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  • In The Last Decade, Over 1,000 Species Of Animal ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 21, 2009
     | 1,534 views

    In the last decade, over 1,000 species of animal were discovered in the Mekong jungles and wetlands of Asia. That averages to a species a week. Among them were never-before-named types of: • Spiders • Rats • Bats • Rabbits • Snakes • Fish • Frogs • Lizards • Plants • Birds ...and the list goes ...read more

  • Out Of The Darkness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
     | 3,858 views

    OUT OF THE DARKNESS Phillip Brooks wrote in 1837, "Out of the hillsides of humiliated pride, deep in the darkness of crushed despair, in the fretting and dusty atmosphere of little cares, in the hard cruel contacts that man has with man; wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever ...read more

  • Jack Mooring (From The Christian Band Leeland): ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Apr 23, 2009
     | 1,923 views

    Jack Mooring (from the Christian band Leeland): "What changed us wasn’t just going to church. It wasn’t going to youth group. It was being in the altar and experiencing the anointing and the presence of God. We want to bring that to Christian music in a new way and have kids experience the Holy ...read more

  • No Longer On Trial

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on May 11, 2010
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    NO LONGER ON TRIAL In a museum art gallery of old masters, one visitor was being particularly and audibly critical of these great works of art. Finally, an elderly attendant could stand it no longer and said, "If you please, sir, the pictures are no longer on trial...but the spectators are." ...read more

  • Tattling

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 4, 2019
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    Difference between tattling and communicating necessary information: 2. Difference between rightness [trite correctness] and being righteous. "Johnny is playing with matches" - OK "Johnny is playing with his iPod even though you said he had to brush his teeth first!" - ...read more

  • Theophany

    Contributed by Joshua Blackmon on Jun 3, 2024
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    "Theologians have a specialized word to describe the instances when God appears to human beings. A visible manifestation of God within the Old Testament is called a theophany. The word theophany derives from two Greek words, the word for God (theos) and the word for appearing (phaino, which in ...read more

  • The Idol Of Tv

    Contributed by John Bright on Feb 2, 2025
     | 256 views

    “I believe that people who are watching television more than (reading) the Word of God are living in idolatry. God wants us to turn off our televisions and turn on the Word of God, to spend time watching His Word, that we will be washed in His Word and conformed into His image and likeness.” ...read more

  • Jesus Went Into The Synagogue On The Sabbath And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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     | 3,352 views

    Jesus went into the synagogue on the Sabbath and saw a man with a crippled hand. He knew that the Pharisees were watching to see what he would do, and he felt angry that they were only out to put him in the wrong. They did not care a scrap for the handicapped man, nor did they want to see the power ...read more

  • What Better Way To Show How Man Has Done This ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
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    What better way to show how man has done this than to look at the two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977 and sent barreling towards the outer reaches of the solar system. On each ship is a gold-coated phonograph record, offering a message to extraterrestrial civilizations. This message includes ...read more

  • A Science Professor At Westmont College Wrote A ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Apr 1, 2007
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    A science professor at Westmont College wrote a book explaining how only one person could possibly have fulfilled the prophecies. He worked with 600 students to calculate the mathematical probability of just eight of the Old Testament prophecies being fulfilled in any one person up to the present ...read more

  • Do You Desire God's Honor Above Your ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jun 22, 2008
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    Do you desire God’s honor above your own? My first ministry after seminary was back home in Rochester, NY. I was one of two chaplains at the Monroe County Jail. Every Saturday evening we would hold a worship service in the auditorium at the jail for the inmates. One of the deputies was ...read more

  • Thanksgiving At Plymouth ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
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    Thanksgiving at Plymouth Colony Think of that little band of people who crossed the Atlantic in a boat that was 26 feet by 112 feet and landed on the New England coast during a bitter cold winter. At times that first year the daily ration of those who were well was only five grains of corn. In ...read more

  • Many People Find Doing God's Will Hard. Rosa ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 18, 2007
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    Many people find doing God’s will hard. Rosa Parks found it hard when she was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man. It is difficult to imagine such an arrest taking place today, just a little over 50 years later. But that is because her simple act of ...read more

  • Do You Remember The Little Girl From Canada That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Haines on Mar 8, 2001
    based on 139 ratings
     | 2,326 views

    Do you remember the little girl from Canada that slipped into the backyard alone wearing only a diaper a couple of weeks ago? It was –20 C. She ended up collapsing on the snow-covered lawn before being found by distraught family and friends. The mother, who had been sleeping with the girl and a ...read more

  • Now, During My Sermon Preparation Time, I Came ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Now, during my sermon preparation time, I came across a humorous story entitled, “Helping Hand”: a. According to the story, a pastor is walking down the street one day when he notices a very small boy … trying to press a doorbell on a house across the street. b. However, the boy is very small ...read more

  • Ken Medema, Blind Songwriter Wrote The Powerful ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Ken Medema, blind songwriter wrote the powerful words of a song called “If this is not a Place” which is so fitting to the message of what the family of God should be. “If this is not a place where tears are understood, Then where shall I go to cry? And if this is not a place where my spirit can ...read more

  • The Contemporary Christian Band "Casting Crowns" ...

    Contributed by Mike Rexroat on Aug 10, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,983 views

    The contemporary Christian band "Casting Crowns" has a song called "Praise You in this Storm." In the song the artists talk about how, even in the midst of the storm, they are able to praise God within the storm. Storms of life happen...whether they be physical, like Hurrican Katrina, or ...read more

  • There Is Nothing Quite Like Fresh Bread As Its ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 30, 2007
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    There is nothing quite like fresh bread as its being baked in the oven (10 years I was a baker) as it comes out of the oven you can see it golden brown colour, you can smell the freshness, your taste buds start to salivate, your tummy starts to rumble (and mine did many times) and not until ...read more

  • The Deepest Demonstration Of Love Is To Willingly ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Nov 3, 2007
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    The deepest demonstration of love is to willingly sacrifice oneself for the benefit of another. In our last church one of our members was Pat Thorne. He was a sniper who, atop a tree, saw a platoon of Canadian soldiers walking on a road in the direction of a German contingent. Wanting to warn them ...read more

  • Someone Named J. R. Illingworth Once Said, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    Someone named J. R. Illingworth once said, "Prayer has been defined to be a wish referred to God; and, if we could keep this thought before us, it would help us to acquire the habit of prayer by making us refer each wish, as it comes into our minds, to God, for His assistance in furtherance or ...read more