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  • Jesus Reached Out To Uncomfortable People… ...

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 29, 2012
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     | 2,512 views

    Jesus reached out to uncomfortable people… and that made others uncomfortable. ILLUS: When I was a young boy, my home church had a church bell that they rang every Sunday at 9:00 in the morning. It was a college town, and one of the local college students had apparently been up “partying” the ...read more

  • Philip Yancey: "There Is Nothing We Can Do To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,987 views

    Philip Yancey: “There is nothing we can do to make God love us more. There is nothing we ...read more

  • False Prophets And False Christ's Will Make The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,301 views

    False prophets and false Christ’s will make the scene in the last days. There was Prophet Jim Jones of the terrible Guyana tragedy on November 18, 1978 when he lied to his followers and convinced them (or commanded them) to drink Kool-aid laced with poison. 913 people were found dead, including Jim ...read more

  • Living Thief.  PRO

    Contributed by Darrell Jones on Mar 1, 2003
    based on 90 ratings
     | 5,636 views

    Living Thief. A minister tells the story of a preacher who asked a man why he did not join the church..The reply was that the dying thief did not join the church and he was saved. "Well," said the minister, "if you do not belong to a church, perhaps you help by supporting missions?" "No," said the ...read more

  • The Recent Problems In Our Economy Can Be Used ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 24, 2008
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    The recent problems in our economy can be used as a wakeup call for us all. Maybe this current anxiety will turn many eyes toward God. The church is often at its best in tragedy and calamity. In 1867, many banks and factories were closing in America. Because of these problems, Jeremiah Lanphier ...read more

  • When A Nightclub Opened On Main Street, The Only ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
     | 953 views

    When a nightclub opened on Main Street, the only church in that small town organized an all-night prayer meeting. The members asked God to burn down the club. Within a few minutes, lightning struck the club, and it burned to the ground. The owner sued the church, which denied responsibility. ...read more

  • Dry Truth Or Dynamic Lies?

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 26, 2010
     | 1,971 views

    DRY TRUTH OR DYNAMIC LIES? During my first year of ministry here, I asked a hypothetical question: If you had the choice of attending a church where the pastor believed and taught the Bible but was dry and not a very good speaker, or a church where the pastor believed that the Bible contained many ...read more

  • Waste More Time

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
     | 1,643 views

    WASTE MORE TIME In his book God Came Near, Max Lucado tells this story: Norman Geisler, as a child, went to a certain church because he was invited by some neighbourhood children. He went back to the same church for Sunday School classes for 400 Sundays. Each week he was faithfully picked up by a ...read more

  • The Anglican Dog

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 15, 2011
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    THE ANGLICAN DOG A man came to an Anglican Church and asked to see the Vicar. "Vicar," he said, "My dog died and I would like a Christian burial for him." The Vicar said, "I'm sorry to hear about your dog, but we Anglicans don't do funerals for dogs. You might try the Baptist church down the ...read more

  • Sola Fide: Faith Alone

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2012
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    SOLA FIDE: FAITH ALONE Sola fide isn’t a license to sin; it’s the motivation to follow your Savior Now, there was a time in the history of the church, when this doctrine was all but lost. By the fifteenth century the church had become a massive institution of power, and the gospel was polluted. ...read more

  • I Was Driving Home One Sunday From Trinity Of...

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 28, 2015
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    I was driving home one Sunday from Trinity of Gentilly, where I was serving. I was on Napolean headed toward the river and had just passed Pascale Manales when I saw Covenant Presbyterian Church at the corner of St. Charles Ave. I then had a vision of younger families in the Uptown and Garden ...read more

  • Are You Really Committed?

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 17, 2017
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    Corrie Ten Boom, the Dutch survivor of Nazi gas chambers, once told a fascinating story. She said that a group of believers were meeting behind the Iron Curtain when the church door burst open and two Russian soldiers with guns stormed inside. They said they would give five minutes for anyone who ...read more

  • The Drinks Are On Me...?

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 15, 2011
     | 2,509 views

    THE DRINKS ARE ON ME...? In the summer of 2010 I was hanging on every word of Steve Chalke as he preached at the New Wine Summer Conference. He was talking about Jesus being the one who transforms people and transforms situations; and he was calling the Church to once again become fully involved ...read more

  • The Gospel Is Offensive

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jun 24, 2011
     | 3,708 views

    THE GOSPEL IS OFFENSIVE There is something about the gospel that is inherently offensive. I don’t like saying that, and you may not like hearing it. But it is incontestable. The gospel puts some people off. Take David and Roland, two high school friends of mine. David was what you might call a ...read more

  • Pray Often

    Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 1, 2008
     | 2,122 views

    PRAY OFTEN I want to do a little participation here: If you LOVE chocolate, raise your hand. (Wait.) Now, before I go any further, look around at those whose hands are not raised--these are the heathen, non-chocolate-loving people! Now, if you have your hand raised, and you have had some ...read more

  • One Advantage Of Marriage Is That, When You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 763 views

    "One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps ...read more

  • The Best Way For Anyone To Know How Much He Ought ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,141 views

    The best way for anyone to know how much he ought to aspire after holiness is to consider not how much will make his present life easy, but to ask himself how much he thinks will make him easy at the hour of death.” - William Law “Didst thou oftener think of thy death than of thy living long, ...read more

  • There Was A Lady Named Danni Stampley From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,829 views

    There was a lady named Danni Stampley from Luann’s home church who had been trained as a Baptist missionary. She felt the call to be a missionary the very night she accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior; she was a teenager at the time. After high school and college, she spent several years in a ...read more

  • Spiritual Fruit

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jan 27, 2008
     | 3,907 views

    Spiritual Fruit I have something in my treasure chest that you will recognize today. This small limb is from a very specific tree in my back yard. Do you know what kind of tree it is? Try and guess. This limb is from an apple tree. Every year this APPLE tree gives Vickie and me a lot of ...read more

  • Did You Know That We Spend Roughly 68 Times More ...

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
     | 1,458 views

    Did you know that we spend roughly 68 times more money caring for the average felon than on a church’s ministry to a spiritually hungry child. From George Barna, Transforming ...read more

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