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  • Henry Wingblade Used To Say That Christian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,833 views

    Henry Wingblade used to say that Christian personality is hidden deep inside us. It is unseen, like the soup carried in a tureen high over a waiter's head. No one knows what's inside—unless the waiter is bumped and he trips! Just so, people don’t know what's inside us until we've been bumped. But ...read more

  • Amazing Grace Was Written By A Man Who Spent His ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 11, 2008
     | 2,497 views

    Amazing Grace was written by a man who spent his early years as a captain of a slave ship. After his conversion, he served as the minister of a church for 44 years before his death at the age of 83. Here’s what he had inscribed on his tomb stone: "John Newton, … once an Infidel and Libertine, a ...read more

  • Someone You Know

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Apr 12, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,860 views

    SOMEONE YOU KNOW A gray haired lady, long a member of her community and Church, shook hands with the minister after the service one morning. "That was a wonderful sermon, she told him, just wonderful. Everything you said applied to someone I know." What is often missed is that God’s word ...read more

  • A Walk By Faith

    Contributed by Barry Edmondson on Aug 10, 2008
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     | 10,826 views

    A WALK BY FAITH I have a friend in Alaska. Some years ago he was a rising executive in a large, influential business. Then God spoke to him to quit his job and go to full-time Bible college. He did so, with no guarantees and no looking back. After he finished Bible college, to the amazement of ...read more

  • Henry Wingblade Used To Say That Christian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
     | 1,189 views

    Henry Wingblade used to say that Christian personality is hidden deep inside us. It is unseen, like the soup carried in a tureen high over a waiter’s head. No one knows what’s inside—unless the waiter is bumped and he trips! Just so, people don’t know what’s inside us until we’ve been ...read more

  • Sheltered

    Contributed by Roger Roark on May 19, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,388 views

    When I was a child, I was afraid of the dark. I would go get in bed with my dad, and he would tell me a story, and I knew everything was okay. As long as I was with him, I knew nothing would harm me. That is the way our heavenly Father wants us to feal about Him. He wants us to know that He is ...read more

  • Ad For Listening

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 25, 2009
     | 3,962 views

    AD FOR LISTENING To point out how lonely people can be, Charles Swindoll mentioned an ad in a Kansas newspaper. It read, "I will listen to you talk for 30 minutes without comment for $5.00." Swindoll said, "Sounds like a hoax, doesn’t it? But the person was serious. Did anybody call? You bet. It ...read more

  • Some Folk Must Really Get Into Their Sunday ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 22, 2009
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    Some folk must really get into their Sunday School lesson because they are so worn out by the time the sermon rolls around that they just can’t help but fall asleep! Or maybe they have worked up such a sweat during the music that they are plumb tuckered out! Perhaps those taking forty winks ...read more

  • If The Blind Put Their Hand In God's  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jun 11, 2009
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    If the Blind Put Their Hand in God’s Helen Keller, shortly before her sixtieth birthday, expressed pity for the real unseeing, for those who have eyes yet do not see. Her long years of physical blindness have given her a spiritual insight which enables her to enjoy life in all its fullness. She ...read more

  • Economic Science Tells Us That Structural ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 21, 2009
     | 1,340 views

    Economic science tells us that structural insecurity generates anti-productive attitudes wasteful of human resources, inasmuch as workers tend to adapt passively to automatic mechanisms, rather than to release creativity. On this point too, there is a convergence between economic science and moral ...read more

  • Who Would Serve God Without Heaven?

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jan 3, 2011
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    WHO WOULD SERVE GOD WITHOUT HEAVEN? Consider this statement from Paris Reidhead: "Lord Jesus, I’m going to obey you and love you and serve you and do what you want me to do as long as I live even if I go to hell at the end of the road because you are worthy to be loved, obeyed and served." Do we ...read more

  • The New Guy  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Mar 29, 2013
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     | 5,188 views

    THE NEW GUY We all need real hope. There were four ladies in a nursing home one time that were sitting there talking, and the nurse brings in a new man to the facility. He was quite dapper for an older man, and one of the ladies asked him where he had been for so long. He responded by saying he ...read more

  • Sin - A Moment Of Pleasure For A Lifetime Of Pain

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 8, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,127 views

    While a man and his wife were shopping at a mall, a shapely, young woman in a short, form-fitting dress strolled by catching the attention of everyone. Without even thinking, the eyes of the husband followed the attractive woman as she walked ahead of the couple. Without even looking up from the ...read more

  • Undefiled Eyes

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    Undefiled Eyes The church that continues the proclaiming of the gospel of Jesus Christ has Christians who long to have undefiled eyes. The first thought that comes to mind regarding undefiled eyes is a child of God who refrains from watching pornography or movies that are full of violence. ...read more

  • Do Not Keep On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    DO NOT KEEP ON BABBLING Dr. Clarence Bass, professor at Bethel Theological Seminary, early in his ministry preached at a church in Los Angeles. He thought he had done quite well as he stood at the door greeting people as they left the church. The remarks about his preaching were complimentary. ...read more

  • Giant Steps  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Mar 10, 2002
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     | 2,519 views

    Giant steps Marathon the latest goal in a life of challenges. Katie Lynch, 26, practicing for Monday’s Boston Marathon with a special Walker. (Globe Staff Photo / JohnTlumacki) By John Vellante, Globe Staff, 4/14/01 WAYLAND Her life -- all 26-plus years of it -- has been one challenge after ...read more

  • Let's Imagine A Situation Where A Homeless Man ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 16, 2003
    based on 90 ratings
     | 3,841 views

    Let’s imagine a situation where a homeless man is begging on the streets of New York. A well dressed man in a long limousine pulls up next to him and offers him a job as vice-president of his company. You might say that is ridiculous; nothing like that would ever happen. But that is exactly ...read more

  • A Sword And A Tear!" 2 Timothy 2: 22-26: Key ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Aug 24, 2004
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    “A Sword and a Tear!” 2 Timothy 2: 22-26: Key verse(s): 24-25a “And the Lord’s servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of ...read more

  • The Greatest Love Of All  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
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    The Greatest Love of All "For this reason I kneel before the Father... that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power... to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love surpasses ...read more

  • Mother's Day Is Fast Approaching And My Mind Went ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2007
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    MOTHER’S DAY IS FAST APPROACHING and my mind went back many years ago to a TV program called, I Remember Moma (I guess I’m showing my age now). It was broadcast from 1949 to 1957 on CBS. It was a 30 minute show in black and white about a Norwegian-American family living in San Francisco in ...read more