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  • We Don't Know , We Won't Know Till That Day When ...

    Contributed by Chris Summers on Feb 14, 2007
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    We don’t know , we won’t know till that day when we are before Father and our own life is opened will we have Jesus next to us erasing the sins of our life or will Jesus be on the other side convicting us of our ...read more

  • When All The Mountains In The World Have Been ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,705 views

    "When all the mountains in the world have been scaled, when the poles hold no more secrets, when the last acre of the last continent has been traversed, when, in short, everything on our planet is known and catalogued, the way will still be open for discovery. The world ...read more

  • John R. W. Stott Once Admitted The Truth That ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Oct 17, 2004
     | 2,846 views

    John R. W. Stott once admitted the truth that many of us have felt but failed to confess: "The thing I know will give me the deepest joy -- namely, to be alone and unhurried in the presence of God, aware of His ...read more

  • Missions

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Aug 22, 2009
     | 3,227 views

    Missions While churches concern themselves with missions abroad, many miss the opportunity afforded by the 400,000 international students who study in the U.S.A. each year. Many of them are open to new ideas and would be responsive to the gospel. We ...read more

  • Big Idea's The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
     | 1,522 views

    Big Idea’s The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie hit 1,337 U.S. theaters 1/11/08 and earned $4.42 million opening weekend, placing it in the top ten ...read more

  • One Of The Greatest Definitions Of Worship Ever ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 2, 2008
     | 930 views

    One of the greatest definitions of worship ever laid down was laid down by William Temple: “To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will ...read more

  • I ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 3, 2008
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    Illustration: Pour water on the sponge and the duck. Which one soaks up the water? The sponge or the hard shelled duck? One is open to receive the water and other has a hard shell that reflects the water away. What are you like a sponge, or a ...read more

  • A Trapper Built A Monkey Trap. He Filled A ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 5, 2009
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     | 2,165 views

    A trapper built a monkey trap. He filled a container with nuts. The container had a round opening big enough for the monkey to put its hand into the container. But a fist-size grab left the monkey trapped. Trapper reasoned, “What a sight–-the ...read more

  • Believing Isn't Just Seeing

    Contributed by Dennis Marquardt on Oct 18, 2000
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    BELIEVING ISN'T JUST SEEING A student wrote on a physics exam that he did not believe in the atom, so he did not write a paper on it like instructed. The professor called him up and asked him why he didn’t believe in atoms. The student’s response was, "I have never seen one, and no one else has ...read more

  • When My Hat Is Here...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 21, 2010
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    WHEN MY HAT IS HERE... So, it’s not true that you can be just as good a Christian without going to church. You can’t simply say "Well, I’m there in Spirit… but I don’t have to be there in body." It’s kind of like the true story of an incident that took place at a University. This university had a ...read more

  • Millions Far From God

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Sep 17, 2011
     | 1,600 views

    MILLIONS FAR FROM GOD In the latest global statistics, they say that the population of Earth is now 7 billion people. About 2 billion of these people claim to be Christian. Not everyone that claims to be a Christian is truly a Christian. Maybe there is about 1 billion that are true followers (I ...read more

  • We Are ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 29, 2008
     | 1,398 views

    We Are Accountable Three men who, police say, stole a car in San Jose, California, and drove it to Chico, California, were arrested in Chico when police caught them trying to break into the same car because they had locked the keys inside, or at least thought they had. Chico officer Jose Lara said ...read more

  • Our Topic Today Is Worship And Service. I'd Like ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 29, 2009
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    Our topic today is worship and service. I’d like to begin by telling a true story that happened to Reverend Forrest I. Sears. He writes: Wilma had been a member of our church for many, many years. In her later years she needed the assistance of a cane to help in walking. As she was talking ...read more

  • The Prominent Evolutionist William Provine Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 28, 2002
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     | 1,862 views

    The prominent evolutionist William Provine of Cornell University candidly conceded that if Darwinism is true, then there are five inescapable implications: there’s no evidence for God; there’s no life after death; there’s no absolute foundation for right and wrong; there’s no ultimate ...read more

  • There Is A Difference Between Reconciliation And ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Dykes on Mar 31, 2003
    based on 41 ratings
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    There is a difference between reconciliation and forgiveness. In the cross, Jesus provided for the forgiveness of everyone. But not everyone will be reconciled with Him–because they won’t seek to be reconciled with Him. Dietrich Bonhoeffer forgave his Nazi guards, but he was never reconciled with ...read more

  • It Is Distinctly Stated That The Son Of Man Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Gresham on Jan 19, 2004
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    “It is distinctly stated that the Son of Man is come to seek…Seeking the lost is more than a mere attempt to locate unsaved men, for they are present on every hand. The term ‘seeking the lost,’ therefore, suggests a divine preparation of the unsaved that will bring them into adjustment with the ...read more

  • The Odds Of Just Eight Old Testament Prophecies ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 16, 2007
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    The odds of just eight Old Testament prophecies of Jesus coming true is one in 100 million billion. That’s millions more than the total number of people who have ever lived. If you had this many silver dollars, it would cover the state of ...read more

  • George Bernard Shaw, In One Of His Better ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2009
     | 1,193 views

    George Bernard Shaw, in one of his better statements, said: "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one: the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, and being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little ...read more

  • The Sponge

    Contributed by Timothy Brown on Feb 28, 2010
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    THE SPONGE Think a moment about a water-saturated sponge. If we push down with our finger even slightly, water runs out onto the table. We immediately know what fills the interior pockets of the sponge. The same is true of ourselves. We can tell ...read more

  • Identity Crisis

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 19, 2011
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    IDENTITY CRISIS Theorist Erik Erikson coined the term "identity crisis" and believed that it was one of the most important conflicts people face in development. According to Erikson, an identity crisis is a time of intensive analysis and exploration of different ways of looking at oneself. Those ...read more