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  • Deliverance

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    DELIVERANCE Stanley Praimnath, Vice President for Fuji Bank, was in his office in the South Tower at the World Trade Center when his phone rang. "Are you watching the news?' asked a woman in their Chicago office. "Are you alright?" "I'm fine" he said wondering why she had called. Just then he ...read more

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  • Blood Gift  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    BLOOD GIFT In 1949, my father had just returned from the war. On every highway you could see soldiers in uniform hitchhiking home to their families. The thrill of the reunion with his family was soon overshadowed by my grandmother’s illness. There was a problem with her kidneys. The doctors told ...read more

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  • Chippee The Parakeet

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Oct 8, 2008
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    Chippee the Parakeet One of my favorite stories is about Chippie the parakeet. Chippie was a happy little bird, content every day to sit on his perch, swinging and singing to his little heart’s content. One day Chippie’s owner took the initiative to clean out his cage. She took off the ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Truth And Perspective

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    Truth and Perspective I want to share with you the true story of Dr. Bernard Nathanson. Dr. Bernard Nathanson was a leading abortion doctor in the United States in the 1970’s. He had actually performed an abortion on a woman he had gotten pregnant during this time. This physician had campaigned ...read more

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  • The Joy Of Her Silence

    Contributed by Bobby Bodenhamer on Dec 27, 2008
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    THE JOY OF HER SILENCE Listen to this case history that appears in Dr. Paul Tournier's book, "The Strong and the Weak." It is the story of a family in which there were father, mother and several children. The father had a problem with one of his daughters, a little girl who was very quiet, very ...read more

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  • Messiah Fed The Hungry  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    "MESSIAH" FED THE HUNGRY When Handel wrote "Messiah" he had gone from riches to rags. For 30 years he had entertained Lords and Ladies with his operas. But those days seemed long past. Creditors were at his door. He was depressed. He could not sleep and he was plagued by rheumatism. He feared he ...read more

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  • View Everyone As God's Creation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    VIEW EVERYONE AS GOD’S CREATION Presbyterian biblical scholar/ minister/author Carl Howie tells about an incident that took place in a New York subway. It was winter, and an especially cold and bitter night. Very few people were on the subway at that hour. At each station, the train would screech ...read more

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  • Mistaken For Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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    MISTAKEN FOR JESUS Carolyn Gillette told the story of a hospice chaplain named Larry, and how he became friends with an 80-year-old lady named Mary. Mary was a hospice patient. Larry visited with her many times, and was greatly impressed by her faith. One day, he got a call that Mary had taken a ...read more

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  • I Couldn't 'not' Forgive Him  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    I COULDN’T ’NOT’ FORGIVE HIM Chris Carrier has one of the best testimonies of Christian forgiveness I have ever seen. Chris grew up in Coral Gables, Florida. He was abducted when he was just 10 years old. Chris’ kidnapper was angry with the boy’s family. He burned him with cigarettes, stabbed him ...read more

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  • Right And Wrong And Ruby ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
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    RIGHT AND WRONG AND RUBY BRIDGES A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public schools to African-American children. White parents in the community decided to keep their children at home if this verdict was enforced. They made it known that any African-American children who came to ...read more

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  • Reconciliation: Chancing One's Arm  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2009
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    RECONCILIATION: CHANCING ONE’S ARM A. The oldest Christian site in Ireland is said to be St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. (Slide Of St Patrick’s) 1. It is a beautiful edifice, but it also has a interesting piece of history involving one of its doors– it is known as the "Door of ...read more

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  • Italian Composer Antonio Rossini Didn't Know Why ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2009
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    Italian Composer Antonio Rossini Didn’t Know Why His Watch Was So Valuable You cannot go forward when you have plenty when you are empty on the inside. Harry Emerson Fosdick said that, “No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ...read more

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  • Answered Prayer Helps Persuade Agnostic While ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 28, 2010
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    Answered Prayer Helps Persuade Agnostic While F.B. Meyer on Oceanliner While crossing the Atlantic on an oceanliner, F.B. Meyer was asked to address the first class passengers. At the captain’s request he spoke on "Answered Prayer." An agnostic who was present at the service was asked by his ...read more

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  • How Clara Mcbride Hale Founded Hale House In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 4, 2010
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    How Clara McBride Hale Founded Hale House in Harlem Do you know the story of Clara McBride Hale, also known as “Mother Hale”? She founded the Hale House in Harlem; it was a home for unwanted children and children who were born addicted to drugs. She originally opened her house as a day-care to ...read more

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  • Bible: Life Support

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Oct 29, 2010
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    BIBLE: LIFE SUPPORT I didn’t always go to church; in fact, I didn’t start attending anywhere regularly until I was in the ninth grade. But I wasn’t exactly a stranger to church. Occasionally, this friend or that one would invite me to go to Sunday School. I remember one time -- I must have been ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Redefining Sin

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 4, 2011
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    REDEFINING SIN "In recent years, and especially since the 1960s, the democratic societies of the West have been enlarging the boundaries of acceptable behaviour, in effect redefining sin. The sexual revolution of my youth dismantled barriers against premarital sex and encouraged open marriages. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Slaves To Our Words  PRO

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Mar 15, 2011
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    SLAVES TO OUR WORDS Noted statesman Sir Winston Churchill once said: "We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." Churchill's words echo those penned by King Solomon almost three millennia ago. We're all guilty from time to time; I know I am. There's been times ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • A Confession Of Stealing

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    A CONFESSION OF STEALING Jack removes the envelope from the small pile of mail and draws in a deep breath. It is from his former employer. He has lost sleep waiting for it. What he is about to read could lead to his exoneration or to imprisonment. He had written to this man two weeks ago, ...read more

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  • The Last Letter Of Karen Watson

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
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    THE LAST LETTER OF KAREN WATSON Our International Mission Board is working on a project called "The Last Letter." It’s actually an old tradition of soldiers and missionaries who as they boarded a ship, wrote their family and friends a letter that they think might be their final ...read more

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  • Declaration Of Dependence

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 11, 2011
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    DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE The Declaration itself laid the groundwork for our freedom as a Nation: And that declaration was to be based upon the nation’s faith in God. It was quite literally a declaration of “Dependence upon God.” In the first two sentences of the Declaration of Independence - ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ