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  • Who Created The Universe?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
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    WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE? In 2005, Newsweek and Beliefnet asked Americans this question: "Do you believe that God created the universe?" Eighty percent of those responding said the universe was created by God. That's good news! And it's pretty amazing that after all of the money and effort spent ...read more

  • I Read The Gripping Story Recently About Paul ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I READ THE GRIPPING STORY RECENTLY ABOUT PAUL KEATING, WHO ONE FEBRUARY NIGHT IN 1980, WAS WALKING HOME TO HIS GREENWICH VILLAGE APARTMENT WHEN HE WITNESSED TWO ARMED MUGGERS ROBBING A COLLEGE STUDENT. KEATING HAD EVERY REASON TO AVOID THE PROBLEM – HE DIDN’T KNOW THE STUDENT, NO ONE WOULD HAVE ...read more

  • A Girl Said, "My Mother And I Returned To My ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A girl said, “My mother and I returned to my parents’ house late one evening to find my father, my college-age brother, Steven, and my ten-year-old sister fast asleep. “Mom had forgotten her house keys, so we knocked loudly, first at the back door and then the front and side doors. We yelled my ...read more

  • Phillip Yancey Said, "There Is Hope, Much Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Phillip Yancey said, "There is hope, much of which comes in the name of Christ. One telling statistic reveals the fruit of two centuries of faithful mission work: of India’s 700 million people, only 2.7 % call themselves Christian, and yet Christians are responsible for more than 18% of the ...read more

  • Fully Furnished!  PRO

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Aug 30, 2007
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    Fully furnished! Leander McCormick-Goodheart was a recruiter for the Ford Motor Company in 1944. He toured fifty universities across the United States to recruit the outstanding graduating student of each institution. At Leigh University, he met a young man named Lee and offered him a position at ...read more

  • Story: A Young Man Who Had Been Raised As An ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Sep 15, 2007
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    Story: A young man who had been raised as an atheist –was training to be an Olympic diver. The only religious influence in his life came from his outspoken Christian friend. The young diver never really paid much attention to what his friend said about Jesus. One night the diver went to the ...read more

  • I'll Never Forget My Brother Ken's 1971 Pontiac ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
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    I’ll never forget my brother Ken’s 1971 Pontiac Safari station wagon. Besides being dark brown colored and handling like a boat, it had an exhaust leak so it made some very interesting sounds. It just wasn’t a “chick magnet” kind of car. Well, when you’re a freshman in college, you’re happy just ...read more

  • A Lutheran Youth Fellowship '07 Poll Finds 28% ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
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    A Lutheran Youth Fellowship '07 poll finds 28% cite their personal faith as their top concern while 23.8% say the future; 23.3% family relationships; 23.1% college and 16.3% unbelievers. Others included terrorism 9.4% and war 7.9%. 58.4% of respondents said pre-marital sex is always wrong, down ...read more

  • The Apathy Club  PRO

    Contributed by Dean O'bryan on Aug 25, 2008
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    The Apathy Club Did you hear about the college students who wanted to form a new organization on their campus? They called it the "Apathy Club"? Their "Apathy Club" wasn't going to be like any other student group. Where most organizations have a purpose or goal -- or some common interest to unify ...read more

  • Healthy Shame

    Contributed by Bruce Emmert on Sep 22, 2008
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    Healthy Shame Healthy shame is that inner compass—-the gentle voice of God-—that tells me something is amiss in my life, and it motivates me to change or make amends so that I can be true to myself. My first year of college was a bit of an exercise of 'livin la vida loca.' I didn't do well in ...read more

  • Strength In Old Age

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Aug 13, 2020
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    I use the Bible I had in Bible college when I have my devotions or study. Came across these notes from 1/24/80. I was 27. Joshua 14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come ...read more

  • Do It Scared

    Contributed by John Bright on Feb 20, 2025
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    Let me share from an email I got from the Navigators about their summer outreach with college students: “This past summer, the students had over 700 gospel conversations with strangers. From those discussions, 22 people gave their lives to Christ and were connected with local churches. For one ...read more

  • Ambassador To The King—communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 24, 2003
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    AMBASSADOR TO THE KING-- Communion Meditation "I served on the board of a Christian college for several years. During that time, the government of Swaziland wanted to recruit Christian school teachers to come to their country and help them set up a Christian school system. Swaziland is a ...read more

  • The Following Is A Parable That I Made Up As An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Nate Barbour on Mar 25, 2003
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    (The following is a parable that I made up as an introduction. It is fictional. For a story of similar proportion, see the movie RADIO.) He was never an all-star athlete, although he wanted to be. He didn’t have what it takes. Bobby’s body was disproportionate; one leg was longer than the other ...read more

  • The Gospel Came To Hawaii During The Period In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Bartosik on Oct 18, 2005
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    The Gospel came to Hawaii during the period in American history called "The Second Great Awakening" (1785-1820). Henry Opukaha’ia was the first Hawaiian Christian. In the late 1700s his entire family was killed during a tribal war on the shores of Kealakakua Bay on the Big Island. As he fled from ...read more

  • A Brain Surgeon On Parenting ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    A BRAIN SURGEON ON PARENTING INFLUENCE I read a book entitled Gifted Hands, the autobiography of Dr. Ben Carson, Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins hospital in Boston. This is what he writes: "My mother was a remarkable woman who was pregnant and then married at age 13. She worked ...read more

  • A Lesson Of Grace From A Can Of Soda

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 29, 2009
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    A LESSON OF GRACE FROM A CAN OF SODA The Apostle Paul wrote these words to the Christians in Corinth. "For God made Jesus who had no sin to be sin for us so that in him we might be righteous, holy and forgiven in God's sight." In the world of psychology this is called "transference." God ...read more

  • How Basketball Weighed In On Racial ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2010
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    How Basketball Weighed in on Racial Integration On Friday we watched the film, Glory Road, the 1966 story of how the integrated Texas Western basketball team defeated Adolph Rupp’s all-white Kentucky Wildcats. At a time when schools in the Southeastern Conference refused scholarships to black ...read more

  • At The University Of Southern California The List ...

    Contributed by Ricki Lee Brooks on Feb 18, 2012
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    At the University of Southern California the list of great running backs for the Trojan football team is legendary: John Arnett, Frank Gifford, Mike Garret, OJ Simpson, Anthony Davis, Ricky Bell, Charles White, Marcus Allen, Sam Cunningham, LenDale White, Reggie Bush. No other college comes close ...read more

  • Jesus Reached Out To Uncomfortable People… ...

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 29, 2012
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    Jesus reached out to uncomfortable people… and that made others uncomfortable. ILLUS: When I was a young boy, my home church had a church bell that they rang every Sunday at 9:00 in the morning. It was a college town, and one of the local college students had apparently been up “partying” the ...read more