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  • Anybody Who Is Walking With The Spirit Can't Help ...

    Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
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    Anybody who is walking with the Spirit can’t help but to talk about Jesus. What is the Holy Spirit? The witness of Jesus. And Jesus says, “You will be My witness also…” If you can go a month, 2 months, and Jesus’ name doesn’t come up in the workplace, He doesn’t come up in School teenagers, He ...read more

  • Immediately After Former Romanian Dictator ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Jun 11, 2007
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    Immediately after former Romanian dictator Ceausescu was killed, his residency was open for everybody to visit it. In Bucharest, the capital.Everyone was free to come in take a look. I was curious too and I went. WOW! I was impressed: Gold, marble, exotic wood… I never see such thing before or ...read more

  • Our Expression Of Love Should Be Motivated And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Our expression of love should be motivated and empowered by the sacrificial love that we have already received. B. Lance Armstrong won an unprecedented seven consecutive Tour de Frances. 1. During his fifth consecutive victory in the 2003 Tour de France, in the fifteenth stage of the competition, ...read more

  • Joel Gregory Told A Story Of A Blind, Poor And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Joel Gregory told a story of a blind, poor and hungry Indian beggar who sat beside a road, starved from the scarcity of travelers and how much rice they could give him. One day he heard the thunder of a chariot in the distance. It was the grand entourage of the Maharajah, who was known to have ...read more

  • In India There Is A Bible Institute Run By Dr. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In India there is a Bible Institute run by Dr. Samuel Thomas – a modern day hero of the Christian faith. Each year this Bible Institute has a commencement ceremony where students who have finished their studies are together for one final time before leaving this institute as graduates. What is so ...read more

  • One Day A Farmer's Donkey Fell Down Into A Well. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 11, 2007
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    One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbours to ...read more

  • A Young Man Emerged From The Metro Train In ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jul 15, 2007
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    A young man emerged from the Metro train in Washington, DC. The date was January 12th of this year. He positioned himself against a wall beside a trashcan. By most standards, he was nondescript—a young white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt, and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. He ...read more

  • There Used To Be An Egg Farm About 5 Miles From ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 18, 2007
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    There used to be an egg farm about 5 miles from here, out on Reed Ellis Road. From time to time, when I was growing up, we used to take one of our 2 ton trucks down there to the chicken farm and pick up a couple of loads of chicken manure to put on our pastures to help the grass grow. I remember ...read more

  • William Willimon Used To Be The Dean Of The ...

    Contributed by Scott Brewer on Jul 29, 2007
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    William Willimon used to be the dean of the chapel at Duke University. "One day he received a phone call from a very irate father. The father exploded on the other end of the line, telling Willimon furiously, ’I hold you personally responsible for this!’ He was angry because his ...read more

  • Sometimes When The Offender Cannot Be Confronted ...

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 12, 2007
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    Sometimes when the offender cannot be confronted directly, it is helpful to write out your feelings in a letter which you can either send to him or might decide to just throw away. This allows you to verbalize your feelings, but in written form, which takes the potentially destructive energy out of ...read more

  • The Point: Sometimes, The Only Path To Peace Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2007
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    [The Point: Sometimes, the only path to peace is straight through struggles.] In Hosea 2:15 God says "I will make the valley of Achor a door of hope." Many years ago I read a book entitled "Door of Hope"; it pointed out that the Hebrew word "achor" means "trouble". So, what God may have *really* ...read more

  • If You Ever Paid Attention To Authors And ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 24, 2007
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    If you ever paid attention to authors and composers when we used to sing out of the hymnals, you may remember the name Phillip P. Bliss. He was the second most famous Christian song writer in history. Had he lived as long as his peers, Fanny Crosby, Charles Wesley and Ira ...read more

  • And What About Other Examples From Fictional ...

    Contributed by Mike Rexroat on Oct 27, 2007
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    And what about other examples from fictional stories: in Beauty and the Beast we find the Beauty having a preconceived notion of what the Beast is like…in the movie Shrek…which by the way is Anne’s nickname for me when I shave my head…. the princess in that movie…she had a preconceived notion of ...read more

  • Listen To What Happened In Harlem In 1980. A Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2008
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    Listen to what happened in Harlem in 1980. A man by the name of Eugene Lang, a self-made multi-millionaire, stood before a group of 61 sixth graders graduating from elementary school. He had been asked to come and speak to them about how he had once sat in the same auditorium where they were ...read more

  • In 1996 Reverend Christopher Gray A Vicar Was ...

    Contributed by Nigel Heath on Mar 29, 2009
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    In 1996 Reverend Christopher Gray a vicar was knifed to death in the grounds of his vicarage by a man he had been helping who had recently been released from prison. Reverend Gray was apparently a great academic with a heart for the poor and disadvantaged. He turned down a good job in the ...read more

  • Deception: The Trojan ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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    DECEPTION: THE TROJAN HORSE I doubt you’ll recognize this man. His name is Heinrich Schliemann. In 1871, Heinrich Schliemann began to fulfill a dream he’d had since his youth. He started excavating an ancient city in Turkey. He was looking for the lost city of Troy. And to the amazement of many, ...read more

  • The Adultery Market

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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    THE ADULTERY MARKET Many of us have seen the wild and funny TV ads that go along with the Super Bowl. But fans in Texas got quite a shock during the game this year. An ad by AshleyMadison.com was seen as inappropriate by the NFL and NBC. But local affiliates in Texas decided that the $250,000 for ...read more

  • Touching The Untouchable

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    TOUCHING THE UNTOUCHABLE I have served as a volunteer Chaplain for the Havelock Police Dept for many years. Still, I will never forget my first night out with them. I was completely green and had no idea how to act. I was trying to follow the lead of the other officers. We were called to the ...read more

  • Punished For Helping

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    PUNISHED FOR HELPING Thu Feb 26, AP/ DENVER -- A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket. Family members said 58-year-old bus driver Jim Moffett and another man ...read more

  • Daddy Restrained

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 31, 2009
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    DADDY RESTRAINED I’ll never forget an experience I had with my son Ethan. When Ethan was about 2 years old, he had been playing and had fallen and cut open his chin. It was bad enough for Nicole and I to take him to A.I. DuPont Hospital for children. After the doctors examined his cut they told ...read more