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  • Believing Isn't Just Seeing

    Contributed by Dennis Marquardt on Oct 18, 2000
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    BELIEVING ISN'T JUST SEEING A student wrote on a physics exam that he did not believe in the atom, so he did not write a paper on it like instructed. The professor called him up and asked him why he didn’t believe in atoms. The student’s response was, "I have never seen one, and no one else has ...read more

  • There Are A Couple Of Dna Projects Out There ...

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Apr 2, 2009
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    There are a couple of DNA projects out there that have captured the attention and imagination of many people. The first of them is called 23 and Me. It's a project that you can sign up for and pay $400 to be a part of, and for $400 they send you a little kit that you put a DNA sample onto and ...read more

  • Behind A Church In The Small Town Of Flint Hill, ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 8, 2009
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    Behind a church in the small town of Flint Hill, Virginia, you will find the grave of a young seminary student named Albert Gallatin Willis, who died on October 14, 1864. Albert Willis’ story is unusual. Albert Willis served with the famed command of Mosby’s Raiders during the Civil War. Because ...read more

  • Search And Rescue

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
     | 6,333 views

    SEARCH AND RESCUE There is a group of people I hope we never have to meet. They’re job is hard, exciting, frightening and important all at the same time. They do SAR; Search and Rescue. They work near Reno, Nevada and work ski resorts and desert rescue. They pull people off of Mt. Hood, find lost ...read more

  • Olympic Speed Skaters Slow Down When No Hope Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
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    Olympic Speed Skaters Slow Down When No Hope of Winning At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Apolo Ohno, an American, hoped to win his second gold medal in the men’s 5,000-meter short track, speed-skating relay. But during one of the turns, another American skater fell. His fall and recovery only took a ...read more

  • Mine Worker Understands The Cost Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
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    Mine Worker Understands the Cost of Forgiveness G. Campbell Morgan, the well known pastor of the last century of Westminster Chapel, near Buckingham Palace, was once approached by a soldier who said he would give anything to believe that God would forgive sins, “but I cannot believe He will forgive ...read more

  • Getting The Fruit For Yourself  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    Getting the Fruit for Yourself A family was driving to Tampa, Florida. As far as the eye could see, orange trees were loaded with fruit. When we stopped for breakfast, I ordered orange juice with my eggs. "I’m sorry," the waitress said. "I can’t bring you orange juice. Our machine is broken." We ...read more

  • A Heart For ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 1, 2010
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    A Heart for Praise Louis Albert Banks tells of an elderly Christian man, a fine singer, who learned that he had cancer of the tongue and that surgery was required. In the hospital after everything was ready for the operation, the man said to the doctor, “Are you sure I will never sing again?” The ...read more

  • An Unread Note Costs A Commander His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2010
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    An Unread Note Costs A Commander His Army During the Revolutionary War, a loyalist spy appeared at the headquarters of Hessian commander Colonel Johann Rall, carrying an urgent message. General George Washington and his Continental [A]rmy had secretly crossed the Delaware River that morning and ...read more

  • Paul Tournier On Persisting In Prayer

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2011
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    PAUL TOURNIER ON PERSISTING IN PRAYER Paul Tournier, the great psychiatrist and Christian counselor, tells in one his essays about the first time he tried to pray for a solid hour. He says that he set his watch on the table and began to pray, and after what he thought was a good while, checked the ...read more

  • Don't Waste Your Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
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    DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE In his book Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper recounts a story his father often told of his days as a fiery Baptist evangelist. It is the story of a man who came to saving faith in Jesus Christ near the end of his earthly existence. Piper writes: "The church had prayed for ...read more

  • The Wisdom Of William Jennings Bryan

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on May 30, 2011
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    THE WISDOM OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN was a U.S. Congressman, 3-time Democratic presidential nominee, and Secretary of State who served this country for three decades. He is probably best remembered for the famous Scopes Trial in 1925 at Dayton TN. This man's far reaching ...read more

  • The White Man

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2011
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    THE WHITE MAN When Wycliffe translator Doug Meland and his wife moved into a village of Brazil’s Fulnio Indians, he was referred to simply as "the white man". The term was by no means complimentary, since other white men had exploited them, burned their homes, and robbed them of their lands. But ...read more

  • Temptation Doesn't Always End In Failure

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 7, 2011
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    TEMPTATION DOESN'T ALWAYS END IN FAILURE The same Spirit that came down from heaven like a dove now led Jesus into the desert so He could be tempted by Satan. Why? Have you ever felt that you have been unjustly persecuted? Have you ever felt passed over, left behind, cast away or just can't seem ...read more

  • Start With Just One

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on May 8, 2012
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    START WITH JUST ONE Dawson Trotman, founder of the Navigators, tells the story of a 23 year old Sailor that he spent time discipling. He spent many hours with this young man in the Word and the importance of being a witness for the Lord and leading other sailors to Jesus. A month later the ...read more

  • Hostile Heart

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2012
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    HOSTILE HEART Beware the hostile heart. That's the warning of Dr. Redford Williams from Duke University's Behavioral Medicine Research Center. He has been saying for years that having a hostile personalities can kill us--most often by heart disease but also by injuries and accidents. Anger speeds ...read more

  • John Newton's Self-Assessment  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 4, 2012
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     | 4,370 views

    JOHN NEWTON'S SELF-ASSESSMENT Two or three years before the death of John Newton (former slave ship captain and eventual author of the song, "Amazing Grace"), when his sight was so dim that he was no longer able to read, a friend and brother in the ministry called to have breakfast with him. ...read more

  • Introduction ~ In 1959, Thomas Hoving, Of New ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Introduction ~ In 1959, Thomas Hoving, of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, bought an ivory crucifix from a Yugoslavian art collector, despite the fact that it lacked its central figure ~ the body of Christ. The cross had been stored in a Swiss bank vault for years but, unbeknown to Hoving, for the ...read more

  • Several Christian Men Who Had Been Touched By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Several Christian men who had been touched by the Lord decided to do something practical for their pastor: pray for him. What is so unusual about that, you might ask. Well, for one particular pastor, it was a brand new sensation. These few laymen had just returned from a Bible study that ...read more

  • Spurgeon Once Said: "There Is No Need For Us To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Spurgeon once said: "There is no need for us to go beating about the bush, and not telling the Lord distinctly what it is that we crave at His hands. Nor will it be seemly for us to make any attempt to use fine language; but let us ask God in the simplest and most direct manner for just the things ...read more