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  • The 5 Biggest Mistakes That Threaten ...  PRO

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Feb 4, 2012
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    THE 5 BIGGEST MISTAKES THAT THREATEN RELATIONSHIPS Dr. Edward Hallowell and his wife, Sue, authors of Married to Distraction: Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Distraction, teach you how to spot hidden distractions in your relationship and reveal the mistakes you may ...read more

  • The Story Of Isaac ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    THE STORY OF ISAAC WATTS A young boy complained to his father that most of the church hymns were boring and old-fashioned, with tiresome words that meant little to his generation. His father challenged him with these words: "If you think you can write better hymns, why don’t you?" The boy ...read more

  • Bring Back The Rotary Phone?" Acts 13:42-52 Key ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 11, 2005
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    “Bring Back the Rotary Phone?” Acts 13:42-52 Key verse(s): 50:“But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.” There are three things you can do in life when ...read more

  • George Hunter Contends That The First ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 17, 2000
    based on 106 ratings
     | 3,533 views

    George Hunter contends that the first characteristic of a secular person in the modern world is that he or she is ignorant of basic Christianity. It has been said of the Baby Busters, those born between 1963 and 1977 and the first generation to grow up in a postmodern context, that they lack even ...read more

  • Mormon Sacred Scriptures Say Explicitly That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
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     | 1,703 views

    Mormon sacred scriptures say explicitly that there are many gods; for example, the three persons of the Trinity are regarded as three gods. Mormons believe that God used to be a man but was able to learn how to be a god, and all Mormon men are striving to become gods just like their heavenly ...read more

  • Freedom To Find God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,699 views

    FREEDOM TO FIND GOD Every president invokes God and asks his blessing. Every president promises, though not always in so many words, to lead according to moral principles rooted in Biblical tradition. The English writer G. K. Chesterton called America a “nation with the soul of a church,” and ...read more

  • The Idea That Baptism Is Involved In The ...

    Contributed by Brian B on Jul 29, 2009
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    The idea that Baptism is involved in the salvation process was universally taught for the first 1500 years…. And it was only 500 years ago … when Zwingli came along in the middle 1500s that it began to be taught as a sign and a seal only. Zwingli said, “in this matter of baptism--- if I may ...read more

  • Simpson's Most Valuable ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2010
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    Simpson’s Most Valuable Discovery In the year 1847, a doctor from Edinburgh, Sir James Simpson, discovered that chloroform could be used as an anaesthetic to render people insensible to the pain of surgery. From his early experiments, Dr. Simpson made it possible for people to go through the most ...read more

  • Satan As Amusing

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
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    SATAN AS AMUSING One of Satan's characteristic strategems is to give those who believe that he does exist an entirely wrong concept of what his true nature and character really are. In the Middle Ages, when there were no radios, no magazines, no newspapers, no movies, no telephones, and none of ...read more

  • Sin Has Become Commonplace Among God's People. We ...

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 18, 2007
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    Sin has become commonplace among God’s people. We have become somewhat hardened to it, given the constant exposure we have to it through modern media. Sin is a problem in the life of a Christian, and unconfessed sin will hinder the prayer life of anyone. Consider the following example of a young ...read more

  • The Friendship Of John Newton

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 3, 2011
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    THE FRIENDSHIP OF JOHN NEWTON While John Newton is best-known as the author of the famous hymn, "Amazing Grace," his life teemed with spiritual fruit. A new biography on his life by Jonathan Aitken gives us a peek into the legacy of the man who described himself with one simple sentence: "I am a ...read more

  • Paul Brand Wrote In The March 4, 1983 Issue Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Oct 19, 2003
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    Paul Brand wrote in the March 4, 1983 issue of "Christianity Today:" Blood spatters the pages of mythology and of history. Drinking it gives strength and new life: to the ghosts of the dead in The Odyssey, to the Roman epileptics who dashed onto the floor of the Coliseum to quaff the blood of ...read more

  • Testimony Of Astronaut Charles Duke

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 21, 2013
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    TESTIMONY OF ASTRONAUT CHARLES DUKE Through the years, I’ve heard people say, "I wasn’t looking for God when He found me." Let me give you a modern example of this process. Astronaut Charles Duke is one of only twelve men who have left footprints on the moon. He was the lunar module pilot for ...read more

  • Locked In Cages

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
     | 1,767 views

    Many people fear the prospect of dying. · Some fear the pain associated with dying. Although because of modern medicine most deaths are not that painful. · Some fear the separation from loved ones that dying brings. · Some fear the unknown. They don’t know what awaits them beyond the ...read more

  • In 1960, Israeli Undercover Agents Orchestrated ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
    based on 64 ratings
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    In 1960, Israeli undercover agents orchestrated the daring kidnapping of one of the worst of the Holocaust’s masterminds, Adolf Eichmann. After capturing him in his South American hideout, they transported him to Israel to stand trial. There, prosecutors called a string of former ...read more

  • In 1960, Israeli Undercover Agents Orchestrated ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 16, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,853 views

    In 1960, Israeli undercover agents orchestrated the daring kidnapping of one of the worst of the Holocaust?s masterminds, Adolf Eichmann. After capturing him in his South American hideout, they transported him to Israel to stand trial. There, prosecutors called a string of former concentration ...read more

  • The Law, The Whole Law, And Nothing But The Law.

    Contributed by Larry Turner on Jun 5, 2016
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    There is a story about a student at Cambridge University in England who entered the classroom on exam day and asked the proctor to bring him cakes and ale. The proctor refused, expressing astonishment at the young student’s audacity. At this point the student read from the four-hundred-year-old ...read more

  • Isaiah's Prophecies And The Dead Sea Scrolls

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Jan 14, 2017
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    There was a time when skeptics claimed that the prophecies in Isaiah 53 were too detailed, too specific, too accurate to be mere coincidence. I agreed. But then the skeptics argued that the ONLY logical explanation was that Isaiah was written after the gospels and patterned the suffering Servant ...read more

  • A Very Cold Winter

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    A VERY COLD WINTER It was autumn, and the Indians on the remote reservation asked their new Chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was an Indian Chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the weather was ...read more

  • Back In 1994 The Featured Speaker At The National ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2002
    based on 39 ratings
     | 1,390 views

    Back in 1994 the featured speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., was a small, fragile woman with no political credentials. Yet she spoke confidently at the podium, surrounded by President Bill Clinton and Mrs. Clinton and various other government officials. With a steady ...read more