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  • Nothing Can Be Stated So Perfectly As Not To Be ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    “Nothing can be stated so perfectly as not to be misunderstood.” - Philip Melanchthon When you throw dirt at people you’re not doing a thing but losing ground. - Zig Ziglar Lord, deliver me from the lust of vindicating myself. - Augustine Let the man who says it cannot be done not disturb the ...read more

  • Can You Hear The Cries Of Loneliness?

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 3, 2013
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    CAN YOU HEAR THE CRIES OF LONELINESS? A Story from Max Lucado: In the summer of 1980 a story about an attractive girl who was young and successful stirred the US. The story broke the evening news with the headline; Judith Bucknell was dead -- it was number one hundred and six that year in the ...read more

  • There Is A Legend That The Devil Was Having A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Shelton on Aug 20, 2003
    based on 11 ratings
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    There is a legend that the devil was having a yard sale. People were buying articles such as lying, cheating. etc. An article was on the end of the table that had a sign not for sale. What is this item that is not for sale, people ask. The devil said I use this a lot of times and found it to be ...read more

  • You Have To Get In

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
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    YOU HAVE TO GET IN A trapeze artist once supposedly boasted that he could take a person seated in a wheelbarrow across a tightrope many hundreds of feet up between two tall buildings. "Who thinks I can do it?" he asked a crowd who had gathered to watch. One man raised his ...read more

  • You Have To Stoop  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2002
    based on 40 ratings
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    YOU HAVE TO STOOP The announcement went first to the shepherds. They didn't ask God if he was sure he knew what he was doing. Had the angel gone to the theologians, they would have first consulted their commentaries. Had he gone to the elite, they would have looked around to see if anyone ...read more

  • As Luck Would Have It

    Contributed by James Snyder on Dec 17, 2022
     | 640 views

    Quite frankly, I do not believe in luck in any degree. Once in a while, I will say it, but I don't believe it. Luck has no place in my wallet. Sometimes things happen that you can't plan for, which turns out to be rather good. Luck has nothing to do with it. This past week my ...read more

  • Can It Be That The Average Person Spends ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on May 3, 2001
    based on 156 ratings
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    Can it be that the average person spends one-fifth of his or her life talking? That’s what the statistics say. If all of our words were put into print, the result would be this: a single day’s words would fill a 50-page book, while in a year’s time the average person’s words would fill 132 books of ...read more

  • I Can Still Drive!!  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Cassara on Sep 8, 2001
    based on 173 ratings
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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

  • It Just Can't Wait  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2001
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    IT JUST CAN'T WAIT Following the news of ex-Beatle George Harrison’s death, "Today" how anchor Anne Curry interviewed Anthony DeCurtis, a writer for Rolling Stone* magazine. DeCurtis talked at length about Harrison’s search for a meaningful spiritual life. Curry said, "Apparently Harrison was the ...read more

  • Can You Hear Them?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
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    CAN YOU HEAR THEM? You too, my mother, read my rhymes, For love of forgotten times, And you may chance, to hear once more, The little feet along the floor SOURCE: Robert Louis Stevenson. Citation: The ...read more

  • Can You Create This?  PRO

    Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 21, 2002
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    CAN YOU CREATE THIS? It is a self-balancing, 28-jointed adapter based bi-ped with the following: Millions of warning signals, railroad and conveyor systems…crushers and cranes (of which the arms are magnificent 23-jointed affairs with self-surfacing and lubricating systems); A universally ...read more

  • You Can Choose Christmas  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2002
    based on 35 ratings
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    Clyde Reid suggested the following in his book, YOU CAN CHOOSE CHRISTMAS, (1975): "To anticipate Christmas is to decide now that miracles ...read more

  • Adapted From "Can This Be Christmas?"  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 27, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
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    Adapted from “Can this be Christmas?” Can this be Christmas? What’s all this hectic rush and fuss? Where do all these crowds go in such a hurry? They speed by so fast they look blurry! They sit at the lights getting ready to take flight! They dash into the store and then flash out the ...read more

  • What God Can Do  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jan 6, 2003
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    WHAT GOD CAN DO "When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but ...read more

  • What God Can Do  PRO

    Contributed by S Henriques on Sep 6, 2003
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    Henry Blackaby once wrote, “When God was ready to judge the world with a flood, He came to Noah. When He desired to build a nation for Himself, He turned to Abraham. When He heard His children groaning under Egyptian bondage, He appeared in a burning bush to Moses. They were three of the most ...read more

  • Without Brotherliness There Can Be No Religion ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    Without brotherliness there can be no religion ...read more

  • The Process Of Sanctification Can Be Compared To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The process of sanctification can be compared to an iceberg, which is almost 90% under water. As the sun shines on the iceberg, the exposed part melts, moving the lower part upward. In the same way, we are usually aware of only a small part of our sinfulness and need, which is all we can deal with ...read more

  • Can I Hug You?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I heard a story about a father who told his son when he reached 12 years old that he would only shake hands with him from now on. Finally, some 20 or 25 years later the son, now a grown man, said, “Dad can I hug you?” And the son and ...read more

  • God Can Use You  PRO

    Contributed by Fran Van Hoven on Jun 29, 2007
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    ILLUS: God can use you The next time you feel like GOD can’t use you, just remember... Noah got drunk, Abraham was too old, Isaac was a daydreamer, Jacob was a liar, Joseph was abused, Moses had a stuttering problem, Gideon was afraid, Rahab was a prostitute, Jeremiah and Timothy were too ...read more

  • Who Can Estimate The Value

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 4, 2007
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    Quote: J.C. Ryle in Foundations of Faith said: Who can estimate the value of God’s gift, when He gave to the world His only begotten Son! It is something unspeakable and incomprehensible. It passes man’s understanding. Two things there are which man has no arithmetic to reckon, and no line to ...read more