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  • Over The Almost Past Half Century My Wife And I ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Oct 23, 2006
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    Over the almost past half century my wife and I have ministered in over 125 countries seeing many thousands of people from every walk of life come to receive Christ. I have yet to meet one person who has been saved by the Grace of God say that they were sorry they became a Christian. That the day ...read more

  • I Was A Guest At A Wedding A Couple Of Weeks Ago ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
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    I was a guest at a wedding a couple of weeks ago at the Botanical Gardens here in town. It was a little buggy, but a very sweet and well done ceremony. At the close of the service, the pastor prayed a very touching prayer for the couple and ended his prayer saying. “we ask all of this in the name ...read more

  • First Thing They Tell You In The Military. As You ...

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Oct 30, 2006
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    First thing they tell you in the military. As you stand at attention and they scream into your face the way they are going go change your life, the first thing they say is, “ It is time to separate the Men from the boys” Why? Because before you were just running around with your little cap gun in ...read more

  • In Our Home We Have A Set Of Children's Books ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Nov 10, 2006
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    In our home we have a set of children’s books that are designed to teach kids their ABC’s and 123’s. The very 1st book in the number set is entitled My One Book. The book is about little one who lived in the house of one. The house of one has one door, one table, one chair, one window ... you get ...read more

  • The Impact Of Attitude

    Contributed by John Price on Feb 13, 2007
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    THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDE The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of Attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important: than facts, than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do, than appearances, than ...read more

  • Unchurched Insights 1-Most Prefer To Attend ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Unchurched Insights 1-Most prefer to attend church on Sunday morning if they attend. 2-Most feel guilty about not attending church. 3-96% are somewhat likely to attend church if invited. 4-Very few have had someone share how to become a Christian with them. Christians have not been particularly ...read more

  • Oscar Cervantes Is A Dramatic Example Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    Oscar Cervantes is a dramatic example of Christ’s power to transform lives. As a child, Oscar began to get into trouble. Then as he got older, he was jailed 17 times for brutal crimes. Prison psychiatrists said he was beyond help. But they were wrong! During a brief interval of freedom, Oscar met ...read more

  • John Wesley Writes Of His Time: "Almost As Soon ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2007
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    John Wesley writes of his time: "Almost as soon as I was gone, two or three began to take their imaginations for impressions from God. Meantime, a flood of reproach came upon me almost from every quarter. Be not alarmed that Satan sows tares among the wheat of Christ. "It has ever been so, ...read more

  • One Way To Understand The Difference Between ...

    Contributed by Jack Martin on Mar 24, 2007
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    One way to understand the difference between unsaved, saved but not yet filled with the Holy Spirit, or saved and filled with the Holy Spirit is to think of a dish pan filled with clean water and soap. The clean water likened to the Holy Spirit and the Soap the Word of God that changes our filth. ...read more

  • Titles Of Jesus Christ To The Architect, He Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    "Titles of Jesus Christ To the architect, He is the chief cornerstone (1 Peter 2:6) To the bride, He is the bridegroom (Matthew 25:1) To the carpenter, He is the door. (John 10:9) To the engineer, He is the new and living way. (Hebrews 10:20) To the farmer, He is the Lord of the harvest (Matthew ...read more

  • Too Good For Your Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    TOO GOOD FOR YOUR CHURCH A good set of clothes makes all the difference. A Methodist church tried to get a man to attend, but he never did. "Why don't you come?" the minister asked, and the man finally admitted it was because he didn't have proper clothes. So a member of the congregation took him ...read more

  • We Need To Begin By Defining The Word "Righte...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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    We need to begin by defining the word “righteousness”. Righteousness defined: Root word = “straightness” “conforming to a standard or a norm” In Washington D.C. there is a building called the "National Institute of Standards and Technology." This facility is responsible for storing perfect ...read more

  • He Prefers That We Do Not Go Into Debt. Think ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 11, 2008
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    He prefers that we do NOT go into debt. Think about it… Most of us right now have firsthand experience that when financial woes hit us, every other area of our lives (those other six areas that we’ve talked about) are effected. Verse 6 actually said something that I felt was very convicting and ...read more

  • An Example From Montana. Seniors Saying That ...

    Contributed by Todd Brock on Nov 13, 2008
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    An example from Montana. Seniors saying that they want to reach families – so they were willing to bend so that our style of worship and our way of doing things would attract those we were trying to reach. And God blessed that group abundantly. Our Sr. Adult group grew faster than the rest of ...read more

  • Horton's Theology

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 3, 2008
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    HORTON'S THEOLOGY One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can’t see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos ...read more

  • A Reality Check On How We Sabotage Ourselves: Do ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    -A reality check on how we sabotage ourselves: Do you at times, long for days gone by where you did certain activities that do now do not do. This is our unredeemed flesh working on a mind that is not renewed by the word of God. We need to immediately cast out these unhelpful distractions, ...read more

  • He's Alive!

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 21, 2008
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    He's Alive! One church I read about put on a Christmas program that included a manger scene with their children. There was a little 5-year-old boy on the drama team, I think he was a shepherd that year. He was energetic to say the least! This little boy was a handful. During rehearsals he was all ...read more

  • More Than Enough

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
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    MORE THAN ENOUGH A reality check on how we sabotage ourselves: Do you at times, long for days gone by where you did certain activities that do now do not do? This is our unredeemed flesh working on a mind that is not renewed by the word of God. We need to immediately cast out these unhelpful ...read more

  • In December 1903, After A Series Of Failed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    In December 1903, after a series of failed attempts, the Wright brothers were finally successful in getting their "flying machine" off the ground. Thrilled by the feat, they sent this telegraph to their sister: "We have actually flown 120 feet. We'll be home for Christmas." Katherine hurried to ...read more

  • A Pardon Must Be Accepted  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Dec 31, 2008
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    A PARDON MUST BE ACCEPTED About the year 1830, a man named George Wilson killed a government employee who caught him in the act of robbing the mails. He was tried and sentenced to be hanged. However, President Andrew Jackson sent him a pardon. But Wilson did a strange thing. He refused to accept ...read more