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  • It Is Said That On The Evening Of June 18, 1815 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    It is said that on the evening of June 18, 1815 a man stood in the tower of England’s Winchester Cathedral gazing anxiously out to sea. At last he found what he was looking for - a ship sending a signal by use of lights. He strained to see the message. All of England held its breath with him, ...read more

  • In Fact There Are 322 Specific Prophecies In The ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 7, 2007
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    In fact there are 322 specific prophecies in the OT about Jesus Christ and many of these prophecies have already been fulfilled and documented in the NT of the Bible. This might not seem much too you, but I want you to get your head around this fact. If only 8 prophecies were fulfilled the ...read more

  • I Read A Fascinating Article Last Week That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    I read a fascinating article last week that invited me to watch a breath-taking phenomenon that only occurs once every 44 years. It is the aligning of Jupiter and Venus with the Moon. Added to this amazing spectacle, viewed best with binoculars because the evening light would make it hard to see ...read more

  • During My Undergraduate Studies Some Years Ago, I ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Apr 26, 2009
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    During my undergraduate studies some years ago, I interviewed a lady whose religious belief was a hybrid of different religions. She spoke of trying to climb to a higher consciousness as her spiritual guide (which was an apparition that looked like an embryo with thousands of tentacles protruding ...read more

  • John Newton Was A Rough, Dirty Sailor With A Foul ...

    Contributed by Tim White on Jun 19, 2009
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    John Newton was a rough, dirty sailor with a foul mouth and an appetite for rotten living. He hated life and life hated him. He was captain of a slave ship. Then someone placed in his hands a copy of Thomas a Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ. He also had the gift of a good mother who told him about ...read more

  • A Heart For ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 1, 2010
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    A Heart for Praise Louis Albert Banks tells of an elderly Christian man, a fine singer, who learned that he had cancer of the tongue and that surgery was required. In the hospital after everything was ready for the operation, the man said to the doctor, “Are you sure I will never sing again?” The ...read more

  • Rescue

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Oct 16, 2018
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    I am really struck by the lyrics of Lauren Daigle’s recent song “Rescue.” The singer is speaking from God’s perspective and says: “I hear the whisper underneath your breath I hear you whisper, you have nothing left I will send out an army to find you In the middle of the darkest night It’s true, ...read more

  • Almost

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 15, 2019
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    Almost Story It started out with a low rumbling; then there was the sound of the explosion. It seemed like the whole world was rocking and reeling under the blow of Mother Nature. The sky was filled with smoke as dark as a midnight; the ashes from the eruption were falling like snow in a winter ...read more

  • The Heartbeat And Bloodline Of Praying African American Mothers

    Contributed by Jessie Manuel on May 8, 2025
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    Legacy of Blood and Heartbeat From the heartbeat of ancestors long gone, Rises a rhythm—a sacred song, Passed through blood, through bloodlines deep, A legacy rooted in faith to keep. Mothers praying in quiet nights, Holding on through struggles and fights, Their voices rising, fierce ...read more

  • Remaining Thankful  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2004
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    REMAINING THANKFUL Boyce Mouton wrote this story when he ministered in California many years ago: “In 1954, a young missionary recruit to Alaska was stricken with a paralytic disease which left her bedfast for the last 10 years of her life. Her name was Marie Napier. The first time I met ...read more

  • Attitude Can Be Changed Simply By Humbly Coming ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Jensen on Oct 24, 2008
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    Attitude can be changed simply by humbly coming to God, ready to receive what He offers, even if it's not the answer we expected. The story is told of an old man who lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning, Grandpa was up early sitting at the ...read more

  • Stay In The Refuge For Protection

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    STAY IN THE REFUGE FOR PROTECTION As long as the accused remained within the refuge, they were safe and protected. [CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS, ST. AUGUSTINE, FL] Castillo De San Marcos- Spanish fort, made of stone, protected town, during battle, all towns people ran to the fort, the town was ...read more

  • Misunderstood  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
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    MISUNDERSTOOD It's easy to be misunderstood. Misunderstanding happens all the time. It is very, very easy to be misunderstood. One way to be misunderstood is to be vague and hazy. Just mumble under your breath and utter ambiguities, and I guarantee that you will be misunderstood. Some of you are ...read more

  • Doctor And Patient Saved From Hell

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Oct 13, 2012
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    In Beyond Death’s Door, Rawlings shares how his view of the afterlife forever changed on the day one of his heart patients “died” in his office. During a routine stress test on a treadmill, the man’s heart stopped and he collapsed. Immediately, Rawlings and his staff began emergency resuscitation ...read more

  • From John Boor- I Had An Opportunity To Work In A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 16, 2002
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    From John Boor- I had an opportunity to work in a bakery while going to high school. I remember one particular day when the telephone rang and one of the ladies went to answer it. She put down the phone like it was hot and yelled, "He’s coming!" I wondered what in the world was going on. The ...read more

  • Anyone Who Has Had A Child Knows That Giving ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Olson on Sep 26, 2004
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    Anyone who has had a child knows that giving birth takes a lot of effort. For nine months this child is growing inside the womb. Then the day arrives. Suddenly there is agony. You ladies just don’t understand what suffering we guys have to go through. We have to be sensitive and attentive. We ...read more

  • A Couple Of Years Ago, Newsweek Magazine Ran An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 6, 2005
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    A couple of years ago, Newsweek magazine ran an article on “Faith and Healing.” The article began with this unsettling story: “On a quiet Saturday afternoon, Ming He, a fourth-year medical student in Dallas, came across a man dying in the VA Hospital. Suffering from a rare cancer and hooked up ...read more

  • J. B. Phillips Writes In The Preface To The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Duane Smith on Jul 18, 2005
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    J. B. Phillips writes in the preface to The Young Church in Action, that one cannot spend several months in close study of this book, “without being profoundly stirred and, to be honest, disturbed. The reader is stirred,” he says, “because he is seeing Christianity, the real thing, in action for ...read more

  • I Read The Story Of Two Friends In World War I ...  PRO

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jan 12, 2001
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    I read the story of two friends in World War I who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together, and fought side-by-side in the trenches. During an attack, one of the men was critically wounded in a field filled with barbed wire obstacles. He was ...read more

  • Two Longstanding Church Members Were Out In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,210 views

    Two longstanding church members were out in their boat fishing and they had taken a new Christian with them that day. They were discussing their faith and their devotion to God. As they were talking, one man’s hat blew into the water. So he stood up, calmly stepped onto the water, walked over to ...read more