago to a man named ...read more

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