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  • Joseph's Deliverance Showed God's Protection. (V. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    Joseph’s deliverance showed God’s Protection. (V. 28a) God spared Joseph’s life, and through these adverse circumstances, that are recorded in our text, God is overseeing his safety. This is the sovereign purpose of God at work. The Midianites and the Ishmeelites only saw Joseph as a business ...read more

  • Joseph’s Deliverance Showed God’s Protection. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 2,086 views

    Joseph’s deliverance showed God’s Protection. (V. 28a) God spared Joseph’s life, and through these adverse circumstances, that are recorded in our text, God is overseeing his safety. This is the sovereign purpose of God at work. The Midianites and the Ishmeelites only saw Joseph as a ...read more

  • Where Is Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Where Is Your Treasure Intro: Long ago, in a kingdom far, far away, a rich king hired a “fool” to entertain him and make him laugh when he was sad. He gave the fool a golden scepter and told him that when he met a greater fool than he, to pass the golden scepter to that person. Years passed ...read more

  • Wesley's Peace  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    WESLEY'S PEACE Although Charles Wesley had been engaged in preaching the gospel with much diligence and earnestness, he did not know what it was to enjoy peace with God until he was in his thirtieth year. Being laid low by an alarming illness, and seeming as if he were going to die, a young ...read more

  • In The World Of Sports, When An Underdog Is ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Mar 13, 2009
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    In the world of sports, when an underdog is victorious it’s known as an upset. Here is a list of 5 of sport’s biggest upsets. 1) 1980 Olympics-Lake Placid: USA defeats Russia in hockey 4-3. Ragtag group of Americans defeats the Russian team that had dominated the sport for 15 years. 2) 1990 ...read more

  • Waiting On The Interest  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    WAITING ON THE INTEREST A girl had a nice little piggy bank. Her father wanted to teach her about saving, so he talked to her about putting her money into a savings account at their bank. He very carefully explained to her that when she put money into her account, the bank would pay her interest ...read more

  • Where's The Fire?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    WHERE’S THE FIRE? In a small town, the volunteer fire department’s telephone was answered by the policeman on duty, who would in turn sound the fire whistle to rally the volunteers to duty. One Saturday morning, the town chief of police, had just come on duty when the fire department phone rang. ...read more

  • Pastor Florescu, Jesus ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    PASTOR FLORESCU, JESUS FREAK The Communist torturers came towards Pastor Florescu again, this time with red-hot iron pokers. "Who else believes as you do? Give us their names." Florescu would not speak. They had already cut him again and again with knives and beaten him very badly. When he ...read more

  • Dr. Benjamin Carson Would Agree Listen To What He ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 10, 2009
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    Dr. Benjamin Carson would agree listen to what he says about his mom: Dr. Benjamin Carson, renowned surgeon at John Hopkins, has a story told about his mother by Kevin Lemam. Mrs. Carson insisted that Ben and His brother Curtis write a book report every couple of weeks. This wasn’t for school-this ...read more

  • Addicted To Unkind ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    Addicted to Unkind Words Joseph Telushkin, author of Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, lectures throughout our country on the powerful and often negative impact of words. He often asks those in his audience if they can go 24 hours without saying any unkind words about or to another person. ...read more

  • A Simple Hose Clamp Causes Failure Of Balloon's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2009
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    A Simple Hose Clamp Causes Failure of Balloon’s Attempt to Circle the Earth Piccard and Richard Conniff writes in National Geographic that on January 12, 1997, two Swiss men, Bertrand Piccard and Wim Verstraeten, set out to be the first to CIRCLE THE EARTH in a balloon. Their aircraft was called ...read more

  • How A Paralytic Faces ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2009
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    How a Paralytic Faces Temptation We are often moved by people who have great stories of courage in difficult circumstances. It takes a certain resolve to be able to stand in the face of suffering or danger and not give an inch. “A man in Dundee, Scotland, was confined to bed for forty years, having ...read more

  • Prayer's Powerful Results Impacts African ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    Prayer’s Powerful Results Impacts African Villagers Story: John Robb of World Vision’s Mission Advanced Research Center writes, "The adults of Ethiopia’s Awash River area, two hours north of Addis Ababa were suffering through famines. In their suffering the people looked to a giant tree for help. ...read more

  • The Gifts In The Fries

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jul 8, 2010
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    THE GIFTS IN THE FRIES If you have one or more of the gifts of service, you are critical to the work and glory of God. Do not think lightly of your place in God’s plan. A man goes to buy a hamburger for lunch. The young lady behind the counter asks, “Do you want fries with that?” The man ...read more

  • Social Networking And The Brain

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 2, 2011
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    SOCIAL NETWORKING AND THE BRAIN By Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter – Mon Dec 27, 5:03 pm ET MONDAY, Dec. 27 (HealthDay News) -- The size of your amygdala, an almond-shaped portion of the brain involved in emotions, may be as strong a marker for having rich and varied social relationships as how ...read more

  • Why Don't They Let Him In?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
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    WHY DON'T THEY LET HIM IN? A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son. Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen, and when the small boy came in from ...read more

  • Goodbye, Mother!

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 9, 2011
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    GOODBYE, MOTHER! A young man was walking through a supermarket to pick up a few things when he noticed a little old lady following him around. Thinking nothing of it, he ignored her and continued on. Finally he went to the checkout line, but she got in front of him. "Pardon me, sonny" she said, ...read more

  • Who Will Do The Need-Meeting?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2011
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    WHO WILL DO THE NEED-MEETING? One preacher told of shopping at the supermarket when a lady came down the aisle heading straight for him. She screeched to a halt within a few feet of him, wagged her finger, and said, "I left your church. I left your church". So I said, "Well, if it’s my church, I ...read more

  • The Mayor's Martyr Maid

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 3, 2011
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    THE MAYOR'S MARTYR MAID "I found one!" The inquisitor held up a Bible and hollered out, "Bring in the mayor and his family. Someone is studying the Bible in this house!" In the 16th century, Philip II sent the Duke of Alba to Flanders to stamp out the Protestants who insisted on reading the ...read more

  • Fear Of Witnessing

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 31, 2011
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    FEAR OF WITNESSING Leighton Ford, Good News is for Sharing, 1977, David C. Cook Publishing Co., Page 15: In preparing for this book, I have talked to a lot of people, and the fear issue comes up front again and again. What makes people hesitate to share their faith? Here are some of the fears ...read more