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  • I Love You Already

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Sep 16, 2008
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    I Love You Already There was an elderly man who lost his wife of 70 years. He was blind and could barely walk with assistance. He was being moved to a nursing home because his bride was no longer able to care for him. As the nurse led the old gent down the hallway to his new room, he started ...read more

  • A. How Many Of You Have Ever Built A ...

    Contributed by Duane Smith on Sep 29, 2008
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    A. How many of you have ever built a model? 1. There are all kinds: a. Cars & Trucks b. Military vehicles & Trains c. Planes & boats 2. At present I am working on a ship, the HMS Bounty. a. There are many reasons a ship can become famous, usually because of a great battle or ...read more

  • I Collected A Few Quotes From Our Nation's ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Oct 17, 2008
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    I collected a few quotes from our Nation’s Founders that illustrate how much they expected Christians to influence the nation. (These are just a few of the many quotes I could have used!) Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Whoever shall introduce into the public affairs the principles of primitive ...read more

  • God Blesses Christian Parents

    Contributed by Eric Hanson on Nov 17, 2008
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    GOD BLESSES CHRISTIAN PARENTS How wonderful for children to have parents who are truly "in the Lord." They will be able to honor such men and women, thus activating the promise mentioned in verse 3. Nancy’s Grandparents took her Grandfather’s mother into their home and cared for her when she ...read more

  • Celebration Fires

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    CELEBRATION FIRES During the dark winter of 1864, at Petersburg, Virginia, the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee faced the Union divisions of General Ulysses S. Grant. Late one evening one of Lee's generals, Major General George Pickett, received word that his wife had given birth to a beautiful ...read more

  • Lee Strobel Story

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    LEE STROBEL STORY I have been fascinated by the testimony and story of Lee Strobel. Lee was a journalist for the Chicago Tribune. By his own testimony he was ruthless. He liked his high end lifestyle of work, travel and partying. By his own admission he was an atheist. He had no time for his ...read more

  • What’s Giving Thanks All ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    What’s giving Thanks all about A. The pilgrims did it 1. In 1621, the pilgrims celebrated the first harvest at Plymouth 2. To them, it was a religious holiday celebrating all that God gave them The Pilgrim Proclamation of 1623 Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant ...read more

  • The Best News No One Heard

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    THE BEST NEWS NO ONE HEARD Take the year 1809. The international scene was tumultuous. Napoleon was sweeping through Austria; blood was flowing freely. Nobody then cared about babies. But the world was overlooking some terribly significant births. For example, William Gladstone was born that ...read more

  • A Light Of Hope  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
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    A Light of Hope There is a story about how the caverns north of Yellowstone National Park were discovered. As the story goes, one of the original explorers was walking along the top of that mountain and fell through a hole, and he dropped down several hundred feet into this cavern and was stuck in ...read more

  • Be Content To Speak In A Cottage

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    BE CONTENT TO SPEAK IN A COTTAGE January 6, 1850, was bitterly cold in Colchester, England, a hard-biting blizzard keeping most worshipers at home. At the Primitive Methodist Chapel on Artillery Street, only about a dozen showed up. When it became apparent that even the pastor would not arrive, an ...read more

  • A Father's Duty Never Ends

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 23, 2009
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    A FATHER'S DUTY NEVER ENDS I went to a Saturday matinee showing of that great Sidney Poitier movie, "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?" and I reveled in that confrontation between Poitier’s world-renowned doctor character and his inner-city postman father. The postman father plays the "I sacrificed ...read more

  • Last Week We Attended Our Niece's Wedding. Our ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Mar 4, 2009
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    Last week we attended our niece’s wedding. Our little 2 year-old granddaughter Lydia was the Flower Girl and our 5-year-old grandson David was Ring-Bearer. Susan was talking to David after the wedding about what a great job he did coming up that aisle. She told him, “Charis said you were an ...read more

  • Peter Marshall's Calling

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    PETER MARSHALL’S CALLING In her book, A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall tells how her late preacher-husband felt a sense of destiny a sense of call in his life. One dark night, Peter, then a young man, decided to take a shortcut across the Scottish moors. He knew there was a deep deserted ...read more

  • O Let Him ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Mar 19, 2009
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    “O 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 school, he ...read more

  • Sin: Acts, Words, Thoughts, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
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    SIN: ACTS, WORDS, THOUGHTS, HEART A man once dreamed of passing into the world beyond. An angel met him and showed him a great golden book. "What is that?" he inquired. "It is the book of your life," was the reply. Looking closer he saw that there were some writing on the first page. "What is ...read more

  • You Can Trust ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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    YOU CAN TRUST GOD A Canadian pastor, in a period of great turmoil, received the faithful help of God he needed from reading about the following true incident. In his town the local parks commission had been ordered to remove the trees from a street they were going to widen. As they were about to ...read more

  • Parents, You Are Accountable For Disciplining ...

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 19, 2009
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    Parents, you are accountable for disciplining and teaching your children about God, salvation, and how to live and make godly decisions · How important is it? · A Spiritual Clinic, J. Oswald Sanders recorded observations about two Revolutionary War era families from New England, and the differing ...read more

  • Soil And Spiritual Seasons  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 19, 2009
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    SOIL AND SPIRITUAL SEASONS Jesus says these people resemble the soil next to the path which in Palestine could look like decent soil but only an inch deep. Because the soil has settled there maybe blown by the wind or pushed there by the run off from the rain, it can be very fertile. People are ...read more

  • Don't Get Tangled ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    DON’T GET TANGLED UP A few years ago, at the 2002 Winter Olympics, there were five finalists for the Men’s 1000 Meter Speed Skating Race. During the final lap, the American and Chinese were out front with the Canadian and Korean skaters hot on their heels. Australia trailed behind obviously ...read more

  • Don't Waste The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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    DON’T WASTE THE WISDOM Pastor Warren Weirsbe told of a time when an associate of his, a gifted secretary, was going through great trials. She had had a stroke, her husband had gone blind, and then he had to be taken to the hospital where (we were sure) he would die. He saw her in church one Sunday ...read more