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  • Orchard Experts Wound Fruit Trees To Bear More ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 2, 2009
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    Orchard Experts Wound Fruit Trees To Bear More Fruit In verse 8 Jesus teaches us that the proof of discipleship is spiritual fruitfulness (Mt. 7:20). “My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. The branch produces what the life coursing through its ...read more

  • God Will Make A Way In A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2009
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    God Will Make A Way in a Tragedy 2 Thessalonians 3:1 Finally, brothers, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you. (NIV) In other words, as we depend on the Lord, then we persevere in loving each other like Christ did. As we depend on the ...read more

  • God's Cures/Remedies For...

    Contributed by Timothy Brown on Feb 14, 2010
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    God's Cures/Remedies for... * Worry: John 14:1, "Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in me..." * A broken heart: Psalm 147:3-6, "He heals the brokenhearted, binding up their wounds. He counts the stars and calls them all by name. How great is our Lord! His power is ...read more

  • So You Won't Be Afraid

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 16, 2010
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    "SO YOU WON'T BE AFRAID" In one of the Nazi death camps, Solomon Rosenberg lived and suffered with his family. It was a work camp, which meant a person had value and stayed out of the ovens as long as he or she could work. Solomon’s parents, aged and broken, were already gone. Now he feared his ...read more

  • Girl Born ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2010
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    Girl Born Blind There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, ’If I could only see the world, I will marry you.’ One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the ...read more

  • Giving Because You Have To

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Oct 16, 2010
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    GIVING BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO One Saturday I was working in the yard, and I came walking around the corner of my house. And there was a boy there, on a bicycle. He was wearing Scout uniform, and I’m guessing he must have been about ten or eleven years old. It didn’t take me long to figure out what he ...read more

  • Bound: Brother Andrew And The Gibbon

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
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    BOUND: BROTHER ANDREW AND THE GIBBON In God’s Smuggler, Brother Andrew tells the story of his early life. One section deals with his hell-for-leather days in the Dutch army in Indonesia. While serving in that area, fighting against Sukarno in the late 1940s, he bought a young ape, a gibbon, which ...read more

  • The Prayer And The Chair

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 22, 2011
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    THE PRAYER AND THE CHAIR A woman called a pastor to come to the house to see her father. He goes to the house not knowing whether the man is Christian or not but he notices as he talks to him and the man answers back that he must be a Christian and there is a chair sitting close by. An empty ...read more

  • All The Land You Can Cover

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Mar 12, 2011
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    ALL THE LAND YOU CAN COVER Leo Tolstoy tells this story: A young Russian inherits his father’s small farm. He immediately starts dreaming of how to expand his property when one morning a well-dressed stranger visits him and makes him an offer that is too good to be true. He could have free of ...read more

  • The Story Of Catherine Lawes

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2011
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    THE STORY OF CATHERINE LAWES "Don’t set foot in the prison," people told her, but Catherine Lawes, whose husband was the warden at Sing Sing in 1921, went anyway. The first time there was a prison basketball game, she went, 3 daughters in tow and sat in the bleachers with the inmates. When she ...read more

  • The Life Vest

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
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    THE LIFE VEST The USS Astoria (C-34) was the first U.S. cruiser to engage the Japanese during the Battle of Savo Island, a night action fought 8-9 August 1942. Although she scored two hits on the Imperial flagship Chokai, the Astoria was badly damaged and sank shortly after noon, 9 August. About ...read more

  • Dying For Someone Like That

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 12, 2011
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    DYING FOR SOMEONE LIKE THAT During the war in Vietnam, a young West Point graduate was sent over to lead a group of new recruits into battle. He did his job well, trying his best to keep his recruits from ambush and death. But one night, when they had been under attack, he was unable to get one of ...read more

  • Imagine If You Would That You Want To Go On The Bus.

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jan 22, 2012
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    Imagine if you would that you want to go to Oamaru on the bus, the buses run to Oamaru every day of the week and there are at least three different bus companies to choose from. The trick with all these bus companies is that they charge different fares and that they go at different times. You can ...read more

  • There Are Many Mysteries

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Aug 25, 2021
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    There are 12 or 13 diseases that Doctors know nothing about or very little. They are Mystery's. One such mystery disease is “the sleeping sickness”. From 1917 to 1928, half a million people were afflicted with a ghastly condition that could be part of the plot-line of a horror film. The ...read more

  • The Late Henri Nouwen, A Great Theologian And ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 10, 2007
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    The late Henri Nouwen, a great theologian and priest, retells an old story in his famous book, The Wounded Healer: “One day a young fugitive, trying to hide himself from the enemy, entered a small village. The people were kind to him and offered him a place to stay. But when the soldiers who ...read more

  • While Reading Last Month About The 1936 Olympic ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    While reading last month about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin Germany, there is a story about a friendship that was birthed between Jesse Owens a Black man and Luz Long a German. Both men were competing in the long jump, Jesse Owens was the early pick to win the event. You see the year before he ...read more

  • Back On The Ranch Where I Spent My Summers When I ...

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jun 23, 2007
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    Back on the ranch where I spent my summers when I was young, my Dad and some of the other men used to break horses to ride and then would train them for various tasks according to their abilities and breeding. The first thing they always did was to gain the animal’s trust. They would then trained ...read more

  • 1991 Chrysler New Yorker - Mark 5

    Contributed by Gary Kins on Jun 25, 2007
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    1991 Chrysler New Yorker - Mark 5 It was my first real Chrysler and I loved it. I would still like to have it. It had all the bells and whistles a guy could want (told me when I was running out of gas, had a compass that made for exciting cross country trips with no map; just my sense of direction; ...read more

  • From A Strictly Mathematical Viewpoint

    Contributed by Fran Van Hoven on Jun 30, 2007
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    From a strictly mathematical viewpoint: What Equals 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been in situations where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 101%? What equals 100% in life? ...read more

  • The Rope  PRO

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 7, 2008
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    THE ROPE The story tells about a mountain climber who wanted to climb the highest mountain. He begun his adventure after many years of preparation. But since he wanted the glory just for himself, he decided to climb the mountain alone. The night felt heavy in the heights of the mountains, and the ...read more