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  • No Witnesses

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Apr 13, 2009
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     | 5,033 views

    NO WITNESSES Think about this. There were no witnesses to creation except the angels. God created, and He created man last. So He had to have told Adam what He did, and the information was passed down from there. So we either believe the Creation account, or we disbelieve and we accept some ...read more

  • Divorce Accepted  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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     | 3,331 views

    DIVORCE ACCEPTED A record 70% of Americans believe divorce is morally acceptable (up 59% from ’00), finds Gallup’s ’08 Values and Beliefs Survey. Marriage Savers’ Mike McManus says, “Since 1970, that’s 42 million divorces, shattering the lives of 40 million children. We have the highest divorce ...read more

  • Joni Eareckson Tada

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 11, 2009
     | 1,930 views

    Joni Eareckson Tada "One hot July afternoon in 1967, I dove into a shallow lake and my life changed forever. I suffered a spinal cord fracture that left me paralyzed from the neck down, without use of my hands and legs. Lying in my hospital bed, I tried desperately to make sense of the horrible ...read more

  • How Far Do We Take This? Jesus Doesn't Say. I ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 13, 2009
     | 1,620 views

    How far do we take this? Jesus doesn’t say. I can’t tell you but I can make suggestions that push you to a greater dependence on God and a greater obedience. Albert Schweitzer left his status as a professor, gave up his organ playing and went to Africa as a missionary doctor. He believed this ...read more

  • When You Pray Do You Seek His Face Or His ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 28, 2009
     | 3,372 views

    When you pray do you seek His Face or His Hand? In most of our praying we are not seeking God’s Face, but rather seeking His hand, looking for God to provide something for us. While Jesus instructed us to pray, “Give us today our daily bread.” (Matt 6:11 NIV) I believe He intended our prayers to ...read more

  • The Church's Greatest Troublemakers  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,782 views

    THE CHURCH'S GREATEST TROUBLEMAKERS Preacher and Bible commentator, John Stott, said this in his exposition of Paul's letter to the Galatians: "To tamper with the gospel is to trouble the church... Indeed the church's greatest troublemakers (now as then) are not those outside who oppose, ridicule ...read more

  • Religion Says "Try” But The Gospel ...

    Contributed by Brandon Park on Jan 31, 2010
     | 3,216 views

    Religion says “Try” but the gospel says “trust.” Religion says, “Pay me what you owe,” the gospel says, “I’ll pay what you owe” Religion says, “Live for God,” the gospel says, “Live through God.” Religion says, “Obey the law,” but the gospel says, “Obey the Lord” Religion says “Do,” but the gospel ...read more

  • Dwayne Roberts: "We Must Understand That The ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 30, 2010
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    Dwayne Roberts: "We must understand that the greatest treasure is waiting in front of every believer. We've all seen reality shows. I'd even guess that you have imagined winning a million dollars. You may not have phrased it exactly like this, but the question comes down to, 'What would it be like ...read more

  • Singing Your Resolution

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Aug 27, 2012
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    A while back I got discouraged, I got frustrated. Things were not going the way that I had planned. I was tired. I was tired of solving problems and dealing with people. You ever get like that? I didn’t know what to do. I still remember walking up down the road to my house, tears streaming down ...read more

  • Billy Graham Told Of A Meeting He Had With ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Dec 18, 2012
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    Billy Graham told of a meeting he had with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, former mayor of Cologne, imprisoned by Hitler for opposing the Nazi regime, and later chancellor of the West German Federal Republic. Adenauer truly deserves the title of "statesman" as he picked up the broken pieces of ...read more

  • Max Lucado: Beside, Under, With Christ?

    Contributed by Kevin Karhoff on Mar 23, 2013
     | 2,176 views

    MAX LUCADO: BESIDE, UNDER, WITH CHRIST? As Paul said, "It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me" (Gal 2:20). The apostle sensed within himself not just the philosophy, ideals, or influence of Christ but the person of Jesus. Christ moved in. He still does. When grace happens, Christ ...read more

  • The Jewish Roots Of "tongues"

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 12, 2019
     | 2,534 views

    • Talmud taught about power for all people in the Ten Commandments: R. Johanan said: What is meant by the verse, The Lord giveth the word: They that publish the tidings are a great host? — Every single word that went forth from the Omnipotent was split up into seventy languages. The School of R. ...read more

  • You Don't Have To Go To Hell.

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jun 6, 2022
     | 1,169 views

    One day, when Vice President Calvin Coolidge was presiding over the Senate, one Senator angrily told another to go “straight to hell.” The offended Senator complained to Coolidge as presiding officer, and Coolidge looked up from the book he had been leafing through while listening to the debate. ...read more

  • Let Me Close With This Powerful Quote From ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Apr 23, 2007
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    Let me close with this powerful quote from Charles Haddon Spurgeon: “All of Hell is vanquished when the believer bows his knee in prayer. Beloved brethren, Let us pray. We can not all argue, but we can all pray. We can not all be leaders, but we can all be pleaders. We can not all be mighty in ...read more

  • One Of My Earliest Childhood Recollections Was ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 29, 2007
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    One of my earliest childhood recollections was in N. Wales and I was told by my mother never to eat a certain seed on a tree yet my brother and his friends encouraged me to eat it a similiar scenario to Adam and Eve do’nt you think? ...I was tempted to eat some laburnum seeds - I gave in to ...read more

  • Horses In The Salad—readers' Digest Online, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Horses in the Salad—Readers’ Digest Online, Reader Contributions, Hazel Boone, Kelowna, BC, 1999 "I took Spanish lessons every day while my husband and I lived in Argentina. After a month, my tutor encouraged me to ’speak to the shop clerks, the maid. Speak to everyone and practise, practise.’ A ...read more

  • Two Preachers Were Carrying A Conversation. One ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,340 views

    Two preachers were carrying a conversation. One said to the other, “Currently, we are having a problem at our meeting place with the mice. It looks like everywhere you step; you will be greeted by a mouse.” “Well,” said the other preacher, “we solve that problem long ago. We baptized them all, and ...read more

  • Let Me Close With This Powerful Quote From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,970 views

    Let me close with this powerful quote from Charles Haddon Spurgeon: “All of Hell is vanquished when the believer bows his knee in prayer. Beloved brethren, Let us pray. We can not all argue, but we can all pray. We can not all be leaders, but we can all be pleaders. We can not all be mighty in ...read more

  • Power In Agreement  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,255 views

    How much power can people in agreement have? The answer: the power of life and death. During the brutal reign of Joseph Stalin, who murdered 30 million Russians and bought godless communism to Russia, Stalin, let it be known that he planned to murder the Jews of Russia. When the believers in ...read more

  • Never Give In

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Nov 5, 2007
     | 2,064 views

    "Never Give In" "This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." ...read more