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    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2008
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    Materialism Matthew Sleeth is a medical doctor who wrote a provocative book called "Serve God Save the Planet." Dr. Sleeth was a former emergency room doctor and chief of medical staff at a prominent hospital in the northeast. He writes about a colleague named Todd. I think Todd represents the ...read more

  • Joy To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
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    JOY TO THE WORLD Sadly, our period in history is not, by any means, the first to argue, fight or shoot at one another over our opinions about what does and does not make a worthy song of worship. Nor is ours the first in which there were scores of people in the congregations who sang the words of ...read more

  • Does God Calls Everybody To Sacrifice Greatly To ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 8, 2009
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    Does God calls everybody to sacrifice greatly to follow Jesus? I believe that God does and that we often rationalize in order to justify our choices. You might not see it that way. But I can share with you our experience and I do this not to boast because if I boast it is in the Lord and what Jesus ...read more

  • Hero

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 24, 2009
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    Dear Dad, Heroes are men who first of all are heroes for God and then heroes to their families. To be a hero for God, you need to yield your life 100% to Him. What's in this name "hero"? Josh McDowell shares, "A few years ago, a radio jockey polled almost two hundred teenagers in a shopping ...read more

  • The Secret Of Happiness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS Christopher Parkening is regarded as the world’s greatest classical guitarist, and he’s played guitar with orchestras the world over, even for several presidents in the White House. He’s also a world-class fly-fishing champion. By his own testimony, he writes, "By age 30, ...read more

  • Buying Them Back

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 11, 2009
     | 1,837 views

    BUYING THEM BACK We're told about a gift of grace (singular) and informed that it will help us to build up the church in LOVE. Do you see a pattern, here? Whatever we have to use in God's service comes directly from God. It's a lot like a former colleague experienced at Ziff-Davis Publishing. He ...read more

  • As The Parents Of Three Young Children, My Wife ...

    Contributed by Ricki Lee Brooks on Oct 24, 2009
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    As the parents of three young children, my wife and I often took advantage of many helps in order to be good nurturers. However, sometimes even our best efforts resulted in the unexpected. With hopes of teaching our oldest son the necessity of depending upon God, we began reading to him from the ...read more

  • How A Wrestler Motivated ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    How a Wrestler Motivated Himself What we need isn’t logic; it’s faith in God. What we need is motivation to do the right thing. How can you get that motivation? The University of Oklahoma is quite proud of its wrestling team and on a certain day they were going down to wrestle at Memphis State. ...read more

  • Famous Businessman Practices ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
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    Famous Businessman Practices Tithing One Famous Business man: About a 100 plus years ago a young man had to leave home because his family could not afford to feed and house him. On his way to his future he met an old friend who was captain of a canal boat. The Captain asked where he was off to. He ...read more

  • Medical Volunteer Transforms Life Of Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2010
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    Medical Volunteer Transforms Life of Man Previously Thought To Be In A Vegetative State The simple point to what God is reminding us of is, “The Extra Mile” can change a life and win a soul to Jesus. To me that makes the pain of going the extra mile a pleasure. I listened to an interview on Jeremy ...read more

  • Carrying Us Back To Our Room

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 7, 2010
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    CARRYING US BACK TO OUR ROOM In a home of which I know, a little boy, the only son, was ill with an incurable disease. Month after month, the mother had tenderly nursed him, read to him and played with him, hoping to keep him from the dreadful finality of the doctor's diagnosis...the little boy ...read more

  • I Was Speaking With A Man Recently Who Had Been ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 13, 2010
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    I was speaking with a man recently who had been in a near fatal car accident and he said that God didn’t seem to care about His injuries. I asked him if he blamed God and He said something to the effect of "Yes, GOD IS TO BLAME. Why didn’t He intervene when I had that car accident, or when my ...read more

  • I Want To Buy An Hour

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Jun 17, 2005
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    I WANT TO BUY AN HOUR A man came home from work late again, tired and irritated. He found his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door. "Daddy, may I ask you a question?" The dad replied: "Yeah, sure, what is it?" "Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?" The dad got mad and said, ...read more

  • True Lifesavers

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 30, 2010
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    Nantucket, Massachusetts is located next to important shipping lanes running along the East Coast. Toward the end of the 1800s sailing ships were in their heyday. Nantucket Island saw hundreds of vessels passing by each day—all navigating without the advantages of modern technology. Treacherous ...read more

  • Man-Speak  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,754 views

    MAN-SPEAK Men don't always say what they mean. When a man says "IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO EXPLAIN." He means: "I have no idea how it works." When a man says "TAKE A BREAK, HONEY. YOU ARE WORKING TOO HARD." He means: "I can't hear the game over the vacuum cleaner." When a man says "THAT'S ...read more

  • The Faith Of Cecil B. Demille

    Contributed by W F on Jan 10, 2011
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    THE FAITH OF CECIL B. DEMILLE Cecil B DeMille, the famous Hollywood film director was responsible for a number of famous movies with Biblical themes such as: The King of Kings The Sign of the Cross The Crusades Samson and Delilah The Ten Commandments DeMille was once asked what his finest ...read more

  • Eileen's Story  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2011
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    EILEEN'S STORY "In an article in Campus Life a young nurse writes of her pilgrimage in learning to see in a patient the image of God beneath a very 'distressing disguise.' "Eileen was one of her first patients, a person who was totally helpless. 'A cerebral aneurysm (broken blood vessels in the ...read more

  • How Much Land?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2011
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    HOW MUCH LAND? In his 1886 short story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" Leo Tolstoy shows how a continual desire for more can ultimately cause us to lose everything. The main character of the story is a peasant named Pahóm, who at the beginning can be heard complaining that he does not own ...read more

  • The Ant, The Prayer, And The Contact Lens  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2011
    based on 27 ratings
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    THE ANT, THE PRAYER, AND THE CONTACT LENS A true story: Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was scared to death, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took a hold on the rope, and started up the face ...read more

  • Mama's Prayers  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
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    MAMA'S PRAYERS E. V. (Ed) Hill, who pastored Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, tells the story of how "Mama’s" love and prayers changed his life. During the height of the Depression, Hill’s real mother, who had five children of her own, didn’t have enough food to go around, so ...read more

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