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  • The Croquet Lesson

    Contributed by Scott Spencer on Oct 16, 2011
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    THE CROQUET LESSON Some missionaries in the Philippines set up a croquet game in their front yard. Several of their Agta Negrito neighbors became interested and wanted to join the fun. The missionaries explained the game and started them out, each with a mallet and ball. As the game progressed, ...read more

  • The Definition Of A Saint  PRO

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Oct 20, 2011
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    THE DEFINITION OF A SAINT A young boy went with his parents touring around Europe one summer. Part of their tour included visits to the great old cathedrals of the past. As he visited cathedral after cathedral, he was impressed by the massive stained glass portraits of the disciples and other ...read more

  • Craving Milk

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Oct 26, 2011
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    CRAVING MILK I remember our grandkids had ravenous appetites towards mother's milk and they all grew fat as over-stuffed ticks. All 4 of them were roly-poly by 3 months of age. There was an obvious direct corollary between milk ingested and weight gain. Likewise, spiritual infants who crave ...read more

  • 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

  • God's Promises And Urban Legends  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Carson on Nov 20, 2011
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    GOD'S PROMISES AND URBAN LEGENDS Do you really believe that being godly is great gain and not financial gain, but something that really matters and lasts? If you believed that, wouldn’t it change your life? Most people believe that if you smoke, you’ll get lung cancer. Many of you quit smoking ...read more

  • We Know Our Future Includes A Promise. But We Do ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Lu on Nov 26, 2011
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    We know our future includes a promise. But we do not know how to transition into that promise. Maybe ’not knowing’ is just an excuse – we just straight out refuse to take that next step. That’s because while we are in the present, we often permit the past to occupy and govern our emotions. We drag ...read more

  • Of Dad Developing "Frozen Shoulder" Pain

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Dec 23, 2011
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    Of Dad developing "frozen shoulder" pain Ouch! My Dad developed a frozen shoulder condition and boy we took him from one hospital to another with no avail, till the “Magnet therapy” did the trick. In this sermon, I intend to touch upon a particular type of “shoulder problem” and the “therapy” ...read more

  • Jim Elliot -- (October 8, 1927 – January 8, 1956) ...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 28, 2011
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    Jim Elliot -- (October 8, 1927 – January 8, 1956) was an evangelical Christian missionary to Ecuador who, along with four others, was killed while attempting to evangelize the Waodani people through efforts known as Operation Auca. "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which ...read more

  • Paying To Feel Bad

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 1, 2012
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    PAYING TO FEEL BAD I recall many years ago when I was a sales manager for Connecticut Mutual going on some calls with an agent in another city. He led me into a major restaurant and walked up to the owner, who was an acquaintance of his, shook his hand and said "Are you going to buy that life ...read more

  • Eckerd: On The Hook With God

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jan 23, 2012
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    ECKERD: ON THE HOOK WITH GOD JACK ECKERD founded the chain of drug stores that bear his name. Eckerd gave his employees Eckerd's shares from his personal stock. By taking advantage of the stock option program offered by Eckerd, his employees benefitted financially in the success of the new ...read more

  • The Window To Your Life

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Feb 13, 2012
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    THE WINDOW TO YOUR LIFE If your life were a window with the world on one side and Jesus on the other then how clearly would those who know you be able to know Him? Is the window too dirty to see thru? Are the shades down most of the time? Do you only open them when you go to church? God calls ...read more

  • Jesus Wanted His Followers To Be Different!

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Mar 3, 2012
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    Jesus wanted His followers to be different! As someone said, "Winners do not do different ...read more

  • Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 12, 2012
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    COME THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" was written by Robert Robinson. He wrote it early in his life. In stanza three, Robinson speaks of being "prone to wonder, prone to leave the God I love". This seems to be a forecast of his later life, when he lapsed into sin, ...read more

  • Foster: Five Percent Spirituality

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012
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    FOSTER: FIVE PERCENT SPIRITUALITY Richard Foster writes this: Many of us live in a kind of inner apartheid. We segregate out a small corner of pious activities and then make no spiritual sense out of the rest of our lives. We become so accustomed to this way of living that we fail to see the ...read more

  • If Jesus Is Like You

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on May 4, 2012
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    IF JESUS IS LIKE YOU Richard Wurmbrand was a particular hero of mine, who died a couple of years ago. Wurmbrand was a Christian Lutheran minister who was put in prison for his faith in Romania by the Communist authorities for his faith. While Wurmbrand was in prison, he shared a cell with a ...read more

  • Overcoming Evil With Good

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2012
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    OVERCOMING EVIL WITH GOOD Stuart Holden (1874-1934), the author of "Prevailing Intercessory Prayer", was in Egypt and met a sergeant in a Highland regiment. "How were you brought to Christ?" he asked this bright Christian. The sergeant responded: "There was a private in the same company as myself ...read more

  • Character And Witness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2012
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    CHARACTER AND WITNESS John Bunyan said of Christians: "When all their garments are white the world will count them His," and the skeptical German poet Heinrich Heine said to Christians, "You show me your redeemed life and I might be inclined to believe in your Redeemer." The authentic life that ...read more

  • Do Things Differently

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Jun 24, 2012
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    DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY "Winners do not do different things, they do things differently"...wrote the wise management guru Shiv Khera in his book "You can win". I would like to rephrase this sentence oozing wisdom slightly and put it this way "Christians may not do not do different things but they ...read more

  • Acceptance: Such A Simple Thing

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Jun 26, 2012
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    ACCEPTANCE: SUCH A SIMPLE THING Charles Shultz, creator and author of the Peanuts cartoon characters often conveys a Christian message in his comic strips. In one strip he conveys through Charlie Brown the need we have to be loved and accepted. Lucy demonstrates our human inability to love one ...read more

  • When To Let Your Light ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2012
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    WHEN TO LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE A young man who had heard the Gospel accepted Christ. A little while after this, a Christian teacher asked him: "What have you done for Christ since you believed?" He replied: "Oh, I’m a learner." "Well," said the questioner, "when you light a candle do you light it ...read more