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  • Working On This Sermon Has Made Me So ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on May 13, 2009
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    Working on this sermon has made me so thankful. A few weeks ago I taught a class that went along with what I’ve been studying for this series in Exodus. For the class, I did an extensive study on the 7 feasts that God instituted for the Nation of Israel. I read a detailed account of what is ...read more

  • Take Time To By Holy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 4,687 views

    TAKE TIME TO BY HOLY Let me begin with what little I could glean concerning this hymn and its author: For many years, the only information known about this gospel song was what Ira D. Sankey wrote in his autobiography. Sankey (1840-1908) was the well-known gospel singer and hymn writer who ...read more

  • Decision Without Determination

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 28, 2009
     | 3,302 views

    DECISION WITHOUT DETERMINATION Some choose and pray a prayer. This is the great heresy of the last hundred years. I made a choice when I was ten. But there is no determination. I have been convinced by the Lord that a decision without determination and effort is absolutely meaningless. In ...read more

  • 14 Years Ago Florida State’s Sports ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 16, 2010
     | 2,052 views

    . 14 years ago Florida State’s sports information department had big news for Clay Shiver last year: Playboy magazine had selected him for its preseason All-America football team. But quicker than he snaps the ball, the 6-foot2, 280-pound center said, “No thanks.” he went on to say, “My mind was ...read more

  • No Hay Dios (Translation Follows)

    Contributed by Major Gerardo Balmori on Feb 23, 2008
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    NO HAY DIOS (Translation follows) El sistema escolar le dice a los niños: “No hay Dios” * El humanismo es un sistema de pensamiento que se centra en los seres humanos, en sus valores y capacidades, además de su “habilidad” de poder vivir apartado de Dios. El Humanismo defiende constantemente ...read more

  • In December Of 2004, Judge Michael Higgins, ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 20, 2010
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    In December of 2004, Judge Michael Higgins, presiding at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal here in Australia, found Pastors Daniel Scot and Danny Nalliah guilty of inciting RELIGIOUS HATRED against Victorian Muslims. This was an historic case, the first finding of RELIGIOUS ...read more

  • History Of The Ship Mv ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010
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    History of the ship MV Doulos When built for the White Star Line in 1912 the Titanic was the marvel of her age. At nearly 883 feet in length, Titanic was longer than the tallest structures on Earth at the time. Over 1800 people left England on the “unsinkable ship”, but only 675 arrived. After ...read more

  • Holiness Is Developed In Community

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    HOLINESS IS DEVELOPED IN COMMUNITY In the 3rd and 4th Centuries, and even to some extent today, the popular image of holiness was solitude, silence and severity. The really (quote) "holy people" back then were those who lived like hermits, wandering in the desert alone -- fasting, praying and ...read more

  • Lucado On Alcoholism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 23, 2011
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    LUCADO ON ALCOHOLISM Max Lucado, one of America's great Christian leaders, found that out earlier in his ministry. He once said, "I come from a family of alcoholism. If there's anything about this DNA stuff, I've got it." For more than 20 years, drinking was not a major issue for Lucado, but about ...read more

  • Radical Faith  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jan 24, 2011
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    RADICAL FAITH I want to read to you the opening story from David Platt's book "The Radical Question" (Multnomah Press). Imagine a scene that took place in Asia not so long ago: A room in an ordinary house, dimly lit, all the blinds on the windows closed. Twenty leaders from churches in the ...read more

  • Take My Hand  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2011
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    TAKE MY HAND The story is told of a man and his boy who was with him, when a little fellow, in Scotland, and for the first time he possessed what in that country is known as a top-coat. They were walking out one cold day, and the way was slippery. The little fellow's hands were deep down in his ...read more

  • All The Land You Can Cover

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Mar 12, 2011
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    ALL THE LAND YOU CAN COVER Leo Tolstoy tells this story: A young Russian inherits his father’s small farm. He immediately starts dreaming of how to expand his property when one morning a well-dressed stranger visits him and makes him an offer that is too good to be true. He could have free of ...read more

  • The Preacher And The Farmer  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2011
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     | 8,629 views

    THE PREACHER AND THE FARMER Years ago, a young man had just gotten out of Bible College where he’d spent several years learning all the theological terminology that he thought would make him a successful preacher. He’d just been hired at a country church and he was determined to begin bringing new ...read more

  • The Enemy Is Real  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 6, 2011
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    THE ENEMY IS REAL I am learning some things about the FIRST WORLD WAR. Things like it was a TRENCH WAR in which both sides just looked at each other from trenches for most of the war. Often they did not see one another as enemies. The French would not fire on the Germans when they saw their ...read more

  • What Comes Out Of Your Mouth  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Apr 10, 2011
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    WHAT COMES OUT OF YOUR MOUTH How carefully do you monitor what goes into your mouth, compared to what comes out of it? For example, do you follow a low-fat diet? Do you obsessively track the grams of fat going into your body? Do you watch the number of calories that you consume? Do you avoid ...read more

  • Hope Of Maria

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 5, 2011
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    HOPE OF MARIA Hope weans God’s people from seeking and trusting this world. The story is told of Maria. She lived in a small town in southern Kentucky. She did not see or hear from her husband for years. Edward was assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division during the Korean war and captured when the ...read more

  • The Rug: Making And Keeping Good Boys

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
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    THE RUG: MAKING AND KEEPING GOOD BOYS A preacher tells how he was once entertained by a teacher and his wife who had two boys in their middle teens. He writes, "Immediately on entering, I felt the home atmosphere. They were evidently a fine Christian family. However, I noticed that the carpet in ...read more

  • Dying For Someone Like That

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 12, 2011
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    DYING FOR SOMEONE LIKE THAT During the war in Vietnam, a young West Point graduate was sent over to lead a group of new recruits into battle. He did his job well, trying his best to keep his recruits from ambush and death. But one night, when they had been under attack, he was unable to get one of ...read more

  • The Second Pilgrim Winter

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Nov 19, 2011
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    THE SECOND PILGRIM WINTER After the first Thanksgiving with Massosiat and the Indians, the Pilgrims were excited that another ship arrived with 35 new colonists. Quoting again from William Bradford, “they were all landed; but there was not so much as bisket-cake or any other victialls [AO] for ...read more

  • The Decline Of Marriage And Children

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 9, 2012
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    THE DECLINE OF MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN Rutgers University Sociology Prof. David Popenoe, and Jean Bethke Elshtain, Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago divinity School. Concluded that the decline of marriage is mainly responsible for the deteriorating well-being of ...read more