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  • Stand By Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    STAND BY YOUR SIGN When an individual or a congregation has the attitude of compromise in regard to spiritual values and truths, dark days are ahead. All who strive to be Christians feel a certain amount of pressure from the world. Through the strength that Christ gives, we can overcome the world ...read more

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  • If You Care, Give Your Testimony

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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    IF YOU CARE, GIVE YOUR TESTIMONY God wants us to be concerned about other people. And one of the best ways we can show our concern is by giving them testimonies about Jesus. One of my all-time favorite teachers was Don Wilton. One day in class, Dr. Wilton told us about getting to serve on Billy ...read more

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  • No True Freedom Without God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    NO TRUE FREEDOM WITHOUT GOD According to Mark Parsec, Independence Day "celebrates America’s Declaration of Independence from the tyranny of England under King George." The Declaration of Independence of 1776, he says, was not intended to declare war with England, nor did it actually establish our ...read more

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  • God With Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    GOD WITH US Count Zinzendorf, the founder of the Moravians, was converted in an art gallery in Dusseldorf while contemplating a painting of Christ on the cross which had the inscription, "I did this for thee. What hast thou done for me?" This picture had been painted by an artist three hundred ...read more

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  • When My Father Passed Away, I Remember Going To ...

    Contributed by Jeff Kennedy on Sep 9, 2009
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    When my father passed away, I remember going to church that morning. Our family had only been attending that church for a few weeks, and my dad was on his way to work that morning to put in some overtime, and he was going to meet us at the late service. The pastor later told us that it was the ...read more

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  • Addicted To Unkind ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    Addicted to Unkind Words Joseph Telushkin, author of Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, lectures throughout our country on the powerful and often negative impact of words. He often asks those in his audience if they can go 24 hours without saying any unkind words about or to another person. ...read more

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  • Seek ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    Seek Wisdom There’s a story about a proud young man who came to Socrates asking for knowledge. He walked up to the muscular philosopher and said, “O great Socrates, I come to you for knowledge.” Socrates recognized a pompous numbskull when he saw one. He led the young man through the streets, to ...read more

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  • Thanksgiving Poem: We Plow The Fields By Matthias ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    Thanksgiving Poem: We Plow The Fields by Matthias Claudius The poem entitled "We Plow The Fields," by Matthias Claudius, says things well: We plow the fields, and scatter The good seed on the land, But it is fed and watered By God’s Almighty hand; He sends the snow in winter, The warmth to swell ...read more

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  • Dale Carnegie's Solution To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    Dale Carnegie’s Solution to Worry--Prayer We can forget about what tomorrow brings - we can quit worrying - because if we love Almighty God and have faith in Him, everything will work out for our good! Down through the centuries, many who have tried Him have found that to be true! The late great ...read more

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  • Knowing Oneself Is Important For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    Knowing Oneself is Important for Leadership Mort Meyerson became the CEO of Perot Systems, a computer services company. Within six months, he realized that compared to other companies he had known as CEO, everything was different at this one. It wasn’t just the technology, market, and customers, ...read more

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  • Roll-Up-Your-Shirt-Sleeves Christianity  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    ROLL-UP-YOUR-SHIRT-SLEEVES CHRISTIANITY When DAVE THOMAS died in early 2002, he left behind more than just thousands of Wendy’s restaurants. He also left a legacy of being a practical, hard-working man who was respected for his down-to-earth values. Among the pieces of good advice that have ...read more

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  • Stealing Rampant In America

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009
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    STEALING RAMPANT IN AMERICA Many lives have been touched by theft in our society today. Millions of dollars are lost every year in this country over the theft of goods and services. One estimate says that 1 out of every 52 shopper’s carries something out of the supermarket for which they haven’t ...read more

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  • Disfigured War Veteran Helps Boy Regain Sight ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
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    Disfigured War Veteran Helps Boy Regain Sight Only to be Rejected Ps 33:18-19 “But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.” It is not that God does not exist; man who does not want to ...read more

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  • Shrek The Sheep Survives 6 Years In New Zealand ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
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    Shrek the Sheep Survives 6 Years in New Zealand Cave Do we need a savior – the story of Shrek the Sheep Have you heard the story of Shrek, the merino sheep that had evaded capture and shearing for 6 years? When he was finally discovered in his high mountain cave of New Zealand by musterer Ann ...read more

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  • Michael Jordon Confronts Compromise In A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
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    Michael Jordon Confronts Compromise in a Teammate If any athlete was known for focus, it was Michael Jordan. In Jordan’s book, Driven from Within, Fred Whitfield, president and chief operating officer of the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats basketball team, tells a fascinating story about something Jordan ...read more

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  • A Simple Hose Clamp Causes Failure Of Balloon's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2009
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    A Simple Hose Clamp Causes Failure of Balloon’s Attempt to Circle the Earth Piccard and Richard Conniff writes in National Geographic that on January 12, 1997, two Swiss men, Bertrand Piccard and Wim Verstraeten, set out to be the first to CIRCLE THE EARTH in a balloon. Their aircraft was called ...read more

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  • Paul's Thorn In The Flesh Like Catfish With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
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    Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh Like Catfish with Codfish Years ago in the northeastern United States codfish was a big commercial business. There is a market for eastern cod all over, especially on the West Coast. The demand posed a problem to the shippers. At first they froze the cod, then shipped them ...read more

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  • Martin Luther's Depression And The Hymn

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
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    Martin Luther’s Depression and the Hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" The year 1527 was the most trying year of Martin Luther’s life. On April 22 he was preaching in Wittenberg when he became dizzy and fainted. Over the next several months he dealt with debilitating depression and sickness. It had ...read more

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  • A Man's Skin Changes After Being Swallowed By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
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    A Man’s Skin Changes After Being Swallowed by Fish Dr Harry Rimmer told of a man in 1926 who was swallowed by a fish and spent two days inside the fish and lived to tell the story. He was displayed in London as “the Jonah of the twentieth century.” Dr. Rimmer interviewed him two years later after ...read more

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  • Tony Campolo Confronts Congregations Lack Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
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    Tony Campolo Confronts Congregations Lack of Compassion If you can be concerned about something as trivial as a plant, should I not be allowed to be concerned about something as important as these people-not to mention their livestock? Jonah’s resentment had distorted his perspective and it will do ...read more

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