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  • Management, Boss

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration- Management, Boss A man entered a pet shop, wanting to buy a parrot. The shop owner pointed out three identical parrots on a perch and said, "The parrot to the left costs 500 dollars." "Why does that parrot cost so much?" the man wondered. The owner replied, "Well, it knows how to use ...read more

  • Let's Be Honest. In A Culture That Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Let’s be honest. In a culture that is increasingly hostile to Christians and their faith, it’s not always easy to confess Jesus. April 20 will be the 8th anniversary of the day Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold gunned down a dozen students and one teacher at Columbine High School. Although it was not ...read more

  • Aunt Lucy Was Losing Her Hearing And The Doctor ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Aunt Lucy was losing her hearing and the doctor recommended surgery to correct it. She promptly vetoed the idea saying, “I’m 94 years old and I’ve already heard enough.” Mike was watching the last part of the TV show when his Dad called down the basement steps, “Mike Come up for dinner” Mike ...read more

  • A Little Boy, Who Wanted $100.00 Very Badly, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A little boy, who wanted $100.00 very badly, prayed for two weeks but nothing happened. Then he decided to write GOD a letter requesting $100.00. When the postal authorities received the letter to GOD, U.S.A., they decided to send it to the President. The President was so impressed, touched, and ...read more

  • For Centuries People Believed That Aristotle Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    For centuries people believed that Aristotle was right when he said that the heavier an object, the faster it would fall to earth. Aristotle was regarded as the greatest thinker of all time, and surely he would not be wrong. Anyone, of course, could have taken two objects, one heavy and one light, ...read more

  • Most Expensive Dinner In The World

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jul 8, 2007
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    Most Expensive Dinner In The World In an effort to dissuade Rome from conquering Egypt, Cleopatra once wagered Marc Antony that she could give the most expensive dinner in history. General Antony took the bet. The Roman general reclined as the queen sat with an empty plate and a goblet of vinegar ...read more

  • We Lived In Montrose, Co For Four Years And ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 27, 2007
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    We lived in Montrose, CO for four years and often went to the town of Telluride. Telluride is a beautiful resort town, with skiing and a gondola and much more. But it didn’t always have a good reputation. To this day to get to Telluride you must drive a narrow, curvy, two lane road. Back in the ...read more

  • A Horrifying Event Took Place In San Fran Last ...

    Contributed by Todd Pugh on Jan 14, 2008
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    A horrifying event took place in San Fran last week. A tiger escaped and mauled one man to death and seriously injured two others. They are not yet sure how the tiger got loose. But some of the evidence suggests the wall was too low and the victims were taunting the tiger. The zoo’s ...read more

  • How Far Along

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 29, 2008
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    There were two men traveling in the WAY The first man said to the other man: “How long have we been traveling in the “Way?” The other man answered: “Not long enough to get to where we are going but far too long to only be as far as we are. Have you ever looked back on your Christian walk and ...read more

  • Sharing Our Faith Is Full-Time Employment…. So ...

    Contributed by Noel Atkinson on Mar 3, 2008
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    Sharing our faith is full-time employment…. So many think that it’s a Sunday morning, 9:30-2:00 job and maybe an hour or two on Wednesday nights… But the Bible lets us know “that Satan the adversary is roaming to and fro as a lion seeking whom he may devour…” And if you know anything about lions, ...read more

  • I Like The Story Of The Young Man Whose Habit Of ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
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    I like the story of the young man whose habit of criticizing backfired on him. One evening, while waiting for a bus, he was standing with a crowd of people looking in the window of a taxidermist shop. In the center of the window was a large owl that attracted the attention of all who passed by. ...read more

  • How America Does Church Unattached

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    HOW AMERICA DOES CHURCH UNATTACHED People who had attended neither a conventional church nor a faith community during the past year represents 25% of adult Americans. A third of these have never attended a church. Intermittents - participated in a conventional church or a faith community within the ...read more

  • Why? Look At The Israelites, He Parted The Seas, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2008
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    Why? Look at the Israelites, he parted the seas, let them cross, while he blocked the Egyptians from attacking with pillars of fire, and when they were across, the Egyptians pursued them and he brought the walls of water down on them. Now think of it in another sense, think about it, he set our ...read more

  • According To The Rabbis, The Books Of Numbers ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 21, 2008
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    "According to the Rabbis, the Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy are complementary to each other (comp. Tithe, Biblical Data); consequently there can be no contradiction between them. Thus there were three kinds of tithes: (1) that given to the Levites as stated in Num. xviii. 21 et seq., and termed ...read more

  • Imperial ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008
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    ILLUSTRATION: Imperial Hotel Years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright was given the impossible task of building the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. No comparable construction job ever before had been undertaken. With patience he laid plans for the immense building in this land of earthquakes and terrible ...read more

  • Misdirection In A Football Game Is Fun. ...

    Contributed by David Nuhfer on Jul 16, 2008
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    Misdirection in a football game is fun. Misdirection from Satan is deadly. He has been doing it for thousands of years, from the time in the Garden of Eden when he got Eve to believe that God was holding out on her and Adam, to Exodus when he got the Israelites focused on hating Moses, to the time ...read more

  • Colossians 4:6 Addresses The Way We Talk, Saying ...

    Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 18, 2008
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    Colossians 4:6 addresses the way we talk, saying that our speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt (4:6). In the ancient world, salt was valuable, and served at least two purposes as nothing else could do. First it was a purifying agent. In those centuries before refrigeration, salt was ...read more

  • How America Does Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    HOW AMERICA DOES CHURCH "Unattached"--people who had attended neither a conventional church nor a faith community during the past year represents 25% of adult Americans. A third of these have never attended a church. "Intermittents"--participated in a conventional church or a faith community ...read more

  • True Believer  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    TRUE BELIEVER There was a young seminarian who was taking an oral examination for his ordination process. During the questioning, one of the examiners asked him if he believed in a personal devil. "No," he replied, "I do not believe in the devil." Hearing this, the examiners began to discuss the ...read more

  • Being Completely Set Apart For God's Use And ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2008
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    Being completely set apart for God’s use and being a holistic community means able to define who God is calling us to be both individually and corporately. We may need to say “no” to some good things in order to become what we need to be to reach who God wants us to reach. I believe these seven ...read more