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  • When Architect Sir Christopher Wren Designed The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    When architect Sir Christopher Wren designed the interior of Windsor Town Hall near London in 1689, he built a ceiling supported by pillars. After city fathers had inspected the finished building, they decided the ceiling would not stay up and ordered Wren to put in some more pillars. England’s ...read more

  • Sometime Ago, A Traveling Evangelist Was Riding ...  PRO

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Nov 11, 2007
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    Sometime ago, a traveling evangelist was riding along and singing to himself a song called, “I’ve Been Redeemed.” A fellow passenger heard him and began to sing along. When they finished singing the evangelist asked the stranger if he had been redeemed. The man said, “Yes, praise the Lord.” So ...read more

  • The Tabernacle And Later The Temple Had Many ...

    Contributed by Curtis Rowe on Jan 3, 2008
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    The Tabernacle and later the Temple had many furnishings… incense altar, laver, lamp, censers, the ark and various implements and tools, but NO CHAIR! The work of the priests was never finished! It is still so with Roman Catholicism today… “In the Eucharist Christ gives up the very body which he ...read more

  • Messiah's Glorious Works

    Contributed by C Jordan on Sep 11, 2008
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    QUOTE ON DANIEL'S SEVENTIETH WEEK: "The first coming of our Lord is spoken of in (Daniel 9:24-27) as ordained to be before the seventy weeks were finished, and the city (Jerusalem) should be destroyed; and so it was even as the prophet had spoken… Jesus Christ our Lord, the Messiah, came exactly ...read more

  • The Four Sham Pillars

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
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    THE FOUR SHAM PILLARS In 1689 the architect Sir Christopher Wren designed the interior of Windsor Town Hall near London. He built a ceiling supported by pillars. After city fathers had inspected the finished building, they decided the ceiling would not stay up, and so they ordered Wren to put in ...read more

  • Beware Of Attachments

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2011
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    BEWARE OF ATTACHMENTS Felipe Massa of Brazil should have won the Formula One Grand Prix in Singapore in September 2008. But as he drove off from a refueling stop while in the lead, the fuel hose was still attached. By the time his team removed the hose, he had lost so much time that he finished ...read more

  • Funnnnnnnnny Story About Lazarus!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Dec 13, 2022
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    A teacher in children's church was telling the story of the rich man and Lazarus. She said that Lazarus sat outside the rich man's gate covered with sores and begging for food. And that the rich man passed Lazarus without even seeing him. But when they both died, Lazarus went to Heaven, ...read more

  • Why We Celebrate The 4th  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    WHY WE CELEBRATE THE 4TH But there is a reason why we celebrate on the 4th and we can’t forget that! It was the day the day the colonies declared their independence from England. Freedom was declared in some famous words of the Declaration of Independence, which starts: We hold these truths to be ...read more

  • About 1930, The Communist Leader Bukharin ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Galasso on Mar 16, 2002
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    About 1930, the Communist leader Bukharin journeyed from Moscow to Kiev. His mission was to address a huge assembly. His subject, atheism. For a solid hour, he aimed his heavy artillery at Christianity, hurling arguement and ridicule. At last he was finished and viewed what seemed to be the ...read more

  • Joseph Stowell Tells Of Having Dinner With Billy ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ray Ellis on Sep 10, 2003
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    Joseph Stowell tells of having dinner with Billy Graham at a dinner for the staff and board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Billy was eighty at the time and Dr. Stowell asked him a question: “Of all your experiences in ministry, what have you enjoyed most?” “Was it you time spent ...read more

  • Maybe You Remember The End Of The Movie ...  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Schmidt on Nov 23, 2003
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    Maybe you remember the end of the movie Braveheart. William Wallace, the Scottish hero, is being tortured. The king wants him and his people to give into his power and rule. But Wallace suffers through it. He won’t give in. And the very last word that he shouts as he marshals all his strength is he ...read more

  • Transient Forgiveness  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Buchner on May 9, 2005
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    Transient Forgiveness (Illustrations Unlimited) Two little brothers, Harry and James, had finished supper and were playing until bedtime. Somehow, Harry hit James with a stick, and tears and bitter words followed. Charges and accusations were still being exchanged as their mother prepared them for ...read more

  • God Is Behind Our Lives: These Days Most People ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jul 25, 2007
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    God is behind our lives: These days most people have the wonderful blessing of a Satellite Navigation in their car to direct them in their travels. The Sat nav directs them to their given destination.It knows the start from the finish. Pastor Aubrey Vaughan in sermon journey of faith.@ ...read more

  • Some Years Ago A Famous Actor Was Giving An After ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Feb 1, 2008
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    Some years ago a famous actor was giving an after dinner speech. He asked his audience if there was any famous poem that they would like him to recite. There was a silence. Eventually an old vicar raised his hand and said: "Psalm 23 please." The actor agreed, on one condition: that the ...read more

  • When Benjamin Franklin, One Of Our Founding ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Feb 18, 2008
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    When Benjamin Franklin, one of our founding fathers, served as the Ambassador to France, he occasionally attended what was called The Infidels Club -- a group that spent most of its time searching for and reading literary masterpieces. On one occasion Franklin read the book of Ruth to the club, ...read more

  • The Ultimate

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Feb 1, 2012
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    THE ULTIMATE In the early 1970s the Dallas Cowboys had a star running back named Duane Thomas who was kind of a head case. One year the Cowboys made it to the Super Bowl and someone asked Duane Thomas what he thought about playing in the "ultimate game." He replied "If this is the Ultimate Game, ...read more

  • Shouting The Good News?  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Mar 31, 2003
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    SHOUTING THE GOOD NEWS? It’s amazing how many people try to share the good news with a sense of rage and hatred. Example: ranting and raving about a particular social ill, polarizing people, and focusing more on judgment and God’s wrath than on the hope that Christ offers. People rant about ...read more

  • Recently I Heard An Amazing Story Of Human ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jan 29, 2005
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    Recently I heard an amazing story of human strength. Four soldiers in Afghanistan were riding in a jeep when suddenly they were ambushed. They were on a narrow mountain road and the only way out was to go in the opposite direction, but there wasn’t room to turn the jeep around without going over ...read more

  • A Vanished Friend

    Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Feb 22, 2006
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    Around the corner I have a friend, In this great city that has no end; Yet days go by and weeks rush on, And before I know it, a year is gone, And I never see my old friend’s face. For life is a swift and terrible race. He knows I like him just as well As in the days when I rang his bell And he ...read more

  • There's A Bit Of Verse In The Form Of A Prayer ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
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    There’s a bit of verse in the form of a prayer that I think is appropriate: Slow me down, Lord. Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind, Steady my hurried pace with the eternal reach of time, Give me amid the confusion of the day the calmness of the everlasting hills, Break the ...read more