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  • Ivan The Great Was The Tsar Of Russia During The ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 14, 2008
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    Ivan the Great was the tsar of Russia during the Fifteenth Century. He brought together the warring tribes into one vast empire. As a fighting man he was courageous. As a general he was brilliant. He drove out the enemies and established peace across the nation. Ivan was so busy waging his ...read more

  • Brian L. Harbour, Rising Above The ...

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 9, 2002
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    [illustration, Brian L. Harbour, Rising Above the Crowd.] The year was 1920. The scene was the examining board for selecting missionaries. Standing before the board was a young man named Oswald Smith. One dream dominated his heart. He wanted to be a missionary. Over and over again, he prayed, ...read more

  • Unsatisfied  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2002
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    UNSATISFIED French author, Guy de Maupassant was one of the greatest writers of short stories the world has ever known. Within ten years he rose from relative obscurity to fame. Just what he thought he’d always wanted. His material possessions showed a life of affluence…a yacht in the ...read more

  • Gene A. Smith, An American Historian, Authored A ...

    Contributed by David Taylor on Apr 26, 2003
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    Gene A. Smith, an American historian, authored a book entitled, “When The Cheering Stopped.” The book told of Woodrow Wilson, and the events surrounding WW1. Upon the end of the war, people were optimistic. They believed that the last war had been fought. The dream was that the world had at ...read more

  • Moms On The Go For The Lord Strengthen Their ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 15, 2003
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    Moms on the go for the Lord strengthen their children¡¦s individual personalities.They allow their children to soar into what God designed them to be. This poem expresses this act well: Before I was myself, you made me, me by Nicholas Gordon: Before I was myself you made me, me With love and ...read more

  • We Speak And We View Only In Part Because The ...

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Jun 13, 2005
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    We speak and we view only in part because the afterlife is a place we have never been. Talking about heaven and hell is sort of like a person taking a vacation to a place he/she has never been before. Take Hawaii, for instance. I’ve never been there. I would love to go, and perhaps one day will ...read more

  • I Want To Begin This Morning With A Clip From The ...

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
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    I want to begin this morning with a clip from the movie, Cheaper by the Dozen. In this movie Coach Tom (played by Steve Martin) and his wife Kate (Bonnie Hart) have twelve kids. They are doing fine until opportunity knocks—an opportunity for Tom to pursue his dream of coaching a successful Top ...read more

  • Submitting Totally To God's Plan For Us And Our ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Mar 7, 2006
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    Submitting totally to God’s plan for us and our loved ones, is difficult to do. But, it is a must for any Christian seeking the “whatever it takes” solution to the difficult problems in life. In 1878, when William Booth’s Salvation Army was beginning to make its mark, men and women from all over ...read more

  • The Devil Is A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2009
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    The Devil Is A Liar A well-paid, recently-promoted young executive dreamed he died and stood at the Pearly Gates. Peter asks: "Do you want to go to heaven or to hell?" "Let me know my options," he says. "Show me hell." Up pops a giant screen with a video playing. Girls in bikinis and well-built ...read more

  • Make A Wish

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2010
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    MAKE A WISH Have you ever dreamed of finding a genie in a lamp where you could get three wishes? Our Pastor, who is in charge of the prison ministry, always tells the same joke, because the prisoner population has a new turnover each time he visits. He always sets them up by asking if they had ...read more

  • The Miracle Of Sight  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
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    THE MIRACLE OF SIGHT For 51 years Bob Edens was blind. He couldn’t see a thing. His world was a black hall of sounds and smells. He felt his way through five decades of darkness. And then, he could see. A skilled surgeon performed a complicated operation and, for the first time, Bob Edens had ...read more

  • 4 Spiritual Crises

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 19, 2014
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    FOUR SPIRITUAL CRISES The spiritual experience of Abraham was marked by four great crises, each of which involved a surrender of something dear. These were: (1) LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY AND FAMILY (Gen 12:1 Mt 10:34-39 2Cor 6:14-18) - Is God asking you to go somewhere away from home, family and ...read more

  • What Child Is This?

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Dec 20, 2020
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    What Child is this? • To the seeker, He's the Way; • to the philosopher, He’s the Truth; • to the penitent, He’s the Life. • • He is Joshua's captain, • He is Moses' smitten rock, • He is Ruth’s Kinsman Redeemer, What Child is this? • He is David’s Covenant King, • He is Esther’s ...read more

  • Forgiven And Forgotten

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Dec 2, 2007
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    Forgiven and Forgotten In “A Forgiving God in an Unforgiving World,” Ron Lee Davis retells the true story of a priest in the Philippines, a much-loved man of God who carried the burden of a secret sin he had committed many years before. He had repented but still had no peace, no sense of God’s ...read more

  • By Now Everyone Has Heard Of The Death Of Actor ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Feb 23, 2008
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    By now everyone has heard of the death of actor Heath Ledger. Just a few days ago this up and coming young actor was found dead in his lower Manhattan apartment. From the outside looking in it would seem that he had it made. He had truly found the American dream. He had fame and fortune. Yet, ...read more

  • Ministry Area Profile 2006 -- Compass ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 16, 2009
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    Ministry Area Profile 2006 -- Compass Report 10/24/2006 Estimated 2006 households likely to be primarily concerned with: The Basics: Maintaining personal health – 42.6% Hopes and Dreams: 1) Achieving long-term financial security – 56.8% 2) Finding time for recreation/leisure – 31.7% 3) Other ...read more

  • Staring At The Great Stone Face

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 2, 2023
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    Perhaps you remember Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story about the great stone face. A little lad lived in a village where there was a mountain with a rock formation which they called the great stone face. The people had a legend that someday someone would come to the village who would look like the ...read more

  • Back In The Fifteenth Century, In A Tiny Village ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Oct 20, 2004
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    Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. To keep food on the table the father, a goldsmith by profession, worked almost eighteen hours a day at his trade and any other paying chore he could find in the neighborhood. Despite their ...read more

  • No Mundane Stuff Allowed! ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 8, 2005
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    No Mundane Stuff Allowed! (06.10.05--Family--Song. 4:1-7) It has been said that one of the major problems with families is that they start out wrong from the start. From the moment the marriage license is signed spouses are inclined to view the privilege as more of a hunting license than a ...read more

  • Hide From The Toil

    Contributed by James Pless on May 22, 2006
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    hide from the toil 12438. One Day I Dream One day as I was fast asleep I had this stirring dream; I was caught up to be with God. With angels it did seem. And while up there, I met God’s saints From many parts of the earth. Now some were great and famous men, And some of humble birth. I ...read more