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  • Faithfulness In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    Faithfulness in Battle John Wesley once said: "Give me a hundred men who love nothing but God and hate nothing but sin, and I will shake the whole world for Christ." It doesn’t take many… but it does take someone who decides to be faithful. In December 1944, the German army launched an unexpected ...read more

  • Charles Stanley On The Difference Between ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
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    Charles Stanley on the Difference Between Decision and Commitment Charles Stanley says in his book, Confronting Casual Christianity, in answer to that question, “because these couples made a decision but did not make a commitment. Every person who married made a decision! They stood before the ...read more

  • I Can't Remember

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2011
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    I CAN'T REMEMBER An elderly man moved into a retirement community. It wasn't long until he had made a number of friends among the other residents. There was one lady he was especially attracted to and she was attracted to him, also. They spent a lot of time together. Finally one evening he ...read more

  • Liberation Treatment

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 15, 2011
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    LIBERATION TREATMENT Liberation Treatments are becoming commonly known treatments for people suffering with Multiple Sclerosis. The condition known as Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCVI), according to Dr. Paolo Zamboni, Italian founder of the Liberation Treatment, is a condition ...read more

  • How Christians Are Different

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    HOW CHRISTIANS ARE DIFFERENT A Second Century believer, in a letter to his friend, Diognetus, described how Christians are alike and different from others. He wrote, "Though they are residents at home in their own countries, their behavior there is more like transients...Though destiny has placed ...read more

  • When We Come Together

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2011
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    WHEN WE COME TOGETHER Dr. J. Vernon McGee told a story about a little community where there were three churches on the same corner, a Presbyterian church, Methodist church and Baptist church. One Sunday night, all the windows were open and they could hear each other singing. They didn't get along ...read more

  • Overwhelming Forgiveness

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 12, 2011
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    OVERWHELMING FORGIVENESS A wonderful example of how to practice the lifestyle of grace comes from an incident in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 2006, when a man entered an Amish schoolhouse and murdered 5 girls while wounding 5 others before killing himself. As horrific as this ...read more

  • God's Glory And Our Happiness

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Nov 27, 2012
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    GOD'S GLORY AND OUR HAPPINESS Jonathan Edwards writes: God in seeking his glory seeks the good of his creatures, because the emanation of his glory ... implies the ... happiness of his creatures. And in communicating his fullness for them, he does it for himself, because their good, which he ...read more

  • Awesome Achievement (Moffatt's Law)

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jan 31, 2018
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    Awesome achievement And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Paul. (1 Corinthians 13:13) Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians writes about love in chapter thirteen, but he finishes the chapter by mentioning two other powerful things, ...read more

  • 4408 Eternal Loss Or Temporary ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 29, 2008
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    Illustration: 4408 Eternal Loss Or Temporary Pleasure. There’s a story of how money can blur vision: A certain tribe in Africa elects a new king every seven years but it invariably kills its old king. For seven years the member of the tribe enjoying this high honor is provided with every luxury ...read more

  • Have You Seen The Church?

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 4, 2008
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    HAVE YOU SEEN THE CHURCH? These early Church of God people also used another phrase, "I saw the church." They might ask, "Have you seen the church?" Now a lot of you know that I didn't grow up "going to church." And I certainly didn't grow up attending a Church of God congregation. So when I ...read more

  • I Have A Short List Of Qualities That Might Mark ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 4, 2008
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    I have a short list of qualities that might mark you as someone from the 'burbs. In other words, this might show what community you belong to. You might be from the suburbs if: You have a garage but you can't get your car into it. (Now this could be because you have too much stuff stored there ...read more

  • Depression And Aloneness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
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    Depression and Aloneness Author Bernard Anderson in "Out of the Depths" speaks of this remembering the multitudes and the house of God and makes a worthy observation. He says, "This is not a longing for a one-to-one relationship with God in mystic solitude. The poet yearns to be surrounded by the ...read more

  • Gossip-Free Church

    Contributed by John Bright on Sep 23, 2025
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    I like to illustrate this kind of thing by talking about gossip. I believe it is the most tolerated sin in every congregation. As always, I like to share my definition of gossip. Something is not gossip if it can pass three tests: ? 100% Truth - You heard/saw it directly – can’t be repeated from ...read more

  • God Moment: Wow Impact

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 10, 2009
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    GOD MOMENT: WOW IMPACT Chilly Chilton is the Sr. Pastor of Real Church in the inner city of Detroit. His church people have to listen 3 times a day to the Muslims call to prayer as it is broadcasted through the air waves. Chilly founded Real Church in June 2004. His community is called Hamtramck. ...read more

  • Trapped , Sabotage

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 3, 2020
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    WHEN MY OWN THINKING AND MY OWN WORDS SABOTAGE MY LIFE AND MY FAMILY. There was this woman that went to the Old Wise Man in the community to seek advice about her future. She approached the wise man to seek answers about her life... She asked him: SIR, WHAT WILL MY FUTURE HOLD? The wise man ...read more

  • A Newspaper Columnist Named George Crane Told ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Peck on Feb 1, 2001
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    A newspaper columnist named George Crane told once of a woman who was full of hatred toward her husband. Someone counseled the woman to act as if she really loved her husband, to tell him how much he meant to her, to praise him for every decent trait, to be kind, considerate, and generous whenever ...read more

  • I Can Still Drive!!  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Cassara on Sep 8, 2001
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    I CAN STILL DRIVE!! At a nursing home in Florida, a resident group was discussing ailments: "My arms are so weak I can hardly lift this cup of coffee," said one. "Yes, I know, my cataracts are so bad I can’t even see my coffee," replied another. "I can’t turn my head because of the arthritis in my ...read more

  • In Becoming A Contagious Christian, Bill Hybels ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2001
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    In Becoming a Contagious Christian, Bill Hybels and Mark Mittelberg tell this story: A newly promoted colonel had moved into a makeshift office during the Gulf War. He was just getting unpacked when out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a private with a toolbox coming his way. Wanting ...read more

  • You May Have Seen News Stories This Week About ...  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Mar 31, 2002
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    You may have seen news stories this week about President Bush’s pick to be Surgeon General, a man from Arizona named Richard Carmona. He has been a green beret, a trauma surgeon, a part-time policeman and SWAT team member. One of the exploits he is known for is an incident that happened 2 1/2 years ...read more