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  • Attitude Not Aptitude  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
    based on 19 ratings
     | 7,479 views

    ATTITUDE NOT APTITUDE Jesus' message here is that everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. Dave Stone says that "service is the language of grace." One day a couple of church members were out distributing loaves of bread in a low-income housing complex. They came to an apartment ...read more

  • Spiritual Redwoods

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2012
     | 5,233 views

    SPIRITUAL REDWOODS Can you imagine a redwood tree saying, "I’d just rather remain a little bush"? That would seem insane, right? I want to put up on the screen some pictures of redwood trees. They are truly magnificent. My oldest daughter and her husband were married at the foot of redwood that ...read more

  • Playpen

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 17, 2012
     | 1,904 views

    Jeffie was in his playpen and he was crying. Tears were rolling down his little cheeks, his face was red as it could be. He was crying, and he looked pitiful in his little baseball T-shirt and diaper. Then Jeffie’s Grandpa entered the room; Jeffie’s little face lit up when he saw his Grandpa! ...read more

  • A Dear Lady In The Church I Serve Shared With Me ...

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on May 14, 2007
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    A dear lady in the church I serve shared with me a poem she cut out of a magazine over 60 years ago. It has the spirit of what Dr. Graham’s mother felt about being a mother: A Mother’s Prayer Sing me no eulogy of praise, Give me no hallowed stool; Just let me be my children’s friend, ...read more

  • Kenneth Wuest Gives An Accurate And Graphic ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on May 17, 2007
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    “Kenneth Wuest gives an accurate and graphic translation of these words: “In which the heavens with a rushing noise will be dissolved, and the elements being scorched will be dissolved, and the earth also and the works in it will be burned up” (2 Peter 3:10). Many Bible students believe that Peter ...read more

  • Spiritual Problem—spiritual Cure

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 1 rating
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    Spiritual Problem--Spiritual Cure I picked up a recent book which I received from the AACC Convention called "Caring for People God's Way." The book is written by three people Tim Clinton, Archibald Hart and George Ohlschlager. The book is considered a new guide for Christian Counseling and is ...read more

  • Rocky

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 12, 2008
     | 2,226 views

    ROCKY One of the biggest movies of modern times, "Rocky" starring Sylvester Stallone, almost never got made. Stallone was struggling to find work as a screenwriter. He saw a fight against Ali and little-known Church Wepner. Wepner went 15 rounds, and it gave Stallone an idea. Three days later, ...read more

  • Two Longstanding Church Members Were In A Boat ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Jones on Nov 1, 2000
    based on 125 ratings
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    Two longstanding church members were in a boat fishing with a new Christian. Fishing is a great time for conversation and each was proclaiming his fervent faith and devotion to God. As they were discussing their faith, one’s hat blew into the water. So he stood up, calmly stepped onto the water, ...read more

  • One Evening A Young Boy Passed By The Local ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 28, 2005
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    One evening a young boy passed by the local candy store and his attention was mezmerised by all the candy on the inside, as all little boys would of been. The young boy caught the eye of the store owner, the owner grab a bag and and proceeded toto approach the you ng boy. Once outside the ...read more

  • After A Three-Month Summer Recess, On October ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 3, 2007
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    After a three-month summer recess, on October 3,1994, the Supreme Court of the United States opened its 1994-95 term. According to the New York Times News Service, the court’s legal business for that first day could be summed up with one word: “No.” The court announced it had refused to hear more ...read more

  • He Keeps Me ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    HE KEEPS ME SINGING A Methodist preacher by the name of Luther Bridges, was born in 1884, he married Sarah Veatch and three lovely sons were born. Pastor Bridges accepted an invitation to minister at a conference in Kentucky in the year 1910, so he left his family in the care of his father-in-law ...read more

  • Skepticism About The Virgin Birth  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
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    SKEPTICISM ABOUT THE VIRGIN BIRTH A group of Bible scholars have unanimously agreed that Jesus had a human father, but they are uncertain who it was. Thus, according to these scholars, Jesus was not born of a virgin, was not conceived by the Holy Spirit, was and is not literally the Son of God, ...read more

  • Forgetting The Things Of Earth

    Contributed by Robert Joseph on Oct 13, 2010
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    FORGETTING THE THINGS OF EARTH In January of 1997, astronaut John Blaha returned to earth after spending the previous four months aboard the Russian Space Station, Mir. Besides conducting various experiments, his mission was to help scientists understand the effects of long term weightlessness ...read more

  • Confined Christians

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Jan 10, 2012
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    CONFINED CHRISTIANS I met a young man not long ago who dives for exotic fish for aquariums. He told me that one of the most popular aquarium fish is the shark. He explained that if you catch a small shark and confine it, it will stay a size proportionate to the aquarium you put it in. Sharks can ...read more

  • American Knowledge Of Religion

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 5, 2012
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    AMERICAN KNOWLEDGE OF RELIGION A survey conducted by the Christian Science Monitor found that atheists and agnostics and Jews and Mormons were among the highest scoring groups who took a 32 question survey of religious knowledge. On average Americans scored 16 of 32 correct. Atheists and agnostics ...read more

  • The Security Of A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2012
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    THE SECURITY OF A FORTRESS Deep in the Arabian desert is a small fortress. It stands on the edge of the desert. It was at this place that Thomas Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia”, used to seek shelter. Though it wasn’t a beautiful place, it was a great place because of its security. It ...read more

  • Standard Of Comparison  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 27, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
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    STANDARD OF COMPARISON Michael Green, in his book Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, shares a good lesson which I think is appropriate for beginning our message this evening. He states: All of us frequently compare ourselves favorably with someone else. We all think of someone whom we ...read more

  • The ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jun 4, 2008
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    The Wheelbarrow Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev used to tell of a time when there was a wave of petty theft in the Soviet Union. To curtail this the authorities put up guards around the factories. At one timberworks in Leningrad, the guard knew the workers in the factory very well. The first ...read more

  • He Took The Lashes

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
    based on 1 rating
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    HE TOOK THE LASHES Cliff Barrows tells of the time his two young children did something wrong. Although they were gently warned, they repeated the offense and needed to be disciplined. Cliff's tender heart was pained at the thought of having to punish the ones he loved. So he called Bobby and ...read more

  • Five Lies About Hell

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 19, 2022
     | 1,453 views

    ON AN AMERICAN TROOPSHIP during World War II a new Chaplain came aboard. The rank and file of the sailors met him and they put to him this question, "Do you believe in Hell?" The Chaplain was a modernist and an unbeliever, and he said, "Men, certainly not." The men looked at ...read more