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  • Jay Fondren Is A Recent Hero. When My Wife ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chris Surber on May 24, 2007
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    Jay Fondren is a recent hero. When my wife Christina was an auditor for the Department of Veterans she met Jay in a Veteran’s Regional Office in Waco, Texas. She was conducting interviews to determine the timeliness of transition between the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • There Was A Lady Named Danni Stampley From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There was a lady named Danni Stampley from Luann’s home church who had been trained as a Baptist missionary. She felt the call to be a missionary the very night she accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior; she was a teenager at the time. After high school and college, she spent several years in a ...read more

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  • Well When It Came To My Favorite Subjects Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Well when it came to my favorite subjects their were two that I just were not good at. One was Math and the other was science. Though science and math are still weaknesses of mine, I do remember learning one law that will help us in understanding this subject of how we treat grace. What I have ...read more

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  • Entranced  PRO

    Contributed by Cajun Pauley on Jun 23, 2007
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    Entranced <i> By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was going to receive as an inheritance; he went out, not knowing where he was going.– Hebrews 11:8 HCSB </i> There once was an old Christian who was often entranced by his love for the Lord. One summer evening, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • One Of The Greatest Evangelistic Hymns Of All ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 12, 2007
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    One of the greatest evangelistic hymns of all time was written by a woman who knew well the release and peace that come from confessing one’s sins and failures to God. “Just As I Am,” a hymn frequently sung at the close of evangelistic meetings, was written by Charlotte Elliott of Clapham, ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • A Man's Daughter Had Asked The Local Minister To ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 18, 2007
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    A man’s daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her father. When the minister arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed. The minister assumed that the old fellow had been informed of his visit. "I guess you ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • Pumping Up Balloon - Watch What ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 24, 2007
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    Illustration: Pumping up balloon - watch what happens when pride is in control of ones life. Kapteyn helps us see what happens with pride along with some of my observations: Pride is what hurts us in our relationships - in church, in families, (at work, at school), with friends. Pride makes us ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • I Have Obtained A Copy Of A Recently Discovered ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
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    I have obtained a copy of a recently discovered document from the 1st century. It’s from the first publisher of the Bible – this was before there was Zondervan and Tyndale and all those publishers. It’s a letter from them to the Bible’s original author… Dear Sir, While we appreciate that the ...read more

    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • You Perhaps May Have Heard The Story Of Mr. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Jan 12, 2008
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    You perhaps may have heard the story of Mr. Whitefield, who made it his wish wherever he stayed to talk to the members of the household about their souls—with each one personally. But stopping at a certain house of a Colonel, who was all that could be wished for except a Christian, Whitefield was ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • Spiritual Fruit

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jan 27, 2008
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    Spiritual Fruit I have something in my treasure chest that you will recognize today. This small limb is from a very specific tree in my back yard. Do you know what kind of tree it is? Try and guess. This limb is from an apple tree. Every year this APPLE tree gives Vickie and me a lot of ...read more

    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Complaining Is Remedied By Thankfulness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
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    COMPLAINING IS REMEDIED BY THANKFULNESS Turn back again to the book of Exodus—Exodus chapter 34. The cure for complaining is not found in changing our circumstances, but rather gaining a proper view of God. · Do you really believe that God has your best interests at heart? · Do you really ...read more

  • I Recently Met A New Friend We'll Call Mike

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
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    I recently met a new friend we’ll call Mike Mike told me his testimony Mike believed he was saved Was going through life as a saved man, but not really on fire for God Things that should have negatively affected him, his friends behavior, his environment , didn’t He just ignored those things and ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • No Greater ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008
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    No Greater Love During the beginning of World War II, a large British military force on the European continent, as well as English citizens and diplomats, retreated to a French coastal port of Dunkirk. With it’s back against the English Channel, the British army faced a German army that threatened ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Why Does God Allow Hardship?  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 16, 2008
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    WHY DOES GOD ALLOW HARDSHIP? We live in a mixed-up, messed-up world. Sometimes terrible things happen that don't make any sense at all, and we wonder why? Steven Curtis Chapman is one of the best known singer-songwriters of contemporary Christian music. Over the last 15 or 20 years his songs have ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Be Like The Spider  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 2, 2008
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    BE LIKE THE SPIDER There was a man who was cleaning up his desk one Friday afternoon when he noticed an envelope that had been opened. Someone must have placed it there while he was on the phone. He opened it and read it, and to his shock and dismay it was a notice of being terminated, being ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Good Soldiers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
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    GOOD SOLDIERS I am told as a young man Winston Churchhill was in a heated battle. The war planes were dropping bombs all around the soldiers assignments. Several died, but many were running away and hiding and not following commands. One soldier ran past Winston Churchhill. The soldier asked if ...read more

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  • God's Voting ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    God’s Voting Guide It is that time when Americans are given the opportunity (and responsibility) to vote for those who hold public offices. This privilege is given to us by God for it is He who raised this form of government in our country through our Founding Fathers. Many of them had a ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Joy To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
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    JOY TO THE WORLD Sadly, our period in history is not, by any means, the first to argue, fight or shoot at one another over our opinions about what does and does not make a worthy song of worship. Nor is ours the first in which there were scores of people in the congregations who sang the words of ...read more

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  • No Record

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    "NO RECORD" Several years ago Bob Sheffield of the Navigators told a moving story picturing the essence of what it means to receive God’s forgiveness. Before he became a Christian, Bob played professional hockey in Canada. He was tough, loved to fight and found himself in jail one night after a ...read more

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  • On The Weekend Of June 7 My Honey And I Went To ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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    On the weekend of June 7 my Honey and I went to Cookeville, TN, to observe the move in 1809 of one of her ancestors over the mountains from Virginia to the White Plains area of Tennessee. He was William Pennington Quarles, a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. His daughter married a Burton, so my ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal