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  • Remember To Look At The Possibilities In The Area ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 24, 2007
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    Remember to look at the possibilities in the area you see. (You see some things but don’t actually look at them.) We used the FedEx logo during our Gripped For Greatness campaign last year. We asked if you saw all you were looking at. Between the last two letters of FedEx you can see an arrow ...read more

  • Stalled Engine  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 12, 2007
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    Stalled Engine There is no situation I can get into that God cannot get me out of. Some years ago a man was learning to fly. The flight instructor told him to put the plane into a steep and extended dive. The student was totally unprepared for what was about to happen. After a brief time the engine ...read more

  • My Family Is Different Than Many Of Yours. My ...

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Dec 13, 2007
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    My family is different than many of yours. My parents hate my work and hate my relationship with Christ. As long as I never say anything, they will tolerate it but I can’t keep quiet about Christ. Since I became a Christian back around 2000, I have had to live with the fact that I was no longer ...read more

  • As A Boy, Larry Crabb Stuttered But Now He Is A ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 19, 2008
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    As a boy, Larry Crabb stuttered but now he is a popular speaker and psychologist. He recalls one time as a young man when felt pressure by expectation to pray out loud because that was the tradition of his church. In a terribly confused prayer, he recalled “thanking the Father for hanging on the ...read more

  • Writing In Leadership Magazine, Bernabe Spivey ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Mar 30, 2008
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    Writing in LEADERSHIP MAGAZINE, Bernabe Spivey relates this incident: “Going down some old cement steps, I noticed an ant carrying a leaf on its back. The leave was many times bigger than the ant. Then the ant came to a big crack in the cement that it couldn’t cross. The ant stopped a moment. ...read more

  • Preferences – Being A Disciple Of Christ Also ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Preferences – Being a disciple of Christ also means that you deny, you forgo, you give up many of your preferences for Christ. Before anything that is truly of God can be born, your own preferences have to die. Your desire to serve or lead in this type of church or that, has to be laid on the altar ...read more

  • In An Article In "Guidepost Magazine," Corrie Ten ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    IN AN ARTICLE IN "GUIDEPOST MAGAZINE," CORRIE TEN BOOM TOLD OF NOT BEING ABLE TO FORGET A WRONG THAT HAD BEEN DONE TO HER. SHE HAD FORGIVEN THE PERSON, BUT SHE KEPT REHASHING THE INCIDENT AND SO, COULDN’T SLEEP. FINALLY CORRIE CRIED OUT TO GOD FOR HELP. GOD’S HELP CAME IN THE FORM OF A KINDLY ...read more

  • The Priority Of God

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 1, 2008
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    THE PRIORITY OF GOD Priorities are an issue in the church today, and David Wilkerson addresses this issue with the following thought from his most recent newslatter: "A priority is the importance you place on something. And Christians who neglect prayer have perverted their priorities! Many ...read more

  • Thus When Paul Talks About Christ Washing The ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 12, 2008
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    Thus when Paul talks about Christ washing the church there is a definite connotation baptism through the pouring out of water and then another connection through the spirit of God that is poured out. Therefore men we are to be the source for the women in our lives. We are to be the source of life. ...read more

  • If There Is One Thing God Wants Of Us Very ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 13, 2008
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    If there is one thing God wants of us very desperately in these days, that one thing is RELATIONSHIP. I sincerely believe God wants to renew our relationship with him and is looking to bridge the distance between us. For some, the first step of bridging the distance is having a relationship with ...read more

  • Some Will Be Saved. And We Must Keep Trying To ...

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 16, 2008
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    *Some will be saved. And we must keep trying to reach them, even though many will reject the message, just like they did here in Acts 28:24. *Wray Ivey was one of my mentors when we lived in Macon. He was our pastor at First Baptist Church in Macon, and a great guy. One Tuesday night Wray and I ...read more

  • Bernard Ebbers, Head Of Worldcom, Was Known As ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 7, 2008
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    Bernard Ebbers, head of WorldCom, was known as one of the most religious CEO’s in the high-tech sector of American business. Every board meeting began with a prayer. Ebbers served as a deacon in his Mississippi Baptist church, and led a bible study very competently. He was elected to the ...read more

  • The Visit

    Contributed by Todd Leupold on Dec 9, 2008
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    THE VISIT As Dr. Charles B. Hardwick points out (in his sermon “The Promise”, 2nd Presbyterian Church, 12/24/07): "On that Silent Night, God kept His promise: the God of the universe became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood – moved into a stable, moved into a feeding trough.. . God ...read more

  • Dying To Save Her Father

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
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    DYING TO SAVE HER FATHER The great Charles Spurgeon told a story that demonstrated a person’s concern for an unsaved family member. A rather young girl in Spurgeon’s congregation who had a terminal illness approached her pastor one day with thoughts about her upcoming funeral. She spoke of her ...read more

  • Bible Literate

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    BIBLE LITERATE Americans are among the world’s most ’Bible-literate’ people with Spaniards, French and Italians among the least, claims a Catholic Biblical Federation study. The 9-country poll (U.S., Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Italy, Spain and Poland) found Americans are ...read more

  • Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman Told Of A Distinguished ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Feb 25, 2009
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    Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman told of a distinguished minister, Dr. Howard, from Australia who preached very strongly on the subject of SIN. After the service, one of the church deacons came to counsel with him in the study. "Dr. Howard," he said, "we don’t want you to talk as openly as you do about man’s ...read more

  • When Dr. Stephen Olford Was Pastor Of The ...

    Contributed by Tony Klinedinst on Mar 16, 2009
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    ILLUS: When Dr. Stephen Olford was pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in New York City he had the opportunity of leading his brother who had been an agnostic most of his life to the Lord, as he lay in the hospital desperately ill. One day Dr. Olford was called to come to the hospital quickly and ...read more

  • The Practice Of ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 6, 2009
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    The Practice of Restitution. Do those lofty ideals ever get put into practice? Yes, by specific individuals. Years ago we had in this church a man who had been saved after beginning to attend here. He was serious about Christ and had a strong desire to witness for Christ. The apostle Peter gave a ...read more

  • Does He Show Through?

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 3, 2009
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    DOES HE SHOW THROUGH? One Sunday as they drove home from church, a little girl turned to her mother & said, "Mommy, there’s something about the preacher’s message this morning that I don’t understand." The mother said, "Oh? What is it?" The little girl replied, "Well, he said that God is ...read more

  • Community Stores Refuse Kind Acts Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2009
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    Community Stores Refuse Kind Acts of Service The story is told of a minister who was organizing opportunities for people in his church to do small acts of kindness as a demonstration of Christ’s love in the community. 1. He phoned several neighborhood grocery stores and Laundromats and asked for ...read more