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  • Church Conflict

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2011
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     | 6,649 views

    CHURCH CONFLICT In Winchester, Ohio there’s a church called the Bethlehem Church of Christ. It’s been in existence for over 150 years, and over the years different events have been recorded in their “history” book. One of their recent ministers was reading back over the different entries in this ...read more

  • The World Is Without Hope

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 5, 2011
     | 3,741 views

    THE WORLD IS WITHOUT HOPE In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Cat’s Cradle, an important book comes to light. It is titled, "What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" The chief character is anxious to read it. But when he does, he finds that it ...read more

  • John Piper's Reading Plan

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 14, 2011
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    JOHN PIPER'S READING PLAN John Piper is a well-known Christian author and pastor. He tells about a plan that he says has changed his life. Suppose you read about 250 words a minute, and you resolved to devote just 15 minutes a day to some serious theological reading to deepen your understanding ...read more

  • Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Noah  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
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    EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM NOAH In 1988, Robert Fulghum published his best-selling book, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Recently, somebody suggested another book title: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Noah. For example... * Don't miss the boat. * Plan ...read more

  • The Lonely Frog

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Dec 8, 2014
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    You’ve heard the one, I ‘m sure, about the lonely frog who goes to see a fortune-teller. He’s told not to worry. She says, “You’re going to meet a beautiful young girl, and she will want to know everything about you.” “That’s great!” the excited frog says. “When will I meet her?” And the psychic ...read more

  • World Class Failures  PRO

    Contributed by Kay Kurtz on Oct 26, 2006
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    World class failures: * There was a guy, a general, who lost two-thirds of all the battles he fought in the American Revolution. George Washington. He won the war. * There was another guy who graduated 42nd out of a class of 43. Then he went out and conquered Europe. Napoleon. * There’s a guy ...read more

  • Trust God He Knows The Future!

    Contributed by Roger Whipp on Dec 29, 2014
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    Testimony: When I was in the Police one of my note books containing vital evidence went missing. I started to panic as in the UK any verbal evidence written down must be shown, if requested in it’s original form at court. The small voice of God prompted me to look in the confidential waste sack. ...read more

  • A Well Known Christian Wrote, "The Last Days ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    • A well known Christian wrote, “the last days are upon us. Weigh carefully the times. Look for Him who is above all time, eternal and invisible.” That was not written by a modern prophecy expert. It was written by a man named Ignatius about 110 A.D., just a couple of decades after the apostle John ...read more

  • Don't Underestimate An Act Of Love

    Contributed by Billy Noel on May 18, 2009
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    DON'T UNDERESTIMATE AN ACT OF LOVE One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, "Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He must ...read more

  • Builders For Eternity  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Barron on Mar 1, 2001
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    Isn’t it strange that princes and kings And clowns that caper in sawdust rings And common people like you and me Are builders for eternity? Each is given a bag of tools, A shapeless mass, a book of rules; And each must make ‘ere life is flown, A ...read more

  • In The End Of Christendom Malcolm Muggeridge ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2001
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    In the End of Christendom Malcolm Muggeridge wrote, "I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it’s been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books in the future. Posterity will marvel that so flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be ...read more

  • For Many Years Dr. Frances Schaeffer And His Wife ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jul 7, 2002
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    For many years Dr. Frances Schaeffer and his wife Edith ran a house of Christian hospitality and study in Switzerland called L’Abri. They opened their hearts and homes to hundreds of people seeking Biblical answers to life’s challenges. In her book What is a Family? ...read more

  • The Christian Life Is A ‘hidden Life' As Far As ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
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    “The Christian life is a ‘hidden life’ as far as the world is concerned, because the world does not know Christ (see I John 4: 1-6). Our sphere of life is not this earth, but heaven; and the things that attract us and excite us belong to heaven, not ...read more

  • Viewing Versus Reading: Last Year, The Average ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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    Viewing Versus Reading: Last year, the average American spent about 1,100 hours watching broadcast TV, an additional 500 hours viewing Cable and 300 hours listening to music. Only 100 hours were spent ...read more

  • Black Churches: A Study Of 2,150 Black Churches ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Black Churches: A study of 2,150 black churches by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya in their book "The Black Church in the African American Experience," report that “nearly 70% of black churches are involved with social service agencies and non-church ...read more

  • Joe Namath

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 26, 2006
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    Joe Namath Few of us look in the mirror and come to the conclusion of Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath. During his heyday as a player, Namath wrote a book titled I Can’’t Wait Until Tomorrow...’’Cause I Get ...read more

  • Joe Namath

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 26, 2006
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    Joe Namath Few of us look in the mirror and come to the conclusion of Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath. During his heyday as a player, Namath wrote a book titled I Can’’t Wait Until Tomorrow...’’Cause I Get ...read more

  • I Believe No One Can Read The History Of Our ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    "I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniusesI like to believe that we are living today in the spirit of the Christian religion. ...read more

  • God … Has Created Us Perfectly Free To ...

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 18, 2007
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    God … has created us perfectly free to disbelieve in Him as much as we choose. If we do disbelieve, then … we must take the consequences in a world ruled by cause and effect. (Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), Edythe Draper, Draper’s Book of Quotations ...read more

  • Now If You Are Like Me, You Have Found Reading ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
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    Now if you are like me, you have found reading through Leviticus and other front-end Old Testament books to be a bit tedious with all of those laws. Let me give you a big picture view of all those laws: They describe the ...read more