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  • Last Tuesday Night On Prime Time They Showed The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,043 views

    Last Tuesday night on Prime Time they showed the new Christ, De Jesus from Puerto Rico. He claims to be the better Christ and declares there is no sin, no Satan, and no one will go to hell. They interviewed several church members as to what they thought about their Christ. And they believe in him ...read more

  • How Can You Be So Narrow-Minded?

    Contributed by Rick Balmer on Sep 20, 2007
     | 1,624 views

    “How can you be so narrow-minded?” The question jolted Steve from the newspaper he was reading in the teacher’s lounge. Jenna, the school librarian, was frowning and pointing at his coffee mug, which bore the message “One Way: Jesus”. Jenna was a follower of New Age religion. She believed there ...read more

  • As Part Of A Commencement Address Former First ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
     | 1,115 views

    As part of a commencement address former First Lady Barbara Bush said the following to a group of graduating college students: "As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer, or business leader will be, you are a human being first, and those human connections - with spouses, with children, ...read more

  • Arthur John Gossip Was A Great Preacher In The ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Nov 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,189 views

    Arthur John Gossip was a great preacher in the Church of Scotland. When he was pastor at Beechgrove Church in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1927 he suddenly lost his beloved wife. The following Sunday he preached perhaps the greatest sermon of the Twentieth Century “When Life Tumbles In, What Then?” ...read more

  • George Matheson Was Born In Glasgow, Scotland, In ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
     | 790 views

    George Matheson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1842. As a child he had only partial vision, and his sight became progressively worse, until it resulted in blindness by the time he was eighteen. Despite his handicap, he was a brilliant student and graduated from the University of Glasgow and ...read more

  • David Watson Stated In His Book, I Believe In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
     | 1,386 views

    David Watson stated in His book, I Believe in the Church the following: To love all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one.… Wrap it carefully round with ...read more

  • Trying To Win Their Case Some Lawyers Have Been ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,171 views

    Trying to win their case some lawyers have been known to ask some incredibly unbelievable questions. The Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyer’s Journal gave the following example Question: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? No Did you check for blood pressure? ...read more

  • Rosanna P. Smith Said, After Picking Up Our ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 20, 2008
     | 2,017 views

    Rosanna P. Smith said, After picking up our three-year-old on her first day of nursery school, my husband left the following message on my voice mail at work: "Hi, honey. The good news is that Amanda got through her first day at school. The bad news is the teacher wants to meet with us. "The good ...read more

  • Jesus Has Gone Before Us. In The Words Of John ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on May 25, 2008
     | 1,900 views

    "Jesus has gone before us. In the words of John 13:1, He has made the crossing from this world toward the father and summons us to come after Him. We will do this definitively when, at the hour of our death, we will have to summon up whatever resources we have in order to cast ourselves into the ...read more

  • This Week I Was Reading, "Relevant Magazine" And ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 4, 2008
     | 723 views

    This week I was reading, “Relevant Magazine” and I came across this news flash in their May/June 08 edition on page 38: “I Don’t Want Your Sex for Now,” “Tampa’s Relevant Church (which has no relation to RELEVANT Media Group) recently issued a challenge to married members of its congregation to ...read more

  • Man's Anger Toward God

    Contributed by Clarence Clough on Aug 7, 2008
     | 3,594 views

    MAN'S ANGER TOWARD GOD ...is more disastrous than the following: As a passenger boarded the Los Angeles-to-New York plane, he told the flight attendant to wake him and make sure he got off in Dallas. The passenger awoke just as the plane was landing in New York. Furious, he called the flight ...read more

  • One Source Says, That Denying Ourselves "Means In ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 12, 2008
     | 3,815 views

    One source says, that denying ourselves “means in every moment of life to say no to self and yes to God.” It is, he continues, “a life lived in the constant hourly awareness of the demands of God and the need of others.” Dr. Warren Wiersbe, pastor, author and theologian: “To deny self does not ...read more

  • They Need A Father  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 2,784 views

    THEY NEED A FATHER ... “almost 75 percent of American children living in fatherless households will experience poverty before the age of eleven, compared to only 20 percent of those raised by two parents. Children living in homes where fathers are absent are far more likely to be expelled from or ...read more

  • The Fifth Commandment Extends To Other Areas Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 1,232 views

    The Fifth Commandment extends to other areas of authority in society. Zacharius Ursinus, the principle author of the Heidelburg Catechism wrote in his seventeenth-century commentary, “The design or end of this commandment is the preservation o civil order, which God has appointed in the mutual ...read more

  • In John 8:12 Jesus Makes A Startling Statement, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on May 20, 2002
    based on 36 ratings
     | 2,362 views

    In John 8:12 Jesus makes a startling statement, ‘I am the light of the World. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life’. This statement was made during a special Jewish Feast, the FEAST OF TABERNACLES. In the Temple treasury stood four massive golden candelabras ...read more

  • Working Hard?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,726 views

    WORKING HARD? Workers around America frankly admit that they spend more than 20 percent of their time (seven hours a week) at work goofing off. That amounts to a four-day work week across the nation. Almost half of Americans admit to chronic malingering, calling in sick when not sick, and doing ...read more

  • In Their Book Your Work Matters To God, Doug ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2002
    based on 33 ratings
     | 1,140 views

    In their book Your Work Matters to God, Doug Sherman and William Hendricks wrote: “God has made you with a specific design. As one of His creatures, He has given you personal resources – a personality, talent, abilities, interests and so forth – which can be used vocationally … It is clear ...read more

  • Speaking Of Heaven D.l. Moody Said, "We Believe ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Oct 4, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,849 views

    Speaking of heaven D.L. Moody said, “We believe it is just as much a place and just as much a city as New York is, and a good deal more; because New York will pass away, and that city will abide forever. It has foundations, whose builder and maker is God” (Classic Sermons on Heaven and Hell; ...read more

  • Listen To These Interesting Statistics And ...  PRO

    Contributed by George Alves on Jan 27, 2003
    based on 43 ratings
     | 1,719 views

    Listen to these interesting statistics and comments recorded in a well known Canadian survey about the church: 81% of Canadians surveyed agreed with the following comment “I don’t think you need to go to church in order to be a good Christian” 70% agreed with this statement “My private beliefs ...read more

  • We Can Also Increase Our Faith By Praying To God, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ronald Thompson on May 20, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,881 views

    We can also increase our faith by praying to God, about our hopes, desires, and needs. the following story is about a man whose faith was shown by his works. This man wanted to study the scriptures, but he could not read. He prayed for God to help him learn to read. In time a teacher came to ...read more

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