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  • Can You Eat Too Many Cookies At Christmas?

    Contributed by James Snyder on Dec 27, 2025
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    Can You Eat Too Many Cookies at Christmas? Dr. James L. Snyder Christmas was over, and the house began to quiet down in a good way. Don’t get me wrong, I love the noise when all the family is together. It is a good feeling to be with your family during this wonderful holiday season. I love the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance

  • Keeping The Lights Burning

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 2,628 views

    KEEPING THE LIGHTS BURNING Robert Russell, pastor and author, tells a story of how about twenty years ago there was a house near the entrance of his subdivision that kept their Christmas lights burning long after the season was past. They burned through January. Even through the first of February ...read more

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  • The Psychoanalyst Victor Frankl And His Friends ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 23, 2010
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    The psychoanalyst Victor Frankl and his friends were imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It was winter. They had been marched off to work in the morning, spent the day at hard labor, been given only a little thin soup to eat, and then staggered back to camp in the late ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Who's Flying The Plane?

    Contributed by Roger Whipp on Dec 31, 2014
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     | 11,789 views

    I guess many here including me have in the past and if honest still do sometimes ask this question “Why God?” or “How can there be a God with all this suffering” Sometimes life hands us some tricky situations. Former President Ronald Reagan likes to tell a story which he says is true about a ...read more

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  • Inheritance

    Contributed by Joseph Adedio on Mar 28, 2017
     | 3,880 views

    The word of GOD is unique and encompassing.No matter what you think is not possible to the human thinking is possible to HIM.He promised us our inheritance and by faith we must claim it because He has promised and He will never fail. Whatever you labor for, you will duly enjoy it.Stand on His word ...read more

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  • Broken

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on May 6, 2019
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    Broken Windows … (Little improvements can make a big difference) Social psychologists and police officers tend to agree that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken. This is as true in nice neighborhoods as in rundown ones. One ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Run The Race

    Contributed by James Chandler on Apr 18, 2024
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    Run the Race ”Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Why There Is Delay Or Struggle In Fulfilment Of Our Prayer Request?

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jul 6, 2024
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    In solving Hannah's prayer request for a kid, God solved his own need for a prophet. Samuel was the fulfillment of Hannah's prayer request and who became the greatest prophet(fulfillment of God's need) of Isreal. So many times our prayer requests are delayed(appears to be delayed) and ...read more

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  • Dwelling Place Of God

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jul 6, 2024
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    The enemy wants to destroy every place where God meets with us. He does not want the dove of God to rest and settle on our lives. He is fine with visitation of God but not fine with habitation of God. He is constantly looking to destroy every place in our hearts that could become a resting place ...read more

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  • Goliath Has To Fall

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jul 6, 2024
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    Just as the Israelites have accepted that it was impossible to defeat Goliath, who kept on mocking and defying Israelites for 40 days, morning and evening, causing dismay and great fear. So many times we also have accepted that it’s difficult to defeat the Goliath-sized difficulties or prayer ...read more

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  • Lesson From The Burning Bush

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jul 6, 2024
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    By looking at your lives, others around you should have a burning bush experience or an encounter with God. Let your lives be burning in the fire of God and in that fire, others around you should have an encounter with God. Allow God's ...read more

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  • Go In This Might Of Yours

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jul 17, 2024
     | 489 views

    When Israelites were oppressed by the Midianites, God came to Gideon and said “Go in this might of yours and deliver Israelites”. God did not bestow on Gideon any additional or greater strength and wisdom, but said that the existing might of his was sufficient to deliver the Israelites. So many ...read more

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  • The Time Is Now

    Contributed by Jessie Manuel on Nov 11, 2024
     | 540 views

    Sermon Illustration: "The Time Is Now!" Biblical Text: 2 Corinthians 6:2 (NIV) - "For he says, 'In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.' I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Prayer For New Year

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jan 4, 2025
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    Let you find Christ in greater measure this year satisfying your needs, nourishing your heart, guiding and leading you through still and dark waters. Let not a day pass by without seeing the face of Jesus. Let Jesus become real to you and everything else fade away. Let his face be the first thing ...read more

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  • Encounter With God

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jan 25, 2025
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    Moses' encounter with God, not only resurrected his calling, but it also resurrected a 400-year-old promise given to Abraham. Our experience or visitation with God not only resurrects our calling, but also resurrects the promises of our ...read more

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  • Resurrection Power

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 1, 2025
     | 531 views

    This generation is plagued with lot of whispers of the enemy that God cannot change or resurrect your dead situations. God allows dead situations so that by your faith, God can resurrect your dead ...read more

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  • Spend Time With God

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 1, 2025
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    Moses after spending 40 days with God on the mountain, found out that God can be seen on a daily basis. So he pitched up a tent outside the camp to meet God on a daily basis. Some things are learned by spending time with God that are not learned anywhere else. Spending time with God teaches us ...read more

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  • Stirrings Of Heaven

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 1, 2025
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    Let our lives be stirred by the happenings in God’s heart. God trusts his people with his power, but his chosen ...read more

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  • Seeing The Face Of God

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 1, 2025
     | 364 views

    The world does not need more churches or preachers; but it needs people who can see the face of God. Seeing the face of God means seeing or experiencing the attributes and natures of God. A person who sees or experiences Jesus' nature and displays it in his life is the need of the world. The ...read more

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  • Scarlet Cord

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 1, 2025
     | 447 views

    The scarlet cord in the window which Rahab used to save the spies, is the same cord that saved Rahab and her family and brought her out of her old life. The sacrifices we make for God's plans are the scarlet cord which will bring us out ...read more

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