Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 27, 2008
                
                
                
                    COMING OUT OF THE SEWER
I remember a documentary, it was about a Christian agency that worked with children who lived in sewers - somewhere in eastern Europe - the work of the agency is to re-house these kids - a chance for a new life away from the darkness and filth of the sewers into foster
                    
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                    Contributed by Chris Surber on Dec 22, 2008
                
                
                
                    "I Go Home, Daddy."
Christ offers the lasting hope and promise of a new and lasting home.  
My three-year-old son Sebastian is a wonderful little boy.  My children’s antics and lives provide me with a wealth of sermon illustrations and stories.  Not long ago, Sebastian had to go through some
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Feb 2, 2009
                
                
                
                    INTEGRITY MELTDOWN
What do the following people have in common?
John Edwards
David Duchovny
Fast Eddie Johnson
Winona Ryder
Jeremiah Gunner Scott 
Karen Raborn 
Heather Johnston
Amy Wilkins 
The all experienced some type of integrity meltdown.
John Edwards -- Had and affair and fathered a child
                    
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                    Contributed by Joshua Blackmon on Jun 16, 2024
                
                
                
                    Leave it to a children’s book to help us see how big our universe is. In a book entitled "Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?" Robert Wells takes us from a size we can grasp to one we can’t.
The largest animal on earth is the blue whale. Just the flippers on its tail are bigger
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 27, 2025
                
                
                
                    [144].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – IN THE MANGER LAID – CHRISTMAS POEM
This was written as a simple Christmas poem.  There is not much I want to say about it.  My thoughts were that the poem can be used on cards or greetings, or for children’s pageants and that sort of thing.  It is not meant to be
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A JESUS." 
It is truly heartwarming to know that millions of people around the world believe in Santa. Sure, most are under four feet tall, but still it’s amazing that so many believe in the big guy in the red suit. Consider the following:
Around the globe, today, live
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 1, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In 1994 two Americans answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics (based on Biblical principles) in the public schools. They were invited to teach at prisons, businesses, the fire and police departments, and a large orphanage.
It was nearing the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Last year I compiled the Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, a statistical portrait of American behavioral trends of the past three decades. Among the findings: Since 1960, while the gross domestic product has nearly tripled, violent crime has increased at least 560%. Divorces have more than
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Story of Squanto
Most of us know the story of the first Thanksgiving -- at least, we know the Pilgrim version. But how many of us know the Indian viewpoint?
No, I’m not talking about some revisionist, politically correct version of history. I’m talking about the amazing story of the way God
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Sharp on Mar 29, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    				Ill- Teddy Stallard
	Teddy Stallard was an unattractive and unmotivated fifth grade boy. 
His teacher, Mrs. Thompson found him difficult to like due to his deadpan, expressionless, unfocused stare. 
She had to admit that down deep inside she took pleasure in marking his papers with red ink and
                    
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                    MICHAEL JACKSON: PRODUCT OF CHILDHOOD
One of the saddest comments I heard Michael Jackson make was when he was being interviewed and he said that his father had never told him that he loved him.
In a speech at Oxford University in March 2001 he spoke very perceptively when he said this:
"All of
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Crandall on May 16, 2016
                
                
                
                    *God wants us to be givers, because HE is a giver. He wants us to generously give our time, our talents, our tithes and our offerings. In short, God wants us to give our lives and our love to other people, every way we can. They will be blessed, and so will we. 
*Sometimes even a small gift can
                    
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