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  • End Time Beliefs: A Tyndale House Sponsored Barna ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    End Time Beliefs: A Tyndale House sponsored Barna Group poll indicates 40% of Americans believe the world will end in supernatural intervention, 50% aren’t convinced that the physical world will end and another 10% aren’t sure. Of the respondents who believe the world will end, 38% gave a ...read more

  • Buster Pastors: The Number Of Busters (Currently ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Buster Pastors: The number of Busters (currently ages 20 to 38) who serve as senior pastors has doubled in just 2 years from 22,000 to 45,000 (nearly 14% of all 324,000 Protestant senior pastors in the U.S.). Buster pastors are more likely to use drama (32% to 21%); show movies, videos, and DVDs ...read more

  • The Largest Thermonuclear Bomb Ever Built And ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Mar 8, 2006
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    The largest thermonuclear bomb ever built and detonated on Earth was exploded on October 30, 1961 above Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Circle. The bomb was dropped by Russian Soviets in an attempt to intimidate Americans. Its name: “Tsar Bomba” or “King of the Bombs.” It had the explosive ...read more

  • A Young Child Was Diagnosed With A Terminal ...  PRO

    Contributed by Anthony Craver on May 18, 2006
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    A young child was diagnosed with a terminal disease. The parents knew that he would die soon. The child as well knew that his death would be soon. One night he was sitting in his mother’s lap watching television with her. He looked up into her eyes and said, “Mommy does it hurt to die?” The ...read more

  • Jesus Talks About Letting His Words Remain In Us. ...

    Contributed by Rev. Matthew Parker on Sep 24, 2006
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    Jesus talks about letting his words remain in us. What does that mean? On occasion I’ve had opportunities to go elsewhere, away from the mission, to churches that were bigger and where there seemed to be more to gain. But whenever those opportunities come up, my dad’s voice has always gone off in ...read more

  • Faith Without Risk

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
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    Joe stopped by one day in midweek. His son wanted to see what church was like so he was checking out churches in the area. I showed him around answered his many questions. His family started coming, got semi involved. Joe wanted to have lunch. At lunch he told me he wanted to commit his ...read more

  • On April 21st, In The Year 1519, The Spanish ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Nov 16, 2006
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    On April 21st, in the year 1519, the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez sailed into the harbor of Vera Cruz, Mexico. He brought with him only about 600 men, and yet over the next two years his vastly outnumbered forces were able to defeat Montezuma and all the warriors of the Aztec empire, making ...read more

  • Pastor Buchanan Tells The Story Of A Member Of ...

    Contributed by Keith Bowman on Dec 7, 2006
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    Pastor Buchanan tells the story of a member of his church who’s name was Ken. Ken was going throw a very tough time in his life when he darkened the door of the church. You see Ken had AIDS. Since the day Ken had been found and rescued by Christ he faithfully attended services. Even after his ...read more

  • Mary Had A Little Lamb By Mary And Marbeth ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 11, 2006
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    Mary Had a Little Lamb by Mary and Marbeth Rosenthal Mary had the little Lamb, who lived before His birth; Self-existent Son of God, from Heaven He came to Earth. (Micah 5:2) Mary had the little Lamb; see Him in yonder stall — Virgin-born Son of God, to save man from the Fall. (Isaiah 7:14) Mary ...read more

  • In Our Era, Sociologically, Man Destroyed The ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jan 12, 2007
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    “In our era, sociologically, man destroyed the base which gave him the possibility of freedoms without chaos. Humanists have been determined to beat to death the knowledge of God and the knowledge that God has not been silent, but has spoken in the Bible and through Christ – and they have been ...read more

  • The Yangtze River Bridge, A National Landmark In ...

    Contributed by R. Darrel Davis on Feb 24, 2007
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    The Yangtze River bridge, a national landmark in China, is always crowded with traffic including thousands of pedestrians. Because of its busyness, it is a favored spot for people who wish to commit suicide. Since its opening in 1968, over 1000 people have jumped to their deaths into the river 100 ...read more

  • There's A Story I Read That Apparently Originated ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    There’s a story I read that apparently originated in Psychology Today. As the story goes, a number of years ago the prince of Grenada, an heir to the Spanish crown, was sentences to life in solitary confinement in Madrid’s ancient prison. The dreadful, dirty, and dreary nature of the place earned ...read more

  • The Yangtze River Bridge, A National Landmark ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    . The Yangtze River bridge, a national landmark in China, is always crowded with traffic including thousands of pedestrians. Because of its busyness, it is a favored spot for people who wish to commit suicide. Since its opening in 1968, over 1000 people have jumped to their deaths into the river ...read more

  • The Gift Of Standing By - Donald Grey Barnhouse ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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    THE GIFT OF STANDING BY - Donald Grey Barnhouse told the story (supposedly true) about Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. When he moved to Washington, D.C., to take up his duties as Chief Justice, he transferred his membership letter to a Baptist Church in the area. His father had been a Baptist ...read more

  • There Is Always A Thrill In Belonging To A Noble ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 5, 2007
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    There is always a thrill in belonging to a noble company. Eric Linklater in his autobiography tells of his experience in the disastrous March retreat in the First World War. He was with the Black Watch. They had come out of the battle with one officer, thirty men, and a piper left of the ...read more

  • O Let Him ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Mar 19, 2009
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    “O Let Him In!” A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son. Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen and when the small boy came in from school, he ...read more

  • Sin: Acts, Words, Thoughts, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
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    SIN: ACTS, WORDS, THOUGHTS, HEART A man once dreamed of passing into the world beyond. An angel met him and showed him a great golden book. "What is that?" he inquired. "It is the book of your life," was the reply. Looking closer he saw that there were some writing on the first page. "What is ...read more

  • List Of Weaknesses

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 6, 2009
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    LIST OF WEAKNESSES In his book He Chose the Nails, Max Lucado wrote: "The list of our weaknesses. Would anyone like to see yours? Would you like to make them public? How would you feel if they were posted high so that everyone, including Christ himself, could see? Yes, there is a list of your ...read more

  • How To Get To Heaven

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN Bishop Fulton Sheen, in his autobiography "Treasure in Clay," wrote about an experience he had when he was traveling around preaching: I stopped to ask a few boys for directions to the Town Hall where I was giving a lecture. They told me where the Town Hall was and then ...read more

  • As A Young Teen, I Loved To Read Books From The ...

    Contributed by Beth Garrod-Logsdon on Apr 14, 2009
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    As a young teen, I loved to read books from the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series. In the first couple of pages a story would be set up – for example you are going on a hike with your cousins and it begins to storm. But by the end of page three the reader comes to a critical point in the story ...read more