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  • Has God Revealed Himself In Other Religions?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 2,722 views

    HAS GOD REVEALED HIMSELF IN OTHER RELIGIONS? Karl Barth was lecturing to a group of students at Princeton. One student asked the German theologian "Sir, don’t you think that God has revealed himself in other religions and not only in Christianity?" Barth’s answer stunned the crowd. With a ...read more

  • Astronaut James Erwin Is One Of But A Few Men To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Jul 23, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 2,053 views

    Astronaut James Erwin is one of but a few men to walk on the moon. As he stood upon the lunar landscape and looked up at the earth, he prayed for the first time in his life. He thought about the strife among nations, poverty, hunger, and rampant evil; and he thought to himself: "What is more ...read more

  • All In Tune  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Dow on Sep 18, 2002
    based on 31 ratings
     | 4,588 views

    ALL IN TUNE “Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all turned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers [meeting] ...read more

  • My Name Is Legion  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,653 views

    MY NAME IS LEGION "Within my earthly temple there’s a crowd; There’s one of us that’s humble, and one of us that’s proud. There’s one that’s broken-hearted for his sins, There’s one that unrepentant sits and grins. There’s one that loves his neighbor as himself, And one that cares for naught ...read more

  • What Might We Do In Our Families To Celebrate ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 17, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,377 views

    What might we do in our families to celebrate Christmas as a holy day? Of course, we remember that its date was first set purposely to coincide with the Roman festival of the returning of the sun, so that it was indeed initially a pagan holiday. In order to celebrate it, however, the first ...read more

  • My Name Is Legion  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,577 views

    MY NAME IS LEGION "Within my earthly temple there’s a crowd; There’s one of us that’s humble, and one of us that’s proud. There’s one that’s broken-hearted for his sins, There’s one that unrepentant sits and grins. There’s one that loves his neighbor as himself, And one that cares for naught ...read more

  • Beulah Church In Lawrence County, Illinois, Was ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 17, 2006
     | 2,435 views

    Beulah Church in Lawrence County, Illinois, was a country Church I served for over four years beginning in 1980. Beulah has never had a financial crisis one reason being the fact that nearly all the Church family tithe. Another reason is that they are missionary minded people. They support I ...read more

  • We Find Ourselves In An Interesting Time In Our ...

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Jan 15, 2007
     | 1,354 views

    We find ourselves in an interesting time in our churches history again. We are losing for a season Sherrie, Becky and the kids, this after just losing David, Juliann and Wyatt, boy it would be easy to lose heart. Yet God keeps giving me great expectation for this upcoming year, something that ...read more

  • C. S. Lewis Gives A Good Example Of How ...

    Contributed by Rusty Davidson on Feb 19, 2007
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    C. S. Lewis gives a good example of how continuing in sin looks. In his book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, a character comes across a treasure kept by a dragon. Rather than avoid the layer of the dragon, the character sleeps on the treasure and dreams of what he will do with it. Then Lewis ...read more

  • One Time, The Comic Strip Kudzu Featured This ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 7, 2007
     | 1,305 views

    One time, the comic strip Kudzu featured this country-style preacher. He was praying to God, and he said, "Oh Lord, You know I don’t ever ask for much, but, Lord, I pray that You would grant me just this one thing ... dignity. That’s all I ask, Lord." In the next frame, there was a lightening bolt ...read more

  • As A Young Boy, I Can Remember Am Radio, And How ...

    Contributed by Jason Duhon on Nov 5, 2007
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    As a young boy, I can remember AM radio, and how few stations we could receive back then. Tuning in usually required a good antenna, a good radio, and a steady hand. Our ears were anticipating the music, as we carefully turn the knob in hopes of a good reception. When we await the voice of ...read more

  • A Christian Who Will Not Relinquish A Hateful, ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 23, 2008
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    A Christian who will not relinquish a hateful, resentful attitude toward someone who has wronged him is a person who knows neither the true glory of his redeemed humanity nor the true glory of God’s gracious divinity An unforgiving Christian is a living contradiction of His new nature in Christ. It ...read more

  • Nelson Publishers Has 5 Titles On The 10/21 New ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,930 views

    Nelson Publishers has 5 titles on the 10/21 New York Times’ best-sellers lists, a first in the company’s history. Included are David Jeremiah’s Signs of Life, #10 and Deborah Norville’s Thank You Power, #13 on the Hardcover Advice list. Robin McGraw’s Inside My Heart is #12, and John and Stasi ...read more

  • Our Kids Are Wet Cement!

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 17, 2008
     | 1,643 views

    Our kids are wet cement! When cement is still wet, it will take the form of the form into which it is poured. Once it dries and becomes hard, it can take a jack hammer to break it up and all you will have left is broken pieces. It will never be the same again! Our children are wet cement! ...read more

  • The Basics  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Lobmiller on Apr 28, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
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    THE BASICS * We believe in sanctification through the Word of God and by the Holy Spirit, and we believe in personal holiness, purity of heart and life. * We believe in divine healing, through faith in the Name of Jesus Christ, and that healing is included in the Redemption. * We believe in ...read more

  • The World Cannot Understand The Spiritual Realm ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 25, 2008
     | 1,752 views

    The world cannot understand the spiritual realm without the willingness to open their hearts to the Spirit’s leadings and promptings. i. No Spirit - no wisdom (1 Cor. 2:10) ii. No Spirit - no insight (John 14:26) iii. No Spirit - no freedom (2 Cor. 3:17) iv. No Spirit - no church v. No Spirit - ...read more

  • Will Gives Out First

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 2,022 views

    Will Gives Out First I can remember trying out for the cross country team at my high school. I could not understand how some of these guys did it. they could run and be fine at the finish line. I on the other hand was literally dying and giving up a mile short. The coach told me that the great ...read more

  • It Always Seems To Me That Christmas Is A Time ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,356 views

    "It always seems to me that Christmas is a time of magic. Each December we celebrate a Prince, the Prince of Peace, born in utter poverty. And the fact of his birth makes hearts turn warmest at the coldest time of the year...One of the great messages of this season is that its never too late to ...read more

  • Raptured?

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 16, 2014
     | 6,320 views

    Herbert Washington, whom co-workers at Significant Plastics Inc. say was unduly concerned with the rapture and the second coming of Christ, suffered a serious heart attack when co-workers pretended they’d been caught away without him. "We didn’t mean to scare him to death," said one woman. "He’s ...read more

  • Creche And The Second Coming

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
     | 5,210 views

    Marques Silva writes, “In college I was surprised when a close friend explained her family crèche. It wasn’t the style or the model that caused me to pause. It was the addition of a figurine that I had neither seen nor considered before. This particular set included not only the baby Jesus but an ...read more