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  • Suburban Outreach

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2010
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     | 3,398 views

    SUBURBAN OUTREACH Calvin Miller teaches in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Beeson Divinity School. He recently wrote a provocative article entitled, "Rethinking Suburban Evangelism," on the challenge taking the gospel to people who sense no need: "Suburbia: the push-button Zion of those who have made ...read more

  • Break New Ground For God

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Jun 14, 2010
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    BREAK NEW GROUND FOR GOD od has called us to go. Are you going? I challenge you to dare to go where no man has gone before. Charles Haddon Surgeon said it best when he said, "The most successful servants of god have been those who have not built upon the foundation of others, but have ventured ...read more

  • True Lifesavers

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 30, 2010
     | 1,784 views

    Nantucket, Massachusetts is located next to important shipping lanes running along the East Coast. Toward the end of the 1800s sailing ships were in their heyday. Nantucket Island saw hundreds of vessels passing by each day—all navigating without the advantages of modern technology. Treacherous ...read more

  • Nuts And Bolts For Christ

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jul 3, 2010
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    NUTS AND BOLTS FOR CHRIST Arthur Blessitt, the famous American Evangelist who carried a Cross around the world in the 1980s was once called a "religious nut" – to which ...read more

  • The First And Last "All"

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
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     | 5,434 views

    THE FIRST AND LAST "ALL" After a mission service, the preacher of the evening was hurrying away to a late train. He had just three minutes to catch it when he saw a man running after him. "Oh, sir," he said breathlessly as he came up, "Can you help me? I am very anxious about my salvation." ...read more

  • Save One More For Jesus

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 9, 2010
     | 1,697 views

    Rick Warren about his dad- My father was a minister for over 50 years, serving in small churches. His favorite activity was taking teams of volunteers overseas to build church buildings for small congregations. In his lifetime, Dad built over 150 churches around the world. In 1999, my father ...read more

  • Have You Found Jesus?

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 9, 2010
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    HAVE YOU FOUND JESUS? One Sunday afternoon there was a drunken man who was staggering down a country path. He came upon a baptismal service at a pond. There were many to be baptized that day and the drunk, not knowing what was going on, got in the line to be baptized. Finally it was the drunk's ...read more

  • It Is [high] Time For Us To Reclaim The ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 27, 2010
     | 1,229 views

    it is [high] time for us to reclaim the excitement and joy of those first disciples, and to tell the world that we have found ...read more

  • When I Was In High School, My Thoughts Were; To ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Aug 30, 2010
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    When I was in high school, my thoughts were; to graduate, get a really good job and make lots of money and then live happily ever after. So, you can imagine what ran through my mind when I saw my ideal job being advertised in the paper. The ad read something like this: I need one young man who is ...read more

  • Bearing Witness

    Contributed by Sterling Franklin on Oct 12, 2010
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    BEARING WITNESS In court, bearing witness is telling the truth about what you've seen and heard. John the Baptizer was doing the same about Jesus. If we witness, we can tell others about something the Lord has done in our lives, whether relating to Salvation or some other matter of His ...read more

  • The Gospel Tract Dispenser

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 20, 2010
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    THE GOSPEL TRACT DISPENSER Mike Slaughter tells the story of rushing through the airport to catch his connecting flight. He ran into the bathroom and went into a stall. And when he began to pull on the toilet paper, and a Gospel tract fell out onto the floor. He picked it up and began to read ...read more

  • Who Are You Rescuing?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2010
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    WHO ARE YOU RESCUING? Jesus, help us to control our desires. May a thirst for knowing You and a longing to please You become our strongest passion, like it was for Mary Frances Housley. Let me tell you a true story. MARY FRANCES HOUSLEY was born October 12, 1926 in Knoxville, Tennessee. She grew ...read more

  • Too Important Not To Share

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 14, 2010
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    TOO IMPORTANT NOT TO SHARE Mercedes Benz was the company who first produced a car body design that absorbed the force of a collision on impact. One Mercedes Benz TV commercial shows their car colliding with a cement wall during a safety test. Since then of course many other car companies have ...read more

  • It Was The Great Preacher Dr Lyman Beecher Who ...

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
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    It was the great preacher Dr Lyman Beecher who used to say: "That the reason why he was so blessed to the conversion of men was, that he had so many pulpit ...read more

  • Make Them Thirsty

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
     | 2,240 views

    MAKE THEM THIRSTY The young salesman was disappointed about losing a big sale, and as he talked with his sales manager he lamented, "I guess it just proves you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink." The manager replied, "Son, take my advice: your job is not to make him drink. ...read more

  • Waste More Time

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    WASTE MORE TIME In his book God Came Near, Max Lucado tells this story: Norman Geisler, as a child, went to a certain church because he was invited by some neighbourhood children. He went back to the same church for Sunday School classes for 400 Sundays. Each week he was faithfully picked up by a ...read more

  • Paul Powell Wrote In His Book The Complete ...  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Dec 1, 2010
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    Paul Powell wrote in his book The Complete Disciple: "Many churches today remind me of a laboring crew trying to gather in a harvest while they sit in the tool shed. They go to the tool shed every Sunday and they study bigger and better methods of agriculture, sharpen their hoes, grease their ...read more

  • The Kudzu Vine

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 4, 2010
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    THE KUDZU VINE Kudzu was introduced to the United States in 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Countries were invited to build exhibits to celebrate the 100th birthday of the U.S. The Japanese government constructed a beautiful garden filled with plants from their ...read more

  • The Faith Of Cecil B. Demille

    Contributed by W F on Jan 10, 2011
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    THE FAITH OF CECIL B. DEMILLE Cecil B DeMille, the famous Hollywood film director was responsible for a number of famous movies with Biblical themes such as: The King of Kings The Sign of the Cross The Crusades Samson and Delilah The Ten Commandments DeMille was once asked what his finest ...read more

  • There Was A Life Insurance Salesman Who Claimed ...

    Contributed by Bill Burress on Jan 12, 2011
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    There was a life insurance salesman who claimed his company paid their claim so quickly that their office, which is on the tenth floor of a eighty story building, that one day a man fell ...read more