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  • Every Person Among Us At One Time Or Another Has ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Every person among us at one time or another has felt the distress of discouragement to tug at our hearts and dampen our spirits. Thomas Edison -- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Dale Carnegie -- Develop success from ...read more

  • A Youth Minister Was Attending A Special ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A youth minister was attending a Special Olympics where handicapped children competed with tremendous dedication & enthusiasm. One event was the 220-yard dash, Contestants lined up at the starting line, & at the signal, started running as fast as they could. One boy by the name of Andrew quickly ...read more

  • Love Stories Of Over-Comers, Like…  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jul 21, 2007
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    love stories of over-comers, like… o Johnny Fulton, who was run over by a car at the age of three. He suffered crushed hips, broken ribs, a fractured skull, and compound fractures in his legs. It didn’t look as if he would live. But he would not give up. In fact, he later ran the half-mile in ...read more

  • In The Russian Orthodox Church. The Standard ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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    In the Russian Orthodox Church. the standard greeting is: "Christ is Risen!" to which someone would reply: "He is risen indeed!" Years ago, when the Communists began to take control of Russia, a Communist party official came to a village to try and convert its residents there to Communism. He ...read more

  • Story: A Young Man Who Had Been Raised As An ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Sep 15, 2007
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    Story: A young man who had been raised as an atheist –was training to be an Olympic diver. The only religious influence in his life came from his outspoken Christian friend. The young diver never really paid much attention to what his friend said about Jesus. One night the diver went to the ...read more

  • In My Childhood I Collected Coins. It Was My ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Oct 2, 2007
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    In my childhood I collected coins. It was my hobby. During WW II copper was a very valuable metal used in the war effort. The U.S. Mint was asked to produce a steel penny so in 1943 they did just that. One day I ran across 3 steel pennies in mint condition. I bought them, went home, and put ...read more

  • A Man Who Was A School Teacher Reflected Upon A ...

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Dec 30, 2007
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    A man who was a school teacher reflected upon a Christmas experience. He said, "At Christmas the kids always brought me gifts. They brought them in different types of boxes but after a while I was pretty savvy about what the gifts were. There would be a thin handkerchief box. I knew it was a ...read more

  • Parents Are Taking A More Active Role In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Parents are taking a more active role in the lives of their children than they did 10 years ago, reports the Census Bureau. In '04, 47% of teens had restrictions on TV viewing, up from 40% in '94. 68% of 3-5-year-olds had TV viewing limits in '04 vs. 54% in '94. Kids' 6-11 viewing restrictions grew ...read more

  • Civil War General Desires Baptism After Being ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2009
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    Civil War General Desires Baptism After being Mortally Wounded Gen. William Nelson, a Union general in the Civil War, was consumed with the battles in Kentucky when a brawl ended up in his being shot, mortally, in the chest. He had faced many battles, but the fatal blow came while he was relaxing ...read more

  • As A Young Man, Augustine Packed A Lot Of Life ...

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jan 11, 2010
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    As a young man, AUGUSTINE packed a lot of life into a few years. He was a brilliant professor on the fast track with powerful Roman politicians. Yet despite his success and pursuit of pleasure, his soul was restless. His mother was a devout Christian, but Augustine wasn't interested in ...read more

  • Edison: Complete Forgiveness

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 26, 2010
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    EDISON: COMPLETE FORGIVENESS When Thomas Edison and his staff were developing the incandescent light bulb, according to Ken Sande, it took hundreds of hours to manufacture a single bulb. One day, after finishing a bulb, notes Sande, Edison handed it to a young errand boy and asked him to take it ...read more

  • Jesus And Satan Have A Discussion As To Who Is ...

    Contributed by Noel Atkinson on May 30, 2010
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    Jesus and Satan have a discussion as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest, with God as the judge. They sit themselves at their computers and begin. They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several ...read more

  • William Carey Fights Discouragement

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 15, 2010
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    WILLIAM CAREY FIGHTS DISCOURAGEMENT William Carey, the father of the modern missionary movement, arrived in India in 1793 with a burden to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to those who had never heard the name. For seven years he proclaimed the gospel message faithfully week after week, month ...read more

  • Have You Found Jesus?

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 9, 2010
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    HAVE YOU FOUND JESUS? One Sunday afternoon there was a drunken man who was staggering down a country path. He came upon a baptismal service at a pond. There were many to be baptized that day and the drunk, not knowing what was going on, got in the line to be baptized. Finally it was the drunk's ...read more

  • More Than A Black Mark

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    MORE THAN A BLACK MARK A preacher was addressing his congregation when he held up a large piece of paper. He then took from his pocket a marker pen and made a black dot in the centre of it. Then he held the paper up before the people and asked them what they saw. One person quickly replied, "I ...read more

  • Church Conflict

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2011
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    CHURCH CONFLICT In Winchester, Ohio there’s a church called the Bethlehem Church of Christ. It’s been in existence for over 150 years, and over the years different events have been recorded in their “history” book. One of their recent ministers was reading back over the different entries in this ...read more

  • Musalaha In Jerusalem

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 30, 2011
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    MUSALAHA IN JERUSALEM Musalaha is a charity in the Holy Land working for reconciliation. It is an Arabic word that means "reconciliation" and I recently received this communication from the head of Musalaha - Salim Munayer, who writes: At the end of 2010, more than 150 people assembled, stood ...read more

  • Raffling A Dead Donkey

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 13, 2011
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    RAFFLING A DEAD DONKEY Jean Paul, a Cajun, moved to Texas and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, but I got some bad news. The donkey died." "Well then, just give me my money ...read more

  • Standing In Worship

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 9, 2011
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    STANDING IN WORSHIP Jesus stands in God’s presence--he stands, because he has trodden death and the power of the Evil One underfoot. At the end of this struggle, he is the one who stands upright, the one who remains standing. This standing is also an expression of readiness: Christ is standing ...read more

  • Bound To Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 29, 2012
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    BOUND TO CHRIST F.B. Meyer wrote about two Germans who wanted to climb the Matterhorn. They hired three guides and began their ascent at the steepest and most slippery part. The men roped themselves together in this order: guide, traveler, guide, traveler, guide. They had gone only a little way ...read more