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  • One Of My Dear Friends Shared This Story With Me ...

    Contributed by Marianne Unger on Dec 12, 2007
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    One of my dear friends shared this story with me that I’d like to share with you. It’s about a mother who asked her child “What is the most important body part?” When the child was younger, they thought sound was important, so they replied that it was their ears. The mother said, “No, many ...read more

  • The Key … After 29 Floors

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 12, 2008
     | 1,484 views

    5411 The Key … After 29 Floors Three men, John Newton, Louis Weatherford, and Samuel Preston, were out to find the best that this life had to offer. Willing to try anything, they were now on their way to New York City to “to the Ambassador Hotel, a twenty-nine floor building. Upon entering the ...read more

  • Earlier This Week, I Was Talking To Our Music ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on May 28, 2008
     | 1,324 views

    Earlier this week, I was talking to our music director, Jim Turk, about this sermon. I told him that I was going to challenge you to live out your faith. I told him a story about myself that makes me very self-conscious. It is a story I had never told anyone else. I explained to Jim that it was ...read more

  • Caterpillar Ugly, Butterfly Beautiful  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 15 ratings
     | 8,558 views

    Caterpillar Ugly, Butterfly Beautiful It is a well-known fact that a caterpillar changes into a butterfly. The butterfly can truthfully say as he looks at the caterpillar, "Such was I, but now I am changed." Every Christian has once been a sinner, living for self and the momentary pleasures ...read more

  • Keep Your Eyes On The Prize  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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    Keep Your Eyes on the Prize The year Pete Rose was about to break Ty Cobb's all-time hits record in spring training, he was being interviewed. One reporter blurted out, "Pete, you only need 78 hits to break the record. How many at-bats do you think you'll need to get the 78 hits?" Without ...read more

  • Getting Back On Track

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    GETTING BACK ON TRACK Jim Baker is back in the pulpit again. "It's awesome to die and come back," he told about 400 worshipers at Way of Life Church, where he was the guest speaker one Sunday. The former PTL Ministries leader presided over a multimillion dollar TV ministry until he resigned amid a ...read more

  • On Martin Luther  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 7, 2009
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    ON MARTIN LUTHER Church history illustrates that if a church quits being renewed and refreshed every day then they slide into apathy -- this leads toward man made religion and deadness. In essence the people of God lose their anointing and their transformational power to see lives changed. The ...read more

  • I Found A Story Called "Pushing The Rock" Told ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 19, 2009
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    I found a story called “Pushing the Rock” told by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. It is the story of a weak, sickly man, who could not afford to go to the doctor and his condition seemed to grow worse. The man lived in the deep back woods in an old log cabin. Out in front of his cabin was a huge ...read more

  • Jack The Neighbor

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    JACK THE NEIGHBOR Someone in Elgin once had a neighbor named Jack. Jack was a tough man. He worked hard, he drank hard, he fought hard, and he was harsh and gruff in his manner. Most people were afraid of Jack. But this one neighbor got brave and said hello to him over the fence one day. He ...read more

  • When I Was A Child Growing Up In North Central ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Sep 17, 2009
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    When I was a child growing up in North Central California, my favorite time of year was winter. While it seldom snows in the San Joaquin Valley, the great agricultural valley which runs nearly the full length of the State of California, only a little more than an hour’s drive away from Modesto are ...read more

  • As The Parents Of Three Young Children, My Wife ...

    Contributed by Ricki Lee Brooks on Oct 24, 2009
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    As the parents of three young children, my wife and I often took advantage of many helps in order to be good nurturers. However, sometimes even our best efforts resulted in the unexpected. With hopes of teaching our oldest son the necessity of depending upon God, we began reading to him from the ...read more

  • Dr. Meier Refuses Materialism And God Blesses His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
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    Dr. Meier Refuses Materialism and God Blesses his Ministry In the mid – 1970’s, while Dr. Meier was a professor of pastoral counseling at Trinity Seminary near Chicago, he was offered a high-paying opportunity to leave his seminary position and become the administrator of a psychiatric clinic. “I ...read more

  • Receiving Confirmation For A Significant Event Or ...

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Dec 19, 2009
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    Receiving confirmation for a significant event or activity is often important. When I was in the South African Air Force serving as an Air Traffic Controller, I used to tease the permanent force guys mercilessly. At a certain time each year they would receive news of promotions and new assignments. ...read more

  • Miss Bettye And Her All-Night Prayer Kitchen  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2010
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     | 3,018 views

    MISS BETTYE AND HER ALL-NIGHT PRAYER KITCHEN Just this last September (2009), the Chicago Tribune ran a story about Bettye Tucker, a Christian cook who works the night shift at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She has been doing her job for 43 years -- 28 of them on the night shift. On ...read more

  • Becoming ...

    Contributed by Chris Carter on Feb 3, 2010
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    Becoming Cupid In a dream I had a short while ago, The winds of love upon my face began to blow. I opened my eyes and began to glare, At what it was that caused the current of air. Many thoughts flooded my wee little mind, As I rose from the bed desperate to find, Whatever this was that made me ...read more

  • The Persuasion Of A Changed Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
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    THE PERSUASION OF A CHANGED LIFE The power of your changed life can be very persuasive even to those who refuse to be persuaded by the word itself. Just a few years ago, Decision magazine told the story of Rick and Shawna Pilat, a Winnipeg couple who had recently come to faith in Christ. For ...read more

  • Small Things With Great Love

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
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    SMALL THINGS WITH GREAT LOVE Gary Morsch is the founder of Heart to Heart in Kansas City. As a physician, he has done magnificient work around the world taking medical supplies to low income people. Several years ago, he took a trip to Calcutta and Mother Teresa's House for the Destitute Dying. He ...read more

  • The Brother's Song

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Apr 13, 2012
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    THE BROTHER'S SONG Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son, Michael, prepare for his sister. Day after day and night after night, Michael sang to his sister in Mommy's tummy. He was building a bond of love ...read more

  • I Must Honor My Country

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Nov 1, 2012
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    "I MUST HONOR MY COUNTRY." A foreign diplomat who often criticized American policy once observed a United States Marine perform the evening colors ceremony. The diplomat wrote about this simple but solemn ceremony in a letter to his home ministry. Quote: "During one of the past few days, I had ...read more

  • Spiritual Breakthrough.

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Feb 14, 2014
     | 6,371 views

    During the week I have been looking at a book by John Larsson where he called Spiritual breakthrough where he talks about Samuel Logan Brengle. In his recalling Brengle, Larsson talks of how at the age of twenty-five, Brengle was at a seminary training to be a minister but he was troubled. He ...read more