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  • Words, Just Words  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Words, just words I was reading the other day. The famous American author, Samuel Clement, Mark Twain, attended a Sunday service. He met the preacher at the door afterward to shake his hand. And he told him that he had a book at home with every word he had preached that morning. The minister ...read more

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  • God's Word Helps Us As We Reflect, As We ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 1, 2008
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    God’s Word helps us as we reflect, as we meditate, and as we seek direction. Going to His Word helps challenge us, correct us, and encourage us. The early Church of God gave themselves the designation as a “People of the Book.” I like that. We are to be a People of the Book. I believe the Words ...read more

    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Hannah More Once Said, "Prayer Is The Application ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    Hannah More once said, "Prayer is the application of want to Him who alone can relieve it, the voice of sin to Him who alone can pardon it. It is the urgency of poverty, the prostration of humility, the fervency of penitence, the confidence of trust. It is not eloquence, but earnestness; not ...read more

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  • R.c. Sproul Described The Relationship Between ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    R.C. Sproul described the relationship between science, God and omniscience: "God is a God of knowledge. He is concerned with science; indeed, He invented science. The root word of science means simply "to know." Science is the business of acquiring knowledge. ...If God is truth, then all true ...read more

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  • Divine ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    DIVINE D-DAY The operation was the largest single-day invasion of all time. Just under 200,000 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel delivered over 130,000 troops along a stretch of the Normandy coast in France. They, in turn, were supported by 12,000 aircraft flying 14,000 sorties. These ...read more

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  • You Didn't Get Him From Here

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    "YOU DIDN’T GET HIM FROM HERE" One Sunday morning a stranger wandered into a small country church in the middle of the sermon. The man was unkempt and dirty. The usher tried his best to seat him off in a far corner, but instead the man walked to the very first pew and sat directly in front of the ...read more

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  • François Fénelon Once ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    François Fénelon once wrote: "Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of Thee; Thou only knowest what I need; Thou lovest me better than I know how to love myself. O Father! give to Thy child that which he himself knows not how to ask. I dare not ask for crosses or consolations; I simply present ...read more

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  • College Students Fail To Be Good ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
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    College Students Fail to be Good Samaritans Real compassion looks beyond the faults of people to see the pain beneath it all and to see the hunger in people’s hearts. In research done by Darley and Batson at Princeton in 1973, a group of theology students was told that they were to go across ...read more

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  • Sin And Hypocrites  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2010
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    Sin and Hypocrites Some mistakenly think that they are free to sin, just so long as they aren't hypocrites about it, that the worst form of sin is hypocrisy. Often one hears it said, "I know I'm not perfect, but at least I'm not hypocritical about it." A few years ago in Texas there were two men ...read more

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  • The Importance Of Gratitude

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2011
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    THE IMPORTANCE OF GRATITUDE A few years ago Dr. Nick Stinnett of the University of Nebraska conducted a group of studies called the "Family Strengths Research Project." Stinnett and his researchers identified six qualities that make for strong families. The first quality and one of the most ...read more

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  • When Does God Settle Accounts?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 13, 2011
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    WHEN DOES GOD SETTLE ACCOUNTS? The story is told of a farmer in a Midwestern state who had a strong disdain for God. As he plowed his field on Sunday morning, he would shake his fist at the church people who passed by on their way to worship. October came and the farmer had his finest crop ...read more

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  • Philip Caught A Gold Mine

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    PHILIP CAUGHT A GOLD MINE On Sept. 27, 1998, Philip Ozersky went to a baseball game and saw his life changed in a big time way. All it took was one swing of the bat, and Philip caught not just a baseball, but a gold mine. Lots of fans have caught home runs, but this was no ordinary home run. Lots ...read more

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  • Who Created The Universe?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
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    WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE? In 2005, Newsweek and Beliefnet asked Americans this question: "Do you believe that God created the universe?" Eighty percent of those responding said the universe was created by God. That's good news! And it's pretty amazing that after all of the money and effort spent ...read more

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  • Just Remember That More Christians Go On The ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 21, 2003
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    Just remember that more Christians go on the rocks, defeated, over the nasty little thing we call “hurt feelings” than over the so-called great crises which test the very fiber of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Calvin Coolidge Once Said…  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 18, 2007
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    Calvin Coolidge once said… Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with great talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • One Of The Greatest Revivals, The Fulton Street ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Sep 25, 2008
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    One of the greatest revivals, the Fulton Street Revival, came during great financial crisis. In 1857, Evangelist Jeremiah Lanphier came to help dying church. He started a prayer meeting with with six people. ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Wm. R. Newell Wrote: "To 'hope To Be ...

    Contributed by Kevin Burden on Aug 1, 2010
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    Wm. R. Newell Wrote: “To 'hope to be better' is to fail to see yourself in Christ only. To be disappointed with yourself is to have believed in yourself. To be discouraged is unbelief. To be proud is to be blind! For we have no standing before God in ourselves. To ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • What Is A Martyr?

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 30, 2010
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    WHAT IS A MARTYR? A Christian Martyr is one who: Chooses to suffer death rather than to deny Christ, or His work...Sacrifices something very important to further the Kingdom of God...Endures great suffering for Christian ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren

  • An Old Lady Spent Much Of Her Summer Setting And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 27, 2002
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    An old lady spent much of her summer setting and swinging in the old swing hanging on her front porch. Her husband had been dead several years and she had withdrawn from all but the closest family. Her lonely time grew and grew?? One spring day, the old lady went out in the garage and dug the old ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • An Average Person's Anxiety  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on Feb 13, 2003
    based on 39 ratings
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    An average person’s anxiety is focused on: 40% -- things that will never happen 30% -- things about the past that can’t be changed 12% -- things about criticism by others, mostly untrue 10% -- about health, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist