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  • The Chinese Character For "Righteousness" Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Chinese character for "righteousness" is most interesting. It is composed of two separate characters one standing for a lamb, the other for me. When "lamb" is placed directly above "me," a new character "righteousness" is formed. This is a helpful picture of the grace of God. Between me, the ...read more

  • We Are Living In A Generation Where Stolen ...

    Contributed by Virgil Gibson on Oct 17, 2007
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    We are living in a generation where stolen identity is very common. This is where someone else uses your name, social security number and etc to make purchases and charges these to your account. This can happen from loosing your wallet or purse, or someone coming in contact with documents with ...read more

  • Computers And Spouses Today 8 In 10 Americans ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Computers and Spouses Today 8 in 10 Americans are more dependent on their computers than 3 years ago, claims a Kelton Research study. 65% of consumers are spending more time with a computer than with their spouse. “As computers become increasingly pervasive in our lives, our relationships with them ...read more

  • Editors Evolve

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    EDITORS EVOLVE As print's dominance wanes, publishers are asking editors to expand their skill sets and become much more public brand stewards. The volume of content and pages online is not just two or three times that in print, it is 50 to 1,000 times, states Steve Fox, Editor and chief of ...read more

  • Note, Praying Friends Are Valuable Friends; It ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on Aug 9, 2008
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    "Note, Praying friends are valuable friends; it is good to have an intimacy with and an interest in those that have fellowship with God and an interest at the throne of grace; and it well becomes the greatest and best of men to desire the assistance of the prayers of others for them. St. Paul often ...read more

  • Because We Are Human, We Sin

    Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Oct 23, 2009
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    BECAUSE WE ARE HUMAN, WE SIN A dog barks because it is a dog. It does not become a dog because it barks. Its ‘doginess’ makes it a dog, it’s in its DNA. Humans are not proved to be human because we sin; it is because we are human that we sin. Though still bearing he image of God, which ...read more

  • Quote: C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
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    Quote: C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed: "You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang ...read more

  • After The Decision

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 11, 2011
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    AFTER THE DECISION John Wesley, talking of the conversion process, said that the new believer will often rest for days or months in the peace which follows the initial decision, but after a while they begin to become aware of "the ground of their heart, which God before would not disclose unto ...read more

  • My Favorite Christmas Card Greeting

    Contributed by David Simpson on Dec 16, 2012
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    My favorite Christmas card greeting is one I received many years ago. It describes the birth of Jesus in a nutshell. The printed greeting read: "He became what we are so we could become what he is." God has come through Jesus to dwell among us. He gave up the wonders of ...read more

  • End Time Beliefs: A Tyndale House Sponsored Barna ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    End Time Beliefs: A Tyndale House sponsored Barna Group poll indicates 40% of Americans believe the world will end in supernatural intervention, 50% aren’t convinced that the physical world will end and another 10% aren’t sure. Of the respondents who believe the world will end, 38% gave a ...read more

  • The Key Called Promise

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012
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    THE KEY CALLED PROMISE In John Bunyan's great allegory, Pilgrim's Progress, the incident is related of how Christian decides to leave the Main Highway and follow another Path which seemed easier. But this Path leads him into the territory of Giant Despair who owns Doubting Castle. Eventually he ...read more

  • Grace Story/Joke

    Contributed by Bruce Blythe on Apr 13, 2021
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    There are not many stories/jokes that illustrate Grace (plenty of definitions of Grace though!) so I made this one up for my sermon on Romans 11 (Reciprocity No, Grace Yes). Hope people find it helpful. Blessings. Bruce A Jew, an Islamic and a Christian were drinking coffee on a ship. Then the ...read more

  • Attended By Angels! (08.10.05--Character ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Aug 8, 2005
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    Attended By Angels! (08.10.05--Character Counts!--Mark 1: 12-13) Why am I tempted so much? Sometimes it just gets to be a real burden just coping with the day-to-day temptations that never seem to go away. “If God really loves me, why am I tempted so much?” A number of years ago the Douglas ...read more

  • Voices From The ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    Voices from the Past “It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures, and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.” --Abraham ...read more

  • The Bible And The Bounty

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
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    THE BIBLE AND THE BOUNTY The English ship Bounty, commanded by Lt. William Bligh, journeyed to the South Pacific in 1787. Many signed on considering the voyage a trip to paradise. Bligh appointed a young friend, Fletcher Christian, to the post of second in command. The Bounty stayed in Tahiti for ...read more

  • Ernest Hemingway, The Literary Genius, Said Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2005
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    Ernest Hemingway, the literary genius, said of his life: “I live in a vacuum that is as lonely as a radio tube when the batteries are dead, and there is no current to plug into.” This is a startling statement, given the fact that Hemingway’s life would be the envy of anyone who had bought the ...read more

  • Story: At A Comparative Religions Conference, The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Dec 31, 2003
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    Story: At a comparative religions conference, the wise and the scholarly were in a spirited debate about what is unique about Christianity. Someone suggested what set Christianity apart from other religions was the concept of incarnation, the idea that God took human form in Jesus. But someone ...read more

  • The Meaning Of The Cross

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011
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    THE MEANING OF THE CROSS In the 19th century, Armenian Christians, under a Turkish Muslim government, experienced a tremendous amount of persecution. The government lifted the ban on Muslims converting to Christianity in 1856. Then just eight years later, they began arresting these Muslim converts ...read more

  • The Devil's Vision  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Gibney on Aug 8, 2002
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    THE DEVIL’S VISION The devil once said, to his demons below, our work is progressing entirely to slow; The holiness people stand in our way, since they don’t believe in the show or the play; they teach that the carnival, circus and dance, the tavern and honky tonk, with games of chance, drinking ...read more

  • Defining Religion  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
    based on 19 ratings
     | 4,999 views

    DEFINING RELIGION Religion is hanging around the cross, Christianity is hanging on ...read more