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  • One Day She Was Reading The Newspaper And Came ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One day she was reading the newspaper and came across an article about the ministry of D.L. Moody and the Revival that was taking place in the United States. Even though she had never heard of him before, she began to pray and ask God to send Moody to her church in England. Some time later, Moody ...read more

  • Our Church Was Meeting In A Storefront, But We ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Wright on Jun 28, 2007
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     | 2,472 views

    Our church was meeting in a storefront, but we had outgrown it. We found a church building on the east side of St. Paul for $27,000. We literally had no money. We believed God wanted us to have that building, so we signed a contract to pay cash in 90 days ... and we began to pray. Nothing came ...read more

  • Do They Know You Love Them?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
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    DO THEY KNOW YOU LOVE THEM? On a cold winter evening a man suffered a heart attack and after being admitted to the hospital, the man asked the nurse to call his daughter. He explained, "You see, I live alone and she is the only family I have." The nurse went to phone the daughter. The daughter was ...read more

  • Remember Me ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,674 views

    REMEMBER ME NOT... Marilyn Anderes tells the story of a devoted Christian named Cheryl Stephens. Cheryl was a young mother who struggled with cancer, but was determined to keep ministering to others. She went home to Jesus on Nov. 19, 2003 at age 44. Cheryl’s friends say she lived out Phil 1:21 ...read more

  • Laughter Resurrection  PRO

    Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 29, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,277 views

    Laughter Resurrection Bernard Martin, writes the following story in his book If God Does Not Die. One day a pastor was called from a children's party at the Sunday school to visit a young woman whose world had collapsed into an acute depression following the death of her husband in an auto ...read more

  • The Light That Saves

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,873 views

    THE LIGHT THAT SAVES The story is told of a remarkable event that took place a little more than 30 years ago in the Gulf of Mexico. Darrel Dore was working on an oil rig when the rig suddenly started to wobble. Before too long, the rig tipped to one side and crashed into the water. Darrel found ...read more

  • God's Will Is God's Word

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 9,122 views

    GOD’S WILL IS GOD’S WORD Jimmy is a professional fisherman. He makes his living fishing on the BASS (Bass Angler Sportsman Society) circuit. He is also a devout Christian and belongs to the FBC Keys, Oklahoma. This year, BASS made a ruling that to be eligible for the fisherman of the year award ...read more

  • Missionaries Martyrdom In Turkey At The Hand Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
     | 2,665 views

    Missionaries Martyrdom in Turkey at the Hand of Muslims in 2007 On April 18, 2007, five Muslims entered a Christian publishing company and killed three believers in the southeastern province of Malatya. The 3 believers, Tilmann Geske (a German missionary), Turkish Pastor Necati Aydin and Ugur ...read more

  • God's Rich Grace

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 10, 2011
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    GOD'S RICH GRACE NPR Radio reported this week (July 5, 2011) that a well known Hindu temple in southern India has revealed vast treasures and hidden secrets. The temple itself was well known and previously unguarded. It had been there for hundreds of years (since 1566) and open to the public. ...read more

  • We Don't Know Her Story

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 22, 2011
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    WE DON'T KNOW HER STORY They called her their troubled one, or their feisty one. She had wild flyaway hair much like that of a punk rocker, but jet-black. And she was only, at the oldest, a couple of weeks old. So small, she looked as if she could fit in one hand. The ICU nurses all took turns ...read more

  • The Orange Blessing

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 2, 2013
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    THE ORANGE BLESSING In the late 1800’s while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean-liner, the English Baptist pastor and evangelist F.B. Meyer was asked to preach to the first class passengers. At the captain's request he spoke on "Answered Prayer." An agnostic who was present at the service was ...read more

  • One Day I Looked At Myself—at The Self That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 30, 2000
    based on 122 ratings
     | 3,553 views

    One day I looked at myself—at the self that Christ can see; I saw the person I am today and the one I ought to be. I saw how little I really pray and how little I really do; I saw the influence of my life—how little of it was true! I saw the bundle of faults and fears I ought to lay on ...read more

  • John Wesley, The Founder Of The Methodist ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Feb 28, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,817 views

    John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement in 18th Century England presents this perspective on prayer in his sermon “On Prayer”: When we say our prayers… if we do it for any selfish reason, it is not acceptable to God. The purpose of your praying is not to inform God, as though he didn’t ...read more

  • An Elderly Widow, Restricted In Her Activities, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 25 ratings
     | 2,536 views

    An elderly widow, restricted in her activities, was eager to serve Christ. After praying about this, she realized that she could bring blessing to others by playing the piano. The next day she placed this small ad in the Oakland Tribune: "Pianist will play hymns by phone daily for those who are ...read more

  • One Of The Affects Of The London Bombings For Me ...

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Aug 31, 2005
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    One of the affects of the London bombings for me has been to make me realise how precious people actually are, pray to see them through God’s eyes, and the thought that one minute they are here and the next blown away without possibly learning of Jesus or receiving even a small compassionate smile ...read more

  • An Elderly Widow, Restricted In Her Activities, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
     | 2,470 views

    An elderly widow, restricted in her activities, was eager to serve Christ. After praying about this, she realized that she could bring blessing to others by playing the piano. The next day she placed this small ad in the Oakland Tribune: “Pianist will play hymns by phone daily for those who are ...read more

  • The Day Before I Preached This Sermon, I Found ...

    Contributed by James Chandler on Jan 23, 2007
     | 1,846 views

    The day before I preached this sermon, I found out that my son’s class was studying the Buddhist faith. The teacher was going to have students bring a mat to class and get in the position and meditate like a Buddhist. When I raised concern and objected to my son praying to any god besides the one ...read more

  • An Elderly Widow, Restricted In Her Activities, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,096 views

    An elderly widow, restricted in her activities, was eager to serve Christ. After praying about this, she realized that she could bring blessing to others by playing the piano. The next day she placed this small ad in the Oakland Tribune: "Pianist will play hymns by phone daily for those who are ...read more

  • One Preacher Noted: "If We Had Witnessed Jesus' ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,344 views

    One preacher noted: “If we had witnessed Jesus’ struggle that night, we might have said, ‘If He is so broken up when ALL He is doing is praying, what will He do when He faces a real crisis? Why can’t He approach this ordeal with the calm confidence of His 3 sleeping friends?’ Yet when the test came ...read more

  • Power In Agreement  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,121 views

    How much power can people in agreement have? The answer: the power of life and death. During the brutal reign of Joseph Stalin, who murdered 30 million Russians and bought godless communism to Russia, Stalin, let it be known that he planned to murder the Jews of Russia. When the believers in ...read more