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  • A Father Was Teaching His 3 Year Old To Ask The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A father was teaching his 3 year old to ask the blessing over her food. After awhile, Jenny was able to say it all by herself. She prayed for all kinds of things and ended it with a big, “Thank You God for the spaghetti.” Then she was ready to eat. She forgot to say, “In Jesus’ Name, Amen.” Her Dad ...read more

  • One Evening, A Little Girl Was Saying Bedtime ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
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    One evening, a little girl was saying bedtime prayers with her mother. “Dear Harold, please bless Mother and Daddy and all my friends,” she prayed. “Wait a minute,” interrupted her Mother. “Who’s Harold?” “That’s God’s name,” was the answer. “Who told you that was God’s name?” asked the ...read more

  • He Will Demand Everything

    Contributed by Kristian Kilgore on Jul 26, 2011
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    HE WILL DEMAND EVERYTHING Breezy, self-confident Christians tell us how wonderful it is to accept Christ and then have a good time all the rest of your life; the Lord won’t demand anything of you. Yes, He will, my friend! The Lord will demand everything of you. And when you give it ...read more

  • God Sends Children For Another Purpose Than ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    "God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race--to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections; to give our souls higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion; and to bring round our firesides ...read more

  • In America, Bibles Are Everywhere. You Can Find ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2001
    based on 278 ratings
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    In America, Bibles are everywhere. You can find them in grocery stores, prisons, and motel rooms. They’re available in all sizes, shapes, translations, and versions, leather bound or paperback. Every year the Bible outsells every other major book. Last year 500 million Bibles were published in ...read more

  • Most Important Of All, The Discoveries Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
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    Most important of all, the discoveries of molecular biologists, far from strengthening Darwin’s claims, are throwing more and more doubt on traditional Darwinian evolution. They say that biochemicals are now known to be so enormously complex that “quite explicit instructions” were necessary for ...read more

  • The Scientific World Has Been Bamboozled Into ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
     | 765 views

    The scientific world has been bamboozled into believing that evolution has been proved. Nothing could be further from the truth … Every competent space mathematician would assure you that such a Darwinian idea had no chance of working … Every computer expert will in fact assure you that throwing ...read more

  • Herbert Schlossberg, In His Book Idols For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
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    Herbert Schlossberg, in his book Idols for Destruction, astutely observed: “Western society, in turning away from the Christian faith, has turned to other things. This process is commonly called secularization, but that conveys only the negative aspect. The word connotes the ‘turning away from ...read more

  • Someone Has Said "The Advent Of The New Age Can ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Hamilton on Oct 25, 2002
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    Someone has said “The advent of the new age can be seen as a mixed blessing for Christians who are called to respond in faith to the presence of new religions towards the end of the 20th century. While the new age may be drawing away from traditional faith many dissatisfied individuals who have not ...read more

  • Persistence Is An Important Factor In Prayer. ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Dykes on Mar 31, 2003
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    Persistence is an important factor in prayer. But persistence is a valuable commodity for every area of your Christian life, not just prayer. God blesses those who persist. So whatever you may be facing right now, don’t give up! If you’re ever tempted to give up, just remember the composer Brahms. ...read more

  • Ill>> Many Churches Years Ago Had Mourners ...

    Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Oct 27, 2004
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    ILL>> Many churches years ago had mourners benches. Charles Allen in his book God’s Psychiatry said “Today we want God’s blessing without the pain of God’s purging. we want sermons on how to win friends, how to have peace of mind, how to forget our fears. But we ...read more

  • One Of My Christmas Presents Was A Book: ‘a ...  PRO

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 5, 2008
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    One of my Christmas presents was a book: ‘A Bundle of Laughs’ by J. John & Mark Stibbe. Towards the end of the book comes their light-hearted ‘20 Rules of Wisdom’. Don’t worry; I’m only going to read four! 1.God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts! 2.Growing old is inevitable, growing up ...read more

  • Praying What Mommy Prays

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
     | 3,078 views

    A wife invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to their six-year-old daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?" "I wouldn’t know what to say," the girl replied. "Just say what you hear Mommy say," the wife answered. The daughter bowed her head and said, "Lord, ...read more

  • That Reminds Me Of A Story Of A Mother Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on May 12, 2007
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     | 1,666 views

    That reminds me of a story of a mother who invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to her six-year-old daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?" "I wouldn’t know what to say," the girl replied. "Just say what you hear Mommy say," the mother answered. The little girl ...read more

  • Between A Man, Torn With Anxiety, Tossed With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Between a man, torn with anxiety, tossed with fear, fretting with care, and the good man who calmly trusts in the Lord, there is as great a difference as between a brawling, roaring mountain brook, that, with mad haste, leaps from crag to crag, and is ground into boiling foam, and the placid ...read more

  • No Christianity Without The Cross  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    NO CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT THE CROSS Dr. H. Richard Neibuhr condemns cross-less Christianity, or the evangelical "feel good" seeker-sensitive churches, who refuse to display or talk about the cross. With biting criticism he writes, "Such beliefs as a God without wrath, bringing men without sin into a ...read more

  • Theodore Roosevelt's Thoughts On Family

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
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    Theodore Roosevelt’s Thoughts on Family Theodore Roosevelt said in 1917, "No other success in life--not being president, or being wealthy, or going to college, or writing a book, or anything else--comes up to the success of the man or woman who can feel that they have done their duty and that ...read more

  • Many Jewish Families Lost Their Place In The ...

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 12, 2010
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    Many Jewish Families lost their place in the genealogical record by failing to return home. Also, many who once had a place at our table, have disappeared, and can no longer prove their pedigree. Their status with the Lord and with men is in doubt. Perhaps a Christian. Perhaps a member. But ...read more

  • Spiritual Leadership Begins At Home

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
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    SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP BEGINS AT HOME I like the way Paul Carlson put it in Leadership Journal years ago. He said, "Your spiritual leadership begins at home. In dealing with the family, remember that you have been blessed by the Lord, not beatified. Don’t expect your wife to stop asking you to carry ...read more

  • Stir Crazy Church

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 4, 2011
     | 1,660 views

    STIR CRAZY CHURCH The baseball player Reggie Jackson referred to himself as “the straw that stirs the drink.” Cocky and outspoken, he had a knack for keeping the adrenaline flowing among his teammates. Hebrews is telling each of us to be the straw that stirs the drink in fellowship together as ...read more

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