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  • Loneliness Affects Belief In God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    LONELINESS AFFECTS BELIEF IN GOD People who feel lonely or isolated are more likely to believe in God and the supernatural, according to University of Chicago researcher Nicholas Epley. Lonely people try to create social connections by reaching out to old friends, making new ones, or believing in ...read more

  • Man's Anger Toward God

    Contributed by Clarence Clough on Aug 7, 2008
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    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

  • A Thanks Offering For God's Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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     | 5,790 views

    A Thanks Offering For God's Grace In this country, the entire nation celebrates Thanksgiving in November. Some celebrate by busily preparing food, watching football and gathering with family. These are great Thanksgiving celebrations. However, Christians have a greater blessing in the ...read more

  • Are You Prepared To Meet God?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 19, 2008
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    Are You Prepared To Meet God? What Christ Has Done A preacher was called to the bedside of a man who was seriously ill. After a few words of greeting, the minister asked, "My friend, are you prepared to meet God if you don't recover from this sickness?" "I think so," was the reply. "I've always ...read more

  • There Are Some Real Benefits To God's ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Sep 21, 2008
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    There are some real benefits to God’s commands. His commands are there for our protection. I have rules in my house. Things like – “Clean your room before doing going anywhere.” “Get your homework done.” “Don’t tell what’s going to happen in the movie.” (That one risks the death ...read more

  • But In God's Scheme Of Things, A Person's A ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 3, 2008
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    But in God's scheme of things, a person's a person no matter how small. In fact in God's scheme, the least are the most important. The poor and marginalized and abuse and downtrodden are given God's favor over the important, or wealthy, or famous. Chris Tomlin wrote a worship song that I love ...read more

  • God Is Looking For People With Conviciton

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
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    GOD IS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WITH CONVICITON DEF: an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence In the events of the bridge collaple here in Minneapolis this past week, you have probably heard of countless examples of people acting with conviction. * Ed Nelson M.P.D. - when you ...read more

  • In Experiencing God, Knowing And Doing The Will ...

    Contributed by Steve Gallimore on Dec 14, 2008
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    In Experiencing God, Knowing and Doing the Will of God, Henry Blackaby makes this powerful statement: "The Bible is the record of God accomplishing His purposes through His people. It is not the record of His people's walk with Him. It's a difference of focus. The focus of the Bible is God. The ...read more

  • God Ain't Dead.

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    "GOD AIN'T DEAD." James DeLoach tells of a painting of an old burned-out mountain shack. All that remained was the chimney...the charred debris of what had been that family's sole possession. In front of this destroyed home stood an old grandfather-looking man dressed only in his underclothes with ...read more

  • God Did Not Walk Away

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    GOD DID NOT WALK AWAY Simon Wiesenthal wrote The Sunflower in 1969. It speaks of the pain he experienced at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. He describes being taken from a Nazi death-camp to a makeshift hospital. He was ushered by a nurse to the side of a Nazi soldier, who asked to have a ...read more

  • How Great Is Our God

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 12, 2009
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    HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD If this doesn't inspire you worship God with every millimeter of your being, if thinking about this ginormous God does not compel you to shout for joy and sing His praises with all of your being, then I don't know what will. Probably nothing. Chris Tomlin wrote these words ...read more

  • Our Star-Breathing God

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 12, 2009
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    OUR STAR-BREATHING GOD Here is one for our Browns fans. The biggest star that we have seen--Canis Major or The Big Dog. If you take our golf ball earth, then this star would be in comparison the size of Mt. Everest. Seven quadrillion earths would fit into it...that is enough golf balls to cover ...read more

  • God Forgives Without Conditions

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 26, 2009
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    GOD FORGIVES WITHOUT CONDITIONS I once heard a story about Camelot when King Arthur was away. Guinevere, his wife, was unfaithful with Sir Lancelot. When King Arthur returned, he found out about the affair and had his wife placed in a convent for life. Towards the end of the story in a beautiful ...read more

  • Lewis Ran From God

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 26, 2009
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    LEWIS RAN FROM GOD C. S. Lewis, the author of Prince Caspian, did not rejoice to find Jesus. He had been running from Him for his entire life. After a long search into what Christianity was and whether it could be trusted as truth, he said of himself: "The fox had been dislodged from Hegelian ...read more

  • South Park: God's Authority

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 15, 2009
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    SOUTH PARK: GOD'S AUTHORITY The hostile atheists do not want to admit that God is Creator because such an admission would give God authority over their lives. They would rather serve chance so that all experience is relative and so that there are no absolutes-—except perhaps, their certainty that ...read more

  • Good Guys, But Not God's Guys

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
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    GOOD GUYS, BUT NOT GOD'S GUYS It is time for the NFL draft, and NFL teams are about to spend millions of dollars on unknown commodities called college players. Some of them pan out and many don’t. In order to narrow the risk with so much money at stake, they are now looking at the character of ...read more

  • What God Calls You

    Contributed by Daniel Olukoya on Apr 9, 2009
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     | 10,127 views

    WHAT GOD CALLS YOU One of our elders in the Lord said, "You may decide to call yourself a pastor or an apostle or an evangelist, but in the book of God, which is the only book that matters, He writes that you are a ...read more

  • All Part Of God's Plan  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    ALL PART OF GOD’S PLAN In the opening pages of his autobiography, "An American Life," Ronald Reagan writes, I was raised to believe that God had a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan. My mother - a small woman with auburn hair and a sense of ...read more

  • If God Concluded A Covenant Of Promise With ...

    Contributed by David Tack on May 2, 2009
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    If God concluded a covenant of promise with Abraham, the law which was given 430 years afterwards could not alter it, and would not supplant it. If inheritance came by the law it would not be by promise. Tenney, Merrill: ...read more

  • Do You Trust God?

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jun 8, 2009
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    DO YOU TRUST GOD? There was a Seinfeld episode where Kramer scoots into Jerry’s apartment where Jerry and George are talking, and he says "Do you guys want to have some fun!" George and Jerry say "Sure." And then Kramer says "Do you really want to have some fun? Or are you just saying you want to ...read more