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  • Not Witnessing To The Lost Is Like Telling A ...

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Nov 8, 2011
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    Not witnessing to the lost is like telling a person who is sick with appendicitis to just relax, think positive thoughts, listen to some nice music and everything will be fine. No it won’t! He needs to see a doctor, realize that he’s going to die unless he has surgery and has that appendix removed. ...read more

  • Sin Is Like A Vacuum Cleaner

    Contributed by Daniel J. Little on Nov 15, 2011
     | 2,468 views

    SIN IS LIKE A VACUUM CLEANER SIN we said, is stretching our will and our actions past the limits of God’s laws. The result is not unlike pulling a vacuum cleaner beyond the length of its cord, you still have the machine (your body) but now it is disconnected from the power that makes it behave ...read more

  • How To Be Liked By Your Peers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2012
     | 3,474 views

    HOW TO BE LIKED BY YOUR PEERS ScienceDaily (Apr. 16, 2010) — People who pursue happiness through material possessions are liked less by their peers than people who pursue happiness through life experiences, according to a new study...The "take home" message in his most recent study, which appears ...read more

  • The Bible: Like No Other Book

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
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    THE BIBLE: LIKE NO OTHER BOOK The Bible has been burned and banished by more people and cultures than any other book. For centuries the only translation of the Bible available to the peoples of Europe was a fourth-century Latin translation called the Vulgate. Only priests and scholars knew Latin, ...read more

  • That Sounds Like A Cross To Me  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Lee on Feb 13, 2018
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    That Sounds Like a Cross to Me “Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” Mark 8:34 A little boy was playing in the yard. He fell and scraped his elbow. It was bleeding a ...read more

  • Love Them Like Jesus

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
     | 2,699 views

    LOVE THEM LIKE JESUS Dr Tom Hermiz in his book on Holiness tells of being in a motel room in Columbus Ohio before preaching three times on Sunday at a missionary conference. The people in the next room had a loud party, and at 1 am he called the front desk, and they called the room. But it was ...read more

  • What God Looks Like

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Jun 16, 2009
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    WHAT GOD LOOKS LIKE A preacher once asked the preschoolers in Sunday school to draw pictures of God. He intended to use them as an illustration for his Sunday sermon. Toward the end of class the children were excited to show him their work. They came up with rainbows and men with big hands. ...read more

  • This Body Is Like This Glove. The Hand ...

    Contributed by Scott Bounds on Dec 20, 2009
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    This body is like this glove. The hand represents the spirit. As long as the hand is in the glove, the glove can move and work. The hand is the real life inside. When we die and go to be with the Lord, we lay the glove down. The spirit, which is ...read more

  • Difficult People Are Like Tools  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 25, 2010
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    Difficult People Are Like Tools Some difficult people are like the tools in your tool shed: A. Measuring tape: These people always let us know that we don’t quite measure up. These perfectionists feel compelled to set the standards for everyone else. In short, they judge by their own ...read more

  • A Celibate, Like The Fly In The Heart Of An ...

    Contributed by Noel Atkinson on Jul 26, 2010
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    A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone Jeremy Taylor ...read more

  • Ever Feel Like Job?

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Sep 2, 2010
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    EVER FEEL LIKE JOB? I have been speaking with a friend on the internet of late who has been saying that GOD IS HARD TO FIND. What do you do when you come to God and all you get is SILENCE, and it feels like He has completely ABANDONED YOU? Have you ever felt like God doesn't care about you because ...read more

  • Heart Like A Jaffa Cake

    Contributed by David Moore on Nov 14, 2008
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    HEART LIKE A JAFFA CAKE Did you ever wonder why a Jaffa Cake is a Jaffa Cake and not a Jaffa Biscuit? Apparently HM Customs and Excise wondered the same thing, especially when cakes are VAT free and biscuits incur 17.5 percent, so given the popularity of Jaffa Cakes the government decided to ...read more

  • Pa Won't Like It  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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     | 3,610 views

    "PA WON’T LIKE IT" A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagonload of corn in the road. The farmer who lived nearby came to investigate. "Hey, Willis," he called out, "forget your troubles for a spell and come on in and have dinner with us. Then I’ll help you get the wagon up." "That’s mighty ...read more

  • What You Look Like

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE There is a report that a major retail corporation put mirrors behind their customer service representatives so irate customers could see their own behavior. Their anger levels subsided and they negotiated their complaints more graciously when they could see what they ...read more

  • Gossip Is Like Scattering Feathers

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 18, 2024
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    There was a woman in a village who maliciously gossiped about another lady and her family in the village. One day she found out that she was wrong about this lady and her family and had a change of heart. She went to the village’s wise man and asked how she could take back all the wrong she had ...read more

  • We Force No Doors In Friendship, But Like The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "We force no doors in friendship, but like the Christ in Revelation, we stand reverently at the door without, to knock. And only if the door is opened from within, may ...read more

  • Our Prayer Will Be Most Like The Prayer Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    "Our prayer will be most like the prayer of Christ if we do not ask God to show us what is going to be, or to make any particular thing happen, but ...read more

  • The Devil's Counterfeit Initially Looks Like The ...

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 27, 2010
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    The devil’s counterfeit initially looks like the real thing. But its fake. • A counterfeit faith stops when man’s capacity ends – a Biblical faith begins where man stops. • A counterfeit faith depends of appearance, coercion, and deception – a Biblical faith depends on the reliability of Christ • ...read more

  • Harry Ironside Stated That Salvation Was Like ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 12, 2010
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    Harry Ironside stated that salvation was like Noah inviting a pagan in his day to place his trust in God’s Word and come in to the ark. Some view salvation like Noah offering to put a peg on the outside of the ark. “If you just hang on through the storm, you’ll be saved.” ...read more

  • I Sometimes Like To Ask Skeptics Of The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Caley on Dec 26, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,494 views

    I sometimes like to ask skeptics of the Christ-story what percent of the knowledge available in the world they have: "Do you think you know even one percent of all there is to be known in the universe?" Invariably they reply they don’t know even one percent. Then I’ll ask, "Is it possible that ...read more