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  • Billy Graham's Hands Often Go Clammy And His ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 29, 2004
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    Billy Graham’s hands often go clammy and his knees shake before he preaches. While most would agree that standing in front of a crowd of people is probably not their favorite occupation, this is not a confession one would expect from the man who has preached the Gospel to more people than anyone ...read more

  • One Of The Worst Things We Can Do Is Have An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 18, 2004
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     | 3,161 views

    One of the worst things we can do is have an unrealistic expectation that life will be without trouble. Several years ago I had a young couple in my office who wanted me to perform their wedding. I told them to do so, would require them to complete our pre-marital counseling. The girl looked at me ...read more

  • Parents, If You Get Angry With Your Kids For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bev Sesink on Feb 5, 2005
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    Parents, if you get angry with your kids for something they do wrong, and you lose it, do you wait for your children to apologize or do you set the example and go to them? Teenagers, do you find it beneath your dignity to humble yourself to obey your parents’ reasonable expectations? I remember ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer's Definition Of A Christian  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A.W. Tozer’s Definition of a Christian A Real Christian: • He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, • Talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, • Expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, • Empties himself in order to be full, • Admits he is wrong so he can be ...read more

  • Bold Book Marketing Ploy? In The Package-Goods ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Bold Book Marketing Ploy? In the package-goods world, offering free samples is usually a slam-dunk: Customers fall in love with the freebie and then turn into paying customers. But in the world of book publishing, the news that Harper Collins will give away free electronic versions of ...read more

  • One Source Says, That Denying Ourselves "Means In ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 12, 2008
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    One source says, that denying ourselves “means in every moment of life to say no to self and yes to God.” It is, he continues, “a life lived in the constant hourly awareness of the demands of God and the need of others.” Dr. Warren Wiersbe, pastor, author and theologian: “To deny self does not ...read more

  • Our Response Involves Far More Than Instant ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success. We will starve terrorists ...read more

  • Remember Pagers?? They Were Cool While They ...

    Contributed by Chris Kelly on Sep 29, 2010
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    Remember pagers?? They were cool while they lasted. I remember being amazed at how someone could call me from anywhere in the U.S, and (through the miracle of tech.), a few min. later I feel this buzzing on my hip. Every time it happens, it’s unexpected and I kind of go… “OHHH!” But the message ...read more

  • The Curious Just Shows Up To Church But Doesnt ...

    Contributed by Kelly Benton on Mar 15, 2012
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    The Curious just shows up to church but doesnt try to get involved in the church. They show up physically but are absent spiritually. These types of people are much like the employee that comes to work to only punch the time card but are totally non-dedicated to the job. They expect to recieve ...read more

  • The Resurrected Body Is Free From The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Resurrected Body is Free From the Restriction on Lifespan 42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; I read with interest Internet accounts on how long living creatures live. Let’s start with creepy crawlies. The ...read more

  • Twenty Ways To Encourage Your Children To Use ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Davis on Jun 11, 2003
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    TWENTY WAYS TO ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILDREN TO USE DRUGS AND BECOME HOODLUMS,TRAMPS AND REBELS. 1. Never eat together as a family. 2. Never have weekly, monthly, or annual family outings that they can look forward to as a family unit. 3. Talk to your children, not ...read more

  • That's Just Denny.

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 11, 2009
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    "THAT'S JUST DENNY." John Ortberg tells of a man in a church he once pastored whom he called Denny. Denny was not a happy man. He had attended church his whole life, but he had never been happy. Even the expression on his face was perpetually negative - so much so that one day a deacon asked him, ...read more

  • God's Salvation ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    GOD’S SALVATION CHURCH In the 1990s, a cult from Taiwan relocated to San Dimas, California, and registered itself as God’s Salvation Church. In 1997, the Chen Tao cult, also known as the Flying Saucer cult, led by Hon-Ming Chen, headed to Garland (mistaken for "God Land"), Texas, where they expect ...read more

  • Can't Never Did Nothing.

    Contributed by Michael Walther on May 27, 2011
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    "CAN'T NEVER DID NOTHING." When I was in high school, I worked as a janitor. I was the summer help, and I was teamed up with the regular janitor named Jim. Jim was a rough character. When I first met him he reminded me of Charles Manson. He was a former Marine who had been through some very ...read more

  • The Last Letter Of Karen Watson

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
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    THE LAST LETTER OF KAREN WATSON Our International Mission Board is working on a project called "The Last Letter." It’s actually an old tradition of soldiers and missionaries who as they boarded a ship, wrote their family and friends a letter that they think might be their final ...read more

  • Some Time Ago "Reader's Digest" Told The Story ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Malone on Apr 5, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
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    Some time ago "Reader’s Digest" told the story about a company who mailed out some special advertising business post cards with a mustard seed glued to it with the following caption that went something like this: "If you have faith as small as this mustard seed in our (particular product), you are ...read more

  • When Jim Burke Became The Head Of A New Products ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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    When Jim Burke became the head of a new products division at Johnson & Johnson, one of his first projects was the development of a children?s chest rub. The product failed miserably, and Burke expected that he would be fired. When he was called in to see the chairman of the board, however, he met a ...read more

  • Marathoner Loses By A Mustache." So Read The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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    “Marathoner Loses by a Mustache.” So read the headline of a recent Associated Press story. It appeared that Abbes Tehami of Algeria was an easy winner of the Brussels Marathon—until someone wondered where his mustache had gone! Checking eyewitness accounts, it quickly became evident that the ...read more

  • 66% Of Latin American Protestants Attend A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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    · 66% of Latin American protestants attend a Pentecostal church. · Charisma magazine reports its average reader spends more than $570 on Christian products annually and household income averages over $51,000. · It also reports that in the past year: 88% of its readers last year purchased at least ...read more

  • What A Difference A Century Makes! In 1904: ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    What A Difference a century makes! In 1904: ►The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years. ►Only 14% of the homes had a bathtub, 8% had a telephone. ►A 3-minute call from Denver to New York City cost $11. ►There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S. and 144 miles of paved ...read more