Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Aug 1, 2005
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I use to read mysteries stories. The problem I had with them was I would be reading and it would get late. I had to work the next morning. It was after midnight.
The problem was it was just about that time in the book where the Villain would have the pretty young thing tied up on the saw
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Contributed by Charles Newman on Aug 2, 2005
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I remember the first time I used the blank stare. I was about four or five years old and mom was very busy cleaning the house. She had just mopped the kitchen floor and was upstairs gathering laundry. I had asked more than my fair share of silly questions that day and mom had already warned me
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Sep 24, 2005
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When I was in college, most of the time I took as many classes, as many credit hours as they would let me take. I wanted to get through with school as soon as possible because I wanted to get on with life. My mother used to tell me, “your college years are part of life,” and I used to answer,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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When I moved to the U.S. I was impressed with the number of total strangers who visited my home to wish me well...they all sold insurance! One day my visitor was talking about the necessity to be prudent in the preparation for all possibilities. “If something should happen to you, Mr. Briscoe—” he
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Contributed by Steve Miller on Feb 5, 2006
CONFIDENCE: (Wesley)"When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am
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I kid you not folks, at the church where I preached before coming to Central---we had enough people complaining back and forth about the temperature that the church board actually ending up voting on the thermostat setting---and then once they decided what it would be---to make sure no one could
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Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 23, 2006
Illustration: I love my little boy, I want to give him the very best that I can give him, but sometimes because he is so small and I am so big in order to get my attention, to let me know he wants or needs something, he will pull on my pant leg and I will look down and grab him, lift him up to my
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Contributed by C Reola on Nov 26, 2006
I want to end with a candle illustration. I have here with me Junior and Senior candle prepare two candles, one long and one short...the long one is the junior candle and the short one is the senior candle. Who is Senior and who is Junior?
As I said earlier, life is short. We do not know when
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by James Chandler on Jan 23, 2007
The day before I preached this sermon, I found out that my son’s class was studying the Buddhist faith. The teacher was going to have students bring a mat to class and get in the position and meditate like a Buddhist. When I raised concern and objected to my son praying to any god besides the one
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