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  • Commitment And Loyalty To Christ Likened To A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2010
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    Commitment and Loyalty to Christ Likened to a Trapeze Artist John Ortberg (Faith & Doubt, p. 169-170) says the word trapeze describes the bar between the ropes of a trapeze artist in the circus. It’s a Greek word, meaning table. It’s used in the New Testament when Jesus gathers his friends around ...read more

  • Priorities In Life And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2010
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    Priorities in Life and Church Several years ago, because of all the tornados in the area, a developer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, offered an optional tornado-safe room in the new homes he was selling. Nine of the first ten buyers opted to pay the extra $2,500 for the room, which can also be used as a ...read more

  • I Can Remember Things In My Life That Struck Me ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Aug 6, 2010
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    I can remember things in my life that struck me as if something had changed and would never be the same again. Things that may strike some as a little strange, moments when everything just sort of toppled on a point of balance and fell into a new place. Things would never be the same again. Like ...read more

  • No Need To Mention The ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 22, 2010
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    “No Need to Mention the Name!” One day, crossing a New York City street, a woman became confused, and stepped directly in front of an approaching streetcar. People on both curbs were sick with horror at her sure fate, when a powerful man rushed forward and not only rescued her from the streetcar, ...read more

  • Religion A Vs. Religion B

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
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    RELIGION A VS. RELIGION B The 19th-century Danish theologian Soren Kierkegaard identified two kinds of religion--Religion A and Religion B. The first is "faith" in name only (2 Tim. 3:5). It's the practice of attending church without genuine faith in the living Lord. Religion B, on the ...read more

  • Sabbath Vs. Little League

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 1, 2011
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    SABBATH VS. LITTLE LEAGUE The NT changes several things about the Sabbath. However, it is wise to observe a time of rest and worship. A couple of years ago Roman Catholic Cardinal John O' Connor took on Little League baseball because many altar boys were missing Sunday services. He wanted ...read more

  • Said Musa

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Mar 10, 2011
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    SAID MUSA I have recently been exchanging letters with our MP John Baron regarding a man named Said Musa. Some of you know about his situation. Said is an Afghan convert from Islam to Christianity. In May 2010 he was arrested during a crackdown on converts because under Islamic religious law it is ...read more

  • 9/11: A Sense Of Ownership

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2011
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    9/11: A SENSE OF OWNERSHIP David Frum, one of President George W. Bush’s speechwriters, wrote in his book The Right Man that when he drove home on the evening of September 11, 2001 after the tragic attack on our nation by Muslim terrorists that something grew within him. He wrote that a sudden ...read more

  • Burning The Cargo

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 29, 2011
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    BURNING THE CARGO There’s a story of two paddleboats that left Memphis about the same time, travelling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they travelled side by side, sailors from one vessel made a few remarks about the snail’s pace of the other. Words were exchanged. Challenges were ...read more

  • What's Really Wrong With Me

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on May 20, 2011
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    WHAT'S REALLY WRONG WITH ME These are the words of a bloke who grew up in the Salvation Army, "The year 1950 found us, my wife and I and three small children, living in our new bungalow in the seaside city of Timaru. Success had come in business and academic life, musical compositions were being ...read more

  • Satisfied

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Jul 31, 2011
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    SATISFIED News flash: I like food! You know -- with a dash of seriousness -- it doesn't take a master chef to see that I've had a love-affair with food for some years. I'm like a lot of Americans; I often eat more than I need in order be "satisfied." A number of years ago, I went to ...read more

  • The White Man

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2011
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    THE WHITE MAN When Wycliffe translator Doug Meland and his wife moved into a village of Brazil’s Fulnio Indians, he was referred to simply as "the white man". The term was by no means complimentary, since other white men had exploited them, burned their homes, and robbed them of their lands. But ...read more

  • You Can't Turn Off Time

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 17, 2011
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    YOU CAN'T TURN OFF TIME James W. Moore says, "One of the greatest comedy acts in the history of show business was the beloved husband and wife team of George Burns and Gracie Allen. In real life, Gracie Allen was a bright, wise businesswoman, but she always played the part of a naive, off-the-wall ...read more

  • Korean Cell Churches

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Nov 9, 2011
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    KOREAN CELL CHURCHES Assemblies of God Church in Seoul, Korea: It started in 1958 when Paul Yonggi Cho (later David) held a service in his friend’s home with her three children. Passionate desire to share Christ by inviting other people to their home church soon resulted in exponential growth. ...read more

  • The Century Plant

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Feb 10, 2012
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    THE CENTURY PLANT Abraham has now reached the Century mark! He is 100 years old and Sarah is 90. A common sight in America's Southwest desert is the century plant. It's unique. The century plant (Agave Americana) thrives in rocky, mountainous, desert sites. It has dramatic, splayed leaves that ...read more

  • Trung's Story

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jan 3, 2013
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    TRUNG'S STORY To Dinh Trung was arrested more than 25 times for preaching the gospel in rural Vietnam. During his 24th imprisonment, in 1991, he was deprived of food for 12 days. He said: "In prison, I worshipped the Lord a lot, praying and singing in a room by myself. My room was the prison ...read more

  • We Need Help To Get Out

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Mar 14, 2013
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    We Need Help to Get Out Follow the example of the Chilean miners. Trapped beneath two thousand feet of solid rock, the thirty-three men were desperate. The collapse of a main tunnel had sealed their exit and thrust them into survival mode. They ate two spoonfuls of tuna, a sip of milk, and a ...read more

  • Pope Francis: Fulfilling His Role

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Apr 4, 2013
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    POPE FRANCIS: FULFILLING HIS ROLE A wonderful story of a religious leader who really does "get it" is the new Pontiff of Rome, Pope Francis. It is the story of role fulfillment. One reporter wrote: "Last night, in a break from tradition the Pope, Pope Francis, did not celebrate what is called ...read more

  • If He Had Different Gods  PRO

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jul 1, 2013
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    IF HE HAD DIFFERENT GODS James Michener, writing in his book, The Source, tells the story of a man named Urbaal, who, was a farmer living about 2200 B.C. He worshiped two gods, one a god of death, the other a goddess of fertility. One day, the temple priests tell Urbaal to bring his young son to ...read more

  • Orphans

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 24, 2014
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     | 8,119 views

    Rubel Shelly tells of his friends Rich and Patty White, who traveled to a 3rd world country to adopt a little girl named Olona. After 2 years of effort and paperwork, the Whites stood before a judge who read words from an official document: “Inasmuch as Olona Morgan is orphaned and unwanted by ...read more

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