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  • Choosing A New Setting

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
     | 2,239 views

    CHOOSING A NEW SETTING The motor home has allowed us to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now he can park a fully equipped home on a cement slab in the midst of a few ...read more

  • Shouting The Good News?  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Mar 31, 2003
    based on 20 ratings
     | 2,667 views

    SHOUTING THE GOOD NEWS? It’s amazing how many people try to share the good news with a sense of rage and hatred. Example: ranting and raving about a particular social ill, polarizing people, and focusing more on judgment and God’s wrath than on the hope that Christ offers. People rant about ...read more

  • A New Spirit And Opportunity  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Stewart on Apr 6, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,952 views

    A NEW SPIRIT AND OPPORTUNITY A few years ago a young girl by the name of Sofi was born in Siberia, a bitterly cold and desolate area of Russia. A difficult place to be a child but Sofi’s life was going to be even rougher than most. She was an orphan. Then suddenly at the age of 2 she was adopted, ...read more

  • A New Belief System

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jul 13, 2006
     | 2,030 views

    A new belief system Richard Dawkins was recently asked “What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?” “I believe but I cannot prove, that all life, all intelligence, all creativity and all ‘design’ anywhere in the universe ...read more

  • Upi News Item ...

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Dec 8, 2006
     | 1,492 views

    ILLUSTRATION… UPI News Item (http://www.bible.org/illus.php?topic_id=509) The Metropolitan Insurance Company received some unusual explanations for accidents from its automobile policyholders. The following are just few: “An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car, and vanished.” “The ...read more

  • Here's The Bad News

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Feb 23, 2007
     | 1,850 views

    Here’s the bad news It’s the fact that none of us can ever be worthy; it’s the truth that no one can ever earn or merit God’s grace or favor that is the bad news of the gospel. It has been a universal disease of humanity that we want to be worthy. When we have toiled through the heat of the day and ...read more

  • The Creation Of Something New Is Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 2,616 views

    The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The ...read more

  • New Every Morning

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 13, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,828 views

    New Every Morning Yea, “new every morning,” though we may awake, Our hearts with old sorrow beginning to ache; With old work unfinished when night stayed our hand With new duties waiting, unknown and unplanned; With old care still pressing, to fret and to vex, With new problems rising, our minds ...read more

  • Surgery For The "New Born"

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 23, 2007
     | 1,824 views

    Surgery for the “New Born” Several years ago an orthopedic surgeon performed an operation on my son to repair a torn ACL. The operation didn’t restore his knee to its original condition, but it did allow him to walk, even though he still experiences pain from time to time. Recently my wife had ...read more

  • Under New Management

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Jan 2, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,181 views

    Under New Management A certain Army man had been a heavy drinker for 35 years. For all those years he had been angry; angry with everyone and everything. Finally, he encountered Christ and his whole life changed. He was speaking once before a group of medical people. He told them of his ...read more

  • Easter: New Creation  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,276 views

    Easter: New Creation The Easter Story is God taking a life which was being spent on self, the pleasures of this world, blinded by the devil, and turning it around to achieve all of His good purposes. The Word of God has some good news. The "New Creation" is living as a new man in Christ which ...read more

  • Buying A New Chandelier

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,623 views

    Buying A New Chandelier The pastor called a special meeting of the congregation to approve the purchase of a brand new chandelier. After some discussion pro and con, an old farmer stood up and said, "Buying a new chandelier may seem like a good idea to you, but I’m against it for three ...read more

  • All Things New

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 16, 2009
     | 4,373 views

    ALL THINGS NEW Years ago, I had the classic New Jersey car accident: I was hit from behind as I stopped for someone in a crosswalk. The guy actually got out of his car threw up his hands and exclaimed, "What the blank are you stopping for?" I got out of my car and motioned to the crosswalk, "I ...read more

  • A New Kind Of Teamwork

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Aug 15, 2009
     | 2,936 views

    John Piper: "Luke celebrates this solution. The widows were cared for, and the ministry of the Word of God was not forsaken. Both were utterly crucial. Either could have undermined the church and ended its amazing growth. The solution was the diversity of gifts and calling. The solution was a ...read more

  • Brand New Start  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,600 views

    BRAND NEW START An angry newspaper subscriber stormed into the reporter’s office and demanded an apology because he had been mistakenly put in the obituaries. The reporter said, "I never write retractions, but what I will do tomorrow is list you in the birth column and give you a brand new ...read more

  • Proof Of A New Heart

    Contributed by Jay Bunting on Dec 17, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,456 views

    PROOF OF A NEW HEART A Sunday School Teacher asked a little girl in her class: "Do you think you have a New Heart?" "Yes I know so," replied the child. "What makes you so sure?" asked the teacher. The girl responded ...read more

  • The New Birth Day

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Mar 4, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,184 views

    THE NEW BIRTH DAY The day we come to Christ is our “New Birth” Day! Spurgeon: "It was the beginning of life to me when I saw Jesus dying in my place." The day of our salvation eclipses our birthdays, our graduations, our ...read more

  • Sprouting To New Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,967 views

    SPROUTING TO NEW LIFE A few years ago, when archaeologists began excavating in the courtyard of a medieval monastery, they found seeds that had been dormant for more than 400 years that had begun to grow. King Henry VIII had closed the monastery in 1539, and herbs tended by the monks died. But ...read more

  • Accepting The Good News  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,733 views

    ACCEPTING THE GOOD NEWS A promotion by H. R. Block Inc. in 2001 offered walk-in customers a chance to win a drawing for a million dollars. Glen and Gloria Sims of Sewell, New Jersey, won the drawing, but they refused to believe it when an H. R. Block representative phoned them with the good ...read more

  • Renewal And New Life

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 1, 2013
     | 6,643 views

    RENEWAL AND NEW LIFE Henry David Thoreau, in his classic book, Walden, told of a powerful custom of the Mucclasse Indians. Once each year, they had a village clean up called a "busk." First they would make new clothes for themselves as well as furniture and cooking utensils. They would keep all ...read more

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