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  • Light In The Darkness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 11, 2009
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    LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS I remember a story told to me by a friend who flew combat choppers in Viet Nam. He was radioed to a secret mission one night which required him to fly in total darkness, totally by instruments. Hovering above a jungle under heavy cloud cover, he told me that it seemed you ...read more

  • The Unjust Judge

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Mar 20, 2009
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    THE UNJUST JUDGE In 1964 when Muhammad Ali made his professional boxing debut, he was still known by his birth name of Cassius Clay. He won his bout against Sonny Liston with a Technical Knockout. Liston sustained injuries during the first 6 rounds of the bout and at the beginning of the 7th round ...read more

  • Money Money Money  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Conant on Apr 3, 2009
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     | 4,850 views

    MONEY MONEY MONEY Money magazine declared money was the number one obsession of Americans. Newsweek reports there is a new plane of consciousness called "transcendental acquisition." Its cover story of 8/27/01 tells of a woman saddled with debt who charged a diving trip to French East Indies. ...read more

  • Jeremy Was A Christian. He Had Been Saved At ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 6, 2009
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    Jeremy was a Christian. He had been saved at the age of 16, baptized, and was a faithful church member. When Jeremy chose a career, he did not pray about it or ask God for direction. He did what seemed obvious to him. When he dated, he was not careful to date only godly Christian women. When he ...read more

  • The Ruined Hunting Dog

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    THE RUINED HUNTING DOG Robert Moffatt, missionary to savage tribes of South Africa, translated the Bible into the native language of the people and taught the people to read. He watched the remarkable changes which the gospel brought in the lives of these formerly fierce warriors. He saw them show ...read more

  • Same Old Story...?  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Nichols on Apr 17, 2009
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    SAME OLD STORY...? The little boy was not exactly happy about going to church on Easter Sunday morning. His new shoes were to tight, his tie pinched his neck and the weather outside was just too beautiful to be cooped up inside...so as he sulked in the pew his parents heard him mutter to no one in ...read more

  • Crossing The River

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Apr 21, 2009
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    CROSSING THE RIVER Max Lucado in SIX HOURS ONE FRIDAY tells this story: A missionary in Brazil discovered a tribe of Indians in a remote part of the jungle. They lived near a large river. The tribe was in need of medical attention. A contagious disease was spreading across the village. People ...read more

  • One Way To Win: Bet It All

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 12, 2009
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    ONE WAY TO WIN: BET IT ALL God has the answers that we need. I often see people not trusting in God and truly seeking His face. Worshiping with others and seeking out the answers that we are looking for is often done superficially. We show up once or twice and wonder why "church" doesn't seem to ...read more

  • John ...

    Contributed by William Akehurst on May 19, 2009
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    John 4:35 One morning, my lawn was full of dandelions. They were beautiful. Most people hate them. My neighbors had treated their lawns, as there were but a few dandelions there. For anyone who likes dandelion salad, or indulges in what I have heard as dandelion wine, my yard was ready that ...read more

  • Canadian Poet John Mccrae Was A Surgeon In World ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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    Canadian poet John McCrae was a surgeon in World War I. On December 8, 1915, he published this poem to commemorate the deaths of thousands of young men who died in Flanders during the grueling battles there. Flanders covered southern Belgium and northwest France.) Legend has it that he was ...read more

  • The Need Of A Clarion ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    THE NEED OF A CLARION VOICE Sanders wrote in his epic book Spiritual leadership, "The church has always prospered most when it has been blessed with strong and spiritual leaders who expected and experienced the touch of God in their service. The lack of such men is a symptom of the malaise that ...read more

  • Covet Vs. Content

    Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Jul 6, 2009
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    COVET VS. CONTENT Imagine Thanksgiving dinner, surrounded by turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, vegetables, rolls, pecan pies, pumpkin pies, cakes, cookies, and more. You sit down at that meal and you eat your share of the food, but you don't over eat, you eat just the right amount ...read more

  • Resentment: Swing At Everything  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    RESENTMENT: SWING AT EVERYTHING One year Dave Hagler was working as an umpire in a rec-baseball league in Boulder, Colorado. Unfortunately, Dave got pulled over for speeding one day. He tried to talk the officer out of giving him a ticket. Dave asked for leniency since it could make his insurance ...read more

  • God's Jealous Nature Illustrated

    Contributed by Christopher Lanham on Jul 21, 2009
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    GOD'S JEALOUS NATURE ILLUSTRATED Let’s say you come home one day to find a stranger in your living room talking to your teenage daughter. He informs you that he has been chatting with your daughter online and says that he and your fourteen year-old are madly in love. He looks to be about forty. He ...read more

  • I Sat In A Courtroom As A Witness For The Motel ...

    Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 27, 2009
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    I sat in a courtroom as a witness for the motel I was working for, and, we were waiting on our case to come up, and one of the cases that was presented, was a man who stole food from a grocery store, and the reason he gave was that he and his family were hungry. Now, it is a terrible thing that we ...read more

  • Afraid Of What?

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 3, 2009
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    AFRAID OF WHAT? Jack Benson was a missionary to China. He was held up by some bandits who took all his valuables & then held a gun to his head & forced him to kneel in the road. They told him they were going to shoot him. Benson knelt calmly, maintaining his composure through it all. The ...read more

  • College Students Fail To Be Good ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
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    College Students Fail to be Good Samaritans Real compassion looks beyond the faults of people to see the pain beneath it all and to see the hunger in people’s hearts. In research done by Darley and Batson at Princeton in 1973, a group of theology students was told that they were to go across ...read more

  • Carrying Guilt

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 26, 2009
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    CARRYING GUILT When I was a summer chaplain, I visited a person in the ICU hooked up to the machines and such, and suddenly I was overwhelmed with grief that I also had a strong panic attack. Although the patient looked nothing like my grandfather, I was just suddenly stuck with the picture of him ...read more

  • I Was Filling In As Pulpit Supply Years Ago, When ...

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Nov 9, 2009
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    I was filling in as pulpit supply years ago, when I was approached by a man after the service. He looked me straight in the eyes and said, “That has to be worst sermon I’ve ever heard.” Then he turned and stormed out of the church. I felt crushed. I’d worked hard on that sermon; praying that it ...read more

  • Atheist Thankful For A Beautiful ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2009
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    Atheist Thankful for a Beautiful Morning One morning a woman who was a known atheist stepped out of her home on the hillside and was taken back by what a beautiful morning it was. The Cook Inlet sparkled, the air was fresh and crisp, the sky was a blue as she had ever seen it and Denali loomed over ...read more

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