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  • Drink Deeply  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    DRINK DEEPLY Picture this: You have just finished a ten-mile hike on a 95 degree day, and on the entire journey you haven’t had a thing to drink. Stumbling with thirst, you come to your father’s house and plea for water. With love and concern, he brings you a cold pitcher of water and a glass and ...read more

  • Ray Of Light, Ray Of Hope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    RAY OF LIGHT, RAY OF HOPE There is a story about how the caverns north of Yellowstone National Park were discovered. As the story goes, one of the original explorers was walking along the top of that mountain and fell through a hole, and he dropped down several hundred feet into this cavern and ...read more

  • The Bridge ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    THE BRIDGE BUILDER An old man, going down a lonely highway, Came at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and wide, Through which was flowing a swollen tide, The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The swollen stream had no fear for him. But he turned when safe on the other side, And built a ...read more

  • In His Book, Integrity, Ted Engstrom Told This ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 20, 2009
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    In his book, Integrity, Ted Engstrom told this story: For Coach Cleveland Stroud and the Bulldogs of Rockdale County High School (Conyers, Georgia), it was their championship season. They had 21 wins and 5 losses on the way to the Georgia boys’ basketball tournament in March, then a dramatic ...read more

  • Too Soft On People?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2009
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    TOO SOFT ON PEOPLE? A preacher named Ron Rose told a woman who came into his office complaining that his sermons always being about forgiveness and grace. She said he needed to come down harder on the sinners and in her words, "nail them." After her rant, Ron asked, "So, you’ve got forgiveness ...read more

  • Deceptive Flowers

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Sep 22, 2009
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    DECEPTIVE FLOWERS I have a friend who is a pastor at a church in the lower 48 who was telling me about the flowers in his church. His church, like ours, will take the flowers that were in the worship service that morning, and give them to shut ins or someone who is in the hospital. He said he ...read more

  • It's Like The Work Done On Various Television ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Sep 25, 2009
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    It’s like the work done on various Television programmes. Take one run down house or barn crying out for restoration, or a few rooms of a house in desperate need of decoration, or the Vicarage kitchen in need of a refit! Jesus takes us as we are, however run-down, how ever messy our lives might be, ...read more

  • Nicolaitan Compromise With Idolatry In Church Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 2, 2009
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    Nicolaitan Compromise with Idolatry in Church of Pergamum Bruce Longenecker's book, "The Lost Letters of Pergamum" (pp. 165-166) illustrates their teaching in a story about a Nicolaitan (Kalandion) that attended the Pergamum church. Kalandion is visiting a Christian who has been imprisoned for ...read more

  • General Douglas Macarthur Unique Signature At The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    General Douglas MacArthur Unique Signature at the Japanese Surrender Ending World War II We need to understand not just the pain, but the power to come. We need to appreciate not just the hard times, but the victory ahead. We need to grasp not just the cross, but the crown to follow. On ...read more

  • Elizabeth Elliot On His Sufficient Grace For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    Elizabeth Elliot on His Sufficient Grace for Discipleship It’s the anticipation of that “glory of victory” that helps us to persevere in the hard times. It’s the assurance of that coming crown that helps us bear our cross today. Just one year after her husband was slain in Ecuador, along with ...read more

  • Long Walk Part Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2009
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    "Long Walk Part of Gift" A young boy once came up to a missionary and said, “I love you and I want you to have this.” He pulled from a straw basket the most beautiful shell the missionary had ever seen. As she admired its beauty, she recognized it as a special shell only found on the far side of ...read more

  • Legendary Baseball Player Jackie Robinson's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2009
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    Legendary Baseball Player Jackie Robinson’s Humble Act of Kindness to a Boy As a 7-year-old, Richard Bernstein admired Jackie Robinson’s athletic ability and courage as the first African-American man to play Major League baseball in the modern era. A few years later, while working at a small-town ...read more

  • Elementary Students Penalized For Mentioning The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2010
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    Elementary Students Penalized for Mentioning the Name of Jesus in Relation to Christmas Recently a sixth grader was penalized for daring to mention the name of Jesus in an assignment to write a poem called “What Christmas means to me.” The poem read: “The best Christmas ever is when everyone is ...read more

  • According To Psychologist William Damon, Respect ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
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    According to psychologist William Damon, respect for the parent who exercises proper authority leads to respect for legitimate social institutions and to respect for law. In his book The Moral Child, Damon writes, “The child’s respect for parental authority sets the direction for civilized ...read more

  • 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

  • The Doubting Of Thomas  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2010
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    THE DOUBTING OF THOMAS In 1943, Dorothy Sayers created a series of dramatic readings from the life of Christ for broadcast on the BBC. They are published under the title, The Man Born to Be King. For each of the plays, Sayers offers notes on the characters and the way they should be read. She ...read more

  • Have You Ever Knowingly Passed A Phony Five ...

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 27, 2010
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    Have you ever knowingly passed a phony five dollar bill? According to the United States Treasury Department, you may have. One of the reasons is because of a counterfeiter named Blinky, perhaps the greatest counterfeiter of all times. He made five dollar bills that defied detection. It was ...read more

  • Stolen Art  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2011
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    STOLEN ART I was surprised to learn that if you had a museum that contained the world’s stolen art, it would be one of the biggest in the world. It would contain 174 Rembrandt’s, 43 Van Gogh’s, over 500 Picassos, and works by Renoir and da Vinci. You may remember that a few years back someone ...read more

  • Aussie Common Sense  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
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    AUSSIE COMMON SENSE Common sense is taking into consideration all the realities you see in front of you and coming to a right conclusion. After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, British scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ...read more

  • The Mission: Tethered To Sin

    Contributed by William Hooper on May 3, 2011
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    THE MISSION: TETHERED TO SIN In the award winning film called "The Mission," Robert DeNiro plays a mercenary who has taken asylum in the local church after killing his brother in a fit of jealous rage. He eventually leaves the church and heads to a mission post located above the waterfalls in a ...read more