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  • Who Was Gamaliel?

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 15, 2008
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    Who was GAMALIEL? 1. Not thought to be present when the Sanhedrin met to condemn Jesus 2. In that era, only about 3 or 4 members of the Sanhedrin were Pharisees; mostly Sadducees…but Gamaliel was respected as the greatest Rabbi in the land 3. A descendent of King David, very distantly related to ...read more

  • Disaster Struck Me One Day When I Was A Boy. I ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Oct 16, 2008
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    Disaster struck me one day when I was a boy. I don’t know where in the world my little sister came back to the house real dirty and smelly. Some type of dark sticky slimy stinky substance was all over her and she was crying up loud. She had tried to get rid of it by using her dirty hand and as you ...read more

  • On January 8, 1956 Jim Elliot, Along With Four ...

    Contributed by Steve Gallimore on Dec 14, 2008
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    On January 8, 1956 Jim Elliot, along with four other missionaries was killed while trying to bring this Good News of Christ to the Waodoni people of the Auca Indians in Ecuador. In his journal published in a book titled SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY, Jim wrote these words: “One doesn’t learn to speak a ...read more

  • The Temper Of Andrew Kehoe

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on Apr 16, 2009
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    THE TEMPER OF ANDREW KEHOE Andrew Kehoe was born in 1872. His mother died when he was young and his father remarried. It was reported that Kehoe did not get along very well with this stepmother. Kehoe lived on a farm just outside the village of Bath, Michigan. The community was known as the Bath ...read more

  • Don't Stop Ringing The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    DON’T STOP RINGING THE BELL Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand. Augustine. A man took his son to the tiny rural community where he grew up. He was disappointed to discover that the little church ...read more

  • Misconceptions

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 3, 2009
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    Jesus confronts all those misconceptions and says you can pray, this is how you do it (“Our Father”), and God does hear you. God is not out to punish you or play tricks on you by giving you poison when you need and ask for food. You don’t have to jump through all these man-made hoops. Ask, seek, ...read more

  • Thanksgiving Poem: We Plow The Fields By Matthias ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    Thanksgiving Poem: We Plow The Fields by Matthias Claudius The poem entitled "We Plow The Fields," by Matthias Claudius, says things well: We plow the fields, and scatter The good seed on the land, But it is fed and watered By God’s Almighty hand; He sends the snow in winter, The warmth to swell ...read more

  • Poem On Bearing One Another's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2009
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    Poem on Bearing One Another’s Burdens If you’re feeling low and worthless; there seems nothing you can do, Just take courage and remember, there is someone needing you. You were created for a purpose, for a part in God’s great plan Bear ye one another’s burdens so fulfill Christ’s law to man. Are ...read more

  • Examples Of Famous People Who Tithed Before They ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
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    Examples of Famous People Who Tithed Before They Became Rich A young man accepted the call to become an African missionary but found on further examination that his wife could not stand the climate of Africa. It made her very sick. He was heartbroken, but he prayerfully returned to his home and ...read more

  • Sola Fide: By Faith Alone

    Contributed by Timothy Brown on Mar 14, 2010
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    SOLA FIDE: BY FAITH ALONE To prove his point Paul includes a quotation from Habakkuk 2:4, "The just shall live by faith." It was this text--quoted by Paul in Romans 1:17--that ultimately shook Martin Luther to the core and brought him to saving faith in Jesus Christ. On this point, I quote from a ...read more

  • You Are Not Alone

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 14, 2010
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    YOU ARE NOT ALONE Reed Lessing tells the story of a Native American ritual for training young braves: "On the night of a boy’s thirteenth birthday, he was placed in a dense forest to spend the entire night alone. Until then he had never been away from the security of his family and tribe. But on ...read more

  • The Secret To Success

    Contributed by Pastor Gbenga Shadare on May 4, 2010
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    THE SECRET TO SUCCESS We see the secret to the success of the Man Jesus. He saturated himself with the divine and consequently he excelled. You don't degrees, qualification or a good family name to excel. You need only Christ. Christ is enough! Christ is sufficient! Your excellence is found in ...read more

  • A Little Girl's Alphabet ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2010
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    A Little Girl’s Alphabet Prayer A father walked by his daughter’s bedroom door which was cracked just enough so that he could see that she was kneeling beside her bed in prayer. Interested to find out what subjects a child would bring before God, he paused and listened. He was puzzled though to ...read more

  • Parental Influence On Children Compared To Sunday ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 8, 2010
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    Parental Influence On Children Compared To Sunday School It is well known that crabs and small shellfish of the same class walk in the “sideways” fashion. Once upon a time, the other fishes resolved to teach these mistaken fellow inhabitants of the deep the proper mode of locomotion, namely, to go ...read more

  • Singing For The Girls

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jun 22, 2011
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    SINGING FOR THE GIRLS Last Sunday night I preached in a town called San Miguel. It was known for witch doctors and demonic things going on. We had a constant string of problems happening one after another. The church was crowded with every seat taken and faces looking through the back doors and ...read more

  • Who Do You Say I Am—in England?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 9, 2011
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    WHO DO YOU SAY I AM--IN ENGLAND? A teaching assistant accused of looting. An 11 year old girl appears in court and admits breaking windows in Nottingham. Teenagers appear before Magistrates with no parent in attendance. Magistrates ask, "Where are their parents?" Two girls interviewed by the BBC ...read more

  • Twilight Zone: Satan's Release

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 7, 2011
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    TWILIGHT ZONE: SATAN'S RELEASE In a classic Twilight Zone episode from 1960, an American on a walking trip through central Europe gets caught in a raging storm. Staggering through the blinding rain, he chances upon an imposing medieval castle. It is a hermitage for a brotherhood of monks. The ...read more

  • Mary Had The Little Lamb  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 21, 2008
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    Mary Had The Little Lamb Mary had the little Lamb, who lived before His birth; Self-existent Son of God, from Heaven He came to Earth. (Micah 5:2) Mary had the little Lamb; see Him in yonder stall— Virgin-born Son of God, to save man from the Fall. (Isaiah 7:14) Mary had the little Lamb, ...read more

  • My Dad Had To Be The Worse Driver I've Ever Met. ...

    Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Mar 13, 2009
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    My dad had to be the worse driver I’ve ever met. When I was a kid he had wrecked 9 cars in 8 years. I think he saw life as a demolition derby and his only goal was to get through it alive. The funny thing was; as he got older he became extremely nervous and he started blowing the horn whenever he ...read more

  • Personal Property In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    PERSONAL PROPERTY IN THE BIBLE Larry Burkett, the founder of Christian Financial Concepts, points out that the bible--with more than 700 references to money--says more about economics than many other subjects. He writes: "Money is such an important subject that nearly two-thirds of the parables ...read more