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  • One Night As My Family Was Preparing For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2001
    based on 228 ratings
     | 5,886 views

    One night as my family was preparing for bedtime, my four year old daughter Claire began singing the BIBLE. As she came to the end, she combined another song. Here is what she sang. "I stand alone on the word of God, that’s what it’s all about." By mixing up the ...read more

  • Pulled To Shore  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 11, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,447 views

    PULLED TO SHORE "Prayer is surrender-surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boat hook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my ...read more

  • Character Matters In Our Lives. Philosopher ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Jun 13, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
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    Character matters in our lives. Philosopher Herbert Spencer wrote, “Not education but character is man’s greatest need and man’s greatest safeguard.” Chuck Swindoll wrote, “Character is the moral, ethical, and spiritual undergirding that rests on truth, that reinforces a life in stressful times, ...read more

  • Geo. Washington "It Is Impossible To Rightly ...

    Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 18, 2006
     | 1,448 views

    Geo. Washington “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God & the Bible.” ’Stonewall’ Jackson “The Bible is the rock upon which our republic rests.” John Adams “We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality & religion. … Our ...read more

  • Study 1 Chronicles 13:1-14 And 1 Chronicles ...

    Contributed by Rodney Fry on Jan 14, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
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    Study 1 Chronicles 13:1-14 and 1 Chronicles 15:1-28. Tell the entire story of David’s failed attempt to bring the ark of God into Jerusalem. Point out the fact that David admitted the reason for the failure in 1 Chronicles 15:11-15. When they acted in the “prescribed way,” they were successful. Our ...read more

  • Asking The Tough Questions Is Good Medicine! ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 11, 2007
     | 1,721 views

    Asking the tough questions is good medicine! James L. Mays, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Interpretation at Union Theological Seminar in Virginia talks about how “Christians who live in a world that constantly raises the question ‘Where is your God’ {shows} the real nature of our ...read more

  • Doormat For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
     | 3,710 views

    DOORMAT FOR GOD Oswald Chambers confessed, "If I work for God because I know it brings me the good opinion of those whose good opinion I wish to have, I am a Pharisee. If I love Jesus Christ, I will serve humanity, though men and women treat me like a ...read more

  • Attitude Pattern: Jonah

    Contributed by Timothy Gardner on Nov 7, 2009
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    ATTITUDE PATTERN: JONAH The pattern of attitude toward God: We bailed when God says go. A storm brews. Our shipmates are scared. We admit it’s our fault. We are thrown from the boat. We sink. Something big swallows us. We repent. We pray ...read more

  • Did You Ever Notice A Tag On A Piece Of Clothing ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 4, 2001
    based on 131 ratings
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    Did you ever notice a tag on a piece of clothing saying, “The irregularities in this product are not flaws, but are a natural result of the handworking of the fabric.”? That’s the way we are, too! God put into your very being certain things that reflect His nature and His character in a way that no ...read more

  • An Umpire Named Babe Pinelli Once Called Babe ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 3, 2001
    based on 51 ratings
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    An umpire named Babe Pinelli once called Babe Ruth out on strikes. When the crowd booed with sharp disapproval at the call, the legendary Ruth turned to the umpire with disdain and said, "There’s 40,000 people here who know that the last pitch was ball, tomato head." Suspecting that the umpire ...read more

  • For 16 Years, John Kovac Was A "Tenant Of A ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jan 12, 2004
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    1. For 16 years, John Kovac was a “tenant of a tunnel.” John and a few others lived underground in an abandoned railroad tunnel in New York City. When Amtrak bought the tunnel and prepared to reopen it, John was forced to look for a place to live above ground. According to The New York Times, Mr. ...read more

  • Ralph Barton, A Successful Cartoonist, Left This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Ralph Barton, a successful cartoonist, left this note pinned to his pillow as he took his own life: “I have had few difficulties, many friends, great successes; I have gone from wife to wife, and from house to house, visited great countries of the world, but I am fed up with inventing devices to ...read more

  • Goodness Scale

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 1, 2008
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    GOODNESS SCALE Let’s look at it this way. If we place a scale on the wall behind me, with bad being at the bottom and good being at the top, where would you place yourself? We could place Hitler near the bottom, and Billy Graham closer to the top, right? My guess is all of us place ourselves ...read more

  • During My First Ministry, I Encountered A Man Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    During my first ministry, I encountered a man who approached me about becoming a Christian. He had not been in church much before… but he was scared of God’s judgment. He’d just seen a TV special on a man named Nostradamus who had predicted the end of the world and this young man was afraid that ...read more

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

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on May 25, 2008
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    "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

  • Good Versus Great

    Contributed by William Akehurst on Jun 5, 2008
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    GOOD versus GREAT Bill Cosby said it this way: God made a tree and said it was (pause) Good. God made a rabbit and said it was (pause) Good. Man made the refrigerator and said it was Amazing. Man made the car and said it was Awesome or Fabulous. We are fanatical about our creations. Praising ...read more

  • The English Word "Image" In The Greek Is Like Our ...

    Contributed by John Boquist on Aug 3, 2008
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    The English word "image" in the Greek is like our word icon. Now you know from your computer that an icon is a little picture that represents a larger program. In the same way, Jesus is a man who represents the fullness of God. He not only represents God, He is God. Another way the word was used ...read more

  • I Don't Want To Test ...

    Contributed by Charles Jones on Oct 21, 2008
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    I don’t want to Test God I don’t want to reject God All I want is for Him to bring me into that place where I can hear his voice. We need to be real with God. Just like God called Adam from the midst of the Garden. And asked “ Where are you?” The Savior is calling today and saying Come unto ...read more

  • Go To Sleep

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 3,582 views

    GO TO SLEEP A mother and her little four-year-old daughter were preparing to retire for the night. The child was afraid of the dark, and the mother, on this occasion alone with the child, felt fearful also. When the light was out, the child caught a glimpse of the moon outside the window. ...read more

  • In Understanding The New Reality In Christ With ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 8, 2009
     | 1,897 views

    In understanding the new reality in Christ with the law, Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) explained it in this way: “What is God’s law now? It is not above a Christian-it is under Christian. Some men hold God’s law like a rod, in terror, over Christians, and say, “If you sin you will be punished with ...read more