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  • A New Movie

    Contributed by William Huegel on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,833 views

    A new movie There is a new Christian movie out called “The End of the Spear”. It is the story of five young missionaries who were killed trying to reach the Auca Indians in the jungles of South America with the Gospel. All five of these courageous and faith-filled young men were speared to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Napoleon's Genius Had Been Attributed To Many ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,510 views

    Napoleon’s genius had been attributed to many things, but, above all, he was a superb natural leader of men. Like any wise leader he was aware that his own success would have been nothing had his men not been willing, even eager, to follow him. Obviously he could not know and personally inspire ...read more

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  • Eliminate The Little Sins

    Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Apr 12, 2006
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    Eliminate the Little Sins (7) When a person becomes a Christian, he usually undergoes some radical life changes, especially if he has had an immoral background. Through the first steps of spiritual growth and self-denial, he gets rid of the large, obvious sins. But sad to say, many believers stop ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

  • I Have Heard Evangelist David Ring Speak ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 9, 2006
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     | 3,461 views

    I have heard Evangelist David Ring speak numerous times. David is a shining example of an individual suffering from a human weakness, a thorn if you will, but with God’s help used that weakness to preach the Gospel. David was born October 28, 1953 and suffered from cerebral palsy. David said ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • Calvin Coolidge Was The 30th President Of The ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jul 28, 2006
     | 1,252 views

    Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States. He was born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872. And he served as President from 1923-1929. Both his dry wit and brevity with words became legendary. His wife, Grace, told of the time when a young woman was sitting next to Coolidge at ...read more

    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Will Rogers Was Known For His Laughter, But He ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 14, 2006
     | 1,481 views

    “Will Rogers was known for his laughter, but he also knew how to weep. One day he was entertaining at the Milton H. Berry Institute in Los Angeles, a hospital that specialized in rehabilitating polio victims and people with broken backs and other extreme physical handicaps. Of course, Rogers had ...read more

  • God's Word Directs Us In Malachi That In Order To ...

    Contributed by Captain David Kauffman on Nov 4, 2006
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    God’s Word directs us in Malachi that in order to “stop” the cycle of withholding we must “release” those things we hold of value. To borrow a phrase form a 1980’s fire awareness TV commercial I say we must STOP, DROP, and ROLL! If we can liken our “hurts” to a fire: It consumes absolutely – ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • When Jesus Does Not Meet Our Expectations We End ...

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Dec 28, 2006
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    When Jesus does not meet our expectations we end up going back to what is most important to us. For some of us it is sex. We stop being moral people or we leave our marriages to get as many sexual encounters as we can. Others it is like Judas it is money. God has failed so I will get as much ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • In Our Era, Sociologically, Man Destroyed The ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jan 12, 2007
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    “In our era, sociologically, man destroyed the base which gave him the possibility of freedoms without chaos. Humanists have been determined to beat to death the knowledge of God and the knowledge that God has not been silent, but has spoken in the Bible and through Christ – and they have been ...read more

    Denomination: Orthodox

  • Behind The Scenes Of An Arizona Circus, Bobb ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
     | 1,364 views

    Behind the scenes of an Arizona circus, Bobb Biehl started chatting with a man who trains animals for Hollywood movies: " ’How is it that you can stake down a ten-ton elephant with the same size stake that you use for this little fellow?’ I asked, pointing to a baby elephant who weighed three ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Lieghton Ford Tells This Story Of A Crusade With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,203 views

    Lieghton Ford tells this story of a crusade with Billy Gtraham. I was speaking at an open-air crusade in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Billy Graham was to speak the next night and had arrived a day early. He came incognito and sat on the grass at the rear of the crowd. Because he was wearing a hat and dark ...read more

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  • Every Christian Ought To Be Ready To Stand Up ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 18 ratings
     | 5,690 views

    Every Christian ought to be ready to stand up courageously and unashamedly for the Lord. How inconsistent that a person redeemed by the blood of Christ experiencing saving power should cower before an unbelieving world On one occasion Frederick the Great invited some notable people to his royal ...read more

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  • Reporters And City Officials Gathered At A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Reporters and city officials gathered at a Chicago railroad station one afternoon in 1953. The person they were meeting was the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner. A few minutes after the train came to a stop, a giant of a man - six feet four inches with bushy hair and a large mustache stepped from the ...read more

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  • We Use That Word Believe For Everything And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,524 views

    We use that word believe for everything and anything. But in the Bible believe means two things. It means to accept something as being true and it means to trust. For example, of all the people who have ever crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope the most spectacular has to be that person who was ...read more

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  • The People There Were A Labor Of Love For Paul, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,935 views

    The people there were a labor of love for Paul, and now, it looked like things might fall apart because of some insignificant argument or offense. Have you ever been there? You’ve put your heart and soul into some project or person, and something so small that it goes unnoticed or ignored gets in ...read more

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  • Behind The Scenes Of An Arizona Circus, Bobb ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 1,592 views

    Behind the scenes of an Arizona circus, Bobb Biehl started chatting with a man who trains animals for Hollywood movies: " ’How is it that you can stake down a ten-ton elephant with the same size stake that you use for this little fellow?’ I asked, pointing to a baby elephant who weighed three ...read more

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  • George W. Truett  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,293 views

    George W. Truett George W. Truett, a well-know pastor in Texas, was invited to dinner at the home of a very wealthy Texas man. After the meal, the host led him to a place where they could get a good view of the surrounding area. • Pointing to the oil wells covering the landscape, the Texan ...read more

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  • As Time Passed, However, The Inevitable ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,019 views

    As time passed, however, the inevitable occurred. They began to lose and lose and lose. The blame fell, at least in part, not on Coach George Allen, but on a quarterback named Sonny Jurgenson, in my opinion one of the most gifted and effective quarterbacks to ever play the game. Jurgenson possesses ...read more

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  • Several Years Ago An Eastern Paper Reported This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 3,766 views

    Several years ago an eastern paper reported this story: One evening a woman was driving home when she noticed a huge truck behind her that was driving uncomfortably close. She stepped on the gas to gain some distance from the truck, but when she sped up, the truck did too. The faster she drive, the ...read more

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  • A Curious Fellow Died One Day And Found Himself ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,844 views

    A curious fellow died one day and found himself waiting in the long line of judgment. As he stood there he noticed that some souls were allowed to march right through the pearly gates into heaven. Others, though, were led over to Satan who threw them into the burning pit. But every so often, ...read more

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