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  • Cost Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
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    Cost of Freedom At Hebron Baptist Church several years ago a speaker named Clebe McClary spoke. There was a patch where his left eye had once been. A hook extended from the artificial limb where a strong arm had once helped make him an outstanding athlete. He had been through countless surgeries to ...read more

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  • Astor's Promise

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 18, 2010
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    ASTOR'S PROMISE One stormy night an elderly couple entered the lobby of a small hotel and asked for a room. The clerk said they were full and they would probably find so were all the hotels in town. "But I can’t send a fine couple like you out in the rain. Would you be willing to sleep in my ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren

  • Consuming Fire

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 4, 2010
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    CONSUMING FIRE Every year there is at least one story or a wildfire born of carelessness quickly spreads, consuming the thick, dried-out vegetation and almost everything else in its path. What was once a forest becomes a virtual powder keg of untapped fuel. In a seemingly instantaneous burst, the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

  • John Piper's Reading Plan

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 14, 2011
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    JOHN PIPER'S READING PLAN John Piper is a well-known Christian author and pastor. He tells about a plan that he says has changed his life. Suppose you read about 250 words a minute, and you resolved to devote just 15 minutes a day to some serious theological reading to deepen your understanding ...read more

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  • Keeping Up With Next Door  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2011
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    KEEPING UP WITH NEXT DOOR I heard about a chicken yard with a big hen house, where a rooster had all of his hens laying eggs. One day, two little boys were next door playing football, with a brand new white football. One of them accidentally kicked the football over the fence, and it rolled into ...read more

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  • Dream Big: Google's Founders

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2012
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    DREAM BIG: GOOGLE'S FOUNDERS In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin picked the number one followed by 100 zeroes while they were still graduate students at Stanford University. That number in mathematical terms is called a googol, and that became the name of their new enterprise. Today, Google ...read more

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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

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  • Out Of Ink?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 19, 2012
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    OUT OF INK? According to MSNBC, The British Medical Journal recently reported the case of a 76-year-old woman who visited her doctor complaining of stomach problems. When the scans came back, doctors were amazed to see a long object in her stomach. It was a pen! The woman remembered having put a ...read more

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  • Don't Just Entertain

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 14, 2014
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    Timothy Paul Jones- With high hopes we had moved to a new youth ministry position. On my first Wednesday evening at this church, I received my first hint that this task might be more difficult than I’d imagined. After a couple of games, I gathered the students for some worship songs. Worship ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Prayer-Spiritual Defiance

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Apr 19, 2018
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    Richard Foster in his book "Prayer: Finding the Hearts True Home" describes an aspect of radical prayer as spiritual defiance. He states, "We are subversives in a world of injustice, oppression, and violence. Like Amos of old, we demand that "Justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Heredado Pecado

    Contributed by James Dina on Sep 7, 2020
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    HEREDADO PECADO El castigo del pecado no siempre descansa en el que cometió el pecado. Los frutos amargos del pecado son a menudo transmitidos, y entregados a aquellos que no tenían la mano presente en ellos cuando fueron cometidos. Toda la familia puede heredar los pecados de sus ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Namana Ng Kasalanan

    Contributed by James Dina on Sep 7, 2020
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    NAMANA NG KASALANAN Ang kaparusahan ng kasalanan ay hindi laging kapahingahan sa kanya na nakagawa ng kasalanan. Ang mapait na bunga ng kasalanan ay kadalasang ipinapasa, at ipinasa-pasa sa mga taong walang kamay sa kanila nang magawa ang mga ito. Maaaring manahin ng buong pamilya ang mga ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Easter Service Mishap

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 12, 2021
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    One year, a bunch of friends and I decided to go to a sunrise service at a super fancy church. This church looks like a European cathedral and we were all dressed up for 5 a.m. singing around a huge fire outside and then going inside for service. Everyone had candles and the whole service is by ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • The Mardi Gras Miracle

    Contributed by Richard L. Brown on Apr 17, 2021
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    “The Mardi Gras Miracle.” On Fat Tuesday of 1994 I was on my way to a meeting at Normal Presbyterian Church. I was listening to a basketball game. Kentucky was playing LSU at LSU and Kentucky was down 16 points at half time. I was concerned but to make things worse LSU started the second half ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Also Put On Gentleness. The Word Is "Meekness". ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Also put on gentleness. The word is “meekness”. That’s not weakness, it’s strength under control. When I was working in dairy farm construction, our crew put in a comfort-stall barn for an Amish family in Indiana. There were children all over the place ranging in age from older teens to toddlers. I ...read more

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  • This Part Of The Bible Paul Wrote In The Greek ...

    Contributed by Terry Cavanaugh on May 9, 2008
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    This part of the Bible Paul wrote in the Greek language. The word he used here is προκοπή prokopé̄ . It means to drive forward. It is the beautiful picture of pioneers cutting there way through the wilderness. This is the team that slashes their way ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Jill Rigby Stated, "Respect For Ourselves Guides ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 13, 2008
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    Jill Rigby stated, “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners” (Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World, page 11). Rigby makes this observation about our society today: “When I was growing up, people weren’t perfect, but society was certainly more ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • In The 18th Century, Selina Hastings, Countess Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    In the 18th Century, Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntington, invited the Duchess of Buckingham to come and hear George Whitfield preach. The Duchess wrote to the Countess of Huntington about the Gospel that Whitefield and his fellow "Methodists" preached as follows: "It is monstrous to be told ...read more

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  • R.c. Sproul Described The Relationship Between ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    R.C. Sproul described the relationship between science, God and omniscience: "God is a God of knowledge. He is concerned with science; indeed, He invented science. The root word of science means simply "to know." Science is the business of acquiring knowledge. ...If God is truth, then all true ...read more

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  • People Often Think That Works They Do That They ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jan 26, 2009
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    People often think that works they do that they think are righteous are going to outweigh any faults they do? Imagine a motorist driving down a city street and deliberately driving through a red light. He is pulled over by a policeman who asks to see his driver’s license. Immediately the driver ...read more

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    Denomination: Other