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  • According To The Bureau Of Standards In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2005
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    According to the Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., a dense fog covering seven city blocks to a height of 100 feet is composed of less that one glass of water. That amount of water is divided into about 60 billion tiny droplets. Yet when those minute particles settle over a city or the ...read more

  • Death Was Walking Toward A City, And A Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Death was walking toward a city, and a man stopped Death and asked “what are yo going to do?” “I’m going to kill 10,000 people today” Death said. The man ran ahead to the the city. He warned everybody he passed that Death was coming and what he was going to do. At then end of the day, he again met ...read more

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  • If I Didn't Hope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I wouldn’t go fishing if I didn’t HOPE to catch something or if I didn’t think I would catch something. I wouldn’t spend long hours preparing sermons if I didn’t HOPE to get some results from some people. And I guess I wouldn’t go to church if I didn’t HOPE to gain something. Perhaps that’s ...read more

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  • There Are Two (2) African Tribes Who Have An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There are two (2) African tribes who have an unusual way of expressing thanks One of them, the Masai tribe, a pastoral and hunting people of Kenya and Tanzania, West Africa, bow and put their foreheads on the ground, and say, "My head is in the dirt." The other tribe, whose name I do not know, sit ...read more

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  • The Story Is Told Of A Little Girl Who Was ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 29, 2007
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    The story is told of a little girl who was touring a large, ornate cathedral which had "saints" pictured in the elaborate stained glass windows. She asked her father, "Daddy, who are those people?" And he responded, "Honey, those are saints, do you know what a saint is?" She thought for a moment ...read more

    Denomination: Christian Church

  • History Records A Remarkable Account Of The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 24, 2007
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    History records a remarkable account of the destruction of an ancient town. The watchmen on the walls would call out whenever they thought they saw a foe approaching. Sensing that the people had begun to resent them for giving these false alarms, they decided to remain quiet. Regrettably, not ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • When A Worker At An At&t Building In San Jose, ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on May 19, 2009
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    When a worker at an AT&T building in San Jose, California, took it upon herself to clean out an office refrigerator during her lunch hour Tuesday, the smell from the moldy food was so noxious that it sent 28 of her co-workers to the hospital and prompted the evacuation of all 325 people in the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • When I Was In Seminary, I Heard An Illustration ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 7, 2010
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    When I was in seminary, I heard an illustration that has stuck with me over the years. It began with a question, “Whose holding your trampoline?” The image there is of a group a people stationed around the sides of the trampoline to keep you from falling off. The purpose of the question was to have ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • We Need A Guide, Not Guidance

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 6, 2011
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    WE NEED A GUIDE, NOT GUIDANCE I opened a concordance to look up the word "guidance," expecting to find a long list of verses promising guidance from God. Guidance wasn’t there, but instead the word "guide" and a number of verses promising that God Himself would be the guide of His people. ...read more

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  • An Image Of Themselves

    Contributed by David Parks on Feb 21, 2012
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    AN IMAGE OF THEMSELVES Have you heard of the controversial exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Art? It is the Rembrandt and the Face of Christ exhibit. Rembrandt’s depictions of Jesus were even more controversial in the 17th century. His familiarity with the Jewish community in his native ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Christian Priesthood  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 1, 2013
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    From R. Paul Stevens: Christian priesthood is not a matter of being religious and Mr. Goody two shoes but of serving God and God’s purposes in the nitty gritty everydayness of life in the world, not a matter of sacred times and sacred places but ordinary times and ordinary places, not a matter ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Let It Out

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    LET IT OUT Only 15% of Americans say they let their feelings out often, although 80% believe it is healthy to do so. A national study reveals 63% of Americans think people are too bottled-up when it comes to their emotions. 40% let it out in the average week and 11% can’t even remember the last ...read more

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  • They Pray At A Level Americans Would Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    "They pray at a level Americans would not believe," says Chad Hammond, Busan Franklin Graham Festival director, who witnessed more than 325,000 Koreans fill Busan Asiad Stadium during the 10/07 evangelistic event. Throughout the weeks ahead of the event, more than 1,000 people gathered daily at ...read more

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  • Did You Ask?

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Jun 13, 2008
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    DID YOU ASK? There is an old story about how the University of Chicago received a million-dollar grant from the heiress of a major department store. She had been a student at Northwest. So, administrators of Northwest went to visit her and asked why she had not made such a gift to her alma mater. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Credit Card ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    CREDIT CARD CRISES Americans are drowning in debt. Consumers have racked up more than $2.2 trillion in purchases and cash advances on major credit cards in just the last year. And it’s become a habit for them to spend more than they have. The overall credit card debt grew by 315% from 1989 to ...read more

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  • In Experiencing God, Knowing And Doing The Will ...

    Contributed by Steve Gallimore on Dec 14, 2008
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    In Experiencing God, Knowing and Doing the Will of God, Henry Blackaby makes this powerful statement: "The Bible is the record of God accomplishing His purposes through His people. It is not the record of His people's walk with Him. It's a difference of focus. The focus of the Bible is God. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • The Great Secret

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    THE GREAT SECRET As a third-century man was near death, he penned these last words to a friend: "It's a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy, which is a thousand times better than ...read more

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  • Is Your Church A Church Of Bones?

    Contributed by Jay Mccluskey on Jan 29, 2009
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    IS YOUR CHURCH A CHURCH OF BONES? In the town of Sedlec in the Czech Republic, there is a famous cemetery that dates back to the 13th century. Some 40,000 people who died from the Black Plague in the 14th century and in the Hussite wars in the beginning of the 15th century were buried there. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • 68% Of Muslims In Predominantly Islamic ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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    68% of Muslims in predominantly Islamic countries view the American people as ...read more

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  • 68% Of Muslims In Predominantly Islamic Countries ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    68% of Muslims in predominantly Islamic countries view the American people as ...read more