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  • How Do You Maintain Humility? Success Can ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    How do you maintain humility? Success can sometimes dazzle you in the achieving, but there’s usually someone around to help you keep perspective. TV anchorman Tom Brokaw has a story about that: Brokaw was wandering through Bloomingdale’s in New York one day, shortly after he was promoted to ...read more

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  • A Couple Got Married And The Bride Brought The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Greene on Nov 11, 2007
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     | 1,930 views

    A couple got married and the bride brought the bulk of the financial support into the marriage. And she knew it too. She always had a way of reminding her husband that she was the source of their financial security. One day as they were driving along she was in an especially proud mood and she ...read more

    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Finney Coined The Following Thoughts About ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 2, 2008
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    Finney coined the following thoughts about revival from his lectures and book called "Revivals of Religion" (1835): “A revival always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the church…In a true revival, Christians are always brought under such convictions, they see their sins in such light ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • A Dream For God

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 10, 2008
     | 3,592 views

    "A Dream for God" Many years ago a young man had a dream of telling the story of Jesus everywhere in the world. When he suggested taking that good news to people, an older man said, "Sit down, young man. If God wants to save the heathen, he will do it without your help or mine." This young ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • Just Last Week Two Women Were Arrested At ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Apr 14, 2010
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    Just last week two women were arrested at Liverpool airport for trying to board a plane with a dead body, they put the dead man into a wheelchair and put sunglasses on him, and were trying check in for a flight to Berlin on Saturday. But airport staff became suspicious, and the two were arrested on ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Trouble Hearing  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jan 30, 2002
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    TROUBLE HEARING One evening while we were dining in a restaurant, a waiter strode through our section asking, "Does anyone here drive a red New Yorker?" We assumed its headlights had been left on. "Yes!" an elderly gentleman in a neighbouring booth responded emphatically. His wife reacted ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

  • Fatherless America  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2002
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    FATHERLESS AMERICA Tonight, 40% of all American children will go to sleep in a house in which their fathers do not live. Before the age of eighteen, more than 50% of our children will spend a significant portion of their childhood living apart from their fathers. A generation ago, an ...read more

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  • How Much Will You Spend?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2002
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     | 2,389 views

    HOW MUCH WILL YOU SPEND? With questions about the economy and the threat of war still looming, there is uncertainty in just about everything. But it hasn’t seemed to deter Americans from celebrating Halloween. According to the latest National Retail Federation Halloween survey, consumers say ...read more

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  • My Kids Love Keys. Car Keys. House Keys. A Ring ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 26, 2003
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    My kids love keys. Car keys. House keys. A ring of old used keys that sit at the bottom of their toy box. The mystery for the child is what does this key fit? Even as I write this, our 4 year-old has grabbed my wife’s keys and is about to launch into a world of self-discovery as he moves through ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • A Man Passed By A Cage At The Zoo And Noticed ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Nov 8, 2003
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    A man passed by a cage at the zoo and noticed that in the cage was both a large lion and an active monkey. He saw a zoo worker nearby and asked, ‘How does that work having both a lion and a monkey in the same cage? It works ok for the most part. Do they ever not get along? Every once in a ...read more

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  • In The Summer Of 1986, Two Ships Collided In The ...

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Dec 7, 2003
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    In the summer of 1986, two ships collided in the Black Sea off the coast of Russia. Hundreds of passengers died as they were hurled into the icy waters below. News of the disaster was further darkened when an investigation revealed the cause of the accident. It wasn’t a technology problem like ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • As An Electrician I Was Once Completing The Final ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2004
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    As an electrician I was once completing the final lighting fitment in a family home. With me at the same time were 2 other tradesmen, (a carpenter and a stonemason) who were also applying the finishing touches to their handy work. When the young couple that owned the house arrived, they excitedly ...read more

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  • A Man Had A Heart Attack And Was Rushed To The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 25, 2005
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    A man had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. He could receive little company and was to avoid excitement. While in the hospital a rich uncle died and left him a million dollars. His family wondered how to break the news to him with the least amount of excitement. It was decided to ask ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Hollywood Wants Religion The Huge Box-Office ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,179 views

    Hollywood Wants Religion The huge box-office successes of The Passion of the Christ and The Chronicles of Narnia have Hollywood mining religious congregations for possible new audiences. The 2006 Tribeca Film Festival sponsored a panel where film industry insiders talked about the apparent new ...read more

  • In His Excellent Book On A Christian's Place In ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
     | 1,331 views

    In his excellent book on a Christian’s place in tomorrow’s world, Wild Hope, Tom Sine urges Christians to take change seriously. He writes, “If we don’t begin in our lives, professions, and churches to anticipate both the new challenges and the new opportunities the twenty-first century brings us, ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • Perhaps The Economy Can Teach Us ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 22, 2008
     | 841 views

    Perhaps the economy can teach us something… Tom Ehrich “Economy puts Christ back into Christmas” “so a lifestyle built on credit-funded excess doesn’t look like adult behavior. Large houses look different now. So do large wardrobes, large travel budgets, large parties. The question many are ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • What's Your Life Worth?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
     | 3,335 views

    WHAT’S YOUR LIFE WORTH? It’s worth $50,000, according to the international standard used most private and government-run health insurance plans to determine whether to cover a new medical procedure. More simply, insurance companies calculate that to make a treatment worth its cost, it must ...read more

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  • Food In Psalm 146:7

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 8, 2009
     | 2,623 views

    FOOD IN PS 146:7 Though the main teaching of this vision is not about food, but about people, still, it involves food Midrash Tehillim in regard to Ps. 146:7, "The Lord allows the forbidden … and will one day allow the eating of all animals now forbidden to be eaten … In the time to come he will ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • The Hope Of 3:16  PRO

    Contributed by James Mercer on Dec 8, 2009
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     | 2,985 views

    THE HOPE OF 3:16 I don’t know about you, but I will be glad to turn the calendar to a new decade in a few weeks. An ongoing war on two fronts, the Great Recession draining our family resources, the growing immorality of our country, tragic accidents and gruesome killers all over the news. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Million Dollar Story

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 23, 2010
     | 1,253 views

    MILLION DOLLAR STORY A man had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. He could receive little company and was not to be excited. While in the hospital a rich uncle died and left him a million dollars. His family wondered how to break the news to him with the least amount of excitement. It ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal