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  • C.s. Lewis Said, "The Gospel Means We Can Stop ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    C.S. Lewis said, “The gospel means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us. As a sinner who has been ...read more

  • Reader's Digest Told Of A Factory Worker Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Reader’s Digest told of a factory worker who refused to sign up for group insurance. The problem was no policy could be issued until all employees signed up. Yet he held out stubbornly. The foreman begged him to sign; the shop foreman pleaded with him; the plant superintendent and general manager ...read more

  • Two Hundred Years Ago, On 25th March 1807, The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Two hundred years ago, on 25th March 1807, the British parliament voted in favour of a law that would have consequences all around the known world. This new law was the abolition of human slavery. This act of 1807 was one of the most humanitarian pieces of legislation ever enacted in a British ...read more

  • A Disease Left Helen Keller Blind And Deaf As A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A disease left Helen Keller blind and deaf as a very young girl. Her family hired Anne Sullivan to take care of Helen. Through Anne’s tireless and selfless efforts, Helen finally learned to communicate through touch and even learned to talk. When Anne first told Helen about God, the girl’s response ...read more

  • Thirdly, And Finally, We Need To Rise With ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Thirdly, and finally, we need to rise with Jesus, the Christ I don’t know if any of you knew this; but, the late great Prime Minister and British Statesman, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965), arranged his own funeral. There were stately hymns in St Paul’s Cathedral, in London, ...read more

  • Let's Be Honest. In A Culture That Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Let’s be honest. In a culture that is increasingly hostile to Christians and their faith, it’s not always easy to confess Jesus. April 20 will be the 8th anniversary of the day Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold gunned down a dozen students and one teacher at Columbine High School. Although it was not ...read more

  • Martin Luther Had A Dream Where He Was Being ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Martin Luther had a dream where he was being attacked by the devil. The devil unrolled a long scroll containing a list of Luther’s sins, and held it before him. On reaching the end of the scroll Luther asked the devil, “Is that all?” The devil said, “No,” and a second scroll was placed in front of ...read more

  • I Remember Taking A Bike Trip Through The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 1, 2007
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    I remember taking a bike trip through the country as a small boy. As we traveled back roads we came upon one of those small transformer power plants. You have seen the them, surrounded by chain like fence and barbed wire around the top. And a big red sign with white sign with white letters saying ...read more

  • A Class Would Consist Of No More Than 20 People. ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Aug 25, 2007
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    A Class would consist of no more than 20 people. Today an ideal size is between four and twelve. Wesley had three “General Rules of the Methodist Class Meetings” for which each class member was expected to give a verbal account as to their personal progress the past week. These three “General ...read more

  • What God The Father, God The Son And God The Holy ...

    Contributed by Richard Wafford on Oct 18, 2007
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    What God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit endeavored to do in the Garden of Eden has come full circle. It wasn’t that God made a mistake in the garden and just corrected it. No, he brought to himself created beings who withstood the evil and temptations of this sinful world to truly ...read more

  • A Christmas Poem  PRO

    Contributed by Aaron Hand on Dec 22, 2007
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    [A Christmas Poem] The King of Kings, the Lord of Lords Came to earth for you and me. The salvation I could not afford He paid for on Calvary. What could I ever give Him That would thank Him for His Son? I’ll confess, and turn from my sin And live in the victory won! I often lose sight ...read more

  • In Somewhere Between 65 And 70 Ad, A Legendary ...

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Dec 30, 2007
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    In somewhere between 65 and 70 AD, a legendary story about the Apostle Peter arose. The great fire of Rome was burning and smoldering. Apostle Peter a leader of the church and evangelist at the time was fleeing Rome. Reportedly, Peter saw a vision of Jesus carrying a cross into Rome. Peter stopped ...read more

  • False Prophets Talk Much About The Love Of God ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 2, 2008
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    False prophets talk much about the love of God but nothing of His holiness, much about people who are deprived but nothing about those who are depraved, much about God’s universal fatherhood of every human being but nothing about His unique fatherhood only of those who are His children through ...read more

  • Truth – Have You Found It…  PRO

    Contributed by Selvan John on Apr 2, 2008
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    Truth – have you found it… Truth is contemplated, says Plato Truth is reasoned, says Aristotle Truth is variable, says the Contextualists Truth is real, says the Realist Truth could be real, says the Skeptic Truth is inevitable, says the Investigator Truth is subconscious, says Freud Truth is ...read more

  • A Clean Slate

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 27, 2008
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    A CLEAN SLATE A little boy was told by his mother not to play near a certain pond. One day the temptation was too much, and, venturing too close, he fell into the water. He was very conscious of his wrongdoing, and most uncomfortable. So he wrote on his school slate: "Dear Mother, I am sorry I ...read more

  • Too Good For Your Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    TOO GOOD FOR YOUR CHURCH A good set of clothes makes all the difference. A Methodist church tried to get a man to attend, but he never did. "Why don't you come?" the minister asked, and the man finally admitted it was because he didn't have proper clothes. So a member of the congregation took him ...read more

  • Luther's Dream

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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    Luther's Dream The Good News: We are freed from all things; from which we could not be freed. In a dream, Martin Luther found himself being attacked by Satan. The devil unrolled a long scroll containing a list of Luther's sins, and held it before him. On reaching the end of the scroll Luther ...read more

  • A Pardon Must Be Accepted  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Dec 31, 2008
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    A PARDON MUST BE ACCEPTED About the year 1830, a man named George Wilson killed a government employee who caught him in the act of robbing the mails. He was tried and sentenced to be hanged. However, President Andrew Jackson sent him a pardon. But Wilson did a strange thing. He refused to accept ...read more

  • Laminin

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 30, 2009
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    LAMININ Now here is the craziest thing. It is amazing. Some of you probably have seen this. In Christ, all things are held together. The heavens. The earth. And even our bodies. This is amazing. It is totally outrageous. And we call it Laminin. I first heard this through a preach named Louie ...read more

  • John Howard Griffin Was A White Man Who Believed ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 3, 2009
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    John Howard Griffin was a white man who believed he could never understand the plight of African-Americans unless he became like one. In 1959, he darkened his skin with medication, sun lamps, and stains, then traveled throughout the South. His book, Black Like Me, helped whites better understand ...read more