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  • Made In His Image  PRO

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 31, 2012
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     | 3,262 views

    MADE IN HIS IMAGE In 1940 the Battle of Britain took place in the skies over England. Day after day hundreds of German bombers delivered to the targets below a cargo of death and destruction. The only thing stopping the certain defeat of the allies in western Europe was the Royal Air Force, whose ...read more

  • I Know Because I See

    Contributed by Bruce Montgomery on Apr 21, 2008
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     | 2,211 views

    I KNOW BECAUSE I SEE The fingerprints of God are everywhere in nature! Faith - at least in part - is the spiritual seeing or perceiving of the fingerprints on the things he has made. We see the order, the beauty, the greatness, the complexity of what he has made - and these are the evidence that ...read more

  • Grief: God's Answer To Overwhelming Grief

    Contributed by Raymond Petzholt on Aug 25, 2025
     | 609 views

    What follows is a true account, which I (Stephen) was fortunate enough to witness firsthand in the spring of 2015. My wife was an only child raised by a single mom, and as such was very close to her mother. Thus, when her mother died after 90 years my wife was severely grief stricken and would ...read more

  • Paul Brand Wrote In The March 4, 1983 Issue Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Oct 19, 2003
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    Paul Brand wrote in the March 4, 1983 issue of "Christianity Today:" Blood spatters the pages of mythology and of history. Drinking it gives strength and new life: to the ghosts of the dead in The Odyssey, to the Roman epileptics who dashed onto the floor of the Coliseum to quaff the blood of ...read more

  • Why Does God Hate Divorce? Listen To Some ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 18, 2005
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    Why does God hate divorce? Listen to some ramifications of divorce, taken from Biblical Counseling for Today - Watson Pages 187-188 -- Watson notes: Dobson commissioned his Focus on the Family staff to conduct a broad based survey of existing research concerning marital status. “From a social ...read more

  • Who Should Get The Credit?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 12, 2011
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    WHO SHOULD GET THE CREDIT? I had the pleasure of coaching Little League for about 5 years and did so during the time my 3 boys played, so I coached the team they played on. On one occasion we were two runs behind in the final inning with a runner on 2nd. And who was coming to bat? Brian. Brian was ...read more

  • Dream Center

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 26, 2012
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    DREAM CENTER At age 16, Matthew Barnett dreamed of a church that would be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year serving the inner-city’s physical and spiritual needs and bringing a message of hope to the hopeless. In 1994 at the age of 20, he moved from Phoenix to Los Angeles to pastor a small ...read more

  • Parallels Between Jesus And Melchizedek

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 13, 2023
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    Jesus Compared to Melchizedek (Hebrews 7) 11 Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order ...read more

  • In The Year 1836, The Republic Of Texas Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by James May on Apr 27, 2001
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    In the year 1836, the Republic of Texas was fighting for its life after some very costly battles with the Mexican General Santa Anna. In the opening days of this campaign to reclaim Texas for Mexico, Santa Anna had to face the Texians, as they were called then, at a lonely mission outpost known as ...read more

  • Sun) I Think We Are A Little Like The Ringtail ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Jun 4, 2002
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    (Sun) I think we are a little like the ringtail monkey: it is one of the hardest animals to catch. For the Zulus of that continent, however, it’s simple. They’ve been catching this agile little animal with ease for years. The method the Zulus use is based on knowledge of the animal. Their trap is ...read more

  • Freedom To Find God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
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    FREEDOM TO FIND GOD Every president invokes God and asks his blessing. Every president promises, though not always in so many words, to lead according to moral principles rooted in Biblical tradition. The English writer G. K. Chesterton called America a “nation with the soul of a church,” and ...read more

  • Community Building In Analyzing 68 Npo's, The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Community Building In analyzing 68 NPO’s, the Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management has uncovered 5 common success factors. (1) The ones who have results aim at results. They have a very clear definition of and concentration on what they are trying to accomplish. (2) They also abandon. They ...read more

  • The American Psychological Association Research ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    The American Psychological Association research has found that religious involvement is the best indicator of psychological self-esteem among 8th graders. H.B. London of Focus on the Family notes that is the same age as young people in churches begin to drift. Other findings in the study: · 8th ...read more

  • Human Distraction: Humans Specialize In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,213 views

    Human Distraction: Humans specialize in distraction, especially when the task at hand requires intellectual heavy lifting. But in the era of e-mail, instant messaging, Googling, e-commerce and iTunes, potential distractions while seated at a computer are not only ever-present but very enticing. ...read more

  • Christians' Point Of No Return

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Nov 3, 2006
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    Christians’ Point of No Return If you were inside the cockpit of a departing airplane, just as it took off from the runway you would hear the copilot or captain call out, "V1." This phrase represents the "point of no return." As the airplane accelerates toward the end of the runway, the pilot must ...read more

  • Warren Wiersbe Tells A Story About The Days Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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     | 2,055 views

    Warren Wiersbe tells a story about the days of the Old West. There was a horse bolting down the road with a wagon hitched to it and little boy trapped on the wagon. A young man risked his life to catch the horse and stop the wagon, saving that little boy. Well, that little boy grew up to be a ...read more

  • There Have Been Those, Some Of The Notable Men, ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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    There have been those, some of the notable men, who have refused to cooperate with Christ and have come to a very ignoble finish in their lives. Two such people were the famous writers H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. They were brilliant men with worldly wisdom, yet they rejected the message ...read more

  • Often People Want To Be Mighty Oaks. They Want To ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 4, 2009
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    Often people want to be mighty oaks. They want to be seen as strong and tall and be looked up to. We want the attention. We want to be admired. Except we don’t want to take the time to grow strong, deep roots. Jesus says that he want to make it as clear as possible. God is doing a great and new ...read more

  • Battle Dress For Spiritual ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    Battle Dress for Spiritual Warfare Marine recruits were each issued a service bag filled with clothing, in addition to a rifle, a cartridge belt, a bayonet, and a heavy steel helmet. Since those just arriving on base did not know how to care for themselves, recruits were also issued basic supplies ...read more

  • A Church Made William ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2010
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    A Church Made William Wickham King Edward of England appointed William Wickham to build a church. William Wickham performed his duty and finished by writing in one of the windows, "This work made William Wickham." When the king saw this he confronted William for assuming the honor of building the ...read more