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  • How Badly Do You Want It?

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 14, 2008
     | 1,404 views

    How Badly Do You Want It? In pursuing a righteous goal, Les Brown said: "If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace, and your sleep for it … if all that you dream and scheme is about it, and life seems useless and ...read more

  • Does He Show?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,847 views

    DOES HE SHOW? One Sunday as they drove home from church, a little girl turned to her mother and said, "Mommy, there’s something about the preacher’s message this morning that I don’t understand." The mother said, "Oh? What is it?" The little girl replied, "Well, he said that God is bigger than ...read more

  • Alexander The Great On Hope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,465 views

    ALEXANDER THE GREAT ON HOPE Jesus is a sign of hope, and the friend of those who will not let hope die. He must increase, and we must decrease. The Macedonian king, Alexander the Great, was about to launch a great campaign. It would be trying and difficult. It would mean slogging across the ...read more

  • College Students Fail To Be Good ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
     | 5,837 views

    College Students Fail to be Good Samaritans Real compassion looks beyond the faults of people to see the pain beneath it all and to see the hunger in people’s hearts. In research done by Darley and Batson at Princeton in 1973, a group of theology students was told that they were to go across ...read more

  • Prayer For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
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    Prayer for Compassion Then we can pray a prayer like David Mains prayed years ago. He was once pastor of the Circle Urban Church, an inner city church in Chicago, and one day, in the course of his ministry among such great need, he prayed, “Lord, let me see the world as you see it, and break my ...read more

  • I Recently Read Of A Teenager In Florida In ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 22, 2010
     | 1,762 views

    I recently read of a teenager in Florida in America who fled for her life from her Muslim family after she converted to Christianity. Fathima Rifqa Bary says her family will murder her in what is known as an "HONOUR KILLING" because of her profession of faith in Christ. In Islamic tradition, an ...read more

  • The Importance Of Gratitude

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2011
     | 6,099 views

    THE IMPORTANCE OF GRATITUDE A few years ago Dr. Nick Stinnett of the University of Nebraska conducted a group of studies called the "Family Strengths Research Project." Stinnett and his researchers identified six qualities that make for strong families. The first quality and one of the most ...read more

  • Cleaning Up Our Mess

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2011
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    CLEANING UP OUR MESS There is a story about President Ronald Reagan when he "...was in the hospital healing from when he had been shot. One day his Vice President walked in the room to find him on his hands and knees wiping up water. The Vice President said, 'Mr. President, they’ll take care of ...read more

  • The Adam And Eve Virus

    Contributed by Daniel J. Little on Nov 15, 2011
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    THE ADAM AND EVE VIRUS The Genesis narrative (chapter 3) tells us how God gave Adam and Eve His wisdom as well as His authority, and then how they pursued a counterfeit authority and an alien wisdom—actually satanic wisdom. The moment they introduced that dark wisdom into their lives a radical ...read more

  • Community

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 2, 2015
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    Dr. B. adds, “Christ desired that his church would be the earthly community of oneness modeled after the eternal community of oneness. Jesus went on to declare that he had provided his followers with everything they needed to bring about this oneness. He prayed, “I have given them the glory that ...read more

  • Expectation Vs Experience little Israel Eh...

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Nov 28, 2015
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    Expectation vs Experience Little Israel eh…Boy, it packs a punch in the spiritual realm!!! Do not we owe it a Saviour, Salvation and Scriptures!!! Add to this fact that one of it’s cities (Jerusalem) would be the future World capital and at once, there is a ring of sanctity about this Nation. Even ...read more

  • Lost & Found

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Nov 29, 2022
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    Melissa Highsmith was kidnapped by a babysitter in 1971 at the tender age of 22 months. Over the next 51 years, Highsmith's family and the police searched for her without success. Finally, with the use of DNA technology, her identity was confirmed and she was reunited with her family. Melissa ...read more

  • Do It Scared

    Contributed by John Bright on Feb 20, 2025
     | 271 views

    Let me share from an email I got from the Navigators about their summer outreach with college students: “This past summer, the students had over 700 gospel conversations with strangers. From those discussions, 22 people gave their lives to Christ and were connected with local churches. For one ...read more

  • The Only Kind Of Jesus We Have Ever Seen With Our ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Feb 23, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,042 views

    The only kind of Jesus we have ever seen with our own eyes is a man playing the role. A few of our men have portrayed the suffering Jesus in our Easter presentation. They did a wonderful job, but they were only playing the part; the blood was stage makeup, and the nails were not really piercing ...read more

  • A.b. Simpson Says In His Book "A Larger Than ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Wafford on Apr 13, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
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    A.B. Simpson says in his book "A Larger than Christian life" and I quote: “It is all connected with a living person. We are not filled with an influence; we are not filled with a sensation; we are not filled with a set of ideas and truths; we are not filled with a blessing, but we are filled with a ...read more

  • Even When A Remarriage Does Involve Adultery, The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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    Even when a remarriage does involve adultery, the adultery relates to the initiating act and not to the state. In some cases, remarriage does not involve adultery. God can, in fact, lead believers into second marriages which are totally free of that stigma. We see a parallel in the commandment, ...read more

  • The Old Cow Gave Good Milk, But She Sure Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 2,651 views

    The old cow gave good milk, but she sure was dumb. She had a whole field in which to feed, yet no grass seems quite as tasty as those patches outside her own pasture. She often stretches her head through the barb wire fence, while right behind her is everything that she needs --excellent grazing ...read more

  • I Once Had An Appointment With A Certain ...

    Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 24, 2007
     | 1,697 views

    I once had an appointment with a certain director of an international organization in which I wanted to exchange some research materials with. I had no official appointment document except for the formal letters which we have been exchanging in communication. It was not easy for a person to get ...read more

  • As We Journey Towards Christmas And Into The New ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Nov 24, 2007
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    As we journey towards Christmas and into the New Year, let us all follow in the steps of our Servant-King Jesus, not just for a Season but for a lifetime. By His Spirit may we truly be humble, servant leaders. It is recorded that Mother Teresa once said: “I belong to Jesus. He must have the ...read more

  • The People In Corinth Had Some Interesting Ideas ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,668 views

    The people in Corinth had some interesting ideas about being single as well. Written from Ephesus during the Apostle Paul’s third missionary journey from 53-57 AD, 1 Corinthians 7 commences the second part or division of this Epistle, or, “the discussion of those points which had been submitted to ...read more