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  • In The 18th Century, Archibald Boyle Was The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    In the 18th century, Archibald Boyle was the leading member of an association of wild and wicked men known as “The Hell Club” in Glasgow, Scotland. After one night of carousing at the Club’s notorious annual meeting, Boyle dreamed he was riding home on his black horse. In the darkness, someone ...read more

  • Note: This Was The Introduction To A Sermon On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Anthony Seel on Feb 5, 2006
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    Note: this was the introduction to a sermon on Elisha’s healing miracle in the cited chapter, and Jesus’ healing miracles in Mark 1:29-39. Title: The CSI Effect- A crime scene investigator from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was dusting for fingerprints in a home that had been ...read more

  • Anastasia's Father Lost His Job-Not Through A ...

    Contributed by Mack Armstrong on Nov 5, 2006
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    Anastasia’s father lost his job-not through a direct fault of his own. As a result of losing his job, the entire family had to leave their nice home and go live in an apartment. After a few weeks living in this rental, they were moved far away and made to live in a small town where it was extremely ...read more

  • We Must First Embrace Our Own Old Identity, As ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 20, 2006
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    We must first embrace our own old identity, as Jesus said, “if any man will come after me, let him deny himself . . . “ We must embrace it and deny it, then by faith accept our spiritual identity in Jesus Christ. The analogy is given, for purposes of illustrating, of a fifteen year old, unmarried ...read more

  • The "Durango Herald" Reports A Story About Sean ...

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Jan 17, 2007
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    The "Durango Herald" reports a story about Sean McMullen. "I don’t think he’d ever buy a new house," his wife, Kirsten McMullen, said. "He’d only buy an old house and renovate it. He just loves to do it." Among Sean’s restoration projects was the restoration of a Church. "The McMullens first heard ...read more

  • The Papoose

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2007
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    The Papoose I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now…John 16:12.” Those precious words of our Lord Jesus Christ in John 16:12 bring back a memory from my past. When our middle son was very young, he fell and cut a rather deep gash in the area between his lip and chin. ...read more

  • I Know That Most Of You Who Are Older Recognize ...

    Contributed by Ray Searan on Feb 21, 2007
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    I know that most of you who are older recognize the name of Patrick Henry. But I’m afraid that many of our school children do not. Patrick Henry was a famous statesman and orator of colonial Virginia. In 1764 he was elected to the House of Burgesses where he became a champion of the frontier ...read more

  • I Know That Most Of You Who Are Older Recognize ...

    Contributed by Ray Searan on Feb 21, 2007
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    I know that most of you who are older recognize the name of Patrick Henry. But I’m afraid that many of our school children do not. Patrick Henry was a famous statesman and orator of colonial Virginia. In 1764 he was elected to the House of Burgesses where he became a champion of the frontier ...read more

  • Clarion Call Of One  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    CLARION CALL OF ONE The actions of a few are often a clarion call to courage. It requires radical sacrifice and radical commitment to accomplish these things. All that it takes is for one man to refuse to surrender! Anyone who is familiar with Winston Churchill understands that he was such a man ...read more

  • Speaking Of Abuse… Have You Seen Those Energy ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 21, 2009
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    Speaking of abuse… have you seen those energy drinks that are out there. This may not always hold true but it seems to me that these often are marketed to promote the potential abuse of caffeine. Caffeine isn’t that bad, you may say. It isn’t like a narcotic. But I wonder if we abuse something less ...read more

  • The Power In Touching The Untouchable  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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    THE POWER IN TOUCHING THE UNTOUCHABLE Jesus, the Christ, is still in the business of touching the untouchable! You may feel like you are too dirty or too wicked for Jesus, the Christ, to touch you with His forgiveness today! As an illustration, you may remember the move enitled "The Elephant ...read more

  • Dwight L. Moody Talked About The Greatest Reg...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Aug 31, 2009
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    Dwight L. Moody talked about the greatest regret of his life. 22 years after the event in 1871, he recounted what had happened. "I was preaching on the life of Christ. I had spent 4 Sunday nights on the subject and had followed Christ from the manger along through his life to his arrest and ...read more

  • Sinners Need Restoration Like Cast Sheep Need ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
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    Sinners Need Restoration like Cast Sheep Need Rescued One of the dangers facing a sheep is that it becomes ‘cast’ and one of the challenges facing a shepherd is to make sure that his sheep do not become cast. A cast sheep is one that has turned over on its back and is, become of it lack of agility ...read more

  • Mark 8:35 For Whoever Wants To Save His Life A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
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    Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his life a will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. (NIV) Now, Jesus is not talking about the cost of our salvation here, because that is free! Romans 6:23 says, “The FREE gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our ...read more

  • Margaret Waage Wrote Of An Especially Important ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 26, 2009
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    "Margaret Waage wrote of an especially important Christmas eve in her life. She got off her job at noon and stood dejectedly in the crowd waiting for the subway train. She had worked by herself all morning since her fellow workers had been given the day off. Now many people around her were talking ...read more

  • On Shepherds

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 28, 2009
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    ON SHEPHERDS "Let me tell you a bit about shepherds. They were the last people you’d expect God to take notice of. First of all, they were religious outcasts. According to Jewish religious law, these men were unclean. Their line of work prevented them from participating in the feasts and holy days ...read more

  • Tending Your ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jan 9, 2010
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    TENDING YOUR GARDEN Suppose 2 women were planting a vegetable garden. On the same day, they prepared the earth and planted their seeds. One then neglected her garden and waited for her vegetables to grow. The other woman worked in her garden regularly. She put cages around the young tomato ...read more

  • The Prison Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    The Prison of Bitterness Because we live in a world full of people that don’t know grace. It’s foreign to them. They don’t know it. And if they don’t hear about it and experience it from the body of Christ, they will never know it. I first learned of this story from Max Lucado. Each week Kevin ...read more

  • Tending Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
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    Tending Your Garden Suppose 2 women were planting a vegetable garden. On the same day, they prepared the earth and planted their seeds. One then neglected her garden and waited for her vegetables to grow. The other woman worked in her garden regularly. She put cages around the young tomato plants, ...read more

  • Saint Patrick's Day Is Just Around The Corner ...

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Mar 9, 2010
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    Saint Patrick’s Day is just around the corner and, of course, in our modern-American celebration that basically means lots of drinking and the occasional pinching of those who forgot to wear green. It’s really disappointing that Saint Patrick’s Day has regressed in many parts of the world to a ...read more