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  • Faith Is An Adventure

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    FAITH IS AN ADVENTURE Some people feel as if living by faith is foolish. The truth is, it is a marvelous adventure. I was telling someone the other day about a Godly lady who was a member of a church I once served. This ladies husband had died leaving her with four small children. This happened ...read more

  • No Faith = No Power

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 18, 2008
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    No Faith = No Power One night at dinner a man, who had spent many summers in Maine, fascinated his companions by telling of his experiences in a little town named Flagstaff. The town was to be flooded, as part of a large lake for which a dam was being built. In the months before it was to be ...read more

  • Faith And Doubt

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    FAITH AND DOUBT Elie Wiesel, when asked to describe his faith, uses the adjective "wounded." "My tradition teaches that no heart is as whole as a broken heart, and I would say that no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Another honest believer writes: "It's not as a child that I believe and ...read more

  • Real Faith

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 6, 2009
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    REAL FAITH The classic test an atheist will give to prove there is no God is this: "If there is a God, let him kill me right now". When nothing happens, they will confidently claim, "See there is no God, for I am still alive and well." Now if we were to ask the atheist, "What if someone came up to ...read more

  • No Faith, No Power

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    NO FAITH, NO POWER One night at dinner a man, who had spent many summers in Maine, fascinated his companions by telling of his experiences in a little town named Flagstaff. The town was to be flooded as part of a large lake for which a dam was being built. In the months before it was to be ...read more

  • Solong's Faith

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Feb 4, 2009
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    SOLONG'S FAITH I gave blood on Friday. A lovely woman named Solong sampled my blood to insure that I had enough iron. We struck up a conversation, and it turns out she is a Christian. She told me that in 2006 she felt God calling her to go back to school. She didn't have enough money to go, but ...read more

  • The Faith Of Thomas

    Contributed by Jesse Bennett on Apr 18, 2009
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    THE FAITH OF THOMAS What if you told your son, "I put 100 dollars in the bank for you." And he said, "Are you sure? I want to see the deposit slip." You say, "Son, you've got to believe me!" The boy answers, "Well, maybe I can just withdraw it look at it and put it back. Dad, can you give me ...read more

  • Faith Fights  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 19, 2009
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    FAITH FIGHTS Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. I heard a story about a midwestern farmer 50 years ago. The farmer went to the bank to borrow money to buy seed to plant his whole farm in corn. He fired up the old tractor ...read more

  • Holman On Faith

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 15, 2010
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    HOLMAN ON FAITH Holman defines FAITH: Trusting commitment of one person to another, particularly of a person to God. Faith is the central concept of Christianity. One may be called a Christian only if one has faith. Holman adds: Our English word "faith" comes from the Latin fides, as developed ...read more

  • O For A Faith

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 12, 2010
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    O For a Faith O for a faith that will not shrink, ‘Tho pressed by every foe, That will not tremble on the brink Of any earthly woe! That will not murmur nor complain Beneath the chastening rod, But, in the hour of grief or pain, Will lean upon its God; A faith that shines more bright and ...read more

  • Childlike Faith

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 20, 2010
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    CHILDLIKE FAITH Perhaps it is the reason that I embraced Christianity so easily was that the Christian faith doesn’t demand intelligence. I have an above average intelligence level. Well, actually, although it was above average according to the IQ test I completed at School, it was more tilted ...read more

  • Not Success But Faithfulness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2010
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    NOT SUCCESS BUT FAITHFULNESS Jordan was a man of unusual abilities and commitment. He had two Ph.D.s, one in agriculture and the other in Greek and Hebrew. He was so gifted he could have chosen to do anything he wanted. He chose to serve the poor. In the 1940s, he founded a farm in Americus, ...read more

  • Faith And Icebergs

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 26, 2010
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    FAITH AND ICEBERGS Sailors in the northern oceans have frequently observed icebergs traveling in one direction in spite of strong winds blowing in the opposite direction. The icebergs were moving against the winds, but how? The explanation is that the icebergs, with eight-ninths of their bulk ...read more

  • Faith And Promise

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 17, 2010
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    FAITH AND PROMISE When something is promised, you have not seen it happen yet, have you? If I promise my wife that I'm going to clean out the basement, there's no proof that you can see. There's only my word. That promise is the only evidence it will happen. And I may prove unreliable for one ...read more

  • Faith And Works  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Aug 26, 2010
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    FAITH AND WORKS There was once a Scotsman who rowed people across a river. On one oar he had carved the word 'faith' and on the other oar he had carved the word 'works'. One day as he was rowing, one of the passengers noticed the carvings and asked him about them. The Scotsman did not reply but ...read more

  • Facts And Faith

    Contributed by Rolando Delgado on Sep 22, 2010
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    FACTS AND FAITH Un pastor estaba hablando a su congregación sobre la relación de los hechos y la fe. Y les decía: "Que ustedes estén sentados aquí delante de mi, es un hecho. Que yo estoy aquí detrás del púlpito hablándole, es un hecho. Que yo crea que alguien me este prestando atención, es ...read more

  • Lamed For Their Faith

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    LAMED FOR THEIR FAITH Vance Havner: At the Nicene Council, an important church meeting in the 4th century A.D., of the 318 delegates attending, fewer than 12 had not lost an eye or lost a hand or ...read more

  • Have Faith

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    "HAVE FAITH" My husband, Ron, once taught a class of mentally impaired teenagers. Looking at his students’ capabilities rather than their limitations, Ron got them to play chess, restore furniture and repair electrical appliances. Most important, he taught them to ‘have faith’ that is to believe ...read more

  • Faith Healing

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2011
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    FAITH HEALING I’ve know people who questioned God’s love for them because God didn’t heal them. I’ve known others who questioned their own faith...they felt like if they’d just had more faith God would have healed them. In fact, I’ve known people who were TOLD by a faith-healer that the reason ...read more

  • No Faith, No Power

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 5, 2011
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    NO FAITH, NO POWER When I was growing up in Oklahoma, there was a lake my family and I frequented a lot called Keystone Lake. Keystone was not a natural lake; prior to its creation in 1962, there were towns located there, one of which gives the lake its name. The town was to be flooded to make a ...read more