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  • To Have Strong Relationships In The Body Of ...

    Contributed by Alan Tison on Feb 27, 2008
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    To have strong relationships in the body of Christ we must deal with our brokenness. How do we deal with brokenness? Individually – Realize we are all broken people. In many stores you find merchandise in a certain section marked with a 2 word phrase. This 2 word phrase is a is a tip off about ...read more

  • Many Of You Here This Morning Know The Story Of ...

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Apr 1, 2008
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    Many of you here this morning know the story of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the American forces in the Philippines when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 and launched their assault on the Philippine Islands later that day. When all hope of saving the Philippines was ...read more

  • Public Opinion

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    PUBLIC OPINION Some of you may have seen the joke that circulated this week on e-mail that tries to explain why Moses and the Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years. The punch line of the e-mail read, "Even then, men would not stop for directions." While this may not really explain ...read more

  • God's Hand Upon Our President, Pt. ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    “God’s Hand Upon Our President, Pt. 1” Proverbs 21:1 says; “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD; He directs it like a watercourse wherever He pleases.” Proverbs 21 is a powerful truth that must be grasped so Christians may pray in faith that God is fully able to put into effect His ...read more

  • Questions On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    QUESTIONS ON SUFFERING Steven Curtis Chapman is one of the best known singer-songwriters of contemporary Christian music. Over the last 15 or 20 years, his songs have blessed millions of people. Recently tragedy struck the Chapman home, and Michelle Malkin wrote about it: “Steven Curtis Chapman’s ...read more

  • In The Nineteenth ...

    Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
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    In the nineteenth century, lighthouses on the U.S. coasts were tended by lighthouse keepers and their families. If a man who tended the light became disabled, often the work was picked up by his wife or children. Such was the case of Hosea Lewis. In 1853 he became the keeper of the light on ...read more

  • The Gift Nobody Wants

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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    The Gift Nobody Wants In 1999 Dr Paul Brand and Philip Yancey co-wrote a book called "Pain: the Gift Nobody Wants." Dr Brand was born in India to missionary parents, and has spent most of his life caring for people with leprosy. One of Dr Brand's greatest discoveries was that people with leprosy ...read more

  • World Vs. U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    WORLD VS. U.S. POVERTY A few centuries ago, four-fifths of the French spent 90 percent of their income for food. With only what you and I consider a marginal tip to a waitress, they had to provide for all of their other needs. Europe had been in that condition for thousands of years. Until recent ...read more

  • Loving Without Agreeing  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    LOVING WITHOUT AGREEING We can love others without totally agreeing with them. Often love is worked out by agreeing to disagree. We can offer love and care for people who are different from us and people we don’t agree with. This fact is illustrated by a true story that took place in the state of ...read more

  • Dependent On God

    Contributed by Sidney Sumida on Oct 6, 2009
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    DEPENDENT ON GOD In the past few decades, there were some huge storms that hit our nation of which were Hurricane Pamela, and Hurricane Katrina, to name a few... (and, yes, not to bias about gender, there was big bad Hurricane Andrew, too). Here in the islands, we have had our share of storms as ...read more

  • Prejudice Comes From An Unclean ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
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    Prejudice Comes from an Unclean Heart I like this thought posted by Mike Atkinson in his daily email humor list some time ago. If you can start the day without caffeine; if you can get going without pep pills; if you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains; if you can resist complaining ...read more

  • Here's Some Common Sense That Doesn't Sound ...

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Oct 24, 2009
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    Here’s some common sense that doesn’t sound especially biblical, but it has some really good biblical foundations. Consider these quotes from “The Wisdom of Cowboys”: • A cowboy would say, “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” Now this is from ...read more

  • Object Lesson: Energy Drinks

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 12, 2010
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    OBJECT LESSON: ENERGY DRINKS (Show the energy drink.)This drink has energy in it, and when you drink, it is released into your body. (Take a drink of the energy drink!) Energy drinks are soft drinks advertised as providing energy to improve physical activity of the drinker, as compared to a ...read more

  • Tending Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
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    Tending Your Garden Suppose 2 women were planting a vegetable garden. On the same day, they prepared the earth and planted their seeds. One then neglected her garden and waited for her vegetables to grow. The other woman worked in her garden regularly. She put cages around the young tomato plants, ...read more

  • He Writhed On The Floor While Men And Women ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Mar 6, 2010
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    He writhed on the floor while men and women gathered around him hurling their prayers. That’s the best way I can describe it. "Come out in Jesus name!" they said, and he writhed all the more as if in pain, and certainly in turmoil. The voices rose, "Come out you unclean spirit!" I had been ...read more

  • Reason Why Helicopter Pilot Stopped A Massacre In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2010
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    Reason Why Helicopter Pilot Stopped a Massacre in Vietnam I would like to close with another quote from Thomas Long, who relates an illustration that many of us hear this morning can recall. Long writes, and I quote: “The school where I teach gave an honorary degree several years ago to a man named ...read more

  • Music To Raise The Dead

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 10, 2010
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    "MUSIC TO RAISE THE DEAD", an album from a Christian Rock group called Resurrection startled the Christian world with it's intensity in the 1970's. They did this in a day when many conservative pastors and evangelists actively thundered their warnings from the pulpit against the evils of rock music ...read more

  • Not Success But Faithfulness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2010
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    NOT SUCCESS BUT FAITHFULNESS Jordan was a man of unusual abilities and commitment. He had two Ph.D.s, one in agriculture and the other in Greek and Hebrew. He was so gifted he could have chosen to do anything he wanted. He chose to serve the poor. In the 1940s, he founded a farm in Americus, ...read more

  • The Modern Rich Man

    Contributed by Sajeev Painunkal, Sj on Oct 30, 2010
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    A popular story recounts a meeting that may have taken place at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago in 1923. There is debate whether the meeting in fact occurred, but what is not in question is the actual rise and fall of the men featured in the story, who were nine of the richest men in the world ...read more

  • Salvation From The Rubble

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 28, 2011
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    SALVATION FROM THE RUBBLE The September 11, 2002 issues of TIME magazine has a touching article about 31-year old Genelle Guzman. Genelle was the last of just four people caught in the debris of the Twin Towers to be found alive. After the planes hit the World Trade Center, Genelle was ...read more