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  • His One Mistake - He Brushed His Teeth Twice A ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 26, 2007
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    His One Mistake - He brushed his teeth twice a day. The doctor examined him twice a year. He wore rubbers when it rained. He slept with the windows opened. He stuck to a diet with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. He golfed. He got at least 8 hours of sleep every night. He never smoked, ...read more

  • Back In The Early 1980's, A Young Man Was Found ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Jun 7, 2007
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    Back in the early 1980’s, a young man was found GUILTY of ROBBING a CONVENIENCE store. He told the COURT that he had LOST his JOB months before and had been unable to MAKE enough MONEY working at ODD JOBS to SUPPORT his FAMILY and PAY his BILLS. “I know it was WRONG to ROB the STORE,” he pleaded. ...read more

  • When Martin Luther Was Printing His Translation ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    When Martin Luther was printing his translation of the Bible in Germany, pieces of the printed Scripture fell to the floor. A young girl picked one of them up and read the phrase of our text, “For God so loved the world that he gave”. The rest of the sentence was missing. That moment for her was a ...read more

  • Pearl Harbor The Morning Of December 7, 1941, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Pearl Harbor The morning of December 7, 1941, found 353 Japanese airplanes swarming all around the Harbor site. Within a couple of hours, America lost 8 big battleships, 6 major airfields, almost all planes, and 2,400 men. That happened at 7:50 AM in what was supposedly a surprised attack. But ...read more

  • Norman Cates Tells The Story Of A Christian Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Norman Cates tells the story of a Christian who prayed this prayer every morning: "Lord, if you want me to witness to someone today, please give me a sign to show me who it is." One day he found himself on a nearly empty bus when a big, burly man sat next to him. The timid believer anxiously ...read more

  • The Americas Cup Is Coming Up This Week And We ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Americas cup is coming up this week and we were considering that as a kind of parable for the church. The Americas cup is won and lost on small differences. As with any ship design, a sailing yacht embodies many necessary elements, which must dovetail to accomplish its mission. What is nice ...read more

  • A Monument Is A Stone Or A Building That Is Set ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A monument is a stone or a building that is set up to remember a person or an event. On July 3, 1775, he took on what was thought to be an impossible task. He became the commander of an army of rag-tag volunteers that were so determined to throw off the British yoke, that they were willing to war ...read more

  • The Rose Beyond The Wall-A. L. Frink

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    THE ROSE BEYOND THE WALL-A. L. Frink Near a shady wall a rose once grew, Budded and blossomed in God’s free light, Watered and fed by morning dew, Shedding its sweetness day and night. As it grew and blossomed fair and tall, Slowly rising to loftier height, I came to a crevice in the ...read more

  • After A Three-Month Summer Recess, On October ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    After a three-month summer recess, on October 3,1994, the Supreme Court of the United States opened its 1994-95 term. According to the New York Times News Service, the court’s legal business for that first day could be summed up with one word: “No.” The court announced it had refused to hear more ...read more

  • I Wonder What God Would Say To Us Today As He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I wonder what God would say to us today as He sees all of our so-called Christian organizations in constant activity but with little action or movement. The huge building program proclaiming astronomical figures in cost and “people reached” is indeed impressive. The mushroom growth of both churches ...read more

  • Miles Away In Another Arena, Scores Of Fire And ...

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Jul 27, 2007
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    Miles away in another arena, scores of fire and policemen were becoming voluntary heroes in an effort to save people inside the World Trade Center buildings. Twelve firemen were lost from the Park Slope fire station in Brooklyn. One of them was named David Fontana, a 10 year veteran of the ...read more

  • Ill- The Fable Of The Jealous Eagle (Taken From ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Sharp on Oct 27, 2007
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    Ill- The Fable of the Jealous eagle (Taken from an old "Our Daily Bread") The Great Evangelist DL Moody once told a fable of an eagle who was envious of another that could fly better than he could. One day the bird saw a sportsman with a bow and arrow and said to him “I wish you ...read more

  • In Charles Swindoll's Book, The Quest For ...

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 8, 2007
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    In Charles Swindoll’s Book, The Quest For Character (Multnomah), sociologist and historian Carle Zimmerman, in his 1947 book Family And Civilization, recorded his keen observations as he compared the disintegration of various cultures with the parallel decline of family life in those cultures. ...read more

  • Author Thom Rainer Tells Of A Man Name George Who ...

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
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    Author Thom Rainer tells of a man name George who learned a few weeks after becoming a Christian that at least 4 people were praying for him daily. George said: “I wasn’t surprised (my wife) was praying for me….then George learned about others. ‘A friend of mine who lives over seven hundred miles ...read more

  • Charles Dickens's Tale Of Two Cities Is A Story ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Mitchell on Jan 31, 2008
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    Charles Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities is a story woven around the events of the French revolution. Each day, a grim procession of prisoners would make its way on the streets of Paris to the guillotine. One prisoner, Sidney Carton, a brave man who had once lost his soul but had now found it again, ...read more

  • Shaved Heads Reaffirms A Friend!

    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 28, 2008
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    SHAVED HEADS REAFFIRMS A FRIEND! A teenage boy was diagnosed with cancer and as a result was in the hospital for several weeks to undergo radiation treatments and chemotherapy. During that time, he lost all of his hair. On the way home from the hospital, he was worried-not about the cancer, but ...read more

  • A Young Banker Was Driving His Bmw, In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    Illus. A young banker was driving his BMW, in the mountains, during a snowstorm. As he rounded a turn the vehicle slid out of control and toward a cliff. At the last moment he unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped from the car. Though he escaped with his life, his left arm was caught near the hinge of ...read more

  • A Holy Nation – 1 Peter 1:9

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    A HOLY NATION – 1 Peter 1:9 You, with other believers, are God’s representatives on earth. A local church, living out together the life of Christ within them, is God’s strategy to change a lost world. I am a holy nation, I need to show Christianity to the World Some people wonder whether we really ...read more

  • I Met The Late Dr. Larry Burkett, President And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    I MET THE LATE DR. LARRY BURKETT, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES IN 1979 BEFORE HE BECAME SO POPULAR. HIS TEACHING ON FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT TRANSFORMED MY PHILOSOPHY OF STEWARDSHIP, EVEN THOUGH AT FIRST, I THOUGHT HE WAS HAD LOST HIS MIND!! IN HIS BOOK: YOUR POTENTIAL FINANCIAL ...read more

  • Still Has It After All Those Years

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Apr 29, 2008
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    STILL HAS IT AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS Years ago, I had this wonderful man in my congregation who looked exactly like, no kidding, Marlon Brando. Mitch was this huge man who had a heart of gold. He had lost his wife to cancer years earlier, but had fallen in love with Louise, a sweet woman just a few ...read more