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  • They Are Known As The Forty Martyrs Of Sebaste. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    They are known as the forty martyrs of Sebaste. In the famed Twelfth Legion of Rome’s imperial army there were forty soldiers who professed their faith in Jesus Christ. One day their captain informed them that Emperor Licinius had sent out an edict commanding all soldiers to offer sacrifice to ...read more

  • First Of All, What Is A Shepherd And What Does ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    First of all, what is a shepherd and what does he do? I think that Dr. Andrew Bonar, a close friend and biographer of Robert Murray M’Cheyne, says it best when he had this to say to a friend of his about sheep and shepherds. Dr. Andrew Bonar told me how, in the Highlands of Scotland, a sheep would ...read more

  • Houston Pastor John Bisagno ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    ILLUSTRATION Houston pastor John Bisagno describes a time when his daughter Melody, age five, came to him and asked for a doll house. John promptly nodded and promised to build her one, then he went back to reading his book. Soon he glanced out the study window and saw her arms filled with ...read more

  • Two Men Had An Argument. To Settle The Matter, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Two men had an argument. To settle the matter, they went to a judge to let him decide. The plaintiff made his case. He was very eloquent and persuasive in his reasoning. When he finished, the judge nodded in approval and said, "That’s right, that’s right." On hearing this, the defendant jumped up ...read more

  • We Use That Word Believe For Everything And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    We use that word believe for everything and anything. But in the Bible believe means two things. It means to accept something as being true and it means to trust. For example, of all the people who have ever crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope the most spectacular has to be that person who was ...read more

  • In 1920 An English Preacher Named Frank W. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In 1920 an English preacher named Frank W. Boreham published a book of sermons on great Bible texts. In each case, he linked a Bible text to the history of a great Christian man or woman. He called his book Texts That Made History. An example of a text that made history is David Livingstone’s ...read more

  • Robert Robinson Had Been Saved Out Of A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Robert Robinson had been saved out of a tempestuous life of sin through George Whitfield’s ministry in England. Shortly after that, at the age of twenty-three, Robinson wrote the hymn Come, Thou Fount. Come, Thou Fount of ev’ry blessing, Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest ...read more

  • In Bill Moyers's Book A World Of Ideas Ii, Jacob ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In Bill Moyers’s book A World of Ideas II, Jacob Needleman remembers, "I was an observer at the launch of Apollo 17 in 1975. It was a night launch, and there were hundreds of cynical reporters all over the lawn, drinking beer, wisecracking, and waiting for this 35-story-high rocket. "The ...read more

  • Bill Bright, Founder And President, Campus ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Bill Bright, founder and president, Campus Crusade for Christ - I know two law partners who used to hate each other. When one became a Christian, he asked me, "Now that I’m a Christian, what should I do?" I said, "Why not ask him to forgive you and tell him you love him?" "I could never do that" he ...read more

  • Serving Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Serving Jesus • A certain family in a Southern Baptist Church had been inactive for years. • The family simply never went to church any more and every effort to get them to attend had failed. • One day one of the sons, name John, was bitten by a rattlesnake. The father immediately sent for the ...read more

  • George W. Truett  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    George W. Truett George W. Truett, a well-know pastor in Texas, was invited to dinner at the home of a very wealthy Texas man. After the meal, the host led him to a place where they could get a good view of the surrounding area. • Pointing to the oil wells covering the landscape, the Texan ...read more

  • A Story From Scotland Tells Of A Mother's ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A story from Scotland tells of a mother’s dramatic rescue of her child. Workmen were blasting rock in a quarry. One day after they had attached the fuse and retired to a safe place and gave the alarm they saw a three year old child wandering across the open space where danger threatened. Every ...read more

  • In Peggy Noonan's Book When Character Was King, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In Peggy Noonan’s book When Character Was King, she tells about a meeting between President George W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin of Russia. It was their first meeting as world leaders and Bush wanted to be sure they connected-- that they looked for depth of soul and character, not simply ...read more

  • The Bible Is Similar To That Scenario. Many ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Bible is similar to that scenario. Many writers, from many different backgrounds, writing over a period of 1500 years, but all writing about the same man - - Jesus. And that is why the Bible is unique. That is why the Bible stands out among every other religious book we have. But how can it ...read more

  • Slow And Steady

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2022
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    The power of the Holy Spirit is not just for salvation, but for sanctification, a process that is slow and gradual. The difference might look like this: You can take ten gallons of gasoline and release a tremendous amount of power and energy by just dropping a lighted match into it. It makes a ...read more

  • An Illustration About Ephesians 2:9

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Jun 30, 2022
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    The author of this illustration is G. M. Landis. I have no idea who this person is or was. I had bought a Bible at a thrift store and the piece of paper with this illustration was inside the front cover (this was a hardcover Bible). The illustration itself appears to have been written for a daily ...read more

  • Trust Issues

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jul 18, 2022
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    John 2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. 24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, 25 and needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man. As I ...read more

  • Praying For Enemies

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022
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    I once invited a guest lecturer to speak to a counseling class I was teaching and asked him to specifically discuss the topic of forgiveness. He told a powerful story from his own life that day to illustrate his point that we should forgive. His brother had many struggles, and one day there was a ...read more

  • Orders Remain Unchanged!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 10, 2023
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    There is a tomb of unknown soldiers in America which has a guard 24 hours a day. Every hour on the hour, 365 days a year, a new soldier reports for duty. When the new guard arrives, he receives his orders from the one who is leaving. The words are always the same: “Orders Remain Unchanged.” The ...read more

  • Why Do You Still Live As A Slave?

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 15, 2023
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    On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented what came to be known as the Emancipation Proclamation, an official document condemning human slavery. Abraham Lincoln, realizing that slavery is completely against human dignity, officially abolished it from the United States on ...read more