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  • Identify With The Lost

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 3,407 views

    IDENTIFY WITH THE LOST In her famous book and film, "The Hiding Place" Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family, her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people. Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the ...read more

  • 99% Is Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    99% IS NOT ENOUGH Back in the 90’s a California research firm considered the advertising slogan for a popular soap that was 99.4% pure. And they asked themselves the question: “What if everything in the world operated at 99% efficiency?” They discovered: - drinking water would be unsafe one hour ...read more

  • Church History Is Replete Of Individuals Who Saw ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 21, 2008
     | 1,724 views

    Church history is replete of individuals who saw the importance of fearing God and not other individuals. Following in the footsteps of Paul, John Chrysostom had a period of isolation in the mountains near Antioch in A.D. 373. Although his time of isolation was cut short by illness, he learned that ...read more

  • Don't Quit

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 17, 2008
     | 3,510 views

    DON’T QUIT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low, and the debts are high, and you want to smile, but you have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is queer ...read more

  • Taylor's Expectant ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
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    TAYLOR’S EXPECTANT PRAYER When Hudson Taylor went to China, he made the voyage on a sailing vessel. As it neared the channel between the southern Malay Peninsula and the island of Sumatra, the missionary heard an urgent knock on his stateroom door. He opened it, and there stood the captain of the ...read more

  • If An Advert On The Television Is To Be Believed ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Feb 28, 2009
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    If an advert on the television is to be believed then temptation truly comes in the form of cakes or chocolate in the fridge; but of course temptation comes in many shapes and sizes, such as the story of Martin. Martin woke up one Monday morning particularly tempted to stay at home because he was ...read more

  • I Remember When I Was A Kid And This Is True For ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Sep 1, 2009
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    I remember when I was a kid and this is true for the vast majority of boys and quite a few girls, getting covered in mud, a rugby game, a decent sized puddle, a building site, mud fights, mud pies any excuse was an opportunity for a wallow. I thought it was great, my mates thought it was great ...read more

  • Hang A White Handkerchief

    Contributed by Wes Richard on Oct 5, 2009
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    HANG A WHITE HANDKERCHIEF I once read about a young man who had run away from home because he could not get along with his parents. Somehow, his parents were able to get a message to him, inviting him back home. He wrote back, saying that he was coming home and if they were sure he was welcome, ...read more

  • Search And Rescue

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
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    SEARCH AND RESCUE There is a group of people I hope we never have to meet. They’re job is hard, exciting, frightening and important all at the same time. They do SAR; Search and Rescue. They work near Reno, Nevada and work ski resorts and desert rescue. They pull people off of Mt. Hood, find lost ...read more

  • Mine Worker Understands The Cost Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
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    Mine Worker Understands the Cost of Forgiveness G. Campbell Morgan, the well known pastor of the last century of Westminster Chapel, near Buckingham Palace, was once approached by a soldier who said he would give anything to believe that God would forgive sins, “but I cannot believe He will forgive ...read more

  • Switching Off The Message  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2010
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     | 3,591 views

    SWITCHING OFF THE MESSAGE The Word will protect us. No soldier is going to go to battle without his armor and his weapons. Yet many Christians today rarely even pick up their bible. A former park ranger at Yellowstone National Park tells the story of a ranger leading a group of hikers to a fire ...read more

  • Praying For Wind

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2010
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    PRAYING FOR WIND When Hudson Taylor went to China, he made the voyage on a sailing vessel. As it neared the channel between the southern Malay Peninsula and the island of Sumatra, the missionary heard an urgent knock on his stateroom door. He opened it, and there stood the captain of the ship. ...read more

  • Capture And Control  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2011
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    CAPTURE AND CONTROL Craig Larson talks about being at a lunch party on a warm, Chicago day in early September with a dozen of his fellow workers. The windows were left open, and soon a bee found its way in. After buzzing around for a while, it landed on some food on the table. Then someone took an ...read more

  • A Child's View Of God

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Feb 26, 2011
     | 1,949 views

    A CHILD'S VIEW OF GOD Many of you know that I did not grow up in the church. My family was not religious, and so, we seldom spoke of God. Still in all, even as a child, I had some conception of God. I don’t know where I got it or how I picked it up, but I had an undeveloped, primitive theology. I ...read more

  • Don't Waste Your Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
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    DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE In his book Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper recounts a story his father often told of his days as a fiery Baptist evangelist. It is the story of a man who came to saving faith in Jesus Christ near the end of his earthly existence. Piper writes: "The church had prayed for ...read more

  • Faith In The Colombian Jungle

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Aug 10, 2011
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    FAITH IN THE COLOMBIAN JUNGLE A man named Bruce Olson went to Colombia many years ago as a missionary to the headhunters in the far southern jungle, near the border with Brazil. The book that tells his story is Bruchko, the name the Indians called him since they couldn't wrap their tongues around ...read more

  • God's Heartbeat In Us  PRO

    Contributed by John D Jones on Oct 26, 2011
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     | 3,025 views

    GOD'S HEARTBEAT IN US For 72 years Gordon and Norma Yeager shared their lives together as husband and wife. On October 12, 2011, while on a morning drive Gordon came to a stop sign and failed to yield to oncoming traffic. The elderly couple was taken to the Marshalltown Hospital near Des Moines, ...read more

  • Reflecting The Light  PRO

    Contributed by Everette Pafford on Feb 27, 2014
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    REFLECTING THE LIGHT A well-known Bible teacher has just finished speaking to a large class of business people on the Christians' responsibility to be light in the world. He had emphasized the as believers we all have the obligation to reflect the Light in the world, the Lord Jesus. After the ...read more

  • Rebellion

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 15, 2019
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    REBELLION Long, long ago in a world far, far away from here there was a great kingdom. It was a kingdom fill with the wonders of all the ages. Everywhere that the eye looked the mind became overwhelmed with all the beauty. This world was filled with such beauty that it surpassed all imagination. ...read more

  • We Can't Know The Day - But We Can Know The Season When Christ Returns.

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 6, 2024
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     | 493 views

    Jesus specifically told us that there would be signs in the sky in the sun and moon and stars (Luke 21:25), and he told us to “look up”, as our redemption draws near. Believers need to look up when the "season" of His return arrives.   The apostle Paul had this to say about the ...read more