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  • Pastor John Ortberg Once Gave Us This Wake Up ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    *Pastor John Ortberg once gave us this wake up call: “I look in on my children as they sleep at night, [and] I think of the kind of father I want to be. I want to create moments of magic, I want them to remember laughing until the tears flow . . . I want to have slow, sweet talks with them as ...read more

  • Prayer Skit Adapted From Something I Heard On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jerry Smith on Apr 14, 2008
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    Prayer skit adapted from something I heard on Christian radio Jennifer says --- Ryan, I am going to spend some time in prayer. Please don’t disturb me. (goes across the room and kneels in prayer) “Oh Lord, I am your servant. I want to do your will no matter what it is.” (Ryan pokes his head in ...read more

  • The Wondrous Cross  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 18, 2009
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    THE WONDROUS CROSS Gal. 6:14 inspired Isaac Watts to compose one of modern Christendom’s favorite hymns. While preparing for a communion service in 1707, Isaac Watts wrote this deeply moving and very personal expression of gratitude for the amazing love that the death of Christ on the cross ...read more

  • Losing A Child

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 4, 2009
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    When the parent loses a child they seek answers and beg to have things reversed, often rather than seeking God himself and his comfort. We are to try and look at things from His perspective, but most importantly we are to strengthen our faith in the fact that God uses all things for good, - for ...read more

  • Bob Johnson From: ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 25, 2011
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    Bob Johnson from: http://tabernacle-of-david.com/catechism.html states: The majority of the Psalms were originally sung as prophetic songs in David's Tabernacle. They account in detail the expressions of worship offered by the Israelites before the Ark of the Covenant. In addition, they describe ...read more

  • Statistics On Loneliness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2011
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    STATISTICS ON LONELINESS This week I read an article by Medical News Today about the health effects of loneliness. Quoting the article, it states that "there is evidence that the risk of developing and dying from heart disease can depend on the strength of one's social network of friends and ...read more

  • Repentance In The White House  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2011
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    REPENTANCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE In 2001, Tim Goeglein started running the White House Office of Public Liaison, providing him almost daily access to then President George Bush for seven years. Then it all ended abruptly on February 29, 2008. A well-known blogger revealed the startling fact that 27 ...read more

  • Spiritual Consumerism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
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    SPIRITUAL CONSUMERISM In February 27 2009 article from the website “Slate” titled, “Why American churchgoers like to shop around” also caught my attention. That article cited statistics from a Barna Group survey that revealed that one in seven adults changes churches each year, and another one in ...read more

  • Someone Who Understands

    Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Nov 6, 2011
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    SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy. "Can I have a puppy?" "Sure," said the farmer. ...read more

  • Bitter & Better - The Two 'b's

    Contributed by Paddick Van Zyl on Jul 21, 2014
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    When the water at Marah was bitter, Moses had to cast a tree into the water stream to sweeten the water or make it drinkable. The words: Bitter and Better both start with a B and end with Tter. The only difference is: the letter I and E. Bitter has the focus on I, me, myself, flesh. Better has ...read more

  • The Laws Of Spiritual Motion!!!

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Aug 14, 2017
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    THE LAWS OF SPIRITUAL MOTION!!! The Fundamental Laws of motion designed by the all-wise God (discovered and revealed to us by Sir Issac Newton) says that we move forward whilst walking or running not just by exerting the force on earth with our feet by ourselves but by the propulsive force which ...read more

  • Propitiation Is Important

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 30, 2019
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    “In 2012, Getty's hymn "In Christ Alone" was involved in a controversy with the Presbyterian Church (USA) hymnal committee in the creation of their new hymnal "Glory to God". The committee requested permission from Getty and Stuart Townend to use an alternative lyric to the ...read more

  • Encourage Someone Today

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008
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    Encourage Someone Today Dante Bartiel Rossetti, the famous 19th-century poet and artist, was once approached by an elderly man. The old fellow had some sketches and drawings that he wanted Rossetti to look at and tell him if they were any good, or if they, at least, showed potential ...read more

  • According To Tradition, This Is How An Eskimo ...

    Contributed by Jonathan Campbell on Oct 13, 2008
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    According to tradition, this is how an Eskimo hunter kills a wolf. First, the Eskimo coats his knife blade with animal blood and allows it to freeze. He then adds layer after layer of blood until the blade is completely concealed by the frozen blood. Next, the hunter fixes his knife in the ...read more

  • God Knows

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 10, 2009
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    "GOD KNOWS" I am reminded of that wonderful line in Archibald MacLeish’s J.B., the Broadway version of the Book of Job as told in verse. Before the great businessman, the J.B. of the play’s title is brought down by the desperate circumstances recounted in the first two chapters of Job, one of ...read more

  • An Admission Of Guilt

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on May 14, 2023
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    There once was a governor of the state of Texas who received an invitation to speak at one of the penitentiaries in that state. He spoke to the assembled prisoners and afterwards said that he would be around for a while to listen to anything any of the convicts might wish to tell him. He could take ...read more

  • Hope Ain't Hoping

    Contributed by John Bright on May 27, 2023
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    I want to give you a shorthand way of remembering the difference between the hope in our Bibles and the hope out in the world. Hope ain’t hoping. Today, folks plan outside events and say, “I sure hope it doesn’t rain.” Every Sunday, some folks may show up here and say, “I sure hope PJ doesn’t ...read more

  • Metamorphosis

    Contributed by Richard L. Brown on Mar 1, 2025
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    I thought of a book I read years ago in German class. We were assigned the task of reading the Famous Novel by Franz Kafka entitled “The Metamorphosis”. It was about a young man who woke up one day and realized he had been transformed into, of all things, a large Roach. The story line of the ...read more

  • The Trademark - Is Jesus Mark On You? - Humor

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Dec 9, 2025
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    If we are Honest ... Often ... When we are shopping, ...... we will look for name brands that we know. For brands ... that we ... trust. We often recognize those products ... by their trademarks ...... or by ... their ... logos. Companies spend millions of dollars on research ... in order that ...read more

  • The Falsities Of Mormon Author Betty Eadie

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2010
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    THE FALSITIES OF MORMON AUTHOR BETTY EADIE The idea of hell and judgment are nowhere to be found in Betty Eadie’s bestseller, Embraced By The Light, on the N.Y. Times bestseller list for more than 40 weeks, including 5 weeks as #1. In November 1973 Eadie allegedly died after undergoing a ...read more