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  • Elizabeth Elliot Tells In Her Book "Passion And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 9, 2004
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    Elizabeth Elliot tells in her book “Passion and Purity,” how on her first date with Jim Elliot (one of the five martyred missionaries in Ecuador), they went to a missionary meeting at Moody Church in Chicago, late in April. The speaker was one of the daughters of the famous missionary to Africa ...read more

  • An Enthusiastic But Somewhat Unscrupulous ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,575 views

    An enthusiastic but somewhat unscrupulous salesman was waiting to see the purchasing agent of the engineering firm where my husband worked. The salesman was there to submit his company’s bid, or price quote, for a particular job. He couldn’t help but notice, however, that a competitor’s bid was on ...read more

  • A Farmer Took A Piece Of Bad Earth And Made ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    A farmer took a piece of bad earth and made things flourish thereon. Proud of his accomplishments, he asked his minister to come by and see what he had done. The minister was impressed. “That’s the tallest corn I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen anything as big as those melons. Praise the Lord!” He ...read more

  • Robert A. Cook, Former President Of King's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    Robert A. Cook, former president of King’s College in New York, told a true story from the early years of his ministry. He had been receiving some rather pointed criticism, and he sought the counsel of a friend, pastor Harry A. Ironside. Pouring out his heart, Dr. Cook asked what he should do ...read more

  • Once When President Franklin D. Roosevelt Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Once when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was preparing a speech, he needed some economic statistics to back up a point he was trying to make. His advisers said it would take six months to get accurate figures. "In that case, I’ll just use these rough estimates," FDR said, and he wrote down some ...read more

  • Given The Many Details Which A Presidential ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Given the many details which a presidential inaugural committee must cope with, mistakes are inevitable. So it was that Franklin Delano Roosevelt received an invitation to his own January 20, 1937 presidential inauguration! Through the White House social bureau, he solemnly sent word that the press ...read more

  • George Bernard Shaw Is Perhaps Most Renowned As A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    George Bernard Shaw is perhaps most renowned as a free thinker and liberal philosopher. In his last writings we read, "The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt. Its counsels, which should have established the millennium, led, instead, directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them ...read more

  • An Enthusiastic But Somewhat Unscrupulous ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,829 views

    An enthusiastic but somewhat unscrupulous salesman was waiting to see the purchasing agent of the engineering firm where my husband worked. The salesman was there to submit his company’s bid, or price quote, for a particular job. He couldn’t help but notice, however, that a competitor’s bid was on ...read more

  • A Business Owner Decides To Take A Tour Around ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 10, 2006
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    A business owner decides to take a tour around his business and see how things are going. He goes down to the shipping docks and sees a young man leaning against the wall doing nothing. The owner walks up to the young man and says, "Son, how much do you make a day?" The guy replies, "150 ...read more

  • The Burning Bush: A Strange Sight

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 13, 2006
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    Walter Kaiser writes: “What took place was a "strange sight" (v. 3) to Moses. Therefore, to explain what happened here as a temporary mirage of reflected sunlight on some red leaves or a campfire of some Bedouin … is to substitute our experience for Moses’ forty years in that area and his estimate ...read more

  • Strength Renewed

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Mar 3, 2007
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    Billy Graham says: "As an evangelist, I have often felt too far spent to minister from the pulpit to men and women who have filled stadiums to hear a message from the Lord. Yet again and again my weakness has vanished, and my strength has been renewed. I have been filled with God’s power not only ...read more

  • Unmarked Police Car

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 30, 2009
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    UNMARKED POLICE CAR As my husband, the county highway commissioner, was driving to the hospital for treatment of his painful leg, he decided to use the valet parking service so he wouldn’t have to walk far. Staring at his official-looking vehicle, one of the valets asked my husband if he was ...read more

  • Judson Cornwall Was A Prominent Teacher In The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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    Judson Cornwall was a prominent teacher in the charismatic renewal in the sixties, seventies and eighties. He said a major facet of Israelite worship was gift giving. Three times God discussed the compulsory feast that His covenant people were to attend and all three times He commanded that they ...read more

  • Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph

    Contributed by Gerald Steffy on Aug 28, 2009
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    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S EPITAPH In one of his lighter moments, Benjamin Franklin penned his own epitaph. He didn’t profess to be a born-again Christian, but it seems he must have been influenced by Paul’s teaching of the resurrection of the body. Here’s what he wrote: "The body of Benjamin Franklin, ...read more

  • Finding Your Fulfillment

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Oct 16, 2009
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    FINDING YOUR FULFILLMENT Dr. Clarke, the ENT that I use, his father was a Veterinarian and wanted him to become a Physician. He did not want to go to school for that many years so he got a degree as a Chemical Engineer. After a few years, he discovered that the plan he chose was not offering him ...read more

  • The Only One Pulling  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Nov 2, 2009
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    THE ONLY ONE PULLING A guy drives into a ditch, but luckily, a farmer is there to help. He hitches his horse, Buddy, up to the car and yells, "Pull, Nellie, pull!" Buddy doesn’t move. "Pull, Buster, pull!" Buddy doesn’t budge. "Pull, Coco, pull!" Nothing. Then the farmer says, "Pull, Buddy, ...read more

  • Always Thankful  PRO

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 4, 2009
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    ALWAYS THANKFUL "Several churches in North Dakota were being served by a clever old preacher. The people were always amazed, for no matter what the circumstances, the preacher could always find something to give thanks for. As he made his rounds one cold December morning, he was late in getting to ...read more

  • Brainerd: Honor To God  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Feb 20, 2010
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    BRAINERD: HONOR TO GOD Let me leave you with some words from the famous American colonial missionary to the Indians, David Brainerd, who died at the age of twenty-nine. His diary reveals a young man intensely committed to God. Brainerd once said to Jonathan Edwards: "I do not go to heaven to be ...read more

  • Christ Like A River

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2010
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    CHRIST LIKE A RIVER Jonathan Edwards: "Christ is like a river...There are fresh supplies of water coming from the fountainhead continually, so that a man may live by it, and be supplied with water all his life. So Christ is an ever flowing fountain; he is continually supplying his people, and the ...read more

  • J. I. Packer On The Goal Of Theology  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    J. I. PACKER ON THE GOAL OF THEOLOGY 'And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent' (John 17:3) The well known Christian author, Jim Packer, lectures in systematic theology at Regent's College in Vancouver. One of his former students says ...read more