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  • A Light In Dark Places

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    A LIGHT IN DARK PLACES A young girl once consulted with her minister. "I cannot stick it out any longer. I am the only Christian in the factory where I work. I get nothing but taunts and sneers. It is more than I can stand. I am going to resign." "Will you tell me," asked the minister, "where ...read more

  • Who Needs Revival?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
     | 2,897 views

    WHO NEEDS REVIVAL? Do I need revival? Consider this checklist and see how you do: 1)Is your heart crowded? Does Christ get ALL your love, or merely one of many pieces? 2)Is your heart cold or calloused? Is your love for Him & others fervent? Constant? 3)Is your heart corrupt? Do you crave or ...read more

  • Bringing The Old Life With You  PRO

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on May 2, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,472 views

    BRINGING THE OLD LIFE WITH YOU The motor home has allowed us to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now he can park a fully equipped home on a cement slab in the midst ...read more

  • Por Un Dólar — For A Dollar

    Contributed by Fernando Ocampo on Jun 3, 2008
     | 3,043 views

    (ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS) Cierto hombre vino un día a la iglesia con su familia. Cuando iban de regreso a casa comenzó a quejarse de esta manera: "la música estaba demasiado alta, el sermón fue demasiado largo. El que dio los anuncios parecía que ni el mismo sabía lo que decía. Como es posible ...read more

  • Last Week's I Talked About The Need For The ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 21, 2008
     | 1,096 views

    Last week’s I talked about the need for the church to give up some of their rights for the sake of the weaker ones in Christ. Today no one wants to be held responsible for their actions. I looked up the word “Responsible” and discovered this: The state of being responsible, accountable, or ...read more

  • Coming In Last

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 27, 2008
     | 1,823 views

    Coming in Last Discouragement cramps our momentum; the heat-stroke of opposition can drain our stamina and motivation. Running into obstacles that drive our faces in the asphalt of reality make it hard to get back up. Our stories are not unlike Felicians Hopfner-Hibb's or Simon Whitfield's. Last ...read more

  • 99% Is Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
     | 3,988 views

    99% IS NOT ENOUGH Back in the 90’s a California research firm considered the advertising slogan for a popular soap that was 99.4% pure. And they asked themselves the question: “What if everything in the world operated at 99% efficiency?” They discovered: - drinking water would be unsafe one hour ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis Certainly Recognized This, And In His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
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    C.S. Lewis certainly recognized this, and in his essay "The Law of Human Nature", he built and established a very strong and incontrovertible argument for the case. In the middle of this short piece he says, "Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will ...read more

  • Light In Dark Places

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
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     | 7,690 views

    Light in Dark Places A young girl once consulted with her minister. "I cannot stick it out any longer. I am the only Christian in the factory where I work. I get nothing but taunts and sneers. It is more than I can stand. I am going to resign." "Will you tell me," asked the minister, "where ...read more

  • I've Been Good, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
     | 2,300 views

    "I’VE BEEN GOOD, BUT..." Grandma was rushing her two grandkids ages five and three out to the car from shopping when five year old Jason spoke up. "Grams, Susie put something in her pocket in the store." After a quick investigation, Grams discovered that Susie had picked up some pretty red ...read more

  • A Preacher Once Met A Man Named Worral. He Had ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
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    A preacher once met a man named Worral. He had been stricken with rheumatoid arthritis at age 15, years went by before he met him again. 30 years later they crossed paths only to find Worral now totally paralyzed except for 1 finger. He could barely speak and was totally blind. But he had a ...read more

  • I'm Re-Reading A Great Book Entitle, A Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I’m re-reading a great book entitle, A Man Called Peter, about Peter Marshall, who served as the Chaplain of the US Senate in the 1940’s. He was a Scottish immigrant who came to America convinced that he was to train for the ministry here. He came without much money, and for the next few years ...read more

  • Authority Of Jesus

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 21, 2007
     | 3,160 views

    AUTHORITY OF JESUS It is obvious that I love the Spurs NBA basketball team. Tim Duncan, who is on the San Antonio Spurs, is at the moment considered one of the greatest players of the sport. Tim Duncan routinely frustrates sports reporters as they interview him. The reporters want Tim to talk about ...read more

  • Satisfied Mind

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jul 9, 2007
     | 3,337 views

    Satisfied Mind (By Rhodes & Hayes)(Starrite Music) How many times have you heard someone say "If I had his money, I could do things my way?" Little they know that it’s so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind. Once I was winning in fortune and fame Everything that I ...read more

  • William Edward Parry Was A British Explorer. In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jul 15, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,065 views

    William Edward Parry was a British explorer. In the early 1800s he led an expedition to the Arctic Ocean. They wanted to go farther north to continue their chartings. So they calculated their location by the stars and then started a very difficult and treacherous march north. They walked the ...read more

  • The Laymen

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
     | 1,083 views

    Leave it to the ministers, And soon the church will die; Leave it to the women folk, And some will pass it by; For the church is all that lifts us From the coarse and selfish mob, And the church that is to prosper Needs the laymen on the job. Now a layman has his business, And a ...read more

  • To Him Who Is Thirsty I Will Give Them Without ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 9, 2007
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     | 4,475 views

    To him who is thirsty I will give them without cost...... when our family go out to restaurants or a cafe or pub lunch, Danielle will often ask me to go and get some water, but she doesn’t mean bottled water she means get some tap water because its free. I always feel embarrassed asking for ...read more

  • If You Went To The Doctor For A Surgery And He ...

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Dec 13, 2007
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    If you went to the doctor for a surgery and he told you that he wouldn’t be wearing sterile gloves, wouldn’t be sterilizing any of the equipment he had used for the last operation, and gave you a 1 in 3 chance of contracting a disease, you would probably leave in a heartbeat. Today, sterilization ...read more

  • He Had No Cornfields Or Fisheries, But He Could ...

    Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 15, 2007
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    He had no cornfields or fisheries, but He could spread a table for five thousand and have bread and fish to spare. He walked on no beautiful carpets or velvet rugs, but He walked on the waters of the Sea of Galilee and they supported Him. When He died, few men mourned. But a black crepe was hung ...read more

  • Go Get Your Own

    Contributed by Louis Pantelis on May 21, 2009
    based on 1 rating
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    GO GET YOUR OWN One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come along way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God and said "God, we’ve decided that we no longer need you; We’re ...read more