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  • Fellowship Of The Unashamed

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 10, 2007
     | 3,544 views

    Pastor Paul Ciniraj of India wrote these words: “I’m a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have the power of the Holy Spirit. The dye has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I’m a disciple of Jesus. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be ...read more

  • A Fellow Stopped At A Gas Station And, After ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 19, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,568 views

    A fellow stopped at a gas station and, after filling the tank on his car, he paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola and he watched a couple of men working along the roadside. One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other man ...read more

  • Dragging My Sin  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 6, 2005
    based on 19 ratings
     | 4,511 views

    DRAGGING MY SIN In this award winning film called “The Mission,” Robert DeNiro plays a mercenary who has taken asylum in the local church after killing his brother in a fit of jealous rage. He eventually leaves the church and heads to a mission post located above the waterfalls in a South American ...read more

  • A Number Of Years Ago A Church Member Knocked On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Sep 24, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,624 views

    A number of years ago a church member knocked on his preacher’s door and asked if he could talk to him. The preacher invited him in. The man took a seat and began his story. “Preacher, do you remember hearing about the death at the steel plant this past week?” “Yes, I heard about that,” the ...read more

  • Being Involved In The Church Will Require You To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,152 views

    Being involved in the church will require you to love people who are difficult to love. Being involved in the church may require you to work with people who are difficult to work with. Being involved in the church, may cost you some of our friends, who don’t see the importance of being actively in ...read more

  • In More Jesus, Less Religion, Steve Arterburn ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 23, 2007
     | 1,560 views

    In More Jesus, Less Religion, Steve Arterburn writes: “Some time ago, I read about the work of a Wycliffe Bible translator in a remote village in Papua New Guinea. When the opening chapters of Genesis were first translated into the native language, the attitude toward women in the tribe changed ...read more

  • Standing On A Small Platform, A Reader Calls Out ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
     | 1,460 views

    Standing on a small platform, a reader calls out names, “Michael Hyde. Donald Jackson. Jose Munoz.” The names being read were those engraved on “The Wall.” No one calls it anything else. It was once highly controversial. This was not a statue, no soldier on horseback, but a black granite gash ...read more

  • Team Hoyt  PRO

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Sep 19, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,948 views

    TEAM HOYT - Team Hoyt loves to race -Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts - Since 1975 who together compete just about continuously in running cycling swimming crossing 1000 finish lines - 64 marathon races. - 204 10 K runs - 206 triathlons - 6 of these triathlon ...read more

  • Christmas Changed In A Hurry For Mike And Tiffany ...

    Contributed by Jeffery Russell on Dec 24, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,274 views

    Christmas changed in a hurry for Mike and Tiffany Bailey from one year to the next. In 2001, their neat house with the white picket fence was fairly quiet. Like all of their past Christmas seasons, Mike and Tiffany had gone to parties, exchanged gifts, attended family get-togethers, and prayed for ...read more

  • Near The City Of Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil, Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 3, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,454 views

    Near the city of Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, is a remarkable facility. Twenty years ago the Brazilian government turned a prison over to two Christians. The institution was renamed Humaita, and the plan was to run it on Christian principles. With the exception of two full-time staff, all the work ...read more

  • You Put The Devil Out, But Did You Let Him Leave ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 22, 2008
     | 4,214 views

    YOU PUT THE DEVIL OUT, BUT DID YOU LET HIM LEAVE HIS BAGS? You got out of a bad relationship because it was bad, but you are still resentful and angry. (You let the devil leave his bags.) You got out of financial debt, but you still can’t control the desire to spend on frivolous ...read more

  • Voices From The ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 1,832 views

    Voices from the Past “It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures, and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.” --Abraham ...read more

  • We Can Overcome

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
     | 4,211 views

    WE CAN OVERCOME Take for example Egyptian hieroglyphics. In seminary I had plenty of brilliant folks for classmates, just amazing people. One man, Kevin was with us on our trip to the Holy Land. Kevin finishing his M.Div at Princeton and was soon on his way to Harvard for a Ph.D. in biblical ...read more

  • Mistaken For Jesus  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 3, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,917 views

    MISTAKEN FOR JESUS Some years ago I heard an interesting story about a young boy living in Paris at the end of the World War II. He had been orphaned by the atrocities committed by the German forces. Now all alone, he was having to scrounge around the ruined city as best as he could to find ...read more

  • The Cross: Solution To Alignment Problems  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,324 views

    THE CROSS: SOLUTION TO ALIGNMENT PROBLEMS I remember when my first car, a beautiful 92 Chevy Cavalier, developed and alignment problem. I would be driving down the freeway, and it pulled to the right pretty hard. In fact, you really had to work against the car to make it get in the left lane. On ...read more

  • J. Wilbur Chapman Meets General Booth Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
     | 3,690 views

    J. Wilbur Chapman Meets General Booth of Salvation Army A willingness to obey is the first step toward spiritual understanding John 7:17 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. When J. Wilbur Chapman was in London, he had an opportunity to meet General ...read more

  • Basement People Vs. Balcony People

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 3, 2009
     | 8,435 views

    BASEMENT PEOPLE VS. BALCONY PEOPLE Keith Miller, in his book Passionate People, which he co-authored with Bruce Larson, describes two kinds of people -- "basement people" and "balcony people." "Basement people" are the discouragers in our lives. They may be people from our past, or present, but ...read more

  • Judgment For Yawning: Is God Fair?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,762 views

    JUDGMENT FOR YAWNING: IS GOD FAIR? It’s a given that some judges in the American legal system are more severe than others. But Circuit Judge Daniel Rozak-—from Will County, Illinois—-may be the only federal judge who has sentenced a man to prison because of a yawn. That’s right. In August of ...read more

  • Running The Race

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Mar 3, 2010
     | 6,432 views

    RUNNING THE RACE Many of you know that I have fairly poor eyesight. However, my eyesight today is far better than it was when I was a child. The Lord has given me much better eyesight today than I have ever had I my life. When I was a kid, however, my eyesight was terrible. So as I was ...read more

  • The Year Of The Yes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,284 views

    THE YEAR OF THE YES Playwright Maria Hedley had her fill of terrible dates. Most of the dates she went on she thought the guys would be great candidates but they were totally unsatisfying. She got sick of her own taste and decided that fate couldn’t mess up her love life anymore than she could, ...read more