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  • The Ruined Hunting Dog

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    THE RUINED HUNTING DOG Robert Moffatt, missionary to savage tribes of South Africa, translated the Bible into the native language of the people and taught the people to read. He watched the remarkable changes which the gospel brought in the lives of these formerly fierce warriors. He saw them show ...read more

  • Prayer And Spiritual ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    PRAYER AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE "Life is war. That’s not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief. It is ...read more

  • Before You Lead Me, Where Are You Going?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
    based on 13 ratings
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    BEFORE YOU LEAD ME, WHERE ARE YOU GOING? I heard the story of the woman driving through a snowstorm just outside of Denver. She was completely lost and struggling under the hazardous weather conditions. She was relieved when she happened upon a snowplow. Since she was lost she decided to follow ...read more

  • In Her Book, The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom ...

    Contributed by Shane Hargrave on Aug 4, 2009
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    In her book, THE HIDING PLACE, Corrie Ten Boom relates an incident that taught her to be thankful for things we normally would not be thankful for. She and her sister, Betsy, prisoners of the Nazis, had just been transferred to the worst prison camp they had seen yet, Ravensbruck. Upon entering ...read more

  • 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

  • I'd Rather Have You

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2009
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    I'D RATHER HAVE YOU A father and his young daughter were great friends and much in each other's company. Then the father noted a change in his daughter. If he went for a walk, she excused herself from going. He grieved about it, but could not understand. When his birthday came, she presented him ...read more

  • 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

  • I Am

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 10, 2010
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    “I am” and Yahweh come from the same root word but have different tense references “I am” is 1st person “Yahweh” 3rd Person. Pronunciation of Yahweh The covenant name for the God of Israel in the Old Testament is Yahweh. This name was so sacred that by the second century BC the Jews refused to ...read more

  • In The Whitsundays In Australia On The Mainland ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Apr 1, 2010
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    In the Whitsundays in Australia on the mainland sugar cane is the main crop. Around harvest time you will see a whole field set on fire, flames reaching into the sky at night. It is quite spectacular. The fire is not an accident but INTENTIONAL BURNING BEFORE HARVESTING. Fire sweeps throughout the ...read more

  • I Was Reading A Blog About "Who Should Get ...

    Contributed by Curtis Emerson on Jul 30, 2010
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    I was reading a blog about “who should get the credit” and I wonder if any of you have some of these same ideas. One person wrote; “you know this phony god of yours has it good, it gets all the credit for everything good, and man gets all the credit for everything bad ... the best of both worlds”. ...read more

  • Bonfire Night

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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    BONFIRE NIGHT On this day in 1605, thirteen young men planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Among them was Britain's most notorious traitor, a man called Guy Fawkes. They rented a house next to Parliament, dug a tunnel, and into the tunnel they placed 36 barrels (1.5 tonnes) of ...read more

  • Reunited

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 23, 2011
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    REUNITED This week (1-11) an interesting story hit the presses: A woman who was kidnapped as a newborn 23 years ago says finding her real mother "felt like a dream." Carlina White was just 19 days old when she disappeared from Harlem Hospital in New York. She tells the New York Post that when ...read more

  • Major Osipovich, An Air Force Pilot For The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2011
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    Major Osipovich, an Air Force pilot for the former USSR, planned to give a talk at his children's school about peace. That meant he would have to take some time off during the day to give his talk, so he volunteered for night duty. That’s how Major Osipovich found himself patrolling the skies over ...read more

  • The Adam And Eve Virus

    Contributed by Daniel J. Little on Nov 15, 2011
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    THE ADAM AND EVE VIRUS The Genesis narrative (chapter 3) tells us how God gave Adam and Eve His wisdom as well as His authority, and then how they pursued a counterfeit authority and an alien wisdom—actually satanic wisdom. The moment they introduced that dark wisdom into their lives a radical ...read more

  • Knowledge By Revelation

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 15, 2012
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    KNOWLEDGE BY REVELATION Dr. Nichols states, "There must be a difference between the knowledge that comes from the gathering of information, and that which comes by revelation. The Pharisees and Sadducees had the best information anyone could have in their day. If you asked them, they would tell ...read more

  • Keep The Springs Pure  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2012
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    KEEP THE SPRINGS PURE The family’s water supply came from a spring just a few feet from the house. The pure, cold, sweet water bubbled up through a large pipe about the size of a barrel that had been sunk in the ground. One morning two huge frogs were found in the spring. No one wanted to drink ...read more

  • A Defensive Programming Problem

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2012
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    A DEFENSIVE PROGRAMMING PROBLEM In the 1982 war in the Falkland Islands between England and Argentina, the Royal Navy’s 3,500-ton destroyer HMS Sheffield was sunk by a single missile fired from an Argentine fighter jet. This caused some people to wonder if modern surface warships were obsolete. ...read more

  • The Right Use Of The Eyes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2012
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    THE RIGHT USE OF THE EYES A bishop of the early church, who was a remarkable example of the virtue of contentment, was asked his secret. The venerable old man replied: "It consists in nothing more than making a right use of my eyes. In whatever state I am, I first of all look up to heaven and ...read more

  • Let Me Read One Of Aesop’s Greek Fables; In ...

    Contributed by Francis Balla on Aug 24, 2012
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    Let me read one of Aesop’s Greek fables; In the forest, there lived four oxen. They were very good friends and always went together to graze in the fields. However, every time they went, a hungry lion tried to attack them. The lion longed for their meat. But they withstood his attack by fighting ...read more

  • So What?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 26, 2012
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    "SO WHAT?" SOCIETY When I talk about this it might seem rather funny to you or odd, because people don’t worry or care about such things today. Recent surveys in 2011 sum it up pretty well. • 44% told the 2011 Baylor University Religion Survey they spend no time seeking "eternal wisdom," and 19% ...read more