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  • Corrie Ten Boon, The Marvelous Dutch Christian, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    Corrie Ten Boon, the marvelous Dutch Christian, whose family hid Jewish people during World War II once said “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. I you look within, you’ll be depressed, but if you look at ...read more

  • Samuel F.b. Morse, Inventor Of Telegraph. Whe...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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    Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of telegraph. When he got stuck, “I asked God for more light” / “When God wanted to bestow this gift on mankind, he had to use someone. I’m just grateful he chose to use me.” From a ...read more

  • Hudson Taylor Was Once Asked, "Why Do You Think ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 11, 2009
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    Hudson Taylor was once asked, "Why do you think God chose you to start China Inland Mission." He replied, "God picked out somebody who was so weak that apart from Him I knew I could do nothing." (From a ...read more

  • 97% Of The World Has Heard Of Coke-A-Cola

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 15, 2024
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    97% of the world has heard of coke-a-cola 72% of the world has seen a can of coke-a-cola 51% of the world has tasted a can of coke-a-cola Coke has only been around 140 years. If God had given the task of world evangelization to ...read more

  • He Knows Your Need

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2003
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    HE KNOWS YOUR NEED There was a popular religious movement around the time of the founding of our country called Deism. Deism was opposed to Christianity’s personal idea of God. They believed that God created the world, but that he wound it up like a clock and then left it to attend to other ...read more

  • In May Of 1846 An Evangelist, Now Mostly ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy O'fallon on Jun 27, 2004
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    In May of 1846 an evangelist, now mostly forgotten, named “James Caughey” (pronounced “coffee”) visited a chapel in Nottingham England and preached a sermon on the words recorded in St. Mark, “Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye ...read more

  • Melanie (Age 5) Asked Her Granny How Old She Was. ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Rumley on Apr 7, 2007
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    MELANIE (age 5) asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was so old she didn’t remember any more. Melanie said, "If you don’t remember you must look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to six." BRITTANY (age 4) had an earache and wanted a pain killer. She tried in vain to take ...read more

  • We Need Hope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    WE NEED HOPE Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Dusk was falling on the Saturday before Christmas in 1927 the S-4 submarine (S-class submarines, were the first class of submarines built ...read more

  • I See It But I Can't Get There

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    I SEE IT BUT I CAN'T GET THERE A man named Floyd Collins, in 1925, was exploring near Mammoth Cave in Kentucky and got stuck fifty-five feet from the surface. Icy water was dripping in his face. The rescuers came in and diverted the water, and they talked with him, they calmed him down, but they ...read more

  • What Will You Give?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
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    WHAT WILL YOU GIVE? On one of Matthew Rogers' recent work trips to the Dominican Republic, everyone in the group was encouraged to leave behind any clothes or gear they didn’t want, because someone there could certainly use them. He was just going to give away some of his old worn out clothes, ...read more

  • How I Want To Go  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Oct 19, 2002
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    HOW I WANT TO GO An old preacher was dying. He sent a message for his Doctor and his Lawyer, both church members, to come to his home. When they arrived, they were ushered up to his bedroom. As they entered the room, the preacher held out his hands and motioned for them to sit on each side of ...read more

  • In Ancient Times, Poor Beggars Often Were Found ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Apr 6, 2007
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    In ancient times, poor beggars often were found by rich people’s houses as well as by busy streets and anywhere else people would pass. They were especially found near the temple gates and this still true today. Beggar gypsies are all around the churches in Romania; the same in France and UK. Paris ...read more

  • You Know Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
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    YOU KNOW NOT WHEN The people of Martinique sent representatives to that smoldering volcano, Mount Pelee, to see what the condition was. They returned and gave false reports and the city slept on, in all its vice. Nature took warning and the reptiles commenced crawling down the mountainside, birds ...read more

  • Minimum Pleasure, Maximum ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    MINIMUM PLEASURE, MAXIMUM PENALTY When we sin, we often do so with the futile hope that we shall obtain the maximum amount of pleasure at the minimum penalty. It seldom works that way, however. I once heard the story of a man and his wife who decided to go to a drive-in movie. They thought the ...read more

  • Worship In Spirit And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH When Lawrence of Arabia was in Paris with some of his Arab friends after World War I, he took them to see the sights of the city. His friends showed little interest in the Louvre, the Arch of Triumph, or Napoleon’s tomb. The thing that really interested them was the ...read more

  • Stories Vs. Life

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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    STORIES VS. LIFE In 1962 I was given a trip to the Holy Land. Our tour began in Egypt, then continued through Jordan, Syria and Lebanon before ending in Israel. Morning and afternoon tours in Jerusalem took us to various holy sites. One day our bus stopped before a bunch of huge stones in a ...read more

  • Beginning And Ending

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 11, 2009
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    BEGINNING AND ENDING A Connecticut Baptist named A. Roger Williams (a modern pastor, not the one who founded Rhode Island) once preached, "It is true that if religion begins with the individual--it begins, but if it ends with the individual--it ends." [A. Roger Williams, "The Kingdom of God," in ...read more

  • Spurgeon Shown Grace By Fellow Minister

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 30, 2009
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    Spurgeon Shown Grace by Fellow Minister Charles Spurgeon and Joseph Parker both had churches in London in the 19th century. On one occasion, Parker commented on the poor condition of children admitted to Spurgeon's orphanage. It was reported to Spurgeon however, that Parker had criticized the ...read more

  • Snoopy Complains On Thanksgiving About Having To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2009
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    Snoopy Complains on Thanksgiving About Having To Eat Dog Food There was a Peanuts cartoon in the paper a while back. The cartoon pictured Charlie Brown bringing out Snoopy’s dinner on Thanksgiving Day. But it was just his usual dog food in a bowl. Snoopy took one look at the dog food and said, ...read more

  • English Deist, Anthony Collins' Question To A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
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    English Deist, Anthony Collins’ Question to a Commoner, "Is your God a great or a little God?" A well-known English deist, Anthony Collins of the seventeenth century, was walking one day when he crossed paths with a commoner. “Where are you going?” asked Collins. “To church, sir.” “What are you ...read more