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THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY
I remember a sermon – years ago, in fact I think I may have preached it during my time here as an intern – where my opening illustration was the difference between the way my father chopped wood and the way I chopped it. You may remember the scene – me as a skinny 18
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Aug 8, 2024
Warm Hands and Hot Pants
A Lesson Learned the Hot Way
As a kid, I was always up for new adventures—especially if they involved tagging along with my dad to the country store on a brisk fall morning.
The place smelled like fresh coffee, worn leather, and sweet pipe tobacco, and old-timers
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 9, 2025
[159]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GOOD SEED IN THE THORNY GROUND
This poem was written for a recent message in a series I am currently doing on the Parables of the Kingdom from Matthew 13. It relates to the third soil type in the parable known as The Sower, {{Matthew 13:22 “The one on whom seed
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 15, 2025
[165]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – KINDNESS IN THE CHRISTIAN’S PAIN
We all need kindness, but not everyone can give kindness. Some find it too hard because of their backgrounds, and some are just so selfish they are incapable of it.
Kindness is a special gift when it is given in a sacrificial way,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2003
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A CRUSHING GRIEF-- COMMUNION MEDITATION
Her name was Laurie. Robert Barnett only met her one time and that was for less than an hour. It was in the ICU at a university hospital. It was the last day of Laurie’s life on earth, only neither Laurie nor Robert knew that at the time. During the brief
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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He wasn’t cured but he was healed
Can sickness, even sickness unto death, be such a blessing for a Christian? On the surface it would seem not. How can a Christian do God’s will if he is lying in bed, flat on his back? How can pain, discomfort, medical treatment and surgery as well as the
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Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 3, 2007
When I was working on my undergraduate degree I took a couple of classes in geology. Most of the time I was asking myself the age-old question that many students ask as they go through some class that they don’t want to take, “Why do I have to take this class?”
As the class went on we talked
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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DEATH MAKES PEOPLE ANGRY
Back in September of 2004, Casey Neistat of New York City discovered that the battery in his first-generation 5 GB iPod could no longer hold a charge for more than an hour. So he called Apple. Unfortunately for him, Apple basically advised him to buy a new iPod (their
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THE GOSPEL IS OFFENSIVE
There is something about the gospel that is inherently offensive. I don’t like saying that, and you may not like hearing it. But it is incontestable. The gospel puts some people off.
Take David and Roland, two high school friends of mine. David was what you might call a
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