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  • Personal Truth To The Resurrection  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 3,378 views

    PERSONAL TRUTH TO THE RESURRECTION Christian author and activist Chuck Colson draws evidence for the resurrection for personal experience. Colson was a part of the Nixon Whitehouse during the Watergate scandal of seventies. He writes: Watergate involved a conspiracy to cover up, ...read more

  • I Saw That Kind Of Wellspring Of Abundant Life ...

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Mar 16, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,212 views

    I saw that kind of wellspring of abundant life this week on the internet when I saw Nick Vujicic. He’s a 25 year old man, born without arms or legs, but has a marvelous wellspring of Abundent life like no other I’ve seen… [Play clip from http://lifewithoutlimbs.org/ or read the following excerpt ...read more

  • Victorious Living

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Feb 13, 2023
     | 2,886 views

    2 weeks ago as I sat in the office of my lawyer, he showed me a photocopy of a handwritten letter from Abraham Lincoln that was written to my lawyer’s great-great uncle. The uncle happened to be the president of the University of Pennsylvania at that time. He was involved in writing a pamphlet on ...read more

  • Up To Our Armpits In Our Own Choosing!" 1 Samuel ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 30, 2004
     | 2,763 views

    “Up to Our Armpits in Our Own Choosing!” 1 Samuel 14: 37-46 Key verse(s): 39a: “As surely as the Lord lives, even if it lies with my son Jonathan, he must die . . .” I was fifteen minutes late for my appointment and knew that it would be an embarrassment to admit that I had simply gotten ...read more

  • Holy Images

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2012
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    HOLY IMAGES There are three true stories about holy images: A few years ago a woman in New Mexico was frying tortillas. One of the tortillas burned and the result was an image that looked like a face; she thought it looked like Jesus. She took the tortilla to her priest and he agreed it looked ...read more

  • Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 18, 2004
    based on 40 ratings
     | 18,969 views

    Grace The boy stood defiantly. “Go ahead, give it to me.” The principal looked at the young rebel and asked, “How many times have you been here?” The child sneered rebelliously, “Apparently not enough.” “And you have been punished each time?” the principal responded. “Yeah, I been ...read more

  • A Paradigm For Giving.

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Dec 24, 2024
    based on 2 ratings
     | 190 views

    A PARADIGM FOR GIVING. 2 Corinthians 8:9. This is the key verse in my sermon on 'The Grace of Giving' (2 Corinthians 8:7-15). The Apostle reminds the Corinthians of what they already know: “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.” How that He was “rich” but made Himself “poor” that we ...read more

  • If We Could Shrink The Earth's Population To A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 22, 2004
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    If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of one hundred people; here’s the way the world would look: There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, and 8 Africans. 50 would suffer from malnutrition and one would be near death. Only one would have a college ...read more

  • 26 Christians Were Executed At Nizhizaka Hill In ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Dec 25, 2004
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    26 Christians were executed at Nizhizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan on 15 February 1597. Amongst them was a young seventeen year old boy, Thomas Kosaki, who was to die for his Christian witness along with his father. He wrote a letter to his mother the evening before his crucifixion. Let me read ...read more

  • A Women Who's Husband Had Died Years Earlier ...

    Contributed by Gerald Albers on Feb 24, 2007
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    ; A women who’s husband had died years earlier had stopped by her Pastors office one day. She had been crying inside for 2 long painful years. As she talked, she related everything that had happened up to the time of her husband’s death --- everything! She knew every detail. Finally she opened ...read more

  • Frederick Nolan

    Contributed by Brian Menear on Mar 15, 2007
     | 2,539 views

    Frederick Nolan Frederick was fleeing from his enemies in North Africa during a time of great persecution. Exhausted with no other place to hide he fell into a cave nearby and expected his enemies to soon find and kill him. As he lay there awaiting his death, a spider began weaving a web at the ...read more

  • The Courage Of Civil War Leader Stonewall Jackson ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,134 views

    The courage of Civil War leader Stonewall Jackson in the midst of conflict can be a lesson for the believer. Historian Mark Brimsley wrote, “A battlefield is a deadly place, even for generals; and it would be naive to suppose Jackson never felt the animal fear of all beings exposed to wounds and ...read more

  • Jesus Was, Yet Is

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jun 4, 2010
     | 2,909 views

    JESUS WAS, YET IS Back in the 4th century A.D., a man named Gregory of Nazianzus wrote these words that capture the identity of Jesus as one who is fully human, yet fully God: He began His ministry by being hungry, yet He is the Bread of Life. Jesus ended His earthly ministry by being thirsty, ...read more

  • The Cost Of Christmas

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 4, 2011
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    THE COST OF CHRISTMAS One person observed that the message of Christmas was not one of convenience but "cost": * It cost Mary and Joseph the comforts of home to take a long journey to Bethlehem while she was "very" pregnant with her new child. * It cost the shepherds their comfort by the campfire ...read more

  • A Living Memorial

    Contributed by James Chandler on May 29, 2018
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    When our children were young, we took a vacation to Washington D.C. We saw the many different memorials. The highlight of our trip was Arlington National Cemetery. It was quite a moment standing there with my wife and children watching the changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier. ...read more

  • Warren Bennis In "Why Leaders Can't Lead", ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Warren Bennis in "Why Leaders Can’t Lead", writes: "The flying Wallendas are perhaps the world’s greatest family of aerialists and tightrope walkers.... I was struck with (Karl Wallenda’s) capacity for concentration on the intention, the task, the decision. I was even more intrigued when, several ...read more

  • Frederick Nolan

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,710 views

    Frederick Nolan Frederick was fleeing from his enemies in North Africa during a time of great persecution. Exhausted with no other place to hide, he fell into a cave nearby and expected his enemies to soon find and kill him. As he lay there awaiting his death, a spider began weaving a web at the ...read more

  • If Something Terrible Happens To My Grandparents ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    If something terrible happens to my grandparents would it affect me? If God told my great, great, great, great, great, great, (x2000 {just a random number}) grandparents NOT to get in the car and go down a certain road because the bridge was out – and they did it anyway – and died. Would it affect ...read more

  • The Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,676 views

    The Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, in announcing the death of Princess Alice on 14th December 1878 to the House of Commons, told this touching story. “The little daughter of the Princess was seriously ill with diphtheria. And so the doctors told the princess not to kiss her because ...read more

  • When The Blacksmith Strikes His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 1,513 views

    Illustration: When the blacksmith strikes his hammer repeatedly on the anvil it is said that the same anvil will wear out many hammers. Those who strike Christians are creating boldness in the body of Christ. When Christians are persecuted there is more courage. Tell about the workers at Youth for ...read more