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  • Burma Shave And The Church  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 15, 2010
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     | 1,742 views

    BURMA-SHAVE AND THE CHURCH Dan Betzer told about the old Burma Shave commercials alongside the roadside. Some of you remember how advertisers would use several well-placed slogans on signs to promote their product. Burma Shave was famous for their billboard advertisements. For example, one ...read more

  • Meet His Standards

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 5, 2010
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    MEET HIS STANDARDS You don’t have to go to the Citadel. But if you go, you will find out quickly that you will fit their system or you are out. Jesus’ demands are like that. You don’t have to be ...read more

  • Garbage In Your Salad

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jul 12, 2010
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    GARBAGE IN YOUR SALAD There was a mother peeling vegetables for a salad when her daughter, home from college, casually mentioned she was going to a questionable movie that evening. The mother suddenly picked up a handful of garbage and threw it in the salad. "Mother!" said the shocked girl. "Why ...read more

  • Faith Is A Continued Act

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Aug 6, 2010
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    FAITH IS A CONTINUED ACT Charles Spurgeon, known as "The Prince of Preachers," said, "The faith which saves is not one single act done and ended on a certain day: it is an act ...read more

  • Scheme Of Things

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
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    SCHEME OF THINGS The divine "scheme of things," as Christianity understands it, is at once extremely elastic and extremely rigid. It is elastic, in that it includes a large measure of liberty for the creature; it is rigid in that it includes the proviso that, however created beings choose to ...read more

  • Quote: Wilbur Rees Sarcastically Writes In One Of ...

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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    Quote: Wilbur Rees sarcastically writes in one of his books (to paraphrase): • "I would like to buy £50 worth of God please, • Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, • But just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. • I don’t want enough of him to make me ...read more

  • We Need Men Of The Cross, With The Message Of ...

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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    We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks ...read more

  • Are You A Chief Student?

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 27, 2010
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    ARE YOU A CHIEF STUDENT? David Friedman, in They Loved the Torah p. 61 comments about Peter (Shim'on): I see Shim'on as Yeshua's Torah-observant....talmid hakham...a Hebrew technical term meaning the leading student (of a rabbi). Every famous rabbi who daily taught the same students had a talmid ...read more

  • Tozer: God's Tools

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 21, 2011
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    TOZER: GOD'S TOOLS A.W. Tozer once talked about God's tools: "The HAMMER is a useful tool. But the nail, if it had feeling and intelligence, could present another side of the story. For the nail knows the hammer only as an opponent a brutal, merciless enemy who lives to pound it into submission, ...read more

  • Do Whatever The Champion Does

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 24, 2011
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    DO WHATEVER THE CHAMPION DOES In 1976, Finland’s Lasse Viren made Olympic history when he became the first man to win both the 5,000 and 10,000 meter races in successive Olympiads. After his victory, his coach decided to take on the record of the legendary Emil Zatopek. Earlier in the century at ...read more

  • Avoiding The Rocks

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
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    AVOIDING THE ROCKS Alan was my prayer partner at a previous church and he tells the story of going white water rafting on a Christian retreat. He said he always got stuck being the captain of the boat and sure enough for the 4th year in a row, he was named captain. So his job was to direct the men ...read more

  • Following Garibaldi And Following Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2011
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    FOLLOWING GARIBALDI AND FOLLOWING JESUS Garibaldi, the great Italian military hero from the 19th century, raised an incredibly committed volunteer army. His appeal for recruits was rather unique as he offered only these terms: "I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, ...read more

  • Grant's Focus

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Apr 8, 2011
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    GRANT'S FOCUS One of the great personalities to come out of the American Civil War was Ulysses S. Grant. One of his strong qualities was his ability to focus. One story is told about him doing some paper work in his tent, and a document he needed was on the other side of tent. So he waddled across ...read more

  • I Don't Want To Be A Fireman

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 20, 2011
     | 1,433 views

    I DON'T WANT TO BE A FIREMAN I recall a conversation I once had with a precocious little boy we once had in the church I pastored for 10 years in Wiesbaden. I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. "Well," he replied, "I don't want to be a fireman." I'd never had a kid tell me what ...read more

  • A Few Years Ago, Everyone Was Wearing These Wwjd ...

    Contributed by David Baeder on May 8, 2011
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    A few years ago, everyone was wearing these WWJD bracelets, hats and t-shirts. I heard about one man who was in a store looking at a ball-cap with WWJD emblazoned on the front. He looked at the cap. He looked at the price tag. He ...read more

  • John Wesley: "It Is Impossible For Any That Have ...  PRO

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 7, 2011
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    John Wesley: "It is impossible for any that have it, to conceal the religion of Jesus Christ... As well may men think to hide a city, as to hide a Christian; yea, as well may they conceal a city set upon a hill, as a holy, zealous, active lover of God and man." He goes on to say that "it is ...read more

  • Marathon Finishers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2011
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    MARATHON FINISHERS Charlie Engle, Ray Zahab, and Kevin Lin know endurance better than most. For 111 days, they ran the equivalent of two marathons a day in order to cross the entire Sahara Desert on foot. They touched the waters at Senegal and then made their way through Mauritania, Mali, Niger, ...read more

  • Eating Flesh

    Contributed by Chuck Gohn on Jul 4, 2011
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    EATING FLESH The movie "Alive" is about the rugby team that crashed in the Andes Mountains and were forced to decide whether they would resort to eating flesh. I referred to it at the end of my sermon on John 6:41-59 ...read more

  • Hit Him Again, Lord!

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jul 28, 2011
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    HIT HIM AGAIN, LORD! At the turn of the 19th Century, the roof of the a little Swiss church hall was in serious need of repair. So the congregation held regular prayer meeting in the church hall after the service--to pray for funds to repair the roof. An old man, well know for being "tight ...read more

  • Americans: Flabby Faith  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 16, 2011
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     | 4,324 views

    AMERICANS: FLABBY FAITH A dozen or so years ago, a Romanian pastor came to visit the church I belonged to. He had gotten to know my pastor, John Vawter, who had been involved in a Bible-smuggling ministry when the Iron Curtain was still up. John asked him what he thought of our country, and of the ...read more

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