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  • Fear, Love, Joy  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 7, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,662 views

    FEAR, LOVE, JOY In the movie First Knight, Lancelot (played by Richard Gere) is a wanderer and highly skilled swordsman who fights for whoever will pay him. Seeing a princess and her entourage under attack in the woods, he decides to save her. Attracted to the princess, Guinevere, he later visits ...read more

  • A Story Is Told About A Meeting Satan Had With ...  PRO

    Contributed by Adam Deibert on May 7, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,152 views

    A story is told about a meeting Satan had with his chief demons. Christianity was spreading rapidly and growing fervently, and they needed to devise a way to undermine the work. The arch deceiver called for suggestions. “We could bring some more hypocrites into the church” said one. “No,” said ...read more

  • The Botanical Life Of Most Trees Is Amazing. ...

    Contributed by Mike Mcguire on Feb 8, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    The botanical life of most trees is amazing. Often when a tree is damaged and the trunk is cut down, a new shoot will come up out of the stump or roots. As long as the roots are healthy, it will try to live. It will put out new shoots and eventually try to flower and reproduce. It keeps adapting to ...read more

  • World Of Words

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,971 views

    WORLD OF WORDS We live in a world of words. Words are all about us, words on TV, words on the radio, spoken words by family and friends, words printed in newspapers, books, on computers, and words on the Internet. The world of words have turned us into a people who have been overwhelmed, ...read more

  • So What Does This Gentle Restoration Or ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 4, 2009
     | 3,167 views

    So what does this gentle restoration or correction look like? Well here’s what it doesn’t look like, from a real example I observed: “How could you be so stupid, did you grow up with wolves? You are going to pay for this buster, and you’re going to straight to hell where you belong.” I have left ...read more

  • God Is The Glue In A Marriage Even When ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
     | 2,429 views

    God is the Glue in a Marriage even When Alzheimer’s Strikes God is the bond which holds our marriages together. & If we’re going to STAY together, He must actually BE at the center of our relationships. We must be committed to Him first of all. Then we’ll remain committed to each other no matter ...read more

  • Treating The Disease, Not The Symptoms  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jan 31, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
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    TREATING THE DISEASE, NOT THE SYMPTOMS I know a man who has diabetes. It has gone unchecked and he has some serious problems with his feet. He is always hindered by his foot problems and he's afraid he will lose one to amputation so he has the tendency to treat the foot concerns. The problem is ...read more

  • Steven Curtis Chapman: Still Blessing His Name

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 19, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,658 views

    STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN: STILL BLESSING HIS NAME On May 17, 2008, Christian recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman and his family suffered a devastating loss. Their five-year-old adopted daughter, Maria Sue, was struck and killed when Chapman's seventeen-year-old son was backing his SUV out of the ...read more

  • A Share In The Treasure  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Sickler on Dec 26, 2011
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    A SHARE IN THE TREASURE A great European king was so enraged at the report of Muslim victories that he immediately joined the crusade to drive Islam out of Palestine. This great king took his army and spent many years fighting in a crusade to free Palestine from Islamic domination. When he left ...read more

  • The Shoes From My Father

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jan 21, 2013
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    THE SHOES FROM MY FATHER Roy Smith was a preacher of a past generation. In his book Tales I’ve Told Twice, he tells about being at a dress rehearsal for the school play. He was a freshman at the little junior college in the town where his family always lived. He didn’t know how but somehow his ...read more

  • Julie Hadden: Precious To God

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 12, 2013
     | 1,999 views

    JULIE HADDEN: PRECIOUS TO GOD Julie Hadden, Winner of Season 4 of the TV show the Biggest Loser, told her story in a 2009 issue of Guideposts: I went to the auditions and made it on the show. Our first challenge was a race across California's Mojave Desert. First two contestants to get to the ...read more

  • Rocky

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 12, 2008
     | 2,021 views

    ROCKY One of the biggest movies of modern times, "Rocky" starring Sylvester Stallone, almost never got made. Stallone was struggling to find work as a screenwriter. He saw a fight against Ali and little-known Church Wepner. Wepner went 15 rounds, and it gave Stallone an idea. Three days later, ...read more

  • Peter Pan

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Mar 2, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,522 views

    Peter Pan and The Hope Of Heaven… St. John’s is the oldest of all the cities in North America. Embedded in this 400-year-old city are many stories. Bowering Park is one of the oldest parks in St. John’s. It was established by a grant of land from the Bowering family in 1911 on the 100th ...read more

  • Are You Familiar With Bill Cosby’s ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 14, 2001
    based on 137 ratings
     | 3,784 views

    ILL. Are you familiar with Bill Cosby’s book, "Time Flies"? In it, Cosby says that something happens to you when you turn 50 years old. When his father turned 50, Cosby says that for the first time he remembers noticing his father’s "love handles," those rolls of fat which develop around your ...read more

  • My Eternal Real Estate  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Mavis on May 21, 2001
    based on 82 ratings
     | 2,824 views

    MY ETERNAL REAL ESTATE Years ago, radio evangelist Charles E. Fuller announced that he would speak the following Sunday on “Heaven” and that it would also be aired over the radio. During that week he received a letter from an elderly man who was very ill. Here’s a part of his letter: “Next ...read more

  • Want To Know What Your Boat Is? Your Fear Will ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 22, 2001
    based on 39 ratings
     | 3,334 views

    Want to know what your boat is? Your fear will tell you. Just ask yourself this: What is it that produces fear in me - especially when I think of leaving it behind and stepping out in faith? For David, it is his vocation. He has been a builder for thirty-five years; he is in his late ...read more

  • Robert Fulghum In It Was On Fire When I Lay Down ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Dec 18, 2001
    based on 41 ratings
     | 5,307 views

    Robert Fulghum in It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It, tells a story involving his daughter, Molly. One day, as Fulghum was ready to leave for work, Molly handed him two brown paper sacks. In one was his lunch. What was in the other was a mystery. When Fulghum asked Molly what was in the mystery ...read more

  • A Bubbling Baby, A Bubbling Joy  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 16, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,176 views

    A BUBBLING BABY, A BUBBLING JOY On September 23, 1930, early in the morning a baby boy was born in Albany, Georgia. At that moment, of course, his family had no way of knowing that this bouncing baby boy would grow up to become one of the most beloved and respected singers and entertainers ...read more

  • Please Don't Retire  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
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    PLEASE DON’T RETIRE We’ve got a dangerous practice in America called "retirement." It’s a blessing in some ways, but it’s also dangerous because it implies that your productivity stops when you get to be 62 or 65. It’s dangerous in the church because people look forward to retiring so they can get ...read more

  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (Hiv) Is A Virus ...

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Nov 20, 2002
     | 1,710 views

    Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that has spread over the last 20 years in countries all over the world. Already more than 33 million people throughout the world are infected. More than 14 million have died. HIV is a virus. Illnesses caused by a virus cannot be cured by antibiotics. ...read more

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