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  • I Once Heard A Story Of An Elderly Man That Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I once heard a story of an elderly man that was living out his last days in a nursing home. Each day, as the nurses would tend to his needs, he insisted on having an empty chair sitting next to his bed. The man would look at that empty chair and talk for hours at a time each day. One day one of the ...read more

  • There Is A Story Of A Man Who Heard That A Huge ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    "There is a story of a man who heard that a huge box of gold had long ago been buried in the woods near his house. He got a shovel and went into the woods and began to dig everywhere. As he dug, he would run across these rough stones of reddish hue and angrily, he tossed them into a nearby well ...read more

  • Many Horror Stories Emerged From The Countries ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Many horror stories emerged from the countries of Eastern Europe as their Communist dictator¬ships were overthrown. None surpasses the cruelty of former Romanian dic¬tator, Nicolae Ceausescu’s Home for the Deficient and Unsalvagcable. By Ceausescu’s order, children throughout Romania who were ...read more

  • How Successful People See Failure

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    John Maxwell - When most people try to gauge success, they judge it according to how little failure they find. If they see flops or fumbles, they say, "He sure has messed up a lot. He’s a failure." But that’s exactly opposite of how successful people see failure. They already know what the editors ...read more

  • A Pilot Was Flying His Small Plane One Day, When ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A pilot was flying his small plane one day, when he heard a noise which he recognized as the gnawing of a rat. Wondering what its sharp teeth were cutting through, he suddenly realized with horror that it might be an electric wire. Then he remembered that rodents can’t survive at high altitudes. ...read more

  • In His Took Elton Trueblood Quotes A Letter From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In his took Elton Trueblood quotes a letter from a school girl who probes the depth of her soul. She writes, "I’ve been thinking much this year about the importance of caring, of the passion of life. I’ve often realized that it takes courage to care. Caring is dangerous. It leaves you open to hurt ...read more

  • Reformation's Two Martins

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Reformation’s Two Martins At the beginning of the Reformation, Martin of Basle came to a knowledge of the truth, but, afraid to make a public confession, he wrote on a leaf of parchment: “O most merciful Christ, I know that I can be saved only by the merit of thy blood. Holy Jesus, I acknowledge ...read more

  • Robert Fulghum Wrote In The Kansas City Times, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Robert Fulghum wrote in the Kansas City Times, "Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school These are the things I learned: Share everything. ...read more

  • Suffering

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Suffering One of the most powerful prayers in the midst of suffering was uncovered from the horrors of Ravensbruck concentration camp. Ravensbruck was a concentration camp built in 1939 for women. Over 90,000 women and children perished in Ravensbruck, murdered by the Nazis. Corrie Ten Boom, who ...read more

  • Have You Ever Lost Something? Not Just Misplaced ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Have you ever lost something? Not just misplaced something – have you ever really lost something? I know most of the time when I lose something – I can’t find my wallet, can’t find my keys – I usually yell for my wife. She’s the best at looking and finding stuff. I lose things she finds them – it ...read more

  • A Jewish Father Had Only One Child, A Little ...

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Jul 8, 2007
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    A Jewish father had only one child, a little girl. He was very fond of her. She was the one the death angel would kill if the blood was not put on the door. Before going to sleep she asked her father if the blood had been sprinkled on the door posts. He said that it had been and she fell asleep. ...read more

  • Billy Graham Used To Tell A Story Of A Professing ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 9, 2007
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    Billy Graham used to tell a story of a professing Christian who got a job in a lumber camp that had the reputation of being very ungodly. When a friend heard that he had been hired, he said to him, “If those lumberjacks ever find out you’re a Christian, your going to be in for a very hard time!” ...read more

  • What Has Caused People To Not Have A Biblical ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
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    What has caused people to not have a Biblical worldview and to edit the Ten Commandments to please one’s self? Maybe it’s not just the preacher you listen to. A study of 104 leading television writers and executives conducted by the center for media and public affairs found that Hollywood’s ...read more

  • Sadhu Sundar Singh And A Companion Were ...

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Oct 13, 2007
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    Sadhu Sundar Singh and a companion were travelling through a pass high in the Himalayan Mountains. At one point they came across a body lying in the snow. Sundar Singh wished to stop and help the unfortunate man, but his companion refused, saying, “We shall lose our lives if we burden ourselves ...read more

  • What If We Had Entered This Sanctuary This ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Nov 5, 2007
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    What if we had entered this sanctuary this morning to find it filled with cigarette smoke? Yet we fill God’s house with it! What if you found a spittoon ate the end of each pew? Yet God’s house is filled with tobacco juice every time we put just pinch between the teeth and gum. What if every ...read more

  • Gentle Dogmatism  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 18, 2009
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    GENTLE DOGMATISM We have gotten accustomed to the blurred puffs of gray fog that pass for doctrine in churches and expect nothing better. From some previously unimpeachable sources are now coming vague statements consisting of a milky admixture of Scripture, science, and human sentiment that is ...read more

  • A Gentle Dogmatism

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 11, 2009
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    A GENTLE DOGMATISM A. W. Tozer said, "We have gotten accustomed to the blurred puffs of gray fog that pass for doctrine in churches and expect nothing better. From some previously unimpeachable sources are now coming vague statements consisting of a milky admixture of Scripture, science, and ...read more

  • Dallas And Irene Sherman Of Cincinnati Had A ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Sep 18, 2009
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    Dallas and Irene Sherman of Cincinnati had a really stormy relationship. During one of their many rows Irene deliberately wrecked two of their cars, which was the last straw for Dallas and he filed for divorce. But as time went by, he found that he couldn’t live without her, so they were ...read more

  • Revelation At The Front Door

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on Sep 22, 2009
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    REVELATION AT THE FRONT DOOR A new pastor was visiting the homes of some of the people in his congregation. He came to one house and he knocked but there was no answer. He could see the lights were on and it seemed very obvious that someone was home, so he knocked again. When there was no ...read more

  • Miraculous Protection Of Christian Police ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2009
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    Miraculous Protection of Christian Police Officer I read about a Christian police officer who found himself in a very difficult situation one night with a group of thugs; the men were coming toward him with pipes and knives and meant to do a lot of damage to him. Suddenly they just turned and ...read more

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