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  • Lack Of Will Power Has Caused More Failure Than ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of ...read more

  • The Wounds Inflicted By Men And Women On Each ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "The wounds inflicted by men and women on each other constitute the fundamental fault line running beneath all other human conflictIts the biggest reconciliation ...read more

  • Why Should The World Believe In Reconciliation ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    Why should the world believe in reconciliation when it doesnt see the church reconciled? And the church is not going to be reconciled even if it gets all the issues solved. It will ...read more

  • Redemption Is A Word Implying Helplessness. The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Redemption is a word implying helplessness. The picture of redemption is of one held captive by forces that cannot be overcome. Only a third party can intervene to rescue. Redemption never comes by our own effortsSpiritually, redemption cannot happen without a Redeemer. This word is precious ...read more

  • Not All Good Deeds Are Good

    Contributed by Tony Salisbury on Feb 12, 2011
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    NOT ALL GOOD DEEDS ARE GOOD For Valentine's Day several years ago I bought chocolates for everyone in my family. To help everyone remember which chocolates belonged to whom I bought different ones. One got rich dark Belgian chocolate. Another one received smooth creamy milk chocolate. All went ...read more

  • Patience And Jell-O

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 6, 2011
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    PATIENCE AND JELL-O Jell-O celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1997. I was fascinated to read the story of the man who invented it. In 1897, a man by the name of Pearle Wait wore several hats. He was a construction worker. He dabbled in patent medicines and went door to door selling homemade ...read more

  • God Is Like A Strainer

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 7, 2011
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    GOD IS LIKE A STRAINER I have only made applesauce once in my life, and that was a month or two back when the Newells brought all those apples to church for all of us. I made sauce the easy way; I had a press down apple corer / section maker, and then threw the apple slices – skin and all – into ...read more

  • Disturb Us, O Lord  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 8, 2011
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    DISTURB US, O LORD Sir Frances Drake: "Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we have sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we ...read more

  • There Would Be No Islam

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2011
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    THERE WOULD BE NO ISLAM A Hindu professor once found out that a man in his class was a Christian. The professor said to this student, "If you Christians were like Jesus Christ, India would be at your feet tomorrow." A learned Muslim who recently became a Christian said, "If Christians were truly ...read more

  • A Bone Or A Steak?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2011
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    A BONE OR A STEAK? Which is better, a bone or a steak? Think of it this way. It’s easy to give a dog a bone, but it’s almost impossible to take a bone away from a dog. Even our little Schnauzer, Betsy, the world’s friendliest dog, will growl at me if I try to take a bone away from her. But ...read more

  • All Because Of Angus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2011
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    ALL BECAUSE OF ANGUS In Ernest Gordon’s true account of life in a World War II Japanese prison camp, Through the Valley of the Kwai, there is a story that never fails to move me. It is about a man who through giving it all away literally transformed a whole camp of soldiers. The man's name was ...read more

  • When No One Is Watching  PRO

    Contributed by Willem Nel on Mar 26, 2011
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    WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING In 1945, Arsenal were playing Russian giants Dynamo Moscow in London when a thick fog descended over the ground. The referee refused to abandon the game as the visitors had come such a long way, but it was impossible to see what was going on. It is said that an Arsenal ...read more

  • The Artist And The Gardener

    Contributed by Matthew Carpenter on Apr 1, 2011
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    THE ARTIST AND THE GARDENER Both the artist and the gardener begin with contemplation, paying close attention to what is already there. The gardner looks carefully at the landscape; the existing plants, both flowers and weeds; the way the sun falls on the land, and so on. The artist regards their ...read more

  • Something In Their Eyes...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2011
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    SOMETHING IN THEIR EYES... A prominent atheist named Matthew Parris wrote in a 2008 essay about a strange phenomenon that he had observed in Africa. Amazingly, as an atheist, he wrote an essay for The Times titled, "Why Africa Needs God." Although Parris made it clear that he does not believe in ...read more

  • Success In Difficulty

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
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    SUCCESS IN DIFFICULTY "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), Educator, as quoted in Bits & Pieces, Vol. T/No. 17, p. 5 - "Many men owe the grandeur ...read more

  • Three Oranges On The Titanic

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
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    THREE ORANGES ON THE TITANIC On April 14, 1912, 10:00 p.m. the Titanic crashed into an iceberg in the mid-Atlantic and four hours later sank. One woman in a lifeboat asked if she could go back to her room. She was given only three minutes to do so. She hurried down the corridors, already tilting ...read more

  • Deal With Habits Early On

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
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    DEAL WITH HABITS EARLY ON An elderly teacher, with a pupil by his side, took a walk through a forest. Suddenly he stopped and pointed to four plants close at hand. The first was just beginning to peep above the ground, the second had rooted itself pretty well into the earth, the third was a small ...read more

  • We Require Loving

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
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    WE REQUIRE LOVING A little girl was making but poor progress toward recovery, though the ailment had been checked and there seemed to be no reason why she should not rapidly improve. But it didn’t happen, and the doctor in charge was keenly interested to know why. She was a very sensitive child, ...read more

  • The City And Its Crosses

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
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    THE CITY AND ITS CROSSES Two water towers have always served as landmarks for travelers heading for their homes near Wauconda, Illinois. But especially at the holidays. More than 40 years ago, John Kuester, then village police chief, suggested mounting large twin crosses on the towers to ...read more

  • Land Of The Dying

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2011
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    LAND OF THE DYING When John Owen, the great Puritan, lay on his deathbed his secretary wrote (in his name) to a friend, "I am still in the land of the living." "Stop," said Owen. "Change that and say, 'I am yet in the land of the dying, but I hope soon to be in the land of the living.'" ...read more