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  • I Want You To Imagine With Me For A Minute We Are ...

    Contributed by Andrew Drummond on Jul 3, 2008
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     | 2,251 views

    I want you to imagine with me for a minute we are all living in a time when we had no fire. We have no way to produce a great deal of warmth at night; we have no way to cook what we kill in the forest. Someone has told that all we need to do is pray for it and it will come. So imagine we want to ...read more

  • A Young Lady Was Calling To Get An Appointment ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jul 8, 2008
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     | 2,468 views

    A young lady was calling to get an appointment for a massage. She called information to get the number for "Angels Touch Massage." She called the number and asked for prices. The person on the other end said "I would be glad to give you a massage, but I don’t think you would want a massage from ...read more

  • Don't Let The Good Christian Life Of The Past ...

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Jul 14, 2008
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    Don't let the good Christian life of the past interfere with the new work God wants to do in your life. Missionary John Hyde went to India a little over a hundred years ago. John felt a strong calling to the nation of India and began to spend hours in an attempt to learn the local language. Then ...read more

  • You Shall Receive Power After...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER AFTER... Missionary John Hyde went to India a little over a hundred years ago. John felt a strong calling to the nation of India and began to spend hours in an attempt to learn the local language. Then the day came. It was in 1892 that he boarded a steamer in New York bound ...read more

  • Stephen Kuusisto Grew Up Feeling A Stigma About ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 5, 2008
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    "Stephen Kuusisto grew up feeling a stigma about being legally blind. For him, sight consisted of a kaleidoscope of shapes, colors, and shadows. Privately he would press his face close to the page of a book and memorize street names in an exhausting attempt to appear more able to see than he really ...read more

  • Object Talk: On Fire For God

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 15, 2008
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    Object Talk: On Fire for God [We had a display made of wooden stick matches; they pictured a fairly elaborate cross. People would take a matchstick with them and pray if they desired.] I want to give you something. It is a symbol to remind you to give God control of the spiritual area of your ...read more

  • Jesus Is Like Oxygen

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
     | 2,997 views

    Jesus is Like Oxygen I want to tell you about Andy Harris. Andy was one of a several people leading an expedition up Mt. Everest. When he reached the peak, he stayed there just admiring the amazing beauty. But he stayed there too long and on his descent, he became in dire need of oxygen. Andy ...read more

  • The Powerhouse  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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     | 2,800 views

    The Powerhouse Stephen Kuusisto grew up feeling a stigma about being legally blind. For him, sight consisted of a kaleidoscope of shapes, colors, and shadows. Privately he would press his face close to the page of a book and memorize street names in an exhausting attempt to appear more able to see ...read more

  • The Dove Man

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Oct 30, 2008
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    The Dove Man It is said that a certain guide lived in the deserts of Arabia who never lost his way. He carried with him a homing pigeon with a very fine cord attached to one of its legs. When in doubt as to which path to take, he threw the bird into the air. The pigeon quickly strained at the cord ...read more

  • Poor Chippie

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 19, 2008
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    Poor Chippie A Galveston housewife had a pet parakeet named Chippie. The woman, however, made some terrible mistakes with Chippie. There are just some things that you don't do with parakeets! While vacuuming the carpet one day, she decided to clean out of the bottom of Chippie's cage with her ...read more

  • Phillip Brooks, A Great American Preacher Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Phillip Brooks, a great American preacher of another day, said, "Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger people; do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work may be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall ...read more

  • Selflessness Sparks A Whole Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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     | 4,040 views

    SELFLESSNESS SPARKS A WHOLE CHURCH When Yoido Full Gospel Church in South Korea was building its prayer mountain, they struggled in raising the funds for its construction. Pastor David Cho challenged the people again and again and still they could raise the funds they needed for the project. Then, ...read more

  • The First Time I Had To Speak In Public Was When ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 15, 2009
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    The first time I had to speak in public was when I was in fourth grade. The elementary school I attended was part of the college down the street from my house. I think I was a shepherd in the college's presentation of "Amahl and the Night Visitors." I was pretty nervous--scared, really--about ...read more

  • John Ortberg Shared This In The Life You Always ...  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jan 23, 2009
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    John Ortberg shared this in The Life You Always Wanted (p.55-56): "It's like a motorboat and a sailboat. A person can operate a motorboat without assistance, given the right equipment and effort. Operating a sailboat is different--it is dependent on the wind. The operator of a sailboat does ...read more

  • Stepping Out-Of-Bounds

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
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    STEPPING OUT-OF-BOUNDS I had missed a game winning free-throw. I swore that would never happen again. So I practiced until I became excellent at free-throws. In the next big tournament, I swished two free-throws. On the last one, I heard an ear-splitting whistle in my ear. I had stepped over the ...read more

  • Electricity Is A Physical Phenomenon That ...

    Contributed by Harold Jenkerson on Mar 10, 2009
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    Electricity is a physical phenomenon that illustration the indwelling of God’s power in the Christian’s life. The world remained in darkness until this physical phenomenon was discovered about 1900. ...read more

  • The 100% Solution!

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2022
     | 1,007 views

    Since the beginning of time, mankind has craved peace! When Adam and Eve came upon the body of their son Abel, slain by his brother Cain, they no doubt longed for peace. The peculiar thing about peace is this; man has always longed for the time when peace was in his life––yet peace has so seldom ...read more

  • Oswald Chambers On Conviction Of Sin  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
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    OSWALD CHAMBERS ON CONVICTION OF SIN Oswald Chambers: "Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict of sin, and when the Holy Spirit rouses the conscience and ...read more

  • Slow And Steady

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2022
     | 913 views

    The power of the Holy Spirit is not just for salvation, but for sanctification, a process that is slow and gradual. The difference might look like this: You can take ten gallons of gasoline and release a tremendous amount of power and energy by just dropping a lighted match into it. It makes a ...read more

  • God Only Lives In The Best  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 18, 2002
    based on 33 ratings
     | 2,169 views

    GOD ONLY LIVES IN THE BEST The Old Testament Temple was only 30’ wide by 90’ long-- a mere 2700 square feet. It was smaller than many homes today. It has been estimated that to rebuild the Temple by the directions in the Bible would cost today about four billion dollars! It would take incredible ...read more

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