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  • Boy Survives In Wilderness By Obeying Father's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 2, 2009
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    Boy Survives in Wilderness by Obeying Father’s Instructions More than ninety people conducted an ALL-NIGHT SEARCH for an eight-year-old boy named Dominic. While on a skiing trip with his father, this little boy apparently had ridden a new lift and skied off the run without realizing it. They hoped ...read more

  • Often People Want To Be Mighty Oaks. They Want To ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 4, 2009
     | 1,948 views

    Often people want to be mighty oaks. They want to be seen as strong and tall and be looked up to. We want the attention. We want to be admired. Except we don’t want to take the time to grow strong, deep roots. Jesus says that he want to make it as clear as possible. God is doing a great and new ...read more

  • Unrequited Love Is Love That Is Not ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 31, 2008
     | 4,468 views

    "Unrequited love is love that is not reciprocated, even though reciprocation is usually deeply desired. The beloved may not even be aware of this person’s deep feelings for them. This can lead to feelings such as depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, and rapid mood swings between depression and ...read more

  • Love God, Love ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE James Moore tells about a man named George. George was a peacemaker with a big heart and wonderful sense of humor. Everyone loved George at church, and he was respected at the hospital where he worked. The reason why so many people loved George was because he was always kind ...read more

  • Sometimes We Must Start Over

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Oct 18, 2011
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    SOMETIMES WE MUST START OVER When Jonah was in the belly of the fish he didn't know he was going to Nineveh. He thought his life was over. So he tried to make things right with God. Jonah 2:8 "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs." So what does this mean? ...read more

  • There Are Some Real Benefits To God's ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Sep 21, 2008
     | 2,340 views

    There are some real benefits to God’s commands. His commands are there for our protection. I have rules in my house. Things like – “Clean your room before doing going anywhere.” “Get your homework done.” “Don’t tell what’s going to happen in the movie.” (That one risks the death ...read more

  • There Was A Man Traveling Through A Certain Area ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 6, 2009
     | 1,661 views

    There was a man traveling through a certain area out west and he ran out of gas. As the economy was bad, he was really struggling. He didn’t have any money and was trying to get home to his wife and kids after interviewing for a job. So he looked in the phone book and called a sister church. The ...read more

  • Holy Spirit: The Forgotten God

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Oct 19, 2011
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    HOLY SPIRIT: THE FORGOTTEN GOD ALL the ruthless Ninevites from the commoner to the King of Assyria repented and God did not send destruction. But why did these ruthless people listen to Jonah who was just one man? I have been struggling with this very question and asked God to help me speak to you ...read more

  • Eugene Peterson In His Book "A Long Obedience In ...

    Contributed by David Selleck on Oct 26, 2006
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    Eugene Peterson in his book “A long obedience in the same direction says this: When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn’t go off and ...read more

  • How Many Of You, As Parents, Asked Your Kids To ...

    Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Mar 25, 2010
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    How many of you, as parents, asked your kids to go get you something--a glass of water, a towel, shoes, or something like that--and you spend the next 5 or 10 minutes dealing with their whining, or pouting, or tantrum, or just plain stubbornness? When I was between about 8-12 years old, many of ...read more

  • After Four Years Of Marriage And No Offspring To ...

    Contributed by Aldo Rivellino on Apr 13, 2009
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    After four years of marriage and no offspring to show for it, my wife and I (mostly my wife) decided that we would like to adopt a child. Not long after the tedious process of filling out papers, being investigated for any criminal activity, going to interviews to authenticate true intent, having ...read more

  • Follow Me. (Christ's ...

    Contributed by William Akehurst on May 5, 2009
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    FOLLOW ME. (Christ’s Steps) It is reported that St. Wenceslaus, King of Bohmia, one winters night, going to his devotions in the snow barefooted, his servant, who endeavoured to imitate his master’s piety, began to faint, through the inclemency of the weather, till the king commanded him to follow ...read more

  • Making ...

    Contributed by Kyle Gray on May 18, 2009
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    MAKING EXCUSES Benjamin Franklin: He that is good at making excuses is ...read more

  • Where Our Captain Bids Us ...

    Contributed by Tim White on Jun 19, 2009
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    Where our Captain bids us go, ’Tis not ours to murmur no; He that gives the sword and shield Chooses too the battlefield ...read more

  • Running The Other ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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     | 5,424 views

    RUNNING THE OTHER WAY Bob Vernon, a 37 year veteran with the Los Angeles Police Department talked about this in his book: L.A. Justice, "Our department tried to demonstrate to rookie officers the value of their bullet-proof vests by placing them on mannequins and then shooting round after round at ...read more

  • Let Me Read From A Devotional That I Received By ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jul 8, 2009
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    Let me read from a devotional that I received by Os Hillman: When we first begin our spiritual journey we often make decisions from convenience. Often, we decide what the outcome is that we want and then make decisions based on the perceived outcome. If it is a ...read more

  • We Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    "WE ARE HERE" On the Fourth of July 1917, an American Army officer, Charles Stanton, stood in for General Pershing at a ceremony in Paris. The occasion, as the date suggests, was America’s Independence celebration, the Fourth of July. But it was not in America; it was in Paris, 1917, in a city and ...read more

  • Elisabeth Elliot, At Urbana 76, Told Of Her ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 17, 2009
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    Elisabeth Elliot, at Urbana 76, told of her brother Thomas Howard. Their mother let him play with paper bags she’d saved if he put them away afterwards. One day she walked into the kitchen to find them strewn all over the floor. Tom was out at the piano with his father singing hymns. When ...read more

  • As A Family We Recently Made Use Of A Disposable ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Sep 14, 2009
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    As a family we recently made use of a disposable barbeque. We’ve owned proper barbeques in the past but we haven’t had one for a few years so when my wife suggested a few weeks ago that I should barbeque some burgers in the garden I remembered that we had a few disposable barbeques in the garage. ...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