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  • The Bible Tells Us To Be Prepared To Give A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Dec 5, 2006
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    The Bible tells us to be prepared to give a defense in all things so I searched for some Scriptures that could help in some touch situations you might encounter over the next several weeks: When your wife asks you to help with the decorations —John 2:4, “Dear woman, why do you involve me?” When ...read more

  • It Reminds Me Of A Time That I Went Fishing With ...

    Contributed by John Chisham on Dec 10, 2006
     | 1,836 views

    It reminds me of a time that I went fishing with a guy I’ll call Jimmy. Now Jimmy is a straight out pre-Christian. (That is the new way of saying non-believer) He smokes, he drinks, he sleeps around, he cusses, and he even does drugs. His wife warned him that he was to do NONE of those things ...read more

  • I Love Working In My Yard. In Fact My Neighbors ...

    Contributed by A. David Hart on Feb 20, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    I love working in my yard. In fact my neighbors think that I take yard work all too seriously. I’ll cut my grass and make sure that it is cut in a certain pattern. I make sure that my lines are straight from the lawnmower wheels and my flowers have to be just right. But one day disaster struct. ...read more

  • In Closing I Remember A Time When I Was Walking ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dennis Jones on Oct 8, 2004
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    In closing I remember a time when I was walking in a town and saw a young lady that was to say the least intoxicated. She was having a serious problem walking, let alone know where she was going, or have a clue of how to get there. I carefully avoided her, as I was embarrassed at the thought of ...read more

  • Sole Witness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,372 views

    SOLE WITNESS A fine lad entered the Army. He faced a real test the first night he went to be in the barracks. He had formed the commendable habit of placing his Bible on his bed at home and kneeling down to read a chapter while having his daily prayer time before retiring. Surrounded by scores of ...read more

  • It's Sort Of Like The Fable That Evangelist D. L. ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 30, 2009
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    It’s sort of like the fable that evangelist D. L. Moody used to tell. It seems there were two eagles. One of the eagles won every race and the other eagle was jealous. One day, the jealous eagle overheard a hunter say, “I’d bring down that eagle if I had decent fletching on my arrows.” The eagle ...read more

  • Daddy Restrained

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 31, 2009
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    DADDY RESTRAINED I’ll never forget an experience I had with my son Ethan. When Ethan was about 2 years old, he had been playing and had fallen and cut open his chin. It was bad enough for Nicole and I to take him to A.I. DuPont Hospital for children. After the doctors examined his cut they told ...read more

  • Check-Out Line Deception  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
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     | 4,271 views

    Check-Out Line Deception And in verse 7, Jeremiah is mad at God! He says "O LORD, you deceived me, and I was deceived; you overpowered me and prevailed. You tricked me!" (From a sermon by Marc Axelrod, When You Are Mad at God, 10/20/2009) This reminds me of the guy who was shopping at WalMart. ...read more

  • The Reason Behind An Unusual Hymn Singing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2009
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    The Reason Behind an Unusual Hymn Singing Practice is Discovered Sometime in the last decade of twentieth century, a young pastor who was a fresh graduate from a renowned seminary was assigned to shepherd an old church in a remote village. The church was founded and built sometime in the late ...read more

  • Donald Grey Barnhouse Scratches A Mark On A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2010
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    Donald Grey Barnhouse Scratches a Mark On a Postal Box to Make a Point Some years ago Donald Grey Barnhouse was counseling a young woman on the sidewalk in front of a church following an evening service. She said she was a Christian and that she wanted to follow Christ. But she wanted to be famous, ...read more

  • The Worst Natural Disaster In Our Nation's ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 15, 2010
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    The worst natural disaster in our nation’s history blew in as a category 4 hurricane battering Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900. Winds estimated at over 140 miles per hour and tidal surges of 16 feet slammed the island. More than 6,000 people lost their lives, and more than 3,600 homes and ...read more

  • Sundowning  PRO

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Oct 6, 2010
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    SUNDOWNING As I walked into the room I had visited only that morning I noticed that some people, had an increased CONFUSION, RESTLESSNESS AND INSECURITY. I met the Asian woman with such beautiful eyes who HALLUCINATES and HEARS VOICES each afternoon. I had a quiet conversation with a woman who, ...read more

  • Preparing For Departure

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Nov 23, 2010
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    PREPARING FOR DEPARTURE I once read how, in the spring of 1981, a young man was flown into desolate northern Alaska to photograph the natural beauty and mysteries of the tundra. He took along 500 rolls of film, several firearms, and 1,400 pounds of provisions. As the months passed, the words in ...read more

  • Furtick On Audacious Faith

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 18, 2011
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    FURTICK ON AUDACIOUS FAITH "We set a goal of reaching over one thousand people in our first year of ministry. Since the average church size in America is fewer than one hundred and twenty, and the first rule of goal setting is attainability, I guess we were overshooting it a bit. But we wanted to ...read more

  • A Chicken Story

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Apr 25, 2011
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    A CHICKEN STORY The story is told of Joe the Butcher who had crafty ways of selling his chickens. He had one chicken left, and he didn’t want to keep it over the weekend. The priest of his church came into the store. He said, "My wife sent me to buy a good size chicken to roast for dinner. We’re ...read more

  • Separation From Your Love

    Contributed by Michael Buckingham on Jun 24, 2011
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    SEPARATION FROM YOUR LOVE I remember once there was girl I loved so much in my youth, I thought that we would be together forever, and I thought that I could never live without her! But now I hardly ever think about her... the truth is that I really can live without her. So what changed between ...read more

  • A Unique Excuse

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2011
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    A UNIQUE EXCUSE A man who bought a brand new Mercedes and got out on the interstate. It was a convertible and the top was down, the breeze was blowing through his hair, and he decided he would open it up to see what it could do. The needle hit 80 miles an hour, then 90, then 100, then 110, then ...read more

  • What Occupies Your Heart?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    WHAT OCCUPIES YOUR HEART? I squirmed a bit as I forced myself to listen to my friend cataloging her problems. After three hours, I interrupted her gently to ask, "If you were to draw a circle to represent your life, what would be in the center?" She thought a moment, then said, "My problems." My ...read more

  • For The Life Of An Enemy  PRO

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Feb 14, 2012
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    FOR THE LIFE OF AN ENEMY A Baptist pastor named Peter Miller was from a small town in Pennsylvania who lived during the American Revolution. And there was another man who lived there named Michael Wittmann, an evil-minded sort who did all that he could to oppose and humiliate the pastor. He made ...read more

  • The Importance Of Friends  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 29, 2012
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    THE IMPORTANCE OF FRIENDS One of the most thorough research projects on relationships is called the Alameda County Study. Headed by a Harvard social scientist, it tracked the lives of 7,000 people over nine years. Researchers found that the most isolated people were three times more likely to die ...read more