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  • A Man Was Preaching To A Church In Australia. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A man was preaching to a church in Australia. The congregation had big black Bibles and severe expressions... And they knew their Bibles, and were proud of that. It was a smallish group, so he decided to engage them in dialogue: ’Who knows who the Pharisees were?’ They did. ’The Pharisees got a ...read more

  • Dr. W.a. Criswell Wrote In His Book, Standing ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    . DR. W.A. CRISWELL WROTE IN HIS BOOK, STANDING ON THE PROMISES: HOW YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LIVE AND DEAD CHURCH, “LIVE CHURCHES ARE FILLED WITH FOLKS WITH BIBLES IN THEIR HANDS. DEAD CHURCHES ARE NOT LIVE CHURCHES HAVE NOISY CHILDREN AND YOUTH. DEAD CHURCHES DO NOT LIVE CHURCHES ...read more

  • D. At One Time, Most Every Church Founded Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    D. AT ONE TIME, MOST EVERY CHURCH FOUNDED WAS ALIVE AND VIBRANT, BUT THEN THAT CHURCH BECOMES FOCUSED INWARD, AND THEY THINK ONLY OF THEMSELVES. E. IT’S LIKE A CHURCH IN DALLAS I KNOW MUCH ABOUT, THAT STARTED WITH A LOT OF EVANGELISTIC ZEAL AND FERVOR, SO THEY BUILT A BIG BUILDING SEATING 700 AND ...read more

  • May 16 1894. Baltimore Orioles Came To Boston To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    May 16 1894. Baltimore Orioles came to Boston to play a routine baseball game. But what happened that day was anything but routine. John McGraw then with the Baltimore Orioles got in a fight with the Boston third baseman. Soon both teams were battling and the warfare erupted on the field and then ...read more

  • I Was Reading About The Great Christian Scholar ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I was reading about the great Christian scholar William Lane Craig. For 31 years, he was praying for his father to come to know Christ. But his dad never seemed to show any interest. And Dr. Craig said “basically, after a number of years, I gave up. I didn’t think it was ever going to ...read more

  • Someone Shared With Me A Story This Week Of A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Someone shared with me a story this week of a young boy who witnessed a Baptism at his local Baptist Church. And he heard how the minister described it made that person part of the family of God. This got the young boy to thinking and so the next morning he decided to baptize the family cats. He ...read more

  • 1n 1952, Young Florence Chadwick Stepped Into ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    1n 1952, young Florence Chadwick stepped into the waters of the Pacific Ocean off Catalina Island, determined to swim to the shore of mainland California. She had already been the first woman to swim the English Channel both ways. The weather was foggy and chilly; she could hardly see the boats ...read more

  • The Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, in announcing the death of Princess Alice on 14th December 1878 to the House of Commons, told this touching story. “The little daughter of the Princess was seriously ill with diphtheria. And so the doctors told the princess not to kiss her because ...read more

  • Billy Graham Uses The Illustration That When A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Billy Graham uses the illustration that when a little girl did something wrong, her mother called her into the kitchen to talk to her, but the little girl’s face pouted as she looked down to the floor and she said she didn’t want to talk about it. I think we do the same thing with the Lord. When He ...read more

  • Arrogance

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Arrogance The story goes that the admiral, looking out from his command post on the deck looked out and saw lights in the distance, clearly heading straight for him. He radioed the message ahead: “Turn aside, 10 degrees starboard.” The radio beeped back – “Negative. Advise you turn aside 10 degrees ...read more

  • Howard Hendricks A Bible College Professor, ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 27, 2007
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    Howard Hendricks a Bible College professor, tells of the time they had a guest over for dinner and his 4 year old son prayed at the table. He said, "God, make this food easy to eat and protect the fence in the back yard. Jesus name, Amen." The guest said afterwards, "The food part I understand, but ...read more

  • I Like What Jesse Duplantis Says ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 24, 2007
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    Illustration: I like what Jesse Duplantis says about pride and prejudice, he says that we were all made of dirt, that there’s white dirt, red dirt, yellow dirt, brown dirt, and black dirt, so we all came from the same place, we’re dirt. We would think that it crazy if we saw one clump of dirt ...read more

  • As I Listened To Dr Ron Hawkins On The ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 4, 2007
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    As I listened to Dr Ron Hawkins on the Counseling Ministry DVD’s he said his dad who was a pastor told him after he had retired, “If I had it to do over I would preach more messages of comfort. People have so much pain in their lives.” It reminded me of the many times God would bring this text to ...read more

  • Do You Remember The Children's Game Hide And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 14, 2007
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    Do you remember the children’s game hide and seek..... did you ever get such a good hiding place nobody ever caught you maybe you did? This opening chapter of Jonah is all about the Christian game of hide and seek from the will of God - Jonah tries to get into such a good hiding place that ...read more

  • The Tongue

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 17, 2007
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    “The Tongue” A biblical writer said, “The tongue can no man tame.” A Greek philosopher asked his servant to provide the best dish possible. The servant prepared a dish of tongue, saying: “It is the best of all dishes, because with it we may bless and communicate happiness, dispel sorrow, remove ...read more

  • I May Have Mentioned That I Love My Wife's ...

    Contributed by Colin Bain on Nov 13, 2007
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    I may have mentioned that I love my wife’s cooking. I am always amazed at the way she simply just knows exactly what to do and what to put in the dish. She follows a recipe as a guide rather than an instruction manual. She does things and puts things together, I would think were completely wrong, ...read more

  • There Is Only One Left In The United States Of ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Feb 24, 2008
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    There is only one left in the United States of America. Since Harry Richard Landis died 2 weeks ago, there is only 1 left. Landis was the oldest U.S. veteran of World War I. He died on February 11 at the age of 108. More than 4 ½ million Americans joined the military in 1917 and 1918 to serve ...read more

  • Philip Keller In His Book 'a Shepherd Looks At ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Mobley on Mar 28, 2008
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    Philip Keller in his book ’A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23’ speaks about one flock of sheep he watched as they were being led by the shepherd to what was a most magnificent and beautiful mountain stream… "The snow-fed waters were flowing pure and clear and crystal clean between lovely banks of trees. ...read more

  • Years Ago, I Cut Out A Little Story From Reader's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    Years ago, I cut out a little story from Reader's Digest that speaks volumes about a personal relationship with God: John Dulmage said during Sunday mass at the church where his mother attends, the priest told of a conversation he had had with a young parishioner. When the priest asked the little ...read more

  • In The Summer Of 1805, A Number Of Indian Chiefs ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    In the summer of 1805, a number of Indian chiefs and warriors met in council at Buffalo Creek, New York, to hear a presentation of the Christian message by a Mr. Cram from the Boston Missionary Society. After the sermon, a response was given by Red Jacket, one of the leading chiefs. Among other ...read more