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  • A 6 Year Girl In Our Church Had The Greatest ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Jan 16, 2007
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    A 6 year girl in our church had the greatest insight. While remodeling the back of there house, an old piano became the subject of conversation. Being an upright piano the kids had grown to like the looks of it. Because it had been in a room that was exposed to the differences of hot and cold ...read more

  • Quote: Matthew 5:8 – Blessed Are The Pure In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    Quote: Matthew 5:8 – Blessed are the pure in heart, for the shall see God Quote: - C. S. Lewis – It is easy to say ‘Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God,’ for only the pure in heart want to see God. Illustration: In the forests of northern Europe and Asia lives little animal called ...read more

  • Take The Founders Of Space Travel, For Example. ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
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    Take the founders of space travel, for example. Three innovative men, each unaware of the others, launched our world into the unexpected new era of space travel: (1) In 1903, Russian Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky first speculated that a rocket could travel beyond the earth’s atmosphere. In 1923, ...read more

  • Max Lucado In His Book Life Lessons From The Book ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 3, 2007
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    Max Lucado in his book Life Lessons from the Book of Romans writes this in the introduction: At the moment I don’t feel too smart. I just got off the wrong plane that took me to the wrong city and left me at the wrong airport. I went east instead of west and ended up in Houston instead of Denver. ...read more

  • Martin Moore-Ede, In His Book Twenty-Four Hour ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 7, 2007
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    Martin Moore-Ede, in his book Twenty-Four Hour Society: Understanding Human Limits in a World That Never Stops, says, “Our most notorious industrial accidents in recent years — Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the fatal navigational error of Korean Air Lines 007 — all occurred in the ...read more

  • We Have An Extra Bedroom In Our House Where ...

    Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
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    We have an extra bedroom in our house where guests can stay. Often times I have to tell my boys when there is a guest I the house, “Don’t go back there; there is someone back there. Don’t make so much noise, because we have a guest sleeping.” We try to make it easy for the guest to be at ...read more

  • Forgiveness Is A Gift From God. It Is A Portion ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Forgiveness is a gift from God. It is a portion of His grace. What you have been freely given, you should freely give away. Jesus said in Matthew 6:15 that if we do not forgive others, neither will God forgive us. When the first missionaries arrived in Alberta, they were savagely opposed by a ...read more

  • Joseph Stowell Spouted Off To His Teacher At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Joseph Stowell spouted off to his teacher at school and told her to shut up and then he stood up and walked out of the class room. As he walked down the block to his house he noticed that his mother was working in the yard. He stopped dead in his tracks. He thought “What am I going to tell her?” He ...read more

  • Words, Just Words  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Words, just words I was reading the other day. The famous American author, Samuel Clement, Mark Twain, attended a Sunday service. He met the preacher at the door afterward to shake his hand. And he told him that he had a book at home with every word he had preached that morning. The minister ...read more

  • In High School, A Boy Named Tony, Came To Be One ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In high school, a boy named Tony, came to be one of my best friends. After high school, Tina and I married and bought a home in Myrtle. My friend also married a pretty, young girl and bought the house next door. By this time, Tina and I had been saved and were trying to live for the Lord. But our ...read more

  • Apart From Our Lord, It Is Hard To Think Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Apart from our Lord, it is hard to think of historical figures whose dying words were, "It is accomplished" Alexander the Great conquered Persia, but broke down and wept because his troops were too exhausted to push on to India. Hugo Grotius, the father of modern international law, said at the ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About Christian Junior High ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I heard a story about Christian junior high camp. 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, mimicking way. One night his cabin group chose him to lead the devotions before ...read more

  • We Need To Cultivate The Habit Of Bearing Each ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    We need to cultivate the habit of bearing each other’s burdens. Lend a hand by lifting a heavy load. Burdens are the over loads which we can lighten by building meaningful relationships with others in the church. I read a story a few years ago about a family who found out that their un-born child ...read more

  • Wwii Monument - Represents The 16 Million That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    WWII Monument - represents the 16 million that served in the US Armed forces during WWII. More than 400,000 gave their lives for freedom and in reality, for the deliverance of the Jewish nation of Israel. Ordinary men and women served our country and the world - One was named General Mark Clark ...read more

  • Death. Death Is Like The Sailing Of A Ship. The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    DEATH. Death is like the sailing of a ship. The watcher on the seashore sees her spread her white sails to the morning breeze and start for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. We stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and ...read more

  • Max Lucado In His Book Life Lessons From The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Max Lucado in his book Life Lessons from the Book of Romans writes this in the introduction: At the moment I don’t feel too smart. I just got off the wrong plane that took me to the wrong city and left me at the wrong airport. I went east instead of west and ended up in Houston instead of Denver. ...read more

  • Saturday At About 2:30 A.m., Wade Hawkins, Jr. ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2007
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    Saturday at about 2:30 a.m., Wade Hawkins, Jr. and his family were sleeping peacefully in their home when a tornado struck. Ogie, as he is commonly called, and his younger son were sleeping in the master bedroom. His wife had fallen asleep on the couch in the living room, while his eight-year-old ...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

  • Arthur Pink, A Theologian From Another ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 24, 2007
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    Arthur Pink, a theologian from another generation, talks against those who preach about Jesus as a savior from hell rather than a savior from sin. He explained that there are many who are dangerously deceived by this, because there are many who desire to escape the flames of hell, but have no ...read more

  • Charing Cross Is The Geographical Center Of ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 4, 2007
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    Charing Cross is the geographical center of London, England, and the location of one of the primary railway stations in the city. The name stems from the fact that King Edward I erected a cross on that site in memory of his wife Eleanor after her death in 1290. “All distances in the United ...read more