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  • Mothers Live For Others  PRO

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Sep 29, 2011
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     | 4,625 views

    MOTHERS LIVE FOR OTHERS We've got all sorts of people here this morning. One thing we have got a lot of is mothers. Some of you, your children are long grown up. But you have the experience of having been a mother. So? Well, every mother lives her life for another. And that is what the church ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Jesus Had A Rose

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    JESUS HAD A ROSE Judy Packard of Lake Leelanau, Michigan, talks about the time her neighbor, visiting the Holy Land, sent a letter describing the beautiful gardens. Her 6-year-old mused, "I wonder if he saw the rose." "What rose?" Judy asked. "You know," said her child, "like the Bible women ...read more

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  • Jesus, Buddha And Mohammed

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on May 19, 2016
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    JESUS, BUDDHA AND MOHAMMED "Buddha never claimed to be God. Moses never claimed to be Jehovah. Mohammed never claimed to be Allah. Yet Jesus Christ claimed to be the true and living God. Buddha simply said, ’I am a teacher in search of the truth.’ Jesus said, ’I am the Truth.’ Confucius said, ’I ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Jesus: The Total Package

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    JESUS: THE TOTAL PACKAGE Last week the Minnesota Timberwolves traded the superstar Kevin Garnett to the Boston Celtics in exchange for seven players. What does it feel like to know that you are worth seven men? Obviously KG, as he's known among NBA fans, must be pretty good. He is. He's the total ...read more

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  • Selling Jesus For A Quarter

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Mar 8, 2013
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    SELLING JESUS FOR A QUARTER Our lives are the only Bible some people will ever read. "You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." 2 Corinthians 3:3 ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Jesus Did Rise

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
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    JESUS DID RISE Pollster George Gallup said even 84 percent of people who never go to church believe Jesus rose from the dead. It is historical fact; it wasn’t done in secret. The whole city of Jerusalem and the whole Roman Empire knew about it. It was news. If CNN had been there, they would have ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Jesus Is The Total Package  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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     | 1,659 views

    JESUS IS THE TOTAL PACKAGE Last week the Minnesota Timberwolves traded the superstar Kevin Garnett to the Boston Celtics in exchange for seven players. What does it feel like to know that you are worth seven men? Obviously KG, as he’s known among NBA fans, must be pretty good. He is. He's the ...read more

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  • Give The Keys To Jesus

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 14, 2007
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    1. Give the keys to Jesus. Letting anyone drive our vehicle is tough. I admit that at times I’m not the best passenger, especially when it’s my vehicle. Just ask my wife. And just for the record, I think my wife’s a great driver. If I didn’t think so, I wouldn’t let her take my kids ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Jesus Freak: Hezekiah

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
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    JESUS FREAK: HEZEKIAH Laos 2001. Hezekiah’s life had been so transformed that he had to tell someone. When he returned to the village he grew up in, he told the 35 relatives and villagers who met him and demanded to know why he had converted to Christianity, "Jesus is the only way I can be saved ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Not If Jesus Is Like Dad  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2011
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     | 4,855 views

    NOT IF JESUS IS LIKE DAD Some months ago I heard a touching story about a humble, consecrated pastor whose young son had become very ill. After the boy had undergone an exhaustive series of tests, the father was told the shocking news that his son had a terminal illness. The youngster had accepted ...read more

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  • Jesus Loves Me—and I Love Jesus!

    Contributed by John Bright on Apr 8, 2025
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    Sociology professor Anthony Campolo recalls a deeply moving incident that happened in a Christian junior high camp where he served. One of the campers, a boy with spastic paralysis, was the object of heartless ridicule. When he would ask a question, the boys would deliberately answer in a halting, ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • A Great Place To Live  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
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    A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE America is a great place to live. Thousands of people reach its borders everyday hoping to live the American Dream. The Chrisian Science Monitor recently reported a poll that asked the question "If it couldn’t be US, whose citizenship would you want?" Americans, ...read more

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  • The Enemy Still Lives  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2002
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    THE ENEMY STILL LIVES PBS Special covering the events that led up to the "Battle of the Bulge" in WWII revealed some interesting insights. It was the autumn of 1944 and Germany had been beaten back behind its borders. The Nazi war machine was in tatters and repeated bombing raids by the Allies all ...read more

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  • Four-Eyed Living

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 17, 2004
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    Four-Eyed Living There is a minnow-like fish called Four Eyes, which makes home in Central and South America. What's unusual about him is his large, bulging eyes. They are so situated on his head that he can spend his time cruising along the water with only the upper half of each eye above the ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • The Way We Live  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 27, 2001
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    THE WAY WE LIVE Idolatry in its larger meaning is properly understood as any substitution of what is created for the creator. People may worship nature, money, mankind, power, history, or social and political systems instead of the God who created them all. The New Testament writers, in ...read more

  • Living Without Power  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 32 ratings
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    LIVING WITHOUT POWER The story is told of an elderly woman named Norena, who lived in southern Florida. When a hurricane hit that area, her home was one of many that was severely damaged. Norena received an insurance settlement, and the repair work began. However, when the money ran out, so did ...read more

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  • Living Together And Divorce

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 11, 2009
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    LIVING TOGETHER AND DIVORCE A recent study by the Penn State University interviewed 92 couples found, in general, those who lived together before marriage were • more verbally aggressive, • more hostile and • less supportive than those who waited until marriage to live ...read more

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  • The Living God Is My ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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  • Be Such A Man, And Live Such A Life, That If ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life such as yours, ...read more

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  • The Problem Of Living For Time

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    THE PROBLEM OF LIVING FOR TIME By the time it’s all over, Tom Brady’s will be the fourth face on the Mount Rushmore of New England sports, right up there with Larry Byrd, Bobby Orr and Ted Williams. He is what they were: single-minded, blessed with the ability to lift a team, a cutthroat ...read more

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