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  • There's A Story Told That, During The Height Of ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 10, 2007
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    There’s a story told that, during the height of the Reformation, Martin Luther on one occasion found his wife Katrina dressed in deep mourning. He asked her who was dead, only to receive the reply, ’God is’. He was deeply shocked and angry at her irreverence, until ...read more

  • Treasuring Is An Attitude We Carry In Our ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2002
    based on 30 ratings
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    "Treasuring is an attitude we carry in our hearts, a conviction we hold deep down inside. It’s one big decision that plays itself out in 10,000 little decisions every day of our lives. This one giant choice to treasure your husband lights up a ...read more

  • I Care Not Where I Go, Or How I Live, Or What I ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
     | 1,375 views

    "I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts…no amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone ...read more

  • The Captain Of The Titanic Refused To Believe The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    The captain of the Titanic refused to believe the ship was in trouble till water was ankle deep in the mail room. Only then was it apparent the multi-layered hull had been pierced and the unsinkable ship was going to sink. Ships that could have arrived before the great ocean liner went ...read more

  • Business Destroys Relationships. It Substitutes ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Business destroys relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep friendship. It feeds the ego but starves the inner man. It fills a calendar but fractures a family. It cultivates a program that plows under priorities. Many a church boasts about its active program: "Something for every night ...read more

  • Gilbert Bilizekian, In His Book, Community 101, ...

    Contributed by Roger Haber on Oct 24, 2006
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    Gilbert Bilizekian, in his book, Community 101, writes, Indeed, community finds its essence and definition deep within the being of God. Oneness is primarily a divine mode of being that pertains to God’s own existence, independently from and prior to any of his works of creation. Whatever ...read more

  • Real Comfort

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Mar 20, 2009
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    REAL COMFORT Queen Victoria heard that the wife of a labourer had lost her baby. Having suffered deep sorrow herself, she wanted to express her sympathy. She called on the bereaved mother and spent time with her. Later neighbours asked what the queen said. "Nothing," ...read more

  • Science Tells Us That A Dense Fog, One Hundred ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 18, 2010
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    Science tells us that a dense fog, one hundred feet deep and covering seven city blocks, is composed of less than one eight-ounce glass of water. So a single glass of water can shut down a large airport! One glass of water can completely ...read more

  • There Was Once A Farmer Who Went To Town To ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Oct 29, 2005
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    There was once a farmer who went to town to purchase seeds for his farm. As he was returning home one of the squash seeds he had purchased fell from his pocket onto the ground. It happened that within a few feet was another seed of a different type. The place where the two seeds lay was rather ...read more

  • As Joni Earickson Tada Puts It… The Message He ...

    Contributed by David Rumley on Apr 16, 2009
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    AS JONI EARICKSON TADA PUTS IT… The message He wanted to get across was that sin kills; Hell is real, but God is merciful, His kingdom can change you, and I am your passport. And anytime people missed that and started to come to Jesus simply to get their situations fixed, the Savior backed away. I ...read more

  • Canadian Figure Skater - Joannie ...

    Contributed by Brian Buriff on Mar 1, 2010
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    Canadian Figure Skater - Joannie Rochette 1. Her mother said these words 1 week before they traveled to Vancouver : "I always encouraged her to have confidence in herself, to believe in her dreams . . . The hurdles she faces motivate her to rise above them, Joannie has always been naturally ...read more

  • I Am

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 10, 2010
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    “I am” and Yahweh come from the same root word but have different tense references “I am” is 1st person “Yahweh” 3rd Person. Pronunciation of Yahweh The covenant name for the God of Israel in the Old Testament is Yahweh. This name was so sacred that by the second century BC the Jews refused to ...read more

  • A Tree Grows In England

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Apr 6, 2010
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    A TREE GROWS IN ENGLAND In Tewin, England's St. Peter's churchyard stands a great four-trunked tree growing out of a grave. Its presence there is a constant reminder of resurrection for residents in the community. The grave from which it grows is that of the 18th century's Lady Anne ...read more

  • Because She Is A Mother  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
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    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

  • R.c. Sproul Described The Relationship Between ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    R.C. Sproul described the relationship between science, God and omniscience: "God is a God of knowledge. He is concerned with science; indeed, He invented science. The root word of science means simply "to know." Science is the business of acquiring knowledge. ...If God is truth, then all true ...read more

  • Robert Schuller Tells Of A Time Early In His ...

    Contributed by Vic Folkert on Apr 5, 2007
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    Robert Schuller tells of a time early in his ministy when he was experiencing great opposition. He was unable to sleep, panic-stricken, and the thought came to him, "Schuller, you’re cracking up." He desperately prayed, "Jesus Christ, are you dead or alive? I’ve been preaching it every Easter. But ...read more

  • Suffice It To Say That No Revival Is Of Sudden ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 30, 2009
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    Suffice it to say that no revival is of sudden origin. When the revival manifests itself in a mighty way it comes suddenly as in the days of Hezekiah, but even so, its origins begin with the Holy Spirit of God moving effectively in individual lives in private. Let no one pray for revival—let no one ...read more

  • Albert Einstein On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2012
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    ALBERT EINSTEIN ON CREATION In his book on Albert Einstein, author Walter Isaacson told of a dinner party in Berlin where everybody assumed Einstein was an atheist and he said, “No, I have a deep feeling of faith, a deep religiosity that comes from my appreciation of the way the Lord made the ...read more

  • The Bridge Builder

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 20, 2022
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    THE BRIDGE BUILDER By Will Allen Dromgoole An old man going a lone highway. Came, at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide. Through which was flowing a sullen tide The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The sullen stream had no fear for him; But he turned when safe ...read more

  • It's The Fruit And Not The Tree! ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 20, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,614 views

    It’s The Fruit and Not The Tree! (10.24.05--Making It!--Psalm 1:3) Each year as the seasons change, so does the selection of fruit that is available at my local Piggly Wiggly. In early summer there are the tangy apricots and sweet plums along with nutty peaches and nectarines. As summer passes, ...read more