Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 9, 2006
I took a break in my Naval Service after my first enlistment. I came home and my Grand Mother on my Mothers side that I called Granny wanted me to stay with her. I loved my Granny so I moved in with her. It wasn’t long before I had a run in with Rusty. He lived there too. You see I sat down in
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Fred Craddock tells the following story about his family. "My mother took us to church and Sunday school; my father didn’t go. He complained about Sunday dinner being later when she came home. Sometimes the preacher would call, and my father would say, "I know what the church wants. Church doesn’t
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Disciples Of Christ
Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 20, 2006
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We must first embrace our own old identity, as Jesus said, “if any man will come after me, let him deny himself . . . “ We must embrace it and deny it, then by faith accept our spiritual identity in Jesus Christ. The analogy is given, for purposes of illustrating, of a fifteen year old, unmarried
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Baptist
Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
Once upon a time, a congregation outgrew their church building. Everyone agreed that they needed to build a new church; but they couldn’t agree on a blueprint, a budget or a building site. In desperation, the pastor invited everyone to join him for an evening of special prayer. One woman came,
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 1, 2008
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.
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Wesleyan
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For a project for World Religions class, I interviewed a Muslim named Karim. Karim moved to America a couple decades ago. He worked at a restaurant and fell in love with one of the waitresses there, Susie. The two of them decided to get married.
She took him home to meet her mother, a life-long
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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DEAD FATHERS BETTER THAN ABSENT FATHERS
According to the New Jersey Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, in 1960 the total number of births to teenagers was 11,636. In 2000, the number of births to teenagers was 8,219. At first glance, we would say we are doing something right, yet a little more
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Jan 25, 2013
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BEING A BLESSING
Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were 8 children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell
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Baptist
Contributed by Howard Harden on Jan 18, 2001
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Some time ago I read a fascinating story in National Geographic magazine. An explorer had made a tremendous accomplishment. He managed, for the first time in history, to record on videotape the birth of a panda cub in the wild. This was amazing, in part, because of how violent the mother panda bear
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Baptist
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jul 5, 2001
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[Body of Christ, Citation: Billy Waters, Teacher Touch (Colorado Springs: Cook, 1999)]
After an accident in which she lost her arm, a girl named Jamie refused to go to school or church for an entire year.
Finally the young teen thought she could face her peers.
In preparation, her mother called
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Mark Hensley on Feb 4, 2002
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Stephen Olford is without question one of the great Preachers of the World:
Son of a missionary to Africa
Did not want to go through the trials and tribulations of a missionary.
Was mistreated by Christians in England and rebelled against God.
Studied to become an engineer.
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Baptist
Contributed by Darron Khan on May 30, 2002
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HOW DOES GOD PURSUE ME?
You know it’s just stunning when you think of how tenaciously God pursues us. I grew up in a thoroughly pagan home. My father was raised a Muslim and my mother grew up pretty much oblivious to God. Yet, despite this, I cannot tell you how many different individuals God
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