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  • Looking To The Future  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 13, 2002
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    LOOKING TO THE FUTURE In his book, First Things First, author Stephen Covey writes about Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychologist who survived the death camps of Nazi Germany. Frankl made a startling discovery about why some survived the horrible conditions and some did not. "He looked at several ...read more

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  • Let Me Illustrate With The Words That Mark ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Apr 13, 2007
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    Let me illustrate with the words that Mark Buchanan wrote of his own experience in his book entitled “Your God Is Too Safe.” He wrote that when he was saved, “I hit the ground running. Immediately, I volunteered for everything, anything, that I felt vaguely interested in and marginally qualified ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • When Martin Luther Was Printing His Translation ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    When Martin Luther was printing his translation of the Bible in Germany, pieces of the printed Scripture fell to the floor. A young girl picked one of them up and read the phrase of our text, “For God so loved the world that he gave”. The rest of the sentence was missing. That moment for her was a ...read more

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  • In 1925, Betty Stam Said: "Lord, I Give Up My ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In 1925, Betty Stam said: "Lord, I give up my own purposes and plans, all my own desires, hopes, and ambitions, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee, to be Thine forever. I hand over to Thy keeping all of my friendships; all the people whom I love are to ...read more

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  • Helen Roseveare Is A British Medical Doctor Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Helen Roseveare is a British medical doctor who worked for many years as a missionary in Zaire. During the revolution of the 1960s, she often faced brutal beatings and other forms of physical torture. On one occasion, when she was about to be executed, she feared God had forsaken her. In that ...read more

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  • John Wesley Had Been An Anglican Clergyman For ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jun 30, 2007
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    John Wesley had been an Anglican clergyman for many years before he became a Christian. He had been a missionary in Georgia – and still was not a Christian. His conversion experience happened on the evening of 24th May 1738. Wesley had gone very unwillingly to a non-conformist meeting in London ...read more

    Denomination: Anglican

  • Walking The Cliffs

    Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Nov 2, 2007
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    Illustration: Walking the Cliffs When descending the Grand Canyon, often times a person has to travel on narrow ledges that have only enough room for a mule to get a foothold. The ribbons of rock that run along the edges of these towering cliffs overlook vertical precipices that descend ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • Christian Television And Radio Reaches Across The ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Nov 3, 2007
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    Christian television and radio reaches across the airwaves to nearly every home, with late night, all night and almost any-time-of-the-day viewing. Our bookshelves feature the hottest and greatest materials from the latest and most celebrated authors. We have worship experiences with top-notch ...read more

    Denomination: Salvation Army

  • I Had A Student Ministry During College. One ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
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    I had a student ministry during college. One day, my wife and a lady of the church were traveling around with me, visiting kids to form a youth group. Out of the blue, we had a flat tire. It was a hot summer day, but we had everything we needed to go ahead and get it changed on the spot. Back ...read more

    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • While Pastoring A Church In North Louisiana I ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2008
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    While pastoring a church in north Louisiana I was helping a friend with a problem he had with a car. He was a mechanic by trade and profession. His wife made the best biscuits you ever put in your mouth. Having stopped at the right time several times before I knew when she set them on the table. He ...read more

  • A Holy Nation – 1 Peter 1:9

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    A HOLY NATION – 1 Peter 1:9 You, with other believers, are God’s representatives on earth. A local church, living out together the life of Christ within them, is God’s strategy to change a lost world. I am a holy nation, I need to show Christianity to the World Some people wonder whether we really ...read more

  • Church Shopping Online Church Consultant Tom ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    Church Shopping Online Church consultant Tom Bandy says that as tools for reaching potential worshipers, church Web sites are growing in number and getting more sophisticated. One sign: 5 years ago, churches made up only 5% of clientele for StreamGuys, an Arcadia, CA based provider of streaming ...read more

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  • When Building A Social Network For Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    When building a social network for your customers, donors or prospects don’t: 1) Misunderstand your target audience. The demographics of users on MySpace differ greatly from those on Facebook, Friendster and other social networks. When creating any site, be very specific about whom you want to ...read more

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  • The Original Swedish Text Was A Poem Entitled "O ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
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    The original Swedish text was a poem entitled “O Store Gud”, written in 1886 by a Swedish preacher Carl Boberg. Boberg’s inspiration for “How Great Thou Art” came from a visit to a beautiful country estate on the southeast coast of Sweden He got caught up in a midday thunderstorm with awe-inspiring ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Have You Ever Received A Gift That You Wanted For ...

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Jun 20, 2008
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    Have you ever received a gift that you wanted for a long that had great sentimental value to it? What did you do with this gift once you had it? You probably utilized it for whatever uses it was for, until it was unusable of course. God gives every believer the gift of the Holy Spirit the moment ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • We Have A Saying In Northern Ireland About ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Jun 27, 2008
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    We have a saying in Northern Ireland about someone or something that is useless: we say it is "wick". And you know when you think about that, in a lampstand a wick, though it is needed for light, does not feature large in the production of light. Of itself it's pretty useless. Of itself it cannot ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • It Just Seemed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    IT JUST SEEMED LONG George Buttrick is considered one of the top ten preachers of the 20th Century. He served nearly thirty years as pastor of New York’s Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. From that distinguished pulpit, Buttrick began a teaching career at Union Theological Seminary, then as ...read more

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  • Thou Wast A Bond-Man

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 18, 2009
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    Thou Wast a Bond-Man John Newton, the former slave-ship captain, was so grateful for God’s gracious dealings with him that when the vicarage at Olney was refurbished he had two sentences from Isaiah 43:4 and Deuteronomy 15:15 painted over the fireplace of his study: ’Since thou wast precious in my ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Little Things - Big Blessings  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 5, 2009
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    LITTLE THINGS - BIG BLESSINGS When we lived in Houston, Texas, our oldest Spencer was born. Spencer was placed in one of the vast Texas-sized nurseries at this hospital. There in that nursery, I met a group of volunteers who were all from a nearby church. The job of these volunteers in the nursery ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • The Next Plague In Exodus 9 Is A Severe ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
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    The next plague in Exodus 9 is a severe electrical thunderstorm with hail. I remember as a kid looking out over the field near our house and seeing a brown cloud of what looked like dust billowing it’s way towards me. The sky took on a brown tinge that seemed to paint the whole atmosphere and ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational