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  • Lucado On Alcoholism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 23, 2011
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    LUCADO ON ALCOHOLISM Max Lucado, one of America's great Christian leaders, found that out earlier in his ministry. He once said, "I come from a family of alcoholism. If there's anything about this DNA stuff, I've got it." For more than 20 years, drinking was not a major issue for Lucado, but about ...read more

  • Take My Hand  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2011
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    TAKE MY HAND The story is told of a man and his boy who was with him, when a little fellow, in Scotland, and for the first time he possessed what in that country is known as a top-coat. They were walking out one cold day, and the way was slippery. The little fellow's hands were deep down in his ...read more

  • The Big Announcement

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 1, 2011
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    THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT We hear good news in lots of different ways, and I am glad that we got to hear the Easter story told by some of our children this morning. There is something about hearing a child tell this great story that gives it new power. I can no longer hear the Resurrection story ...read more

  • Works-Driven Rituals

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
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    WORKS-DRIVEN RITUALS Every year a great throng of people make pilgrimage to the Shrine of Guadalupe in Mexico, a site where supposedly the Virgin Mary once stood...however unlikely that is. They go there hoping to get her attention, and to get her to intervene for them with her son Jesus. They ...read more

  • Navy Seals

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
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    NAVY SEALS I don’t know much about the army but here is something I read recently about those Navy Seals who shot Osama Bin Laden. It’s good to be a Navy SEAL right now. The elite sailors are being showered with praise for their successful operation in Pakistan that resulted in the killing of ...read more

  • Dying For Someone Like That

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 12, 2011
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    DYING FOR SOMEONE LIKE THAT During the war in Vietnam, a young West Point graduate was sent over to lead a group of new recruits into battle. He did his job well, trying his best to keep his recruits from ambush and death. But one night, when they had been under attack, he was unable to get one of ...read more

  • Where Can I Get A Heart Like Yours?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    WHERE CAN I GET A HEART LIKE YOURS? Bill White of Paramount, California talks about being in Compton, California, working with volunteers from several different churches on a Saturday doing projects to serve the city. At lunch time, he was headed down a narrow side street when he saw dozens of ...read more

  • The Last Letter Of Karen Watson

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
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    THE LAST LETTER OF KAREN WATSON Our International Mission Board is working on a project called "The Last Letter." It’s actually an old tradition of soldiers and missionaries who as they boarded a ship, wrote their family and friends a letter that they think might be their final ...read more

  • Billy Graham: Growing Old Has Been A Surprise  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 7, 2012
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    BILLY GRAHAM: GROWING OLD HAS BEEN A SURPRISE Billy Graham, in his book "Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well" (pp. 1-2, Thomas Nelson), he writes: Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life. The young live for the here and now. Thinking ahead seems to be in the form of dreams ...read more

  • Worship At A Garbage Dump

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2012
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    WORSHIP AT A GARBAGE DUMP Imagine a town built atop an active landfill. That is "Garbage City" in Cairo, Egypt, longtime home to an impoverished, marginalized community of Coptic Christians for whom life is only going to get harder. The so-called Zabbaleen have been the trash collectors of Cairo ...read more

  • Finish Strong

    Contributed by Jeffrey Rowe on Dec 29, 2012
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    In 2 Tim 4:7 Paul said that death was like finishing the race. Like crossing the finish line. That all of life is really about one thing – finishing well. Accomplishing the dreams and goals that God has for your life. I ran cross country in high school. We’d go out to these golf courses and ...read more

  • Pax Romana  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 30, 2012
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    PAX ROMANA About 27 years before Jesus was born Rome experienced something unique that history has called Pax Romana = the peace of Rome. Beginning with the reign of Augustine, Emperor of Rome and lasting till about 180 A.D. (a period of 200 years) Rome was at peace. They had few internal ...read more

  • A Boost For Not Boasting!!!

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Oct 21, 2016
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    A Boost for not Boasting!!! Probably you have heard this story before but here it goes again...a tale involving a frog prone to self-boasting and his two crane friends who planned to “live happily together ever after” inhabiting as they were a pond overflowing with rich flora and fauna but that ...read more

  • Judging God's Mirror

    Contributed by David Goering on Sep 1, 2018
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    Suppose a young couple woke up in the morning after a good night sleep and the husband looked in the mirror on the dresser and became very angry at the reflection because of what he saw... his hair was disheveled and he had a sleep wrinkle that ran down the one side of his face, so he took his ...read more

  • Jesus Is Stronger

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 19, 2007
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    JESUS IS STRONGER Remember the Road Runner cartoons where Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner cartoons and inevitably end up in a tight situation? The Coyote will chase the bird failing every time. He will explode, have a rock fall on him, have a ACME device malfunction or fall off the edge of a ...read more

  • I Remember When I Was Growing Up; Many Times We ...

    Contributed by Robert Coats on Dec 21, 2007
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    I remember when I was growing up; many times we made our own toys and gifts: but we always exchanged gifts. There are many traditions in the way gifts are exchanged. I remember a time we were at a friend’s home at Christmas and the way they exchanged gifts was that one person would open a gift and ...read more

  • Impotent Man  PRO

    Contributed by Vera Hughes on Feb 20, 2008
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    John 5:1-7 (Impotent man) 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, ...read more

  • I Saw That Kind Of Wellspring Of Abundant Life ...

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Mar 16, 2008
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    I saw that kind of wellspring of abundant life this week on the internet when I saw Nick Vujicic. He’s a 25 year old man, born without arms or legs, but has a marvelous wellspring of Abundent life like no other I’ve seen… [Play clip from http://lifewithoutlimbs.org/ or read the following excerpt ...read more

  • For Those Of You Who Weren't Here A Couple Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    For those of you who weren’t here a couple of weeks ago - before he became a preacher John Newton was a wicked man. If there was something evil he could do... and he could figure out a way to do it… he did it. In fact, his wickedness was so obvious, that when his ship, the Greyhound, was caught in ...read more

  • A Friend In Erie Who Had A Huge Irish ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Illus. A friend in Erie who had a huge Irish Setter. Truman was not very discriminating when it came to chasing after female dogs. He didn’t much care what kind of dog she was, he was interested. Truman was getting himself in trouble so my friend put in one of those invisible fences. Collar on ...read more