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  • Keith Hernandez Is One Of Baseball's Top Players. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Keith Hernandez is one of baseball’s top players. He is a lifetime .300 hitter who has won numerous Golden Glove awards for excellence in fielding. He’s won a batting championship for having the highest average, the Most Valuable Player award in his league, and even the World Series. Yet with all ...read more

  • Writer Amos Wells Reflected Our Need For Thorough ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Writer Amos Wells reflected our need for thorough Bible study in this verse: I supposed I knew my Bible, Reading peacemeal, hit or miss, Now a bit of John or Matthew, Now a snatch of Genesis, Certain chapters of Isaiah, Certain Psalms (the twenty-third), Twelfth of Romans, first of Proverbs ...read more

  • A Man In Spokane (Mr. Russell) Had Arranged For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    A man in Spokane (Mr. Russell) had arranged for the minister from Fourth Memorial church to have his wedding. The day came and the minister didn’t. The minister sent a replacement. The man was upset, and never forgot the incident. 30 years later Carolyn had a garage sale. My mother was there ...read more

  • What Is Carnality? According To The Greek ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    What is carnality? According to the Greek dictionary, it means to have the nature and characteristics of the flesh (or more simply, it means "fleshly"). What, then , is the flesh? Sometimes it refers to the whole material part of man (1 Corinthians 15:39; Hebrews 5:7), and based on this meaning, ...read more

  • The Bait Of Satan

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 1, 2006
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    John Bevere taught us from the “Bait of Satan” They (Christians) think churches are like cafeterias; they can pick and choose what they like! They feel the freedom to stay as long as there are no problems. But this does not agree at all with what the Bible teaches. You are not the one who chooses ...read more

  • Images Are Highly Influential. They Become ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Jul 25, 2006
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    Images are highly influential. They become emblazoned on the wall of our minds and they evoke a wide range of responses. Millions of people will remember the fireman carrying the baby out of the ruins of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Neil Armstrong taking that first step on the moon ...read more

  • Years Ago A Young Minister Visited Dundee, ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Sep 19, 2006
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    Years ago a young minister visited Dundee, Scotland, deeply concerned that his ministry was producing such meager results. He decided to visit the scene where years before Robert Murray McCheyne had ministered in such evident power of the Spirit of God. McCheyne died at the age of 30, but not ...read more

  • In Spain In The 11th Century, The Following Hymn, ...

    Contributed by Vic Folkert on Dec 1, 2006
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    In Spain in the 11th century, the following hymn, Adon Olam [Lord of the World], was sung in Jewish synagogues: Lord of the world-he reigned alone While yet the universe was naught, When by his will all things were wrought, Then first his sovereign Name was known. And, when the all shall cease to ...read more

  • Source: ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Jan 22, 2007
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    [SOURCE: http://www.ocap.ca/songs/leanonme.html]. The Prince of Peace reminds us in John 16:33, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” Until He returns or calls us home, we are going to ...read more

  • An Interesting Incident Happened During The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Feb 8, 2007
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    An interesting incident happened during the victorious march of Alexander the Great to conquer the known world for the Grecian empire. A young soldier became greatly frightened in the heat of battle, dropped his sword and shield and fled. An officer dispatched several soldiers to apprehend the ...read more

  • U.s. Workers Feel Rushed On The Job, But Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    U.S. Workers feel rushed on the job, but are getting less accomplished due to technology intended to make work quicker and easier. “Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it’s slowed everything down, paradoxically,” says John Challenger, Challenger, Gray & Christmas ...read more

  • The Hermit Seeking To Know God Better

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 22, 2007
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    ILLUSTRATION: The Hermit Seeking to know God better, John Chrysostom became a hermit in the mountains near Antioch in A.D. 373. Although his time of isolation was cut short by illness, he learned that with God at his side, he could attend alone against anyone or anything. That lesson served ...read more

  • Years Ago A Young Minister Visited Dundee, ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
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    Years ago a young minister visited Dundee, Scotland, deeply concerned that his ministry was producing such meager results. He decided to visit the scene where years before Robert Murray McCheyne had ministered in such evident power of the Spirit of God. McCheyne died at the age of 30, but not ...read more

  • Have You Ever Had An Instructor For A Course Who ...

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Oct 6, 2007
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    Have you ever had an instructor for a course who was born and raised in an eastern culture? -Did they teach differently than your western instructors? -I had two professors in seminary who were easterners. One was from India and the other from Korea. -Westerners are all about the facts – don’t ...read more

  • Consumers Don't Spend Any More Time Standing In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Consumers don’t spend any more time standing in line to examine your product than their grandparents did, but they have a lot more lines to choose from. So if one line isn’t moving at a speed they like, they move to another one. Today marketers have to give their customers more than the traditional ...read more

  • God Does The Remembering

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Aug 7, 2008
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    GOD DOES THE REMEMBERING A 91-year-old lady reads the Scriptures regularly, but now her memory is failing her. Friends commented, "So what’s the use of all this reading when you cannot remember what you’ve read." Her answer is always the same. "God has blessed me richly. I eat well and sleep ...read more

  • In A Little Fishing Village In Scotland, The ...

    Contributed by Betty Johnson on Sep 22, 2008
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    In a little fishing village in Scotland, the people gathered to welcome home a fishing vessel that had been away at sea for many days. As the boat neared the shore, the men gazed eagerly toward the dock where a group of their loved ones were waiting. The skipper, looking through his telescope, ...read more

  • Thou Wast A Bond-Man

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 18, 2009
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    Thou Wast a Bond-Man John Newton, the former slave-ship captain, was so grateful for God’s gracious dealings with him that when the vicarage at Olney was refurbished he had two sentences from Isaiah 43:4 and Deuteronomy 15:15 painted over the fireplace of his study: ’Since thou wast precious in my ...read more

  • Only One Boy

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Feb 6, 2009
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    "Only One Boy" One missionary to China tells of a boy who "prepared the way" for Jesus in a certain village. The missionary had never visited this village before. "Are there any Christians in your village?" he asked a man. "Only one boy," was the answer. The missionary walked on, and stopping at ...read more

  • I Am One Of Them

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    I AM ONE OF THEM As a third-century man was anticipating death, he penned these last words to a friend: "It’s a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy, which is a thousand times ...read more