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  • Fathering Is Hard Work: According To The 6/10/03 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Fathering Is Hard Work: According to the 6/10/03 issue of Family Circle magazine in its national poll of fathers finds: · 94% feel building a family is the hardest and most important thing a man can do. · 71% say fatherhood is more demanding than they expected, while 88% say fatherhood is more ...read more

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  • Pride And Greed Spoil Relationships

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    PRIDE AND GREED SPOIL RELATIONSHIPS Are you so focused on your career, your raise and your ambitions for the future that you fail to realize the gift of relationships that God has given you today? The second rule is that people come before possessions and positions. Otherwise, you might find ...read more

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  • If I Had My Life To Live Over- By Erma ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 3, 2010
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    IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER- by Erma Bombeck (written after she found out she was dying from cancer). I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day. I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • My Sister And Her Husband Pete Are On A Holiday ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 4, 2010
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    My sister and her husband Pete are on a holiday working their way through OUTBACK PLACES in Australia. Unfortunately they can't travel on the dirt roads at the moment because of an unexpected rainy season. They have to stick to the highways because if they get off the track they will sink in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Since I Had Nothing Better To Do And Everyone Had ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 5, 2010
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    Since I had nothing better to do and everyone had gone out, I decided to watch the war movie "SAVING PRIVATE RYAN". It was some years ago now and I was at my daughter's house and Joel, my son-in-law had just connected his TV WITH SURROUND SOUND. The movie was set during the invasion of Normandy in ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Withholding Your Best Wine  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2010
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    WITHHOLDING YOUR BEST WINE There is a story about an old village in Spain. The people of this village heard the king planned to visit there. No king had ever done that. So naturally, they became excited and wanted to offer a great celebration that would show their adoration and that would honor ...read more

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  • Supremacy Clause

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Mar 15, 2011
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    SUPREMACY CLAUSE A number of weeks ago, I jokingly said that everyone in my family had a license for something in life. The one license my folks said was solely mine was the complaining license. Dad would say: “Stop your fussing,” and if I didn’t, he’d pick on me and saying: “I don’t like ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • The Lost Camper: Making Yourself Available

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
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    THE LOST CAMPER: MAKING YOURSELF AVAILABLE One of my favorite sayings: "God doesn't want your capability. He only wants your availability. If you'll give Him your availability, He'll provide the capability." Availability is when you make yourself accessible for utilization. Availability is what we ...read more

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  • The Hypocrisy Of Robert Courtney  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    THE HYPOCRISY OF ROBERT COURTNEY Before his arrest, Robert Courtney served as a deacon at Northland Cathedral, an Assembly of God Church in Kansas City. In 1990, Courtney began purchasing pharmaceuticals on the gray market and using them to fill prescriptions at his pharmacy. In time, he began ...read more

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  • Jill Briscoe On Submission

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
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    JILL BRISCOE ON SUBMISSION Jill Briscoe talks about the difference between her family and her husband, Stuart's, family and what that brought to their own marriage. She says, "My father, a quiet, gentle man, considered himself head of his home: protector, defender, and provider. My mom was a ...read more

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  • Making Christmas Special  PRO

    Contributed by Sam Higgs on Dec 1, 2011
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    MAKING CHRISTMAS SPECIAL In the months leading up to the Christmas season, Dan had lost his job. Well, in the city he lived in, most of the workers had to relocate with the company or face unemployment. Dan was one of the unlucky ones who had not been with the company long enough to be asked ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • How To Eat A Cessna Airplane

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2012
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    HOW TO EAT A CESSNA AIRPLANE Michel Lotito was an extraordinary man. This elegant Frenchman had a love for food and a fondness for eating unusual objects like bicycles, shopping carts and televisions. His odd appetite earned him the nickname Monsieur Mangetout (Mr Eat Everything). I first heard ...read more

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  • Perspective On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2012
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    PERSPECTIVE ON WORRY When my daughter Abigail was 2 or so she came down with what is now known as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. Basically, a person’s entire body gets covered in cold sores. The end result is skin scars, loss of vision, and even death. She could not be touched. She was in constant ...read more

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  • Making Christmas ...

    Contributed by Sam Higgs on Dec 6, 2012
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    Making Christmas Special In the months leading up to the Christmas season, Dan lost his job. Well, in the city he lived in, most of the workers had to relocate with the company or face unemployment. Dan was one of the unlucky ones who had not been with the company long enough to be asked to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Its Over, Elijah Came!

    Contributed by Coz Von on Mar 7, 2016
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    ”Elijah was physically taken up into heaven in a flaming chariot of fire. God said: Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their father. Malachi 4:5-6 ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • One Time I Was Leading A Retreat For Single, ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 24, 2008
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    One time I was leading a retreat for single, middle-age people, that is people in their 40s and 50s. When I looked on the roster, there was a man I knew was 75 if he were a day, but he had signed up so I didn’t question his age. He was a regular at the church and had gone on other retreats. I ...read more

    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Spiritual Events

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Mar 8, 2008
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    Spiritual Events When I was a Sophomore in college I was taking a shortcut on a country road to avoid heavy traffic on the freeway. I was traveling at about fifty miles an hour or so. This road was a beautiful drive meandering through vineyards, orchards and ranches, it ambled over rolling hills, ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • One Person Makes A Difference

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    ONE PERSON MAKES A DIFFERENCE Many people believe that one person cannot truly make a difference. Yet, history teaches us better. The story is told that in days past the state of Rhode Island was electing a state legislature. There was a thrifty Federalist farmer who started for the polls late ...read more

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  • Kent Hughes, Who Pastored In Chicago, Tells ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Aug 13, 2008
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    Kent Hughes, who pastored in Chicago, tells something which happened to a dear friend. This lady was a missionary on furlough after a particularly difficult season of service. Now, for the first time since they had been missionaries, they had bought a place of their own to rest and recover. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • I Recently Read The Story Of A Man Who, In 2006, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Sep 9, 2008
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    I recently read the story of a man who, in 2006, was driving along a road in Pune India, a city located in the Maharashtra province of central India. The man was driving a common mode of transportation in India, his motorcycle with its mighty 2 stroke engine, through torrential rains on a road that ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church