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  • When Corrie Ten Boom Of The Hiding Place Fame Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    When Corrie Ten Boom of The Hiding Place fame was a little girl in Holland, her first realization of death came after a visit to the home of a neighbor who had died. It impressed her that some day her parents would also die. Corrie’s father comforted her with words of wisdom. “Corrie, when you and ...read more

  • Our Daughter, Katie, Gave Me A Chris Rice Cd For ...

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Dec 24, 2005
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    *Our daughter, Katie, gave me a Chris Rice CD for Christmas in 2004... *It’s got a great Christmas song called Welcome to Our World... Fragile fingers sent to heal us... Tender brow prepared for thorn Tiny heart whose blood will save us... Unto us is born So, wrap our injured flesh around ...read more

  • Robert Fulghum Wrote In The Kansas City Times, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Robert Fulghum wrote in the Kansas City Times, "Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. "These are the things I learned: ...read more

  • Children's Prayers  PRO

    Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 25, 2006
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    CHILDREN’S PRAYERS: Dear God: Please send a new baby for Mommy. The new baby you sent last week cries too much. Debbie, 7 Dear God: Who did you make smarter? Boys or girls? My sister and I want to know. Jimmy, 6 Dear God: How many angels are there in heaven? I would like to be the first kid in my ...read more

  • Have You Heard That Story Of The Guy Who Died ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 9, 2006
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    Have you heard that story of the guy who died and was being given a tour of heaven and he saw a friend of his drive by in a beautiful Mercedes. And he said, "Boy, this is great!" "Oh, yes," St. Peter said, "your friend was really generous on earth, we had a lot to work with. Your transportation up ...read more

  • Rejected On Earth

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 2, 2006
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    Listen to the words of Rick Thompson: G. Campbell Morgan was one of 150 young men who sought entrance to the Wesleyan ministry in 1888. He passed the doctrinal examinations, but then faced the trial sermon. In a cavernous auditorium that could seat more than 1,000 sat three ministers and 75 others ...read more

  • I Want To Close With This Poem By Lois Reynolds ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 30, 2006
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    I want to close with this poem by Lois Reynolds Carpenter, entitled “Second Birth”. I never loved the pleasant earth So much as since my second birth. The shy forget-me-not’s soft blue Seems bits of Heaven shining through. The golden buttercup’s bright face Proclaims the glory of His grace. His ...read more

  • Mark Morford (Columnist At San Francisco ...

    Contributed by John King on Nov 9, 2006
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    Mark Morford (columnist at San Francisco Chronicle):” There remains this enormous and wicked socio-cultural myth. It is this: Hard work is all there is. a) Work hard and the world respects you. b)Work hard and you can have anything you want. c)Work really extra super hard and do nothing else ...read more

  • Singer Sheryl Crow Said Recently, In A New York ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 4, 2007
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    Singer Sheryl Crow said recently, in a New York Post interview: “I believe in God. I believe in Jesus and Buddha and Mohammed and all those that were enlightened. I wouldn’t say necessarily that I’m a strict Christian. I’m not sure I believe in heaven.” Sheryl Crow is where many people are ...read more

  • Have You Ever Told A Lie?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 24, 2001
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    1. A small girl was impressed by two things: a. How difficult it was not to tell a falsehood from time to time. b. How may people were always telling her that it’s a sin to tell a lie. 2. So she decided to investigate. a. She starting with her father.  Dad: “She asked, have you ever told a ...read more

  • Erasmus, The Famous Renaissance Scholar, Once ...

    Contributed by Joanna Beveridge on May 25, 2007
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    Erasmus, the famous Renaissance scholar, once told a classic story which was designed to emphasize how important it is that we take up the torch of Christ’s ministry with great commitment. In the story, Jesus returns to heaven after his time on earth. The angels gather around him to learn all ...read more

  • Children's Prayers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    CHILDREN’S PRAYERS: Dear God: Please send a new baby for Mommy. The new baby you sent last week cries too much. Debbie, 7 Dear God: Who did you make smarter? Boys or girls? My sister and I want to know. Jimmy, 6 Dear God: How many angels are there in heaven? I would like to be the first kid in my ...read more

  • I Heard The Story Of A 31-Year-Old Woman In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I heard the story of a 31-year-old woman in Massachusetts who learned she had cancer. She was treated and they were in hope that all would be well. She got married, became pregnant but the cancer reoccurred, and shortly afterwards she died. The reason she died is that she refused treatment and ...read more

  • My Friends We Are Living In A Generation That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    My friends we are living in a generation that has forgotten what this country was founded upon and the price it has cost throughout history to keep this country free. We have forgotten that 231 years ago the landscape of the world was changed, both politically and physically. Of those day’s ...read more

  • The Culture Has Wrongly Insisted That Faith And ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Sep 13, 2007
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    The culture has wrongly insisted that faith and reason are incompatible. One of the classes that I took in my undergraduate degree in Religion at Liberty University was a biology class which dealt with the issues of evolution and creation from a scientific and a biblical view point. The ...read more

  • How Do You Say Thank-You For Miscarriage? I Don't ...

    Contributed by Chris Willis on Oct 17, 2007
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    How do you say thank-you for miscarriage? I don’t exactly know, but what I do know is that miscarriage has helped me to . . . - It’s helped me love and appreciate my wife more. - It’s helped me hug my nieces tighter. - It’s helped me sing louder praise to God. - It’s helped me long for heaven ...read more

  • Wayne Muller, In His Book "Learning To Pray," ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 20, 2007
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    Wayne Muller, in his book “Learning to Pray,” writes, “In northern California, there is fog in the morning. As I write this, looking out my window, I know that the mountains and the trees, the grasses and the sky, remain hidden in the fog, but I cannot see them with my eyes. Instead, I feel their ...read more

  • You Hear The Jokes About Hell Being Some Big ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    You hear the jokes about hell being some big party. Hell can also be a seductive for all those fans of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. One of them, a kid from an Ohio Christian school named Brian Warner is today better known as Marilyn Manson. For more than a decade, he has made millions with his ...read more

  • After 14 Years Of Studying The Bible, William ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Aug 23, 2008
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    After 14 years of studying the Bible, William Miller (1782-1849)--a U.S. revivalist who predicted the second coming and earned a large but temporary following of 50,000-100,000 Became convinced that Christ would return in 1843. When Miller announced April 3 as the day, some disciples went to ...read more

  • Childlike Forgiveness

    Contributed by Ramon Canals on Jun 5, 2009
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    CHILDLIKE FORGIVENESS A few months ago, I was in El Paso holding an evangelistic meeting, and the young people were serving dinner to the mothers being that it was Mother’s Day. I was seating in a chair watching what was going on, and right in front a four-year-old girl pushed a two-year-old boy, ...read more