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  • I Told You I Was Reading A New Book By Max ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I told you I was reading a new book by Max Lucado called, “Come to the Sweet Spot.” This illustration was in this book. He had a daughter in college. He had set up a checking account for her so that she would have some money at school and could be responsible to pay her bills through this account. ...read more

  • Which Reminds Me Of Something I Heard About A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Which reminds me of something I heard about a famous preacher by the name of Peter Cartwright, who by the way, was converted during a camp meeting in Logan County in 1801. He surrendered to the ministry in 1802 and became one of the leaders of what we now refer to as the 2nd Great Awakening. ...read more

  • In The Year 1873, Haroatio Spafford, A Lawyer ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In the year 1873, Haroatio Spafford, a lawyer from Chicago, placed his wife and four daughters on the LUXURY LINER “Ville du Havre” sailing from New York to France. Spafford expected to JOIN them in about 3 or 4 weeks after finishing up some BUSINESS, but with the exception of his wife he never saw ...read more

  • A Pastor Shared Recently That He Has A Habit Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A Pastor shared recently that he has a habit of taping football games and watching them again—and again and again, if the game turns out right. He said, “Super Bowl 32 is one of my favorites, the one where the Broncos defeated Green Bay 31-24” (he was a Bronco fan.) “The first time I saw the game ...read more

  • When I Was In The Media, I Spent A Week In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    When I was in the media, I spent a week in Culion, Palawan. In fact, it was a holy week. Yes, that’s part of Palawan. But I don’t think you would like to go there. Culion was a leper colony. That’s where we quarantine or exile people afflicted with leprosy or Hansen’s disease in the past. When I ...read more

  • Today We Are All Rushing About Working For That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Today we are all rushing about working for that next pay raise. But what is that pay raise really going to profit us? We often can’t see the big picture for striving for something greater. Maybe we should have the attitude of this father. The young man was feeling very proud of himself. As a ...read more

  • Final Week

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Final week The mother of a nine-year-old boy named Mark received a phone call in the middle of the afternoon. It was the teacher from her son’s school. "Mrs. Smith, something unusual happened today in your son’s third grade class. Your son did something that surprised me so much that I thought you ...read more

  • The Sower

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The sower The story is told of a young man who had just started his new job in the produce department of a grocery store, when a woman came up to him asking to buy a half head of lettuce. As politely as he could, the young man said that “In this store, we don’t sell half heads of lettuce, we ...read more

  • The "Far Country" Leaves No Room For Error Or ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The “far country” leaves no room for error or adjustment. Lou Gehrig, the famous baseball player with the New York Yankees, once found himself in a pressure-filled moment during a game. Unwittingly, a New York sportswriter gave a lesson more about life than baseball when he wrote what ...read more

  • Twentieth Centuries. His Wife Was A Minister's ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 21, 2007
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    twentieth centuries. His wife was a minister’s daughter, and their Church was College Avenue Methodist Church in Somerville, Massachusetts [SOURCE: http://www.ethicalstl.org/platforms/platform071199.shtml]. Many of his, matter-of-fact poems still speak vividly to us today. I have always ...read more

  • Martyrdom Of Zewar, Christian Taxi ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 10, 2007
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    ILLUSTRATION : Martyrdom of Zewar, Christian taxi driver in Northern Iraq. After hostilities ceased in the Iraq war on the 9th of April 2003, an Open Doors team went to the country two weeks later. They visited church leaders primarily to tell them that we were praying for them, and were ready to ...read more

  • The Story Of William Tyndale From Garlow Pages ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 13, 2007
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    The story of William Tyndale from Garlow pages 238-239. i. William Tyndale could have enjoyed the life of a scholar. Instead he died a martyr. Many know his name. They know he’s important. But they know little of his life of profound sacrifice. Born in 1494, Tyndale was brilliant linguist with a ...read more

  • One Time I Was Leading A Retreat For Single, ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 24, 2008
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    One time I was leading a retreat for single, middle-age people, that is people in their 40s and 50s. When I looked on the roster, there was a man I knew was 75 if he were a day, but he had signed up so I didn’t question his age. He was a regular at the church and had gone on other retreats. I ...read more

  • Pastor And Author Stuart Briscoe Writes: I Was In ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ritter on Feb 2, 2008
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    Pastor and author Stuart Briscoe writes: I was in Edinburgh about a year ago speaking at Charlotte Chapel, and a delightful young lady gave her testimony. She had come back from Kabul, Afghanistan, where she was a missionary nurse. She said how she was really enjoying the work she was doing there, ...read more

  • The Late Rev. Dr. John Rowan Claypool Iv Served ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Feb 3, 2008
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    The late Rev. Dr. John Rowan Claypool IV served as a pastor for 47 years, first in Southern Baptist Congregations in the South and then from 1986 to 2000 as the Rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In his sermon entitled “The Future and Forgetting,” he shares this ...read more

  • I Didn't See The Wizard Of Oz Until Just Two ...

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Feb 7, 2008
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    I didn’t see the Wizard of Oz until just two years ago. Before that I had gotten to know the characters as they had been presented to me in pop culture here and there. I knew there was a little girl named Dorothy who came from a very unmagical land called Kansas. I knew she had a little dog named ...read more

  • This Past Week I Heard A Man Named Paul Peck ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Feb 14, 2008
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    This past week I heard a man named Paul Peck speak. He talked about watching the riots in Los Angeles in April of 1992 following the acquittal of the four white officers who beat Rodney King. Paul watched in horror as African Americans burned down their own communities and businesses, but instead ...read more

  • John Ortberg In His Book, "Everyone Is Normal ...

    Contributed by Alan Tison on Feb 21, 2008
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    John Ortberg In his book, “Everyone is normal until you get to know them” speaks of this dilemma of getting close to one another without getting hurt. With the following illustration; The North American Porcupine is a member of the rodent family and has about thirty thousand quills attached to his ...read more

  • Christian Herter Was The Governor Of ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Feb 21, 2008
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    Christian Herter was the governor of Massachusetts in the 1950’s the story is told of a time when he was campaigning, when he came across someone whom he was about to ignore, but found himself having to notice. Apparently, he was having a really hard day campaigning, missed his lunch and came in ...read more

  • Ron Mehl In His Book "The Ten(Der) Commandments ...

    Contributed by Darren Mccormick on Feb 26, 2008
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    Ron Mehl in his book “The Ten(der) Commandments shares these insightful thoughts, “As I write these words, February 14 draws nigh on my calendar. Unless you’re Charlie Brown or Saddam Hussein, you’ve probably given and received some special valentines in your life. You’ve probably had some things ...read more