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  • Sole Witness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    SOLE WITNESS A fine lad entered the Army. He faced a real test the first night he went to be in the barracks. He had formed the commendable habit of placing his Bible on his bed at home and kneeling down to read a chapter while having his daily prayer time before retiring. Surrounded by scores of ...read more

  • Deprived Of God's Light

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    DEPRIVED OF GOD’S LIGHT I was reading in one of the CIA espionage or spy books I love to read, and the writer was discussing the strange effects we suffer when we are deprived of sunlight during the winter months. Drs. Michael Terman and Jamie Rifkin wrote: "During the cold war with Russia, B-52 ...read more

  • A Revival Meeting Was Being Held ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on May 6, 2007
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    illustration: A Revival meeting was being held in a certain church but unfortunately like so many Revivals nothing seemed to be happening. The attendance was good, the singing was good, and the preaching was good, but God just didn’t seem to be moving. One night, one of the Deacons stood up and ...read more

  • Our Task Is To Be Like The Father Of A Seminary ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Our task is to be like the father of a seminary student. He and his father, an inner-city pastor, were jogging in their neighborhood when they decided to have a pizza delivered to their home. On their way to the pay phone a homeless man asked them for change. Without a second thought the father ...read more

  • Thomas Edison Was Said To Have (2) Tried Over ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Thomas Edison was said to have (2) tried over 2,000 different materials in search of a filament for the lightbulb. He assistant remarked "All of our work is in vain, we have learned nothing." To which Edison corrected the assitant, noting the progress they had made ...read more

  • Scott Currin" (Nfi), Nov 02, Came To Church ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    "Scott Currin" (NFI), Nov 02, came to Church with family, and introduced himself and said that he was moving to the community. About two weeks later he called and told of mothers death to DWI in Florida...trying to get back home, to Texas, his car broke down, and he needed $150 for bus fare, ...read more

  • 1) I Heard A Story About A Woman Who Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    (1) I heard a story about a woman who was standing at a bus stop. She had just cashed her tax refund check, so she was carrying more money than usual & was a little bit nervous about that. She glanced around & noticed a shabbily dressed man standing nearby. And as she watched, she saw a man walk up ...read more

  • Have You Ever Watched The Rudy Rudiegar Story. I ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Have you ever watched the Rudy Rudiegar story. I cry every time I see the movie. A story of a young man, really pretty small in stature who dreamed of attending Notre Dame. Really he not only dreamed of attending there, but dreamed of playing football. Dreamed of making his father proud. He went to ...read more

  • I've Read A Lot Of Nursery Ryhmes. One Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    "I’ve read a lot of nursery ryhmes. One of the most familiar is "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together again." Charles Swindoll says that little nursery ryhme was originally written about people,; ...read more

  • A Stock Boy At A Grocery Store Was Asked By An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A stock boy at a grocery store was asked by an elderly lady, “Can I buy half a head of lettuce?” He walked back to the manager’s office, not realizing that the lady followed him. He said to the manger, “You’re not going to believe this, but there’s an old bag out there who wants to buy half a head ...read more

  • Who Has Ever Heard The Name, Edward D. Kimball? ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Who has ever heard the name, Edward D. Kimball? Doesn’t ring a bell? Well, let me tell you about him. Many years ago, Mr. Kimball was a Sunday School teacher at Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Chicago. It was a tiny little church, and Mr. Kimball’s class consisted of just a handful of teenage ...read more

  • If Something Terrible Happens To My Grandparents ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    If something terrible happens to my grandparents would it affect me? If God told my great, great, great, great, great, great, (x2000 {just a random number}) grandparents NOT to get in the car and go down a certain road because the bridge was out – and they did it anyway – and died. Would it affect ...read more

  • Someone Once Asked Radio Commentator Paul Harvey ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Someone once asked radio commentator Paul Harvey to reveal the secret of his success. Here’s what he said: "I get up when I fall down," Bits & Pieces, March 3, 1994, p. 16. That’s pretty simple, but I think race-car-driver Bill Vukovich might have him beat. When someone asked Vukovich the Secret ...read more

  • 7 Ways To Rationalize Your Way To Ruin

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    7 ways to Rationalize your way to Ruin 1. Everyone’s doing it 2. I’ll just try it once 3. It’s just a little lie 4. No one ever needs to know 5. No one will really ...read more

  • In Her Book, "Living With Love," Josephine ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In her book, "Living with Love," Josephine Robertson tells a story. "In 1883, a youthful clergyman, the Rev. Joe Roberts, arrived by stagecoach in a blizzard to minister to the Indians of Wyoming. This great, wild area had been assigned to the Protestant Episcopal Church by President Grant. Soon ...read more

  • Chuck Swindoll Has Written A Book Entitled ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Chuck Swindoll has written a book entitled “Living on the Ragged Edge.” In the introduction of that book Swindoll discusses the fast paced life of California. He says many people are getting fed up with the fast paced life of California and are moving to other slower environments. In fact, Swindoll ...read more

  • Another Chuck Swindoll Story Illustrates This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Another Chuck Swindoll story illustrates this principle. This new clock was ticking away on the shelf two ticks to the second as any good, self-respecting clock should tick when it began to think about how many times it was going to have to tick. “Two ticks to the second means 120 ticks per ...read more

  • About Three Or Four Years Ago My Brother's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    About three or four years ago my brother’s pastor got cancer. After learning of this bad news the pastor said “For all these years I have preached about faith and victory in Jesus. Now, it is time for me to show that I ...read more

  • Through The Son  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Following the Civil War, a dejected confederate soldier was sitting outside the grounds of the White House. A young boy approached him and inquired why he was so sad. The solider related how he had repeatedly tried to see President Lincoln to tell him why he was unjustly deprived of certain lands ...read more

  • Replacing The Old

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Several years ago I went to my dentist. He said I needed a crown on one of my teeth. The dentist drilled away the decay and damage of the old tooth and replaced it with a new crown. He replaced the old with something new. Faith involves getting rid of the old and replacing it with something better. ...read more