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  • A Journalist Was Assigned To The Jerusalem Bureau ...

    Contributed by Noel Atkinson on Oct 17, 2010
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    A journalist was assigned to the Jerusalem bureau of his newspaper. He gets an apartment overlooking the Wailing Wall. After several weeks he realizes that whenever he looks at the wall he sees an old Jewish man praying vigorously. The journalist wondered whether there was a ...read more

  • Kissing Promotes A Positive Attitude

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
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    KISSING PROMOTES A POSITIVE ATTITUDE If you want to be happy, healthy, successful, and live longer, give your spouse a kiss before you go to work each day. That’s the conclusion of a study conducted by a group of German physicians and psychologists, in cooperation with insurance companies. ...read more

  • James And John Talking

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on May 9, 2011
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    JAMES AND JOHN TALKING This is how I imagine it was before Salome approached Jesus about one of the boys being at either side of him in his kingdom. Remember these two disciples were the "sons of thunder." James: What do you reckon I’m sure that he'll be King soon and I want to sit on my throne ...read more

  • Blessed Are The Pure

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 27, 2011
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    BLESSED ARE THE PURE A couple of years ago we went to Ottawa as my wife Joanne had some work to do there, so Thomas and I tagged along to check out our nation’s capital. One of the places we visited was the historic Canadian mint – where money is made – and we had a tour but unfortunately no free ...read more

  • They're Not Ready For Heaven

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011
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    THEY'RE NOT READY FOR HEAVEN The movie The End of the Spear tells the true story of five missionaries who gave their lives to reach the violent Waodoni tribe in the jungles of Ecuador in the 1950s. Led by Nate Saint, the missionaries were eager to reach the Waodoni people before they all died off ...read more

  • First Things First  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Nov 3, 2011
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    FIRST THINGS FIRST When Coach Bobby Bowden played baseball in college, he never hit a home run. His senior year at Howard College, he was the only player not to hit a home run. One day, he hit a line drive against Auburn. As he approached third, the coach was waving him on. As he made his turn, ...read more

  • The Inner Need For Excellence

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Apr 3, 2012
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    THE INNER NEED FOR EXCELLENCE Years ago during a speaking engagement, I stayed in a hotel in Dallas. It was late at night, and after flipping channels for a while, I landed on ESPN, which is how I learned that tennis legend Martina Navratilova had just won a grueling match in Florida earlier that ...read more

  • Encouragement

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Mar 1, 2016
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    In August 1995, the church I pastored made the decision to do a major renovation on our thirty-five-year-old sanctuary. The first step was to put together a crew of people to do internal demolition. Around forty people showed up to take care of this task. Dust was everywhere as we ripped up ...read more

  • The Ugly Woman

    Contributed by Daniel King, D. Min. on Jul 25, 2018
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    Main Idea: God was willing to pay a high price to redeem you because He thinks you are valuable. Verse: “You are of more value than many sparrows” (Matthew 10:31 NKJV). Illustration: In Africa, a groom must pay a bride price to a woman’s father in order to marry a woman. Usually, this dowry ...read more

  • I Remember When I First Began In The Ministry. I ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Apr 28, 2007
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    I remember when I first began in the ministry. I was a young Marine Sergeant living in Yuma, Arizona. I had gotten involved with a retired Pastor. He and I would lead a chapel service every Sunday at various retirement communities, assisted living facilities, and at rescue shelters. I was ...read more

  • The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration: The Leo Burnett advertising agency did a nationwide telephone survey a few years ago on lying, cataloging when we lie, how we lie and why we lie. The results were interesting. Ninety-one percent of all Americans confessed that they regularly lied… One out of every five admitted that ...read more

  • There Was A College Girl Who Wrote This Letter ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There was a college girl who wrote this letter to her Dad: Dear Dad, Sorry I haven’t written sooner. My arm really has been broken. I broke it, and my left leg, when I jumped from the second floor of my dormitory . . . when we had the fire. We were lucky. A young service station attendant saw the ...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

  • Being A Parent And A Father Can Be An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Being a parent and a father can be an interesting and trying experience. Someone said, “Fathers spend the first part of a child’s life urging him to talk and walk, and the rest of his childhood telling him to sit down and keep quiet.” A son who was in college wrote home to his dad. He said, “Dear ...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

  • We Seem To Have An Almost Infinite Capacity For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    We seem to have an almost infinite capacity for making excuses. In the book, The Sports Hall of Shame, a place kicker for the Dallas Cowboys named Raphael Septian is mentioned. He was a good kicker, but he was an even better master at making excuses when he missed a kick. For example, when he was ...read more

  • On The Morning Of October 2, 2006, A Troubled ...

    Contributed by Louis Bartet on Aug 29, 2007
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    On the morning of October 2, 2006, a troubled milkman named Charles Carl Roberts barricaded himself inside the West Nickel Mine Amish School, ultimately murdering five young girls and wounding six others. Roberts committed suicide when police arrived on the scene. It was a dark day for the Amish ...read more

  • This Is Seen By The Names Of Those That She ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 24, 2007
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    This is seen by the names of those that she raised alongside of Jesus. Now we generally believe that these children were the siblings of Jesus. Joseph and Mary’s children but not all followers of Jesus adhere to this. Some believe that James for example was a cousin. The idea is that Mary remained ...read more

  • Jim Nicodem Is The Founding And Senior Pastor Of ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Mar 6, 2008
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    Jim Nicodem is the Founding and Senior Pastor of Christ Community Church which has three campuses in St. Charles, Dekalb, and Blackberry Creek, Illinois. In his sermon entitled “The Straight Scoop on Anger” Pastor Jim shares this illustration: “You’re watching a football game, your favorite team. ...read more

  • An Important Business Executive Boarded The ...

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Apr 3, 2008
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     | 2,576 views

    An important business executive boarded the New-Orleans-to-Washington train. He was a heavy sleeper, and he needed to be awakened in order to get off the train in Atlanta about 5 o’clock in the morning. He found a porter and told him, "I want you to awaken me in order that I might get off the ...read more