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  • The Baton Rouge Gideon Camp Sponsored A Gideon ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Hamilton on Apr 2, 2003
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    The Baton Rouge Gideon Camp sponsored a Gideon Day at Angola Penitentiary. They took Bibles into the cells of prisoners to tell them about the love of God. One of these Gideons was named Luther. When he walked into Charlie Frazier’s cell, the prisoner started cursing him. Charlie Frazier was a ...read more

  • If I Had My Life To Live Over

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 29, 2003
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    IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER (Written after she found out she was dying from cancer.)- by Erma Bombeck I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren’t there for the day. I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose ...read more

  • As The Spring Arrived This Year, I Watched As ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 6, 2004
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    As the Spring arrived this year, I watched as the new growth literally exploded from the ground. I began to think about the trees, which had looked so dead, but which were now budding and bringing forth blossoms, leaves and eventually fruit. I thought about the flowers which would bloom and ...read more

  • Take Time To By Holy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    TAKE TIME TO BY HOLY Let me begin with what little I could glean concerning this hymn and its author: For many years, the only information known about this gospel song was what Ira D. Sankey wrote in his autobiography. Sankey (1840-1908) was the well-known gospel singer and hymn writer who ...read more

  • Right And Wrong And Ruby ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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    RIGHT AND WRONG AND RUBY BRIDGES A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public schools to African-American children. White parents in the community decided to keep their children at home if this verdict was enforced. They made it known that any African-American children who came to ...read more

  • Several Years Ago, The Leadership Of A Fairly ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2009
     | 1,692 views

    Several years ago, the leadership of a fairly large English church became tired of the ‘worship wars.’ They were tired of different people getting mad and getting upset when the worship leader didn’t embrace their particular way or mode of worship. Some wanted hymns. Some wanted both. Some wanted ...read more

  • Integrity And Faithfulness In Work Yields Peace ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    Integrity and Faithfulness in Work Yields Peace of Mind The late great American Methodist clergyman and author, Rev. Charles Livingstone Allen (1913 - 2005), told this story in his sermon entitled "How To Sleep Well On A Windy Night:" "A boy went to a farmer and asked to be given a job as a hired ...read more

  • The World Says, "If It Feels Good, Do ...

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Jan 16, 2010
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    The world says, “If it feels good, do it!” and “The ends justify the means.” As a result, we have to be extra alert. It reminds me of God’s message to Sardis in the Book of Revelation. God kept having to tell them to be alert and that must have poured salt into their wounds. You see Sardis was a ...read more

  • Purest Most Average Things In Life Are The ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Feb 9, 2010
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    PUREST MOST AVERAGE things in life are the best. In high school I had the opportunity to spend a week on a working dairy farm with a couple other high school kids from my church. Though it was a family operation it was a big dairy farm. The farm milked cows 24 hours a day. They had so many cows, ...read more

  • My Wife Loves Hgtv. (It Drives Me Nuts, But She ...

    Contributed by Grant Sisson on Apr 17, 2010
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    My wife loves HGTV. (It drives me nuts, but she doesn’t watch football with me either.) But once in a while I will sit down with her and watch it. The other night there was a show about the HGTV “good guy” construction expert going into a home that was left supposedly 95% complete when a ...read more

  • In December Of 2004, Judge Michael Higgins, ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 20, 2010
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    In December of 2004, Judge Michael Higgins, presiding at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal here in Australia, found Pastors Daniel Scot and Danny Nalliah guilty of inciting RELIGIOUS HATRED against Victorian Muslims. This was an historic case, the first finding of RELIGIOUS ...read more

  • The Enemy Is Real  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 6, 2011
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    THE ENEMY IS REAL I am learning some things about the FIRST WORLD WAR. Things like it was a TRENCH WAR in which both sides just looked at each other from trenches for most of the war. Often they did not see one another as enemies. The French would not fire on the Germans when they saw their ...read more

  • The Life Vest

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
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    THE LIFE VEST The USS Astoria (C-34) was the first U.S. cruiser to engage the Japanese during the Battle of Savo Island, a night action fought 8-9 August 1942. Although she scored two hits on the Imperial flagship Chokai, the Astoria was badly damaged and sank shortly after noon, 9 August. About ...read more

  • Navy Seals

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
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    NAVY SEALS I don’t know much about the army but here is something I read recently about those Navy Seals who shot Osama Bin Laden. It’s good to be a Navy SEAL right now. The elite sailors are being showered with praise for their successful operation in Pakistan that resulted in the killing of ...read more

  • Where Can I Get A Heart Like Yours?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    WHERE CAN I GET A HEART LIKE YOURS? Bill White of Paramount, California talks about being in Compton, California, working with volunteers from several different churches on a Saturday doing projects to serve the city. At lunch time, he was headed down a narrow side street when he saw dozens of ...read more

  • Authority At The Airport

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Oct 25, 2011
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    AUTHORITY AT THE AIRPORT Someone the other day told me they had a problem with Security at the airport from something they left in their carry on. Then it got me to thinking, which is a bad idea anyway, about my TSA encounter. I had an early morning flight and I got through security at about ...read more

  • Loving Neighbour

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Feb 29, 2016
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    A Little Pointer on Keeping a Balance Here’s a little bonus tip that I’ve found helpful to keep my wits about me as I live next to these wild Vikings we call sinners, pagans, and wacko unbelievers while keeping my vertical relationship with God strong. It’s called “whimsical holiness,” which is ...read more

  • Human Ingenuity And The Genius Of God

    Contributed by Jerry Stephens on Mar 26, 2016
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    Recently, I was watching a documentary about the top 101 inventions of all time. Pretty cool stuff. Human ingenuity is pretty amazing. We’ve figured out how to do all kinds of things. What are some of the best things human imagination has come up with? I have to tell you, they may not be very ...read more

  • Just A Touch

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Dec 17, 2020
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    Mar 5:27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. 28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. 29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. 30 And Jesus, ...read more

  • At A Billy Graham School Of Evangelism, Dr. ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 2, 2007
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    At a Billy Graham School of Evangelism, Dr. George Hunter, professor of evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary, gave the following explanation of secularism and meaning for the church today. Throughout the Middle Ages the church exercised control or heavy influence over all of Western culture. ...read more