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  • Christ Died In My Place

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Christ died IN MY PLACE. During the U.S. Civil War, a farmer named Blake was drafted as a soldier. He was deeply troubled about leaving his family because his wife had died and there would be no one to support and take care of his children in his absence. The day before he was to leave for the ...read more

  • Through The Key Hole

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on May 25, 2008
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    JOHN 10:9 I AM THE DOOR IF ANYONE ENTERS BY ME HE WILL BE SAVED HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED THROUGH THE KEY HOLE... ITS THAT TV PROGRAMME WHERE LLOYD GROSSMAN TAKES THE VIEWERS THROUGH A DOOR AND INTO A CELEBRITIES HOUSE WHERE HE METICULOUSLY SHOWS YOU AROUND AND POINTS OUT CERTAIN OBJECTS AROUND THE ...read more

  • Last Week During Fellowship, I Told Some Of You ...

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Aug 9, 2008
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    Last week during fellowship, I told some of you about a scene from the Dark Knight, the new Batman movie. Have any of you seen the movie? The Joker threatens the city of Gotham, so the mayor decides to begin evacuating the city. The prison is emptied and put on a ferry to carry them away so that ...read more

  • Talk About Doing Good, Or Do Good

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
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    Talk About Doing Good, or Do Good In A Pretty Good Person, Lewis Smedes wrote: A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public school to African-American children. The white parents decided that, if they had to let black children in, they would keep their children out. They let it ...read more

  • The Specialists

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 17, 2008
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    The Specialists In The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen retells a tale from ancient India: Four royal brothers decided each to master a special ability. Time went by, and the brothers met to reveal what they had learned. "I have mastered a science," said the first, "by which I can take but a bone of ...read more

  • Patience  PRO

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Oct 15, 2008
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    Patience This past week I read about a first-grade teacher who was having a difficult day. It had rained that entire day and the children couldn’t go out for recess, so they got more and more restless and hyperactive as the day wore on. The teacher couldn’t wait for the bell to ring at 3 ...read more

  • Let Me Read A Quote From A Devotional By Os ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Nov 19, 2008
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    Let me read a quote from a devotional by Os Hillman: When we first begin our spiritual journey we often make decisions from convenience. Often, we decide what the outcome is that we want and then make decisions based on the perceived outcome. If it is a positive outcome, then we will make an ...read more

  • The Death Of The Nascar Racing Legend Dale ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 17, 2009
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    The death of the NASCAR racing legend Dale Earhardt at the 2001 Daytona 500 was tragic indeed. On the final lap of the race, he crashed into the wall at a speed of around 180 miles per hour after being tapped from behind. It seemed his death was not his fault but the result of the other driver ...read more

  • I Will Die – Let My Baby ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 9, 2009
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    “I Will Die – Let My Baby Live!” I knew him as a brilliant young member of a noted family. He was studying in one of the great universities. His physical development was well-nigh perfect. Tall, broad-shouldered, brawny, graceful in bearing and quick in movement, he was soon well-known as an ...read more

  • How Many Times Would You Forgive Your Dog?

    Contributed by Scott Berry on Aug 13, 2009
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    HOW MANY TIMES WOULD YOU FORGIVE YOUR DOG? Think for a minute, how forgiving would you be as if your pet messed the carpet several times a day? I think eventually you’d give up on your pets and take them out into the wilderness and set them free, you know what I mean - dump them. God’s love and ...read more

  • In The Trenches Of Life When Decisions Need To Be ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 9, 2009
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    In the trenches of life when decisions need to be made quickly, we often depend upon short principles that offer us immediate direction and give us spiritual instincts. C. Everett Koop is a great medical ethicist; when addressing end of life decision-making in a booklet he wrote for ...read more

  • Daddy, Are You There?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
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    DADDY, ARE YOU THERE? Oh how blessed it is to know that when the times of pain come and when our hearts become broken, we have Someone to whom we can turn that will give us Strength and that will keep us Safe. Only Jesus does that! A little girl and her father were returning from the funeral of ...read more

  • The Good Outcast: Longhaired Biker

    Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Dec 16, 2009
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    THE GOOD OUTCAST-LONGHAIR-BIKER Now it came to pass that a certain man was traveling Lonesome Street, a lonely and dark road from Tom's Tavern to Bill's Bar. After many visits to this bar, the consumption of liquor got a hold of him, stripped him of all his goods and left him destitute and dying ...read more

  • In 1914; Sir Earnest Shackleton, And Explorer ...

    Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Jan 19, 2010
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    In 1914; Sir Earnest Shackleton, and explorer from England attempted to cross Antarctica. His exploration didn’t go so well though as his ship, “The Endurance,” was caught in the ice pack and slowly crushed as the ice closed in around it. Luckily, Shackleton and his crew managed to make it off ...read more

  • Tim Stafford Of "Christianity Today” ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 3, 2010
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    Tim Stafford of “Christianity Today” magazine said (September 14, 1992, p. 36): A pastor I know, Stephey Belynskyj, starts each confirmation class with a jar full of beans. He asks his students to guess how many beans are in the jar, and on a big pad of paper writes down their estimates. Then, ...read more

  • A Little Girl's Alphabet ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2010
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    A Little Girl’s Alphabet Prayer A father walked by his daughter’s bedroom door which was cracked just enough so that he could see that she was kneeling beside her bed in prayer. Interested to find out what subjects a child would bring before God, he paused and listened. He was puzzled though to ...read more

  • Benedict ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
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    Benedict Arnold In American history, there is a man who became famous for all the wrong reasons. You have probably heard his name, even if you don’t know the details of his life. Benedict Arnold is a name that brings to mind betrayal and treason; yet he actually was a gifted man and a great ...read more

  • Dobson: Differences In Generations

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2010
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    DOBSON: DIFFERENCES IN GENERATIONS James Dobson recently wrote about the difference between the current generation and the WW II generation of fifty years ago: "Commitment, dedication, and patriotism have given place to sensuality, hedonism, and selfishness. If the decade of the '40s was ...read more

  • Abimelech And Guilt

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 23, 2010
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    ABIMELECH AND GUILT "IT'S NOT MY FAULT! I DIDN'T DO IT!" I remember my protests fell on deaf ears and I was made to go to my room without dinner until I confessed. My mother insisted that it was me, probably because of the lie my sister told her. I don't even remember the crime I was accused of, ...read more

  • Rooting For You

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2010
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    ROOTING FOR YOU Zig Ziglar tells of the time he took his young son golfing. The boy was still relatively new to the game, so Zig was very impressed by his son’s performance on one of the par 4 holes. At the tee, the boy lifted the ball straight and true down the fairway. A second shot got him ...read more

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