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  • Prove Your Own Selves  PRO

    Contributed by Tommy Hames on Oct 18, 2000
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    PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES When I was a senior in high school I owned a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle. I loved that car. It was metallic gray with red, orange and yellow pin stripes down the side. I went everywhere in that car. I even used it to carry a carload of kids to school every day, despite its size. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ask The Coach! (10.27.05--Making It!--Joshua ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 25, 2005
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    Ask the Coach! (10.27.05--Making It!--Joshua 9:14-15) I grew up in a time and place of heroes. Mostly my heroes were TV cowboys like Roy Rogers or the Cisco Kid. In those days there was something common to nearly every TV show--the hero had someone else standing beside him. Roy had Dale, his wife; ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Swindoll Adds,

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 11, 2009
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    Swindoll adds, “Men and women of God, servant-leaders in the making, are first unknown, unseen, unappreciated, and unapplauded. In the relentless demands of obscurity, character is built. Strange as it may seem, those who first accept the silence ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Michael Jordon Confronts Compromise In A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
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    Michael Jordon Confronts Compromise in a Teammate If any athlete was known for focus, it was Michael Jordan. In Jordan’s book, Driven from Within, Fred Whitfield, president and chief operating officer of the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats basketball team, tells a fascinating story about something Jordan ...read more

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  • Why Enoch Never Returned

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 14, 2011
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    WHY ENOCH NEVER RETURNED A little child gave a most exquisite explanation of walking with God. She went home from Sunday School, and the mother said, "Tell me what you learned at school." And she said: "Don't you know, Mother, one day they went for an extra long walk, and they walked on and on, ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Lying

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    LYING Penn State researcher Dr. Nancy Darling reports 98% of teens reported lying to their parents in a recent study. They lied about what they spent their allowances on, whether they’d started dating, what clothes they put on away from the house, what movie they went to, and whom they went with. ...read more

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  • Joseph's Deliverance Showed God's Protection. (V. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    Joseph’s deliverance showed God’s Protection. (V. 28a) God spared Joseph’s life, and through these adverse circumstances, that are recorded in our text, God is overseeing his safety. This is the sovereign purpose of God at work. The Midianites and the Ishmeelites only saw Joseph as a business ...read more

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  • Joseph Was Despised Because Of His Birth. (Cf. V. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    Joseph was despised because of his Birth. (cf. V. 3) He was born a favored son when he was born to Rachel. It also was not Joseph’s fault that he was being despised because of who he was born to, and also when he was born. PRACTICAL APPLICATION: We are only born once, physically and all have the ...read more

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  • The Dreamer Was A Favorite Son. (Vv. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    The dreamer was a Favorite son. (Vv. 3-7) The Bible tells us that Joseph was loved more than all his children because he was the son of his old age. When Joseph’s brethren saw that he was loved more than they were, they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him. The coat of many colors ...read more

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  • Reward For Doing Right: Joseph Told Israel Of His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    Reward for Doing Right: Joseph told Israel of his brother’s evil doings. He was faithful to reveal rather than conceal the matter. Certainly it took a great deal of courage to do what he did. The exercising of that courage showed forth faithfulness. He also was faithful to his job requirements. ...read more

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  • How Can We Be A Friend To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    How Can We Be A Friend To The Suffering? 1. We can be there for them. 2. We can feel their pain. 3. We can encourage them. 4. We can listen more than we talk. 5. We can be honest: I don’t know… don’t try to explain everything. 6. We can look beyond their faults and look to their needs. 7. We can ...read more

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  • A Young Banker Was Driving His Bmw, In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
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    A young banker was driving his BMW, in the mountains, during a snowstorm. As he rounded a turn the vehicle slid out of control and toward a cliff. At the last moment he unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped from the car. Though he escaped with his life, his left arm was caught near the hinge of the ...read more

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  • Joseph’s Deliverance Showed God’s Protection. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Joseph’s deliverance showed God’s Protection. (V. 28a) God spared Joseph’s life, and through these adverse circumstances, that are recorded in our text, God is overseeing his safety. This is the sovereign purpose of God at work. The Midianites and the Ishmeelites only saw Joseph as a ...read more

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  • The Dreamer Was A Favorite Son. (Vv. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    The dreamer was a Favorite son. (Vv. 3-7) The Bible tells us that Joseph was loved more than all his children because he was the son of his old age. When Joseph’s brethren saw that he was loved more than they were, they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him. The coat of many colors ...read more

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  • Reward For Doing Right: Joseph Told Israel Of His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 1,459 views

    Reward for Doing Right: Joseph told Israel of his brother’s evil doings. He was faithful to reveal rather than conceal the matter. Certainly it took a great deal of courage to do what he did. The exercising of that courage showed forth faithfulness. He also was faithful to his job requirements. ...read more

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  • How Can We Be A Friend To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 1,171 views

    How Can We Be A Friend To The Suffering? 1. We can be there for them. 2. We can feel their pain. 3. We can encourage them. 4. We can listen more than we talk. 5. We can be honest: I don’t know… don’t try to explain everything. 6. We can look beyond their faults and look to their needs. 7. We ...read more

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  • Paul Harvey Tells About A Airline Stewardess Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    Paul Harvey tells about a airline stewardess who was being harassed by a slightly inebriated man up in the first class section who was making passes at her and trying to get her to agree to meet him in his hotel suite that night. With some difficulty she got away from him, only to encounter another ...read more

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  • I Want To Start Of Today By Asking Some Thought ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I want to start of today by asking some thought provoking questions. Why is it that doctors call what they do “A practice”? Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? Why do they call apartments, apartments when ...read more

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  • Language Is A Great Gift From God That Sets Us ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Language is a great gift from God that sets us apart from every other creature. But sometimes our words are misunderstood or mistranslated; for example, I found some commercial slogans that had been translation into other languages of course they didn’t translate the same: Kentucky Fried Chicken, ...read more

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  • During The Course Of His Sermon, A Preacher ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    During the course of his sermon, a preacher wanted to emphasize the brevity of life. He took a long pause, then said, “Every member of this church is going to die.” But, to his surprise, a man in the back row responded to this statement with a big smile. Repeat twice, louder…After the sermon he ...read more

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