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  • Messy Spirituality, Mike Yaconelli

    Contributed by David Selleck on Oct 26, 2006
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    Messy Spirituality, Mike Yaconelli Mike tells of sitting in a hotel ballroom with fifteen hundred college students participating in a weekend faith conference. On the last day of the conference, with school starting the following Monday, the students made it clear they wanted to prolong the ...read more

  • There Once Was A Little Boy Who Wanted To Meet ...

    Contributed by Clayton White on Nov 17, 2006
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    There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his backpack with cupcakes, several cans of root beer and started on his journey to meet God. When he had gone about three blocks, he saw an elderly woman sitting on a park bench ...read more

  • The News Carried The Story This Week Of A ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 10, 2006
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    The news carried the story this week of a faithful father. James Kim was an editor for CNET. CNN reports: “On November 25 the Kims had begun a drive home to San Francisco, California, after a Thanksgiving vacation in Oregon. They missed a turn and found themselves stranded in snow and lost on ...read more

  • In A Far Country Lived A Band Of Minstrels Who ...

    Contributed by Bob Soulliere on Feb 3, 2007
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    In a far country lived a band of minstrels who traveled from town to town presenting music to make a living. They had not been doing well. Times were hard; there was little money for common folk to come to hear the minstrels, even though their fee was small. Attendance had been falling off, so ...read more

  • On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln Stood ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on May 22, 2007
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    On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln stood on the battlefield at Gettysburg to dedicate a portion of that land as a national cemetery. The featured speaker of the day was Edward Everett, acclaimed as possibly the greatest classical orator of his time. A former United States senator, Governor ...read more

  • It Was January 30, 1994 And Super Bowl Xxviii ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    It was January 30, 1994 and Super Bowl XXVIII was being played out at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The NFC champion Dallas Cowboys had just defeated the AFC champion Buffalo Bills, 30–13. Dallas scored 24 unanswered points in the second half, and Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith was named the ...read more

  • Strike While The Iron Is Hot. Did You Ever ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Strike while the iron is hot. Did you ever wonder what that means? The blacksmith heats his iron red-hot in the fiery forge. It requires time to heat the iron up and time for it to cool down once it is plunged into the cooling water. But, in between, is the single moment when the iron is perfectly ...read more

  • A Good Preacher Friend Of Mine Told Me ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    a good preacher friend of mine told me personally this story. One day while visiting the nursing home, he came across a lady who was very discouraged. In fact, she wanted to die. He made it a point to visit her every time he went, and one day she finally opened up to him and told this very sad ...read more

  • Martyrdom Of Zewar, Christian Taxi ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 10, 2007
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    ILLUSTRATION : Martyrdom of Zewar, Christian taxi driver in Northern Iraq. After hostilities ceased in the Iraq war on the 9th of April 2003, an Open Doors team went to the country two weeks later. They visited church leaders primarily to tell them that we were praying for them, and were ready to ...read more

  • Can You Imagine What The World Will Be Like 100 ...

    Contributed by Daniel Owens on Jan 6, 2008
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    Can you imagine what the world will be like 100 years from now if the Lord tarries His return? All you have to do is to have some idea what the world will be like is to just look back 100 years and consider what the world was like then… and consider the incredible rate of change that we’ve ...read more

  • Frank Abagnale Was The World's Greatest Con ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ritter on Feb 2, 2008
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    Frank Abagnale was the world’s greatest con artist. The movie Catch Me If You Can is based on the true-life story this man, who bilked the government out of more than $5 million by the time he was 21. Raised in the home of a father who cheated the government and a mother who cheated on her husband, ...read more

  • Stay Awake In Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    STAY AWAKE IN CHURCH Each of us should periodically make a personal spiritual assessment. If we have never truly been awake, we must ask the God of grace to help us believe. We must confess our sin, declare our faith in Christ, and ask Christ to make us brand-new — to receive him as our Savior. ...read more

  • God Positioning System

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Apr 22, 2008
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    GOD POSITIONING SYSTEM I was thinking a lot about this idea that Jesus is the way. He doesn't just tell us the way, He shows us. He is kind of like one of those GPS navigation system. GPS stands for the "Global Positioning System" that was originally designed for military use, but now is open ...read more

  • Bill And Mary

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 4, 2008
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    BILL AND MARY Bill was a retired pastor who helped out now and then in our church in San Antonio. He was a huge man, the image of what you think of as a lean tall Texan, and he was man with a huge heart. Everyone talked about Bill and what a wonderful pastor he was. Bill died a couple of months ...read more

  • Do You Desire God's Honor Above Your ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jun 22, 2008
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    Do you desire God’s honor above your own? My first ministry after seminary was back home in Rochester, NY. I was one of two chaplains at the Monroe County Jail. Every Saturday evening we would hold a worship service in the auditorium at the jail for the inmates. One of the deputies was ...read more

  • The Most Memorable 4th Of July Celebration For Me ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    The most memorable 4th of July celebration for me happened at Fort Devens, Massachusetts in 1986. The fireworks are usually excellent at any military base for the 4th of July, but that is not what I remember. The cannons shooting at the playing of the 1812 Overture was impressive, but not the most ...read more

  • Jesus Is...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    JESUS IS... In Genesis He is the Seed of the Woman. In Exodus He is the Passover Lamb. In Leviticus He is our High Priest. In Numbers He is the Pillar of Cloud by day and the Pillar of Fire by night. In Deuteronomy He is the Prophet like unto Moses. In Joshua He is the Captain of our Salvation. In ...read more

  • War Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    WAR IS HELL War is defined as “a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations,” or more generally, as “a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism.” About 15 years ago a group of academics and historians compiled some startling information. Since 3600 BC, ...read more

  • God's Will And The Tablecloth

    Contributed by John Perry on Apr 8, 2010
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    GOD'S WILL AND THE TABLECLOTH It happened in 1948, just a few days before Christmas. A flash flood ravaged a small town, leaving a gaping hole in the wall of an old church building--right behind the pulpit. The young pastor knew there was no time to fix the damage and decided to make the best of ...read more

  • A Friend Of Mine Works As A Boilermaker In Bowen, ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 21, 2010
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    A friend of mine works as a boilermaker in Bowen, Queensland Australia. He is a big man with muscles like an Olympic weight lifter, a voice that booms and a laugh that is full and infectious. PATRICK PATTERSON loves the Lord and if I asked him to preach today he would be ready with a Word from the ...read more