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  • Perhaps Your List Would Be Something Like The One ...

    Contributed by Michael Snow on Aug 13, 2008
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    Perhaps your list would be something like the one found in The Book of History, from an ancient Chinese religion. It has a list of the Five Happinesses which include: long life, riches, soundness of body and serenity of ...read more

  • Like Eggs

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    C. S. Lewis – It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on ...read more

  • A Speech Is A Solemn Responsibility. The Man Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half-hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the ...read more

  • Life Is Like The Batting Cages .the Balls Keep ...

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Mar 14, 2008
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    Life is like the batting cages .The balls keep coming and coming and sometimes we hit home runs and sometimes we hit some fouls and some times we just strike out, but no matter how miserably we fail the balls will continue to come and we either choose to swing on or to step aside and just watch the ...read more

  • It Just Seemed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    IT JUST SEEMED LONG George Buttrick is considered one of the top ten preachers of the 20th Century. He served nearly thirty years as pastor of New York’s Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. From that distinguished pulpit, Buttrick began a teaching career at Union Theological Seminary, then as ...read more

  • Priority Lesson  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Aug 16, 2008
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    Priority Lesson At a nursing home in Florida a resident group was discussing ailments. "My arms are so weak I can hardly life this cup of coffee," said one. "Yes I know, my cataracts are so bad I can't even see my coffee," replied another. "I can't turn my head because of the arthritis in my ...read more

  • I Am One Of Them

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    I AM ONE OF THEM As a third-century man was anticipating death, he penned these last words to a friend: "It’s a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy, which is a thousand times ...read more

  • Helen Roseveare Is A British Medical Doctor Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Helen Roseveare is a British medical doctor who worked for many years as a missionary in Zaire. During the revolution of the 1960s, she often faced brutal beatings and other forms of physical torture. On one occasion, when she was about to be executed, she feared God had forsaken her. In that ...read more

  • Why Businesses Fail

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Why Businesses Fail 1) They fail to anticipate problems. 2) They don’t respond promptly when problems arrive. 3) They exhibit something he calls “bad” rational behavior. 4) They adopt ...read more

  • It Is A Testimony To Our Self-Centeredness That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2001
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    It is a testimony to our self-centeredness that we identify ourselves with Job. We are not like him; we are represented by his friends, his family, his enemies. The lesson of Job is not so much about bad things happening to good people ...read more

  • We Don't Want To Do Things That Make The Devil ...

    Contributed by Daniel Devilder on Dec 1, 2006
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    We don’t want to do things that make the devil glad, makes the Holy Spirit sad, or dooms our brother or sister to feeling bad. Rather, we want to make the devil run, magnify the Son, and learn ...read more

  • An Egg

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Nov 27, 2007
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    C. S. Lewis, said, “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on ...read more

  • New Hope From Nothing  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2002
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    NEW HOPE FROM NOTHING In Jim Cymbala’s book, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, there is the story of a woman named Roberta Langella. A story she tells in her own words. At the age of 16 she left a broken home to move to New York City where she began living with a man twice her age. A man that got her into ...read more

  • I Remember Hearing A Story About A Man Who Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bradford Robinson on Jun 16, 2001
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    I remember hearing a story about a man who was visiting a certain school and made a promise to the tiny students that he would give a prize to the one whose desk was found in the best order when he returned. He gave no indication of when that might be. Shortly after he left, a little girl, noted ...read more

  • Girolamo Savonarola Was One Of The Great ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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    Girolamo Savonarola was one of the great preachers of the fifteenth century. He preached in the great cathedral of Florence, Italy, which contained a magnificent marble statue of the blessed virgin Mary. When Savonarola started preaching at this great cathedral, he noticed one day an elderly woman ...read more

  • From The Book: Wacky Laws, Weird Decisions And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 25, 2006
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    From the book: Wacky Laws, Weird Decisions and Strange Statues, Main Street publishers. Divorce Court: a. Marshfield, Wisconsin: When the couple married, he promised to pay her $1 for each kiss as long as they remained married. She sued him for divorce and asked the court for an award of $3,000 in ...read more

  • Double Message Noted

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 18, 2007
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    Double Message Noted A man sat down to supper with his family and said grace, thanking God for the food, for the hands which prepared it, and for the source of all life. But during the meal he complained about the freshness of the bread, the bitterness of the coffee, and the sharpness of the ...read more

  • There's A Story Of Soldier, That While Still A ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 23, 2008
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    There’s a story of soldier, that while still a young boy, formed the habit of praying beside his bed before he went to sleep. He became an object of mockery and ridicule in the barracks. One night, as he knelt to pray after a long, weary march, one of his tormentors took off his muddy boots and ...read more

  • Love As Evangelism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    Love as Evangelism When Henry Stanley went out in 1871 and found Dr. Livingstone, (remember: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?") he spent some months in his company, but Livingstone never spoke to Stanley about spiritual things. Throughout those months Stanley just watched the old man. Livingstone’s ...read more

  • In The Early Church Jerome, That Hardy And Stern ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 15, 2009
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    In the early church Jerome, that hardy and stern disciplinarian, removed himself far from the lurid temptations of the city only to find that he had not escaped them at all. As he confessed: “O how often I imagined that I was in the midst of the pleasures of Rome when I was stationed in the ...read more