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  • The Seventeen Year Cicada Locust Lives Up To Its ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on May 1, 2007
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    The seventeen year cicada locust lives up to its name. When my children were little the locusts invaded. The little bugs had lived as larvae in the ground for a long seventeen year snooze. When they awoke one Saturday morning, it sounded like all the chain saws in the county had been ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • In 1997, Reilly Rankin, Was An All-American ...

    Contributed by Rob Culler on May 1, 2007
     | 1,437 views

    In 1997, Reilly Rankin, was an all-American golfer as a freshman at the University of Georgia. In her sophomore year, she was set back by an appendectomy, hernia repair and treatment for endometriosis. Having recovered from these procedures, her and a group of friends ventured out onto Lake ...read more

    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • We Never Know Who Will Respond To The Love Of ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 17, 2007
     | 1,583 views

    We never know who will respond to the love of God and Good News of Jesus Christ, and it is not our job to figure it out, only to keep reaching out to others and sharing the Good News. Mark Early tells the story of Gracia Burnham’s ordeal. She and her husband Martin were missionaries in the ...read more

    Denomination: Methodist

  • Dr. Maurice Rawlings, Is A Cardiologist And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 6,685 views

    Dr. Maurice Rawlings, is a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga, and his colleagues are constantly treating emergency patients, many of whom have had near-death experiences. A study of these cases by Dr. Rawlings was reported in ...read more

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  • Charisma" Magazine Had An Article On Martyrs In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    "Charisma" magazine had an article on martyrs in the 1990s. For many contemporary Christians, the word "martyr" evokes images of ancient saints being torn apart by lions in a Roman coliseum. Yet martyrdom did not end with the fall of the Roman Empire, or with the collapse of Soviet Communism. The ...read more

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  • When The Great Roman Army Was Sent To Fight In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    When the great Roman army was sent to fight in Gaul, no soldiers were braver or more loyal than this band of wrestlers led by their centurion Vespasian. But news reached Nero that many Roman soldiers had accepted the Christian faith. Therefore, this decree was dispatched to the centurion Vespasian; ...read more

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  • The Year Was 1992. A Man Was On Parole For Child ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The year was 1992. A man was on parole for child molesting. His fellow apartment renters complained of odors and chainsaw noises. When the police searched his apartment, they found it full of skulls, headless torsos and body parts. He would murder, mutilate and sometimes cannibalized boys and men. ...read more

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  • The Following Is A True Easter Story By Roger ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The following is a true Easter story by Roger Hawthorne One of the first Easters of my ministerial career began with a blizzard. I was still a student pastor, and we had arranged to have an ordained pastor come to serve communion. There was a question if he would be able to make it through the ...read more

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  • Ode To Mom  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    ODE TO MOM (from Pearl Sewell and Patti Cowell). POSITION: Mother, Mom, Mama JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable ...read more

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  • In 1997, Reilly Rankin, Was An All-American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,693 views

    In 1997, Reilly Rankin, was an all-American golfer as a freshman at the University of Georgia. In her sophomore year, she was set back by an appendectomy, hernia repair and treatment for endometriosis. Having recovered from these procedures, her and a group of friends ventured out onto Lake Martin, ...read more

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  • I Wanted To End By Recalling The Story Of A Man ...  PRO

    Contributed by Cameron Smith on Aug 4, 2007
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     | 3,451 views

    I wanted to end by recalling the story of a man named Horatio Spafford. In 1873, he and his family of 4 kids decided to go to London from New York to join the evangelistic movement in England. At the last minute, Horatio was delayed but sent his family by boat anyway. On November 2nd, the ship ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

  • Television Psychic Sylvia Brown, Who Appears ...

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Feb 26, 2008
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    Television psychic Sylvia Brown, who appears regularly on the Montel Williams show, fared even worse. On the December 27, 2006 airing of Montel, Sylvia made her predictions for 2007. They were all wrong. Every last one of them. For instance, Ms. Brown predicted that a tsunami would cause ...read more

    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • This Past Week My Oldest Daughter Came In For ...

    Contributed by Douglas Sherwood on Mar 27, 2008
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    This past week my oldest daughter came in for Easter break from college in Tennessee. After their mother spent nine hours in a van with our girls I thought she might like a little time alone. So I took our girls to see the movie . . . “Horton Hears a Who.” GREAT DR. SUESS MOVIE! Horton is an ...read more

    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Charley The Cat

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008
     | 1,340 views

    CHARLEY THE CAT "It was around Thanksgiving, just after our daughter turned five, that we brought Charley home. We named him after Charles, Prince of Wales. The name seemed to fit just right for this shy little newly-adopted member of our family. His wonderful blue eyes seemed to look deep into ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • I Have To Close This By Telling You Earl's Story: ...

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Jun 2, 2008
     | 1,778 views

    I have to close this by telling you Earl’s story: He was sixty-eight years old and had moved to Junction, TX from Michigan to be near his wife’s family. Many people thought of him as being obnoxious, or a curmudgeon, or a host of other words I cannot repeat this morning. I had breakfast with him ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • There's A Story About A Man, A Writer, Who Used ...

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 10, 2008
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    There’s a story about a man, a writer, who used to go to the beach to do his writing. He had the habit of walking along the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore; as he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • An Inconvenient ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 2,301 views

    AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH An Inconvenient Truth is an Academy Award-winning documentary film about climate change, specifically “global warming” and a future ice age in Northern Europe, presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth “I’m ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • You Must Have The Spirit Of Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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     | 4,068 views

    You Must Have the Spirit of Christ Jesus said; "If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever - the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him. But you know Him for He lives with you and will be in you. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • The Gift Nobody Wants

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
     | 3,704 views

    The Gift Nobody Wants In 1999 Dr Paul Brand and Philip Yancey co-wrote a book called "Pain: the Gift Nobody Wants." Dr Brand was born in India to missionary parents, and has spent most of his life caring for people with leprosy. One of Dr Brand's greatest discoveries was that people with leprosy ...read more

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  • A New ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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    A New Song? The preface to this radically contemporary version of the Bible included this plea from the translators for patience and acceptance: a new translation, “deserveth much respect and esteem, but yet findeth cold entertainment in the world. It is welcomed with suspicion instead of love…. ...read more

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