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  • Dream Center

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 26, 2012
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    DREAM CENTER At age 16, Matthew Barnett dreamed of a church that would be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year serving the inner-city’s physical and spiritual needs and bringing a message of hope to the hopeless. In 1994 at the age of 20, he moved from Phoenix to Los Angeles to pastor a small ...read more

  • Just Hours Before His Crucifixion, Jesus Showed ...

    Contributed by J. Allen Lucas on Mar 17, 2008
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    Just hours before His crucifixion, Jesus showed His love once again for mankind by sitting down and serving His disciples. While they bickered among themselves as to who was the greatest among them, Jesus set about the task of ministry. It was not a glorious position of preaching or standing in ...read more

  • 65279;a Young Man Grew Up In A Rough Boston ...

    Contributed by Craige Lebreton on Dec 5, 2003
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    A young man grew up in a rough Boston housing project called Columbia Point in a family of nine children. Although he’d been a hardworking student, paying for college seemed impossible. But his mother’s favorite expression was. "Pray, and the Lord will make a way somehow." He viewed that as ...read more

  • Leonard Ravenhill Said This In His Book "Why ...  PRO

    Contributed by C.a. Mccracken on Mar 22, 2005
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    Leonard Ravenhill said this in his book “Why Revival Tarries” “No man is greater than his prayer life…Poverty–stricken as the church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of PRAYER. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few PRAYERS. The ...read more

  • Leonard Ravenhill Said This In His Book Why ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 20, 2009
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    Leonard Ravenhill said this in his book Why Revival Tarries “No man is greater than his prayer life…Poverty–stricken as the church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of PRAYER. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few PRAYERS. The ...read more

  • I'm Re-Reading A Great Book Entitle, A Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I’m re-reading a great book entitle, A Man Called Peter, about Peter Marshall, who served as the Chaplain of the US Senate in the 1940’s. He was a Scottish immigrant who came to America convinced that he was to train for the ministry here. He came without much money, and for the next few years ...read more

  • Charles Stanley, In "The Gift Of Forgiveness" ...

    Contributed by Sharon Stonestreet on Sep 8, 2007
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    Charles Stanley, in “The Gift of forgiveness” writes: A friend of mine is a fine man and a fine pastor who loves God. His wife had cancer, and they sought the best medical help. The Dr. Who had been studying the relationship between cancer and negative emotions began to work with Mrs. Brown She ...read more

  • Actions Speak Louder  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Dec 10, 2008
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    ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER Andy Stanley tells the story of when he was 13 and learning the meaning of the phrase, "Actions speak louder than words." His dad was the Associate Pastor of First Baptist in Atlanta when the senior pastor was asked to resign. Charles Stanley was asked to preach on Sundays ...read more

  • History Will Prove That It Is When The Church Has ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 29, 2009
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    History will prove that it is when the church has endured great persecution that that is when the church has seen tremendous growth. It was true in the first century and it is true today. Listen to this story of a faithful disciple in China. Pastor Li De Xian (Shee-an) was arrested 13 times in six ...read more

  • Nothing But The Blood  PRO

    Contributed by Vernon Price on Apr 10, 2012
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    NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD One night in a church service a young woman felt the tug of God at her heart. She responded to God's call and accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior. The young woman had a very rough past, involving alcohol, drugs, and prostitution. But, the change in her was evident. As ...read more

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

    Contributed by Ray Ellis on Sep 10, 2003
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    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

  • One Day She Was Reading The Newspaper And Came ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One day she was reading the newspaper and came across an article about the ministry of D.L. Moody and the Revival that was taking place in the United States. Even though she had never heard of him before, she began to pray and ask God to send Moody to her church in England. Some time later, Moody ...read more

  • Submitting Totally To God's Plan For Us And Our ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Mar 7, 2006
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    Submitting totally to God’s plan for us and our loved ones, is difficult to do. But, it is a must for any Christian seeking the “whatever it takes” solution to the difficult problems in life. In 1878, when William Booth’s Salvation Army was beginning to make its mark, men and women from all over ...read more

  • Once A Man Attended A Fair And Saw Another Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Once a man attended a fair and saw another man leading a fine, well-groomed horse. He inquired, "Is that a saddle horse?" The man replied, "No, sir. This horse will buck off a saddle. Nothing can stay on his back." So the man asked again, "Is he a driving horse?" The answer came back from the ...read more

  • Make A Wish

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2010
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    MAKE A WISH Have you ever dreamed of finding a genie in a lamp where you could get three wishes? Our Pastor, who is in charge of the prison ministry, always tells the same joke, because the prisoner population has a new turnover each time he visits. He always sets them up by asking if they had ...read more

  • Discipline, Brokenness, And Strength

    Contributed by Pastor Gbenga Shadare on May 4, 2010
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    DISCIPLINE, BROKENNESS, AND STRENGTH Discipline is a virtue that is in short supply nowadays. We see men and women demonstrating a dangerous lack of self restraint and discipline. People do things just because they feel like it, ignoring the consequences. What there is no restraint, no discipline ...read more

  • The Secret To Success

    Contributed by Pastor Gbenga Shadare on May 4, 2010
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    THE SECRET TO SUCCESS We see the secret to the success of the Man Jesus. He saturated himself with the divine and consequently he excelled. You don't degrees, qualification or a good family name to excel. You need only Christ. Christ is enough! Christ is sufficient! Your excellence is found in ...read more

  • Let Me Show You A Man Called Peter. The Pebble ...

    Contributed by Pastor Gbenga Shadare on May 4, 2010
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    Let me show you a man called Peter. The pebble that became the ROCK. How he failed and then got back up. Failure is going to put you in good company friends. Winston Churchill – the wartime British Prime Minister - failed the 6th grade and was not elected into office till he was 62. Yet he went on ...read more

  • Don't Crash Or Shut Down

    Contributed by Pastor Gbenga Shadare on May 6, 2010
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    DON'T CRASH OR SHUT DOWN Two things can happen to a car when it has been involved in a crash. It can either survive with the engine still purring and working or the car’s engine is completely shut down, stopped by fire and the dismembering of its parts. Now, I would like you to carefully consider ...read more

  • And Now, Am Watching Larry King Live! Where There ...

    Contributed by Pastor Gbenga Shadare on May 6, 2010
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    And now, am watching Larry King Live! Where there is an interesting interview with Mrs Cindi Broaddus, the sister to Robin McGraw, Dr Phil McGraw’s wife. She was attacked five years ago by an unknown, hateful bigot who sprayed her with Sulfuric Acid from a highway overpass in the quiet countryside ...read more