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  • How Can We Be A Friend To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 1,104 views

    How Can We Be A Friend To The Suffering? 1. We can be there for them. 2. We can feel their pain. 3. We can encourage them. 4. We can listen more than we talk. 5. We can be honest: I don’t know… don’t try to explain everything. 6. We can look beyond their faults and look to their needs. 7. We ...read more

  • The Ruined Hunting Dog

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
     | 2,454 views

    THE RUINED HUNTING DOG Robert Moffatt, missionary to savage tribes of South Africa, translated the Bible into the native language of the people and taught the people to read. He watched the remarkable changes which the gospel brought in the lives of these formerly fierce warriors. He saw them show ...read more

  • Hillel: "What Is Painful To You, Do Not Do Un...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 4, 2010
     | 2,262 views

    Hillel: "What is painful to you, do not do unto others". (Talmud, tracate Shabbat 31a; Midrash Avot de Rabbi Natan). Akiva states "Whatever you hate to have done unto you, do not do to your neighbor; wherefore do not hurt him; do not speak ill of him; do not reveal his secrets to others; let his ...read more

  • Angels And Demons

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Sep 24, 2010
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     | 2,595 views

    ANGELS AND DEMONS Talk about SUSPENSE AND INTRIGUE! Subatomic anti-matter threatens the existence of Vatican city in Rome. Key Cardinals from the Roman Catholic church vanish. And it all points to the ILLUMINATI, a secret society that has re-emerged from history. I watched the movie by Dan Brown ...read more

  • Because She Is A Mother  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,839 views

    BECAUSE SHE IS A MOTHER Out of the French Revolution came a story of a mother who wandered through the woods for three days with her two children, trying to survive on roots and leaves. On the third day, she heard some soldiers approaching and quickly hid herself and the children behind some ...read more

  • Working Hard To Earn Salvation

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 21, 2012
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    WORKING HARD TO EARN SALVATION United Methodist Bishop Reuben Job writes, "If we are just good enough, do enough, deny ourselves enough, we will be forgiven, redeemed, and reconciled to God. Following this path brings no peace, assurance, or sense of companionship with God. Rather than asking ...read more

  • Normally The Flight From Nassau To Miami Took ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on May 3, 2001
    based on 78 ratings
     | 3,541 views

    Normally the flight from Nassau to Miami took Walter Wyatt, Jr., only sixty-five minutes. But on December 5, 1986, he attempted it after thieves had looted the navigational equipment in his Beechcraft. With only a compass and a hand-held radio, Walter flew into skies blackened by storm clouds. ...read more

  • The Wizard Of Oz: Getting Home

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 10, 2011
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    THE WIZARD OF OZ: GETTING HOME I remember watching the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy is trying to find her way home, and along the way she runs into a scarecrow with no brain, a tin man with no heart, and a lion with no courage. But they learn that there is a wizard in the land of Oz who can help them ...read more

  • Hugging

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Mar 1, 2016
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    Once at a young girl’s funeral, I had to make just such a decision. The girl’s father was a member of our church and an air force serviceman. He was an aide on Air Force One and had flown with the president many times. A few generals and lots of upper-crust brass attended the funeral. When it came ...read more

  • Believe Or Reject  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 27, 2002
    based on 39 ratings
     | 3,388 views

    Believe or Reject I would recommend you either believe God up to the hilt, or else not to believe at all. Believe this book of God, every letter of it, or else reject it. There is no logical standing place between the two. Be satisfied with nothing less than a faith that swims in the deeps of ...read more

  • George Barna Did A Survey And Wrote A Book About ...

    Contributed by Bradford Robinson on Sep 18, 2002
     | 1,955 views

    George Barna did a survey and wrote a book about the status of today’s church, and it was shocking. He found that the divorce rate for non-Christians was 23%, and the divorce rate for Born Again Christians was 27%. That’s right, the Christians had a higher divorce rate than the non-Christian. ...read more

  • Was It Not Great Blindness That God Almighty, Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
     | 2,409 views

    Was it not great blindness that God Almighty, who created us, has so often made known to us that he is our Father, and finally even gave his Son for us; and he himself stands there and calls us poor sinners, saying "Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest." And we ...read more

  • In His Memoir Of His Experience In A Nazi ...

    Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 23, 2006
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    In his memoir of his experience in a Nazi concentration camp, Elie Wiesel notes that before his village was ever emptied of the Jewish settlers, a poor man, Moshe the Beadle, who had been deported on some of the first trains of Jews out of the Hungarian village and had seen first hand the ...read more

  • Quote: - Charles Spurgeon Once Said, "I Would ...

    Contributed by Tom Osterkamp on Mar 19, 2007
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    QUOTE: - Charles Spurgeon once said, "I would recommend you either believe God up to the hilt, or else not believe at all. Believe this book of God, every letter of it, or else reject it. There is no logical standing place between the two. Be satisfied with nothing less than a faith that swims in ...read more

  • A Line From A Poem, "The New Colossus," By The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,131 views

    A line from a poem, “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus. “The New Colossus,” describing the Statue of Liberty, appears on a plaque at the base of the statue. It ends with the statue herself speaking: 1 Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning ...read more

  • A Large Sum Of Money Was Given To [a Man Named] ...

    Contributed by Moi Kieng Ting on Aug 9, 2007
     | 1,199 views

    A large sum of money was given to [a man named] Rowland Hill to dispense to a poor pastor. Thinking that the amount was too much to send all at once, Hill forwarded just a portion along with a note that said simply, ‘More to follow.’ In a few days the man received another envelope containing the ...read more

  • Irenaeus [130-200 Ad]: And Instead Of The Tithes ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
     | 1,609 views

    Irenaeus [130-200 AD]: And instead of the tithes which the law commanded, the Lord said to divide everthing we have with the poor. And he said to love not only our neighbors but also our enemies, and to be givers and sharers not only with the good but also to be liberal givers toward those who take ...read more

  • David Seamands: I Heard A Sermon Based On The ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 12, 2011
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    David Seamands: I heard a sermon based on the New Testament story of the Rich Young Ruler. You recall how the young man refused Jesus’ challenge to give away his possessions, take up his cross, and follow Jesus. The preacher accurately called him a millionaire, and then commented, "The poor fool! ...read more

  • The Cold Within

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Mar 11, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,677 views

    The Cold Within (unknown) Six humans trapped by happenstance in black and bitter cold. Each one possessed a stick of wood (or so the story’s told). Their dying fire, in need of logs, the first woman held hers back, For on the faces around the fire, she noticed one was black. The second, looking ...read more

  • One Of The Men Who Most Influenced D. L. Moody ...

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 29, 2005
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    One of the men who most influenced D. L. Moody was a young preacher named Henry Moorehouse. He once preached for Moody for an entire week using the same text every night—John 3:16. The preaching of Moorehouse, according to Moody, was much different from his own. Instead of preaching that God was ...read more

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