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  • January 6, 1850, Was Bitterly Cold In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 2,623 views

    January 6, 1850, was bitterly cold in Colchester, England, a hard-biting blizzard keeping most worshipers at home. At the Primitive Methodist Chapel on Artillery Street only about a dozen showed up. When it became apparent that even the pastor would not arrive, a man rose and spoke from Isaiah ...read more

  • Of George Matheson, As Recorded In ...

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Feb 27, 2008
     | 2,309 views

    Illustration of George Matheson, as recorded in Max Lucado’s book 3:16, Numbers of Hope. Main Idea: People lose love, God loves always “Matheson was only a teenager when doctors told him he was going blind. Not to be denied, he pursued his studies, graduating from the University of Glasgow in ...read more

  • To The Best Of Our Knowledge, The New Hebrides ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Mar 25, 2008
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     | 1,441 views

    “To the best of our knowledge, the New Hebrides had no Christian influence before John Williams and James Harris from the London Missionary Society landed in 1839. Minutes after going ashore, both missionaries were killed and eaten by cannibals” (John Piper, online paper). Eighteen years later, ...read more

  • We Must Share The Gospel

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    WE MUST SHARE THE GOSPEL Dr. Martin Neimoller was an outstanding German pastor during the time of Adolf Hitler's reign. Neimoller was sent to prison for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Before being sent to prison, Neimoller had a 30-minute visit with Adolf Hitler. Hitler tried to persuade ...read more

  • Lo! I Am With Thee

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 18, 2008
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    LO! I AM WITH THEE David Livingstone had spent sixteen years in Africa. The white man was surrounded by hostile, angry natives in the heart of Africa. He was in danger of losing his life and contemplated fleeing in the night. But something happened that changed his mind and gave him peace in his ...read more

  • Like Father, Like Son

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 9, 2008
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    LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Among the more than 3,000 Americans who have received the Congressional Medal of Honor, there is one father/son combination. The father won it for a single act of bravery in a crucial battle of the Civil War. By the time he retired in 1909, he was the ranking officer in the ...read more

  • Take The Lord's Table To Others

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 18, 2008
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     | 2,799 views

    Take the Lord's Table to Others And just as we experience the presence of the Lord, I believe with every part of my being and more that we are to take this presence to share with those around us. We are to take the Lord's Table to other people. So as I talk about taking the Lord's Table to ...read more

  • We Must Share The Gospel: Dr. Martin Neimoller ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    We must share the Gospel: Dr. Martin Neimoller was an outstanding German pastor during the time of Adolf Hitler's reign. Neimoller was sent to prison for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Before being sent to prison Neimoller had a 30 minute visit with Adolf Hitler. Hitler tried to persuade ...read more

  • No One Ever Told Hitler

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
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    NO ONE EVER TOLD HITLER Dr. Martin Neimoller was an outstanding German pastor during the time of Adolf Hitler's reign. Neimoller was sent to prison for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Before being sent to prison Neimoller had a 30-minute visit with Adolf Hitler. Hitler tried to persuade ...read more

  • The Life Of The Early Church Didn't Spring Up ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 30, 2008
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    THE LIFE OF THE EARLY CHURCH DIDN’T SPRING UP FROM THE BOTTOM UP, NOR FROM THE TOP DOWN. PAUL SCANLON WRITES OF MEETING A BAPTIST PASTOR WHO FOR TWENTY YEARS HAD BEEN IN MINISTRY AT THE SAME CHURCH. HE AND HIS WIFE HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND FINISHED UP VERY ILL ON MEDICATION. I WAS SPEAKING TO ...read more

  • What’s Giving Thanks All ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    What’s giving Thanks all about A. The pilgrims did it 1. In 1621, the pilgrims celebrated the first harvest at Plymouth 2. To them, it was a religious holiday celebrating all that God gave them The Pilgrim Proclamation of 1623 Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant ...read more

  • Make Sure We Were Abiding

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    MAKE SURE WE WERE ABIDING Stuart Briscoe, author and long-time pastor of Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin, tells about the time he traveled to Poland during the cold war. He was involved in several weeks of itinerant ministry, and one winter day his sponsors drove him in the dead of night ...read more

  • Be Content To Speak In A Cottage

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    BE CONTENT TO SPEAK IN A COTTAGE January 6, 1850, was bitterly cold in Colchester, England, a hard-biting blizzard keeping most worshipers at home. At the Primitive Methodist Chapel on Artillery Street, only about a dozen showed up. When it became apparent that even the pastor would not arrive, an ...read more

  • He'll Find Me

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 20, 2022
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    Two men have ended up marooned on an island in the South Pacific. On the deserted island is one palm tree and nothing to see but the ocean. One guy is in a complete panic, pacing back and forth, ranting about how they are going to die, hungry and alone, that nobody will stumble on them until they ...read more

  • Moving Story Of A Godly Father

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 13, 2023
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    Hear our Lords Words: BIBLE Be merciful ... even as your Father (in Heaven) is merciful. END (Luke 6:36) Some time ago ... I heard a touching story .... about a humble, ... consecrated pastor ... whose young son had become.... Extremely ill. After the boy had undergone an exhaustive series of ...read more

  • John Harper's Last Convert

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 22, 2024
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    A man stood up in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada four years after the sinking of the Titanic in a testimony meeting and this is what he said. He said, “I am a survivor of the Titanic. When I was drifting alone on that awful night, the tide brought a man toward me in the sea and his name was John ...read more

  • When God Opened An Unexpected Door For Cliff Barrows

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 10, 2024
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    Dr. James Dobson wrote a book entitled When God Doesn’t Make Sense, and, in his book, he shared an illustration that is very applicable to the point being drawn from this particular verse. Take a moment and reflect upon the following story: In 1945, a young associate pastor named Cliff married his ...read more

  • Is He Welcome

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Feb 21, 2025
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    John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. Sadly, there are many buildings with church on the sign that Jesus is knocking on the door to get in. Some He has never been in and others He had been in but they turned Him by denying the Scriptures. Many people in those buildings ...read more

  • Basketball Theology

    Contributed by John Bright on Jan 18, 2026
     | 117 views

    Basketball theology Center/forward — Where nobody usually sits on Sunday mornings. Free throw — A toddler's toss of toys. Timeout A sermon gone too long. On the bench — The organist (pia- nist). Three-point play The structure of any good sermon. Offensive foul — A newly discov- ered baby's ...read more

  • A Parable From The Chilean Mining ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Oct 16, 2010
     | 2,731 views

    A PARABLE FROM THE CHILEAN MINING DISASTER Once upon a time there was a wise, good and powerful King. His kingdom was known as the kingdom of Hope and it was the richest kingdom in the world. He ruled his people with love and justice. The kingdom of Hope was known throughout the world and other ...read more