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  • A Long Time Friend And Associate Of Billy Graham ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ray Ellis on Sep 10, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,875 views

    A long time friend and associate of Billy Graham was Chuck Templeton. He worked with Billy Graham in Youth for Christ in their early days of ministry. Chuck Templeton helped organize Youth for Christ in Canada. But over time Chuck Templeton became an Agnostic and renounced his faith in Christ. ...read more

  • Once We Were In Bondage Satan And Sin. But ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 9,184 views

    Once we were in bondage Satan and sin. But Jesus set us free. A story told by Paul Lee Tan illustrates the meaning of redemption. He said that when A.J. Gordon was pastor of a church in Boston, he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary carrying a rusty cage in which several birds fluttered ...read more

  • The Following Excerpt Was Sent To Icon New Market ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2005
    based on 12 ratings
     | 4,433 views

    The following excerpt was sent to Icon New Market Films: "I realize you probably never have the occasion to see him, but if you do, could you tell Mel Gibson that a 74 year old woman named Hally Raisor saw the Passion and as a result she gave her life to Jesus Christ and was baptized. The only ...read more

  • Clark Cothern, Decision, Tells Of A Personal ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 6, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,951 views

    Clark Cothern, Decision, tells of a personal experience he had had. “I once invited a friend, Gavin, to help my pastor and me guide 30 lively teens through an all-night "lock-in" at church. Early in the evening Gavin challenged me to a game of table tennis in the fellowship hall. Our game quickly ...read more

  • The Following Excerpt Was Sent To Icon New Market ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,828 views

    The following excerpt was sent to Icon New Market Films: "I realize you probably never have the occasion to see him, but if you do, could you tell Mel Gibson that a 74 year old woman named Hally Raisor saw the Passion and as a result she gave her life to Jesus Christ and was baptized. The only ...read more

  • Why Was Hitler So Successful? Because The Church ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 23, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,275 views

    Why was Hitler so successful? Because the church rolled over and let him. Germany had been beaten to the ground and humiliated after World War I. The Treaty of Versailles put such demands on Germany that it looked like it would never dig itself out. Its economy took a nosedive, and the ruling ...read more

  • Diversity In The Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,358 views

    DIVERSITY IN THE CHURCH Philip Yancey put it this way in an article in Christianity Today just this last November. He writes, "As I read accounts of the New Testament church, no characteristic stands out more sharply than [diversity]. Beginning with Pentecost, the Christian church dismantled the ...read more

  • Decision Without Determination

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 28, 2009
     | 3,385 views

    DECISION WITHOUT DETERMINATION Some choose and pray a prayer. This is the great heresy of the last hundred years. I made a choice when I was ten. But there is no determination. I have been convinced by the Lord that a decision without determination and effort is absolutely meaningless. In ...read more

  • I Am Suffering At The Moment With A Cold, ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Apr 10, 2010
     | 1,577 views

    I am suffering at the moment with a cold, coughing and spluttering and my brain feels like it is packed tightly in sponge and being bounced down the slope of a mountain. A good friend said she is praying in Jesus Name for healing and believing for me to be well by Monday. I am believing for this ...read more

  • I Was Speaking To Someone About New Zealand A ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 15, 2010
     | 2,060 views

    I was speaking to someone about New Zealand a couple of days ago and how when we went there we had explored the colourful natural volcanic areas of Rotorua - bubbling mud, steaming ground and geysers, huge volcanic craters and weird and wonderful rock formations. Although it was beautiful the smell ...read more

  • Miss Gad-About

    Contributed by J.d. Tutell on Jan 3, 2011
     | 2,186 views

    MISS GAD-ABOUT Years ago a man named Phillip Keller went from being a shepherd to a pastor, in his book on the 23rd Psalm he talks about one particular sheep that he had. Phillip took great pride in maintaining his fields, they were far greener than that of his neighbor, much better then the ...read more

  • Lucado On Alcoholism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 23, 2011
     | 9,196 views

    LUCADO ON ALCOHOLISM Max Lucado, one of America's great Christian leaders, found that out earlier in his ministry. He once said, "I come from a family of alcoholism. If there's anything about this DNA stuff, I've got it." For more than 20 years, drinking was not a major issue for Lucado, but about ...read more

  • Cultural Blindness In Missions

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 4, 2011
     | 4,221 views

    CULTURAL BLINDNESS IN MISSIONS David Livermore, in his book, Serving with Eyes Wide Open, talks about a friend of his, Ashish, who came from Northern India to visit him in Chicago. They were eating at Gino's Pizzeria, and there they ran into a youth pastor David knew, along with his youth group. ...read more

  • How Do You Know You're Saved?

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 15, 2011
     | 2,312 views

    HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE SAVED? When I ask some people if they're saved, they sometimes answer, "Well I think so" or "I hope so." What if someone came up to me and asked, "Pastor Sligh, are you married?" Suppose I say, "Well, I think so." You say, "Now wait a minute. You either are or you aren't. I ...read more

  • I Wish I Could Live Life Over Again

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Jun 14, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,394 views

    I WISH I COULD LIVE LIFE OVER AGAIN I remember when I was an assistant pastor in TN visiting a man who had lived his whole life in sin and selfishness. He finally came to the Lord in his sixties. When he was diagnosed with cancer, I went to visit him at his home shortly before his death. The day ...read more

  • The Last Letter Of Karen Watson

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,927 views

    THE LAST LETTER OF KAREN WATSON Our International Mission Board is working on a project called "The Last Letter." It’s actually an old tradition of soldiers and missionaries who as they boarded a ship, wrote their family and friends a letter that they think might be their final ...read more

  • Billy Graham's Arena Dreams

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 7, 2012
     | 3,970 views

    BILLY GRAHAM'S ARENA DREAMS Billy Graham, in his book "Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well" (pp. 2-3, Thomas Nelson) writes: I have remained a baseball fan, not necessarily of one team over another but of the game itself--the teamwork, the strategy, and the challenge of defeating the ...read more

  • The Final Play Of The Game  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2013
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,707 views

    THE FINAL PLAY OF THE GAME It's never too late to trust Jesus. Oops, I need to qualify that. There IS a time when it's too late to trust Jesus. If you die without putting your faith in Jesus, then it's too late. Someone observed about the thief on the cross that there is one deathbed conversion in ...read more

  • Where's The Bagel?

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on May 6, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,918 views

    On one occasion during my college days in Peterborough I was invited to the Dean of Students residence for a social gathering. Hoping to find food aplenty I was disappointed to see the large dining room table containing a lonely plate of bagels. I quickly grabbed one, but my first bite was more of ...read more

  • Mountain Stream

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 30, 2021
     | 1,951 views

    Where I was Pastoring at the time I got 5th Sunday off. I had a favorite fishing hole. The water wasn’t very deep so I could wade in the water. That was fun for me. It had big trees that hung over the water and the sun would shine through them and made it look beautiful. It was great, this river ...read more