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  • Allah Or Jesus?  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Dec 15, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,073 views

    Allah or Jesus? Last month I attended my annual training session that’s required for mai ntaining my state prison security clearance. During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths who explained their belief ...read more

  • A One Way Street With No Turns!" Luke 9: 49-50 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 8, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,723 views

    “A One Way Street With No Turns!” Luke 9: 49-50 Key verse(s): 49: “‘Master,’ said John, ‘we say a man driving out demons in your name and we tried to stop him, because his is not one of us.’” “For many years Sir Walter Scott was the leading literary figure in the British Empire. No one ...read more

  • A Few Years Ago (2002), I Read A Letter That Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Oct 3, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,870 views

    A few years ago (2002), I read a letter that was sent out by Focus on the Family (James Dobson) and the following story was in the letter from Dr. Dobson: Finally, I want to share a personal story told by John Corts. He said when he was 16 years of age he and his younger cousins went to visit his ...read more

  • Mark 8:35 For Whoever Wants To Save His Life A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
     | 5,409 views

    Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his life a will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. (NIV) Now, Jesus is not talking about the cost of our salvation here, because that is free! Romans 6:23 says, “The FREE gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our ...read more

  • More Like ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
     | 3,382 views

    More Like Jesus What then is it to be more like Jesus in righteousness and faithfulness. Consider the story of: William Howard Doane (who) was a wealthy nineteenth-century industrialist who entered the business world at age sixteen and was president of his own manufacturing company by age ...read more

  • Phantom Guilt

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 9, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,613 views

    PHANTOM GUILT Amputees often experience some sensation of a phantom limb. Somewhere, locked in their brains, a memory lingers of the nonexistent hand or leg. Invisible toes curl, imaginary hands grasp things, a "leg" feels so sturdy a patient may try to stand on it. For a few, the experience ...read more

  • Not Success But Faithfulness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2010
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,264 views

    NOT SUCCESS BUT FAITHFULNESS Jordan was a man of unusual abilities and commitment. He had two Ph.D.s, one in agriculture and the other in Greek and Hebrew. He was so gifted he could have chosen to do anything he wanted. He chose to serve the poor. In the 1940s, he founded a farm in Americus, ...read more

  • History Of "The Star Spangled Banner"

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,451 views

    HISTORY OF "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER" An American lawyer was dispatched to negotiate for the release of several prisoners, including a civilian named Dr. William Beanes. Although the negotiation for prisoner exchange was initially successful, Francis Scott Key and the American official, Colonel ...read more

  • How James Montgomery Boice Faced Faced Death From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2011
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    How James Montgomery Boice Faced Faced Death from Cancer On May 7, 2000, Dr. Boice stood in this pulpit for the last time to speak about his cancer that would take his life in a month. Here is an excerpt: "If I were to reflect on what goes on theologically here, there are two things I would ...read more

  • Something To Be Saved From

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 19, 2011
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    SOMETHING TO BE SAVED FROM To be saved, like the thief on the cross, you must see yourself as destitute of any goodness worthy of heaven and, like this thief, by faith receive the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Vance Havner tells of a lady who came forward during the invitation in one of his ...read more

  • Communion Meditation: Compassion In A Deli

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2011
     | 6,306 views

    COMMUNION MEDITATION: COMPASSION IN A DELI Dr. Fred Craddic tells of the time he was asked to speak in Winnipeg, Canada. While he was there he stopped into a deli get something to eat. He said the place was packed but people moved over and made room for him. Many people in there where just in to ...read more

  • When I Was At The Ktis Pastor's Appreciation ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 22, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,453 views

    When I was at the KTIS pastor’s appreciation dinner last week – Dr. Gary Smalley shared how he was a recovering Hedon. He defined that hedonism is the old playboy philosophy of life. When I typed in the word Hedonism on a google search to attain its definition a website came up called “Hedonistic ...read more

  • Speaking Of Contaminants Let Me Tell You About A ...

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Dec 13, 2007
     | 1,963 views

    Speaking of contaminants let me tell you about a house I once helped my landlord clean. It was back when we lived in Moberly, just a few blocks away from our house. I had helped my landlord, Dr. Stan McCreary, do many things and so he asked me if I wouldn’t mind helping him fix up a house he had ...read more

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

    Contributed by Douglas Sherwood on Mar 27, 2008
     | 1,757 views

    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

  • My Favorite Story About The Holy Spirit Is The ...

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 12, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 11,712 views

    My favorite story about the Holy Spirit is the story C.S. Lewis told about a college student who wrote to him. The young man was an atheist. And he was very concerned, because he had made friends with some Christian students. They were enthusiastically witnessing to him about Jesus, and it had ...read more

  • Love Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,407 views

    LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR Fred Douglas Shepard was born on September 11, 1855 in Ellenburg, New York in Clinton County. His father died while he was very young and his mother spent most of her adult life as an invalid. It was probably through this that Fred became associated with illness and caring for ...read more

  • A New ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
     | 2,279 views

    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

  • Charles H. Townes, Who Won A Nobel Prize For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 4,048 views

    Charles H. Townes, who won a Nobel Prize for his work in laser technology, opened a talk with a disclaimer: "It’s like the beaver told the rabbit as they stared up at the immense wall of the Hoover Dam: ’No, I didn’t actually build it myself. But it was based on an idea of mine.’" We are often ...read more

  • Salvation And Reprobation

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,948 views

    SALVATION AND REPROBATION Someone may ask, "Of what use then is the doctrine of reprobation?" I am glad you asked! Let me suggest (from Dr. Boice) some useful aspects of the doctrine of reprobation. First, reprobation assures us that God’s purpose has not failed. God has determined the outcome ...read more

  • Longer, Daddy… Longer By John Trent  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 22, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,306 views

    "Longer, Daddy.. .Longer" by John Trent. Recently, a woman grabbed my arm at a conference after I had finished speaking on the enormous need we all have for affirmation. "Dr. Trent, may I tell you my story?" she asked. "Actually, it’s a story of something my son did with my granddaughter that ...read more