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  • This Syndrome Also Reminds Me Of When We Had Our ...

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Mar 27, 2007
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    This syndrome also reminds me of when we had our first child. We’re in the delivery room in Northside Hospital in Atlanta, while my parents and her parents are in the waiting room getting minute-by-minute updates form me! In fact, I recall running out there telling everyone it was a girl because as ...read more

  • Christopher Reeve

    Contributed by Walter Rogers on Apr 3, 2007
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    3. Christopher Reeve a. Superman brought fame b. Man of Steel – Hero #1 (A hero is someone who commits a courageous actions with ou considering the consequences, someone who is larger than life) c. Horse Accident, Memorial Day 1995, on 3rd of 15 jumps, horse stopped and he fell, breaking his neck. ...read more

  • This Is Just A Commercial Brake: I Remember The ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Apr 3, 2007
     | 1,224 views

    This is just a commercial brake: I remember the church where I was youth leader. None of the 12 members of the board but me were under 60. And I came before them with a proposal. "Give me the permission and several Bibles to go door to door around the tires factory where I worked for a while. I’ll ...read more

  • There Is A Picture Mounted On One Of The Original ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 5, 2007
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    There is a picture mounted on one of the original Norman pillars of our Church here at St Nicholas’ Church in New Romney, Kent, England. You will find it on the pillar closest to the war memorial at the back of Church and it is about a game of Chess. In the picture, Faust is engaged in a ...read more

  • Personal Property In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    PERSONAL PROPERTY IN THE BIBLE Larry Burkett, the founder of Christian Financial Concepts, points out that the bible--with more than 700 references to money--says more about economics than many other subjects. He writes: "Money is such an important subject that nearly two-thirds of the parables ...read more

  • Your Spirit Does Matter

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    YOUR SPIRIT DOES MATTER A preacher wrote: "Today we have people who claim to be Christians shouting ’God hates fags’ at the funerals of soldiers who have died in Iraq, because these ’Christians’ believe God is punishing America for its tolerance of homosexuals. A recent editorial in the paper ...read more

  • Years Ago Bonnie Chamberlain Wrote A Story In The ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 13, 2009
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    Years ago Bonnie Chamberlain wrote a story in the Saturday Review that told of an artist who was once commissioned to paint in a Sicilian cathedral a mural depicting the life of Jesus. The painter accepted this task and made it his life’s work. He began by searching for people to be his models for ...read more

  • So How Do We Avoid Deception? There's Only One ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 27, 2009
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    So how do we avoid deception? There’s only one main way to do that: By studying the truth. I had heard years ago that bank tellers and such are trained to spot counterfeit money by studying the real stuff so much that they can spot the phony stuff right away. I wasn’t sure if that was really ...read more

  • Radical Revival

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    RADICAL REVIVAL Dr. J. Edwin Orr states, "I am convinced that more work for God could be done in six months of revival than in sixty years of any other kind of effort." If we as a church begin doing the work we are appointed with a touch of the radical, we will see more done in six months of ...read more

  • All Part Of God's Plan  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    ALL PART OF GOD’S PLAN In the opening pages of his autobiography, "An American Life," Ronald Reagan writes, I was raised to believe that God had a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan. My mother - a small woman with auburn hair and a sense of ...read more

  • Ninety-Nine Balloons

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on May 13, 2009
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    NINETY-NINE BALLOONS Eliot was born with an undeveloped lung, a heart with a hole in it and DNA that placed faulty information into each and every cell of his body. However, that could not stop the living God from proclaiming Himself through this boy who never uttered a word. Even though doctors ...read more

  • Roy Whetstine Was A Rock Collector Who Two Sons ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 8, 2009
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    Roy Whetstine was a rock collector whose two sons each had given him five dollars to buy a rock for them at a rock show. One table had a Tupperware container with a large potato-sized rock surrounded by a lot of agates. The sign read: “Any stone $15.” Roy picked up the big rock and asked, “You want ...read more

  • You'll Never Know

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 8, 2009
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    YOU'LL NEVER KNOW You may be going through some troubles right now. But trust in the Lord, because He will surely take care of you. He has already blessed and cared for us in countless ways. This week I thought back to one example from my life. It was over at Emmanuel Baptist Church in the ...read more

  • No True Freedom Without God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    NO TRUE FREEDOM WITHOUT GOD According to Mark Parsec, Independence Day "celebrates America’s Declaration of Independence from the tyranny of England under King George." The Declaration of Independence of 1776, he says, was not intended to declare war with England, nor did it actually establish our ...read more

  • Misconceptions

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 3, 2009
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    Jesus confronts all those misconceptions and says you can pray, this is how you do it (“Our Father”), and God does hear you. God is not out to punish you or play tricks on you by giving you poison when you need and ask for food. You don’t have to jump through all these man-made hoops. Ask, seek, ...read more

  • I Was Pumping And Finally My Friend Sorin Said, ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Sep 11, 2009
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    I was pumping and finally my friend Sorin said, “You know Ovidiu, I don’t think there is any water left down there… Oh yes, still there but deep down… And the good thing about the water that is deep down at 50 feet underground, is this: the deeper the water - the purer, the sweeter, the cooler ...read more

  • Battlefield Away From Home

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Sep 15, 2009
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    BATTLEFIELD AWAY FROM HOME He cherished every letter that came from her. His deployment had started six long months ago. No end date was in sight. These were the days before emails and webcams. Those handwritten letters from his sweetheart was his only lifeline out of those trenches to back home. ...read more

  • Shrek The Sheep Survives 6 Years In New Zealand ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
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    Shrek the Sheep Survives 6 Years in New Zealand Cave Do we need a savior – the story of Shrek the Sheep Have you heard the story of Shrek, the merino sheep that had evaded capture and shearing for 6 years? When he was finally discovered in his high mountain cave of New Zealand by musterer Ann ...read more

  • In The Trenches Of Life When Decisions Need To Be ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 9, 2009
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    In the trenches of life when decisions need to be made quickly, we often depend upon short principles that offer us immediate direction and give us spiritual instincts. C. Everett Koop is a great medical ethicist; when addressing end of life decision-making in a booklet he wrote for ...read more

  • Examples Of Famous People Who Tithed Before They ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
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    Examples of Famous People Who Tithed Before They Became Rich A young man accepted the call to become an African missionary but found on further examination that his wife could not stand the climate of Africa. It made her very sick. He was heartbroken, but he prayerfully returned to his home and ...read more