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  • A Friend Of Mine, Says A Writer Quoted In The ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Nov 1, 2004
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    A friend of mine, says a writer quoted in the Sunday School Times, who had been a gangster and kidnaper for twelve years, met Jesus Christ in prison. Christ said, "I will come and live in you, and we will serve this sentence together"; and they did. Several years later he was discharged, and just ...read more

  • Let Me Talk To You About Ants. Not The Kind ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 6, 2005
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     | 2,456 views

    1. Let me talk to you about Ants. Not the kind that marry uncles, but the kind that live outside. According to a CNN article, 2."Like humans, fungus-growing ants are true farmers and the survival of the colony depends on the food they grow. Anywhere from a few hundred to over five million ants ...read more

  • Worship First: Of The 6 Foundational Faith ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
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    Worship First: Of the 6 foundational faith practices- worship, evangelism, discipleship, fellowship, stewardship and compassionate service—most churchgoers embrace wor-ship. A new Barna survey reveals that 75% of all adults, and 92% of churched adults; say it’s very important to them to worship ...read more

  • Jeffrey Dahmer Was A Convicted Murderer And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Mar 10, 2007
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    Jeffrey Dahmer was a convicted murderer and cannibal who cooked and ate his victims. You don’t really get much more heinous than that. He was awarded 16 life sentences. While in prison, Dahmer met with Roy Ratcliff, a minister with the Church of Christ in Madison, Wisconsin, and turned his life ...read more

  • Many Of Us In This Congregation Have Parents Who ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 25, 2007
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    Many of us in this congregation have parents who are deceased. Have you reflected and given thanks for the positive impact they had on your life? One year we put flowers on the altar in memory of my wife’s parents. Barbara wrote a tribute to them and shared it with you. For the funerals of each ...read more

  • Dr. M. R. Dehaan Is The Source Of This Final ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Dr. M. R. Dehaan is the source of this final story: The expression "face the music" is said to have originated in Japan. According to the story, one man in the imperial orchestra couldn’t play a note. Being a person of great influence and wealth, he had demanded that he be given a place in the ...read more

  • A Young Baptist Minister Was Preaching A Revival ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 2,291 views

    A young Baptist Minister was preaching a Revival at a small church in Maryland. Following the service the pastor of the church asked him to stand at the back door with him to greet people as they left to go home. He enjoyed talking with several people, all of whom were very nice and complimented ...read more

  • Some Years Ago Donald Grey Barnhouse Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Some years ago Donald Grey Barnhouse was counseling a young woman on the sidewalk in front of a church following an evening service. She said she was a Christian and that she wanted to follow Christ. But she wanted to be famous too. She wanted to pursue a stage career in New York. "After I have ...read more

  • Pursued By The Atoning Love  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 6, 2007
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    Pursued by the Atoning Love One evening a woman was driving home when she noticed a huge truck behind her that was driving uncomfortably close. She stepped on the gas to gain some distance from the truck, but when she sped up the truck did too. The faster she drove, the faster drove the truck. Now ...read more

  • A Woman Was Diagnosed With A Terminal Illness And ...

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Dec 23, 2007
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    A woman was diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. As she was getting her things in order, she contacted her pastor and asked him to come to her house to discuss some of her final wishes. She told him which songs she wanted sung at her funeral service, what ...read more

  • Christ Died In My Place

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Christ died IN MY PLACE. During the U.S. Civil War, a farmer named Blake was drafted as a soldier. He was deeply troubled about leaving his family because his wife had died and there would be no one to support and take care of his children in his absence. The day before he was to leave for the ...read more

  • Although I Am Sure That There Are More Viking ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Although I am sure that there are more Viking Fans here than Green Bay Packer fans all fans of professional football were amazed by something Brett Favre did a few years ago. Just a day after he learned that his father died he played in a Monday Night Football game. Favre’s athletic performance was ...read more

  • Quotes On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    QUOTES ON HUMILITY Recently a pastor received a Christmas card with a note in it from a lady who attended a Christmas Eve service at the church. She was very complimentary about his preaching, comparing him with Billy Graham, saying, “I think you are one of the really great preachers of all time.” ...read more

  • Just Enough Strength To Make It Go

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
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    JUST ENOUGH STRENGTH TO MAKE IT GO "One hot day, Herman Trueblood, all clean and cooled off by a nice swim in the ocean, saw a sweating man and his two sons trying on a hot day to push a disabled car up an incline. Two voices started yelling at each other inside him. One said, "There is an ...read more

  • Enough To Make The Thing Go

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
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    ENOUGH TO MAKE THE THING GO One hot day, Herman Trueblood, all clean and cooled off by a nice swim in the ocean, saw a sweating man and his two sons trying on a hot day to push a disabled car up an incline. Two voices started yelling at each other inside him. One said, "There is an opportunity for ...read more

  • A Sabbath Miracle  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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     | 7,106 views

    A SABBATH MIRACLE A Roman Catholic priest, a Pentecostal pastor and a Jewish rabbi were talking one day about their belief in miracles. The Roman Catholic said that he did believe in miracles and illustrated this by telling of a recent incident when he had flown to Durban. As the aircraft began ...read more

  • What Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    WHAT IS SIN? Sin, as defined by a new Ellison Research study, is something almost always considered wrong, particularly from a religious or moral perspective. Out the 30 behaviors studied, adultery was most often described as a sinful behavior by American respondents (81%). Next was racism (74%); ...read more

  • While At Mcdonalds This Past Week I Saw A ...

    Contributed by Charles Newman on Mar 14, 2009
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    While at McDonalds this past week I saw a grandmother almost in tears of frustration as she tried to strap her toddler granddaughter into a car seat. They couldn’t leave to go to their next destination until the little girl was safe and secure in the car seat. The little child kicked and screamed ...read more

  • Invisible Christians

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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    INVISIBLE CHRISTIANS More Americans are acquainted with a gay or lesbian person than an evangelical, according to a recent Ellison Research study. Only 24% of all Americans who say they are not evangelical know an evangelical person very well, and 40% have never known any evangelicals at all, even ...read more

  • When My Father Passed Away, I Remember Going To ...

    Contributed by Jeff Kennedy on Sep 9, 2009
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    When my father passed away, I remember going to church that morning. Our family had only been attending that church for a few weeks, and my dad was on his way to work that morning to put in some overtime, and he was going to meet us at the late service. The pastor later told us that it was the ...read more