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  • Quaker John Woolman's Longstanding Anti-Slavery ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2010
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    Quaker John Woolman’s Longstanding Anti-slavery Campaign John Woolman was a Quaker who grew up in Pennsylvania in the early eighteenth century. He was a contemporary of George Washington. When he was a boy he was given to the things boys often do—in this case throwing rocks at a robin’s nest ...read more

  • I Love The Jason Bourne Stories. Jason Bourne Is ...

    Contributed by Scott Brewer on Jul 22, 2007
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    I love the Jason Bourne stories. Jason Bourne is a fictional character created by Robert Ludlum in books and film. The first film, “The Bourne Identity”, is the intriguing story of what it is like when you forget who you are. Jason Bourne is a highly trained, specialized agent of the US government ...read more

  • When God Was About To Create Man, According To A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Eatock on Jan 23, 2006
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    When God was about to create man, according to a Jewish legend, He took into His counsel the angels that stood about his throne. “Create him not,” said the angel of Justice, “for if Thou dost he will commit all kinds of wickedness against his fellow men; he will be hard and cruel and dishonest and ...read more

  • Too Many, Lord, Abuse Your Grace

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jul 24, 2006
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    Too many, Lord, abuse Your grace In this licentious day, And while they boast they see Your face, They turn their own away. Your book displays a gracious light That can the blind restore; But these are dazzled by the sight, And blinded still the more. The pardon such presume upon, They do not beg, ...read more

  • The Scary Ride

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A father said: On a summer day I took my three-year-old daughter to a Kiddy Park in Dallas, Texas to ride the rides. I put her on a small ride which she insisted on trying even though it was the ’scariest.’ As she whipped around the corners in the kiddy car, she wrinkled up her face into a ...read more

  • Roman Soldier Shares Coat With A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2010
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    Roman Soldier Shares Coat with a Beggar Martin of Tours was a Roman soldier and a Christian. One cold winter day, as he was entering a city, a beggar stopped him and asked for alms. Martin had no money; but the beggar was blue and shivering with cold and Martin gave what he had. He took off his ...read more

  • Start With Heaven

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 31, 2010
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    START WITH HEAVEN Randy Alcorn states the following: “Often our thinking is backwards. Why do we imagine that God patterns Heaven’s holy city after an earthly city, as if Heaven knows nothing of community and culture and has to get its ideas from us? Isn’t it more likely that earthly realities, ...read more

  • J. P. Morgan's Will

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 8, 2011
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    J. P. MORGAN'S WILL When Mr. J. P. Morgan, the American financier, the multimillionaire, died some years ago, it was found that the year before his death, he had made his will. It consisted of about 10,000 words and contained thirty-seven articles. He made many transactions--some affecting ...read more

  • God Will Go Before You!

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Oct 17, 2014
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    I will go ahead of you! Exodus 17:6”Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink..” I simply love these words! God would go before us to prepare the place of miracle! Moses struck the rock but ...read more

  • He Told Me So

    Contributed by C. Scott Ghan on Jun 3, 2013
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    "HE TOLD ME SO" If you have ever clung to a child near death you know the dramatic fork in the road. You either give in almost totally to despair, fear, hopelessness, knowing death is eminent, realizing no miracle cure is coming, you are fighting a losing battle. --Or...you believe there is a ...read more

  • Growing Up In Middle Georgia I Would Help Pick ...  PRO

    Contributed by Howard Bagley on Apr 6, 2002
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    Growing up in middle Georgia I would help pick peaches during the summer to make a little spending money. And it was during that time that I learned the importance of "a time to every purpose under heaven". While working for this elderly gentleman, whom I will call Grif, He wanted to show me how to ...read more

  • However, This Is Christmas So I Don't Want To Get ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dean Kennedy on Dec 29, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
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    However, this is Christmas so I don’t want to get you too down and out . So let me share a story that some of you may have heard before. It is about the Christmas truce that occurred during World War I, on Christmas Eve of 1914, that first year of the War German and British forces were facing ...read more

  • Freeing Gollum  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 26, 2003
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    FREEING GOLLUM In the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, we are introduced to a frightening creature named Gollum. He lives in the area known as Middle Earth and goes about with a croaking throat muttering. At one time he possessed the ring of power and it corrupted him with its evil. ...read more

  • Jesus Is The Total Package  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
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    JESUS IS THE TOTAL PACKAGE Last week the Minnesota Timberwolves traded the superstar Kevin Garnett to the Boston Celtics in exchange for seven players. What does it feel like to know that you are worth seven men? Obviously KG, as he’s known among NBA fans, must be pretty good. He is. He's the ...read more

  • White As Snow  PRO

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on May 15, 2011
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    WHITE AS SNOW Ash Wednesday — it’s kind of a solemn day. It’s the start of Lent —a word which means “spring” in German. But more than this, it’s the time each year when we intently focus on the path Christ Jesus laid out for us to follow — to be true to his word, true to his calling, and ...read more

  • I Have Always Held My Father In High Respect. I ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Dec 23, 2005
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    I have always held my Father in high respect. I always wanted to please him. But, when I was in 10th grade I lost interest in school. Grades had always been pretty easy and I thought I could just skate by. Besides, everybody knew, baseball and basketball was what was really important. Then I got ...read more

  • Is God Waiting For You?  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 12, 2008
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    Is God Waiting for You? Koinonia is the Greek phrase which describes this spiritual intimacy that is born through having the true knowledge of who God is in a personal way. I must confess, I am the one who made the choice not to experience Koinonia for all those years in my spiritual way with the ...read more

  • The Excellence Of Giving With Joy

    Contributed by Saumiman Saud on Feb 19, 2025
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    THE EXCELLENCE OF GIVING WITH JOY Heavenly Father, You are so good to me, You gave Your Life to redeem my sins. Oh Lord, give me the opportunity to give to others as well. Sometimes I think about giving, but my faith is so weak, I'm still afraid that if I give, I will be in want. Forgive me, ...read more

  • Trust The Prayer

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 2, 2021
     | 4,722 views

    A TRUSTING PRAYER Did you hear about the young preacher that graduated Bible School? He accepted a small country church to be the pastor. It was the only church that would have him. He was the only candidate that would go to the small church. So they were matched up pretty well. His first ...read more

  • Mormon Sacred Scriptures Say Explicitly That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
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     | 1,690 views

    Mormon sacred scriptures say explicitly that there are many gods; for example, the three persons of the Trinity are regarded as three gods. Mormons believe that God used to be a man but was able to learn how to be a god, and all Mormon men are striving to become gods just like their heavenly ...read more