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  • Many Today Try To Explain Away Their Sin By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Many today try to explain away their sin by denial. "I live a good moral life" they say or "I’m just as good as the next guy". They over estimate themselves with too high a view of their condition. Muhammad Ali, who is one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century and maybe the best boxer of ...read more

  • In 1903, W.c. Handy Was Waiting For A Train In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In 1903, W.C. Handy was waiting for a train in the town of Tutwiler, Mississippi. The train was late and so he fell asleep on the hard wooden bench of the station. He was awakened by an old raggedy man scratching the strings of an old guitar. He was singing about “goin’ to where the Southern cross ...read more

  • As A Part Of An Assignment For A Doctoral ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    As a part of an assignment for a doctoral thesis, a college student spent a year with a group of Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest. As he did his research he lived with one family, sleeping in their hut, eating their food, working with them and generally living the life of a 20th ...read more

  • Salvation (S)  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Salvation (S) Warren Wiersbe explains to us how profound the use of this word was: The word tetelestai is unfamiliar to us, but it was used by various people in everyday life in those days. A servant would use it when reporting to his or her master, "I have completed the work assigned to me" (see ...read more

  • Chuck Swindoll Tells This Story: Marian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Chuck Swindoll tells this story: Marian Anderson, the great contralto who won worldwide acclaim, didn’t simply grow great; she grew great simply. In spite of her fame, she remained a beautiful model of humility. A reporter interviewing Miss Anderson once asked her to name the greatest moment in her ...read more

  • The Faith Of Dwight L. Moody

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Aug 19, 2007
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    The Faith of Dwight L. Moody Dwight Lyman Moody lived toward the end of the 19th century. He was an American evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now the Northfield Mount Hermon School), the Moody Bible Institute and ...read more

  • Frederick Douglass Who Grew Up As A Slave In ...

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Nov 3, 2007
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    Frederick Douglass who grew up as a slave in Maryland in the early nineteenth century and experienced slavery’s every brutality. He was taken from his mother when he was only an infant. For years as a child, all he had to eat was runny corn meal dumped in a trough that kids fought to scoop out with ...read more

  • Dallas Willard Writes: "I Do Not Know Of A ...

    Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
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    Dallas Willard writes: “I do not know of a denomination or local church in existence that has as its goal to teach its people to do everything Jesus said. I’m not talking about a whim or a wish, but a plan.” Willard’s book, The Great Omission (Willard, 2006), is his personal take on the popular ...read more

  • The Shortening Of Private Devotions Starves The ...

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Jun 11, 2008
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    The shortening of private devotions starves the soul. William Wilberforce, Christian statesman of Great Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, once said, “I must secure more time for private devotions.” Following a failure in Parliament, he stated that his problems may have been due to ...read more

  • Brethren Elder Peter Nead [1796-1877] Was ...

    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Aug 5, 2008
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    Brethren Elder Peter Nead [1796-1877] was definitely a man of distinction. Living in a time when few Brethren were authoring books, Brother Nead chose to do so. In penning his theological point of views there was evidence in the words and phrases that his writing abilities were a little amateurish; ...read more

  • Thomas Costain's History, The Three Edwards, ...

    Contributed by Robert Joseph on Sep 5, 2008
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    Thomas Costain’s history, The Three Edwards, describes the life of Raynald III, a fourteenth century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald was often called by his Latin nickname, Crassus, which means “fat.” After a violent quarrel, Raynald’s younger brother Edward led a ...read more

  • Thomas Costain's History, The Three Edwards, ...

    Contributed by Robert Joseph on Sep 10, 2008
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    Thomas Costain’s history, The Three Edwards, describes the life of Raynald III, a fourteenth century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald was often called by his Latin nickname, Crassus, which means “fat.” After a violent quarrel, Raynald’s younger brother Edward led ...read more

  • Thomas Costain's History, The Three Edwards, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Joseph on Sep 10, 2008
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    Thomas Costain's history, The Three Edwards, describes the life of Raynald III, a fourteenth century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald was often called by his Latin nickname, Crassus, which means "fat." After a violent quarrel, Raynald's younger brother Edward led a ...read more

  • God's Wise Design

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Feb 14, 2009
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    GOD’S WISE DESIGN Because nature is clouded by sin, it gives only an indistinct picture of God. Much of His great wisdom and marvelous design, however, can still be clearly traced. For instance, the earth rotates on its axis at approximately 1000 miles per hour. If that had been 100 miles per ...read more

  • Prophetic Preaching

    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 26, 2009
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    PROPHETIC PREACHING A.W. Tozer, one described as a modern-day prophet, spoke these words in the 1950’s and describes the need for prophetic preachers: "If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century ...read more

  • We Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    "WE ARE HERE" On the Fourth of July 1917, an American Army officer, Charles Stanton, stood in for General Pershing at a ceremony in Paris. The occasion, as the date suggests, was America’s Independence celebration, the Fourth of July. But it was not in America; it was in Paris, 1917, in a city and ...read more

  • 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

  • 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

  • Are You A Chief Student?

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 27, 2010
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    ARE YOU A CHIEF STUDENT? David Friedman, in They Loved the Torah p. 61 comments about Peter (Shim'on): I see Shim'on as Yeshua's Torah-observant....talmid hakham...a Hebrew technical term meaning the leading student (of a rabbi). Every famous rabbi who daily taught the same students had a talmid ...read more

  • Frederick And The Confession

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jan 18, 2011
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    FREDERICK AND THE CONFESSION Truth is we can't please God, that is, not on our terms. Nor does it do any good to try and hide our sin. Like Isaiah, we can only be used by God when we're willing to admit, "I am a person of unclean lips." It reminds me of the story of KING FREDERICK II, an ...read more