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  • What You Can Live ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    WHAT YOU CAN LIVE WITHOUT Jules Verne, the famous author of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", also wrote another book entitled "The Mysterious Island." The story is about five men who manage to escape from a Civil War prison camp by highjacking a hot-air balloon. Once aloft, they very quickly ...read more

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  • Remember Me ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    REMEMBER ME NOT... Marilyn Anderes tells the story of a devoted Christian named Cheryl Stephens. Cheryl was a young mother who struggled with cancer, but was determined to keep ministering to others. She went home to Jesus on Nov. 19, 2003 at age 44. Cheryl’s friends say she lived out Phil 1:21 ...read more

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  • The Light Of Hope  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    THE LIGHT OF HOPE As Craig T. Kocher in his commentary on our text states, "Christian hope is fundamentally different from optimism. Christian hope locks its steely eyes on the devastation of the world around it, and readily acknowledges that things may not get better. Christian hope does not bury ...read more

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  • How To Start A Fire

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    HOW TO START A FIRE The great Chicago fire of October 8-10, 1871, reportedly began when a cow kicked over a lantern in Mrs. O'Leary's barn. Indeed, there was a cow in the barn belonging to Patrick and Catherine O'Leary of De Koven Street, Chicago, and fire did start in that barn. Why did the fire ...read more

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  • Three Stages Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    THREE STAGES OF LIFE John Claypool, at one time pastor of the Crescent Hill Baptist Church, had a little daughter who suffered with leukemia. When she went into remission, everybody thought that maybe God had healed her. But on an Easter Sunday morning, she went into a terrible relapse. In his ...read more

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  • Courage: Breaking The Barrier

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    COURAGE: BREAKING THE BARRIER Seek courage and strength to move out of your comfort zone. You will need it. Even the smallest of changes even if they are for the best disrupts our relational systems. Without courage, without trusted companions, and with strength, growth and maturity will never ...read more

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  • Donald Grey Barnhouse On Mystery ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
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    Donald Grey Barnhouse on Mystery Engagement The second aspect of our being strengthened is given in the last half of Romans 16:25 where Paul says, “according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages.” In other words, we are strengthened when and as the ancient mystery is ...read more

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  • The Missed Opportunity In Mongolian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 4, 2009
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    The Missed Opportunity in Mongolian History A 13-year-old Mongolian inherited land from his father. Through great strategy and awesome fighting ability, he formed fighting bands that conquered village after village. Eventually he became known as Genghis Khan and ruled over 2 million people. His ...read more

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  • D.l. Moody's Thoughts Before His Death Illustrate ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2009
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    D.L. Moody’s Thoughts Before His Death Illustrate an Important Habit--Begin with the End in Mind Steven Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, states that one of those habits is to “Begin with the end in mind”; for the final days and hours of a man are often some of the most ...read more

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  • You Have To Love Him Into It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2010
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    "You Have To Love Him Into It"--A Stock Assistant Learns a Big Lesson A stock assistant was working at a grocery store on Christmas Eve. One of the things he was responsible for was the display in one of the aisles which was a pyramid of canned products. He had to rebuild this display many times ...read more

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  • A Minor Detail, A Major Distraction

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 26, 2011
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    A MINOR DETAIL, A MAJOR DISTRACTION Anything that hinders the worship of God incites the anger of God, and should be abandoned immediately. "It was a majestic evening. On Friday, October 18th, 1991, the world-class Chicago Symphony presented the final concert in its year-long celebration of the ...read more

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  • Refining Sap To Maple Syrup  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    REFINING SAP TO MAPLE SYRUP Dr. David Osborn at Denver Seminary says, "Too often we try to use God to change our circumstances, while He is using our circumstances to change us." (Compass, April 2003) You see, God is right now in the process of making us like Christ. Think of the process of ...read more

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  • The Hard Work Of Farming

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
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    THE HARD WORK OF FARMING I was raised in town and not on a farm. However, in 1969 I moved to a small farming town in Iowa called Bayard. It’s about 65 miles northeast of Des Moines, IA. And that’s where I began to learn a little about farming and harder work than I was used to! I had some grain ...read more

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  • We Don't Know Her Story

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 22, 2011
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    WE DON'T KNOW HER STORY They called her their troubled one, or their feisty one. She had wild flyaway hair much like that of a punk rocker, but jet-black. And she was only, at the oldest, a couple of weeks old. So small, she looked as if she could fit in one hand. The ICU nurses all took turns ...read more

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  • Anger Management

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 28, 2011
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    ANGER MANAGEMENT Mr. Burton was not angry enough to hire a hit man to knock off the AD at the University of Connecticut...but he was angry enough that he wanted to punish him even if it hurt the students and the program he is said to have loved. In a letter sent to the Athletic Director of the ...read more

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  • Hold Fast

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2012
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    HOLD FAST A ships crew can be suddenly obligated to ABANDON SHIP and take to the life boats. Such was the case of an American whaling ship in the South Seas. A huge leviathan of the deep, wounded by his pursuits, ran out the mile long line then returned again and struck the ship with incredible ...read more

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  • Looking At The Light

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2012
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    LOOKING AT THE LIGHT A pastor told a story of a man in his congregation who had lost literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. He owed everybody. One day the pastor asked him, "How in the world are you even surviving? How can you smile? How can you be enthusiastic about Jesus and about life when ...read more

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  • The Moral Basis Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2012
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    THE MORAL BASIS OF GOVERNMENT Richard Halverson, present chaplain of the United States Senate, wrote: ``To be sure, men will abuse and misuse the institution of the State just as man because of sin has abused and misused every other institution in history including the Church of Jesus Christ, but ...read more

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  • Someone Once Said…"I Made 6 Resolutions Last ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Jan 6, 2003
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    Someone once said…”I made 6 resolutions last year and I kept them all Year long. They are in an ...read more

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  • Launching Into The Deep

    Contributed by Tom Feola on Feb 6, 2012
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    LAUNCHING INTO THE DEEP Dr. Robert Schuller's hobbies include raising koi fish. Asked why some grow big while others stay small, he replied, "If a koi fish lives in a small tank it will never grow longer than two or three inches. In a larger pond they can grow up to ten inches long--in ponds the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational