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  • Personal Property In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    PERSONAL PROPERTY IN THE BIBLE Larry Burkett, the founder of Christian Financial Concepts, points out that the bible--with more than 700 references to money--says more about economics than many other subjects. He writes: "Money is such an important subject that nearly two-thirds of the parables ...read more

  • How Many Times Would You Forgive Your Dog?

    Contributed by Scott Berry on Aug 13, 2009
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    HOW MANY TIMES WOULD YOU FORGIVE YOUR DOG? Think for a minute, how forgiving would you be as if your pet messed the carpet several times a day? I think eventually you’d give up on your pets and take them out into the wilderness and set them free, you know what I mean - dump them. God’s love and ...read more

  • When My Father Passed Away, I Remember Going To ...

    Contributed by Jeff Kennedy on Sep 9, 2009
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    When my father passed away, I remember going to church that morning. Our family had only been attending that church for a few weeks, and my dad was on his way to work that morning to put in some overtime, and he was going to meet us at the late service. The pastor later told us that it was the ...read more

  • My Mother Has A Fairly Rare Heart Condition Known ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
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    My mother has a fairly rare heart condition known as Hypertropic Cardiomyopathy. It is a disease of the muscle of the heart in which a portion of the muscle of the heart is thickened without any obvious cause. It’s a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in any age group and causes disabling ...read more

  • At The Consumer Electronics Show Recently Held In ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Jan 13, 2010
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    At the Consumer Electronics Show recently held in Las Vegas, one company unveiled the unbreakable mobile phone. When asked what the phone was capable of withstanding, the director said you could drop it from a ten storey height, immerse it in over 20 ft of water for up to 30 minutes, and even ...read more

  • Are You A Chief Student?

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 27, 2010
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    ARE YOU A CHIEF STUDENT? David Friedman, in They Loved the Torah p. 61 comments about Peter (Shim'on): I see Shim'on as Yeshua's Torah-observant....talmid hakham...a Hebrew technical term meaning the leading student (of a rabbi). Every famous rabbi who daily taught the same students had a talmid ...read more

  • Unbelievers At The Second Coming

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2011
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    UNBELIEVERS AT THE SECOND COMING Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great Victorian preacher, said in a sermon entitled ‘Secret sins’ preached in 1857: "When Christ comes a second time, there will be a marvellous change in the way men talk. Me thinks I see him; there he sits upon his throne. Now, ...read more

  • Salvation Belongs To The Lord

    Contributed by Michael Walther on Jun 6, 2011
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    SALVATION BELONGS TO THE LORD To say that we cooperate with God in any way in our salvation undermines the doctrine of salvation, robs our confidence in God, and tempts us to pride. It is like the man who collapses from a massive heart attack and is rushed to the hospital. The doctor doesn’t ...read more

  • Sign Your Name Or Forget It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 8, 2011
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    SIGN YOUR NAME OR FORGET IT J. Vernon McGee tells of an incident that happened in one of his pastorates. A man came to him and said, "I want to tell you about a certain situation." He told him about a certain man who was involved in a particular sin. The man wanted to do something about it. He ...read more

  • Believing In Anything  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 8, 2011
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    BELIEVING IN ANYTHING G.K. Chesterton once said, "It is often supposed that when people stop believing in God, they believe in nothing. Alas, it is worse than that. When they stop believing in God, they believe in anything." Without God the only standard of TRUST - of right and wrong - is what ...read more

  • Are You Ready For A Missions Trip?

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Oct 24, 2011
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    ARE YOU READY FOR A MISSIONS TRIP? Last Wednesday I received a text from a dear friend of mine in Phoenix. He said that his 15 year old daughter Katie was going in for some tests to determine the reasons for some health issues she was having. I went to bed without knowing the results. I woke up ...read more

  • Acceptance: Such A Simple Thing

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Jun 26, 2012
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    ACCEPTANCE: SUCH A SIMPLE THING Charles Shultz, creator and author of the Peanuts cartoon characters often conveys a Christian message in his comic strips. In one strip he conveys through Charlie Brown the need we have to be loved and accepted. Lucy demonstrates our human inability to love one ...read more

  • Could It Happen Every Day?

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Jul 1, 2012
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    COULD IT HAPPEN EVERY DAY? Jeff Ingle tells the story of spending four days with 75 other pastors in a Pastor's Prayer Summit in Wisconsin. He writes, "In my time I've been to many camps, conferences and retreats but never have I been to anything like this. For four days, we met together with no ...read more

  • Rescue The Perishing

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 23, 2016
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    RESCUE THE PERISHING Fanny Crosby, the blind hymn writer, wrote so many hymns we love to sing. When she was up in years, she visited the Macaulay Rescue Mission in NYC. She stood before a crowd of homeless, drug-addicted, alcoholic men. She said, “is there a young man here who doesn’t have a ...read more

  • Bold Witness

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Sep 25, 2016
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    Hugh Hewitt in his book “The Embarassed Believer” contends that most Christian are embarrassed believers. They do not talk about their faith or church. They don’t have Bibles on the corner of their desks. They never engage others in spiritual conversations. And the result has been the dramatic ...read more

  • Telemarketers

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Aug 28, 2017
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    IRS Spam Call - I wanted to share an experience that I just had on the phone. I got that dreaded spam call from the IRS. I knew it was false but I felt like I wanted to talk to a person about it. So I called the number. A young lady answered. She gave me a name and told me I owed $4800 on my IRS ...read more

  • Forgive Us Our Debts

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on May 20, 2019
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    The debt has been paid… (forgive us our debts…) The graduating class of Morehouse College got a surprise gift on Sunday (May 19, 2019) when billionaire Robert F. Smith announced during his commencement speech that he would pay off the entire student debt of the graduating class. Student loans in ...read more

  • Name Of Jesus (Yeshua)

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 16, 2019
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    The Old Testament prophets were often commanded to give their children names that described God’s dealings with Israel. Most Old Testament names that incorporate either the syllable “el” or the letter “Y” (sometimes “J” in English) incorporate the name of God. For example, Joshua (Hebrew Y’hoshuah) ...read more

  • Why Did Jesus Really Weep?

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 30, 2020
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    When Jesus went to call Lazarus back from the grave......HE WEPT. Some have wondered why he wept. The Jews must have thought it was from sorrow, because they said, "Behold how He loved him" (John 11:36). Yet we wonder why he wept, if he was going to call him back to life? Maybe ...read more

  • Give God A Blank Check!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 4, 2021
     | 2,984 views

    I read once about a family that put their elderly grandmother on a plane for her first flight. She wasn’t too sure about this mode of transportation, but she grudgingly went along with it. When she returned, some of the family members couldn’t help playfully asking, “Grannie, did the plane hold you ...read more