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  • When God Says...what?

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 14, 2014
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    A young preacher in Ft. Worth, Texas was trying to make an impression on a Pastor Search Team who had come to his church to hear him preach. The young man was preaching on the time in the Old Testament when God had enough with His disobedient people and finally said to them, "Ichabod!", which ...read more

  • Is Your God Too Small?

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 28, 2014
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    IS YOUR GOD TOO SMALL? "If God were small enough to be UNDERSTOOD........He would not be big enough to ...read more

  • Cotton Pickin' Son Of God

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 28, 2014
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    We were having our weekly AWANA meeting at our church when something really funny happened. The children were sharing their Bible verse for the week -- John 3:16. One of our little boys was struggling with remembering the words. He was asked, "Can’t you remember John 3:16?" The boy struggled to ...read more

  • William Temple On Worshiping God

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Feb 6, 2014
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    WILLIAM TEMPLE ON WORSHIPING GOD A devout Saint (William Temple) summed up worship thus: "Worshiping God is nothing but opening our hearts to the love of God, quickening our conscience to the Holiness of God, purging our imagination with the beauty of God, ...read more

  • Does Your God Bleed?  PRO

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Mar 4, 2014
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    DOES YOUR GOD BLEED? A little boy went up to a missionary Sunday School leader in another country. The boy said, "I like what you say about the God of the Bible but I can’t see him. But if I go to the temple I can see my God." The missionary said to the little boy, "Son, may I ask you a ...read more

  • All God Has: A Testimony  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jun 30, 2014
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    The day I turned 18, I left home. I had saved some money, and despite my parents' strong objections, I packed a few things in my Volkswagen and headed for California. Just outside of Needles, California, a man at a rest stop pulled a gun, took my wallet, and drove off with my car. I had not been in ...read more

  • God Will Go Before You!

    Contributed by Bala Samson on Oct 17, 2014
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    I will go ahead of you! Exodus 17:6”Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink..” I simply love these words! God would go before us to prepare the place of miracle! Moses struck the rock but ...read more

  • God Communicates Through Dreams

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 28, 2015
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    God still speaks in dreams today. In the second year of serving at Gretna, I had a dream that the 2 acres next door where a pediatrician’s office was located was going to be sold and become townhouses. The owner Dr. Jerry Fortino attended the WestBank Rotary Club which met at the church every ...read more

  • God Is My Co-Pilot

    Contributed by Gordon Douglas on Mar 4, 2008
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    GOD IS MY CO-PILOT - A few years ago someone coined the phrase, God is my co-pilot. There were bumper stickers available… other types of signs. Having flown a lot I never did fully understand that phrase. Do you know what the co-pilot does? He takes over when everything is going well… Or he ...read more

  • God Will Often Allow Crises Into ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 29, 2008
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    Illustration: God will often allow crises into our lives to show us where we put our confidence. There was a farmer who one day went happily and with great joy in his heart to report to his wife and family that their best cow had given birth to twin calves, one red and one white. And he said, “You ...read more

  • Deliverance Showed God's Protection

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    DELIVERANCE SHOWED GOD'S PROTECTION (V. 28a) God spared Joseph’s life, and through these adverse circumstances, that are recorded in our text, God is overseeing his safety. This is the sovereign purpose of God at work. The Midianites and the Ishmeelites only saw Joseph as a business opportunity ...read more

  • The Spirit Of God Is Always The Spirit Of ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Apr 17, 2008
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    The Spirit of God is always the spirit of liberty; the spirit that is not of God is the spirit of bondage, the spirit of oppression and depression. The Spirit of God convicts vividly and tensely, but He is always the Spirit of liberty. God who made the birds never made birdcages; it is men who make ...read more

  • What God Can Do

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 17, 2008
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    WHAT GOD CAN DO A young boy traveling by airplane to visit his grandparents sat beside a man who happened to be a seminary professor. The boy was reading a Sunday school take-home paper when the professor thought he would have some fun with the lad. "Young man," said the professor, "If you can ...read more

  • God Gave Me The Light

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 22, 2008
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    GOD GAVE ME THE LIGHT I remember back when I graduated from college and was beginning to interview for ministry positions. I was being looked at by three churches, but I wanted God to be able to guide in where I would go, so I agreed to go to the first church that would give me the official call. ...read more

  • We Should Praise God

    Contributed by Tom Shepard on Dec 6, 2006
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    WE SHOULD PRAISE GOD I heard someone say recently that if the only thing God has done in our lives is to save us – we should praise God from the rising of the sun through the darkness of the night. But He has done so much more for us than that. He has given you the sense of taste – so that you ...read more

  • Finding God's Will With A Mentalist: Pick A ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 9, 2008
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    Finding God’s will with a mentalist: Pick a number between one and ten. Multiply that number by two. Add eight to the new number. Divide that number by two. Now subtract your original number from this result. Remember that number. If ...read more

  • Intro: Why God Made ...

    Contributed by N A on May 12, 2008
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    INTRO: WHY GOD MADE MOMS: Answers given by 2nd grade school children: Why did God make mothers? 1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is. 2. Mostly to clean the house. 3. To help us out of there when we were getting born. How did God make mothers? 1. He used dirt, just like ...read more

  • God Knows His Own

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    GOD KNOWS HIS OWN The guillemot is a small arctic sea bird that lives on the rocky cliffs of northern coastal regions. These birds flock together by the thousands in comparatively small areas. Because of the crowded conditions, hundreds of females lay their pear-shaped eggs side by side on a ...read more

  • Loneliness Affects Belief In God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    LONELINESS AFFECTS BELIEF IN GOD People who feel lonely or isolated are more likely to believe in God and the supernatural, according to University of Chicago researcher Nicholas Epley. Lonely people try to create social connections by reaching out to old friends, making new ones, or believing in ...read more

  • Man's Anger Toward God

    Contributed by Clarence Clough on Aug 7, 2008
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    MAN'S ANGER TOWARD GOD ...is more disastrous than the following: As a passenger boarded the Los Angeles-to-New York plane, he told the flight attendant to wake him and make sure he got off in Dallas. The passenger awoke just as the plane was landing in New York. Furious, he called the flight ...read more