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  • Here Is A Story By A Guy Named Cliff Davis, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Here is a story by a guy named Cliff Davis, which portrays in a beautiful way what childlike faith is all about. One afternoon in early autumn, Ric (the husband/father in the other family) and I were setting out on our tractor to pick up a wagon, which we had a few days earlier lent to a neighbor. ...read more

  • A Well Known Christian Wrote, "The Last Days ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 5,559 views

    • A well known Christian wrote, “the last days are upon us. Weigh carefully the times. Look for Him who is above all time, eternal and invisible.” That was not written by a modern prophecy expert. It was written by a man named Ignatius about 110 A.D., just a couple of decades after the apostle John ...read more

  • I'm Always Fascinated By The Stories Of People ...

    Contributed by Bret Toman on May 20, 2010
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    I'm always fascinated by the stories of people who win large sums of money in lotteries. A large majority of whom wish they had never won. Willie Hurt of Lansing, Mich., won $3.1 million in 1989. Two years later he was broke and charged with murder. His lawyer says Hurt spent his fortune on a ...read more

  • Doing The Job Alone

    Contributed by Jim Mccutchen on Oct 10, 2010
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    FROM: Joe Smith, Bricklayer RE: My Accident Claim I am writing in response to your request concerning Block #11 on the insurance form which asks for "the cause of injuries" wherein I put "trying to do the job alone." You said you needed more information, so I trust the following will be ...read more

  • Fan Or Follower?

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
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    FAN OR FOLLOWER? Kyle Idelman writes: It was a Thursday afternoon, and I was sitting in our sanctuary where 30,000 people would soon be coming to one of our Easter services. I had no idea what I was going to say to them. I could feel the pressure mounting. I sat there hoping that a sermon would ...read more

  • Salvation From The Rubble

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 28, 2011
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    SALVATION FROM THE RUBBLE The September 11, 2002 issues of TIME magazine has a touching article about 31-year old Genelle Guzman. Genelle was the last of just four people caught in the debris of the Twin Towers to be found alive. After the planes hit the World Trade Center, Genelle was ...read more

  • The Caddy  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2011
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    THE CADDY Two golfers stepped up to the first tee on the St. Andrews course in New York. The older golfer was a kindly man who played a thoughtful, deliberate game. The younger golfer was full of pride and impatience. On the first hole he sliced, lost his ball in the tall grass, hit another one, ...read more

  • The More Precious Gift

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2011
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    THE MORE PRECIOUS GIFT It is not easy always for people to understand the significance of a gift, or the sacrifices that went behind it. Two students shared a room in college. After returning from the Christmas' winter break, Andrew asked his roommate what presents he has received for ...read more

  • The Weak Will Become Strong  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 12, 2011
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    THE WEAK WILL BECOME STRONG The story is told of a ten-year-old boy who decided to study judo. The problem was he had been in a car accident and had lost his left arm. So he started the lessons and was doing well but he couldn’t understand why after 3 months of lessons that his coach had only ...read more

  • Sin: Prison Without Bars

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 15, 2011
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    SIN: PRISON WITHOUT BARS It's easy to live in denial--to live in sin and think everything is going our way. So sooner or later God gets our attention. In 1989, Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hit leader, was banished from baseball by Major League Commissioner. [Bart Giamatti]. The ...read more

  • Tough Love  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2012
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    TOUGH LOVE "Living in this house is like living in hell," screamed the young girl as she stamped her feet on the way upstairs to her room. The mother stood looking at her daughter, a hint of tears forming in her eyes. She wanted to run up the stairs and hug her daughter but she knew the timing ...read more

  • In The Recent Summer Games (2012), Kim Rhode Won ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kelly Mitchell on Aug 11, 2012
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    In the recent Summer Games (2012), Kim Rhode won the gold medal in skeet shooting making her the first American to win 5 olympic medals in 5 consecutive olympic games. That’s a span of 20 years and not her only distinction. In the 2012 games, she hit 99 out of 100 skeet setting a new Olympic ...read more

  • Unusual Banquet

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 22, 2013
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    Unusual Banquet Boston Globe's account in June 1990 of a most unusual wedding banquet. Accompanied by her fiance, a woman went to the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Boston and ordered the meal. The two of them poured over the menu, made selections of china and silver, and pointed to pictures of the ...read more

  • Breathtaking

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Nov 19, 2019
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    I recently had a conversation with a woman who is a double lung transplant recipient. The transplant took place over 20 years ago and I had known part of her story, but there was a detail she included in this retelling that stopped me in my tracks. She gave some facts about the disease, when she ...read more

  • 2. How Important Are We To God? God, The ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 22, 2008
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    2. How important are we to God? God, the Creator of the all the universe, looked through out all creation and took notice of man made in His image and likeness, of you and me, living here on planet earth. a) The earth seems pretty big to you and me. The circumference of the earth at the equator ...read more

  • Faith's Hall Of Fame: Abel

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Feb 17, 2008
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    Hebrews 11:4 Faith’s Hall of Fame: Abel Introduction Cooperstown, NY. Those of you who are baseball fans know that it is the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Ten years ago, back in July of 1998, my son Joel and I visited Cooperstown. We had tickets to the Hall of Fame game at Doubleday Field. ...read more

  • Television Psychic Sylvia Brown, Who Appears ...

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Feb 26, 2008
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    Television psychic Sylvia Brown, who appears regularly on the Montel Williams show, fared even worse. On the December 27, 2006 airing of Montel, Sylvia made her predictions for 2007. They were all wrong. Every last one of them. For instance, Ms. Brown predicted that a tsunami would cause ...read more

  • How Did We Ever Survive As ...

    Contributed by Paul Collins on Sep 7, 2009
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    How Did We Ever Survive as Kids? April 11, 2009 — Quick Daily Hits - rbs Born before 1980? TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s… • After we were born, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints. • We had no ...read more

  • Dependent On God

    Contributed by Sidney Sumida on Oct 6, 2009
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    DEPENDENT ON GOD In the past few decades, there were some huge storms that hit our nation of which were Hurricane Pamela, and Hurricane Katrina, to name a few... (and, yes, not to bias about gender, there was big bad Hurricane Andrew, too). Here in the islands, we have had our share of storms as ...read more

  • The King  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 19, 2011
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    THE KING What comes to your mind when you hear the phrase, “The king is dead - long live the king!”? It is an historical phrase coined in France and said after the death of a monarch through the streets and the countryside of their realm. Phil Morgan recalls: "Not too long ago I watched part of ...read more