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  • Stewarship As ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    STEWARSHIP AS CHARACTER Enter stage right: Ed McMahon and Evander Holyfield. Ed said, "When you spend more than you make, you know what happens." Yes, and a 85-year-old man should know better! He said it was "poor planning." NO, I THINK IT WAS HIGH LIVING! He was living high in a multi-million ...read more

  • 19th Century Revival Sparked By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 30, 2009
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    19th Century Revival Sparked by Prayer In 1857 there was a 46 year old man named Jeremiah Lamphere who lived in New York City. Jeremiah loved the Lord tremendously, but he didn’t feel that he could do much for the Lord until he began to feel a burden for the lost and accepted an invitation from his ...read more

  • Listening To The Master's Voice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    LISTENING TO THE MASTER'S VOICE One of the first exposes of the beliefs of our future ministers was made by Redbook magazine in August of 1961. The publishers hired one of the top pollsters in the nation to survey a full representation of our seminaries which are supposedly preparing men for ...read more

  • An Open Border  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2002
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    AN OPEN BORDER Janet Daley writes, “During the Second World War, the Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin fled across Europe from the Nazis. After weeks of running and hiding through occupied France, he reached his longed-for destination of Spain, from which it would have been possible to escape to ...read more

  • On Sunday, June 13, 2004, Matt Starr Was At ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Ward on Jun 11, 2005
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    On Sunday, June 13, 2004, Matt Starr was at Ameriquest Field in Arlington, Texas, watching the home team Rangers take on the St. Louis Cardinals. When a foul ball was hit toward where he was sitting, the 28-year-old landscaper leapt over the seat in front of him. Even though the ball had landed at ...read more

  • Have You Ever Made A Poor Choice That Ended Up ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Jan 23, 2008
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    Have you ever made a poor choice that ended up destroying many lives? Norma McCorvey was influenced by her attorneys, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, and used to change the landscape of America. Norma, whose pseudonym was "Jane Roe," was an unmarried woman who sought to get an abortion to end ...read more

  • Pat Tillman Played Safety For The Arizona ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Jun 12, 2007
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    Pat Tillman played safety for the Arizona Cardinals for four years and was offered a 3.6 million dollar contract to return in the fall of 2002 when he decided to LEAVE his LUCRATIVE FOOTBALL CAREER to join the ARMY in response to the 9/11 ATTACK on America. He was trained as an Army Ranger, an ...read more

  • If The Apostle Paul Were Asked What He Would Do ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jan 1, 2002
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    If the apostle Paul were asked what he would do with all of the present problems of fear, unemployment, and hardship in America today he would no doubt say, "You are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. Do not be overcome (by over-reacting, over-emphasizing, over-spiritualizing, ...read more

  • Source: Right To Life League Of Southern ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 12, 2004
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    [Source: Right to Life League of Southern California web site, http://www.rtllsc.org/abortion.html Abortion Facts Did you know that…? …1.2 to 1.4 million abortions are performed in the United States every year? That amounts to 4,000 every day, 3 every minute, 1 every 20 seconds. …the United States ...read more

  • The Presidency To This Day Rests More On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    The Presidency to this day rests more on the character of the person who inhabits the office than on anything else. The Founding Fathers designed it that way. It was their idea to find a man in America with a great character and let him invest a tradition and shape a national character. They found ...read more

  • Right After The 9/11 Attacks, The President ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Right after the 9/11 attacks, the president addressed the nation. He said, “A great people have been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot shake the foundation of America” In other words, “even though we just ...read more

  • Worry

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Worry A great percentage of our illnesses is in some way related to worry and anxiety and stress. In fact, the #1 killer in America is heart disease. • 38% of all deaths are heart related and many of those are related to hypertension, high blood pressure and anxiety. • Worry has been linked to ...read more

  • S ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    SECURITY? What’s good about America? How about peace and security? A lady said: Security and peace of mind were part of the reason we moved to a gated community. But both flew out the window the night I called a local pizza shop for a delivery. "I’d like to order a large pepperoni, please," I ...read more

  • Suspension Bridge

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 28, 2009
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    Robert Lewis writes, “In 1851, many of the most accomplished engineers in the country thought James Roebling was out of his mind. That year, he began to work on the unthinkable: building a bridge over the Niagara River Gorge. Disaster was nearly universally predicted. There was the sheer ...read more

  • Medicine For ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    “Medicine for America” “Peculiar People” Titus 2:14 says, “[Christ] …gave Himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for Himself a people that are His very own, eager to do what is good.” The King James Bible says the Lord will purify unto Himself a “peculiar people.” ...read more

  • Face Your Fears, Don't Run From Them

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2011
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    FACE YOUR FEARS, DON'T RUN FROM THEM A few years ago, a canoeing friend of mine and I went to a talk one evening at the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Center. I could hardly wait to hear the couple that was to speak. It was Verlen and Valerie Kruger. They had recently completed a 21,000 mile ...read more

  • You Know, If You Want To Dabble In Fiction, You ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Smith on Dec 5, 2005
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    You know, if you want to dabble in fiction, you can do some great things with a door. When I was a high school missionary kid living in Singapore, we all got to take a tour once on the U.S.S. Nimitz. And I now have a sci-fi film in my collection, about a time-travel portal that opens up and ...read more

  • Newscaster Paul Harvey Tells A Remarkable Story ...

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Mar 18, 2008
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    Newscaster Paul Harvey tells a remarkable story of God’s providential care over thousands of allied prisoners during World War II, many of whom were Christians. One of America’s mighty bombers took off from the island of Guam headed for Kokura, Japan, with a deadly cargo. Because clouds covered the ...read more

  • Sacrificial Love

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    SACRIFICIAL LOVE March 2008. A Starbucks barista (server), 51-year-old Sandie Andersen, donated a kidney to a regular, longtime customer, in order to save her life. 55-year-old Annamarie Ausnes stated during a talk with Andersen that she needed a kidney transplant. The only problem was that her ...read more

  • The Passenger ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    THE PASSENGER PIGEON The Passenger Pigeon was a species of pigeon that was once the most common bird in North America. They lived in enormous flocks and during migration it was possible to see flocks of them a mile (1.6 km) wide and 300 miles (500 km) long, taking several days to pass and ...read more