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  • Dennis Jernigan Said His Struggle With ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 24, 2004
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    Dennis Jernigan said his struggle with homosexuality began with sexual experimentation with other small boys at six years of age. He never told anyone about his struggle, because he saw hatred in the response of the church to homosexuals. As a senior in college he went to a 2nd chapter of Acts ...read more

  • A Little Gift Is On The Way  PRO

    Contributed by Ray Swift on Dec 2, 2009
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     | 3,141 views

    A LITTLE GIFT IS ON THE WAY A lady waited until the last minute to send her Christmas cards. She rushed into a store and bought a package of 50 cards without really looking at them. She rushed home, signed and addressed 49 of them without really looking at them. On Christmas Day when things had ...read more

  • Contentment In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,221 views

    Contentment in the Workplace One of the keys to contentment in your work and finding fulfillment in every area of life is learning to be thankful for what you have been given. Wanting to move forward in your career is not a problem unless it means that you take where you are for granted. As one ...read more

  • The Word ‘love’ Conjures Up So Man ...

    Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
     | 4,379 views

    The word ‘love’ conjures up so man different things today. A modern dictionary lists 28 various uses for the word: tender affection, warm attachment, intimate passion, strong predication, & amorous benevolence. Yet not of these are complete to define / describe what the Bible speaks of as a ...read more

  • Gallup On Committed Christians

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 14, 2010
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    GALLUP ON COMMITTED CHRISTIANS Fewer than 10 percent of Americans are deeply committed Christians, says pollster George Gallup, who adds that these people "are far, far happier than the rest of the population." Committed Christians, Gallup found, are more tolerant than the average American, more ...read more

  • Need Or Greed

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jun 2, 2011
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    NEED OR GREED Clovis Chappel in his book "Feminine Faces," wrote that when the Roman city of Pompeii was being excavated, the body of a woman was found mummified by the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. Her position told a tragic story. Her feet pointed toward the city gate, but her out ...read more

  • Sin Like A Mushroom

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 8, 2011
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    SIN LIKE A MUSHROOM In Oregon's Malheur National Forest, a fungus spreads through tree roots across 2,200 acres, making it the largest living organism ever found. Popularly known as the honey mushroom, the Armillaria Ostoyae started from a single microscopic spore. Yet it's been weaving its black ...read more

  • Where's The Baby?

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 24, 2011
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    WHERE'S THE BABY? Luis Palau tells of a wealthy European family that decided to have their newborn baby baptized in their enormous mansion. Many people were invited, it was an elegant and elaborate affair. They took off their coats and laid them on the bed in a designated room and soon the time ...read more

  • House Fire And Marshmallows

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2012
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    HOUSE FIRE AND MARSHMALLOWS As the coals from our barbecue burned down, our hosts passed out marshmallows and long roasting forks. Just then, two fire trucks roared by, sirens blaring, lights flashing. They stopped at a house right down the block. All twelve of us raced out of the back yard, down ...read more

  • Hudson Taylor, Founder Of The China Inland ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, which in the 1960’s became what is today the missions agency OMF International, knew the secret of strength through weakness. Complimented once by a friend on the impact of the mission, Hudson answered, “It seemed to me that God looked over the ...read more

  • Consider Charles Colson, The Aide To Richard ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Consider Charles Colson, the aide to Richard Nixon who was sent to jail for Watergate. As a result of his experience as a convicted felon, Colson founded Prison Fellowship, now the world’s largest Christian outreach to prisoners and their families. Prison Fellowship has more than 50,000 volunteers ...read more

  • Power In Agreement  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    How much power can people in agreement have? The answer: the power of life and death. During the brutal reign of Joseph Stalin, who murdered 30 million Russians and bought godless communism to Russia, Stalin, let it be known that he planned to murder the Jews of Russia. When the believers in ...read more

  • The Coffee Pot At Cana

    Contributed by Susan Blader on Aug 18, 2007
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    The Coffee Pot at Cana Mae Fortson relays the story of her church coffee pot. Whoever drank the last cup would often fail to replenish the pot for the next person. The secretary wanted to motivate her staff to be more responsible, so she taped a neatly-typed plea to the pot. It read: “If ...read more

  • Bill Faye, Author Of "Sharing Jesus Without ...

    Contributed by Daniel Lawson on Sep 2, 2007
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    Bill Faye, author of "Sharing Jesus without Fear," notes that Americans have found a new way to deny Christ: "It’s by keeping silent about him." Fay asked, "Do we really believe it when Jesus said that unless a person is saved, he’s damned?" And if we do, he asked, "How do we allow our people to ...read more

  • There Was A Group Of Scientists In A Mountainous ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 6, 2007
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    There was a group of scientists in a mountainous area, and they employed a little boy to be their guide because he knew where an eagle’s nest was. They found the nest at the bottom of a crag on the side of the mountain and saw there were several eggs in it. Those scientists really wanted one of ...read more

  • Two Ladies On A Train  PRO

    Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 7, 2007
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    Two Ladies on a Train • Years ago a man found himself on a train between two ladies. • And Unfortunately for him the two ladies were arguing constantly about whether the window should be open or shut. • The lady farthest from the window argued that she would die of heat stroke if it wasn’t ...read more

  • True Peace And Joy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 5,882 views

    True Peace and Joy As a third-century man was anticipating death, he penned these last words to a friend: "It’s a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy which is a thousand times ...read more

  • Story: The Legendary Malcolm Muggeridge Was A ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 5, 2008
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    Story: The legendary Malcolm Muggeridge was a British journalist, author , satirist and media personality He was also a Marxist before he found Christ. During the Cold War he travelled to Russia to write a story about the Communist party and the decline of religion in that atheistic regime. ...read more

  • About A Third Of America's 8th-Graders And A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    About a third of America’s 8th-graders and a quarter of its high school seniors are proficient writers, according to national writing test results. Although basically unchanged from ’00, the latest test found modest increases in the skills of lower-performing students. 88% can now demonstrate at ...read more

  • When Christ Came, The Holy Father Teaches, He ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 28, 2009
     | 1,744 views

    When Christ came, the Holy Father teaches, he came to gather together the scattered people of God and clearly manifested his intention to gather together the community of the covenant. He wanted to bring to fulfillment the promises made by God to Abraham and his descendants. When he called the ...read more