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  • First Harvest  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
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    FIRST HARVEST In 1621, Edward Winslow, one of the fifty or so members of the Plymouth colony, wrote these words, describing the first harvest festival: "Our harvest of corn came in well, and God be praised, we had a good increase of Indian Corn, and our Barley crop was also good, but our crop of ...read more

  • The First One

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,639 views

    THE FIRST ONE “Mary was the first person in the world to carry the Gospel.” SOURCE: Rodney Buchanan in ...read more

  • Famous Firsts  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2004
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    FAMOUS FIRSTS Virginia Dare 1587 --- 1st child born in the American colonies, on August 18th, on what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina. André-Jacques Garnerin 1797 --- 1st parachute jump. Dropped from about 6,500 ft. over Monceau Park in Paris in a 23-ft.-diameter parachute made of white ...read more

  • The Last Are First

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Nov 18, 2007
     | 1,512 views

    The Last Are First There is a couple who lived here in Anchorage, who lived in one of the most broken down trailers I have ever seen. There home was, clean, and well kept but the trailer sure had seen better days – a long time ago. Some friends who had a little boy were looking at buying a house, ...read more

  • First Step To ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    First Step to Spiritual Revival The need for turning to God has never been more urgent than today. The latest fads of social Christianity and religious programs have been unable to deliver Americans from their economic concerns, fear of terrorist attacks and moral decline. Many in America have ...read more

  • Famous Firsts

    Contributed by Bob Gillchrest on Dec 1, 2008
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    FAMOUS FIRSTS Let me share with you some of famous firsts that have happened throughout history. Virginia Dare 1587 --- 1st child born in the American colonies, on August 18th, on what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina. André-Jacques Garnerin 1797 --- 1st parachute jump. Dropped from about ...read more

  • The First Mongolian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    THE FIRST MONGOLIAN CHURCH The Christian authors, Bill and Amy Stearns, in their book entitled "20/20 Vision: Amazing Stories of What God Is Doing Around the World," describe how the Gospel of Jesus, the Christ, came to Mongolia. "In the 1870’s Swedish missionaries arrived in Mongolia - what was ...read more

  • First-Born

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 8, 2010
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    FIRST-BORN The ancient Rabbis called Yahweh Himself "Firstborn of the World" (Rabbi Bechai cited in Lightfoot’s commentary on Colossians). Rabbis also used firstborn as a Messianic title. "God said, ’As I made Jacob a first-born (Exodus 4:22), so also will I make king Messiah a first-born’ (Psalm ...read more

  • The First Thanksgiving

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Nov 19, 2011
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    THE FIRST THANKSGIVING Let's consider the first Thanksgiving in America. It was in the fall of 1621, one year after the Pilgrim’s landed. There was great affliction in their voyage. 102 Pilgrims the left Holland, stopped briefly in England before sailing to America. They were at sea for 66 ...read more

  • Of The Many Things In Life That Are Certain One ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2002
    based on 152 ratings
     | 2,237 views

    Of the many things in life that are certain one of them is you always get found out in the end or, to use the old adage, ’Be sure your sins will find you out’. This young couple were about to get married. The young man went to his Dad and said, "I’m a bit apprehensive about getting married, Dad". ...read more

  • The Procrastination Before The Ultimate ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2009
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    The Procrastination Before the Ultimate Preservation of the Hudson Palisades as a National Natural Landmark The Palisades, also called the New Jersey Palisades or the Hudson Palisades are a line of steep cliffs along the west side of the lower Hudson River in northeast New Jersey and southern New ...read more

  • Keeping The Main Thing The Main Thing!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 2, 2023
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    It was a 99-degree September day in San Antonio, Texas, when a woman accidentally locked her 10-month-old baby inside a parked car. Frantically the mother ran around the auto in near hysteria, while a neighbor attempted to unlock the car with a clothes hanger. Soon the infant was turning purple ...read more

  • The Eating Thing  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Hamilton on Sep 29, 2002
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    The Eating thing Let me share with you a fairly personal issue that I’m working through that has caused me to ask this question about loving God. Last year – in fact for a number of years now I have been aware that I have been struggling with an addiction. As soon as I say the word it arouses ...read more

  • The Wedding Cake On The First ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2012
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    THE WEDDING CAKE ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY One of the many pieces of advice we received before our wedding was to save the top tier of your wedding cake and eat and eat it on your first anniversary. We had a tiny little freezer. For one full year, this box of wedding cake sat in our freezer, denying ...read more

  • Your First Love

    Contributed by Charles Worth on May 16, 2009
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    YOUR FIRST LOVE Remember your first love? That innocent time in life when you had fallen "head over heels" for someone? Knowing it is the right thing to do you went to her/him and confessed your undying love; only to be told how much they "like" you as a friend. Jesus must feel that way at times. ...read more

  • Put Something In First

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Sep 11, 2009
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    PUT SOMETHING IN FIRST After we came here in US, I discovered that everybody around me were using something named "credit card" to buy things… We said, oh good, let’s go to a bank and asked them for tis wonder card… ziiip and pay for your gas, or for your church suit. I went with one coworker, I ...read more

  • Putting God First

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Mar 18, 2022
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    I woke up this one morning recently around 7am which is fairly late for me, still very tired, and about 10 minutes into reading the Word trying to drink my coffee to wake up, I knew I would not be able to stay awake through all my prayers at that level of fatigue. But I was trying to make sure in ...read more

  • The Little Things  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on May 20, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
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    Title: The Little Things A group of men were carrying on a friendly conversation. One of them remarked that he had learned to be especially careful about small things. "Would you believe," he said, "that a little thing like a pair of socks changed the entire course of my life?" "I can hardly ...read more

  • It Is Not The Importance Of The Thing, But The ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 7, 2001
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    "It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience...Some, indeed, might reckon such minute and arbitrary rules as these as trifling. But the principle involved in obedience or disobedience was none other than the same principle which ...read more

  • The Significant Thing  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Dec 26, 2002
    based on 15 ratings
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    THE SIGNIFICANT THING “Parents, the most significant thing you have in your home is you!” SOURCE: Charles R. Swindoll. The Strong Family. Zondervan ...read more