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  • Godly Mother/Behind The Scenes: (Wesley ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Jan 4, 2005
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    GODLY MOTHER/BEHIND THE SCENES: (Wesley Brothers) Susannah Wesley was one of the most terrific mothers of all time. Susannah’s father was a minister and she was born in England in 1669 as the youngest of twenty-five children! Susannah was married at 19 to Samuel Wesley, also a minister and, not ...read more

  • Dr. Albert Palmer Was The Minister Of Central ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeremy Houck on Feb 26, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
     | 3,430 views

    Dr. Albert Palmer was the minister of Central Union Church of Honolulu, Hawaii. While serving there he oversaw a massive building project for their church. Just before it’s completion, the architect asked Palmer to provide him with an inscription to be placed high in the chancel above the pulpit ...read more

  • Youth Pastor Burnout: The Bridges Project, A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,544 views

    Youth Pastor Burnout: The Bridges Project, a research study of the Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary, has identified several factors common to youth pastors who experience burn-out or a lack of success in ministry: ►Inability to shape healthy work relationships ...read more

  • Titanic: The Romance

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Mar 4, 2006
     | 1,898 views

    (Video Clip montage from Titanic - mpeg 2:58) It was that tragic, true story that served as the backdrop for the blockbuster film Titanic, which steamed past all other movies to become the top grossing movie of all time. It earned $601 million. It was the #1 movie in America for 13 weeks in a ...read more

  • My Family Has Always Had Interesting Holidays, ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Dec 19, 2006
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    My family has always had interesting Holidays, especially when my sister was alive. She was a little weird and so was her husband. I am being rather kind using the word weird but we loved her dearly. For example, when I was around 12 my sister came to visit from back east. My mom was fixing ...read more

  • One Year In Youth Ministry, I Held An Event For ...

    Contributed by James Chandler on Apr 5, 2007
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    One year in youth ministry, I held an event for our youth known as the “30 Hour Famine.” We went for thirty hours without food. We only drank juice. Each young person had adults sponsoring them and the money went to needy children in third world countries. By about the twentieth hour, I was ...read more

  • Looks Can Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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    LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING Girolamo Savonarola was one of the great preachers of the fifteenth century. He preached in the great cathedral of Florence, Italy, which contained a magnificent marble statue of Mary. One day he noticed an elderly woman praying before this statue and then realized it was ...read more

  • I Want To Close By Reading The Benediction From ...

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 17, 2009
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    I want to close by reading the benediction from Charles Spurgeon’s message on this passage, which serves as an invitation and an encouragement. Will you be there…? Will you behold His final triumph over sin, death and hell? Do you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ? Is he your confidence and trust? ...read more

  • Spiritual Muscle

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 19, 2009
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    SPIRITUAL MUSCLE I was visiting Pink at the nursing home. His legs had been like sticks, because he could have no therapy until his sore healed. Skin hung down, and he had no muscle. But now he is getting rigorous therapy; the skin has tightened, and muscle is now beginning to form. That’s ...read more

  • Safe Rooms

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 22, 2011
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    SAFE ROOMS Lynne and I and the family were moving to Tulsa from Missouri and were looking at potential homes. One thing we came across was a house with a 'safe room' or actually only a 'safe closet'. A closet, which served as a coat closet near the front door, was built with steel walls and a ...read more

  • New Jerusalem

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Aug 25, 2011
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    NEW JERUSALEM One Stadia is equal to 600 feet. So the dimensions would be approximately 1363 miles high, 1363 miles wide and 1363 miles long. It doesn’t seems that long when you think that the length would be from approximately the East Coast to Colorado when you consider all believers from all ...read more

  • Francis Chan's Servant Witness

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
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    FRANCIS CHAN'S SERVANT WITNESS Francis Chan was flying to Africa and seated next to him was a man who happened to be a Muslim. So they were talking about what they believed and the man said "Ya, I know some Christians and I hear their message and it turns me off. I’m not interested." So the ...read more

  • Kyle Idleman On Dying To Self

    Contributed by Kevin Karhoff on Mar 18, 2013
    based on 1 rating
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    What’s it look like to die every day? Well, dying to yourself today may mean spending your lunch hour serving food to the homeless at the shelter down the street from your office. It may mean the next time you talk to your neighbor, instead of playing it safe and keeping comfortable you bring ...read more

  • Someone The Shepherd Brought Home  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 22, 2013
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    Someone the Shepherd Brought Home Carl Ketcherside served with and was instrumental in a strict branch of the Restoration Movement. However, the Lord made a lot of changes in his life. In his later years he moved to St. Louis and ministered among the down and out. At this time, Ketcherside ...read more

  • Forget The Gps!

    Contributed by Robert Harmon on Oct 4, 2014
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    My brother Curtis had come home from Italy to visit us, and attended worship at the congregation where I served. Afterword, he wanted to go to Mammoth Cave and show his wife and son one of the natural wonders of the US. We tagged along, and I told him I knew the way. He said, “Naw, we’ll use the ...read more

  • Charles Mccarry Almost Wasn't Born

    Contributed by Daniel Owens on Jan 8, 2008
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    Charles McCarry has lived an interesting life. In addition to being the author of The Tears of Autumn and The Last Supper, He served as Assistant to the Secretary of Labor in the Eisenhower cabinet, as well as, worked for the CIA. However, Charles McCarry almost wasn’t born . . . He explained it ...read more

  • Baring My Soul  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Apr 28, 2008
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    BARING MY SOUL When we carried our son and daughter-in-law to the airport in Birmingham, as they left to go overseas, I cried. I had told myself not to cry. Get this picture. My oldest son felt led of God to spend his life serving in southeast Asia. He was about to leave. I knew that for the rest ...read more

  • Rights And ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 16, 2008
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    Illustration “Rights and responsibility” In America we have the Statue of Liberty on the East coast but I often thought we need to have a Statue of Responsibility on the West coast to balance everything out here in America. The Statue of Liberty in New York is known for its meaning of freedom and ...read more

  • It Just Seemed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    IT JUST SEEMED LONG George Buttrick is considered one of the top ten preachers of the 20th Century. He served nearly thirty years as pastor of New York’s Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. From that distinguished pulpit, Buttrick began a teaching career at Union Theological Seminary, then as ...read more

  • Ken Hannah Snowboards Off Cliffs, Flies 40 Feet ...

    Contributed by Art Good on Nov 6, 2008
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    Ken Hannah snowboards off cliffs, flies 40 feet straight up on a bicycle, and jumps out of airplanes on a snowboard. Someone once asked him how he learned to do all those incredible things. He answered, "I'm an extreme person. When I was 6 years old I rode my bike down a flight of stairs. At 7 ...read more