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  • When I Got Engaged, We Went To A Local Gemologist ...

    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Feb 19, 2007
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    When I got engaged, we went to a local gemologist at his home. He took us to his living room, pulled his hand out of his pocket and held it out with several stones and said, "Pick one." Gemologists/geologists are able to analyze and discern which gems/metals are ...read more

  • A Man On Staff With Chuck Swindoll Got Sexually ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2001
    based on 121 ratings
     | 1,550 views

    A man on staff with Chuck Swindoll got sexually involved with his secretary. The church chose not to handle it in public, but rather deal with this privately. The next year, 17 marriages of senior leadership people in the church broke up! Paul is clear that when a leader sins, he/she needs to be ...read more

  • Pee Wee Won The Game For The Dodgers In The ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Apr 3, 2008
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    Pee Wee won the game for the Dodgers in the bottom of the ninth. Vin Scully said his grandfather called him Pee Wee. But his real name is Delwyn Young. Delwyn is not a big player and he came from a little town called Littlerock, CA. But he made it to the Dodgers. The Church is made up of many ...read more

  • Above Reproach

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
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    ABOVE REPROACH A friend told Plato of a terrible charge that had been leveled against the famous philosopher. Knowing it was not true, his friend said, "What are we going to do?" Plato replied, "We must simply live in such a way that all people will know it is false." Paul said that an elder is to ...read more

  • Wisdom, Skill, And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 2, 2009
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    Wisdom, Skill, and Virtue Someone once said: Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. (Everywoman’s Family Circle as found in Tan, Paul Lee: Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations : A Treasury of Illustrations, Anecdotes, Facts and Quotations for ...read more

  • Are You Serving Or Souring

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jun 13, 2022
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    If you are not serving where you are do not expect to be called to somewhere else to serve. Act 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. Saul/Paul and Barnabas were already serving in the church ...read more

  • Chosen

    Contributed by Sam Mccormick on Jul 5, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,728 views

    CHOSEN 1 Peter 2:4 …you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious… I was awful. No one had to tell me – I knew it. In my hometown of Littlefield, Texas, the kids used to find a vacant lot relatively bare of weeds, choose up teams and play baseball. ...read more

  • The Christian's Passion  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    The Christian's Passion "Denying Oneself" There is a tale of the great English actor Macready. Macready was once asked by a preacher; "What is the difference between you and me?" You see the actor appeared before crowds night after night proclaiming fiction and people listened with delight. The ...read more

  • When I Was In The Navy, Sailors Told Each Other ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Oct 28, 2007
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    When I was in the Navy, Sailors told each other all sorts of stories about what happened on various deployments or on liberty. They were called sea stories, and were often far from being true. In fact we used say that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story was that a fairy tale begins ...read more

  • The Power Of A  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    The Power of a Christ Centered Ministry In Galatians chapter five the apostle Paul writes about the fruit that comes out of mankind. First there are those who produce fruit that comes by living according to the sinful nature and second, there is fruit that is produced as one lives under the ...read more

  • Deformed Foot Straightened By Long-Term Painful ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
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    Deformed Foot Straightened by Long-term Painful Pressure In Paul’s life he did face suffering for Christ - Colossians 1:24: "Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body’s sake, which is the Church." None of us ...read more

  • When God Shows Up

    Contributed by Kerry Haynes on Feb 3, 2019
    based on 2 ratings
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    I just finished reading a book called, “The Shack.” I read it about ten years ago, and something made me read it again, and I’m so glad I did. I commend it to you as a book that captures the very essence of a God who wants nothing more than to have a loving relationship with you. What an incredible ...read more

  • A Good-Looking Society Woman Was Invited To An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dawn Marie Turner on Nov 2, 2004
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     | 8,741 views

    A good-looking society woman was invited to an expensive fund-raising dinner in New York City. She was seated next to a wealthy lawyer. During the meal, they had a chance to get to know each other and were having a good time. When the meal was finished, the lawyer leaned over and asked the woman if ...read more

  • In His Book "One Lord, One Faith," Author Rex ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Nov 16, 2001
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,610 views

    In his book "One Lord, One Faith," author Rex Koivisto warns: We cannot read into the [biblical] text some meaning if it conflicts with the writer’s intended meaning. [For example,] in the early 1960’s the folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary sang a song about a young boy’s ...read more

  • There Was A College Girl Who Wrote This Letter ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There was a college girl who wrote this letter to her Dad: Dear Dad, Sorry I haven’t written sooner. My arm really has been broken. I broke it, and my left leg, when I jumped from the second floor of my dormitory . . . when we had the fire. We were lucky. A young service station attendant saw the ...read more

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

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,485 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

  • By Life Or By Death

    Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
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    ILLUSTRATION: BY LIFE OR BY DEATH John Piper, in his book, “Future Grace”, reprinted a letter by Carl Lundquist, former president of Bethel College and Seminary. In 1988, the doctors told him he had a rare form of cancer which invaded the skin over his entire body and ended his life three years ...read more

  • John Piper Compares The Gift Of Teaching To The ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 29, 2007
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    John Piper compares the gift of teaching to the gift of prophecy: "And yet, even though the gift of teaching is fallible and even though it lacks intrinsic, divine authority, we know it is of immense value to the church. We are all edified and built up by gifted teachers. God is in it. He does use ...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

  • 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