Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 29, 2005
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[There is the story of four pastors who gathered for coffee every Monday morning for a time of reflecting together how each one’s ministry was doing. One pastor shared with the group that he was having quite a problem with bats gathering in the church bell tower and wanted help in finding ways to
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Contributed by Jeremy Morford on Jul 27, 2006
In my younger, more foolish days, there was a game that I liked to play that my wife didn’t like very much. We’d be driving down the highway, when I’d notice that the fuel gage was getting close to empty. My wife’s preference at this point, was for me to stop at the nearest gas station, while I
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Holiness
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
Antonio The Garbage Man.
Antonio’s huge truck would arrive, backing up with that horrific big truck back up sound.
He would jump out and start pounding on the door,
Shouting over the unbelievably loud truck,
"Garbage Man, Garbage man, Garbage man is here!"
Well, no kidding, a side from the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
We need to understand that when we share our faith, we cannot get discouraged when others do not accept Christ, because there are those in this world that will NEVER accept Christ…
I recently read an account of a young Christian in the military who tells about sharing his faith with another
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Who has ever heard the name, Edward D. Kimball? Doesn’t ring a bell? Well, let me tell you about him. Many years ago, Mr. Kimball was a Sunday School teacher at Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Chicago. It was a tiny little church, and Mr. Kimball’s class consisted of just a handful of teenage
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
Standing on a small platform, a reader calls out names, “Michael Hyde. Donald Jackson. Jose Munoz.” The names being read were those engraved on “The Wall.” No one calls it anything else. It was once highly controversial. This was not a statue, no soldier on horseback, but a black granite gash
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2007
Leo Tolstoy born 1828 and author of “War and Peace.” He was a great influence on Gandhi & Martin Luther King, Jr. He influenced them in their non-resistant movements for equal rights. Tolstoy once wrote a story about a successful peasant farmer who was not satisfied with his lot. He wanted more
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Contributed by Art Good on Aug 14, 2007
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A man spread vicious rumors and harmful gossip about another man. In this small village the judge not only presided over cases where the law was broken but also over cases involving unethical or improper conduct.
So the man who had spread the malicious gossip was brought before the judge. The
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Rick Stacy on Sep 17, 2007
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I want to tell you a story about a man in whom God has moved so miraculously, I’ve just got to walk you through it.
Mel Pellinen was a big strapping guy. I met him when I lived in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Mel lived in Ishpeming and for years as a butcher he had carried whole sides of
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 17, 2007
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Church Unity?
I read about a church that split, and that split began over an argument at a potluck supper when a lady brought a congealed salad she made with Cool Whip instead of real whipping cream. There’s a book entitled War In The Pews that talks about real-life instances which are absolutely
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Baptist
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There was a man who was having some very serious financial problems. He went to his pastor and told him of all his troubles. The Pastor told him that if he would pray then God would provide for his needs. So the man went home that night and prayed “Dear Lord please let me win the lottery so that
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 5, 2008
We should be like the 3-year-old boy (that Paul Harvey told about) who went to the grocery store with his mother. Before they entered the grocery store she said to him, "Now you’re not going to get any chocolate chip cookies, so don’t even ask."
She put him up in the cart & he sat in the little
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Bruce Emmert on Oct 27, 2008
But let’s take a little reality check and think for a minute about how our society has changed over the last twenty-five or so years in terms of how we think about money and possessions, about what we need and what we want. Before Melissa and I got married we took a pre-marital course with our
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United Methodist
Contributed by Scott Bayles on May 14, 2009
In 1996 George Tulloch led an expedition to the spot where the Titanic sank in 1912. He and his crew recovered numerous artifacts, everything from eyeglasses to jewelry to dishware. In his search, Tulloch realized that a large piece of the hull had broken from the ship and was resting not far from
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Christian Church
Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 26, 2009
From Betty Lukens- A Roman soldier’s letter to his parents in the 1st century AD. “But the most shocking experience I’ve had lately was over 40 men who denounced the gods to become Christians. They have really caused a stir. Nothing our priests could do, nothing they could offer them, nothing
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Christian/Church Of Christ
I want to close by sharing something Gary Gunn told us about at our last Men’s Prayer Breakfast. Several years back, Steven, a young man with AIDS started attending our church. (This was back in the time when AIDS was scary to most people and we didn’t know a lot about it.) The sickness slowly
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Christian/Church Of Christ