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  • One Of My All-Time Favorite Teachers Was Don ...

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jun 29, 2009
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    One of my all-time favorite teachers was Don Wilton. One day in class, Dr. Wilton told us about getting to serve on Billy Graham’s team for a crusade in Korea. Dr. Wilton told about sitting on the platform one night during the invitation, -- right next to Billy Graham. Dr. Wilton couldn’t help ...read more

  • Mark Hooper Was My Professor Of World Religions ...

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Jan 22, 2010
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    Mark Hooper was my professor of World Religions in college. He once told the class about a missionary trip he took to India. While he was there he met and befriended a local fellow who was a Buddhist. This man took Dr. Hooper around; showing him the sites and helping him get acquainted with the ...read more

  • The Judge In The Criminal Case Of The State Vs. ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
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    The judge in the criminal case of the state vs. Bob Jones said, “The defendant will rise as the charges are read.” Mr. Jones’s attorney stood and motioned for Mr. Jones to stand, but he remained seated. The judge then asked, "Mr. Jones, are you the defendant in this case?" "No sir, your honor, ...read more

  • Tithing

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Oct 21, 2010
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    I am very grateful for the people who (when I was an 18 year old student) taught me to tithe. At the time they had very little to get out of it - it was a church full of students. Students don’t have very much money - and 10% is not very much, not at all very much. Coupled with that, we were ...read more

  • Wise Men Came From Afar

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 5, 2010
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    WISE MEN CAME FROM AFAR Most people know that Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, but they really do not understand as much as we think they do. In a small Southern town there was a "Nativity Scene" that showed great skill and talent had gone into creating it. One small feature ...read more

  • Sabbath Vs. Little League

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 1, 2011
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     | 4,339 views

    SABBATH VS. LITTLE LEAGUE The NT changes several things about the Sabbath. However, it is wise to observe a time of rest and worship. A couple of years ago Roman Catholic Cardinal John O' Connor took on Little League baseball because many altar boys were missing Sunday services. He wanted ...read more

  • Oswald Chambers On Conviction Of Sin  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
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    OSWALD CHAMBERS ON CONVICTION OF SIN Oswald Chambers: "Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict of sin, and when the Holy Spirit rouses the conscience and ...read more

  • Mom's One-Line Sermons

    Contributed by Jim Bennett on May 7, 2011
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    MOM'S ONE-LINE SERMONS In John 2:5, at the wedding in Cana, Mary, mother of Jesus, tells the servants, "Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it." That's "Mary's One-Line Sermon." Now, my mom preached some great one-line sermons to me as I was growing up. She had a one-line sermon from Revelation ...read more

  • Be Like Mike...?  PRO

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jun 2, 2011
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    BE LIKE MIKE...? Gary Thomas, in his book Authentic Faith, describes a friend of his named Mike. He met Mike when he went to college. Mike was a leader among students. He had everything: a contagious personality, athletic ability, good looks, and natural appeal. And everybody wanted to be around ...read more

  • The Liberty Bell

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Jul 6, 2011
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    THE LIBERTY BELL One of the most, iconic symbols of our national heritage --the Liberty Bell --hangs magnificently in the city of brotherly love. In 1751, the Pennsylvania Assembly ordered the bell to commemorate the commonwealth's fiftieth anniversary of William Penn's 1701 Charter of ...read more

  • Do You Believe The Easter Story?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
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     | 5,930 views

    DO YOU BELIEVE THE EASTER STORY? I heard a story about a family that tragically lost three of their four children within just two weeks to a deadly, virulent disease. One child was left--a four year old boy. The family had buried the third child just two weeks before Easter. On Easter morning ...read more

  • Faith In The Colombian Jungle

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Aug 10, 2011
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    FAITH IN THE COLOMBIAN JUNGLE A man named Bruce Olson went to Colombia many years ago as a missionary to the headhunters in the far southern jungle, near the border with Brazil. The book that tells his story is Bruchko, the name the Indians called him since they couldn't wrap their tongues around ...read more

  • Have No Fear Of Sudden Disaster...

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Oct 27, 2011
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    HAVE NO FEAR OF SUDDEN DISASTER... I was taking Julie and the boys on the Blue Ridge Parkway from Asheville to Boone, North Carolina. First of all let me say we didn't make it. I rounded a corner in the road and all of a sudden you could see down a couple thousand feet. The "Grip" came on, my ...read more

  • Taste Is All Wrong

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Nov 29, 2011
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    TASTE IS ALL WRONG I remember one of the stories from the Chronicles of Narnia from the book "The Last Battle." It was the story of a number of dwarfs who just didn't believe in Aslan (who represented Jesus Christ in all the books). They were blind to reality refusing to be "taken in" by those ...read more

  • Start With Just One

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on May 8, 2012
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    START WITH JUST ONE Dawson Trotman, founder of the Navigators, tells the story of a 23 year old Sailor that he spent time discipling. He spent many hours with this young man in the Word and the importance of being a witness for the Lord and leading other sailors to Jesus. A month later the ...read more

  • Devoting Yourself

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 21, 2014
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    DEVOTING YOURSELF When it says they "devoted themselves" it means they were steadfast or single minded in purpose or desire. They wanted it and they were going after it, so to speak. In 2008 Sanya Richards-Ross competed in the 400 Meter in Beijing. She started the race strong and built a ...read more

  • Reflecting The Light  PRO

    Contributed by Everette Pafford on Feb 27, 2014
    based on 6 ratings
     | 8,779 views

    REFLECTING THE LIGHT A well-known Bible teacher has just finished speaking to a large class of business people on the Christians' responsibility to be light in the world. He had emphasized the as believers we all have the obligation to reflect the Light in the world, the Lord Jesus. After the ...read more

  • Orphans

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 24, 2014
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     | 8,901 views

    Rubel Shelly tells of his friends Rich and Patty White, who traveled to a 3rd world country to adopt a little girl named Olona. After 2 years of effort and paperwork, the Whites stood before a judge who read words from an official document: “Inasmuch as Olona Morgan is orphaned and unwanted by ...read more

  • Smell The Rain

    Contributed by Dr. David Hallum on Sep 10, 2015
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     | 6,533 views

    When my daughter Cynthia was a little girl, we lived in Odessa, TX. We made one of the pilgrimages that we did from time to time to see my wife, Rosemary’s family. Rosemary’s brother, Michael was in town at the time from the Navy. Now in West Texas, rain is a beautiful thing. We got one of ...read more

  • If People Are Coming.....the Product Must Be Good!

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Mar 1, 2016
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     | 6,149 views

    In his awesome book, Selling Jesus, by Douglas D. Webster, the author gives an incredible quote about the lack of spiritual discernment in American church growth and marketing today: "American Christianity is increasingly tolerant of any and all methods, as long as they bring NUMERICAL results. ...read more