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  • Where Is Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Where Is Your Treasure Intro: Long ago, in a kingdom far, far away, a rich king hired a “fool” to entertain him and make him laugh when he was sad. He gave the fool a golden scepter and told him that when he met a greater fool than he, to pass the golden scepter to that person. Years passed ...read more

  • Will He Find Any Faith?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    WILL HE FIND ANY FAITH? Sherwood Eddy interviewed 25 young Communists in Moscow one day and asked each one how many hours he gave to the party each day. Not one of them gave less than three hours daily telling others about the virtues of communism. Some of them gave as much as nine hours each day ...read more

  • Golf Pro Lee Trevino Met A Fan In A Coffee Shop. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Golf pro Lee Trevino met a fan in a coffee shop. The woman asked him to sign a napkin, but Trevino refused, saying he knew she wouldn’t keep it. “So she pulled out a $5 bill,” Trevino recalled. He said, “I wrote a nice little note in the margin and signed it. Thanking me profusely, she ...read more

  • The Heart Of Worship

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    THE HEART OF WORSHIP In late 1990's in Watford, England, Matt Redman's church had a high caliber praise band and worship team, yet the pastor knew that the congregation had lost its way in worship. So the Pastor asked "When you come through the doors on a Sunday, what are you bringing as your ...read more

  • Comedian Shares How That When The Airline Lost ...

    Contributed by James Crain on Mar 27, 2009
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    comedian shares how that when the airline lost his luggage, he goes to the counter where lost luggage is reported. Now how would you like that job? People come up to the counter and you say. How are you today, Let me guess, you are not happy? Or maybe you angry. Really really angry, Livid. Anyway, ...read more

  • How Many Times Would You Forgive Your Dog?

    Contributed by Scott Berry on Aug 13, 2009
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    HOW MANY TIMES WOULD YOU FORGIVE YOUR DOG? Think for a minute, how forgiving would you be as if your pet messed the carpet several times a day? I think eventually you’d give up on your pets and take them out into the wilderness and set them free, you know what I mean - dump them. God’s love and ...read more

  • Nfl Player's Loyalty And Commitment To His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2009
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    NFL Player’s Loyalty and Commitment to His Wife One of the greatest statements of a husband’s love is when he protects his wife regardless of the cost to himself. Joseph’s story is the story of one such man. When Chris Spielman played for the Buffalo Bills, he was everything a middle linebacker ...read more

  • Adhesive Oxymoron

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 3, 2010
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    ADHESIVE OXYMORON Why can’t we all just coexist? You believe what you believe, I believe what I believe. Whatever you believe is whatever you believe. Have you seen those "Coexist" bumper stickers? I always laugh when I see a "Coexist" bumper sticker. You know, the ones where a symbol from ...read more

  • A Little Girl's Alphabet ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2010
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    A Little Girl’s Alphabet Prayer A father walked by his daughter’s bedroom door which was cracked just enough so that he could see that she was kneeling beside her bed in prayer. Interested to find out what subjects a child would bring before God, he paused and listened. He was puzzled though to ...read more

  • Bury It Right!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 1, 2011
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    BURY IT RIGHT! The story is told of a teenage son who wanted to be Scripturally baptized. His father told him that the sprinkling he got as a baby was sufficient. The son tried to explain that you can only picture the idea of burial by completely being submerged. Angry, the father told him to ...read more

  • No Shortcuts

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Aug 26, 2011
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    NO SHORTCUTS Now that the New Year is right around the corner there are those infomercials that tout great fitness. It seems that each year the machines get weirder. Hang upside down, spin 360 degrees then throw up. That loses about 5 lbs. Then there are those that bend you like a pretzel while ...read more

  • A Story Of Revenge

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Aug 29, 2011
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    A STORY OF REVENGE The other day, a soldier was in my office. He had been exposed to radiation poisoning while deployed in Afghanistan and was brought home to prepare for death. But he told me his story and said he wasn't prepared to die and meet God on Judgment Day. This soldier said that his ...read more

  • A Very Young Christian Family

    Contributed by Richard Koskela on Oct 24, 2011
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    A VERY YOUNG CHRISTIAN FAMILY While traveling as a missionary on home assignment, I had the privilege of eating an evening meal with a young couple with two small children. When it was time for the children to go to bed, they asked me if I wanted to go with them to the children’s bedroom while ...read more

  • Mary's Choice

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Mar 22, 2012
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    MARY'S CHOICE Mary Khoury, 17 from Damour, Lebanon and her family were forced to their knees before their home. The leader of the Muslim fanatics who had raided their village waved his pistol carelessly before their faces. His hatred for Christians burned in his eyes. "If you do not become a ...read more

  • There Was A Little Canadian Bird Who Decided Not ...

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Jan 26, 2013
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    There was a little Canadian bird who decided not to fly south for the winter. "If other animals can stay," he reasoned, "why can't I?" Against the better advice of his elders, the little bird stubbornly decided to stay. Very soon, however, he realized his mistake. The ...read more

  • Remove The Hate — Be Pure  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Mar 30, 2013
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    REMOVE THE HATE -- BE PURE "And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood (Hebrews 13:2)." Three years ago, Chris Simpson led a white pride march. Two years ago, he abandoned the white supremacist movement. This past April (2012), he was ...read more

  • Absentees In The Upper Room

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 9, 2014
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    ABSENTEES IN THE UPPER ROOM Written by Dr. Larry Petton One of the curious questions I have always had concerns the people who actually saw Christ after His resurrection. I would love to have been part of that group to see Jesus in His glorified, resurrected body! But, for some reason, that ...read more

  • Illustration Of Giving

    Contributed by John Oscar on Jan 15, 2017
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    A family came home from church one Sunday and after they had lunch they sent their 6-year-old son off to play. After awhile, his mother realized that they hadn’t heard much from him, which any parent knows is a recipe for disaster. The mother got up from her recliner and walked to the child's ...read more

  • The Problem With Church 200 Years Ago

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
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    I was recently reading an interesting book about life in America 200 years ago. One intriguing detail that the author shared was that back then most people only bathed once a year. It made me think of how unpleasant it would have been to gather on a sultry August Sunday morning in a sanctuary ...read more

  • When A Man's World Is Right

    Contributed by Barry O Johnson on Jul 1, 2018
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    One Saturday morning a minister was busily trying to prepare his sermon under the most difficult conditions. It was a rainy day, and his young son was restless and bored, with little to do. Finally, in desperation, the minister picked up an old magazine and thumbed through it until he came to a ...read more