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  • This Is Just A Commercial Brake: I Remember The ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Apr 3, 2007
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    This is just a commercial brake: I remember the church where I was youth leader. None of the 12 members of the board but me were under 60. And I came before them with a proposal. "Give me the permission and several Bibles to go door to door around the tires factory where I worked for a while. I’ll ...read more

  • There Is A Story Told That Is Totally ...

    Contributed by Jeffrey Dillinger on Apr 21, 2007
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     | 1,998 views

    There is a story told that is totally fictitious, but the point is true. The story is that when Jesus went back up into Heaven, the angel Gabriel had a conversation with Jesus. This is just an illustration. He asked Jesus, “What happened while you down on earth? Did they make you king?” Jesus ...read more

  • Dr. Henry Brandt Told Of Going To Visit A Friend ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    DR. HENRY BRANDT told of going to visit a friend whose wife had died. While there he shared these wonderful words of the apostle Paul from II Cor. 1: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, ...read more

  • There Is A Story Told That Is Totally ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,046 views

    There is a story told that is totally fictitious, but the point is true. The story is that when Jesus went back up into Heaven, the angel Gabriel had a conversation with Jesus. This is just an illustration. He asked Jesus, “What happened while you down on earth? Did they make you king?” Jesus said, ...read more

  • I Remember The Church Where I Was Youth Leader. ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Aug 23, 2007
     | 1,659 views

    I remember the church where I was youth leader. None of the 12 members of the board but me were under 60. And I came before them with a proposal. "Give me the permission and several Bibles to go door to door around the tires factory where I worked for a while. I’ll go there with young people from ...read more

  • Last Week During Fellowship, I Told Some Of You ...

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Aug 9, 2008
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    Last week during fellowship, I told some of you about a scene from the Dark Knight, the new Batman movie. Have any of you seen the movie? The Joker threatens the city of Gotham, so the mayor decides to begin evacuating the city. The prison is emptied and put on a ferry to carry them away so that ...read more

  • The Passenger ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    THE PASSENGER PIGEON The Passenger Pigeon was a species of pigeon that was once the most common bird in North America. They lived in enormous flocks and during migration it was possible to see flocks of them a mile (1.6 km) wide and 300 miles (500 km) long, taking several days to pass and ...read more

  • What Happens Every 15 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    What Happens Every 15 Minutes Hands on Illustration: Set the timer for 15 minutes – I am setting this timer for 15 minutes and 15 minutes from now it will ring and at that point I will tell you how valuable 15 minutes are in this world. When the Timer goes off and rings this is what would have ...read more

  • In The World Today...we Are Trying To Marry ...

    Contributed by Hugh Laing on Feb 17, 2010
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    In the world today...we are trying to marry Christianity to all the wrong things...we are trying to marry it to prosperity...popularity...personalities...politics...and beloved...it ain't working 'cause it's broken! And yet many ministers preach a PROSPERITY DOCTRINE today because it feeds our ...read more

  • Matryoshka Doll

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Aug 30, 2010
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    I purchased this doll a few years back when I visited in Russia. It’s called a Matryoshka doll (Russian Nesting doll). (taking dolls apart) If you’re familiar with these dolls, you know that you open up one and there’s another inside … and so on and so on. This continues until you get to the ...read more

  • A Better Pitcher

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 28, 2011
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    A BETTER PITCHER "There's a story from the late 1800s of English evangelist Henry Moorhouse who made several trips to America to preach. On one of these occasions, he was taking a walk through a poor section of the city when he noticed a small boy coming out of a store with a pitcher of milk. Just ...read more

  • Working For Food

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2011
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    WORKING FOR FOOD I like the story of the rich executive who announced to his church one morning that he was going to give up all he owned so that he had to depend on his faith in God for everything he needed. He sold everything, gave it to the poor, and moved into a rented home down on the bad ...read more

  • No Shortcuts

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Aug 26, 2011
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    NO SHORTCUTS Now that the New Year is right around the corner there are those infomercials that tout great fitness. It seems that each year the machines get weirder. Hang upside down, spin 360 degrees then throw up. That loses about 5 lbs. Then there are those that bend you like a pretzel while ...read more

  • The Bible Can Make You Better

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
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    THE BIBLE CAN MAKE YOU BETTER Two hundred years ago, Norway was one of the poorest countries in Europe. She was ruled by her Danish neighbors and most people were poor fishermen or subsistence farmers. Every time there was a famine, people starved to death. Today it is one of the wealthiest. It ...read more

  • The Choice Of Sheep And Goats

    Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Nov 27, 2012
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    THE CHOICE OF SHEEP AND GOATS I tried and tried to think of a common example that could be used to illustrate this separation of the sheep from the goats but was unable to do so because this situation is so unique and the reason it is so unique is because the sheep and the goats have chosen their ...read more

  • Irresponsibility

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 5, 2012
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    Bill Hybel’s in His book “Making Life Work” states this about this kind of mindset – he words it this way: 1. “Some way, some day my life will improve. Some way, someday I’ll drift into more satisfying circumstances. Some way, some day what I want will come to be. Built on the fantasy that rewards ...read more

  • How Not To Build

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2013
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    HOW NOT TO BUILD I grew up around construction and building material people. My family, for several generations, was in lumber and building materials. In 1998 we opened a new hardware store in Lake Mary. I ran it from the time it opened, until I went to seminary. Part of my responsibility was to ...read more

  • Please Be My Guest

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Aug 29, 2024
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    My son and I visited Honduras several years ago, just before the pandemic. Compassion Canada workers escorted us to the home of a family that was receiving some of the funds we had raised for our sponsored children. The idea was to see how those gifts had been able to change dramatically the ...read more

  • George W. Bush, In An Airport Lobby, Noticed A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tj Tipton on Mar 29, 2001
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    George W. Bush, in an airport lobby, noticed a man in a long flowing white robe with a long flowing white beard and flowing white hair. The man had a staff in one hand and some stone tablets under the other arm. George W. approached the man and inquired, "Aren’t you Moses?" The man ignored ...read more

  • Commentator William Barclay Notes: "You ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2001
    based on 92 ratings
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    Commentator William Barclay notes: “You can tell what a man’s relationship with God is by looking at his relationship with other people. If a man is at variance with his fellow man, and if he’s a quarrelsome, competitive, argumentative, trouble-making creature; he may be a diligent ...read more