Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
The Greeks had two great athletic festivals. One of them you are all familiar with. Its is the … (Let them answer). Right! The Olympic games. The second great athletic festival was called the Isthmian games. The Isthmian games were held at Corinth, so the people Paul was writing to were very
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Forgiving Jerks
There's great power in our hands. It's the power to forgive a jerk-bully, a jerk-cheater, a jerk-thief. It’s powerful because it's unexpected. Jerks expect us to cry, run, or take revenge. The last thing they expect is forgiveness. That's why it's so disarming. Forgive them
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer told a story on the subject of prayer. A certain minister was in the habit of profound prayers, oftentimes resorting to words beyond the understanding of his simple flock. This went on week after week, to the dismay and frustration of the congregation.
At last, a wee
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 15, 2009
BETTER THAN A LIGHT
It was Christmas Eve 1946, King George the Sixth, reined over Great Britain. They had been bombed; they were broke and barren of any hope of the future. That Christmas Eve night he got on the radio to make an address to his nation. These were that last known words he spoke to
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Contributed by David Baeder on Jun 10, 2009
ALLURE OF LUST AND GREED
Last night they had another one of those Dateline stings. In the sting, an undercover agent poses as a 13-15 year old on the internet, in one of those on-line chat rooms. Almost every man who came to a house to meet an underage girl for immoral purposes had seen previous
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 7, 2009
HATE
One of the worst cases of hatred I have ever come across is found in a will written in 1935 by a Mr. Donohoe. It says, "Unto my two daughters, Frances Marie and Denise Victoria, by reason of their unfilial attitude toward a doting father...I leave the sum of $1.00 to each and a father's
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Mar 12, 2010
WHEN GOD FORGIVES, HE FORGETS
How different God’s pardon is from ours! So often we forgive as did the mother of the little girl who had been good a whole week, and asked mother for a favor. "I know," was the answer, "that you have been good all this week, but you know you were bad last week."
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 19, 2011
WHAT GETS YOUR ATTENTION?
Two friends were sitting together in a café when a noisy car alarm interrupted their conversation. One friend said: "What good are car alarms when no one pays any attention to them?"
The other friend said "Some are quite effective. Last summer, my teenager spent a lot
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Brethren
Contributed by Edward Frey on Aug 8, 2001
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Those of you who are sports fans probably remember the opening monologue to the TV sports broadcast, “Wide, Wide, World of Sports.” The opening shots depicted athletes from all kinds of sports. As the footage rolled on, so came those immortal words: “The thrill of victory and the agony of
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Lutheran
Contributed by Peter Thelander on Oct 31, 2001
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One of the powerful figures in Wall Street fell in love with an actress. For many months he was always seen escorting her about in the fashionable circles of town. Deciding to marry her, he first put a private detective to the job of looking into her former dealings and friends in order to guard
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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I remember reading a Peanuts cartoon strip in which Lucy comes up to her brother Charlie Brown and does something that is very unusual for her. She says--I love you. But Charlie Brown keeps responding by saying: no you don’t. And each time Lucy answers a little louder: yes I do, I really love you.
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 27, 2002
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A girl of ten years went with a group of family and friends to see the Christmas light displays at various locations throughout the city. At one church, they stopped and got out to look more closely at a beautifully done nativity scene.
“Isn’t that beautiful?” said the little girl’s
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Baptist
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When I was up in SUNDERLAND three months ago, when I heard Suzette Hattingh speak.
She told us how she held a crusade in Yapura on the island of Irian Jaya.
And the miracles that she saw. The Indonesian army offered the use of 110 trucks to bus people to the meetings free of charge.
Thousands
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Anglican
Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 13, 2003
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Folks, the resurrection story is believable. You can believe in the death of Jesus. You can believe in the empty tomb. You can believe in the appearances Jesus made afterwards. It still takes a certain amount of faith to accept it as your own, but it’s like riding a bike. According the laws of
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