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  • I Think You've Seen Jesus.

    Contributed by D Marion Clark on Nov 15, 2010
     | 3,042 views

    "I THINK YOU'VE SEEN JESUS." The real putting off and putting on is not so much about our determination to make improvements but about giving ourselves over to our Lord to do the real work in our lives. In the children's book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, there is a particularly bad boy named ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Whose Are You?

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 5, 2023
     | 824 views

    Do you remember, how once in the gospel, the Pharisees, trying to trap Jesus, came with that question about paying your tax? And how he asked them, “Show me the coin used for paying the tax." And how then he asked: "Whose portrait is it?" And how they answered, "It bears the ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Ten Year Old, Bobby, Was Watching The Evening ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2001
    based on 127 ratings
     | 1,224 views

    Ten year old, Bobby, was watching the evening news with his dad. As a report about war in the Middle East ended bobby turned to his dad and asked, "Dad, how do wars begin?" His father replied, "Well, son, take World War I for instance. It all started when Germany invaded Belgium …" Before ...read more

  • Everyone Is A Unique Creation Of An Almighty ...

    Contributed by James Chandler on Feb 17, 2008
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     | 3,276 views

    Everyone is a unique creation of an almighty God. Everyone: the church is for everyone. Believer and unbeliever Rich and poor Red, yellow, black and white Old and young Extroverted and introverted Unique: We are all different. Different personalities Different Strengths ...read more

    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Lesson On Mahatma Gandhi

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 27, 2017
     | 4,991 views

    I HAVE MANY PEOPLE I GREATLY RESPECT... ONE OF THOSE MEN I RESPECT FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IS: MAHATMA GANDHI... Several stories have made an impression in my heart. I read once that Mahatma Gandhi attended a church in Northern Africa. Gandhi had read about Jesus' teachings and he loved ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • A Little Girl Asked Her Mother One Sunday ...

    Contributed by Andrew Drummond on Feb 3, 2007
     | 2,546 views

    A little girl asked her mother one Sunday morning as she was preparing lunch, “Mommy, why do you cut off the ends of the ham before you cook it?” The girl’s mother turned and looked at her and said, “Oh, sweetie, I’m not really sure why, but I suppose you cut the ends off of the meat so that the ...read more

  • Max Lucado In His Book Life Lessons From The Book ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 3, 2007
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    Max Lucado in his book Life Lessons from the Book of Romans writes this in the introduction: At the moment I don’t feel too smart. I just got off the wrong plane that took me to the wrong city and left me at the wrong airport. I went east instead of west and ended up in Houston instead of Denver. ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • A Girl Said, "My Mother And I Returned To My ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,265 views

    A girl said, “My mother and I returned to my parents’ house late one evening to find my father, my college-age brother, Steven, and my ten-year-old sister fast asleep. “Mom had forgotten her house keys, so we knocked loudly, first at the back door and then the front and side doors. We yelled my ...read more

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  • Max Lucado In His Book Life Lessons From The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 4,342 views

    Max Lucado in his book Life Lessons from the Book of Romans writes this in the introduction: At the moment I don’t feel too smart. I just got off the wrong plane that took me to the wrong city and left me at the wrong airport. I went east instead of west and ended up in Houston instead of Denver. ...read more

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  • Poem: Don't Quit  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jun 4, 2005
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     | 2,594 views

    POEM: DON’T QUIT When things go wrong as they sometime will, when the road your trudging seems all up hill, When funds are low and debts are high, and you want to smile but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit rest if you must but please ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Poem: Don't Quit

    Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
     | 2,708 views

    POEM: DON’T QUIT When things go wrong as they sometime will, when the road your trudging seems all up hill, When funds are low and debts are high, and you want to smile but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit rest if you must but please don’t quit. Life is queer with it’s twist ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • I Had A Very Animated Professor At Bible College ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Carpenter on Oct 24, 2000
    based on 214 ratings
     | 3,100 views

    I had a very animated professor at Bible college by the name of Dr. Emert. He taught us about the danger of blaspheming God’s Son by claiming that He is anything less than God. He told how for some the earth opened, for some fire fell from Heaven, and for some floods came. He told us that he had ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Signs And Wonders

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 22, 2008
     | 4,169 views

    SIGNS AND WONDERS A person who is seeking for signs and wonders has turned God into a personal Genie in a Bottle. And because of that, when God fails to come through for them, they often turn away from Him completely. Ted Turner (the founder of CNN and some other enterprises) has been known to ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Story: A Young Man Who Had Been Raised As An ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Sep 15, 2007
     | 936 views

    Story: A young man who had been raised as an atheist –was training to be an Olympic diver. The only religious influence in his life came from his outspoken Christian friend. The young diver never really paid much attention to what his friend said about Jesus. One night the diver went to the ...read more

    Denomination: Anglican

  • The Mardi Gras Miracle

    Contributed by Richard L. Brown on Apr 17, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,817 views

    “The Mardi Gras Miracle.” On Fat Tuesday of 1994 I was on my way to a meeting at Normal Presbyterian Church. I was listening to a basketball game. Kentucky was playing LSU at LSU and Kentucky was down 16 points at half time. I was concerned but to make things worse LSU started the second half ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • What Is A Cpo? A Chief Privacy Officer Oversees A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
     | 1,664 views

    What Is A CPO? A Chief Privacy Officer oversees a company’s privacy policies and practices, monitoring how the corporation handles confidential information about consumers and employees. Companies are trying to stave off overburdening privacy regulation by ...read more

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  • Go Through The Optical Illusions: (Slides ...

    Contributed by C Vincent on Feb 13, 2009
     | 1,429 views

    Go through the optical illusions: (slides 1-6) The eyes can be deceiving. The brain may tell us one thing while our eyes see another. Dog: How do we respond? (7) Most of us warm to animals. Children begging: How do we respond? (8) The sight of children may cause us to think more deeply about the ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • An Important Business Executive Boarded The ...

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Apr 3, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,469 views

    An important business executive boarded the New-Orleans-to-Washington train. He was a heavy sleeper, and he needed to be awakened in order to get off the train in Atlanta about 5 o’clock in the morning. He found a porter and told him, "I want you to awaken me in order that I might get off the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • You Think He Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 12, 2009
     | 1,379 views

    "YOU THINK HE WAS MAD?..." An important business executive boarded the New-Orleans-to-Washington train. He was a heavy sleeper, and he needed to be awakened in order to get off the train in Atlanta about five o’clock in the morning. He found a porter and told him, "I want you to awaken me in order ...read more

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  • In Chicago A Boy Was Sent By A Drunken Father To ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 29, 2004
     | 1,807 views

    In Chicago a boy was sent by a drunken father to buy something at a store. Somehow the lad lost the money and he dared not go home, for when drunk his father got dreadfully angry about the slightest thing. A man who saw the boy shivering in a doorway learned of his trouble and gave him the dollar ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational