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  • Eleven Miles Off The Coast Of Scotland Stands The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    Eleven miles off the coast of Scotland stands the Bell Rock Lighthouse. It is the world’s oldest surviving sea washed lighthouse. It was built on an acre of solid rock in the middle of the North Sea. Waves and storms have been crashing into this lighthouse for 200 years. But it still stands strong ...read more

  • Arthur Rubinstein, The World-Famous Pianist, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    Arthur Rubinstein, the world-famous pianist, wrote years ago about the importance of practicing every day. He said: "If I don’t practice one day, nobody knows. If I don’t practice two days, then I know. But if I don’t practice three ...read more

  • Richard Whately Said It Well When He Wrote: "It ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
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    Richard Whately said it well when he wrote: “It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.” And that is so true. If we’re not careful, we can become like Oprah’s ...read more

  • Volunteers Down

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    VOLUNTEERS DOWN In ’06 more than 61 million Americans donated their time to charity, the fewest since ’02, and down 4.4 million from ’05, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experts note volunteering spiked after 9/11/01 and Hurricane Katrina may have played a role in that it wiped out ...read more

  • Wal-Mart's Net Sales For '08 Q4 Came In At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Wal-Mart’s net sales for '08 Q4 came in at $106.3 billion, an 8.3% jump over a year ago. Income from continuing operations for the quarter gained 4% to $4.1 billion. Same-store sales at its U.S. stores rose ...read more

  • A Man Approached Horace Greeley One Day To Ask ...

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Jul 12, 2008
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    A man approached Horace Greeley one day to ask for a donation for foreign missions. Greeley turned him down, but the man continued his plea and Greeley again said, "No". Finally the unfortunate one said: "Why, Mr. Greeley, wouldn't you give $10 to save an immortal ...read more

  • One Of The Most Difficult Problems Protestant ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jul 14, 2008
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    One of the most difficult problems Protestant churches are experiencing is the lack of denominational loyalty. Protestants regularly church-shop. If the preaching isn't good enough, or the youth group isn't large enough, or the music isn't glorious every week…then we search for a church ...read more

  • The Command To Love God And Love Our Neighbor Is ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 23, 2008
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    The command to love God and love our neighbor is not new to Jesus. It comes right from Torah. The Pharisees had finessed that fundamental law right out of everyday life, but Jesus not only showed us that we can’t live without it, he took it to the limit when he loved us all the way ...read more

  • The Lord Of Hosts (The God Of The Armies)

    Contributed by Michael West on Oct 2, 2008
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    The Lord of Hosts (the God of the Armies) Approximately thirty different occasions the Lord unites His eternal nature to the human need of His servant. However, there is one name that stands apart from these and occurs around 290 times in the Bible. That's almost ten times the sum of all the ...read more

  • The African Impala Can Jump To A Height Of Over ...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Nov 17, 2008
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    The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall. The animals will not jump if they cannot see where their feet will fall. Faith is the ability to trust ...read more

  • Christian Hedonism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    Christian Hedonism Charles Hodge argued that true knowledge of Christ includes delight in Christ. He said this knowledge "is not the apprehension of what He is, simply by intellect, but also involves, not merely as a consequence but as one of its elements, the corresponding feeling of adoration, ...read more

  • John Quincy Adams, The Sixth President Of Our ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of our country, once stated: "So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many ...read more

  • Out Of The Darkness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
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    OUT OF THE DARKNESS Phillip Brooks wrote in 1837, "Out of the hillsides of humiliated pride, deep in the darkness of crushed despair, in the fretting and dusty atmosphere of little cares, in the hard cruel contacts that man has with man; wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever ...read more

  • What God Has ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 20, 2009
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    What God Has Promised God hath not promised Skies always blue Flower-strewn pathways All our lives through. God hath not promised Sun without rain Joy without sorrow Peace without pain. But God hath promise Strength for the day Rest for the labor Light for the way; ...read more

  • Quote, "Teaching Is The Transfer Of Material ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Quote, “Teaching is the transfer of material from the teacher’s notes to the student’s notebook, without it going through either’s minds.” We can drive ourselves crazy with worry. A man went to his psychiatrist and he said, “Sometimes I think I’m a tepee and ...read more

  • Making Christ The Center Of Your Life Is Like ...

    Contributed by Ronald Thorington on Jan 1, 2008
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    Making Christ the center of your life is like making the hub of your life. Just like the hub of bicyle there are spokes the run out from the hub the outer weel. All the interest we have in life sports, hobbies, our job, family, recreation, etc. should not be the center of most important as the hub ...read more

  • Great Barrier Reef: Challenges Grow Us

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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    GREAT BARRIER REEF: CHALLENGES GROW US Australia’s Barrier Reef. The reef has to fight for survival every day of its life. As it is challenged and tested it changes and adapts. It grows healthy and strong. And it reproduces. That is how it is with people too. When challenged and tested, we come ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer

    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 26, 2009
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    A.W.Tozer also said “Today we need prophetic preachers; not preachers of prophecy merely, but preachers with a gift of prophecy. The word of wisdom is missing. We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the power of ...read more

  • Liberty = Vigilance  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    LIBERTY = VIGILANCE In 1790 John Philpot Curran said, "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." Thomas Jefferson condensed Curran’s advice with the ...read more

  • One Moment's Believing

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 18, 2009
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    ONE MOMENT'S BELIEVING Octavius Winslow said it this way. "One moment’s believing, close contact with the cross will do more to break the heart for sin, deepen the conviction of its exceeding sinfulness, and disenthrall the soul from all its bondage and its fears, bringing it into a sense of ...read more