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  • Stanley Hauerwas And William Willimon Open Their ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 19, 2006
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    Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon open their book Resident Aliens with the following: Sometime between 1960 and 1980, an old, inadequately conceived world ended…and a new world began. When and how did we change? Although it may sound trivial, one of us is tempted to date the shift sometime on ...read more

  • The Road Of Life

    Contributed by David Selleck on Oct 26, 2006
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    "The Road of Life" Author Unknown At first, I saw Jesus Christ as my observer, my judge, keeping track of the things I did wrong, so as to know whether I merited heaven or hell when I die. He was out there sort of like a president. I recognized His picture when I saw it, but I really didn’t know ...read more

  • He Was Raised In The Church Of Christ. Early In ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2006
    based on 1 rating
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    He was raised in the Church of Christ. Early in his life, he developed faith, but at one point his parents split up. He ended up with his grandmother and abandoned what faith he may have had. He later said that accepting the theory of evolution enabled him to pursue his twisted urges. He ...read more

  • One Day, A Long Time Ago South Africa, An Old ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Dec 1, 2006
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    "One day, a long time ago South Africa, an old man was kneeling, digging in a river bed. He was a gold prospector, and had been for many years. Every now and then he had found a little bit of gold, not enough to make him rich - just enough to provide him with food and drink for a week or two and to ...read more

  • As Far Back As Anyone Could Remember, Kris Knew ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    As far back as anyone could remember, Kris knew where he was going. He was clean-cut boy, bright and well behaved. The kind of kid any parent would be proud to call their son. His father was a major general in the Air Force and immensely proud of his son when Kris announced his intention to join ...read more

  • When Steve And I Went To Germany To Live, I ...

    Contributed by Amanda Wilson on Oct 20, 2007
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    When Steve and I went to Germany to live, I didn’t know any German, and I knew so little about what it was like to live in Germany that I set out to live there with what I now see as an unbelievably naive optimism that was close to sheer stupidity in its ignorance. Sure I’d seen Germany on TV, and ...read more

  • The Young Pastor Came Before His Congregation And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 28, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,320 views

    The young pastor came before his congregation and began to preach his sermon. God had placed it on his heart to begin a series on loving God, loving others. He preached his heart out, making points and using illustrations that moved people to tears and emotion. The pastor came to the end of the ...read more

  • Follow The Trail

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    FOLLOW THE TRAIL In 1949, Mao Tse-Tung ran through China in a marauding storm. His communist army was wiping out anything in their path that would hinder an unrestrained dictatorship of communism. In the path of this malicious army, a CIA operative Douglas Mackiernan had to flee for his life. ...read more

  • Pastor John R Ramsey Once Wrote, "For Some Time I ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 1, 2008
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    Pastor John R Ramsey once wrote, “For some time I have had a person provide me with a rose boutonniere to pin on the lapel of my suit every Sunday. Because I always got a flower on Sunday morning, I really did not think much of it. It was a nice gesture that I appreciated, but it became routine. ...read more

  • Twin Brothers And A Dollar

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 11, 2009
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    TWIN BROTHERS AND A DOLLAR In his book, The Preaching Event, John Claypool tells a poignant story about identical twin brothers who never married because they enjoyed each other’s company so much. When their father died, they took over his store and ran it together in a joyful collaboration. But ...read more

  • Phineas Could Not Sleep. He Was Up Before The ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 16, 2009
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    Phineas could not sleep. He was up before the sun. He had his bag packed, and he was downstairs, ready to begin the day. The year was 1820. Phineas was finally to see an island- his very own island. Phineas had received the island as a gift from his grandfather. As a baby, Phineas had been ...read more

  • The Procrastination Before The Ultimate ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 14, 2009
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    The Procrastination Before the Ultimate Preservation of the Hudson Palisades as a National Natural Landmark The Palisades, also called the New Jersey Palisades or the Hudson Palisades are a line of steep cliffs along the west side of the lower Hudson River in northeast New Jersey and southern New ...read more

  • Story: In The Late Nineteenth Century In South ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 16, 2010
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    Story: In the late nineteenth Century in South Africa, an old man was digging for gold in a river bed. He had been at it for many years. Every now and then he found a little bit of gold, not enough to make him rich – but just enough to maintain his interest. The part of the river in which he ...read more

  • How James Montgomery Boice Faced Faced Death From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2011
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    How James Montgomery Boice Faced Faced Death from Cancer On May 7, 2000, Dr. Boice stood in this pulpit for the last time to speak about his cancer that would take his life in a month. Here is an excerpt: "If I were to reflect on what goes on theologically here, there are two things I would ...read more

  • A Peacemaking Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011
    based on 9 ratings
     | 5,842 views

    A PEACEMAKING CHURCH I can tell this story because one neighbor has died and the other neighbor no longer lives across the street from our church. Our neighbors endured the disruption of their lives as we built on to our church. I'm sure that contributed to their lack of patience with us. We put ...read more

  • The "Regard For Others" Ethic

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Jan 24, 2012
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    THE "REGARD FOR OTHERS" ETHIC John Sommerville currently teaches history at the University of Florida. He has been carrying out an exercise with his students for years. He challenges his students with the following thought experiment. Imagine that you see a little old lady coming down the ...read more

  • Painlessness Is Your Enemy

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 31, 2012
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    PAINLESSNESS IS YOUR ENEMY Dr Paul Brand was born in India to missionary parents and spent most of his life caring for people who couldn’t feel pain - people with leprosy. He spent much of life studying pain. At one point he was given a grant to develop a system of warning that would protect ...read more

  • We Are Biologically Wired To Trust

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Apr 20, 2023
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    Henry Cloud in his book, Trust, talks about how we are hard-wired to trust. If you have ever been around a newborn, you may have noticed that newborns do not do much due diligence when they're hungry. They scream with all their might and basically say, "Bring it to me now!" The human ...read more

  • Unrecognised Riches

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 24, 2025
     | 111 views

    In the late nineteenth Century in South Africa, an old man was digging for gold in a river bed. He had been at it for many years. Every now and then he found a little bit of gold, not enough to make him rich – but just enough to maintain his interest. The part of river in which he was ...read more

  • 1 Corinthians 13 — Church Version  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 28, 2003
    based on 21 ratings
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    1 Corinthians 13 - church version “If our church could hold services in five languages or our members could speak three, but we didn’t love others, we would be all talk and no action. If our church really expressed it’s spiritual gifts with wholehearted service and we became spiritual giants, but ...read more