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  • On The Enemy: Be Encouraged

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jul 7, 2008
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    ON THE ENEMY: BE ENCOURAGED 1. When the devil brings up your past, bring up his future. 2. The man who is fully surrendered to the Lord will never deliberately surrender to the Enemy. 3. When adversity is most ready to strike us, God is most ready to strengthen us. 4. The devil is an equal ...read more

  • Like Father, Like Son

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 9, 2008
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    LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Among the more than 3,000 Americans who have received the Congressional Medal of Honor, there is one father/son combination. The father won it for a single act of bravery in a crucial battle of the Civil War. By the time he retired in 1909, he was the ranking officer in the ...read more

  • Even Before You Pray, God ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    EVEN BEFORE YOU PRAY, GOD WORKS Dr. Helen Roseveare, missionary to Zaire, told the following story. "A mother at our mission station died after giving birth to a premature baby. We tried to improvise an incubator to keep the infant alive, but the only hot water bottle we had was beyond repair. So ...read more

  • Even Lost Boys Overcome

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Aug 7, 2008
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    EVEN LOST BOYS OVERCOME Between 1983 and 2003, so many Christians were killed in the Sudanese Civil War that a whole community of orphaned children arose who have become known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. Lopez Lomong was one of those boys. At six years old, he was kidnapped from his parents at ...read more

  • In One Of My Sources, I Read This About The ‘wise ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 27, 2008
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    In one of my sources, I read this about the ‘wise men’ and some of it was news to me! "Not much is known about these astrologers (traditionally called wise men). We don't know where they came from or how many there were. Tradition says they were men of high position from Parthia, near the site of ...read more

  • N India This Week (Early Oct., 2008), Here Is The ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 15, 2008
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    n India this week (early Oct., 2008), here is the latest: "Christians feel unsafe even under government protection, and are leaving the refugee camps to escape to other areas of India. In Kandhamal, the destruction has continued for more than a month. Bhubaneshwar (AsiaNews) - About 12,000 people ...read more

  • God Blesses Christian Parents

    Contributed by Eric Hanson on Nov 17, 2008
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    GOD BLESSES CHRISTIAN PARENTS How wonderful for children to have parents who are truly "in the Lord." They will be able to honor such men and women, thus activating the promise mentioned in verse 3. Nancy’s Grandparents took her Grandfather’s mother into their home and cared for her when she ...read more

  • Joseph Was Despised Because Of His Birth. (Cf. V. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    Joseph was despised because of his Birth. (cf. V. 3) He was born a favored son when he was born to Rachel. It also was not Joseph’s fault that he was being despised because of who he was born to, and also when he was born. PRACTICAL APPLICATION: We are only born once, physically and all have the ...read more

  • Christmas Night 2002, Jack Whittaker Had Five Out ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
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    Christmas night 2002, Jack Whittaker had five out of five numbers in the West Virginia Power ball drawing. Jack Whittaker had just won $314 million, the largest undivided lottery jackpot in history. He took the one lump payment and received $113 million after taxes. Listen closely to this part. ...read more

  • The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    THE PUSH A man and his wife are awakened at 3 o’clock in the morning by a loud pounding on their door. The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger in the pouring rain is asking for a push. "Not a chance!" says the husband. "It’s three o’clock in the morning!" He slams the door ...read more

  • Marriage Conflict And Forklifts  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Harlow on May 13, 2009
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    MARRIAGE CONFLICT AND FORKLIFTS Ephesians 4:26 says, "In your anger do not sin." Best story I read on this, as I was doing research this week, was about a woman who attacked her house with a forklift. This is the news report: Diane Fittipaldi, 2013 Sunset Lane, told Municipal Court Judge Levi ...read more

  • Spiritual Fruit: "This Has Been Plastered"  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    SPIRITUAL FRUIT: "THIS HAS BEEN PLASTERED" Benjamin Franklin learned that plaster sown in the fields would make things grow. He told his neighbors, but they did not believe him and they argued with him trying to prove that plaster could be of no use at all to grass or grain. After a little while, ...read more

  • Christian Love Impacts A Heartless World  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
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    CHRISTIAN LOVE IMPACTS A HEARTLESS WORLD We live in a heartless world. The last United States census missed at least 5.7 million people who were anonymous even to the census takers. Every year thousands of unidentified and even unidentifiable bodies are found across North America. And only one out ...read more

  • Lifebelt Inspected By Mother Saves ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    Lifebelt Inspected by Mother Saves Son During World War II, Signalman 3rd Class Elgin Staples, was swept overboard in the wee hours of the morning when the Astoria’s gun turret exploded. Fortunately, he had been able to activate the narrow lifebelt. He was pulled from the ocean four hours later, ...read more

  • Rare Copy Of Declaration Of Independence ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009
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    Rare Copy of Declaration of Independence Discovered at Garage Sale As Stan Caffy and his fiancé prepared to get married, they cleaned out their respective garages and sold everything to Goodwill. Between the two of them, they sold an assortment of clothes, bicycles, tools, computer parts, and a ...read more

  • The Jewish People Tried To Work Around Some Of ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 9, 2009
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    The Jewish people tried to work around some of the commands of the Torah that could not be practically enforced once the Jewish nation was no longer sovereign. One of those commands was the Sabbath Year. All debts were to be cancelled, but, under Roman rule, this could not work economically for ...read more

  • Don't Leave Out Any Ingredients In The Recipe For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    Don’t Leave Out Any Ingredients in the Recipe for Life I heard something unusual a few years ago. In the Eastern part of the U.S. a cookbook was recalled. Now, I’ve never heard of a cookbook being recalled before. I’ve heard of automobiles being recalled, & toasters & baby seats. But I had never ...read more

  • How To Build A Ladder To Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
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    How To Build A Ladder To Your Dreams Years ago a young African-American child was growing up in Cleveland, in a home which he later described as "materially poor but spiritually rich." One day a famous athlete, Charlie Paddock, came to his school to speak to the students. At the time Paddock was ...read more

  • Only A Full View Will Do  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    Only a Full View Will Do But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord [2Cor. 3:18]. I wish I had spent more time looking in the "mirror," beholding Him more. In the Word of God we ...read more

  • A Grain Alone Or With Many ...

    Contributed by Mark Pierce on May 25, 2010
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    A grain alone or with many others? STORY OF ONE GRAIN OF WHEAT: Farmer plows soil, digs shallow trenches, but must drop only one grain of seed at a time. Still true. Farmers pull a “grain drill.” Notched wheel drops seed through tube exactly one grain at a time. Single grain gathers moisture ...read more