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  • Christ Died In My Place

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Christ died IN MY PLACE. During the U.S. Civil War, a farmer named Blake was drafted as a soldier. He was deeply troubled about leaving his family because his wife had died and there would be no one to support and take care of his children in his absence. The day before he was to leave for the ...read more

  • Introduction: Are You Ready For Some Football! We ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Introduction: Are you ready for some football! We are only 48 days 3hrs and approximately 30 minutes to the kick off of Alabama football. Foot ball in Alabama is more than a sport. It is a way of life. We live foot ball 365 days a year. It is almost like a religion. In fact we begin to indoctrinate ...read more

  • What God Can Do For Us  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 22, 2008
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    WHAT GOD CAN DO FOR US A young pastor in another church told about an experience he had with a family who tended to be the "Easter and Christmas" variety of church attendees. A young woman in the family became critically ill. The prognosis was bad. In fact, doctors expected she might die within ...read more

  • In One Of The Churches I Served After Seminary, ...

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on May 12, 2008
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    In one of the churches I served after seminary, Granny Parker summed up what I sense is God’s way of helping us along in the church. Granny is home with Jesus now. In this world she wasn’t very impressive; she only completed about 5th grade in school. But she had a heart for God and a PhD when ...read more

  • In The Yorktown Visitors Center You Can See The ...

    Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 19, 2008
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    In the Yorktown Visitors Center you can see the bicentennial proclamation celebrating the 200th anniversary of Washington's victory over the British general Cornwallis. Under the glass with that proclamation is the pen Ronald Reagan used to sign the document back in 1981. Suppose I were to ...read more

  • Don't Trust Feelings  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    DON'T TRUST FEELINGS I read of a helicopter pilot who flew from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific told this story. He said, "I was flying the helicopter back to the ship when a blinding fog rolled in. Flying at a low altitude, I knew that a single mistake would plunge my crew and me into the ...read more

  • God Can Change Your Attitude

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 27, 2008
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    God Can Change Your Attitude We live in an angry world, surrounded by angry people. We can give all kinds of excuses for being an angry person, but none of them really make an angry attitude the only option. I went out to visit our friend Bruce Thursday. If you remember he had surgery for a ...read more

  • Possibilities

    Contributed by Bobby Bodenhamer on Oct 17, 2008
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    Possibilities He was born into wealth and was raised in a mansion. Today he wears prison gray after being convicted of planting a car bomb that took the lives of two members of his family. His almost unbelievable reversal of circumstances came after he tried to get control of a $10-million family ...read more

  • Redeemed, Redeemed, Redeemed...

    Contributed by Bob Gillchrest on Dec 1, 2008
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    REDEEMED, REDEEMED, REDEEMED... A.J. Gordon was the great Baptist pastor of the Clarendon Church in Boston, Massachusetts. One day he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary carrying a rusty cage in which several birds fluttered nervously. Gordon inquired, "Son, where did you get those birds?" ...read more

  • Not A Voice, But A Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    NOT A VOICE, BUT A LIFE The late great Presbyterian clergyman and hymnist, Rev. Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858 - 1901) once wrote: "Christianity is not a voice in the wilderness but a life in the world. It is not an idea in the air but feet on the ground, going [Almighty] God's way. It is not an ...read more

  • The Wrong Kind Of Loyalty

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 12, 2009
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    THE WRONG KIND OF LOYALTY There is a story of a Japanese soldier, Lt. Hiroo Onada, left on the island Lubang in the Philippines on December 25, 1944, with the command to "carry on the mission, even if Japan surrenders." Onada continued his war alone. All efforts to convince him to surrender or to ...read more

  • Buyer's Remorse And A Dead ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    BUYER’S REMORSE AND A DEAD DONKEY A city boy, Kenny, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died." Kenny replied, ...read more

  • Comedian Shares How That When The Airline Lost ...

    Contributed by James Crain on Mar 27, 2009
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    comedian shares how that when the airline lost his luggage, he goes to the counter where lost luggage is reported. Now how would you like that job? People come up to the counter and you say. How are you today, Let me guess, you are not happy? Or maybe you angry. Really really angry, Livid. Anyway, ...read more

  • Demon-Possessed Man

    Contributed by Daryl Grimes on Sep 25, 2009
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     | 4,700 views

    DEMON-POSSESSED MAN People had written him off a long time ago. He was just a crazy lunatic that no one wanted anything to do with. They kept their children away, they kept their wives away and they kept themselves away. He lived like a pig, his body odor was almost unbearable and to make matters ...read more

  • Child With Leukemia Grateful For Doctor's Help In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2009
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    Child With Leukemia Grateful for Doctor’s Help In Spite of Pain David, a 2-year old with leukemia, was taken by his mother, Deborah, to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, to see Dr. John Truman who specializes in treating children with cancer and various blood diseases. Dr. Truman’s ...read more

  • Gi Cook Picks Out An Enemy Infiltrator During ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    GI Cook Picks Out an Enemy Infiltrator during World War II I read the true story of GIs stationed on Leyte in the Philippines during WW II. Although the region was secure, sometimes the enemy tried to infiltrate their food storage area. One such adversary, dressed in GI clothing, had worked himself ...read more

  • Mother Sheep Sacrifices Her Life To Save Her Lamb ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    Mother Sheep Sacrifices Her Life to Save Her Lamb from a Tiger William Faulkner tells the story of a mother sheep who had warned her little ones, “Do not go near the river, for a bad tiger lives there, and he will kill and eat you.” One lamb kept toying with the thought that the grass near the ...read more

  • Matryoshka Doll

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Aug 30, 2010
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    I purchased this doll a few years back when I visited in Russia. It’s called a Matryoshka doll (Russian Nesting doll). (taking dolls apart) If you’re familiar with these dolls, you know that you open up one and there’s another inside … and so on and so on. This continues until you get to the ...read more

  • Olonga's Persecution

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Mar 10, 2011
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    OLONGA'S PERSECUTION Henry Olonga tells of when he was first selected for the Zimbabwean cricket B-Team. They were touring South Africa and staying in a luxurious Johannesburg Hotel. At that time they had to share a hotel room with a teammate and he was sharing with a more famous, white, senior ...read more

  • Out-Of-Whack Priorities

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 26, 2011
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    OUT-OF-WHACK PRIORITIES USA Today ran an article on October 25th, 1995 that is a great illustration about priorities. It reads... "Ronald Warwick, captain of the luxury cruise ship Queen Elizabeth II, questioned a passenger who paid full fare for his dog to join them on an around-the-world ...read more

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