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  • Jim Lopardo Tells This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    Jim Lopardo tells this story: I was a percussion major when I was in college, and during a rehearsal of the student orchestra, my section kept making mistakes. "When you’re too dumb to play anything," the professor conducting us sneered, "they give you a couple of sticks, put you in the back and ...read more

  • A Royal ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    A ROYAL FAMILY President William Howard Taft’s great granddaughter was asked to write her autobiography when she was in the third grade. And this is what she wrote: "My great-grandfather was President of the United Sates. My grandfather was a United States Senator. My father is an ambassador. ...read more

  • True Biblical Worship So Satisfies Our Total ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 17, 2009
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    True biblical worship so satisfies our total personality that we don’t have to shop around for man-made substitutes. William Temple made this clear in his masterful definition of worship: For worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; ...read more

  • Jewish People Stats

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    JEWISH PEOPLE STATS Of the 6 billion inhabitants of the earth, only 13 million are Jewish. That is less than 1% of the world’s population, and yet, Jewish people have received more than 22% of the Noble prizes awarded. Roughly, 41% of the 13 million reside within the land of Israel and 40% live in ...read more

  • Renoir: Pain Passes

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    RENOIR: PAIN PASSES In old age, Pierre Auguste Renoir, the great French painter, suffered from arthritis, which twisted and cramped his hand. Henri Matisse, his artist friend, watched sadly while Renoir, grasping a brush with only his fingertips, continued to paint, even though each movement ...read more

  • Food In Psalm 146:7

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 8, 2009
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    FOOD IN PS 146:7 Though the main teaching of this vision is not about food, but about people, still, it involves food Midrash Tehillim in regard to Ps. 146:7, "The Lord allows the forbidden … and will one day allow the eating of all animals now forbidden to be eaten … In the time to come he will ...read more

  • What A ...

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Dec 9, 2009
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    “What a Night” That night when in the Judean skies Thy mystic star dispensed its light, A blind man moved in his sleep And dreamed that he had sight That night when shepherds heard The song of angelic choir near, A deaf man stirred in slumber’s spell And dreamed that he could hear That night ...read more

  • When God Forgives, He Forgets

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Mar 12, 2010
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    WHEN GOD FORGIVES, HE FORGETS How different God’s pardon is from ours! So often we forgive as did the mother of the little girl who had been good a whole week, and asked mother for a favor. "I know," was the answer, "that you have been good all this week, but you know you were bad last week." ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 4, 2010
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    Corrie Ten Boom on Prayer It was Corrie Ten Boom who asked, “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tyre?” I am afraid for too many of us it is the spare tyre, the source we look to only when our journey has ground to a halt, but really, it ought to be our steering wheel, and Jesus teaches us ...read more

  • The Hero And The Saint

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
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    THE HERO AND THE SAINT The late great German-born American Jewish rationalist intellectual, popular lecturer and writer, religious leader, and social reformer, Felix Adler (1851 - 1933), starts things off well when he said, "The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up ...read more

  • About Omniscience

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 1, 2010
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    ABOUT OMNISCIENCE An attribute of God alone. It is the quality of having all knowledge (Is. 40:14). Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience represent the nature of God concerning His relation to the creation. (Source unknown - 10,000 Sermon Illustrations) A theological student came to Charles ...read more

  • Persecution In Nigeria

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 10, 2011
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    PERSECUTION IN NIGERIA Muslim extremists carried out new attacks on villages in Nigeria’s Plateau state in September, killing more than 100 Christians, including entire families, according to Compass Direct News. On Sept. 10, 2011, Muslim extremists stormed Vwang Fwil village at 3 a.m., killing ...read more

  • Accused

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 29, 2012
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    ACCUSED A Louisiana man has been released from death row, becoming the 300th prisoner nationwide to be freed after DNA evidence showed he was innocent. Of those 300 prisoners, 18 had been on death row, according to lawyers from the New York-based Innocence Project. [source: Good News Network]. It ...read more

  • We Can Witness, But We Cannot Convert

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 18, 2019
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    We may use all means, by but we cannot command success. We may teach, but we cannot convert. We may show those around us the bread and water of life, but we cannot make them eat and drink it. We may point out the way to eternal life, but we cannot make others walk in it. ‘It is the Spirit that ...read more

  • Good News Bad News

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 9, 2020
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    A woman walks into a doctor’s office. She schedules an appointment and sits down it the waiting room. Whem it’s her turn to talk to the doctor, she describes all of her symptoms, and they’re unlike anything he’s heard before. The doctor runs a few tests and steps out of the room. He comes back ...read more

  • The Church Is Called To Minister In The Marketplace.

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 4, 2022
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    Return the Cross to Golgotha I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles; But on a cross between two thieves: on a town garbage ...read more

  • Ham And Egg Breakfast

    Contributed by John Bright on Mar 10, 2025
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    A chicken and a pig were talking about how people don’t truly appreciate what goes into making a breakfast of eggs and ham. The chicken spoke first: “Folks don’t appreciate me and all the hard work it takes to lay an egg. It really hurts!” The pig replied, “That’s the difference between you and ...read more

  • One New Year’s Day, In The Tournament Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by William Jewett on Nov 2, 2000
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    One New Year’s Day, in the Tournament of Roses parade, a beautiful float suddenly sputtered and quit. It was out of gas. The whole parade was held up until someone could get a can of gas. The amusing thing was this float represented the Standard Oil Company. With its vast oil resources, its truck ...read more

  • Life Is A Gift, Not A Right  PRO

    Contributed by Linda Hewett on May 14, 2001
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    LIFE IS A GIFT, NOT A RIGHT Lord, help me remember that it is only by your power and will that I am even alive; and I can do nothing without you. You breathed your breath of life in me and allowed this speck of ’dust in the wind’ to exist. You are the moving of ...read more

  • Have You Ever Heard Of The "Dependent Order Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Martin Field on Aug 7, 2001
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    Have you ever heard of the "Dependent Order of Really Meek and Timid Souls"? When you make an acrostic of the first letters of its name, you have the word "Doormats." The Doormats have an official insignia—a yellow caution light. Their official motto is: "The meek shall inherit the earth, ...read more