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  • Living Poor To Give More: Excelling In Giving

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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     | 3,684 views

    LIVING POOR TO GIVE MORE: EXCELLING IN GIVING The richest people in the world give a huge amount of money, yet their generosity is really a very small proportion of their wealth. And apparently the vast majority of Christ’s followers are not exactly excelling their giving either. So what does ...read more

  • Loneliness And Suicide, Products Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    Loneliness and Suicide, Products of Materialism Can you guess who said this? "I sit in my house in Buffalo and sometimes I get so lonely it’s unbelievable. Life has been so good to me. I’ve got a great wife, good kids, money, my own health--and I’m lonely and bored.... I often wondered why so many ...read more

  • The Conversion Of George Whitefield

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 29, 2011
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    THE CONVERSION OF GEORGE WHITEFIELD In the 1730's in England, a young man named George Whitefield desperately wanted to be right before God. As a student at Oxford, he was part of the Holy Club, along with John and Charles Wesley. The members of that club rose early every day for lengthy ...read more

  • Christ And The Law Of Compound Probability

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Jan 1, 2012
     | 4,987 views

    CHRIST AND THE LAW OF COMPOUND PROBABILITY In the book, Science Speaks, Professor Peter Stoner used "the Law of Compound Probability," to assess some of the prophecies relating to Christ. Simply stated, this law is used to calculate the odds against a "chance" fulfillment of such predictions when ...read more

  • Athanasius Contends For The Deity Of Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2012
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     | 4,378 views

    ATHANASIUS CONTENDS FOR THE DEITY OF CHRIST If Jesus is something less than God, he has no right and no power to forgive our sins. If Jesus can’t forgive our sins, we have no hope. Yes, the doctrine of the deity of Christ is worth contending for. And there is nobody God used more to contend for ...read more

  • If We Can Look Inside The Womb And See That The ...

    Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 28, 2007
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    If we can look inside the womb and see that the baby has some birth defect, i.e., German Measles, and kill the baby, why should we not go one step further and look at the people who we’re not guessing about—people who we now are deformed and are handicapped. And trust me, that day is coming. The ...read more

  • The Greater The Man, The Greater He Will See His ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,584 views

    The greater the man, the greater he will see his role as father. General Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander of Allied forces during WWII said: Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and ...read more

  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 3, 2007
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    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Johann Sebastian Bach was born into the musical family of Bachs in 1685. By the age of ten, both of his parents were dead. Early in his friction-filled life, young Johann determined he would write music … music for the glory of God … and this he did. Most of ...read more

  • In The Ultimate Obedience Depicted In 1 Peter 4:1 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    In the ultimate obedience depicted in 1 Peter 4:1 Believers who have died have ceased from sin will have entered into an eternal condition of holy perfection, free from all sin’s influences and effects (cf. 1 Cor. 15:42–43; 2 Cor. 5:1; Rev. 21:4; 22:14–15). SAFELY HOME I am home in Heaven, dear ...read more

  • Truth Stats In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    TRUTH STATS IN BELIEVERS A 2002 survey by the Barna Group found that adults, by a 3-to-1 margin believe that truth is relative to each individual person and his or her circumstances as opposed to the concept of absolute truth. And frankly, that isn’t all that surprising. But what is really ...read more

  • K ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 2, 2008
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    Kite Once on a time a paper kite Was mounted to a wondrous height, Where, giddy with its elevation, It thus express’d self-admiration: “See how yon crowds of gazing people Admire my flight above the steeple; How would they wonder if they knew All that a kite like me can do! Were I but free, I’d ...read more

  • In The Ultimate Obedience Depicted In 1 Peter 4:1 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 2,086 views

    In the ultimate obedience depicted in 1 Peter 4:1 Believers who have died have ceased from sin will have entered into an eternal condition of holy perfection, free from all sin’s influences and effects (cf. 1 Cor. 15:42–43; 2 Cor. 5:1; Rev. 21:4; 22:14–15). Poem: Safely Home I am home in Heaven, ...read more

  • In The Ultimate Obedience Depicted In 1 Peter ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
     | 1,866 views

    In the ultimate obedience depicted in 1 Peter 4:1, believers who have died have ceased from sin will have entered into an eternal condition of holy perfection, free from all sin's influences and effects (cf. 1 Cor. 15:42-43; 2 Cor. 5:1; Rev. 21:4; 22:14-15). Poem: Safely Home I am home in Heaven, ...read more

  • God Knows

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 10, 2009
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    "GOD KNOWS" I am reminded of that wonderful line in Archibald MacLeish’s J.B., the Broadway version of the Book of Job as told in verse. Before the great businessman, the J.B. of the play’s title is brought down by the desperate circumstances recounted in the first two chapters of Job, one of ...read more

  • God Provides But We Personally Must Take Actions!

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Nov 10, 2022
     | 1,138 views

    Genesis 7 Was Noah righteous because he never sinned? - See Hebrews 11:7 What were God’s instructions to Noah? Go into the ark, you and your whole family Take in the ark animals (what were they?) “Clean” animals “unclean” animals Birds How many days did God give Noah to bring in the animals? – ...read more

  • God Can Destroy Everything On Earth!

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Nov 12, 2022
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    Genesis 7:17-24 See Hebrews 11:7 – What can we learn from this? - faith includes God's instructions and obedience God gave Noah a huge task (almost an impossibility to load up all sorts of animals and necessities in 7 days!) We do not note God indicating to Noah that God was going to help, ...read more

  • Hope Ain't Hoping

    Contributed by John Bright on May 27, 2023
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    I want to give you a shorthand way of remembering the difference between the hope in our Bibles and the hope out in the world. Hope ain’t hoping. Today, folks plan outside events and say, “I sure hope it doesn’t rain.” Every Sunday, some folks may show up here and say, “I sure hope PJ doesn’t ...read more

  • Heaven, A Personal Place

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    Heaven, A Personal Place Jesus said, "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in Me. In My Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and ...read more

  • Most United Methodists Are Aware That One Of Our ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 2, 2002
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    Most United Methodists are aware that one of our practices is the use of unfermented juice of the grape for Holy Communion. While some other Protestant bodies share this practice, the possibility of the practice goes back to the late 19th century and a Methodist dentist named Thomas Bramwell ...read more

  • Finally Christmas  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 5,040 views

    FINALLY CHRISTMAS Senator John McCain of Arizona was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam conflict. He was shot down and held as a prisoner of war in Hanoi for 5 ½ years, 1967-1973, spending much of it in solitary confinement.John McCain said this, “When I was being mistreated by the North ...read more