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  • Thus When Paul Talks About Christ Washing The ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 12, 2008
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    Thus when Paul talks about Christ washing the church there is a definite connotation baptism through the pouring out of water and then another connection through the spirit of God that is poured out. Therefore men we are to be the source for the women in our lives. We are to be the source of life. ...read more

  • Interestingly Enough, I Read Of A Business That ...

    Contributed by Larry Vinson on Aug 4, 2008
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    Interestingly enough, I read of a business that exists in Albuquerque, New Mexico designed specifically for those couples in America who have gone through or going through a divorce. The company is called Freedom Rings: Jewelry for the Divorced. Founded by jeweler and divorcee Lynn Peters, the ...read more

  • I'm Fine, Sir!

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 19, 2008
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    "I'm Fine, Sir!" During the most intense fighting of the war with Iraq, I was listening to one of the embedded reporters who was traveling with a column of Marine tanks. He was sitting on top of one of the tanks when the enemy opened fire. He said it was a frightening moment, but he emerged ...read more

  • What Kind Of Shoes Are You?  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Lewis on Sep 25, 2008
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    What Kind of Shoes are YOU? House shoes/slippers: They are comfy, you can relax in them, maybe fall asleep. Beliefs: too comfy, too relaxed. Church is just a routine, been doing it for years, same pew. High heels: Vey stylish, but not very comfortable, probably hard to walk, although I wouldn't ...read more

  • In His Book, The Externally Focused Church, Rick ...

    Contributed by Dr. George Calhoun on Oct 20, 2008
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    In his book, The Externally Focused Church, Rick Rusaw shares the story of Tom Maharius, the least likely person to make an impact on any community, let alone New York City. A casualty of the 60’s hippie movement, and heavily involved in drugs use, Maharias’s downward spiral came to an abrupt end ...read more

  • Forgiveness Sets Me Free.

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    "FORGIVENESS SETS ME FREE." Kenneth Hart, a psychology professor at the University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada), studied sixty-six recovering alcoholics. The individuals had one thing in common: They were all angry with someone. Teaching forgiveness, Hart found, is one way to break the cycle that ...read more

  • Staring At The Gates Of Hell

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    STARING AT THE GATES OF HELL Auguste Rodin was a French impressionist sculptor. He created The Thinker. The Thinker was originally meant to sit on top of Rodin’s greatest masterpiece, the Gates of Hell. The Thinker is contemplating an eternity of judgment separated from God. Author Neil Cole ...read more

  • Parts Of A Cake

    Contributed by Rev Dr Randall M Deal Sr on Jun 7, 2009
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    PARTS OF A CAKE A daughter is telling her mother how everything is going wrong, she’s failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away. Meanwhile, her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a snack, and the daughter says, "Absolutely Mom, ...read more

  • Betty Crocker ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    BETTY CROCKER SALVATION In 1952, when the Betty Crocker company first began selling cake mixes, they offered a product which only needed water, and you would get a perfectly moist cake every time. But it bombed, and they couldn’t understand why! So they commissioned a study and found that people ...read more

  • Too Soft On People?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2009
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    TOO SOFT ON PEOPLE? A preacher named Ron Rose told a woman who came into his office complaining that his sermons always being about forgiveness and grace. She said he needed to come down harder on the sinners and in her words, "nail them." After her rant, Ron asked, "So, you’ve got forgiveness ...read more

  • Everyone Needs This List To ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Aug 20, 2009
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    Everyone Needs this List to Live. * The most destructive habit: Worry, * The greatest Joy: Giving, * The greatest loss: Loss of self-respect, * The most satisfying work: Helping others, * The ugliest personality trait: Selfishness, * The most endangered species: Dedicated ...read more

  • Community Stores Refuse Kind Acts Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2009
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    Community Stores Refuse Kind Acts of Service The story is told of a minister who was organizing opportunities for people in his church to do small acts of kindness as a demonstration of Christ’s love in the community. 1. He phoned several neighborhood grocery stores and Laundromats and asked for ...read more

  • Max Lucado's Story About A Scottish Fisherman's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2009
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    Max Lucado’s Story about a Scottish Fisherman’s Stain on Wall that is Transformed by Famous Wildlife Painter into a Masterpiece Max Lucado tells this story: “Over a hundred years ago, a group of fishermen were relaxing in a Scottish seaside inn. One of the men gestured widely and his arm struck the ...read more

  • Elizabeth Elliot On His Sufficient Grace For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    Elizabeth Elliot on His Sufficient Grace for Discipleship It’s the anticipation of that “glory of victory” that helps us to persevere in the hard times. It’s the assurance of that coming crown that helps us bear our cross today. Just one year after her husband was slain in Ecuador, along with ...read more

  • The Explosive Christmas Story  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
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    THE EXPLOSIVE CHRISTMAS STORY James Martin tells about a trip to the Holy Land. While there, he buys a nativity set for his Sunday School class. It was carved out of olive wood in the town of Bethlehem and had all the traditional figures: sheep and oxen; wise men and the shepherds; Mary, Joseph, ...read more

  • A Bug's Life: Small Steps Of Faith

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 15, 2010
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    A BUG'S LIFE: SMALL STEPS OF FAITH A Bug’s Life, Start time 6:30 Overview from Belknapp: Dot complains to Flik about her underdeveloped wings. She wants to fly now! Flik encourages her, showing her that a seed that starts out small eventually grows into a towering tree-it only takes time and ...read more

  • The Psychoanalyst Victor Frankl And His Friends ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 23, 2010
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    The psychoanalyst Victor Frankl and his friends were imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It was winter. They had been marched off to work in the morning, spent the day at hard labor, been given only a little thin soup to eat, and then staggered back to camp in the late ...read more

  • As A Young Boy, Theologian Alister Mcgrath ...

    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Apr 17, 2010
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    As a young boy, theologian Alister McGrath enjoyed experimenting with chemicals in his school's laboratory. He liked to drop a tarnished coin into a beaker of diluted nitric acid. He often used an old British penny bearing the image of Queen Victoria. Because of the accumulated grime, Her Majesty's ...read more

  • The Hippocratic Oath

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2010
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    THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH We have all heard about the Hippocratic Oath, even if we don't know what all is in it, and what we do know is delivered through television and is wrong. We hear TV doctors say "remember what it says in the Hippocratic Oath: 'First, do no harm'" but that isn't in the ...read more

  • Losing Jesus

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 13, 2010
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    LOSING JESUS For about 14 years, I have been teaching AWANA. I teach each of our three division, beginning with a puppet skit and then a flannel graph lesson with felt figures. I taught the Christmas Story to the Sparks, K-2nd grade, then I moved everything into the auditorium to teach the Flames ...read more