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  • Film: The Green Mile

    Contributed by Steve Smith on Oct 14, 2008
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     | 2,866 views

    Film: The Green Mile Tom Hanks – Paul Edgecomb; Michael Duncan – John Coffey Coffey had the ability to reach inside and remove one's sickness. Hanks had a kidney infection/stone. Coffee reached out and touched him and was able to literally take on that sickness and remove it from Hanks. The ...read more

  • Last Chance  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
    based on 23 ratings
     | 5,992 views

    LAST CHANCE When Bishop Philip Brooks, author of "O, Little Town of Bethlehem," was seriously ill, he requested no friends come to see him. But when an acquaintance of his named Robert Ingersoll, a famous anti-Christian propagandist, came to see him he allowed him to come in right away. Ingersoll ...read more

  • There Is The Story Of Four Pastors Who Gathered ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 29, 2005
    based on 25 ratings
     | 3,744 views

    [There is the story of four pastors who gathered for coffee every Monday morning for a time of reflecting together how each one’s ministry was doing. One pastor shared with the group that he was having quite a problem with bats gathering in the church bell tower and wanted help in finding ways to ...read more

  • How Many Of You Know The Name Paul Aurandt? He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    How many of you know the name Paul Aurandt? He also has an alias. You know him as Paul Harvey. He has published books about The Rest of the Story (Bantam) and More of Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story (Morrow). Stories built around the surprise ending format have been compiled into books that ...read more

  • A One Dollar Bill Met A Twenty Dollar Bill And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 29, 2001
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     | 4,751 views

    A one dollar bill met a twenty dollar bill and said, "Hey, where’ve you been? I haven’t seen you around here much." The twenty answered (as the dollar bill listened enviously), "I’ve been hanging out at the casinos, went out on a cruise and did the rounds of the ship, back to the United States for ...read more

  • Missionary Larry Cox Of Burkina Faso Tells Of ...

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 10, 2005
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    Missionary Larry Cox of Burkina Faso tells of going out one Sunday morning with time only to visit two Churches. A runner came from the second Church just as he was leaving the first, telling him that people had been waiting there for over two hours to hear the gospel preached. People had gathered ...read more

  • Mc Manus States, "Once Survival Has Become ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 7, 2005
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    1. Mc Manus states, “Once survival has become our supreme goal, we have lost our way…, the church is not called to survive history but to serve humanity. As with each individual, there is a difference between living and existing for the church…The church exists to serve as the body of Christ, and ...read more

  • Evangelism?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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    EVANGELISM? A 4-year study funded by the Lily Endowment designed to identify and analyze highly effective examples of evangelism by congregations in 7 mainline denominations reached two primary findings: (1) Of the 30,000 churches that qualified for the Mainline Evangelism Project, only 1/2 of 1% ...read more

  • During The Course Of His Sermon, A Preacher ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    During the course of his sermon, a preacher wanted to emphasize the brevity of life. He took a long pause, then said, “Every member of this church is going to die.” But, to his surprise, a man in the back row responded to this statement with a big smile. Repeat twice, louder…After the sermon he ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of A Little Boy Who Was Scared ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The story is told of a little boy who was scared to go to church one Sunday. He cried and cried and his mother couldn’t find out what was wrong with him. He loved to go to Sunday school and church. She kept questioning him and finally he blurted out, “I’m afraid of the zeal.” “What zeal?” she ...read more

  • A Woman Who Was A Very Devout Christian For Many ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A woman who was a very devout Christian for many years had a husband who was not a Christian. He liked to go to bars and accused her of not wanting to be with him. He objected to her going to church. She decided to start going to the bars with him. She made this choice at a little fork in the road. ...read more

  • Prayer Is Ignored

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 30, 2012
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    PRAYER IS IGNORED In 2005 Barna Reports said this, "Prayer is one of three critical spiritual dimensions which most local churches essentially ignore. Prayer is said to be one of the top ...read more

  • Children Leave Gift Of Love At Funeral

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Children leave gift of love @ funeral The Rev. Harry Pritchett Jr. is rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta. His church includes specific ministries for the poor, for street ...read more

  • A Railroad Fireman's Jump  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,631 views

    A RAILROAD FIREMAN’S JUMP On September 29, 1907, the three older children of the Dixon family, living about one mile from Seward, started for school. Baby Gladys Dixon, who was only nineteen months old, went with them a little distance. Away the children ran, and Gladys was soon left behind. Still ...read more

  • In His Book The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 1, 2005
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    In his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey tells the following story as he rode the NY subway one Sunday morning: “People were sitting quietly- some reading newspapers, some lost in thought, some resting with their eyes close. It was a calm, peaceful scene,” wrote ...read more

  • In My Younger, More Foolish Days, There Was A ...

    Contributed by Jeremy Morford on Jul 27, 2006
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    In my younger, more foolish days, there was a game that I liked to play that my wife didn’t like very much. We’d be driving down the highway, when I’d notice that the fuel gage was getting close to empty. My wife’s preference at this point, was for me to stop at the nearest gas station, while I ...read more

  • Servants And Sons

    Contributed by Jim Blevins on May 1, 2009
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    SERVANTS AND SONS Imagine at Mt. Sinai with all the lightning, thunder, smoke and the threat of death to any person or animal that even came close to the mountain, and how the people shuddered with fear as God was soon to speak His commandments. How would it have been if, after God had spoken ...read more

  • A Middle School Teacher Asked Her Class To Write ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
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    A middle school teacher asked her class to write imaginative definitions of a friend. One student said, “A friend is a pair of open arms in a society of armless people.” Another said, “A friend is a warm bedroll on a cold and frosty night.” Other said, “A friend is a lively polka in the midst of a ...read more

  • I Like Me Best When I'm With You

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
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    I LIKE ME BEST WHEN I'M WITH YOU As a part of an assignment for a doctoral thesis, a college student spent a year with a group of Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest. As he did his research, he lived with one family, sleeping in their hut, eating their food, working with them and ...read more

  • Who's Educating Our Kids?

    Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Mar 10, 2010
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    WHO'S EDUCATING OUR KIDS? Now here's the thing. Often times we will tell ourselves, "Well it's the church's job to give my children a religious education, and it's the schools job to educate my children in other matters. And the Church will balance out the secular. But let me show you something ...read more