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  • Hudson Taylor Learns About ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2010
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    Hudson Taylor Learns About Giving One wonderful testimony of faith from church history is that of Hudson Taylor, the first missionary to the interior of China (in the mid-1800s). He was a great evangelist because he learn “to move man, through God, by prayer alone.” To prepare for the loneliness ...read more

  • Hottubs And Jesus  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Feb 26, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 2,803 views

    HOTTUBS AND JESUS “The other day ...as I sat there savoring hot tubness, cracking small jokes and adjusting to the feel of being bubbled over from all angles, it struck me that the hot tub is the perfect symbol of the modern route in religion. The hot tub experience is sensuous, relaxing, floppy, ...read more

  • Jesus The Rosetta Stone

    Contributed by Stephen Collins on Dec 11, 2008
     | 2,236 views

    JESUS THE ROSETTA STONE Do remember the Rosetta Stone from history class in school? What was it? It was a tablet that was discovered that allowed archeologists to translate ancient, Egyptian hieroglyphics to modern-day languages. Without the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, all the ancient ...read more

  • Losing Jesus

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 13, 2010
     | 2,765 views

    LOSING JESUS For about 14 years, I have been teaching AWANA. I teach each of our three division, beginning with a puppet skit and then a flannel graph lesson with felt figures. I taught the Christmas Story to the Sparks, K-2nd grade, then I moved everything into the auditorium to teach the Flames ...read more

  • Boat Builder Learns About ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2010
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    Boat Builder Learns about Humility Skip looked at the group of suspicious stockholders and wondered what he could do to convince them to follow his leadership. He was 35, looked 13 and was third generation rich. He could tell they thought they were headed for a disaster. He told them a story. His ...read more

  • Amazed By Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    AMAZED BY JESUS Many years ago – in the confines of a barracks room, a young sailor decided not to go out partying with his friends. He invested that evening reading the Bible - very specifically – reading the Gospel of John. The room was mostly dark except for the light of the little study desk ...read more

  • Jfk And Jesus  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,309 views

    JFK AND JESUS Several years ago, in the Tufts University Daily paper, Ananda Gupta wrote an article arguing that the parts of the bible that promote a belief in the resurrection were “not good history.” His based his argumento on what he called "a typical standard for reliable history -- ...read more

  • Questions Help You Learn...?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
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    QUESTIONS HELP YOU LEARN...? A father and his small son were out walking one day when the lad asked how electricity could go through the wires stretched between the telephone poles. "I don't know," said his father. "I never knew much about electricity." A few blocks farther on, the boy asked ...read more

  • Imaginary Jesus

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
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    IMAGINARY JESUS Matt Mikalatos has written a fictional story entitled, "Imaginary Jesus." In that story the main character encounters a wide variety of people who claim to be Jesus, but who actually represent our diverse and ever-changing depictions of who we want Jesus to be and the roles we want ...read more

  • Mistaken For Jesus

    Contributed by Grant Macdonald on Nov 14, 2011
     | 2,937 views

    MISTAKEN FOR JESUS Jeff Walling tells the story of Darrel. Darrel was a forty year-old youth worker. One service a month, the youth in his church went to Hokem Manor, which was an old age home. The old people would be wheeled in for the service. Some of them were aware, and others of them weren't. ...read more

  • The "Glue" Of Jesus

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jun 22, 2011
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    THE "GLUE" OF JESUS The diameter of the Earth around the equator is 7,926.6 miles. The earth’s circumference is about 25,000 miles. It weighs an estimated 6,000 million, million, million tons. And it just hangs there in mid air. Not held up by anything visible. The earth is spinning 1,000 ...read more

  • Allah Or Jesus?  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Dec 15, 2003
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    Allah or Jesus? Last month I attended my annual training session that’s required for mai ntaining my state prison security clearance. During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths who explained their belief ...read more

  • George Barna Wrote The State Of The Church In ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 17, 2009
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    George Barna wrote The State of the Church in 2002. Barna conducted a survey of self-pronounced Christians and here’s what he found about their knowledge of the Bible. These are Christians. • 48% could not name the four Gospels. • 52% cannot identify more than two or three of Jesus’ ...read more

  • You Can Be A Little Ungrammatical Is You Come ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    You can be a little ungrammatical is you come from the ...read more

  • When Our Children Will Run To School And Walk ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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     | 1,144 views

    "When our children will run to school and walk from school, I will know that our teachers are ...read more

  • Does The Road Wind Up-Hill All The Way? Yes, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,359 views

    "Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the days journey take the whole long ...read more

  • The Point Is To Develop The Childlike ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands ...read more

  • Most Of Us Are Tiptoeing Through Life So We Can ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, If I should wake before I die. Life can get away ...read more

  • 63 Year-Old Man Went To School His Whole Life But ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
     | 4,473 views

    63 year-old Man Went to School His Whole Life but Never Worked Richard DeHaan shares this illustration: "I read about a man in New York City who died at the age of 63 without ever having had a job. He spent his entire adult life in college. He had acquired so many academic degrees that they looked ...read more

  • Complicated Directions

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
     | 4,092 views

    COMPLICATED DIRECTIONS Matt Woodly, a father of four, talks about buying his children a swing set, about 15 years ago, as an early Christmas present. It was an extra long metal set with two swings, a two-seater swinging bench, a slide, monkey bars, and a series of hanging rings. He thought the ...read more

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