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  • Sept. 19, 2001 - New York Times Ran A Story ...

    Contributed by Mark Canfield on Nov 9, 2006
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    Sept. 19, 2001 - New York Times ran a story called Aboard Flight 564 - Peter Hannaford As it was at most US Airports, last Saturday was the first near normal day at Denver International since the terrorist attacks. On United Flight 564, the door had just been locked and the plane was about to pull ...read more

  • Joni Eareckson Tada, A Quadriplegic Who Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 3, 2007
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    Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic who was paralyzed in a diving accident as a teenager, talks about her wedding day. She says, “I felt awkward as my girlfriends strained to shift my paralyzed body into a cumbersome wedding gown. No amount of corseting and binding my body gave me a perfect ...read more

  • The Word "Fool" Doesn't Get As Much Use Now As It ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Jack on Jun 9, 2007
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    The word “fool” doesn’t get as much use now as it once did. If one of my mates does something profoundly stupid I don’t usually cry out “you fool”. I might say “you are such an idiot” or “what a goose”. I’m sure many people you know would use much more colourful language than that. Fool is one of ...read more

  • A Man Got A Job As A Night Watchman At A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A man got a job as a night watchman at a factory. There had been a lot of thefts by the workers on the night shift and so every morning when the night shift workers passed through his gate it was his job to check their bags and pockets to make sure that nothing was being stolen. Things were going ...read more

  • There Was A Lady Named Danni Stampley From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There was a lady named Danni Stampley from Luann’s home church who had been trained as a Baptist missionary. She felt the call to be a missionary the very night she accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior; she was a teenager at the time. After high school and college, she spent several years in a ...read more

  • You Might Find This Hard To Believe But One ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jun 29, 2007
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    You might find this hard to believe but one vicar, William Haslam became a Christian through his own sermon – and from that very experience the 19th Century Cornish Revival was born William Haslam was a high church Anglican vicar in Cornwall in the 19th Century. In 1851, he had gone to stay ...read more

  • One Of My Dear Friends Shared This Story With Me ...

    Contributed by Marianne Unger on Dec 12, 2007
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    One of my dear friends shared this story with me that I’d like to share with you. It’s about a mother who asked her child “What is the most important body part?” When the child was younger, they thought sound was important, so they replied that it was their ears. The mother said, “No, many ...read more

  • This Is One That Jesus Originally Told And Phil ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    This is one that Jesus originally told and Phil Yancey writes about it in his book, What’s So Amazing About Grace? It’s a picture of what our church is, can be, will be, should be. One of the pictures Jesus often uses of grace is of a wedding banquet. So this is what Yancey writes: Accompanied ...read more

  • Earlier This Week, I Was Talking To Our Music ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on May 28, 2008
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    Earlier this week, I was talking to our music director, Jim Turk, about this sermon. I told him that I was going to challenge you to live out your faith. I told him a story about myself that makes me very self-conscious. It is a story I had never told anyone else. I explained to Jim that it was ...read more

  • Stewarship As ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    STEWARSHIP AS CHARACTER Enter stage right: Ed McMahon and Evander Holyfield. Ed said, "When you spend more than you make, you know what happens." Yes, and a 85-year-old man should know better! He said it was "poor planning." NO, I THINK IT WAS HIGH LIVING! He was living high in a multi-million ...read more

  • Knowing Your Way To Heaven

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    KNOWING YOUR WAY TO HEAVEN The little church in the suburbs suddenly stopped buying from its regular office supply dealer. So, the dealer telephoned Deacon Brown to ask why. "I'll tell you why," said Deacon Brown, "Our church ordered some pencils from you to be used in the pews for visitors to ...read more

  • I Found A Story Called "Pushing The Rock" Told ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 19, 2009
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    I found a story called “Pushing the Rock” told by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. It is the story of a weak, sickly man, who could not afford to go to the doctor and his condition seemed to grow worse. The man lived in the deep back woods in an old log cabin. Out in front of his cabin was a huge ...read more

  • Zorthian's Fear

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Jan 26, 2009
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    ZORTHIAN'S FEAR A mural artist named J.H. Zorthian read about a tiny boy who had been killed in traffic. His stomach churned as he thought of that ever happening to one of his three children. His worry became an inescapable anxiety. The more he imagined such a tragedy, the more fearful he became. ...read more

  • Dr. Meier Refuses Materialism And God Blesses His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
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    Dr. Meier Refuses Materialism and God Blesses his Ministry In the mid – 1970’s, while Dr. Meier was a professor of pastoral counseling at Trinity Seminary near Chicago, he was offered a high-paying opportunity to leave his seminary position and become the administrator of a psychiatric clinic. “I ...read more

  • Years Ago I Was Working Two Jobs Trying To Get ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 18, 2009
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    Years ago I was working two jobs trying to get into professional golf. One of those was a courier job where you had to use your own vehicle. I had a very reliable Honda civic hatchback, great for driving in the city, a fair bit of space in the back with the seat folded down. It was the best car I ...read more

  • Before I Became A Counsellor, While I Was Still ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 16, 2010
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    Before I became a counsellor, while I was still going to school, I worked as a family support worker. Essentially I would pick up kids from troubled homes who social workers were involved with but hadn’t taken the children away yet, and I would spend a couple hours with them and take them back ...read more

  • I Thought We'd Talk More About God

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Feb 11, 2011
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    I THOUGHT WE'D TALK MORE ABOUT GOD Some years ago, a woman came to me for counseling. Her husband had died suddenly from a rapidly growing cancer, and she was overcome not only with grief but with fear regarding her future. She did not now know who she was or where she was to go. She was beside ...read more

  • A Good Name I Never Met

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 14, 2011
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    A GOOD NAME I NEVER MET In his book, I Almost Missed The Sunset, Bill Gaither writes: Gloria and I had been married a couple of years. We were teaching school in Alexandria, Indiana, where I had grown up, and we wanted a piece of land where we could build a house. I noticed the parcel south of ...read more

  • This Baby Is For You

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2011
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    THIS BABY IS FOR YOU Pastor and author Richard Foster writes about genuine, joyous giving. "Giving with a glad and generous heart has a way of rooting out the tough old miser within us. Just the very act of letting go of money or some other treasure does something great within us."1 Such genuine, ...read more

  • The Empty Gift

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2011
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    THE EMPTY GIFT God offers us more than this world does, but most of us never take the time to see it. There was a 15-year old boy named Joey, whose mother died at birth. She was a severe alcoholic, and that had affected his pre-natal development. The result was that he was slightly ...read more