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  • No Greater ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008
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    No Greater Love During the beginning of World War II, a large British military force on the European continent, as well as English citizens and diplomats, retreated to a French coastal port of Dunkirk. With it’s back against the English Channel, the British army faced a German army that threatened ...read more

  • All For The Loss Of One Nail

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
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    All for the Loss of One Nail During a battle many years ago a soldier was sent to deliver a message to the king. The soldier's horse lost a nail in one of the shoes. With that one nail gone, the shoe eventually fell off. The horse eventually went lame, and the soldier was forced to walk. The enemy ...read more

  • One Of The Most Difficult Things To Contend With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost ...read more

  • It Appears … That At Least 75 Percent Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 31, 2001
    based on 101 ratings
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    It appears … that at least 75 percent of homosexual are currently carrying one or more pathogens, but these men are not necessarily feeling sick or infecting others. It appears that at least 75 percent also have a history of at least one sexually transmitted disease, but these men are not ...read more

  • One Of The Things About The Planet Earth Is That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Oct 19, 2001
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    One of the things about the planet earth is that she contains many interesting and mysterious places. One such place is the Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle is an area of the Atlantic Ocean that is bordered by the island of Bermuda on the north, the island of Puerto Rico on the south, and ...read more

  • Character  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration- Character There is a story told among the Cherokee Indians… One evening an old Cherokee Indian told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 wolves. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, ...read more

  • Kagawa Is A Famous Japanese Christian. He Said ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Kagawa is a famous Japanese Christian. He said that in the cross he found Christianity’s greatest uniqueness. He said, “I am grateful for Shinto, for Confucianism and for Buddhism. I owe much to these faiths. Yet these three faiths utterly failed to minister to my heart’s deepest needs. I was a ...read more

  • Recent Studies In Psychology Suggest That The ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2008
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    Recent studies in psychology suggest that the pursuit of self-interest may not be the clearest path to the greater good or personal happiness, as so widely assumed. When researchers study what makes us happy, they find that it is not personal wealth, the strength of the stock market, inflation, ...read more

  • Lifting The Fear

    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Jan 14, 2013
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    LIFTING THE FEAR A story is told of a child who had to walk each evening past a dark, spooky house. Some adults sought to give him courage. One handed him a good luck charm to ward off the ghosts. Another had a light put on the dreaded corner. Still another said earnestly, "It is sinful to be ...read more

  • It's Very Easy To Pass Judgement On People, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Mar 15, 2001
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    It’s very easy to pass judgement on people, especially if we haven’t passed through their experience. People who have lost a loved one, lost their job through being made redundant or lost a position of responsibility, often go through a valley of bereavement which can’t be understood second-hand. ...read more

  • Daniel Boone Explored The Great Wilderness Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2002
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    Daniel Boone explored the great wilderness of Tennessee and Kentucky. It was Boone who marked the wilderness road that brought settlers into the new land. He often wandered over vast areas of forest, living off the land and dodging arrows. Once he was asked if he had ever bee lost. He replied, ...read more

  • A Good Example Of A Bad Example  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2010
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    A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A BAD EXAMPLE In 1989 the unthinkable happened. After seventy years of communism and forty years of the Cold War, the Iron Curtain fell and the brutal, sadistic power of the U.S.S.R. began to disintegrate. Russia for seven decades had been repressed, murdered, and brutalized by ...read more

  • This Week I Saw An Ad In The Arizona Republic ...

    Contributed by Mike Gilbert on Nov 21, 2007
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    This week I saw an ad in the Arizona Republic newspaper. It was an ad placed on behalf of someone’s grandmother, which said: “Lost: one pearl ring. Lost near 35th Avenue and Cactus. Setting is chipped from many years’ wear, has one diamond on each side of pearl. Great sentimental value. Large ...read more

  • In The 1999 Movie "Instinct," Anthony Hopkins ...  PRO

    Contributed by Louis Bartet on Mar 16, 2003
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    In the 1999 movie "Instinct," Anthony Hopkins plays an anthropologist and primatologist, Ethan Powel, who is being held in a maximum security prison for the critically insane. Cuba Gooding’s character is an ambitious psychiatrist, Dr. Theo Caulder, who is asked to evaluate Powel. At one point in ...read more

  • Christian, If Thou Wouldst Know The Path Of Duty, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2002
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    Christian, if thou wouldst know the path of duty, take God for thy compass; if thou wouldst steer thy ship through the dark billows, put the tiller into the hand of the Almighty. Many a rock might be escaped, if we would let our Father take the helm; many a shoal or quicksand we might well avoid, ...read more

  • On A Port Call In The Philippines Roy Fowler Saw ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 10, 2002
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    On a port call in the Philippines Roy Fowler saw a great illustration. The driver of a caribou wagon overtook an old man carrying a very heavy load. Having compassion on him, the driver invited the old man to ride in the wagon for free. Gratefully the old man accepted. He got in the wagon and ...read more

  • Heart Prints

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Heart Prints Whatever our hands touch We leave fingerprints On walls, on furniture On doorknobs, dishes, books. There’s no escape. As we touch we leave our identity. Oh God, wherever I go today Help me leave heartprints Heartprints of compassion Of understanding and love. Heartprints ...read more

  • A Small Boy Was On The Witness Stand In An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
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    A small boy was on the witness stand in an important lawsuit. The prosecuting attorney cross-examined him, then delivered, he thought, a crushing blow to the testimony. "Your father has been telling you how to testify, has he not?" "Yes," the lad replied and did not hesitate with the answer. "Now," ...read more

  • A Small Boy Was On The Witness Stand In An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
     | 2,582 views

    A small boy was on the witness stand in an important lawsuit. The prosecuting attorney cross-examined him, then delivered, he thought, a crushing blow to the testimony. "Your father has been telling you how to testify, has he not?" "Yes," the lad replied and did not hesitate with the answer. "Now," ...read more

  • King David Gave Us A Great 4pt Sermon In His ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Feb 13, 2009
     | 2,248 views

    King David gave us a great 4pt sermon in his Psalm of repentance (51) He pleaded, “Be gracious to me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness; According to the greatness of my Thy compassion blot out my transgression.” He confessed, “Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, and done what is evil ...read more

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