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  • Swedish Hymnist Lina Sandell Berg Served With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Swedish hymnist Lina Sandell Berg served with her father in an evangelistic ministry. As they were traveling by ship, he accidentally fell overboard and drowned. In need of the comfort that only God can supply, she wrote the following words that are still sung by Christians around the world: Day by ...read more

  • Poem Called Hope  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 26, 2007
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     | 2,330 views

    Poem called Hope It’s magic and it’s free. It’s not in a prescription. It’s not in an IV. It punctuates our laughter, it sparkles in our tears. It simmers under sorrows, and dissipates our fears. Do you know what Hope is? It’s reaching past today. It’s dreaming of tomorrow. It’s trying a ...read more

  • The General Took His Stand

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 23, 2008
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    Illus.: “The General Took His Stand” Fredrick the Great of Germany, was a scoffer, but his great general, Von Zealand, was a devout Christian. One day at a gathering, the king was making coarse jokes about Jesus and the whole palace was ringing with laughter. Von Zealand arose stiffly and said, ...read more

  • The General Took His Stand  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 23, 2008
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     | 3,423 views

    Illus.: “The General Took His Stand” Fredrick the Great of Germany, was a scoffer, but his great general, Von Zealand, was a devout Christian. One day at a gathering, the king was making coarse jokes about Jesus and the whole palace was ringing with laughter. Von Zealand arose stiffly and said, ...read more

  • In His Book "God In My Corner" George Foreman Has ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 13, 2008
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    In his book “God in my corner” George Foreman has a chapter entitled “What will people think of Me?” In the chapter his shares his struggle with this common struggle for Christians. He said he wasn’t afraid to step in the ring with toughest boxers in the world Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and Ken ...read more

  • Too Many Christians Of Our Day Seem To Be Totally ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    Too many Christians of our day seem to be totally unconcerned with the need to be conformed to the image of Christ (Rom.8: 29). Rather, they seem to think that they can live pretty much as they please, as long as they admit it to God. This could not be farther from the truth. Somewhere along the ...read more

  • Harriet, The Church Gossip And Self-Appointed ...

    Contributed by Arley Ellingson on Apr 2, 2008
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    Harriet, the church gossip and self-appointed supervisor of the church’s morals, kept sticking her nose into other people’s business. Several were unappreciative of her activi-ties, but feared her enough to maintain their silence. She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new ...read more

  • When The Full Truth Of God's Unconditional Grace ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Aug 21, 2008
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    When the full truth of God's unconditional grace dawned on Rich Mullins, he was forever changed by it...and his music and concerts were also transformed. Here's what he said to a concert audience in 1995: "However badly you think of yourself, God is crazy about you. God is in love with you. ...read more

  • John Bevere Said He Visited Jim Bakker In Prison ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 28, 2008
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    John Bevere said he visited Jim Bakker in prison and Jim told him that his experience brought about a change of heart. He experienced Jesus as Master for the first time. He lost his family, ministry, everything he owned, and then found Jesus. He said, "John, this prison is not God’s judgement on ...read more

  • Too Many Christians Of Our Day Seem To Be Totally ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
     | 1,387 views

    Too many Christians of our day seem to be totally unconcerned with the need to be conformed to the image of Christ (Rom.8: 29). Rather, they seem to think that they can live pretty much as they please, as long as they admit it to God. This could not be farther from the truth. Somewhere along the ...read more

  • No Difference

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 3,419 views

    NO DIFFERENCE Too many Christians of our day seem to be totally unconcerned with the need to be conformed to the image of Christ (Rom.8: 29). Rather, they seem to think that they can live pretty much as they please, as long as they admit it to God. This could not be farther from the truth. ...read more

  • The Sense Of God's Presence

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 17, 2009
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    THE SENSE OF GOD’S PRESENCE I also remember going to Milldale Bible Conference almost every summer during my teen years. I saw many demonstrations of God’s presence and power there. God’s presence was especially strong during the services one night. A young man was asked to come and sing. As he ...read more

  • God Settles His Accounts  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
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    GOD SETTLES HIS ACCOUNTS An atheist farmer often ridiculed people who believed in God. He wrote the following letter to the editor of a local newspaper: "I plowed on Sunday, planted on Sunday, cultivated on Sunday, and hauled in my crops on Sunday; but I never went to church on Sunday. Yet I ...read more

  • Working Late In The Cemetery  PRO

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Oct 29, 2009
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     | 7,750 views

    WORKING LATE IN THE CEMETERY Late one dark night, two men were walking home after a party. They were tired and desperate to get home, so they decided to take a shortcut through a cemetery. They got to about the middle of the graveyard, and they were startled and stopped moving. There was a ...read more

  • His Loneliness For Yours

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 13, 2010
     | 2,065 views

    HIS LONELINESS FOR YOURS Here is the good news for us this morning. Each of us, every one of us received in that moment of time a great and precious gift. It is the gift of the presence of the Father – the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Jesus paid the price for your sin and you do not ...read more

  • Higher Ground

    Contributed by John Putty on Apr 5, 2011
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     | 2,508 views

    HIGHER GROUND The old hymn, “Higher Ground” is a spiritual declaration of one determined man Johnson Oatman, Jr. put to music! While some refuse to believe that our personal faith plays any real role in our spiritual growth and in experiencing Christian victory, in all my 20 years of preaching ...read more

  • Room On The Prayer List

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jul 2, 2011
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     | 2,988 views

    ROOM ON THE PRAYER LIST Readers’ Digest Magazine contains the story of an employee who confided in a co-worker: "I told her about a problem in our office and my fear that I would lose my job. She was concerned and said she would pray for me. I know she keeps a list of 10 people she believes need ...read more

  • Bertrund Russell's Thoughts On Life And Death

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2014
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    Many people fear death because they believe death is the end. Bertrand Russell was a 20th century philosopher and an atheist. As he approached his death in 1970, he wrote: "The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a ...read more

  • A Little Piece On Jesus' Incredible Journey

    Contributed by John Gullick on Mar 17, 2016
     | 4,755 views

    What season are you in. . Jesus had an incredible journey. He was born in dramatic circumstances surrounded by heavenly testimonies and worldly violence lived in a remote and often scorned village - grew up in anonymity a carpenters son and apprentice at thirty years of age he struck out in ...read more

  • In The Fulness Of Time, God Sent His Son

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Dec 19, 2022
     | 523 views

    •When God sent His Son into the world, the ancient world benefited from several conditions that made it far easier to spread the news of the good new of salvation. Some of those conditions were: • Roman Law - This protected Paul and others as they traveled the Roman world and preached the ...read more

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