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  • Impact Of Scripture Memorization: Psalm 119

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2012
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    IMPACT OF SCRIPTURE MEMORIZATION: PSALM 119 Scripture memorization is a great challenge to a modern day saints. But in the old days, many of the saints of God would memorize large portions of Scripture because they were devoted to God. One such man was John Ruskin. He lived in the nineteenth ...read more

  • A Woman, Her Attacker, And The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2012
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    A WOMAN, HER ATTACKER, AND THE BIBLE Earlier this year, a North Carolina woman read the Bible to her attacker for an hour and a half after he slashed her throat before the man apologized and left. Lindsay Wood, 32, of Shelby, N.C., had just arrived home from Bible study on Wednesday. Wood asked her ...read more

  • That Little Khaki-Covered Book  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2012
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    THAT LITTLE KHAKI-COVERED BOOK We Thought We Heard The Angels Sing, written by Lieutenant James Whittaker who was one of seven men whose plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean on October 21, 1942. Their leader was the famous Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, and these seven men found themselves stranded ...read more

  • God's Banana Stalk

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
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    GOD'S BANANA STALK One of my favorite stories in The Bible Questions is the story of the Motilone (Mow-til-oh-ee) Indians of Columbia, South America. In the 1960s, the Motilones were Stone Age headhunters feared by all their neighboring tribes. They had killed every white man who trespassed into ...read more

  • Kamau: A Missionary To Kenya

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
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    KAMAU: A MISSIONARY TO KENYA I have a friend named Francis Kamau. Francis felt led to plant a church in the city of Nairobi, Kenya. Francis decided to plant his church in a part of the city packed with bars and brothels. I preached for Francis a few years ago. And as we were leaving his church, ...read more

  • Quotes On Scripture

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Mar 17, 2013
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    Napoleon, Emperor of the French said "The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades everything that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure." Abraham ...read more

  • Protecting His Bats

    Contributed by Ken Pell on May 19, 2013
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    PROTECTING HIS BATS Japanese-born big-leaguer Ichiro Suzuki is one of the best hitters in baseball. He has led the Major Leagues in regular season hits on seven occasions. To state the obvious, you hit a baseball with a bat. Ichiro Suzuki seems to be more aware of that obvious fact than other ...read more

  • Niv: 30 Years Zondervan Reports More Than 300 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    NIV: 30 Years Zondervan reports more than 300 million copies of the New International Version of the Bible have been sold or ...read more

  • Someone You Know

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Apr 12, 2008
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    SOMEONE YOU KNOW A gray haired lady, long a member of her community and Church, shook hands with the minister after the service one morning. "That was a wonderful sermon, she told him, just wonderful. Everything you said applied to someone I know." What is often missed is that God’s word ...read more

  • Read The Instructions

    Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Apr 27, 2008
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    READ THE INSTRUCTIONS Have you ever been given instructions on how to do something, but you were pretty sure that you could figure it out, so you threw out the instructions? I did that one time with a brand new entertainment center. I had put all kinds of furniture together before and I just ...read more

  • Jesus Compared Two Builders, One "A Wise Man," ...

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jun 20, 2008
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    Jesus compared two builders, one "a wise man," the other "a foolish man." Both these men built houses. One house endured the storm; the other house did not. And the emphasis that we must not overlook is this: that the storm pressed upon the wise man's house as fiercely as it did upon the house ...read more

  • Children Can Be Embarrassingly Frank. I Read Of ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jul 6, 2008
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    Children can be embarrassingly frank. I read of a minister who was visiting one of his members. The lady of the house was trying to impress him about how devout she was by pointing out the large Bible on the bookshelf and talking in a very reverential way of it as "the Word of God". Her young ...read more

  • You Can Never Tell How The Thorough Learning Of ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jul 6, 2008
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    You can never tell how the thorough learning of Scripture will be used in later life. Richard Wurmbrand was a pastor in Romania and was imprisoned and tortured for his faith by the communist authorities. He testified that it was the passages of Scripture that he had memorized as a youth, which ...read more

  • I'm Fine, Sir!

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 19, 2008
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    "I'm Fine, Sir!" During the most intense fighting of the war with Iraq, I was listening to one of the embedded reporters who was traveling with a column of Marine tanks. He was sitting on top of one of the tanks when the enemy opened fire. He said it was a frightening moment, but he emerged ...read more

  • We Should Take To Heart The Words Of D.l. Moody, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
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    We should take to heart the words of D.L. Moody, "The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge, but to transform our lives." (From a sermon by ...read more

  • Paine's Ego

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 7, 2009
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    PAINE’S EGO Thomas Paine was an influential writer at the birth of our nation. He wrote "The Age of Reason." In his book, he called the substitutionary death of Christ on the cross an "invention." He claimed his book would replace the reading of the Bible. Of course, you’ve all read his book, ...read more

  • Green Efforts

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 4, 2009
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    GREEN EFFORTS The news told of a hotel in California trying to be as "green" as possible. So they took out Gideon bible from the rooms, and put ...read more

  • There Is A Story In The Bible About A Man Named, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jess Bousa on Jan 2, 2005
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    There is a story in the Bible about a man named, Mephibosheth. He was the grandson of King Saul and the son of Jonathan. Saul’s son, Jonathan, and David were best friends. They actually entered into a covenant relationship, similar to the ancient covenant of being blood brothers. This means ...read more

  • How God Used A Phrase From A Gospel Tract To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2009
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    How God Used a Phrase from a Gospel Tract to Bring an Indian to Faith in Christ, the Bread of Life; Paul Harvey on the Meaning of God’s Providence So providence assumes that God is the supreme Creator of all things. And as Creator he prevents the universe from going into non-existence, he guides ...read more

  • The Bible Is Full Of Real And Imperfect People. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Pat Cook on May 16, 2005
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    The Bible is full of real and imperfect people. Noah was a drunk; Abraham was too old and a liar; Sarah laughed at God’s promises; Isaac was a daydreamer; Jacob was a liar; Leah was ugly. Joseph was abused; Moses had a stuttering problem and a short fuse; Miriam was a gossip; Gideon was afraid; ...read more