Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 19, 2004
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We have a daughter in college in Florida. There have been many times in her almost 22 years now that I have been proud of her but maybe none more than the time she was in 3rd grade, and at our Jr. week of Christian camp. There was a girl there named Amanda and it was plain to see from the very 1st
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 16, 2004
The Youth Leader had taken their combined group camping. It had been fun making preparation and deciding on where to go. But now the first day of camping was over and it was time to sat around the almost dead campfire with only the glow of the last dying branches they had burned. The chaperons
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Contributed by Tim Richards on Dec 1, 2004
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In his book, When God Whispers Your Name, Max Lucado tells the story of John Egglen, who had never preached a sermon in his life before the Sunday morning when it snowed and the pastor wasn’t able to make it to the church. In fact, he was the only deacon to show up. He was not a preacher, but he
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Contributed by Bo Lane on Dec 8, 2004
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I’m 14, depressed and see no reason to live.
Hi. Look I am 14 almost 15 and well I am depressed. Majorly depressed. I have no life. I mean come on, I have no friends, I am picked because my appearance is different, soccer practices are really crappy (I get made fun of, tripped, soccer balls are
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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On Tithing:
W.A. Criswell tells of an ambitious young man who told his pastor he’d promised God a tithe of his income. They prayed for God to bless his career. At that time he was making $40.00 per week and tithing $4.00. God did just that and in a few years his income increased and he was tithing
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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I have an old story to tell you. I heard this from my pastor during the early years of my conversion to Christianity. I learned later that this story dates back to the 19th century. It gives us a picture of a God who really longs to save us. Some of you might know the story. But I’m going tell it
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 6, 2007
In his book Written In Blood, Robert Coleman tells the story of a little boy whose sister needed a blood transfusion. The doctor explained that she had the same disease the boy had recovered from two years earlier. Her only chance for recovery was a transfusion from someone who had previously
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Oct 17, 2007
The estimated total number of people living in the US with a viral Sexually Transmitted Disease/Sexually Transmitted Infection (STD/STI) is over 65 million.
Every year, there are at least 19 million new cases of STDs/STIs, some of which are curable.
More than $8 billion is spent each year to
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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
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I sincerely respected, admired, and appreciated CBS 2 Chicago’s morning anchor Randy Salerno, who was tragically killed in a snowmobile accident on Thursday, January 24, 2008, in the Eagle River Area of Wisconsin, only 20 days after his forty-fifth birthday. That morning I had watched him on the
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Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 19, 2008
WORLD WAR 1 FRIENDS – Powerful Illustration
Out of the furnaces of war come many true stories of sacrificial friendship. One such story tells of two friends in World War I, who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together and fought side-by-side in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
Around 10:30 last night, our home phone rang. I didn’t answer it, because when it’s the home phone ringing, it’s almost always for Gladys. A minute or so later, Gladys opened the door to my office and told me the person on the phone wanted to speak to chaplain Gregory. At that news, my heart
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Contributed by Jacob Kutty on May 30, 2008
THE TAILOR'S NEEDLE
A tailor was at work. He took a piece of cloth and with a pair of shining, costly, scissors, he cut the cloth into various bits.
Then he put the pair of scissors at his feet. Then he took a small needle and thread and started to sew the bits of cloth, into a fine shirt. When
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Contributed by Timothy Darling on Oct 20, 2008
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Where are the Heavens? Can We Reach Them?
It is difficult to say. If we take an elevator to the top of the Sears tower, or climb a mountain we may find ourselves engulfed by clouds. Have we reached the heavens? We still have a fundamental attachment to the earth. We feel the height we have
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Dec 2, 2008
CALMS THE STORM
God is greater than any problem we will ever face, and Jesus is able to calm any storm. In 1993, I had the privilege of preaching the funeral for Bro. Moses Lee. Bro. Lee served for many years as a pastor in Franklin, Tensas and Winn Parishes, later on he served in the Mobile area.
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