Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Serving Jesus
• A certain family in a Southern Baptist Church had been inactive for years.
• The family simply never went to church any more and every effort to get them to attend had failed.
• One day one of the sons, name John, was bitten by a rattlesnake.
The father immediately sent for the
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jul 6, 2008
You can never tell how the thorough learning of Scripture will be used in later life. Richard Wurmbrand was a pastor in Romania and was imprisoned and tortured for his faith by the communist authorities. He testified that it was the passages of Scripture that he had memorized as a youth, which
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Baptist
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DON'T HAVE TO SPANK ME
During the normal works of the day, Jenny the local Pastor’s wife is watching her three little boys while her husband is at the church. When all of a sudden she hears a large crash in the living room, and when she runs in to see what it was there was little 4-year-old Brian
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Pentecostal
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THE SIMPLE STORY
Last week, I met in the worship center with the four-year-olds from the school and we talked about what pastors do. After I was done showing them my robe and stoles and my private Communion kit and talking about the different places a pastor stands in church to talk about Jesus, I
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Lutheran
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 23, 2010
"Consider Cornelia, a woman imprisoned in a work camp in Romania during the hard years of Communist occupation. One night, being too tired to undress, she fell exhausted on her bed and immediately went to sleep. She began to dream of a beautiful field full of flowers. There was a soft humming sound
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 15, 2010
Good Hope, Alabama is a small town with small town values. In Cullman County you can’t legally buy beer. Daystar Church, which had grown dramatically under pastor Jerry Lawson, ran up against the sensibilities of this conservative north Alabama community by focusing a month-long series on sex.
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Baptist
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 26, 2012
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GOD, SEND US BIGGER RATTLESNAKES
There was a farmer who had three sons: Jim, John, and Sam. No one in the family ever attended church or had time for God. The pastor and church members tried for years to interest the family in the things of God, but to no avail.
Then one day, a rattlesnake bit
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 11, 2001
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In his book, First Things First, author Stephen Covey write about Viktor Frankl, and Austrian psychologist who survived the death camps of Nazi Germany. Frankl made a startling discovery about why some survived the horrible conditions and some did not.
"He looked at several factors - health,
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Contributed by Lynn Floyd on May 17, 2001
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What if your science professor announces that your first experiment will involve studying the properties of acids. She places a 500 ML Pyrex beaker containing clear liquid on the lab table and says, "This is sulfuric acid." In response to her explanation, imagine your lab partner, Jim blurts out,
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 16, 2001
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(Based on my sermon on Laodicea and Revelation 3:19-20. Re:Jesus’s call to us to repent, and that He is still knocking, calling, waiting for us to repent.)
"We can be thankful that Jesus still loves Laodicea and is still knocking. In fact, He has been knocking on some of our hearts so long that
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jul 2, 2002
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ILL. James Byrnes, who was secretary of state under FDR, said that the difference between successful people & average people can be summed up in three words. Here are the three words, "and then some." He said, "Average people do what is expected. Successful people do what is expected, & then
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Feb 22, 2005
I want you to see what I think is one of the greatest examples of what we’ve been talking about and surprisingly it’s in a Hollywood motion picture. In “The Family Man” Jack, the husband, has made a career decision without consulting Kate, his wife. Because the opportunity is so lucrative Jack is
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Christian Church
Contributed by Lynn Malone on Jun 13, 2005
Finally, we give, give, give. Jesus left his heavenly throne, laid aside the glory that was his, and came to us. He gave his life on the cross of Calvary that we might be redeemed and reconciled to God. He gave us life, and he has blessed us beyond even our ability to measure. Giving is a
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
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In Charles Swindoll’s new book, The Quest for Character (Multnomah), “sociologist and historian Carle Zimmerman, in his 1947 book Family and Civilization, recorded his keen observations as he compared the disintegration of various cultures with the parallel decline of family life in those cultures.
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