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  • Christian Love Impacts A Heartless World  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,320 views

    CHRISTIAN LOVE IMPACTS A HEARTLESS WORLD We live in a heartless world. The last United States census missed at least 5.7 million people who were anonymous even to the census takers. Every year thousands of unidentified and even unidentifiable bodies are found across North America. And only one out ...read more

  • Rare Copy Of Declaration Of Independence ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
     | 3,398 views

    Rare Copy of Declaration of Independence Discovered at Garage Sale As Stan Caffy and his fiancé prepared to get married, they cleaned out their respective garages and sold everything to Goodwill. Between the two of them, they sold an assortment of clothes, bicycles, tools, computer parts, and a ...read more

  • Compassion For The Elderly, Post Office ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
     | 2,948 views

    Compassion for the Elderly, Post Office Style [FINDING MAMIE IN YOUR CHURCH] Mamie was an elderly woman, plagued with arthritis and a number of other ailments. So people were surprised to see her going regularly to the post office to buy stamps. One Christmas the lines were particularly long, but ...read more

  • Grace Never Loses Its ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2009
     | 5,120 views

    Grace Never Loses Its Value A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.” He proceeded to crumple the ...read more

  • Medical Terminology Play On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
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    Medical Terminology Play on Words Sandy has seen a lot of doctors this last year, and as I’ve tagged along, I have learned a lot of medical terminology. I’m sure many of you, as you’ve had medical issues, have learned some interesting terminology, as well. It’s a strange language, isn’t it, because ...read more

  • How Not To Get Out Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2009
     | 3,825 views

    How Not To Get Out of Problems When the preacher’s car broke down on a country road, he walked to a nearby roadhouse to use the phone. After calling for a tow truck, he spotted his old friend, Frank, drunk and shabbily dressed at the bar. "What happened to you, Frank?" asked the good reverend. "You ...read more

  • A Truly Humble Man Is Hard To Find, Yet God ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Dec 21, 2009
     | 1,384 views

    A truly humble man is hard to find, yet God delights to honor such selfless people. Booker T. Washington, the renowned black educator, was an outstanding example of this truth. Shortly after he took over the presidency of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, he was walking in an exclusive section of town ...read more

  • Roots: Freedom From Your Slavery

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 25, 2010
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    Roots: Freedom From Your Slavery Kunta Kinte lived free among the Mandinka people of West Africa, becoming a Mandinka warrior at fifteen. But then as he gathered wood for a drum outside his village, slavers captured him. Stacked away on a slave ship piled up with a hundred seventy other slaves, he ...read more

  • Flying A Plane ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
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    FLYING A PLANE DOWN Robert and his pilot friend Wesley went for a flying trip from Indianapolis to Muncie, Indiana, in June 1998. During the flight, his pilot had a heart attack and slumped over the controls. He was dead. The Cessna 172 single-engine plane began to nosedive and Robert grabbed the ...read more

  • April 2, ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
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    April 2, 2008 North Korean Students Arrested for Reading the Bible This news is from Free North Korea Broadcasting. Ten college students in Ham Kyung Book Do Chung, North Korea, were recently investigated and arrested for reading a Bible and watching a video CD about the Bible. According to Free ...read more

  • Restitution And Forgiveness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    Restitution and Forgiveness Keith Drury is a writer from the Wesleyan Church and in one of his books he touches on this whole subject of restoring relationships when talking about restitution. This is what he says. "Restitution deals with more than property. It is also going back and making ...read more

  • Only A Full View Will Do  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,190 views

    Only a Full View Will Do But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord [2Cor. 3:18]. I wish I had spent more time looking in the "mirror," beholding Him more. In the Word of God we ...read more

  • What's Left Of Your Heart

    Contributed by Gregg Barbour on Feb 8, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,196 views

    What's Left of Your Heart Anna's wedding day was finally here. She planned for months and months, and in the small church with her family and friends, she was ready to take the vow's with her fiancé, David. He gently took her hand and they turned toward the altar. But, as the minister began to ...read more

  • Don't Just Know Scripture—let It Change You

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 16, 2010
     | 1,985 views

    DON'T JUST KNOW SCRIPTURE--LET IT CHANGE YOU A father shared an experience he and his wife had with their young children. They began as a family to memorize Scripture, one verse a week. They kept the verses on cards in the middle of the table, and discussed their meanings when they recited the. ...read more

  • It Is Well With My Soul  PRO

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Mar 1, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,332 views

    IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL Horatio Gates Spafford, a 43-year-old Chicago Businessman, suffered financial disaster in the great Chicago fire of 1871. He and his wife were still grieving over the death of their son shortly before the fire, and he realized they needed to get away for a vacation. Knowing ...read more

  • Sports And Church

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Mar 13, 2010
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    SPORTS AND CHURCH Football in the fall. Basketball in the winter. Baseball in the spring and summer. This pastor has been an avid sports fan all his life. But I’ve had it! I quit this sports business once and for all. You can’t get me near one of those places again. Want to know why... Every time ...read more

  • Hannibal The Great Was A Carthaginian Military ...

    Contributed by Jeremy Lane on May 15, 2010
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    Hannibal the great was a Carthaginian military commander around the year 200 B.C. He is thought of as one of the great military leaders of all time, alongside Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and others. There is a story that says as a boy Hannibal begged his father to take him to a war overseas. ...read more

  • Brothers Reunited After Fighting Each Other ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2010
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    Brothers Reunited After Fighting Each Other During the Civil War James Campbell and his brother Alexander immigrated to America in the 1850s. James settled in Charleston where he worked as a drayman and clerk; Alexander lived in New York and worked as a stonemason. On June 10, 1862, Alexander wrote ...read more

  • Wife Offers Herself In Domestic Servitude To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
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    Wife Offers Herself in Domestic Servitude To Clear Her Husband of Murder On May 2, 1962, a dramatic advertisement appeared in the San Francisco Examiner: “I don’t want my husband to die in the gas chamber for a crime he did not commit. I will therefore offer my services for 10 years as a cook, ...read more

  • Ever Feel Like Job?

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Sep 2, 2010
     | 2,227 views

    EVER FEEL LIKE JOB? I have been speaking with a friend on the internet of late who has been saying that GOD IS HARD TO FIND. What do you do when you come to God and all you get is SILENCE, and it feels like He has completely ABANDONED YOU? Have you ever felt like God doesn't care about you because ...read more