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  • A Modern Parable Of The Unforgiving Slave  PRO

    Contributed by John Shearhart on May 19, 2006
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    A Modern Parable of the Unforgiving Slave: A bank owner wanted to settle an overdo account with a farmer who owed him several million dollars, so he called him and asked him to come to his office. As the two discussed the situation it became apparent that the farmer couldn’t even meet the monthly ...read more

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  • Reuters News (May 25, 2006) Mount Everest ...

    Contributed by Brian Buriff on Jun 6, 2006
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    REUTERS NEWS (May 25, 2006) Mount Everest pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary said Wednesday he was shocked that dozens of climbers left a British mountaineer to die during their own attempts on the world’s tallest peak. David Sharp, 34, died apparently of oxygen deficiency while descending from the ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Christ: An All-Access Pass

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Aug 21, 2008
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    CHRIST: AN ALL-ACCESS PASS Mark and Susie Alderson have been attending New Song since what we call our "portable days." In the early days of the church, we would pack a trailer full of equipment, unload it at a local school, hold church there, and then pack up and put the trailer away. Mark is ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Remember The Three ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    REMEMBER THE THREE RULES Do you remember learning to ride a bicycle? Did your bike have training wheels? Did someone run along beside you to get you going? One of the great challenges of youth, after learning to walk, is learning to ride a bicycle. It requires balance and a sense of self ...read more

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  • Adoption In Christ Frees Us From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2010
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    Adoption In Christ Frees Us From Satan An illustration from history past can help us realize the significance of being children of Almighty God - an amazing concept! The image of emaciated babies and young children sitting in cribs, in a stark, ill-equipped Romanian orphanage blazed across the ...read more

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  • Cheering For The Other Team

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2011
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    CHEERING FOR THE OTHER TEAM I heard about an unusual high school football game played in Grapevine, Texas recently between Grapevine Faith Academy and the Gainesville State School. Faith Academy is a Christian school and Gainesville is located within a high-security youth correctional facility. ...read more

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  • Object Lesson: Egg Osmosis

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Jun 4, 2011
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    OBJECT LESSON: EGG OSMOSIS Osmosis is the process by which water enters our tissues. All of our cells are surrounded by a membrane that selectively allows in anything the cell needs but prevents unwanted molecules from entering. Weigh a couple of uncooked eggs and carefully place them into a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • A Good Friend Of Mine Recently Told Me About An ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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    A good friend of mine recently told me about an incident that happened to him that explains why a person can worship, and yet still not know God. It all began before the plane took off. Roger Williams III was sitting in the window seat and was looking forward to thumbing through a magazine on a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • The Good Samaritan  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2002
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    Luke 10:30-37 John Darley and Daniel Batson are two Princeton University psychologists. Some years ago they decided to conduct a study, inspired by the story of the Good Samaritan. They conducted the study at Princeton Theological Seminary. They met with a group of seminarians and asked each one ...read more

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  • In The Presence Of Mine Enemies  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2002
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    IN THE PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES Richard Wurmbrand tells the story of a church leader he met while imprisoned in Romania. He was sentenced to 22 years for his goodness. The man, his wife, and six small children were eating breakfast when the police burst into his home. They had just read Psalm ...read more

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  • More Than  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2002
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    MORE THAN… There’s a line in a song that goes: “Thanks a lot, thanks a lot…Thanks for all I’ve got.” Thanks for all I’ve got? Actually, when I think of it, I’m embarrassed about all I’ve got. My mind goes to my garage. Unlike many people, we still fit our cars into our ...read more

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  • God, Can You Help Me Mother?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2005
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    GOD, CAN YOU HELP ME MOTHER? Elisa Morgan, President of the Christian mother’s organization called MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International, writes: “I’m probably the least likely person to head a mothering organization. I grew up in a broken home. My parents were divorced when I was 5. My ...read more

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  • We Must Understand That God's Idea Of "Good" ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 10, 2006
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    We must understand that God’s idea of “good” means that the events as a whole are constructive. “A woman fell and broke her arm. Is that good? In and of itself it is not, but she went to the hospital, and the doctors found she also had cancer. Because it was found early enough she lived.” ...read more

  • I Will Never Forget How The Holy Spirit Worked In ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Nov 30, 2006
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    I will never forget how the Holy Spirit worked in my life to teach me to depend upon Him for the revelation and illumination of truth to my life. It was in March of 2003 - I had spent a week in special study at Luther Rice Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia. I had been studying about how to live the ...read more

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  • A $200 Life-Changing Miracle

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Aug 23, 2007
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    *Did you see the story in the Baptist Message about the two seminary students in New Orleans, who stopped at a local grocery store? It happened years ago, and one of the students was Don Wilton. *In the store they noticed a scruffy looking couple with a baby dressed only in a diaper. God’s Spirit ...read more

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  • Our Community Recently Suffered A Devastating ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 1, 2007
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    Our community recently suffered a devastating flood. Area churches have partnered with the Salvation Army to pool donated goods for disater victims at a warehouse. I pastor one of the churches involved in the disaster relief. "I was told first-hand by a Salvation Army worker who helped a lady who ...read more

  • The Wise Farmer Can Usually Depend On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    "...the wise farmer can usually depend on expected timetables of seedtime and harvest. Not so in the spiritual life. One of the greatest frustrations in the Christian ministry, and principal cause for 'weariness in well doing' is the inability to calculate the spiritual outcome of faithful labors ...read more

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  • Turn To Me

    Contributed by Dale Hummel on May 2, 2008
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    TURN TO ME Dallas Willard in his book, Hearing God, tells the story of a businessman: Robert C. McFarlane was a well-known businessman in the Los Angeles area. He moved to California from Oklahoma in 1970, and within just a few days of his arrival--due to a disastrous misunderstanding with a ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • What Is The Usual Sense That Religious Things Are ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 27, 2008
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    What is the usual sense that religious things are taught? Through a Rabbi and disciple model. A young man that thinks he may have an aptitude for a particular Rabbi’s teaching goes to the Rabbi and ask to be considered to be a disciple. It was a great honor for parents especially the father for a ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Mary's Friends

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 9, 2008
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    MARY'S FRIENDS Unsaved people in our society who accept Jesus as Savior have an average of 12 unsaved relatives and friends, all of whom are potential disciples. Let me tell you a story I heard in 1980, when I was in Fuller Seminary studying church growth. It happened in the First Baptist Church ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal