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  • The Ungodly

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 18, 2009
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    THE UNGODLY "Who does God justify through faith? The ungodly! Who did Christ die for? The ungodly! That means those without God. Ungodly. Why does God justify the ungodly? Why did Christ die for the ...read more

  • Shema: Hear

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 19, 2009
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     | 3,023 views

    SHEMA: HEAR "SHEMA (sshee’ mah) Transliteration of Hebrew imperative meaning, ’Hear,’ (Deuteronomy 6:4) and applied to Deuteronomy 6:4-9, as the basic statement of the Jewish law. The Shema became for the people of God a confession of faith by which they ...read more

  • Bill Hybels, Pastor Of Willow Creek Community ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,291 views

    Bill Hybels, Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in the Chicago area, was attending a luncheon in a Southern state. Sitting across from him was an African-American built like a football player. When he introduced himself and the African American told him his name and it was distinctly Muslim. ...read more

  • Dave Dravecky On The Impact Of Suffering On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    Dave Dravecky on the Impact of Suffering on Faith Again, it’s a reminder that following Christ is risky and that suffering will come. Jesus makes it very clear: there is no avoiding the cross. Peter couldn’t avoid it, and neither can we. Dave Dravecky was a professional baseball pitcher who lost ...read more

  • Story Of Mark Twain - Clarence Macartney Wrote ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Aug 21, 2005
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    STORY OF MARK TWAIN - Clarence Macartney wrote about the unbelief of Mark Twain. Mark Twain (1835-1910) was one of our best-known American authors and humorists. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He is best known for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of ...read more

  • In 2002 At Because Of The Times, One Of The ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 8, 2007
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    In 2002 at Because of the Times, one of the concluding times of one of the services, Bro. Anthony Mangun asked for Sis. Kilgore to come and pray over the ministers that were there. Little did anyone realize that in just 3 ½ months, in the month of May, that Sis. Kilgore would be promoted to a ...read more

  • We Need To Understand That When We Share Our ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
     | 1,006 views

    We need to understand that when we share our faith, we cannot get discouraged when others do not accept Christ, because there are those in this world that will NEVER accept Christ… I recently read an account of a young Christian in the military who tells about sharing his faith with another ...read more

  • Then God!

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 18, 2007
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    THEN GOD! WHAT IS THE LITTLE AMONG SO GREAT A NEED? JESUS ALREADY KNEW WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO! JESUS JUST WANTED TO SEE WHAT KIND OF FAITH PHILIP HAD? PHILIP HAD THE FAITH --- BUT THEY LET GO OF THE FAITH --- THEN GOD! A. THERE IS MORE TO THE TEST THAN JUST REALIZING PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY! John 6:5 ...read more

  • A Young American Engineer Was Sent To Ireland By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A young American engineer was sent to Ireland by his company to work in a new electronics plant. It was a two-year assignment that he had accepted because it would enable him to earn enough to marry his long-time girlfriend. She had a job near her home in Tennessee, and their plan was to pool their ...read more

  • Recently I Read The Biography Of Norman Grubb, A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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    Recently I read the biography of Norman Grubb, a missionary in Africa and the leader of his mission for 30 years. I was struck by what he wrote: "At conversion we learned that we had not done what we should, but then we soon learn that of ourselves we cannot do what we should." We need the enabling ...read more

  • On April 20th Of This Year ...  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Sarver on May 10, 2001
    based on 76 ratings
     | 2,887 views

    Illustration: On April 20th of this year Missionary Veronica ``Roni’’ Bowers, 35, and her 7-month-old daughter, Charity, seated in her lap, were killed by a single bullet when the jet fired on the Cessna plane they were riding in. The Peruvian Air-force had shot at the plane because it mistakenly ...read more

  • Persecution Of Christians Continues In Many ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,836 views

    Persecution of Christians Continues in Many Nations About 45 million, or two-thirds of all Christian martyrs in the history of the church, actually died in the twentieth century, according to a new book, The New Persecuted: Inquiries into Anti-Christian Intolerance in the New Century of Martyrs by ...read more

  • Touched By Rain

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2003
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    TOUCHED BY RAIN Pfc. Jeremiah Stoppel is a fuel truck driver with Alpha Co. 703rd Battalion. His supply convoy lost vehicles to enemy fire as it followed the 3-7th into battle. A Lutheran, he is from Lincoln, Neb. He stands near the cab of his truck, rubs his coarsely sheared hair and looks down ...read more

  • How Can We Be A Friend To The Suffering?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    How Can We Be A Friend To The Suffering? 1. We can be there for them. 2. We can feel their pain. 3. We can encourage them. 4. We can listen more than we talk. 5. We can be honest: I don’t know… don’t try to explain everything. 6. We can look beyond their faults and look to their needs. 7. We can ...read more

  • How Can We Be A Friend To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 1,213 views

    How Can We Be A Friend To The Suffering? 1. We can be there for them. 2. We can feel their pain. 3. We can encourage them. 4. We can listen more than we talk. 5. We can be honest: I don’t know… don’t try to explain everything. 6. We can look beyond their faults and look to their needs. 7. We ...read more

  • The Impermanence Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
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     | 3,580 views

    The Impermanence of Democracy About 200 years ago, as the United States was beginning its experiment, Alexander Fraser Tytler wrote: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public ...read more

  • Prepared To ...

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 6, 2010
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    Prepared to serve. Joshua died at 110 years old in 1380 B.C. He assumed leadership around 1406 B.C. Therefore, he was around 85 years old when he took command from Moses!Before Joshua ever took the reigns, he had been a servant, a soldier and a spy. Some feel that you can make a man by giving him ...read more

  • If We Want To Come To Jesus There Will Be Opposition

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Oct 15, 2012
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    If we want to come to Jesus there will be opposition. John Stott was the pastor of All Saints Church in London. I had a chance to meet John Stott while I was in London. He died last year. He is really credited with starting the evangelical movement in England. Before that movement was started, ...read more

  • 5 Weeks Or Five Years?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jul 9, 2022
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    5 WEEKS OR FIVE YEARS? IN THE FAR EAST THERE IS THE CHINESE BAMBOO TREE? The farmer has to plant a seed in soft ground, water and nurture the ground every day for five years. The farmer can’t see anything. The neighbors might say: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? How long have you been working the ground? ...read more

  • Do It Scared

    Contributed by John Bright on Feb 20, 2025
     | 211 views

    Let me share from an email I got from the Navigators about their summer outreach with college students: “This past summer, the students had over 700 gospel conversations with strangers. From those discussions, 22 people gave their lives to Christ and were connected with local churches. For one ...read more