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  • Who To Worry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2012
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    WHO TO WORRY ABOUT I remember an old Amish man sitting on the back of his produce wagon doing a little philosophizing as he sold his wares. He said, “Never worry about your enemy because if anything happens to you he will be the first one they will suspect. Worry about you friend ...read more

  • The Coolest Dad In The Universe  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 27 ratings
     | 3,477 views

    THE COOLEST DAD IN THE UNIVERSE He was 50 years old when I was born, and a "Mr. Mom" long before anyone had a name for it. I didn’t know why he was home instead of Mom, but I was young and the only one of my friends who had their dad around. I considered myself very lucky. Dad did so many things ...read more

  • The Best Gift

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,174 views

    THE BEST GIFT Bobby was getting cold sitting out in his back yard in the snow. Bobby didn't wear boots; he didn't like them, and anyway he didn't own any. The thin sneakers he wore had a few holes in them, and they did a poor job of keeping out the cold. Bobby had been in his backyard for about ...read more

  • Go Back And Tell Them Again  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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    GO BACK AND TELL THEM AGAIN Jesus said "Follow me and I will make you Fishers of Men." In a book entitled "Jungle Harvest," written by a missionary named Ruby Scott, she describes some of her experiences in reaching a people group known as the Tila Indians who lived in a remote village in the ...read more

  • John Mccain's Personal Account At The Republican ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2010
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    John McCain’s Personal Account at the Republican National Convention of Being a POW in Viet Nam I suggest we can learn something from John McCain’s personal testimony segment of his speech. The Republican nominee said: Long ago, something unusual happened to me that taught me the most valuable ...read more

  • Wheat ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2012
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    WHEAT HARVEST I grew up in Wellington, Kansas which is a small farm town of about 8,000 people located 30 miles south of Wichita, Kansas. Wellington’s big claim to fame is being the Wheat Capitol of the World. The farmers of my home town produce more wheat per capita than anywhere else in the ...read more

  • Many Churches Years Ago Had Mourners Benches. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
    based on 13 ratings
     | 2,367 views

    >> Many churches years ago had mourners benches. Charles Allen in his book God’s Psychiatry said “Today we want God’s blessing without the pain of God’s purging. we want sermons on how to win friends, how to have peace of mind, how to forget our fears. But we ...read more

  • Sleeping In Church

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jan 15, 2007
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     | 7,753 views

    Sleeping in Church A Minister, while preaching, noted most of his congregation was asleep. He stopped the sermon and asked a deacon to pass the offering plate. The deacon woke up red-faced and reminded him the offering had already been taken. His response; “Never mind, take up another one. I ...read more

  • The Appeal To God's Sovereignty Is Not To Foster ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 1, 2007
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    The appeal to God’s sovereignty is not to foster hope that we will be spared all difficulty, but to foster confidence that when those difficulties come we are not abandoned. Things have not fallen out of hand. We can still rely on the God who has permitted us to face these things to supply us with ...read more

  • Prayer Meeting Week After Week With A Woman ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
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    Prayer meeting week after week with a woman praying every week this prayer: "Lord, please get rid of the cobwebs in my life." Every week, the same prayer, without fail. Over and over again. Finally, one of the men in the prayer meeting got so fed up, he offered up his own ...read more

  • When A Christian People Feel Themselves To Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    When a Christian people feel themselves to be overtaken by a great public calamity, it becomes them to humble themselves under the dispensation of Divine Providence, to recognize His righteous government over the children of men, to acknowledge His goodness in time past, as well as their own ...read more

  • John Vianney, 18th Century Pastor, Is Quoted As ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
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    John Vianney, 18th Century Pastor, is quoted as saying, “Love for our neighbor consists of three things: to desire the greater good of everyone; to do what good we can when we can; to bear, excuse, and hide other’s faults. The kind of love that Jesus is talking about here is the sacrificial ...read more

  • Hope Of A Good Day

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 4,539 views

    Hope of a Good Day Max Lucado, preacher and writer, teaches that "every day deserves a chance." He feels so strongly about it, he wrote a book with the same title. Regardless of what is in our day, if we give it a chance, it can become a "good" day. Of course, coupled with this thought is the ...read more

  • Bad Company

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
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    BAD COMPANY George Washington once wrote, "Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. For it’s better to be alone than in bad company." William Gladstone said, "Choose wisely your companions, for a young man’s companions, more than his food or clothes, his home or ...read more

  • Dad's Alarm

    Contributed by Paul Collins on Sep 7, 2009
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    DAD'S ALARM A father wrote about what happened when his son David was about five years old. They attended a church where it was common for the preacher to invite children to the front for a special sermon. On one particular morning, he brought up a smoke detector and asked the children if anyone ...read more

  • Wisdom, Skill, And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 2, 2009
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    Wisdom, Skill, and Virtue Someone once said: Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. (Everywoman’s Family Circle as found in Tan, Paul Lee: Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations : A Treasury of Illustrations, Anecdotes, Facts and Quotations for ...read more

  • Gratitude And Sacrifice

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
    based on 1 rating
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    GRATITUDE AND SACRIFICE Since the Son of God has died for me, then the least I can do is live for Him. "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me," said the great British athlete C. T. Studd, "then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for him." (Source: Norman Grubb, C. T. ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis On A Right Understanding Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
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    C.S. Lewis on a Right Understanding of Self C. S. Lewis put it this way: When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. (Leadership, Vol. ...read more

  • Zig Ziglar Said, "A Study Of Three Hundred ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2011
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    Zig Ziglar said, "A study of three hundred world-class leaders, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill, Helen Keller, Mother Teresa, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, and Martin Luther King, Jr., revealed that 25 percent of them had serious physical disabilities and an additional 50 percent ...read more

  • Richard Foster: To Pray Is To Change

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 19, 2011
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    RICHARD FOSTER: TO PRAY IS TO CHANGE Richard Foster, in his book Celebration of Discipline, says, "To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The closer we come to ...read more