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  • God's Strange Answers

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 9, 2010
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    GOD'S STRANGE ANSWERS He was a Christian, and he prayed. He asked for strength to do greater things, but he was given infirmity that he might do better things. He asked for riches that he might be happy; he was given poverty that he might be wise. He asked for power that he might have the ...read more

  • Behind The Mask

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    BEHIND THE MASK In Basel, Switzerland each year the good Protestant townspeople have a festival in which they all don masks and go through the city doing things and going placed they would never consider doing/going under normal circumstances. The mask, which veiled their identity emboldened them ...read more

  • Deams And Visions

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on May 30, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,060 views

    God is speaking to millions of Muslims through Deams and Visions. Throughout the Muslim world, there is a tremendous underground move to Christianity. Hassan was a part of that underground church in Cairo, one of Islam's spiritual capitals. And so, Hassan, a former Muslim wakes up in the middle ...read more

  • Solving Problems; It's In The Angle

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 15, 2015
     | 5,689 views

    “With 900 million members worldwide and growing, Facebook is building its first European data storage facility—60 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Lulea, Sweden. The reason: natural air conditioning. Some Internet “server farms” spend as much to cool the machines as power them. Facebook’s Nordic ...read more

  • The Bridge ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    THE BRIDGE BUILDER An old man, going down a lonely highway, Came at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and wide, Through which was flowing a swollen tide, The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The swollen stream had no fear for him. But he turned when safe on the other side, And built a ...read more

  • A Human Being Should Be Able To Change A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, ...read more

  • In 1896, H. G. Wells Published A Book Titled The ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 25, 2010
     | 1,754 views

    In 1896, H. G. Wells published a book titled The Time Machine, an imaginative tale of a scientist who builds a machine that can transport someone through time. The time traveler is preoccupied with the future, not the past. Like many scientists, he believes “progress” will enable the human race to ...read more

  • Why Do I Give?  PRO

    Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
    based on 128 ratings
     | 2,995 views

    Why do I give? The first thing that popped into my head was that I don’t want to be a free loader. I know that it costs money to run a church. On average it takes 40 square foot of building space per person that attends church. Multiply that times $100.00 to $150.00 a foot to build and it doesn’t ...read more

  • How Much Will You Spend?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2002
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     | 2,501 views

    HOW MUCH WILL YOU SPEND? With questions about the economy and the threat of war still looming, there is uncertainty in just about everything. But it hasn’t seemed to deter Americans from celebrating Halloween. According to the latest National Retail Federation Halloween survey, consumers say ...read more

  • In His Excellent Book On A Christian's Place In ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
     | 1,429 views

    In his excellent book on a Christian’s place in tomorrow’s world, Wild Hope, Tom Sine urges Christians to take change seriously. He writes, “If we don’t begin in our lives, professions, and churches to anticipate both the new challenges and the new opportunities the twenty-first century brings us, ...read more

  • Giving

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Oct 2, 2019
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    “I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving ...read more

  • What's Your Life Worth?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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    WHAT’S YOUR LIFE WORTH? It’s worth $50,000, according to the international standard used most private and government-run health insurance plans to determine whether to cover a new medical procedure. More simply, insurance companies calculate that to make a treatment worth its cost, it must ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer, In His Book, The Pursuit Of God, ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on May 7, 2009
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    A.W. Tozer, in his book, The Pursuit of God, tells us how to gain greater unity. "Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each ...read more

  • A Strong Foundation

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    1. A STRONG FOUNDATION • When building a structure, the key to that structures longevity is the base upon which it has been built • The structure, no matter how large or small must have strong ‘legs’ in order to stand in the midst of the storms that might come • The Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy ...read more

  • If The World Is Cold, Make It Your Business To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "If the world is cold, make it your business ...read more

  • Some Time Ago, In Los Angeles, There Was A Person ...  PRO

    Contributed by James O. Davis on Oct 30, 2003
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    Some time ago, in Los Angeles, there was a person called the “Human Fly.” This man could literally climb the sides of department store buildings and slide along the walls without help from any outside force. He was a master. That’s why they called him the “Human Fly.” One Friday afternoon, a ...read more

  • After My Senior Year Of High School I Went To ...

    Contributed by Mark Adams on Jan 1, 2005
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    After my Senior year of high school I went to Honduras with a group of 70 teenagers from 4 states. While there, we worked with three different churches as well as a medical center. We also build 14 small houses for poor families. It was a fantastic experience. All the kids went home excited ...read more

  • A Law On Drunken Driving In Louisiana Is Now One ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 9, 2007
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    A law on drunken driving in Louisiana is now one of the toughest in the nation. There is a mandatory prison sentence for anyone convicted of driving while intoxicated. Getting it passed was a major victory for various groups against drunk driving. They could not have gotten it passed it if were ...read more

  • A Law On Drunken Driving In Louisiana Is Now One ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,816 views

    A law on drunken driving in Louisiana is now one of the toughest in the nation. There is a mandatory prison sentence for anyone convicted of driving while intoxicated. Getting it passed was a major victory for various groups against drunk driving. They could not have gotten it passed it if were not ...read more

  • Homeschooler Numbers Continue To Grow. Brian Ray ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,663 views

    Homeschooler numbers continue to grow. Brian Ray of National Home Education Research Institute estimates 1.9 million to 2.4 million K-12 children were home educated during '05-06. Research shows homeschoolers on average exceed the national average on standardized achievement test for elementary and ...read more