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  • Separate: Staying In Ranks

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Aug 14, 2009
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    SEPARATE: STAYING IN RANKS The word "separate" is a military term, and it means to "stay in ranks." My son Jason just graduated from an intensive 9-week school for Drill Sergeants (we Brownworths never seem to finish going to school!). He will now be responsible for training as many as 240 "raw" ...read more

  • How About The Story Of A Woman Called Shirley Who ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Oct 28, 2009
     | 1,925 views

    how about the story of a woman called Shirley who had a heart attack and was taken to hospital. And while she was there she had a near-death experience. She saw God and asked, "God, Is this it? Is this my time?" And God said, "No, you’ve got another 30 or 40 years to live yet." So as soon as she ...read more

  • Kentucky Thunderstorm Wipes Out Historic Family ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 12, 2009
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    Kentucky Thunderstorm Wipes Out Historic Family Pear Tree John Claypool tells the story of a thunderstorm years ago that swept through Southern Kentucky at the farm where his ancestors had lived for 6 generations. There was an old pear tree that had been there for about as long as anyone could ...read more

  • American Dream: Double What You Have

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 30, 2009
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    AMERICAN DREAM: DOUBLE WHAT YOU HAVE Don Jaques notes from his sermon "The Secret of Contentment" on sermoncentral.com the following: About 10 years ago, there was a story in U.S. News and World Report. Some of the information in this story is probably just as relevant today, ten years later, as ...read more

  • Cost Of The American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
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    Cost of the American Dream About 10 years ago, there was a story in U.S. News and World Report. Some of the information in this story is probably just as relevant today, ten years later, as it was then. The story was about the so-called “American Dream.” I guess that would include owning your own ...read more

  • Racecar Drivers Avoid Thinking About ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 14, 2009
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    Racecar Drivers Avoid Thinking About Death Scott Goodyear, speaking of race-car drivers who have been killed in crashes at the Indianapolis 500, said; “You don’t go look at where it happened, You don’t watch the films of it on television. You don’t deal with it. You pretend it never happened." The ...read more

  • No One Saw It Coming. President Bush Was ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 29, 2009
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    No one saw it coming. President Bush was attending a primary school activity when he received the call. Do you remember where you were on 9-11? American flights were banned from entry as provinces and countries dealt with international flights on route to America needing a place to land. What is ...read more

  • On Tuesday Night, We Went Around To A Friend's ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 13, 2010
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    On Tuesday night, we went around to a friend's place with a group of young leaders to share with them some insights – you know, from the vast accumulated wisdom of our years (Just joking – more like from the mistakes we have made). They did something so precious to us – they gathered around at the ...read more

  • A Millionaire Leaves It ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2010
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    A Millionaire Leaves It All A famous millionaire died of cancer. For weeks he suffered intolerable agony. Although surrounded by every luxury and receiving every possible care, he died as wretchedly as a pauper. There was the usual publicity, flowers, telegrams, an expensive bronze casket and a ...read more

  • Ignorance Of One's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010
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    Ignorance of One’s Inheritance A Michigan factory worker, earning less than ten thousand dollars a year, was an unknowing heir to a half-million dollars. When located by an investigator some years after his benefactor’s death, the worker explained that he had neither returned home nor kept in touch ...read more

  • Cost Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
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    Cost of Freedom At Hebron Baptist Church several years ago a speaker named Clebe McClary spoke. There was a patch where his left eye had once been. A hook extended from the artificial limb where a strong arm had once helped make him an outstanding athlete. He had been through countless surgeries to ...read more

  • Consuming Fire

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 4, 2010
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    CONSUMING FIRE Every year there is at least one story or a wildfire born of carelessness quickly spreads, consuming the thick, dried-out vegetation and almost everything else in its path. What was once a forest becomes a virtual powder keg of untapped fuel. In a seemingly instantaneous burst, the ...read more

  • Reunited

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 23, 2011
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    REUNITED This week (1-11) an interesting story hit the presses: A woman who was kidnapped as a newborn 23 years ago says finding her real mother "felt like a dream." Carlina White was just 19 days old when she disappeared from Harlem Hospital in New York. She tells the New York Post that when ...read more

  • Not All Good Deeds Are Good

    Contributed by Tony Salisbury on Feb 12, 2011
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    NOT ALL GOOD DEEDS ARE GOOD For Valentine's Day several years ago I bought chocolates for everyone in my family. To help everyone remember which chocolates belonged to whom I bought different ones. One got rich dark Belgian chocolate. Another one received smooth creamy milk chocolate. All went ...read more

  • I Was The Lamb

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Apr 1, 2011
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    I WAS THE LAMB Every summer when I was a child, my family would make the trip from Texas to New Jersey to see my dad’s parents. They lived in a fascinating two-story house in which all the bedrooms were upstairs. The room I slept in had a single bed, and above the bed was a picture of Jesus. You ...read more

  • Something In Their Eyes...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2011
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    SOMETHING IN THEIR EYES... A prominent atheist named Matthew Parris wrote in a 2008 essay about a strange phenomenon that he had observed in Africa. Amazingly, as an atheist, he wrote an essay for The Times titled, "Why Africa Needs God." Although Parris made it clear that he does not believe in ...read more

  • $3.00 Worth Of God, Please  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2011
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    $3.00 WORTH OF GOD, PLEASE Tim Hansel in his book "When I Relax I feel Guilty," writes some insights of what most people want from God. "I would like to buy $3.00 worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in ...read more

  • Marathon Finishers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2011
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    MARATHON FINISHERS Charlie Engle, Ray Zahab, and Kevin Lin know endurance better than most. For 111 days, they ran the equivalent of two marathons a day in order to cross the entire Sahara Desert on foot. They touched the waters at Senegal and then made their way through Mauritania, Mali, Niger, ...read more

  • Loneliness And Belonging

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 16, 2011
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    LONELINESS AND BELONGING Chip Ingram notes: "In his landmark book Bowling Alone, Robert Putman makes the case that loneliness is America’s new epidemic. People are searching for a place to belong. In the 1970s, it wasn’t uncommon for someone to leave a job that paid well and go off into the woods ...read more

  • Love Of A Disciple  PRO

    Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Jul 6, 2011
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    LOVE OF A DISCIPLE Tertullian, an early Christian author, reported that the Romans would exclaim, "See how they love one another," and Justin Martyr, a Greek-speaking Christian apologist, sketched Christian love this way: "We who used to value the acquisition of wealth and possessions more than ...read more