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  • Today, I Would Like To Talk About, Not When We ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Jan 19, 2009
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    Today, I would like to talk about, not when we were saved, but how we continue to be saved. And I am going to do that using the analogy of a set of instructions. When I first bought my mandolin, I had never played one before. With that mandolin, I bought a couple of ‘how to play the mandolin’ ...read more

  • A Fine Lad Entered The Army. He Faced A Real ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jan 22, 2009
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    A fine lad entered the Army. He faced a real test the first night he went to be in the barracks. He had formed the commendable habit of placing his Bible on his bed at home, and kneeling down to read a chapter while having his daily prayer time before retiring. Surrounded by scores of rough men ...read more

  • Keep Your Eyes On Me

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    KEEP YOUR EYES ON ME One day, a man hired an experienced guide to lead him on a hike into the Swiss Alps. After many hours, they came to a high and remote mountain pass. To the man’s dismay, he saw the path had almost been washed out. What could he do? To the left was a sheer rock cliff, to his ...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

  • Scripturally A Jew Is Anyone Who Has Renounced ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
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    Scripturally a Jew is anyone who has renounced idolatry and thrown in his lot with the people of the one true God. Historically there have been three rites involved in receiving proselytes into Judaism: circumcision, water immersion, and a sacrifice. The central ritual of admittance into Judaism ...read more

  • My Dad Had To Be The Worse Driver I've Ever Met. ...

    Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Mar 13, 2009
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    My dad had to be the worse driver I’ve ever met. When I was a kid he had wrecked 9 cars in 8 years. I think he saw life as a demolition derby and his only goal was to get through it alive. The funny thing was; as he got older he became extremely nervous and he started blowing the horn whenever he ...read more

  • In The World Of Sports, When An Underdog Is ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Mar 13, 2009
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    In the world of sports, when an underdog is victorious it’s known as an upset. Here is a list of 5 of sport’s biggest upsets. 1) 1980 Olympics-Lake Placid: USA defeats Russia in hockey 4-3. Ragtag group of Americans defeats the Russian team that had dominated the sport for 15 years. 2) 1990 ...read more

  • Your Spirit Does Matter

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    YOUR SPIRIT DOES MATTER A preacher wrote: "Today we have people who claim to be Christians shouting ’God hates fags’ at the funerals of soldiers who have died in Iraq, because these ’Christians’ believe God is punishing America for its tolerance of homosexuals. A recent editorial in the paper ...read more

  • All Part Of God's Plan  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    ALL PART OF GOD’S PLAN In the opening pages of his autobiography, "An American Life," Ronald Reagan writes, I was raised to believe that God had a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan. My mother - a small woman with auburn hair and a sense of ...read more

  • Ninety-Nine Balloons

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on May 13, 2009
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    NINETY-NINE BALLOONS Eliot was born with an undeveloped lung, a heart with a hole in it and DNA that placed faulty information into each and every cell of his body. However, that could not stop the living God from proclaiming Himself through this boy who never uttered a word. Even though doctors ...read more

  • There Was This Teacher...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 1, 2009
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    THERE WAS THIS TEACHER... Eric Butterworth once told about a college professor who had his sociology class go into the Baltimore slums to get case histories of 200 young boys. The students were asked to write an evaluation of each boy’s future. In every case the students wrote, "He hasn’t got a ...read more

  • Smallpox Is An Infectious Disease Unique To ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 8, 2009
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    Smallpox is an infectious disease unique to humans. It raises fluid-filled blisters in the skin. How many remember the smallpox vaccination? Do you remember that one big blister on your arm? A person with smallpox has them all over his skin. The image on Google was too hideous to show you. It ...read more

  • There Could Have Been Peace Instead Of War In ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 16, 2009
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    There could have been peace instead of war in 1939. Great Britain and France could have just let Hitler have Poland. That had worked the year before when they let Hitler have part of Czechoslovakia, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich declaring "peace for our ...read more

  • Micaela Played T-Ball. Many Of You Know About The ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 24, 2009
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    Micaela played t-ball. Many of you know about the t-ball experience. One of the kids asked me if Micaela’s team was good. I chuckled because from what I see no t-ball team is “good.” They are there to learn some basics and have fun. The biggest struggle that the coaches face is not kids who can’t ...read more

  • Who Are You?

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 19, 2009
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    WHO ARE YOU? Sheila Walsh is a Christian singer, writer, and former host of The 700 Club. She describes how her disconnected spirituality literally hit a wall. "One morning I was sitting on national television with my nice suit and inflatable hairdo and that night I was in the locked ward of a ...read more

  • Rawlins Kept U.s. Grant On His Horse

    Contributed by David Owens on Oct 19, 2009
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    RAWLINS KEPT U.S. GRANT ON HIS HORSE Ulysses S. Grant was a 4 star general of the union forces during the Civil War and became the 18th President of the United States. John A. Rawlins was Grant’s friend and fellow general, who became Grant’s chief of staff. During the Civil War, no one was closer ...read more

  • Knowing Oneself Is Important For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    Knowing Oneself is Important for Leadership Mort Meyerson became the CEO of Perot Systems, a computer services company. Within six months, he realized that compared to other companies he had known as CEO, everything was different at this one. It wasn’t just the technology, market, and customers, ...read more

  • Stealing Rampant In America

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009
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    STEALING RAMPANT IN AMERICA Many lives have been touched by theft in our society today. Millions of dollars are lost every year in this country over the theft of goods and services. One estimate says that 1 out of every 52 shopper’s carries something out of the supermarket for which they haven’t ...read more

  • Good Works Are Often Percieved As Random Acts Of ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 3, 2009
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    GOOD WORKS ARE OFTEN PERCIEVED AS RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS DOING THINGS FOR CHARITY AND SO ON - BUT THE PROPHET ISAIAH SAYS, ISA. 64: 6 ALL OF US HAVE BECOME LIKE ONE WHO IS UNCLEAN, AND ALL OUR RIGHTEOUS ACTS ARE LIKE FILTHY RAGS; THE GOOD THAT EVERY HUMAN BEING CARRIES OUT IS TAINTED ...read more

  • The Only Thing About Christmas That Bothers Me Is ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 22, 2009
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    The only thing about Christmas that bothers me is that people see Jesus as a baby, meek and mild but they don’t see Him for all that He really is. It always used to bother me that I was called a gentle man. I longed to be seen as strong and courageous and visionary, but people mainly see me as ...read more