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  • Public Opinion

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    PUBLIC OPINION Some of you may have seen the joke that circulated this week on e-mail that tries to explain why Moses and the Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years. The punch line of the e-mail read, "Even then, men would not stop for directions." While this may not really explain ...read more

  • A Girl's ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    A GIRL’S PRAYER When in college Robert J , Morgan came across a poem written by a teenage girl looking for a husband. It was written as a prayer, and this is what she said: Dear God, I pray all unafraid / As girls are wont to be I do not want a handsome man / But make him, Lord, like Thee. I do ...read more

  • A House Of Cards Economy

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Nov 6, 2008
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    A House of Cards Economy In fact, our current financial crisis is a direct result of this "entitlement," or "free lunch" kind of thinking. According to Terry Jones of the Investor's Business Daily (posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008), President Carter signed the Community Reinvestment Act in ...read more

  • Credit And Savings ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    CREDIT AND SAVINGS CRISIS A man decides he’s going to pay off his credit card. He owes $7,500 and believes God does not want him to be in debt, so he decides he’ll cut up the card and pay off the $7,500 by making the minimum monthly payment until it’s gone. Your question -- how long do you think ...read more

  • Wartime Speech By Churchill,

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 29, 2009
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    Wartime Speech by Churchill, "We Will Never Surrender" On the fifth of June, 1940, not even a month after he became prime minister, Winston Churchill spoke to the British people to encourage them of their desperate situation. Bear in mind that in September of the previous year the Nazis had ...read more

  • The Procrastination Before The Ultimate ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2009
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    The Procrastination Before the Ultimate Preservation of the Hudson Palisades as a National Natural Landmark The Palisades, also called the New Jersey Palisades or the Hudson Palisades are a line of steep cliffs along the west side of the lower Hudson River in northeast New Jersey and southern New ...read more

  • Peace Corps Manual Explains How To Escape From An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    Peace Corps Manual Explains How to Escape from an Anaconda Pastor Jeff Nichols refers to a book by Gary Oliver called, Raising Kids to Love Jesus, in which he quotes from a U.S. Government Peace Corps manual for volunteers who work in the Amazon jungle. Among other things, this manual explains what ...read more

  • How Satan And The World Are Like A Pack Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2009
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    How Satan and the World are Like a Pack of Dogs While visiting Loretta’s parents in Indiana last summer I spent each morning walking several miles. They live in the middle of farm country. The roads are straight and long with corn and bean fields lining them. There are few houses and fewer cars. As ...read more

  • Reason Why Helicopter Pilot Stopped A Massacre In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2010
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    Reason Why Helicopter Pilot Stopped a Massacre in Vietnam I would like to close with another quote from Thomas Long, who relates an illustration that many of us hear this morning can recall. Long writes, and I quote: “The school where I teach gave an honorary degree several years ago to a man named ...read more

  • Prayer And Conviction Of Sin In The Life Of A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 29, 2010
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    Prayer and Conviction of Sin in the Life of a Gambler R. A. Torrey in his book The Holy Spirit tells how the elders and deacons of Moody Church met every Friday night for supper and to go over the church rolls to see which people needed attention. At one meeting, an elder expressed a concern: ...read more

  • The Seventeen Year Cicada Locust Lives Up To Its ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on May 1, 2007
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    The seventeen year cicada locust lives up to its name. When my children were little the locusts invaded. The little bugs had lived as larvae in the ground for a long seventeen year snooze. When they awoke one Saturday morning, it sounded like all the chain saws in the county had been ...read more

  • Everyone Can Win Someone

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    EVERYONE CAN WIN SOMEONE George W. Truett was the beloved pastor of Dallas’ First Baptist Church for more than 60 years. He tells of a woman who came to him after a service. She was a poverty stricken widow with several children. She said, "Pastor, I have never known you to be unfair -- yet you ...read more

  • Story: In The Late Nineteenth Century In South ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 16, 2010
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    Story: In the late nineteenth Century in South Africa, an old man was digging for gold in a river bed. He had been at it for many years. Every now and then he found a little bit of gold, not enough to make him rich – but just enough to maintain his interest. The part of the river in which he ...read more

  • Balloons

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on May 15, 2011
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    BALLOONS One Sunday afternoon in late February, my family and I went out to brunch after the morning’s worship services. Upon leaving, my girls asked the hosts if they could have a balloon. Certainly they said – what color? So, my two youngest were each given a balloon, a huge ...read more

  • God Wants To Pull The Stickers Out  PRO

    Contributed by Tim White on Jun 6, 2011
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    GOD WANTS TO PULL THE STICKERS OUT The little girl hopped away screaming. Obviously, the fear of living forever with a sticker in her foot was not as terrifying as the thought of me pulling it out. But a five-year-old could not out-run the preacher. Not hopping on one foot, anyway. After I ...read more

  • Why Worry?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    WHY WORRY? In a 2006 article in Time magazine called "Why We Worry About the Things We Shouldn’t" Jeffrey Kluger, writes: As human beings, we pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk. Yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ...read more

  • A Lesson From A Pair Of Brothers

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Dec 3, 2019
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    Scripture: Mat 18:1-3, NASB 1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" 2 And He called a child to Himself and set him before them, 3 and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will ...read more

  • The Only Thing Left Was The Sign

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Jan 14, 2020
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    A number of years ago, I drove by a small shopping center in a Midwestern city. The display of signs stated there was everything from a bookstore to a pet shop to—my favorite—a hobby shop! I’ve been interested in model trains and aircraft for many years, and thought this would be a good place to ...read more

  • Healing Power Of The Church

    Contributed by Mark Mitchell on Jan 22, 2023
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    A YOUNG couple got married and was on their way home from the honeymoon. A tractor-trailer pulled out in front of them suddenly and the young groom swerved to avoid it. The car went into a tailspin and crashed. The groom was okay, but his new bride was bleeding profusely. He knew if he didn’t get ...read more

  • We Are Biologically Wired To Trust

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Apr 20, 2023
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    Henry Cloud in his book, Trust, talks about how we are hard-wired to trust. If you have ever been around a newborn, you may have noticed that newborns do not do much due diligence when they're hungry. They scream with all their might and basically say, "Bring it to me now!" The human ...read more