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  • Consider A New Mother Home Alone With Her Baby. ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 2, 2009
     | 1,985 views

    Consider a new mother home alone with her baby. Suddenly she’s awakened by the smell of smoke. The house is on fire. Her only thought is for her baby. She races down the smoke-filled hall without a thought for her own safety. She grabs him in her arms, shields his face from the flames with her ...read more

  • Jesus Was, Yet Is

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jun 4, 2010
     | 2,748 views

    JESUS WAS, YET IS Back in the 4th century A.D., a man named Gregory of Nazianzus wrote these words that capture the identity of Jesus as one who is fully human, yet fully God: He began His ministry by being hungry, yet He is the Bread of Life. Jesus ended His earthly ministry by being thirsty, ...read more

  • Two-Year-Old Boy Addicted To Smoking In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 8, 2010
     | 2,852 views

    Two-Year-Old Boy Addicted to Smoking in Indonesia An Indonesian father claims his two-year-old son is addicted to cigarettes, a newspaper reported. Mohammad Rizal, from the Southeast Asian country’s Musi Banyuasin province, said his son Rizal is hooked on tobacco after having his first cigarette at ...read more

  • Jesus Knows Us By Name

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 6, 2011
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    JESUS KNOWS US BY NAME Names convey a sense of who we are and how others relate to us. "The Lord has called Me from the womb; ...He has made mention of My name" (Isa. 49:1). At the Korean Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, the people seldom refer to one another by their first name. They speak ...read more

  • Where Does God Fit In?

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 1, 2011
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    WHERE DOES GOD FIT IN? One Christmas season a schoolteacher in England supervised the construction of a manger scene in a corner of her classroom. Her pupils were delighted to set up the model barn and cover the floor with real straw and then arrange the clay figures of Mary, Joseph, the ...read more

  • Timothy Smith Writes In His Sermon On Jesus Being ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Dec 27, 2011
     | 1,854 views

    Timothy Smith writes in his sermon on Jesus being born to die, "I was watching "48 Hours Mystery" last Tuesday night on CBS. Their show that night was called "The Mystery of Christmas." It was all about finding and looking at historical evidence for the birth of Christ. Early in the show Maureen ...read more

  • The Slightest Wish  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2012
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     | 3,170 views

    THE SLIGHTEST WISH During the War Between the States, General Lee one day sent word to Stonewall Jackson that the next time he rode in the direction of headquarters the Commander-in-Chief would be glad to see him on a matter of no great importance. General Jackson received the message and ...read more

  • Jaymalis Davis Was Highlighted In The ...

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 21, 2012
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    Jaymalis Davis was highlighted in the Times-Picayne series entitled, “Louisiana Incarcerated.” He lives in central city surround by drugs, crime and unemployment. His mother is crack addicted and largely absent from his home and his father, who was in and out of jail for drugs and car theft and ...read more

  • There Is A Scene In "Rainman" Where Charlie ...

    Contributed by David Flowers on Jun 2, 2005
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    There is a scene in "Rainman" where Charlie grabs Raymond by the neck. Raymond grabs a notebook and records the time and date of the offense. Though there is very bad language in this scene and most churches would not want to ...read more

  • Obedience Matters To God

    Contributed by John Bright on Feb 2, 2025
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    So many churches in our day have been captivated by church growth techniques and have made attendance the measure of success. I have got bad news for these folks – God’s measure of success is the ...read more

  • Working On Hell  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
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    WORKING ON HELL Reader’s Digest recently asked the great fighter Muhammed Ali what his faith meant to him. Ali replied: "[It] means [a] ticket to heaven. One day we’re all going to die, and God’s going to judge us, [our] good and bad deeds. [If the] bad outweighs the good, you go to hell; ...read more

  • On Habits

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 7, 2012
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    ON HABITS Someone Once Said... * Thoughts produce acts, acts produce habits, and habits produce character.--Anonymous * If we realize the extent to which we are mere walking bundles of habits, we would give more heed to their own formation.--William James* * First we ...read more

  • 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
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,193 views

    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
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,078 views

    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