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  • Aristides On Christians

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2012
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    ARISTIDES ON CHRISTIANS Writing in about 125 AD, a Christian philosopher by the name of Aristides looked at Christianity and said this: "They walk in all humility and kindness, and falsehood is not found among them, and they love one another. They despise not the widow, and grieve not the ...read more

  • Pure White

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
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    PURE WHITE A little girl went to the countryside on holiday. The cabin where she stayed was next to a grassy hillside on which sheep grazed. She had never seen sheep before. The girl could look from the front door of the cottage and see the sheep milling around on the slope of green. She exclaimed ...read more

  • Literal Hell

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
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     | 5,589 views

    LITERAL HELL When it comes to believing in hell I think of the story of Dr. Maurice Rawlings a noted and celebrated coronary care doctor, who writes of his conversion to belief in a literal hell in Beyond Death’s Door. In 1977 he was giving a stress test to a man who was having chest pains. In the ...read more

  • We'll Teach Him

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
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     | 3,672 views

    WE'LL TEACH HIM A twenty-five-year-old girl cancelled her engagement. She tearfully told her mother what had happened. She said, "I can't marry him. He's not really Christian. I've discovered that he really doesn't believe in hell." The ...read more

  • James 3:10 Principle: Choose Life

    Contributed by William Akehurst on Jul 19, 2012
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    JAMES 3:10 PRINCIPLE: CHOOSE LIFE I remember being asked by a friend one early morning how I was doing. My answer was a reluctant and half-hearted OK. This spawned the stern correction from my friend. "NOOOO…when I ask you how you are doing, regardless of ...read more

  • More From Technology, Less From One Another

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 18, 2012
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     | 2,632 views

    MORE FROM TECHNOLOGY, LESS FROM ONE ANOTHER Sherry Turkle, a professor at M.I.T. and author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, has spent the last 15 years studying how our "plugged-in lives" have changed who we are. She claims that all of our ...read more

  • Declaration Of Dependence  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Turner on Jul 15, 2012
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     | 2,978 views

    DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE Today I make this day my Dependence Day by making this declaration; Declaration of Dependence "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for an individual to dissolve the sinful bond which has connected them to a sinful ruler; they should declare the ...read more

  • Stoop As You Go Through The World  PRO

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jul 8, 2012
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    STOOP AS YOU GO THROUGH THE WORLD BENJAMIN FRANKLIN once described a visit he made as a young man to see the Puritan preacher Cotton Mather. Franklin recalled: "He was showing me out of the house, and there was a very low beam near the doorway. I was still talking when Mather began shouting, ...read more

  • Love Is Face To Face

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jul 6, 2012
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    LOVE IS FACE-TO-FACE By Erwin Raphael McManus in SOUL CRAVINGS – PREQUEL, pp. 28ff: "I once met a girl named Kim, and I fell in love. I pursued her with my love and pursed her with my love until I felt my love had captured her heart. So I asked her to be my wife, and she said no." I could feel ...read more

  • Now She Understands  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 5, 2012
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    NOW SHE UNDERSTANDS A lady had two children. The older son was 7 years old and the little girl about 2½ years old. She heard this terrible scream upstairs and as she ran upstairs she found out that the little girl was pulling the hair of her brother. He was crying out in pain. The mother ...read more

  • Only The Strong Forgive

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 5, 2012
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    ONLY THE STRONG FORGIVE Mahatma Gandhi said, "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the ...read more

  • Faith Like That

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jul 2, 2012
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    FAITH LIKE THAT The bishop's car ran out of petrol. His wife, who was a passenger remembered seeing a garage half a mile back down the road. He got out the car and started to search the boot of the car for a container, but the only one he could find was his baby grandson's potty - so that had to ...read more

  • My Mom Says My Prayers For Me

    Contributed by Eugene Morell on Jul 1, 2012
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    MY MOM SAYS MY PRAYERS FOR ME A young boy was telling the pastor that his mother said his prayers for him each night. "What do you mean, your mother says your prayers for you?" the minister inquired. The youngster ...read more

  • Commitment Vs. Surrender  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jun 30, 2012
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    COMMITMENT VS. SURRENDER In The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority there is an account of a conversation between the late Adrian Rogers and Rev Josef Tson, the Romanian pastor, author, and president of the Romanian Missionary Society who survived years of persecution and exile under cruel ...read more

  • The Forbidden Fruit  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Jun 28, 2012
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    THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT And the first thing God told Adam and Eve was: "Don't." "Don't what?" Adam replied. "Don't eat the forbidden fruit," God said. "Forbidden fruit? We got forbidden fruit? Hey, Eve . . . we got Forbidden Fruit!" "No way!" "Yes WAY!" "Don't eat that fruit!" said ...read more

  • Glory To God First

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jun 25, 2012
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    GLORY TO GOD FIRST A man came to Pastor Chuck, the church that I went to for several years while in California, and he said to the pastor that he wanted to make a large donation - about one million dollar donation. The pastor said to that, "Wow -- that is a lot of money. Let me go first and pray ...read more

  • If God Can't Do It, It Can't Be Done

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jun 25, 2012
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    IF GOD CAN'T DO IT, IT CAN'T BE DONE "What we need to do is learn that only persistence in prayer can gain the victory. You see the truth is if God can’t do it, it cannot be done. We need to learn to close the blinds, shut the door, turn off the phone, stop ...read more

  • Faith Is Not Proven True By Answered Prayer But ...

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jun 19, 2012
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     | 3,868 views

    Faith is not proven true by answered prayer but by unanswered prayer that does not make us waver ...read more

  • A 33-Year-Old Great

    Contributed by Steve Wilson on Jun 6, 2012
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     | 2,706 views

    A 33-YEAR-OLD GREAT About 2,300 years ago Alexander the Great marched his army from Greece to India. Though the distance was long, his army was unstoppable. The only reason he stopped was that his men became homesick and wanted to return to Greece. That march had long ranging influence. The Greek ...read more

  • The Peril Of No Burden  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 5, 2012
    based on 22 ratings
     | 7,386 views

    THE PERIL OF NO BURDEN Shortly after coming to Christ, Sadhu Sundar, a Hindu convert to Christ, felt called to become a missionary to India. Late one afternoon Sadhu was traveling on foot through the Himalayas with a Buddhist monk. It was bitterly cold and the wind felt like sharp blades slicing ...read more