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  • Miracles Through Prayer In China

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 15, 2024
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     | 576 views

    In his book Sit, Walk, Stand, Watchman Nee describes a preaching mission to an island off the South China coast. There were seven in the ministering group, including a sixteen-year-old new convert whom he calls Brother Wu. The island was fairly large, containing about 6,000 homes. Nee had a contact ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Intro: Football Practice Was Over, And Denny Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    INTRO: Football practice was over, and Denny was sore from head to toe. Slowly he climbed the graffiti-laden stairway of the aging apartment building. Suddenly, his mother’s chilling screams pierced the cold, still air. He had heard the sound many times before. Still, a sickening knot formed in ...read more

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  • Mitsuo Fuchida Was The Pilot In Charge Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jul 26, 2004
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    ILL. Mitsuo Fuchida was the pilot in charge of one of the most successful aerial attacks in recorded history. Under his command was a squadron of 360 specially selected pilots, & on Dec. 7, 1941, Fuchida’s squadron bombed Pearl Harbor. He quickly became one of the most highly decorated pilots ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Belly Up To The Bar?" Romans 13: 1-7: Key ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Aug 18, 2004
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     | 3,551 views

    “Belly Up to the Bar?” Romans 13: 1-7: Key verse(s): 4a “For he is God’s servant to do you good.” About a decade ago an assembly of Christian leaders came up with this summary of what it means to be a Christian citizen: “It is impossible for a believer to be a good Christian and a bad citizen ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Football Practice Was Over, And Denny Was Sore ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Apr 26, 2002
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     | 1,647 views

    Football practice was over, and Denny was sore from head to toe. Slowly he climbed the graffiti-laden stairway of the aging apartment building. Suddenly, his mother’s chilling screams pierced the cold, still air. He had heard the sound many times before. Still, a sickening knot formed in Denny’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Chuck Swindoll Tells Of A Mountain Man From West ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
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    Chuck Swindoll tells of a mountain man from West Virginia who had never seen a city, or bright lights and modern inventions. He married a girl of the hills and they spent all their married years in the backwoods. Their one son, creatively named “Junior,” reached his sixteenth birthday, [and] his ...read more

  • Can't Just Sit Around

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    CAN'T JUST SIT AROUND The following is a true story. Larry Walters led a fairly boring normal life as a truck driver in southern California until the fateful day of July 2nd, 1982. On that day, Larry turned himself into a legend. You see, ever since he was a boy Larry had dreamed of flying, but ...read more

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  • Too Many Hypocrites

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    TOO MANY HYPOCRITES One of the most common excuses given for someone not surrendering to the Gospel of Christ is found in this statement, "There are too many hypocrites in the church." Many persons who are seen by outsiders to be "hypocrites" may be true, yet immature, Christians. Christians ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Gift Of Honor  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2011
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    GIFT OF HONOR Football practice was over, and Denny was sore from head to toe. Slowly he climbed the graffiti-laden stairway of the aging apartment building. Suddenly, his mother’s chilling screams pierced the cold, still air. He had heard the sound many times before. Still, a sickening knot ...read more

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  • Dreams

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
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    “There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.” - Pearl S. Buck Everybody has a dream. What’s your dream? What was your dream when you were young and full of ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

  • A Winning Streak Of One!" 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 1, 2005
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     | 4,039 views

    “A Winning Streak of One!” 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 Key verse(s) 16“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” It’s important to make sure that every day of our lives we practice gladness and condition ourselves to finding ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • She Was Nearly Blind. She Was Born On April 14, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Sep 7, 2006
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    She was nearly blind. She was born on April 14, 1866 to Irish immigrants. Life was hard and from the age of three her vision began to fail. To add insult to injury, Annie’s mother died at when she was eight to tuberculosis. Her younger two sisters were farmed out to relatives. Annie tried to ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Earth In The Bargain!" Revelations 22: 20-21 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 26, 2005
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     | 3,077 views

    “Earth in the Bargain!” Revelations 22: 20-21 Key verse(s): 21:“The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen.” The surest way to become hopeless is to simply open your eyes in the morning and look around you. Everything seems to be falling apart. Huge deficits, world terrorism, train, ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • The First Mongolian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    THE FIRST MONGOLIAN CHURCH The Christian authors, Bill and Amy Stearns, in their book entitled "20/20 Vision: Amazing Stories of What God Is Doing Around the World," describe how the Gospel of Jesus, the Christ, came to Mongolia. "In the 1870’s Swedish missionaries arrived in Mongolia - what was ...read more

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  • Suspension Bridge

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 28, 2009
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    Robert Lewis writes, “In 1851, many of the most accomplished engineers in the country thought James Roebling was out of his mind. That year, he began to work on the unthinkable: building a bridge over the Niagara River Gorge. Disaster was nearly universally predicted. There was the sheer ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • The Invisible Enemy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 7, 2011
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    THE INVISIBLE ENEMY "Good night, sleep tight, and don't let the bed bugs bite" has been spoken by loving mothers to their children for decades as they gently tucked their little ones to sleep and wished them a good night. The phrase itself carries within it the gentle reminder of a younger age and ...read more

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  • Distractions Along The Way

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
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    “I live in Charlotte, North Carolina, 200 miles from the coast. And yet our local Wal-Mart has a random smattering of seagulls that soar overhead and eat French fries and other debris from neighboring fast food restaurants. The truth is the seagulls are lost. They’ve taken a wrong turn. And instead ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

  • Running Past The Red Flags

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
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    “Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.” - Doug Larson The house looked like a fairy tale come true. Though my friend had a nagging feeling about the owners, she ignored it and went to inspect the house. It was spacious and full of sunshine with a big ...read more

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  • Rejection At The Vending Machine  PRO

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on May 27, 2015
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    Vending machines have come a long way since I was a kid. It used to be you slid in a couple of coins and pulled a lever and down would drop your snack or drink. Now there are lights, levers, cranes, codes, and chutes that make the purchase a production of its own. It’s almost worth the price of ...read more

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  • Let Go! Let Go!

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 6, 2023
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    LET US STUDY THE EAGLE! I read about this boy that grew up in the city of New York. The boy fell in love with “EAGLES.” He checked every book out of the school library and the public library about “EAGLES.” As he got older he watched every movie, video and documentary he could find about ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God