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  • One Day A Pastor Had Been Working All Morning On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One day a pastor had been working all morning on his sermon when His computer crashed and he lost it all. He went upstairs and told his wife, and she was amazed at how well he was taking it. She said, “It’s amazing how calm you are and how happy you seem even though you’ve lost a lot of work.” Then ...read more

  • A Journalist Was Assigned To Jerusalem. He Moved ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A journalist was assigned to Jerusalem. He moved to the city and got an apartment overlooking the wailing wall. After several weeks he realized that whenever he looked out at the wailing wall there was this old Jewish man standing there praying vigorously. The journalist wondered if he might find a ...read more

  • A. Seven Years Ago, A Little Girl Named Keri Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A. SEVEN YEARS AGO, A LITTLE GIRL NAMED KERI WAS PLACED IN FOSTER CARE, AFTER SUFFERING EXTREME ABUSE AND NEGLECT AT HOME. "KERI WAS A ZOMBIE," RECALLS HER FOSTER MOTHER. "SHE DIDN’T TALK AT ALL." B. AT THE SAME TIME, AN OLDER COUPLE, NAMED ELMER AND MARJORIE DAVIS WERE DEEP INTO RETIREMENT ...read more

  • President Abraham Lincoln Called For A Day Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    President Abraham Lincoln called for a day of fasting and prayer. His declaration for a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer begins with this thought. And in so much as we know that, by his divine law, nations, like individuals, are subject to the punishments and chastisements in this ...read more

  • If Anyone Had A Reason To Feel Good About ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 15, 2007
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    If anyone had a reason to feel good about themselves it was Ruth Bell Graham. She was the daughter of missionaries to China, where she lived through her childhood. She was the wife of Billy Graham, whose ministry to the world has possibly had more impact than any other individual in history. T. ...read more

  • A $200 Life-Changing Miracle

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Aug 23, 2007
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    *Did you see the story in the Baptist Message about the two seminary students in New Orleans, who stopped at a local grocery store? It happened years ago, and one of the students was Don Wilton. *In the store they noticed a scruffy looking couple with a baby dressed only in a diaper. God’s Spirit ...read more

  • Could You Imagine? Tuna And Crackers Every Day?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Aug 31, 2007
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    COULD YOU IMAGINE? TUNA AND CRACKERS EVERY DAY? A. There was a hard working young man. He was very poor. He worked long and hard and saved his money. He met a beautiful young woman and fell in love. He later asked for her hand in marriage, and a few years later after saving and working all the ...read more

  • This Past Christmas, The Dallas Family From Our ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 2, 2007
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    This past Christmas, the Dallas family from our church gave us a wonderful gift of Noah’s Ark complete with hand-carved animals. The problem is that it is especially fascinating to children. We have had to glue poor Noah back together more than once. After one visit from our grandchildren, we ...read more

  • I Read A Story This Past Week About A Woman Who, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 4, 2007
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    I read a story this past week about a woman who, in early December had stopped at a grocery store to pick up a few things on her lunch break. One of them was a cinnamon-scented air freshener. She had smelled a candle with the same scent in the store but wanted to know exactly what the air ...read more

  • A Young Woman Named Sally Was Going Away To ...

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 17, 2007
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    A young woman named Sally was going away to college. Her mother worked two jobs so her daughter could go to college. Sally was nervous and afraid about leaving home for the first time to go and live in a far away place. She was also afraid of not having her mother’s guidance. Before Sally left, her ...read more

  • I Remember When I Was Growing Up; Many Times We ...

    Contributed by Robert Coats on Dec 21, 2007
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    I remember when I was growing up; many times we made our own toys and gifts: but we always exchanged gifts. There are many traditions in the way gifts are exchanged. I remember a time we were at a friend’s home at Christmas and the way they exchanged gifts was that one person would open a gift and ...read more

  • There's A Little Guy Somewhere, Waiting To ...

    Contributed by Daniel Owens on Jan 9, 2008
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    There’s a little guy somewhere, Waiting to appear; Curled up inside his mother’s protective atmosphere. He’s the one they didn’t plan on, He’s an extra mouth to feed, a little inconvenience neither of them need. He’s doctor’s bills and formula, He’s sleepless nights and stress, He wet and ...read more

  • Ben Hooper Was Born In Newport, Tennessee In 1870 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Sharp on Jan 10, 2008
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    Ben Hooper was born in Newport, Tennessee in 1870 He was born out of wedlock , to Sarah Wade. As a result, He had a tough childhood, being taunted by others. In his early school years , his Grandfather died, and his mother was forced to place Ben in an Orphanage in Knoxville Tenn. At Age Nine, ...read more

  • From The Book "A Love Worth Giving" By Max ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2008
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    From the book "A Love Worth Giving" by Max Lucado chapter 5- Harold suffered from cerebral palsy. The condition left him unable to walk, dress, feed himself, or go to the rest room. My job was to help him with this. And I didn’t like it. I had moved to St. Louis for spiritual training. Fresh ...read more

  • A Story Told By Paul Lee Tan Illustrates The ...

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Feb 25, 2008
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    A story told by Paul Lee Tan illustrates the meaning of redemption. He said that when A.J. Gordon was pastor of a church in Boston, he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary carrying a rusty cage in which several birds fluttered nervously. Gordon inquired, "Son, where did you get those birds?" ...read more

  • Her Husband Had Skillfully Amassed A ...

    Contributed by Darren Mccormick on Feb 26, 2008
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    Her husband had skillfully amassed a multi-million dollar fortune. When her husband learned that he was dying he asked only one thing of her---he told her the entire fortune is yours but please do this one thing, have a will drawn up. He said something to the effect----Since we have no children ...read more

  • Go To God – He Is The Source Of Our Goodness On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    Go to God – he is the source of our goodness on this earth. Matthew 7:11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Story: This story about Hudson Taylor – a well known missionary ...read more

  • I Think Jesus Still Performs Personal Miracles ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 9, 2008
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    I think Jesus still performs personal miracles for His followers so we can learn to put trust Him. These kinds of miracles don’t make the headlines. They may not mean much to anyone else. These are the little things that show us God cares about even the little details of our live … and that He ...read more

  • The Names By Which God Reveals Himself

    Contributed by Bruce Montgomery on Apr 21, 2008
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    THE NAMES BY WHICH GOD REVEALS HIMSELF We make our first mistake in attempting to define God or describe God if we think of "God" as a common noun rather than a personal noun. "God" is a name, the way of addressing a person. Names are important. One of the first things we want to discover ...read more

  • Bad Day

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    BAD DAY Brian Hise has had his share of bad stuff happen to him. In just a short time -- one day in July -- his apartment in Provo, Utah apartment became flooded because of an upstairs neighbor’s broken pipe. The manager instructed him to go out and rent a wet/dry vacuum. When he went out to his ...read more