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  • A Marvelous Song By Thomas Arne, Set To The Music ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 30, 2003
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    A marvelous song by Thomas Arne, set to the music of Isaac Watts, teaches us to endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ (2 Tim. 2:3) "Am I a soldier of the cross, a follower of the Lamb. And shall I fear to own His cause or blush to speak His name? Must I be carried to the skies on ...read more

  • Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2004
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     | 12,337 views

    Grace - an illustration of the effect of grace. By grace, Jesus took our place on the cross, enduring what he didn’t have to, so that we could have a relationship with our father. As an illustration of this, there is a scene in the Hugh Grant movie ’About A Boy’. Towards the end of the movie, the ...read more

  • Sergeant 1st Class Randall Shughart Was A Member ...

    Contributed by Keith Bowman on Dec 18, 2006
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    Sergeant 1st class Randall Shughart was a member of the Army Special forces and in 1993 he volunteered for a mission that left with little chance for survival but the sergeant could not bear to see his fellow service men be left on the battlefield wounded and at the hands of an angry mob, and so, ...read more

  • World War Ii Had Ended. On September 2, 1945 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 30, 2008
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    World War II had ended. On September 2, 1945 General Douglas MacArthur spoke to the world from the Battleship Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay, “Today the guns are silent...the skies no longer rain death...the seas bear only commerce...men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is ...read more

  • Bad Meat

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jul 3, 2008
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    Bad Meat Colin Byrne Smith of Australia told of a missionary who called on a tribe of cannibals. Taking his life in his hands, he crossed the inlet in a small boat, and when confronted by the tribe, meekly endured every insult. Long afterwards, when he had succeeded in converting many and ...read more

  • A "Powerful" ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
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    A "POWERFUL" GROANER One day in the middle of the woods, a hawk, a lion, and a skunk were arguing about which one was the most powerful. The hawk said it was because he could fly down and catch his dinner so quickly they could not get away. The lion said he could run the fastest and had the ...read more

  • Senator Mark Hatfield, Former Governor Of Oregon ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Senator Mark Hatfield, former Governor of Oregon and U.S. Senator for 30 years visited India and toured Calcutta with Mother Teresa. They visited the so-called "House of Dying," where sick children are cared for in their last days, and the dispensary, where the poor line up by the hundreds to ...read more

  • Spurgeon In His Commentary On Ps. 126 Said, "The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 31, 2007
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    Spurgeon in his commentary on Ps. 126 said, “The church must not only keep this seed in the storehouse, for such as come to inquire for it, but must also send her sowers forth to cast it among those who are ignorant of its value, or too indifferent to ask for it. “The church must not sit weeping ...read more

  • Guard Your Name

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 21, 2007
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    Guard Your Name You got it from your father, it was all he had to give So it’s yours to use and cherish, for as long as you may live. If you lose the watch he gave you, it can always be replaced. But a black mark on your name, son, can never be erased. It was clean the day you took it, and a ...read more

  • The Free-Food Tree

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 7, 2011
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    THE FREE-FOOD TREE One year, a tree on the campus of Green Acres Elementary School, near Santa Cruz, California, bore strange fruit—mostly sandwiches, but sometimes a cookie, a cupcake, an apple or an orange. It came into full bearing from a seed planted by teachers Sophie Farrar and Sandra Enz, ...read more

  • The Fingerprints Of God

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 28, 2014
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    THE FINGERPRINTS OF GOD The stars are God's fingerprints. The sun is a mere smidgen of his radiance. The moon is to remind us that he doesn't sleep at night. The vastness of space proclaims the infinity of his wisdom, while the sand pebble indicates his thoroughness with the puniest details. The ...read more

  • There Is An Old Story Of An Eagle Who, On An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 7, 2000
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    There is an old story of an eagle who, on an early morning during the Spring thaw, soared high above the forest looking for something to eat. As he followed the course of a river he looked down and spied a small rodent, trapped on a piece of ice that had broken free and was floating down stream. ...read more

  • A Poem By Pastor Clinton Meininger From His Book ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 11, 2000
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    A poem by Pastor Clinton Meininger from his book "Springs of Living Waters"tells us of the mysteries of life. He says: "All around me, Lord of life, My world is tumbling in. There’s nothing sure and nothing safe From gossip, greed and sin: And yet, I know ...read more

  • Pastor Learns To Trust God When Displaced By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2010
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    Pastor Learns to Trust God When Displaced by War During the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th century, German pastor Paul Gerhardt and his family were forced to flee from their home. One night as they stayed in a small village inn, homeless and afraid, his wife broke down and cried openly in despair. ...read more

  • The Mission: Tethered To Sin

    Contributed by William Hooper on May 3, 2011
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    THE MISSION: TETHERED TO SIN In the award winning film called "The Mission," Robert DeNiro plays a mercenary who has taken asylum in the local church after killing his brother in a fit of jealous rage. He eventually leaves the church and heads to a mission post located above the waterfalls in a ...read more

  • Missing

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Feb 6, 2008
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    I know what the tears in heaven will be when a mom looks for children and there’s one she can’t see after searching each mansion and her child she can’t find to know that one’s missing and lost for all time there will be such great heartache like none ever known to look at the circle and find one ...read more

  • The Glass Of ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Aug 13, 2008
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    The Glass Of Water A teacher was explaining stress management to his group of science students. He raised a glass of water and asked “How heavy is this glass of water?” Students answers ranged from 20 grams to 500 grams. The teacher replied “the absolute weight doesn’t matter—it depends on how ...read more

  • The Pastor Of New Spring Community Church In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Pastor of New Spring Community Church in Anderson, South Carolina wrote about a burden that was upon his heart in regard to the unBiblical way churches function today. He wrote, “If you operated an airplane like most churches operate today, you would have a pilot and his crew in the cockpit, ...read more

  • A Flippant Youth Asked A Preacher, "You Say That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A flippant youth asked a preacher, “You say that unsaved people carry a weight of sin. I feel nothing. How heavy is sin? Is it ten pounds? Eighty pounds?” The preacher replied by asking the youth, “If you laid a 400-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?” The youth replied, “It would ...read more

  • Forgiven And Forgotten

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Dec 2, 2007
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     | 2,563 views

    Forgiven and Forgotten In “A Forgiving God in an Unforgiving World,” Ron Lee Davis retells the true story of a priest in the Philippines, a much-loved man of God who carried the burden of a secret sin he had committed many years before. He had repented but still had no peace, no sense of God’s ...read more