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  • Magnified Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Apr 24, 2002
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    MAGNIFIED GRACE “God’s grace is magnified my man’s ruin. The more keenly the ruin is felt, the more highly the grace is valued.” The most joyful converts to Christ you will ever see, are the ones who have come to realize how ...read more

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    Denomination: Orthodox

  • Unexpected Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 33 ratings
     | 10,489 views

    UNEXPECTED GRACE I left work early so I could have some uninterrupted study time right before the final in my Youth Issues class. When I got to class, everybody was doing their last minute studying. The teacher came in and said he would review with us for just a little bit before the test. We went ...read more

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  • An Epitaph To Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Renberg Jr. on Jul 18, 2002
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    AN EPITAPH TO GRACE In a small cemetery of a parish churchyard in Olney, England, stands a granite tombstone w/ this inscription: “John Newton, clerk [pastor], once an infidel & Libertine, a servant of slavers in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ, preserved, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Prevailing Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Oct 15, 2003
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     | 6,547 views

    Prevailing Grace My wife is a woman of grace. With her permission I’ll tell this story on her. I was serving on a board here in town and was told about one of the key employee’s having been told that she had cancer. I was told that she wanted to keep it quiet and that the board was asked to ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Built By Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
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    BUILT BY GRACE Years ago, late on a stormy night in Philadelphia, an elderly couple walked wearily into a hotel. They approached the night clerk at the desk and practically begged him for a room. Apparently there were three conventions in town, and every hotel was filled to capacity. "Are there ...read more

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  • Definition Of Grace

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Apr 21, 2008
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    DEFINITION OF GRACE In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace: it means the mercy and active love of God; it means the winsome attractiveness of God; it means ...read more

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  • Cheap Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Apr 21, 2008
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    CHEAP GRACE Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, ...read more

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  • Finding Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Johnathan Hester on Jun 15, 2008
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    FINDING GRACE If you want to learn the meaning of faith, get down to a child's level. "What could this possibly be?" I thought to myself. "Why would someone place that sign so low? No one could read it." You see them everywhere. Small signs promoting yard sales, cars, and business opportunities ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • That's Grace

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    THAT’S GRACE Spurgeon illustrated grace with this story in his book, All of Grace. A man visited a woman he knew to be in great financial need. He visited with a generous gift to help her with her expenses. He knocked at the door. She heard the knock, panicked and hid so no one would know she was ...read more

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  • Grace Or Permission?

    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Oct 12, 2008
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    Grace or Permission? You're worried about permissiveness—about the way the preaching of grace seems to say it's okay to do all kinds of terrible things as long as you just walk in afterward and take the free gift of God's forgiveness. While you and I may be worried about seeming to give ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Cinderella Grace

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 2, 2010
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    CINDERELLA GRACE Cinderella’s castle at Disneyland was packed with kids and parents. Suddenly - all the children rushed to one side. It’s a good thing it was a castle and not a boat, or it would have tipped over. The pristine princess had entered the room. Cinderella. A gorgeous young girl with ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Definition Of Grace

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
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    Definition of Grace Today, we’re going to talk about another confusing church word - GRACE. If you ask a child what grace is, you might hear him say, "Grace is what we say before we eat." And that’s true. We do call that prayer before we eat "grace." But for many, that’s about as far as the ...read more

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  • Brothers And Grace

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 23, 2010
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    BROTHERS AND GRACE There was a boy who did not have much athletic ability. Every time he and his friends would play some game, he was always the last to be chosen. One day two new fellows came to play with them and were allowed to be team captains because they were older. The first team captain ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Cheap Grace

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 15, 2010
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    CHEAP GRACE (defined and adapted from Dietrich Bonhoeffer) a). Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace. b). Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Adopted By Grace

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 10, 2010
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    ADOPTED BY GRACE I have three daughters. Oh the cats that we took from the pound. They are in cat heaven! But they could have been left at the pound, except that we DECIDED to take them because we WANTED to love them. There was nothing those kittens could do to make me love them! ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Grace And The Waterfall

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Jul 14, 2010
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    GRACE AND THE WATERFALL Last week I went for a walk and I saw a beautiful rock under a small waterfall, it was continually cleansed. My friend found a rock, but his rock wasn't found under a waterfall, and it's not as pretty and as smooth. Grace is ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • A Pitcher Of Grace

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 28, 2010
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    A PITCHER OF GRACE This past week I read this story about grace that I would like to share with you all this morning. This story is about a man named Henry Moorehouse One evening as Henry was walking along the street he saw a little girl coming out of a basement store carrying a pitcher of milk. ...read more

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  • An Example Of Grace

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Aug 23, 2010
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    AN EXAMPLE OF GRACE I just received a letter from a friend who just initiate a prison ministry in my home church, Viorica Negosanu… The first inmate she encountered was a lady, a doctor who murdered her best friend, cut her in pieces and spread them all over the city. She got life sentence. Now ...read more

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    Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

  • Grace And The Book

    Contributed by Paul Searight on Aug 24, 2010
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    GRACE AND THE BOOK Dorothy Sayers wrote, "If men will not understand the meaning of judgment, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace." 

 IF you don’t realize what you could have faced at the judgment - what your sins really deserved - you’ll never appreciate the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Cruel Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 4, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
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    CRUEL GRACE "Thirty years ago, many people chose churches based on whether the church believed and taught the truth. Today, many choose churches based on whether the church makes them feel comfortable. If a church tells the truth, it will gain some people but lose others. One out of five women ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist