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  • All Parts Are Important

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
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    ALL PARTS ARE IMPORTANT One day a young girl came home from school in tears because she had been given only a small part in the class play, and one of her friends had gotten a leading role. After her mother dried her tears, she wisely took off her watch and put it in the little girl’s hand. She ...read more

  • Even The Toe Is Important

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
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    EVEN THE TOE IS IMPORTANT How important do you think that your toes are? They are just little calloused, smelly appendages right? Wrong. Dizzy Dean was one of the greatest pitchers of the 1930s and is honored in the Hall of Fame. But in the 1937 All-Star Game, Earl Averill lined a pitch off Dizzy ...read more

  • Flawed Individuals On A Rescue Mission  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    FLAWED INDIVIDUALS ON A RESCUE MISSION The author of the book entitled, "The Word and Power Church: What Happens When A Church Seeks All God Has to Offer," Doug Banister, writes, "The Spring of 1940 found Hitler’s panzer divisions mopping up French troops and preparing for a seige of Great ...read more

  • All For The Loss Of One Nail

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
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    All for the Loss of One Nail During a battle many years ago a soldier was sent to deliver a message to the king. The soldier's horse lost a nail in one of the shoes. With that one nail gone, the shoe eventually fell off. The horse eventually went lame, and the soldier was forced to walk. The enemy ...read more

  • The Invisible Church  PRO

    Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Sep 25, 2008
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    The Invisible Church Warren Weirsbe tells a story of a free-lance missionary that visited a pastor friend asking for financial support. "What group are you associated with?" his friend asked. The man replied, "I belong to the invisible church." His friend then asked, "Well, what church are you a ...read more

  • Just Enough Strength To Make It Go

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
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    JUST ENOUGH STRENGTH TO MAKE IT GO "One hot day, Herman Trueblood, all clean and cooled off by a nice swim in the ocean, saw a sweating man and his two sons trying on a hot day to push a disabled car up an incline. Two voices started yelling at each other inside him. One said, "There is an ...read more

  • Dietrick Bonhoeffer Says In His Book "Life ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    Dietrick Bonhoeffer says in his book "Life Together": "God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word in the witness of a brother/sister, in the mouth of a man/ woman. Therefore, the Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's Word to him/her. He/she needs him again and again ...read more

  • Responsibility Comes With The Gift

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
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    RESPONSIBILITY COMES WITH THE GIFT As Clayton J. Schmit put it in his commentary on our text: The moment of birth is one of unspeakable joy. Yet, if parents stopped to count the cost of taking a child home (which, fortunately, they never do) they might be tempted to turn the gift down. The cost ...read more

  • As We Read This Text, According To Dr. Schmit, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
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    As we read this text, according to Dr. Schmit, and I quote, "We know that we too are individual members of a large flock of faithful disciples who seek to live as citizens of the kingdom of heaven. In other words, the work we do is never ours alone to accomplish. We do our part and trust that God ...read more

  • In A Poem Attributed To Archbishop Oscar Romero, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
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    In a poem attributed to Archbishop Oscar Romero, entitled "Prophets of a Future Not Our Own," he states: "It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, ...read more

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer Says In His Book "Life ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer says in his book "Life Together": "God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word in the witness of a brother/sister, in the mouth of a man/ woman. Therefore, the Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's Word to him/her. He/she needs him again and again ...read more

  • What's The Big Deal About The Church?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT THE CHURCH? A little girl became restless as the preacher's sermon dragged on and on. Finally, she leaned over to her mother and whispered, "Mommy, if we give him the money now, will he let us go?" I'm sure that's probably how some people feel about most preachers and ...read more

  • John Wesley: Desired Personal Holiness, But Felt ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    John Wesley: Desired personal holiness, but felt like a failure. A serious man speaking to John Wesley, "Sir, you wish to serve God and to heaven? Remember that you cannot serve him alone. You must therefore find companions or make them; the Bible knows nothing of solitary religion." Wesley's ...read more

  • Who Owns The Church?

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Jan 6, 2009
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    WHO OWNS THE CHURCH? My grandson Nate and I went to the Church New Year's day to clean up after our wonderful New Year's Eve party. On the way there he asked, "Granpa, do you own the church?" I said, "No. I just manage it." He says, "Well, who owns it?" I tried to tell him that the ...read more

  • Moving The Fence

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    MOVING THE FENCE Millard Erickson wrote, "The church is the repository of grace...it possesses the gospel, the good news of salvation" During World War II, some American soldiers took the body of their buddy to a local cemetery. The priest stopped them saying, "You can't bury your friend here if ...read more

  • The Church Is Dark When You're Not There

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
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    THE CHURCH IS DARK WHEN YOU’RE NOT THERE In a certain mountain village in Europe several centuries ago, a nobleman wondered what legacy he should leave to his townspeople. At last he decided to build them a church. No one saw the complete plans for the church until it was finished. When the people ...read more

  • Don't Just Count Them, Look Them In The Eye

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    DON’T JUST COUNT THEM, LOOK THEM IN THE EYE An item in Leadership magazine illustrates the importance of giving attention to needs, not just to numbers. "During World War II, economist E.F. Schumacher, then a young statistician, worked on a farm. Each day he would count the 32 head of cattle, then ...read more

  • An Outstretched Hand

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 9, 2009
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    AN OUTSTRETCHED HAND In Stockholm, Sweden, a woman was injured as she rushed to catch a streetcar. She stumbled in front of the moving car and was caught beneath it. The police sent for a crane to lift the car off her body. While waiting for the crane a crowd of people gathered out of curiosity. ...read more

  • The Love Is The Difference

    Contributed by Dale Krueger on Feb 9, 2009
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    THE LOVE IS THE DIFFERENCE Edward Perry wrote an article entitled, "Where are the People?" It is a summary of his findings on why churches lose or gain members. He concluded that the "key is how people do or do not nurture and support each other in the local congregation." He says, "We ...read more

  • Know-It-All Christians

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    KNOW-IT-ALL CHRISTIANS Chuck Yeager, the famed test pilot, was flying an F-86 Sabre over a lake in the Sierras when he decided to buzz a friend’s house near the edge of the lake. During a slow roll, he suddenly felt his aileron lock. Says Yeager, "It was a hairy moment, flying about 150 feet off ...read more

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